Outside the Subject

Emmanuel Levinas

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• A Stanford University Press classic. Lees meer

Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin

Werner Hamacher

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• Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept ... Lees meer

A Child Is Being Killed

Serge LeClaire

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselv... Lees meer

At Odds with AIDS

Alexander Garcia Düttmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about... Lees meer

H. C. for Life, That Is to Say...

Jacques Derrida

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• H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Hélène Cixous. The main figure that i... Lees meer

Psyche, Volume 1

Jacques Derrida

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• Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1... Lees meer

On Representation

Louis Marin

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• At his death in 1992, the eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist Louis Marin left, in addition to a dozen influential books (including Sublime Pous... Lees meer

The Specular Moment

David E Wellbery

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter... Lees meer

A Life with Mary Shelley

Barbara Johnson

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• In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacque... Lees meer

Housing Problems

Susan Bernstein

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• In Housing Problems , Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic pro... Lees meer

Is It Righteous to Be?

• Hardcover | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Recent debates within Continental philosophy have decisively renewed the question of the ethical, with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1... Lees meer

Skirting the Ethical

Carol Jacobs

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• Skirting the Ethical offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' Antigone , P... Lees meer

Technics and Time, 2

Bernard Stiegler

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• Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time , in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in... Lees meer

The Work of Fire

Maurice Blanchot

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• Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. ... Lees meer

Multiple Arts

Jean-Luc Nancy

• Hardcover | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally po... Lees meer

The Open

Giorgio Agamben

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• The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that hist... Lees meer

In the Event

Deborah Esch

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• Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of r... Lees meer

The Gray Book the Gray Book the Gray Book

Aris Fioretos

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• Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. Marking the threshold region where lumi... Lees meer

Eyes of the University

Jacques Derrida

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Completing the translation of Derrida's monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who's Afr... Lees meer

Creation and Anarchy

Giorgio Agamben

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• Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunction... Lees meer

The Mystery of Evil

Giorgio Agamben

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• In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, G... Lees meer

The Messianic Reduction

Peter Fenves

• Hardcover | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporane... Lees meer

Topographies

J Hillis Miller

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• A Stanford University Press classic. Lees meer

The Kingdom and the Glory

Giorgio Agamben

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does i... Lees meer