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This text provides an introduction to French literature from 842 AD to the 1990s. It contains numerous essays by contemporary critics and theorists, and covers topics ranging from Proust and…
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Denis Hollier
Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille’s work.
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Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, Andre Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre-these were writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text, maturing in a world that would have…
The aim of this book is to explore the French writers and critics of the 1930s and 1940s, who were to shape French literature. It studies the prehistory of postmodernism…
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Roland Barthes
His lectures draw on a diverse set of authors and intellectual traditions, including Lao-Tzu, Tolstoy, German mysticism, Classical philosophy, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and John Cage. Barthes’s idiosyncratic approach gives…
The Neutral ( le neutre) escapes or undoes the paradigmatic binary oppositions that structure and produce meaning in Western thought and discourse. This book centers around 23 figures, also referred…
Rosalyn Deutsche,Lisa Saltzman,Andrzej Turowski
Krzysztof Wodiczko is the first complete collection of the politically charged installations and projects of internationally renowned artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
