The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

Addresses the problem of formulating ways to consider the undivided mind, drawing on various sources, from Descartes to cosmology, Freud, and Genet and succeeds brilliantly in diagramming new forms as…

Features two intellectuals who engage in a dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. In this book, their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its…

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman’s portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome’s homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different…