Roland Barthes on Photography

Nancy M Shawcross

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• "A comprehensive study on Barthes and photography . . . the most studious research on the topic."--Antoine Compagnon, Columbia University and the Sorb... Lees meer

Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida

James Dutton

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• James Dutton argues that Proust's lone published text, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philoso... Lees meer

The Event Universe

Leemon B McHenry

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional su... Lees meer

Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences

Wahida Khandker

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with 'the animal question' have been rightl... Lees meer

The Profession of English in the Two-Year College

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• The 1960s: a time of protests and civil rights marches, sit-ins and speak-outs, free-love rallies and anti-establishment Yip-ins. Yet going largely un... Lees meer

Writing and Cinema

Jonathan Bignell

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presente... Lees meer

Difficult Atheism

Christopher Watkin

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• Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow... Lees meer

The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Aidan Tynan

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• Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts ... Lees meer

Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida

James Dutton

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• James Dutton argues that Proust's lone published text, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philoso... Lees meer

Writing and Fantasy

Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It ... Lees meer

Writing and the English Renaissance

William Zunder, Suzanne Trill

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and sev... Lees meer

The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Aidan Tynan

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts ... Lees meer

Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature

Robert Boncardo

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Robert Boncardo investigates how Stéphane Mallarmé, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political significa... Lees meer

Writing and Victorianism

J B Bullen

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which ... Lees meer

Animal Writing

Danielle Sands

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside ... Lees meer

Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy

Gert-Jan Van Der Heiden

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• The re-examination of Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosop... Lees meer

Writing and Africa

Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

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• This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contex... Lees meer

Writing and Cinema

Jonathan Bignell

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presente... Lees meer

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Katrina Mitcheson

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is con... Lees meer

Sublime Art

Stephen Zepke

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• Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that th... Lees meer

Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature

Robert Boncardo

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Robert Boncardo investigates how Stéphane Mallarmé, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political significa... Lees meer

The Figure of This World

Mathew Abbott

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or t... Lees meer

Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

Sarah Hickmott

• Paperback | Engels | Crosscurrents
• What counts as music for contemporary thinkers? Why is music of use to philosophers and how do they use it in their work? How do philosophers decide w... Lees meer

Visual Art and Self-Construction

Katrina Mitcheson

• Hardcover | Engels | Crosscurrents
• Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is con... Lees meer