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  • The Writing of the Disaster

    by Maurice Blanchot ...
    Translated by Ann Smock ...
    Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning?The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Space of Literature

    A Translation of "L'Espace littéraire"

    by Maurice Blanchot ...
    Translated by Ann Smock ...
    Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers—among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness.The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Semite

    A Memoir of Algeria

    by Denis Guenoun ...
    Translated by Ann Smock, William Smock ...
    In this vivid memoir, Denis Guénoun excavates his family's past and progressively fills out a portrait of an imposing, enigmatic father. René Guénoun was a teacher and a pioneer, and his secret support for Algerian independence was just one of the many things he did not discuss with his teenaged son. To be Algerian, pro-independence, a French citizen, a Jew, and a Communist were not, to René's ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Play of Light

    Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends

    by Ann Smock ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.Drawing from five contemporary French poets-Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet-Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Give the Word

    Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"

    by Werner Hamacher ...
    Series series Stages
    Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities—and particularly academic philology—that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars of literature and philosophy (Susan Bernstein, Michèle Cohen-Halimi, Peter Fenves, Sean Gurd, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Jan Plug, Gerhard Richter, Avital Ronell, Thomas Schestag, Ann ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus ... Read more

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  • Psychological Types

    by Carl Jung ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Psychological Types is one of Jung's most important and famous works. First published in English by Routledge in the early 1920s it appeared after Jung's so-called fallow period, during which he published little, and it is perhaps the first significant book to appear after his own confrontation with the unconscious. It is the book that introduced the world to the terms 'extravert' and 'introvert'. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Irrational Man

    A Study in Existential Philosophy

    by William Barrett ...
    Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Essential Schopenhauer

    Key Selections from The World as Will and Representation and Other Writings

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    "We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully." —Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy"Schopenhauer's philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life's meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts." — Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Essential Schopenhauer delivers ... Read more

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  • A Nietzsche Reader

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886), grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Being and Having

    by Gabriel Marcel ...
    I hope that this book will be widely read, and I especially commend it to four classes of persons: I. For myself I have come across nothing more important than M. Marcel’s writings here and elsewhere on the problem of metaphysics. I say problem advisedly: for we are all of us these days in the end puzzled as to what exactly metaphysics is. The strict Thomist has his answer: so has the positivist: ... Read more

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  • Between Man and Man

    by Martin Buber ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Here he tackles subjects as varied as ... Read more

    $27.99 USD