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Common place - the american motel
Lieu commun - le motel américain
by Bruce Bégout
Translated by Colin Keaveney
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Otis Books is pleased to publish Bruce Bégout&cutes Common Place. The American Motel. The book includes an afterward by D.J. Waldie. Common Place is the second work in a triology begun with Zeropolis, a broad archeological inquiry into the meanings of the quotidian urban world. In Bégout&cutes essay, the American motel poetically reveals new forms of urban life, in which mobility, wandering, and poverty play a dominant role.French philosopher and author Bruce Bégout is currently maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux. He has published many essays, including Zéropolis. L&cuteexpérience de Las Vegas, Lieu commun. Le motel américain, La Découverte du quotidien. Éléments pour une phénoménologie du monde de la vie and De la décence ordinaire, as well as a novel L&cuteÉblouissement des bords de route. He served on the editorial board of the journal Inculte, and is currently the series editor of “Matière étrangère” for Éditions Vrin. |
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Allia
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Otis Books / Seismicity Editions
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2009
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978-2844851178
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| Otis Books is pleased to publish Bruce Bégout&cutes Common Place. The American Motel. The book includes an afterward by D.J. Waldie. Common Place is the second work in a triology begun with Zeropolis, a broad archeological inquiry into the meanings of the quotidian urban world. In Bégout&cutes essay, the American motel poetically reveals new forms of urban life, in which mobility, wandering, and poverty play a dominant role.French philosopher and author Bruce Bégout is currently maître de conferences at the University of Bordeaux. He has published many essays, including Zéropolis. L&cuteexpérience de Las Vegas, Lieu commun. Le motel américain, La Découverte du quotidien. Éléments pour une phénoménologie du monde de la vie and De la décence ordinaire, as well as a novel L&cuteÉblouissement des bords de route. He served on the editorial board of the journal Inculte, and is currently the series editor of “Matière étrangère” for Éditions Vrin. |
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Common place - the american motel
Lieu commun - le motel américain
by Bruce Bégout
Translated by Colin Keaveney
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Allia
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2009
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978-2844851178
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Coma
Coma
by Pierre Guyotat
Translated by Noura Wedell
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The novelist and playwright Pierre Guyotat has been called the last great avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century, and the near-cult status of his work—because of its extreme linguistic innovation and its provocative violence—has made him one of the most influential of French writers today. He has been hailed as the true literary heir to Lautréamont and Arthur Rimbaud, and his "inhuman" works have been mentioned in the same breath as those by Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud.Winner of the 2006 prix Décembre, Coma is the deeply moving, vivid portrayal of the artistic and spiritual crisis that wracked Guyotat in the 1980s when he reached the physical limits of his search for a new language, entered a mental clinic, and fell into a coma brought on by self-imposed starvation. A poetic, cruelly lucid account, Coma links Guyotat&cutes illness and loss of subjectivity to a broader concern for the slow, progressive regeneration of humanity. Written in what the author himself has called a "normalized writing," this book visits a lifetime of moments that have in common the force of amazement, brilliance, and a flash of life. Grounded in experiences from the author&cutes childhood and his family&cutes role in the French Resistance, Coma is a tale of initiation that provides an invaluable key to interpreting Guyotat&cutes work, past and future. |
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Mercure de France
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Semiotexte
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2010
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192
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978-1584350897
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| First published in 1949, The Second Sex is a landmark in the history of feminism. Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir’s groundbreaking study of women has had the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a scholarly work of anthropology, sociology, biology and psychoanalysis, and an engagement of philosophy with political activism. The first translation of The Second Sex severely edited the French text, removing whole chapters and changing chapter titles to seem more suited to an American audience. Here Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier finally reinstate these missing chapters, and restore de Beauvoir's original voice. The Second Sex stands, six decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time. |
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The Second Sex
Le deuxieme sexe
by Simone de Beauvoir &
Translated by Constance Borde
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Jonathan Cape
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2009
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848
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30 £
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978-0224078597
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After Finitude
An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
Après la finitude
Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence
by Quentin Meillassoux & Alain Badiou
Translated by Ray Brassier
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The remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou, now available in paperback. A work which makes a strikingly original contribution to contemporary French philosophy and is set to have a significant impact on the future of Continental philosophy.
Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in contemporary French philosophy.
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Continuum Books
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2009
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160
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12.99 £
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978-1441173836
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