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SCUM Manifesto (English Edition)

By: Térésa Faucon,Hélène Fleckinger,Alain Carou

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SCUM Manifesto (English Edition)

By: Térésa Faucon,Hélène Fleckinger,Alain Carou

SCUM Manifesto is a digital book bringing texts and archives about the videotape of Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig restored and available in full in the book. The videotape filmed in 1976 is a staged reading of extracts from Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto then out of print in French translation. Delphine Seyrig translates some passages to Carole Roussopoulos who types them in the machine. In the background, a television broadcasts live images of the TV news which let us hear the apocalyptic news. Like the book, the film is a pamphlet against society dominated by the “male” image and “virile” action.

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Naima

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2374401006

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9782374401003

The Burnt Book

Reading the Talmud

By: Marc-Alain Ouaknin

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The Burnt Book

Reading the Talmud

By: Marc-Alain Ouaknin

A profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts In this book, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud. Combining traditional learning and contemporary thought, Ouaknin dovetails discussions of spirituality and religious practice with such concepts as deconstruction, intertextuality, undecidability, multiple voicing, and eroticism in the Talmud. On a broader level, he establishes a dialogue between Hebrew tradition and the social sciences, which draws, for example, on the works of Lévinas, Blanchot, and Jabès as well as Derrida. The Burnt Book represents the innovative thinking that has come to be associated with a school of French Jewish studies, headed by Lévinas and dedicated to new readings of traditional texts. The Talmud, transcribed in 500 C.E., is shown to be a text that refrains from dogma and instead encourages the exploration of its meanings. A vast compilation of Jewish oral law, the Talmud also contains rabbinical commentaries that touch on everything from astronomy to household life. Examining its literary methods and internal logic, Ouaknin explains how this text allows readers to transcend its authority in that it invites them to interpret, discuss, and recreate their religious tradition. An in-depth treatment of selected texts from the oral law and commentary goes on to provide a model for secular study of the Talmud in light of contemporary philosophical issues. Throughout, the author emphasizes the self-effacing quality of a text whose worth can be measured by the insights that live on in the minds of its interpreters long after they have closed the book. He points out that the burning of the Talmud in anti-Judaic campaigns throughout history has, in fact, been an unwitting act of complicity with Talmudic philosophy and the practice of self-effacement. Ouaknin concludes his discussion with the story of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, who himself burned his life achievement—a work known by his students as "the Burnt Book." This story leaves us with the question, should all books be destroyed in order to give birth to thought and renew meaning?

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Princeton University Press

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0691268371

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9780691268378

Weariness of the Self

Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

By: Alain Ehrenberg

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Weariness of the Self

Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

By: Alain Ehrenberg

Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition. Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values. The first book to offer both a global sociological view of contemporary depression and a detailed description of psychiatric reasoning and its transformation - from the invention of electroshock therapy to mass consumption of Prozac - The Weariness of the Self offers a compelling exploration of depression as social fact.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578706

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9780773578708

American Freemasonry

Its Revolutionary History and Challenging Future

By: Alain de Keghel

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American Freemasonry

Its Revolutionary History and Challenging Future

By: Alain de Keghel

Explores the American Masonic system and its strengths and failings • Examines the history of Freemasonry in the United States from the colonial era and the Revolutionary War to the rise of the Scottish branch onward • Investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry between black lodges and white and how, unlike French lodges, women are ineligible to become Masons in the U.S. • Reveals the factors that have resulted in shrinking Masonic enrollment in America and explores the revitalization work done by the Grand Lodge of California Freemasonry bears the imprint of the society in which it exists, and Freemasonry in North America is no exception. While keeping close ties to French lodges until 1913, American Freemasonry was also deeply influenced by the experiences of many early American political leaders, leading to distinctive differences from European lodges. Offering an unobstructed view of the American system and its strengths and failings, Alain de Keghel, an elder of the Grand Orient de France and, since 1999, a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite Research Society (Southern U.S. jurisdiction), examines the history of Freemasonry in the United States from the colonial era to the Revolutionary War to the rise of the Scottish branch onward. He reveals the special relationship between the French Masonic hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, including French Freemasonry’s role in the American Revolution. He also explores Franklin’s Masonic membership, including how he was Elder of the lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris. The author investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry between black lodges and white and how, unlike French lodges, women are ineligible to become Masons in the U.S. He examines how American Freemasonry has remained deeply religious across the centuries and forbids discussion of religious or social issues in its lodges, unlike some branches of French Freemasonry, which removed belief in God as a prerequisite for membership in 1877 and whose lodges operate in some respects as philosophical debating societies. Revealing the factors that have resulted in shrinking Masonic enrollment in America, the author explores the revitalization work done by the Grand Lodge of California and sounds the call to make Freemasonry and its principles relevant to America once again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1620556065

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9781620556061

Painting as Model

By: Yve-Alain Bois

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Painting as Model

By: Yve-Alain Bois

Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts.

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MIT Press

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0262521806

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9780262521802

The Social World of Galleries

Contemporary Art, the Market and Internationalization

By: Alain Quemin

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The Social World of Galleries

Contemporary Art, the Market and Internationalization

By: Alain Quemin

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author's field research carried out for over a decade, and combining ethnographic material with quantitative data, the book reveals the major role galleries play in the creation of art value. Despite being pillars of the art market, there has been very little in-depth research on galleries, especially when compared with the analysis of artists, critics, and dealers. Written by a sociologist who has spent a decade as an art critic, the book builds on work conducted by art historian and sociologist Raymonde Moulin from the 1960s to the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews with those working in the field today, it provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of what contemporary art galleries really are: the spaces they occupy both physically and online; their position within gallery 'districts'; their relation to art fairs and biennials; and how friendship with clients is built and trends within the business, in turn illuminating the hierarchized structure of the sector. The book concludes by addressing a significant gap in data on the art market by providing a sociological ranking of international contemporary art galleries. Offering a detailed analysis to a topic that has never been fully studied, The Social World of Galleries is essential reading for scholars and students of art sociology, art history and art business, as well as gallerists, collectors or art lovers, and artists themselves.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350370932

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9781350370937

Games And Dynamic Games

By: Alain Haurie,Jacek B Krawczyk,Georges Zaccour

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Games And Dynamic Games

By: Alain Haurie,Jacek B Krawczyk,Georges Zaccour

Dynamic games arise between players (individuals, firms, countries, animals, etc.) when the strategic interactions among them recur over time and decisions made during one period affect both current and future payoffs. Dynamic games provide conceptually rich paradigms and tools to deal with these situations.This volume provides a uniform approach to game theory and illustrates it with present-day applications to economics and management, including environmental, with the emphasis on dynamic games.At the end of each chapter a case study called game engineering (GE) is provided, to help readers understand how problems of high social priority, such as environmental negotiations, exploitation of common resources, can be modeled as games and how solutions can be engineered.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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981440134X

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9789814401340

Duras

By: Alain Vircondelet

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Duras

By: Alain Vircondelet

Traces the life of the French novelist and screenwriter, and discussses the influence of her life on her writings.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564780651

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Gastrointestinal Tract Sonography in Fetuses and Children

By: C. Baud,Alain Couture,F.L. Ferran,Magali Saguintaah,Corinne Veyrac

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Gastrointestinal Tract Sonography in Fetuses and Children

By: C. Baud,Alain Couture,F.L. Ferran,Magali Saguintaah,Corinne Veyrac

This is a state-of-the-art review of sonography of the gastrointestinal tract in fetuses, neonates and children. An introductory chapter compares sonography and magnetic resonance imaging of the fetal gastrointestinal tract. Coverage focuses on technique, pitfalls and findings in applications including antropyloric diseases, bowel obstruction, bowel wall thickening, colitis, appendicitis, intussusception, abdominal wall and umbilical abnormalities, intraperitoneal tumors and trauma, with high-quality illustrations. Includes a quiz based on 15 case reports.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540689176

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9783540689171

International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

By: Alain de Mijolla

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International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

By: Alain de Mijolla

The history of psychoanalysis in 50 countries shows the relationship between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, with entries discussing writers, philosophers, literary movements and historical events.

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MacMillan Reference Library

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0028659244

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9780028659244

Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

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Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery

By: Alain Carpentier,David H. Adams,Farzan Filsoufi

Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery presents you with authoritative guidance on reconstructive techniques for degenerative mitral valve disease. Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD—who pioneered the field—David H. Adams, MD; and Farzan Filsoufi, MD provide step-by-step instructions for each procedure and over 200 detailed anatomic drawings so that you can effectively apply the techniques of a master. - Apply the techniques and procedures of Dr. Alain Carpentier—pioneer of mitral valve reconstruction—to your practice. - View more than 200 detailed anatomic drawings that depict reconstruction procedures clearly. - Master each procedure using step-by-step instructions and a consistent chapter format. - Grasp the nuances of procedures thanks to "tips from the Master" and a section of questions and answers. - Tap into the knowledge and experience of leaders in the field of mitral valve repair and reconstruction.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455710776

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9781455710775

Freemasonry's Royal Secret

The Jamaican Francken Manuscript of the High Degrees

By: Art DeHoyos,Alain Bernheim,Henry Andrew Francken,Scottish Rite (Masonic order)

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Freemasonry's Royal Secret

The Jamaican Francken Manuscript of the High Degrees

By: Art DeHoyos,Alain Bernheim,Henry Andrew Francken,Scottish Rite (Masonic order)

Transcription of handwritten manuscript with scholarly introduction and index.

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0983773866

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9780983773863

The Immanence of Truths

Being and Event III

By: Alain Badiou

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The Immanence of Truths

Being and Event III

By: Alain Badiou

The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in Logics of Worlds. Where in that book, Badiou saw fit to analyze how truths, qua events, appear from the perspective of particular worlds that by definition exclude them, in The Immanence of Truths Badiou asks instead how the irruption of truths transforms the worlds within which they by necessity must arise. An emphasis on regularity and continuity has given way to an attempt, one unquestionable in its philosophical power and implications, to formalize rupture and reconfiguration. The Being and Event trilogy is a unique and ambitious work that reveals how truths can be at once context-specific and universal, situational and eternal.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350115312

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9781350115316

The Century

By: Alain Badiou

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The Century

By: Alain Badiou

Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou's wish to plead for an accused that is perfectly capable of defending itself without the authors aid. Nor does he seek to proclaim, like Frantz, the hero of Sartre's Prisoners of Altona, 'I have taken the century on my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!' The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou's proposal is to reopen the dossier on the century - not from the angle of those wise and sated judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the century itself.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509534059

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9781509534050

Being and Event

By: Alain Badiou

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Being and Event

By: Alain Badiou

A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnum opus, and a must-have for his growing following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental thought.

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A&C Black

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082649529X

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9780826495297

Theoretical Writings

By: Alain Badiou

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Theoretical Writings

By: Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume presents for the first time in English a comprehensive overview of Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. Also included is a substantial extract from Badiou's forthcoming work on the logics of appearance and the concept of world, presented here in advance of its French publication. Ranging from startling re-readings of canonical figures (Spinoza, Kant and Hegel) to decisive engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics, Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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144116314X

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The One

Descartes, Plato, Kant

By: Alain Badiou

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The One

Descartes, Plato, Kant

By: Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series on “the One” is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no “One”: there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple. What is novel in Badiou’s view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things—yet, as he observes, it often is taken to “count as one” operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between “the One” and “counting as one” emerges as essential to Badiou’s ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, Being and Event. Showcasing the seeds of Badiou’s key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

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Columbia University Press

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0231550669

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9780231550666

Infinite Thought

Truth and the Return to Philosophy

By: Alain Badiou

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Infinite Thought

Truth and the Return to Philosophy

By: Alain Badiou

This translation first published: London: Continuum, 2003.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472572734

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9781472572738

Theory of the Subject

By: Alain Badiou

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Theory of the Subject

By: Alain Badiou

Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including Being and Event) can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of Theory of the Subject, one of his most important works.

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A&C Black

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0826496733

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9780826496737

Logics of Worlds

Being and Event II

By: Alain Badiou

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Logics of Worlds

Being and Event II

By: Alain Badiou

Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze – Badiou ends this important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'.

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1350043036

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