201 results for '"Gauchet, Marcel'

Gabriel Marcel's reflective method is animated by his extra-philosophical commitment to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanization in late Western modernity. Unfortunately, Marcel neglected to...

Review '"Voici un ouvrage...fondamental pour l'itablissement du texte de la Ripublique" de Platon.'Marcel Meulder, "L'Antiquiti Classique, 1991.'"Voici un ouvrage...fondamental pour...

In this comprehensive and dynamic Deutscher Prize winning work, Liebman rises about the dogmatism and sterility that plague most appraisals of Lenin, and persuasively makes the case that the Russian...

Lyne Bansat-Boudon Lokenath Bhattacharya Johannes Bronkhorst Jacques Derrida Marcel Detienne Jacques Le Brun Nicole Loraux J.-B. Ponatlis/Maurice Olender Jesper Svenbro/John Scheid Kristofer...

This groundbreaking and richly illustrated book tells a new story of the twentieth century’s most influential artist, recounted not so much through his artwork as through his “non-art” work. Marcel...

From the author of the international bestseller Lie with Me comes the tale of an affair between an aristocratic teenager and a soldier, as they discover the possibilities and perils of first love...

The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French...

Unveiling a rich chapter in modern and contemporary art history, where the shop window becomes a stage and consumerism transforms into artSince the late 19th century, the shop window has shaped the...

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust...

In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as...

A May 2025 Indie Next List Great Read"Like Gabriële herself, this book takes on big ideas about modern art and modern life."--The New York TimesThe story of a passionate love affair that triggered a...

Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six...

Im Schwerpunkt gehen die Beitrage der Frage nach, welche Strategien und Verfahrensweisen die Kriegsteilnehmer in der literarischen Verarbeitung ihrer individuellen Kriegserlebnisse verfolgten. An...

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination...

Essays spanning three decades by one of the most rigorous art thinkers of our time grapple with formal and historical paradigms in twentieth century art.These influential essays by the noted critic...

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents,...

The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others.The celebrated critic and film...

First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its...

Arbit Blatas, the internationally renowned artist has lived and worked in the legendary city of Venice for many years. Her mysterious and incandescent beauty inspired some of his most luminous...

Published in connection with an exhibition opening at Photo Elysée in spring 2024, this book presents more than 150 of Man Ray's portraits, primarily from the 1920s and 30s. Man Ray (1890-1976) was...