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Bruno Latour
In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in "earthly…
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Antoine Compagnon
Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of the great intellects, contextualizing Pascal in his own time and…
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With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond…
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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values…
Luce Irigaray,Burke Porter
In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.
Helene Dumas
A bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children.
Catherine Porter
The life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895-1926) is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to…
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Morizot
Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.
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A debut monograph that showcases Smith's bold experimentation, from her cutting-edge performance art to her earliest paintings, Xerox prints, drawings and sculpture
A pioneer of the performance art movement of…
Patrick Weil
Presents the history of French nationality law since 1789. This book compares French laws to those of other countries, including the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, showing how France…
Claude Rosental,Catherine Porter
An analysis of the demonstration -from protests to tech product demos and everything in between-to draw out their peculiarities and common features –
Claude Rosental
The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. This book challenges this notion by tracing the…
Anne Dufourmantelle
Although sex and philosophy have much in common, however, they have scarcely known one another. This study explains why philosophy has never been fully sexualized nor sex really philosophized. It…
Sarah Kofman
The author of this study suggests that Socrates’ avowal of ignorance was meant to be ironic and that later philosophers resisted the profoundly ironic character of his way of life…
Tzvetan Todorov
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvelan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today’s literary critics. Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse…
Louis Marin
Throughout his life eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin was inspired by the work of Nicolas Poussin. The ten essays in this volume are his definitive statement on the painter…
This is a collection of twenty-two essays. The book interrogates the theory and practice of representation as it is carried out by both linguistic and graphic signs, and thus the…
Gerard Genette
In Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domain of rhetoric, and its reception, which has always been the object…
An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist’s life. In January 2010, a devastating earthquake…
Presents a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have evoked and the laws that have resulted…
Sylvie Patron
The Narrator questions the dominance of the communicational paradigm in the theory and analysis of fictional narratives.
This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology. Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society-and the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating…
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Denis Hollier
Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, Andre Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre-these were writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text, maturing in a world that would have…
Elisabeth Roudinesco
Elisabeth Roudinesco’s bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century-a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert…
Justin Vaisse
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin Vaisse offers the first biography of the Polish immigrant and…
Claire Zalc
The number of French Jews killed during the Holocaust has been massively underestimated. Claire Zalc explains why: the Vichy regime terminated the legal standing of thousands of naturalized Jewish citizens…
Pierre Rosanvallon
Originally published in French as Le siaecle du populisme: Histoire, thaeorie, critique A Editions du Seuil, 2020 –Title page verso.
Catherine Lucy Porter
Steven Laurence Kaplan
This beautifully illustrated book, written by a leading expert on French bread, describes the resurgence of high-quality, artisanal bread in France over the past two decades.
Jean-Christophe Bailly
This work was originally published in French as … Le versant animal. Bayard Editions, 2007 –T.p. verso
Anne Emmanuelle Berger
Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, American and French .
Jean-Joseph Goux
This book argues that instead of the Oedipus complex explaining the myth, the Oedipus myth explains the complex. The author argues that the myth is an historical anomaly, of failed…
Todorov
Avital Ronell,Anne Dufourmantelle,Catherine Porter
What do philosophy and literary studies have to learn from each other? How does Ronell place her work within gender studies? What does psychoanalysis have to contribute to contemporary thought…
Offers a critical autobiographical overview of the work of Avital Ronell.
Luc Boltanski,Laurent Thevenot
Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by…
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Scholars, practitioners, activists and students in human rights, international development, social policy, socio-legal studies, law, sociology and critical economics will find this to be an accessible book on the potential…
Gilles Lipovetsky
Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of…
