519 results for '"Crovisier, Jacques'

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and...

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical...

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.A...

Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the...

The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship—and its political consequences, past and future—through writings by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cicero,...

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of...

Le prsent volume dite la premire des deux annes du sminaire que Jacques Derrida consacra au sujet de la peine de mort (en 1999-2000 et 2000-2001). Prsent intgralement dans le cadre du programme...

Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he’s regarded as one of the major thinkers of our age. In his new book, he examines how the West can no...

Book Description "Voici un poème et cela/Que vous voyez est ce que vous/Aurez. Mais pas plus. Pas de flaque/De sens saignant à terre sous//Lui. [...]Tout ce que vous verrez c'est çà/Que vous...

Rancière's classic essays from the 1970s, as he was developing his distinctive method.These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued...

In The Policing of Families, Jacques Donzelot, a student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century,...

With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and...

In this book, one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the...

Jacques Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud.This volume is based on a year's...

"Depuis le matin, Hilarion ne pensait pas, il ne vivait pas, il brûlait. Tant de choses en ces trois jours ! Quand il pensait à "Elle", il souriait. Il ressentit soudain une impression trouble. Il...

Chekhov’s short stories offer a subtle yet powerful message: that there is potential for change in our lives. Contrary to the image of a desolate soul, they reveal Chekhov as a beacon of hope and...

Dans ce bref essai, Jacques Roncière affirme: " Mallarmé n'est pas un auteur hermétique, c'est un auteur difficile. " Ce qui est difficile, ce n'est pas de comprendre ce que Mallarmé dit dans ses...

In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology--fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of...

The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one...

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists,...