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Gilles Deleuze

By Claire Colebrook

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24634-7 (Routledge)

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

By Jonathan Dollimore

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93772-6 (Routledge)

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Maurice Blanchot

By Ullrich Haase, William Large

Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23496-2 (Routledge)

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Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages

A Book of Essays

Edited by Jan S. Emerson

Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems,…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3121-6 (Routledge)

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Jean D'Espagnet's The Summary of Physics Restored (Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae)

The 1651 Translation with D'Espagnet's Arcanum (1650)

Edited by Thomas Willard

First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts, Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae and Arcanum were at once recognized to be among the clearest descriptions…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8240-7542-2 (Routledge)

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The Contexts of Bakhtin

Philosophy, Authorship, Aesthetics

By Professor David Shepherd, David Shepherd

The fourteen essays collected in this volume, notwithstanding their diversity of subject matter and approach, share a concern with the contexts to which we need…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057025679 (Routledge)

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Humanism

By Tony Davies

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11052-5 (Routledge)

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Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine

A Book of Essays

Edited by Margaret R. Schleissner

In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their transmission and demonstrate how medievalists in all…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-0815-7 (Routledge)

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Benjamin Constant

A Biography

By Dennis Wood

`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by

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1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-01937-8 (Routledge)

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Medieval Numerology

A Book of Essays

Edited by Robert L. Sunal

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-0940-6 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Habermas and Literary Rationality: Aesthetics of Authenticity
By David Colclasure
To be published May 15th 2009

Jean-Paul Sartre
By Christine Daigle
To be published May 31st 2009

Giorgio Agamben
By Alex Murray
To be published September 15th 2009

Shakespeare and Philosophy
By Stanley Stewart
To be published December 15th 2009

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