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  • The Orchestra of Wind Chimes

    by Geoffrey Jacques ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    This powerful collection of poems draws on American and African-American experimental lyric traditions, pushing language and form to their limits. Geoffrey Jacques's poetry inspires deep thought, taking up themes of music, psychology, and literature. This work embodies the potential of poetry to forge new connections between aesthetic expression and the often onerous facts of human existence. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just for a Thrill

    Poems

    by Geoffrey Jacques ...
    Series series African American Life
    A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice."Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read widely and has taken his cue from some of the most important vanguard poets of the past century and a half—Whitman, Breton, Césaire, Stein, Olson, Baraka, and others. He has digested and assimilated the lessons to be learned from their work while finding a way that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What I Say

    Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

    by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt0, Kim Hunter1, Geoffrey Jacques2, John Keene3, Nathaniel Mackey4, Dawn Lundy Martin5, Mark McMorris6, Tracie Morris7, Harryette Mullen8, Mendi Lewis Obadike9, G. E. Patterson0, Julie Patton1, Claudia Rankine2, Deborah Richards3, Evie Shockley4, giovanni singleton5, Tyrone Williams6, Ronaldo V. Wilson7, Douglas Kearney8, Pia Deas9, T. J. Anderson III0, Dr. Lauri Ramey2, Prof. Fred Moten3 ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington ...
    Series Book 5. 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English.The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Heidegger

    The Question of Being and History

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington ...
    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Theory and Practice

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting.Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington ...
    Series Book 5. 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002–2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger’s 1929–1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Truth in Painting

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Ian McLeod ...
    "The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

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  • Four Seminars

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Andrew Mitchell, François Raffoul ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The philosopher presents a stimulating overview of his work, its intellectual roots, and its relationship to the work of other twentieth century thinkers.In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger's approval ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Distraction

    by Paul North ...
    We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, ... Read more

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  • Resistance of the Sensible World

    An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty

    by Emmanuel Alloa ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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