Prophecies of Language

Kristina Mendicino

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. ... Lees meer

Atopias

Frédéric Neyrat

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyra... Lees meer

Lives of the Dead Poets

Karen Swann

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Lives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Ta... Lees meer

Techno-Magism

Orrin N C Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-... Lees meer

Last Things

Jacques Khalip

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now con... Lees meer

New Critical Nostalgia

Christopher Rovee

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the dis... Lees meer

Modernity's Mist

Emily Rohrbach

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to th... Lees meer

Ending and Unending Agony

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice B... Lees meer

Infectious Liberty

Robert Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government... Lees meer

Portrait

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter's self-sameness, is sus... Lees meer

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, wh... Lees meer

Kant on the Frontier

Geoffrey Bennington

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when a... Lees meer

Portrait

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likene... Lees meer

Last Things

Jacques Khalip

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now con... Lees meer

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, wh... Lees meer

Shibboleth

Marc Redfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of... Lees meer

Old Schools

Ramsey McGlazer

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition: a series of engagements with classical education after the rise of progressive pedagogical theorie... Lees meer

Look Round for Poetry

Brian McGrath

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads ,... Lees meer

Shibboleth

Marc Redfield

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of... Lees meer

Anarchaeologies

Erin Graff Zivin

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• How do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points o... Lees meer

Atopias

Frédéric Neyrat

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyra... Lees meer

Modernity's Mist

Emily Rohrbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to th... Lees meer

Theory at Yale

Marc Redfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Lit Z
• This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics"... Lees meer

Techno-Magism

Orrin N C Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Lit Z
• Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-... Lees meer