John Victor Tolan

Henry Laurens

Gilles Veinstein

Jane Marie Todd

Focuses on the historical common ground that the Islamic and Western worlds share.

A History

Europe and the Islamic World

Rainer Rochlitz

The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

The Disenchantment of Art

François Jullien

In premodern China, painters used imagery not to mirror the world, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering this art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the 'nonobject', a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.

Du Non-objet Par la Peinture

Dominique Avon

Anaïs-Trissa Khatchadourian

Hezbollah’s revolutionary role in global politics has invited lionization and vilification, rather than a clear-eyed view of its place in history. Now that the party is in power, how will Hezbollah reconcile its regional obligations with its religious beliefs? This nonpartisan account offers insights that Western media have missed or misunderstood.

A History of the "Party of God"

Hezbollah

Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation, through autobiography, within the field of psychological phenomena – screen memories, mourning, obsession, hysteria, transference. Part 1 focuses on Freud’s case histories and psychoanalysis being used to make a narrative of behaviour in language. Part two considers Freud’s own Interpretation of Dreams and its autobiographical nature. Part 3 examines intellectual movements such as phenomenology, speed act theory and structuralism while Parts 4 and 5 turn to Derrida’s use of autobiography as self-criticism and his debt to Freud.

Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida

Julia Kristeva

A definitive biography offers insight into the life and work of novelist Colette and provides accounts of Colette's celebration of sexual pleasure in her writing, her three marriages, and her state funeral, the first for a woman in France.

Colette

Jean-Yves Camus

Nicolas Lebourg

Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg’s critical look at the far right throughout Europe reveals a prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges it poses to the EU’s liberal-democratic order. These movements are determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means, and they are succeeding.

Jane Marie Todd

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