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  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series Book 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.“One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida.Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • 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    When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures.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

    $35.99 CAD

  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    by R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

    The Function of Avowal in Justice

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer ...
    Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting ... Read more

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  • Acts of Religion

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture

    by Louis Dupre ...
    The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Foucault

    His Thought, His Character

    by Paul Veyne ...
    Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, writes Veyne; he stood ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Death Penalty, Volume I

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    Series Book 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Dis-Enclosure

    The Deconstruction of Christianity

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith ...
    Translated by Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    From one of France's leading contemporary thinkers, "an astutely reasoned philosophical text, offering a revolutionary analysis of theistic religion" ( The Midwest Book Review).This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and ... Read more

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  • The Ethnography of Rhythm

    Orality and Its Technologies

    by Haun Saussy ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesWho speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD