Being and Event By Alain Badiou

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Title	:	Being and Event
Author	:	Alain Badiou
ISBN	:	0826458319
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	526

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A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou s magnum opus Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France s most important living philosopher Long awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English speaking readership Badiou s groundbreaking work on set theory the cornerstone of his whole p A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou s magnum opus Being and Event is the...

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The Subject Of Philosophy By Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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Title	:	The Subject Of Philosophy
Author	:	Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
ISBN	:	0816616981
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	232

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The Subject of Philosophy presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and representation Spanning the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and addressing such major moments in the history of literature as Greek tragedy and German The Subject of Philosophy presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy wi...

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Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs By Jacques Derrida

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Title	:	Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs
Author	:	Jacques Derrida
ISBN	:	081010590X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	166

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In Speech and Phenomena, Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, which have often been seen as irreconcilable criteria for the use and interpretations of signs His critique of Husserl attacks the position that language is founded on logic rather than on rhetoric instead, he claims, meaningful language is limited to expressio In Speech and Phenomena, Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, ...

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The Dialogic Imagination By Mikhail Bakhtin

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Title	:	The Dialogic Imagination
Author	:	Mikhail Bakhtin
ISBN	:	029271534X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	480

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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin 1895 1975 known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki Problems of literature and esthetics , publis These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin 1895 1975 known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky as a phil...

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Simulacra and Simulation By Jean Baudrillard

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Title	:	Simulacra and Simulation
Author	:	Jean Baudrillard
ISBN	:	0472065211
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	164

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The first full length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard s first important step toward theorizing the postmodern Moving away from the Marxist Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies

The first full length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of Sim...

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The Content of the Form By Hayden White

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Title	:	The Content of the Form
Author	:	Hayden White
ISBN	:	0801829372
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	264

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White has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature American Historical Review....

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The Signifying Monkey By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Title	:	The Signifying Monkey
Author	:	Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN	:	019506075X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean cultur Henry Louis Gates, Jr s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African American vernacular tra...

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Anti-Oedipus By Gilles Deleuze

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Title	:	Anti-Oedipus
Author	:	Gilles Deleuze
ISBN	:	0816612250
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	400

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A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture An important text in the rethinking of sexuality and sexual politics spurred by the feminist and gay liberation movements A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theor...

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The Order of Things By Michel Foucault

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Title	:	The Order of Things
Author	:	Michel Foucault
ISBN	:	0679753354
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	387

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When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century Eclipsed b When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here With virtuoso showmansh...

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism By Fredric Jameson

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Title	:	Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Author	:	Fredric Jameson
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Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	438

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Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson offering a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective The book began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review.Fredric Jameson s most wide ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of postmodernism Jameson s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide l Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson offering a cr...

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Negative Dialectics By Theodor W. Adorno

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Title	:	Negative Dialectics
Author	:	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	:	0826401325
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	440

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The major work and Adorno s culminating achievement Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author s own vision of dialectics....

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Technics and Time, 1 By Bernard Stiegler

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Title	:	Technics and Time, 1
Author	:	Bernard Stiegler
ISBN	:	0804730415
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	316

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What is a technical object At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative asse What is a technical object At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had wit...

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Introduction to the Reading of Hegel By Alexandre Kojève

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Title	:	Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Author	:	Alexandre Kojève
ISBN	:	0801492033
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304

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This collection of Kojeve s thoughts about Hegel constitutesone of the few important philosophical books of the twentiethcentury a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the fullawareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modernperspective on the eternal questions of philosophy Allan Bloom from the Introduction During the years 1933 1939, the Russian born This collection of Kojeve s thoughts about Hegel constitutesone of the few important philosophical books of the twentiethcentury...

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