We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to "overcome"; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in any event of our lives. This highly original book engages with a range of thinkers and texts from across the fields of phenomenology, psychoanalysis and critical theory, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Freud and Benjamin, together with innovative analysis of French literature and the visual arts, to demonstrate that the role of repetition and deferral in modernity has changed dramatically. Rather than allowing the everyday gradually...
We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to "overcome"; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in an...
The Thought of Matter advances current debates around materialism, arguing that matter is the 'other' of thought and, therefore, requires a method that allows that other to emerge in thought without being appropriated by it.
The Thought of Matter advances current debates around materialism, arguing that matter is the 'other' of thought and, therefore, requires a method tha...
The Thought of Matter advances current debates around materialism, arguing that matter is the 'other' of thought and, therefore, requires a method that allows that other to emerge in thought without being appropriated by it.
The Thought of Matter advances current debates around materialism, arguing that matter is the 'other' of thought and, therefore, requires a method tha...
This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the work of Nancy and Blanchot. It analyses in detail the underlying philosophical, political, literary, and religious implications of the often misrepresented debate between Blanchot and Nancy.
This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the...
This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the work of Nancy and Blanchot. It analyses in detail the underlying philosophical, political, literary, and religious implications of the often misrepresented debate between Blanchot and Nancy.
This book offers the first fully documented and historically contextualised account of the origins and implications of the concept of community in the...
This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.
This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interp...
