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In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was unlikely, and the two were intro ...
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Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. This book explores the German philosopher's important works and discusses his views o ...
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Interlacing the life and work of the seminal 20th century philosopher, Hannah Arendt, this biography explores her critique of Saint Augustine and her biographical essay on Rahel Varnhagen. It also accentuates Arendt's commitment to recounting lives and narration and reflects on h ...
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Julia Kristeva uses both dialogue and essay to analyze our incredible need to believe --the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmun ...
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Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture.
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What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? What is opera's seductive promise and how does it draw us into its embrace? This study considers the allure of several seducers and seductresses from nineteenth-century opera - ...
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Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.
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Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Collaege de France (1976-1977) -- T.p
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is considered the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. This volume opens with an introduction outlining Gramsci's project and the circumstances surrounding the composition of his notebooks.
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