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Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.
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Jacques Lezra
Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative to political institutionalism in an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run…
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Opening a methodological dialogue between Freud’s work and Althusser’s late understanding of aleatory materialism, the author shows how an ethic of terror, and in the political sphere a radically democratic…
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In readings linking the works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, this book argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define…
This book explores the interrelated subjects of philosophy of translation and the critique of globalization. Taking a specifically deconstructive-Marxist approach, Lezra examines the concept of translation through the lens of…
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Lucretius’s long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical…
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On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.
Suitable for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas, this title covers close to 400 important philosophical, literary…
Carlo Diano
Diano’s Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze…
The Marrano Spirit brings together work by major scholars who collectively pursue the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism: his reception within intellectual circles in Spain and Latin America…
Brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.
This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Etienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define…
