Louis-René des Forêts (1916–2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry and fragmentary prose, and culminating in the ke
Compassion’s Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established
During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s future, in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe.
Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte
Series:
Faux titre
Volume:
384
Author:
Ian Maclachlan
Publisher:
Rodopi
(2012)
Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined…
Published in Paris by the editors of
Amadis de Gaule, Le Premier Livre
de l’histoire et ancienne cronique de
Gérard d’Euphrate presents the
reader with a mock -heroic cock tail
of…
Passions of the soul in late twentieth-century French thought
Author:
Christina Howells
Publisher:
Polity Press
(2011)
This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan,…
