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    - When Are We Ever at Home?
    by Barbara Cassin
    £58.49

    Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language.

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    - Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy
    by William S. Allen
    £50.99

    A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation.

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    - A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service
    by Allison McGuire, Nina C. Martin, Bernadette Doykos & et al.
    £11.99

    This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.

  • - A Hospitalization Diary
    by Herve Guibert
    £15.49

    Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

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    - James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners
    by Ed Pavlic
    £16.99

    Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance.

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    - German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
    by Marton Dornbach
    £42.49

    This book elucidates the ways in which German Idealist authors such as Kant, Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel and Hegel envisioned the conjunction of spontaneous activity and receptivity towards culturally transmitted models in the context of aesthetic experience, philosophical thought, textual communication and literary criticism.

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    - Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
    by Jason M. Wirth
    £50.99

    This study will attempt to understand, through both a careful reading of Kundera's oeuvre as well as a consideration of the Continental philosophical tradition, the place that Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." I argue that Kundera transforms-not applies-philosophical reflection within the art form of the novel.

  • by Jean-Luc Nancy
    £12.99 - 45.99

    Philosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities-mind and body, reason and desire, logic and eros-Nancy's subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius-I am, I exist-drunk.

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    - Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
    by Valentina Napolitano
    £20.99 - 65.99

    Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration's debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe.

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    - A Micro-ontology of the Image
    by Emanuele Coccia
    £19.49

    This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.

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    - Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity
    by Aleida Assmann
    £25.49

    The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany's new 'memory culture' emerged as a collective project and work in progress.

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    - Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943
    by Maurice Blanchot
    £27.99

    This is the third volume of Maurice Blanchot's war-time Literary Chronicles. Written in 1943, they appeared during the darkest days of the war yet also at a time when real hope for victory was becoming possible. Against the grain of any simple optimism, Blanchot identifies in ruin and disaster a sign and a chance for a mode of human relation that will truly guarantee the future.

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    - The Event and the Finitude of Appearing
    by Claude Romano
    £25.49 - 86.49

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