Privy Portrait (Benoziglio Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Privy Portrait (Benoziglio Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possession: a twenty-five-volume encyclopedia. His

Portrait (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter's self-sameness, is suspended between proximity and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and presentation, the faithful and the forceful. A portrait can

Godard on Godard (Godard Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cin ma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cin ma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit,

On Touchinga Jean-Luc Nancy (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical

The Pleasure in Drawing (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its

The Six Lamps: Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bn Tradition (Achard Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Esteemed Tibetologist Jean-Luc Achard contextualizes and provides a clear translation of highly secret precepts on Dzogchen practice unlike anything published. The Instructions on the Six Lamps is a profound and important work from the B n Dzogchen tradition and is one of the root texts of the

God Without Being: Hors-Texte, Second Edition (Marion Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a

Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Briggs Jean L.)(Paperback)

In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as

Kid Lucky (Leturgie Jean)(Paperback)

Lucky Luke's childhood, and his first meeting with Jolly

Maisy Goes to London (Cousins Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Go exploring with Maisy in this brand new portrait format!Explore London with this delightful children's picture book from the multi-award-winning Lucy Cousins. Maisy and her friends are visiting the big city - and there is so much to see! Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, and even the

Doing (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Pevná vazba)

In Doing, Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons to more vigorous thinking, the examination and

Jean-Luc Bertini: Amricaines Solitudes (Bertini Jean-Luc)(Pevná vazba)

A photographic study of the varied character of solitude in AmericaOver the course of a decade, French photographer Jean-Luc Bertini traveled the length and breadth of the United States, creating portraits of the unique circumstance of isolation fostered by the country's geographic circumstances

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Sexistence (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with

The Pony Express (Leturgie Jean)(Paperback)

Luke gets to help set-up the legendary Pony Express! In 1860, getting from Missouri to California on the West Coast took a long, long time - not to mention a certain degree of courage. Annoyed at the delay in communication, the federal government offers a grant to whoever can solve the problem and

The Erotic Phenomenon (Marion Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word philosophy means 'love of wisdom,' but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is

Being Singular Plural (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always 'being with,' that 'I' is not prior to 'we,' that existence is essentially

Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man (Amery Jean)(Paperback)

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Jean Am ry undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century

A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment (Marion Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what 'catholic' truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and universal into conversation about what it is to be

Space, Politics and Aesthetics (Dike Mustafa)(Paperback)

Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranci�re, Space, Politics and Aesthetics reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates how their conceptualisations of politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds

Inoperative Community, 76 (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

This work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the

Corpus (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

How have we thought 'the body'? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the 'mystical body of Christ'-all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy's

God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues (Nancy Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the 'little dialogues' series at the Montreuil's center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamin's 'Aufkl rung f r Kinder' radio talks, this

Outboard Motors Maintenance and Repair Manual (Pallas Jean-Luc)(Paperback)

The aim of this book, with its superb step by step photographs and detailed diagrams is to enable every owner to understand the workings of an outboard motor (2 or 4 stroke) and be able to fix it with relative ease. It includes: an explanation of the different parts that make up the engine and how