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"The authors have effectively situated romanticism within its philosophical context in a brilliant way." -- Mark C. Taylor, Williams CollegeThe Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis.This study situates the Jena' "fragmentary" model of literature--a model of literature as the production of its own theory--in relation to the development of a post-Kantian conception of philosophy as the total and reflective auto-production of the thinking subject. Analyzing key texts of the period, the authors articulate the characteristics of romantic thought and at the same time show historical and systematic connections with modern literary theory. Thus, The Literary Absolute renews contemporary scholarship, showing the romantic origins of some of the leading issues in current critical theory."It is the most useful historical and theoretical study of its topic that has been published during the last twenty odd years. Everyone concerned with literary criticism and philosophy should have it to read more than once." -- Werner Hamacher, The Johns Hopkins University (view table of contents)

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9780887066603 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: "The authors have effectively situated romanticism within its philosophical context in a brilliant way.

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9780887066610 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $31.95

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9780816619238 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $39.95

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9780816619245 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $20.00

This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan's complex relation to linguistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. It clarifies the way Lacan renews or transforms the psychoanalytic field, through his diversion of Saussure's theory of the sign, his radicalization of Freud's fundamental concepts, and his subversion of dominant philosophical values. The authors argue, however, that Lacan's discourse is marked by a deep ambiguity: while he invents a new "language," he nonetheless maintains the traditional metaphysical motifs of systemacity, foundation, and truth. (view table of contents)

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9780791409619 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $47.50

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9780791409626 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan's complex relation to linguistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

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This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy. Finding its guiding motives in Kant's second Critique and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger and Adorno, this book marks the most advanced position in the thinking of freedom that has been proposed after Sartre and Levinas. If we do not think being itself as a freedom, we are condemned to think of freedom as a pure 'idea' or 'right', and being-in-the-world, in turn, as a blind and obtuse necessity. Since Kant, philosophy and our world have relentlessly confronted this schism. To combat this renunciation of freedom, one must think the experience of freedom in thought itself: what it is that, simply in order for there to be thinking, must partake of freedom.

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9780804721752 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy.

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9780804721905 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $25.95

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The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterises being. The first part of this book, 'Existence' asks how, today, one can give sense or meaning to existence as such, arguing that existence itself, as it comes nude into the world, must now be our 'sense'. In examining what this birth to presence might be, we should not ask what presence 'is'; rather, we should conceive presence as presence to someone, including to presence itself. The second section, 'Poetry', asks: What if art exposes this? In writing, in the voice, in painting? And what if art is exposed to it? How does it inscribe the coming of existence as such? The author's trajectory in this book crosses those of Hegel, Schlegel, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger, in their comments on art and politics, existence and corporeality, everyday life and its modes of existence, and ecstasy. An analysis that dares this crossing involves all the varied accounts of existence, political and philosophical, as well as all the realms of poetry.

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9780804720601 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterises being.

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9780804721899 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $29.95

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9788449302817, titled "La experiencia de la libertad / The Experience of Freedom" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, May 17, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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This book by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones Why are there several arts and not just one This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts the relation between the plurality of the human senses to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred and sense or meaning in general Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit art as the sensible presentation of the Idea Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel s historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy

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9780804727808 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $50.00

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9780804727815 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This book by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones Why are there several arts and not just one This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts the relation between the plurality of the human senses to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred and sense or meaning in general Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit art as the sensible presentation of the Idea Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel s historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy

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Product Description: A meditation on the changing role of philosophy in a postmodernist context, the two essays gathered here—The Forgetting of Philosophy and The Weight of a Thought—represent some of the themes that have recently occupied Nancy's thought.

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9780391039858 | Prometheus Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | also contains Haints Stay | About this edition: A meditation on the changing role of philosophy in a postmodernist context, the two essays gathered here—The Forgetting of Philosophy and The Weight of a Thought—represent some of the themes that have recently occupied Nancy's thought.
9781573925662 | Humanity Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $55.99 | About this edition: A meditation on the changing role of philosophy in a postmodernist context, the two essays gathered here—The Forgetting of Philosophy and The Weight of a Thought—represent some of the themes that have recently occupied Nancy's thought.

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Product Description: An essential exploration of sense and meaning. Is there a “world” anymore, let alone any “sense” to it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our time, and the lack of a world at the center of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a rigorous critique of the many discourses-from philosophy and political science to psychoanalysis and art history-that talk and write their way around these gaping absences in our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780816626106 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: An essential exploration of sense and meaning.

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9780816626113, titled "The Sense of the World" | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $24.00

Hardcover:

9780804739740 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $57.95

Paperback:

9780804739757 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of philosophical systems, The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific linguistic detail, with meticulous attention to etymological, philological, and rhetorical nuance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780804737135 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic.

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9780804737142 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic.

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Product Description: UN PENSAMIENTO FINITO

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9788476586150 | Italian edition edition (Anthropos, March 20, 2002), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: UN PENSAMIENTO FINITO

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Product Description: At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this remarkable work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and precision, while compromising neither rigor nor depth. One of the most original interpreters of Hegel, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a portrait as startlingly unconventional as it is persuasive, and at the same time demonstrates its relevance to a very contemporary understanding of the political...read more

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9780816632206 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this remarkable work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and precision, while compromising neither rigor nor depth.

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9780816632213 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: At once an introduction to Hegel and a radically new vision of his thought, this remarkable work penetrates the entirety of the Hegelian field with brevity and precision, while compromising neither rigor nor depth.

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Product Description: No dejamos de asistir con estupefacción a un mundo que ha perdido su capacidad de hacer mundo. A lo sumo, parece haber ganado solamente la capacidad de multiplicar a la medida de sus medios una proliferación de lo inmundo que nunca antes en la historia había marcado de esta manera la totalidad del orbe...read more

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9788449314124 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 1, 2003), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: No dejamos de asistir con estupefacción a un mundo que ha perdido su capacidad de hacer mundo.

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9780804739009 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 6, 2003, cover price $64.95

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If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces.What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image-which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image-which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin?In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies.In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time. Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universit Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. The most recent of his many books to be published in English are A Finite Thinking and Multiple Arts. Jeff Fort has translated works by authors such as Jean Genet, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
By Jeff Fort (trans) and Jean-Luc Nancy

Hardcover:

9780823225408 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 24, 2006, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9780823225415 | Fordham Univ Pr, March 24, 2006, cover price $35.00

Miscellaneous:

9780823226092 | B&t Database Management/Cip, December 1, 2005, cover price N/A
| About this edition: If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence.
9780823226108 | B&t Database Management/Cip, December 1, 2005, cover price N/A
| About this edition: If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence.

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Hardcover:

9780804739535 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, May 11, 2006), cover price $65.00

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9780804739542 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, May 11, 2006), cover price $26.95

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Product Description: Painting, drawing or photographing a nude poses the same challenge every time: to portray the unportrayable instant of being stripped bare, the instantaneous modesty that robs the viewer of any revelation, and the indecency which reveals that theft.

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9782252035733 | Isd, June 7, 2006, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Painting, drawing or photographing a nude poses the same challenge every time: to portray the unportrayable instant of being stripped bare, the instantaneous modesty that robs the viewer of any revelation, and the indecency which reveals that theft.

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Hardcover:

9780791470251 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 8, 2007, cover price $49.50

Paperback:

9780791470268 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 8, 2007, cover price $26.95

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