Books published by Zone Books

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of Clastres's first fieldwork in the early 1960s--an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe.

In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and elan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the relevance of Bergson's work to contemporary philosophical debates.

In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna: in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely, attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, since Auschwitz, heva been advanced in the name of ethics.

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature.

Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.

A meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and by the ancient Chinese.

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.