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The Animal That Therefore I Am

by Jacques Derrida

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of...


Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France

by Tom Eyers

Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured...


Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

by Michael Marder

The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life,...


The Politics of Survival: Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism

by Lara Trout

How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension...


The God Who Deconstructs Himself: Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

by Nick Mansfield

No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent and the...


The Historiographic Perversion

by Marc Nichanian & Gil Anidjar

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history...


The Feminine and the Sacred

by Catherine Clément, Julia Kristeva & Jane Marie Todd

In November 1996, Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. Their correspondence lead them to a controversial and fundamental question: is there anything...


Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films

by Kelly Oliver

The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing...


The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice

by Peter Sloterdijk & Karen Margolis

In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life!, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science...


Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture

by Irina Aristarkhova

The question “Where do we come from?” has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb,...


Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction

by Thomas Deane Tucker

Derridada explores the affinities between the work of Marcel Duchamp and the discipline of deconstruction. It is the first text to explore Duchamp's work in the context of the theories of Derrida and deconstruction....


Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues

by Alfredo Gomez-Muller & Gabriel Rockhill

The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political...


On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother

by Amber Jacobs

Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal...


Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century

by Elisabeth Bronfen & Misha Kavka

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and...


Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

by Nancy Bauer

In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book...


Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction

by Catherine Malabou, Carolyn Shread & Clayton Crockett

A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity,...


Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy....


This Is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida

by Leonard Lawlor

Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their phenomenological criteria for distinguishing...


Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno

by Robert Hullot-Kentor & Lydia Goehr

"Adorno's philosophy took shape in dread recognition of the reversion of society to the primitive.... The problem that marks the center and circumference of his thought was the effort to comprehend and perhaps...


Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

by Maria Pia Pia Lara

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil...