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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.

"Published in France as La jeune née in 1975, and now translated for the first time into English, The Newly Born Woman seeks to uncover the veiled structures of language and society that have situated women in the position called "woman's place." Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history. Their work is set within the context of American feminism in Sandra M. Gilbert's introduction, and translator, Betsy Wing's glossary provides the special vocabulary necessary for English-language readers."--back cover.

"In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impact, the religious focus must be referred to his personal background, and that their varied voices mirror a fragmentation in his own relationship to self and society. It was for paying lip-service to their own values that Kierkegaard castigated his society, his diagnosis being that this was one of many ways in which more pressing and disturbing questions of existence were typically evaded. It is in the renowned thinker's own struggle for selfhood that Hannay sees his prescient anticipation of the current focus on issues relating to integration, acceptance and identity. By cultivating a role as the social misfit within his innate exceptionality Kierkegaard deliberately exposed himself to the problems to which an age gripped by 'identity politics' is now responding. By cleverly examining the relation between his richly conceived polemics and Kierkegaard's own preoccupation with identity, Hannay has written an essential new text for Kierkegaard scholars and students of Continental philosophy and existentialism."--

Vor 40 Jahren erschien mit Männerphantasien Klaus Theweleits große Untersuchung über die sexuelle, psychologische und soziopolitische Vorgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus in der Weimarer Republik. Das Werk, das für viele als Auftakt der Männerforschung in Deutschland gilt, ist längst zu einem Klassiker auch der Gewaltforschung geworden. Angesichts der Rückkehr rechten Straßenterrors und faschistoider Positionen, die viele schon an Weimarer Verhältnisse denken lassen, sowie von Propagandafeldzügen gegen freiere Sexualitäten - Stichwort: »Genderwahn« - sind die Analysen des Buches viel zu brennend, um es im Regal der großen Werke ins Archiv zu stellen. In dieser um ein langes Nachwort des Autors ergänzten Neuausgabe wird Theweleits epochales Werk nun endlich wieder verfügbar und diskutierbar, politisch neu nutzbar. (Quelle: [Matthes & Seitz Berlin](

This book is the ideal introduction to the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin is becoming established as one of the giants of 20th century literary criticsm, despite his work being unknown in the West until the 1970's. This book is less about Dostoyevsky per se, rather a profound meditation on how Dostoyevsky's art exemplifies the central concern of Bakhtin, the concept of 'dialogism'. This idea defies a simple definition; the book in exploring manifold aspects of it, itself becomes truly dialogic. If you value Dostoyevsky as an artist, require an antidote to the chill winds of modern 'Theory', or simply appreciate genius at work, catch up with one of the best kept secrets in literature.

Contents: "Sunday, before falling asleep": A primal scene -- Agua viva: How to follow a trinket of water -- The apple in the dark: The temptation of understanding -- "The egg and the chicken": Love is not having -- "Felicidade clandestina'': The promise of having what one will have -- The hour of the star: How does one desire wealth or poverty? Series Title: Theory and history of literature, v. 73.

»Die Geschichte der modernen Dramatik hat keinen letzten Akt«, heißt es im Schlußwort. (Quelle: [Suhrkamp Verlag](

Grand classique de la psychanalyse française et mondiale de l'après-guerre, Le Verbier de l'homme aux loups – publié jadis par les soins de Jacques Derrida – est peut-être la pièce maîtresse de l'œuvre, saluée désormais comme révolutionnaire, de Nicolas Abraham (1919-1975) et de Maria Torok (1925- 1998). Lors de sa parution en 1976, Jacques Derrida disait du Verbier : «Exhumé, extrait de sa crypte profonde, surchargé de signes, un texte monumental est traîné vers la lumière, exposé à une lecture dont l'audace et l'efficacité se mesurent l'une à l'autre.» En effet, une réélaboration du champ psychanalytique s'est imposée depuis lors – dans la continuité d'un autre aventurier de la pensée, Sandor Ferenczi – au sein de la descendance de l'école hongroise de psychanalyse, dont on continuera, au XXIe siècle, de mesurer les richesses conceptuelles et les profondeurs humaines. ([Flammarion](