411 results for '"Pierre Collet'

Foucault's suggestion that this century would become known as "Deleuzian," was considered by Deleuze himself to be a joke "meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid."...

How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for engagement with...

"[A] classic psychological thriller."--USA Today Originally published in 1964, and the winner of the CWA Best Foreign Novel Award, Patricia Highsmith's The Two Faces of January is a chilling tale of...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale semble aujourd'hui bien connue. Et pourtant. Les idées reçues sur ce conflit d'airain abondent. Desservant la cause de la connaissance, elles montrent surtout que la...

The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of...

A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great...

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre...

WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student...

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation...

Introduction : Towards A General Theory Of Fascism / George L. Mosse -- Part I. Italian Fascism -- Fascism In Italy : The Second Wave / Adrian Lyttelton -- The Cult Of The Duce In Mussolini's Italy /...

For nearly two thousand years, Hebrew belonged to the realm of the sacred. A written liturgical language used primarily by rabbis and scholars, it was not spoken in everyday contexts. A revival...

An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today Collected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John...

An intimate memoir of growing up inside legendary Parisian publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. I wanted to tell the story of Les Éditions de Minuit as I saw them as a child. And also to tell...

An extraordinary look at how the style of Piet Mondrian’s abstract paintings was posthumously appropriated by 1960s fashion, Pop art, and consumer culture.Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 Mondrian dresses...

John Maynard Keynes once observed that the "ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood." The...

In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he'd seldom known before. Abused and abandoned...

Not so long ago, the term “ideology” was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a claim to know a truth beyond ideology, a radically unfashionable position. What then explains...

2015 National Translation Award Winner in PoetryPaul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times...

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant...

In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state...