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Proust among the Nations
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 30.00Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations , she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage... more...
The Trojan Horse
Shell Education 2010; US$ 6.99This script tells a story about a war that took place long ago between the Greeks and the Trojans. It is said that the war began when the Trojans kidnapped Helen, the queen of the great Greek state, Sparta. The effort to get her back caused one of the greatest wars in history that lasted over a decade. Find out how it ended and who was behind the master... more...
Mute Objects of Expression
Archipelago Books 2006; US$ 17.00Ponge sings of the birds and the bees. A monumental work. more...
Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95In her study of literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin... more...
Albert Camus the Algerian
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 25.99This original reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into issues of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War... more...
Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 130.00Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its literary, philosophical, and political significance? Few writers have explored these questions with such probing radicality and rigorous tenacity as the French... more...
The Journal of Jules Renard
Tin House Books 2012; US$ 16.95Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United States. Throughout his journal, Renard develops not... more...
Georges Bataille
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 25.95This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel,... more...
The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camus?s Writings
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00The book shows Camus's continued relevance for us today. more...









