Political Concepts

Adi M Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what en... Lees meer

The Philology of Life

Kevin McLaughlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, ... Lees meer

Let Them Rot

Alenka Zupančič

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• A provocative , highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western though... Lees meer

Celebricities

Anthony Curtis Adler

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call t... Lees meer

Catastrophic Historicism

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914-53), Puerto Rico's most iconic writer--a critical task that n... Lees meer

Flirtations

Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by tha... Lees meer

Intoxication

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions ... Lees meer

Political Concepts

Adi M Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what en... Lees meer

Poetry and Mind

Laurent Dubreuil

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• What one cannot compute, one must poetize : this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poetr... Lees meer

Dissonance

Sean Alexander Gurd

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted i... Lees meer

Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Peggy Kamuf

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with dea... Lees meer

Chronicle of Separation

Michal Ben-Naftali

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct read... Lees meer

The Fact of Resonance

Julie Beth Napolin

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative pre... Lees meer

In the Beginning Was the State

Adi M Ophir

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as... Lees meer

Thinking with Adorno

Gerhard Richter

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• This book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive-yet often overlooked-concept of the "... Lees meer

The Fact of Resonance

Julie Beth Napolin

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative pre... Lees meer

In the Beginning Was the State

Adi M Ophir

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as... Lees meer

Chronicle of Separation

Michal Ben-Naftali

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct read... Lees meer

Receptive Spirit

Márton Dornbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking a... Lees meer

The Limits of Fabrication

Nathan Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Poetry, or poiēsis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making i... Lees meer

Thinking with Balibar

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers,... Lees meer

Let Them Rot

Alenka Zupančič

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• A provocative , highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western though... Lees meer

The Philology of Life

Kevin McLaughlin

• Paperback | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, ... Lees meer

Flirtations

Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by tha... Lees meer