Le Nouvel Encyclopédisme: An Alphabetical Unfolding is a collection of French essays created in the tradition of the critical philosophical dictionary of Pierre Bayle, Voltaire and the Encyclopédie. It seeks to renew the importance of the critical encyclopedist tradition in the age of the mass-edited online encyclopedia and seeks to write in French as a gesture of solidarity to the Lumières of yesterday and to non-English language cultural and geographical regions of toda...

Artifacts for Diderot's Elements of Physiology is a translation of Denis Diderot's rare 18th Century work, Éléments de physiologie, situating it in light of New Materialism and other current debates in continental philosophy. It takes one of many possible theoretical tours through this oeuvre of Diderot, as well as incorporates other supplementary artifacts, including translations of sections of the Latin of Albrecht von Haller on which Diderot's text is partially based.

La psychologie est un sujet aux horizons vastes et parfois encore inexplorés. Le bien-être psychologique d'un individu dépend en effet de chaque influence individuelle. En commençant par le ventre de la mère, en continuant par l'éducation, les hobbies, les opinions, les connaissances, les sentiments et les valeurs apprises. Ces influences sont en effet à l'origine d'un développement positif ou négatif. Les opposés du développement positif et négatif décrivent en gros la psychologie. Le rôl...

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucault’s penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our ow...

L’hypnose n’a jamais eu autant le vent en poupe à l’heure où la médecine traditionnelle occidentale montre ses failles et ses limites à des patients en quête de solutions alternatives, plus douces et moins chimiques. Une technique vieille comme le monde mais qui reste aujourd’hui encore largement méconnue. A mi-chemin entre l’éveil et le sommeil, l’hypnose est un état modifié de conscience, à l’image du rêve, de la transe, de la relaxation, de la méditation qui a montré son efficacité sur ...

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhls...

Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cul...

Et si la fiction était le meilleur moyen de comprendre le réel ?Et si les romans étaient des clefs pour explorer l'invisible ?Ce livre vous invite à plonger dans l'univers fascinant de Bernard Werber, écrivain inclassable qui marie science, philosophie, spiritualité et imagination avec une audace rare. De Les Fourmis à Demain les chats, en passant par Les Thanatonautes ou Nous les Dieux, W...

How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork.Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, Nancy offers us at once a...

Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and the way we have come to define ourselves an...

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This book aims at outlining what the Dialectic of Desire is in Lacan. Starting from the analysis of the concept of desire-for-desire, I dwell on considering the function that “the desire for the Other” has in structuring, both in the Logic of Fantasy (or of Unconscious) and in the way the phenomenic representation of the Real is established. Moreover I examine how the classical aesthetic theory, subjected to the Logic of Fantasy, is taken back to an ethic of intersubjectivity and how, with...