Positions
By: Jacques Derrida
3.67
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and l…
Want to Read $ 14.99"(the pharmakon is neither remedy now poison, neither good nor evil, neither the inside nor the outside, neither speech nor writing; the supplement is neither a plus nor a minus, neither an outside nor the complement of an inside, neither accident nor essence, etc.; the hymen is neither confusion nor distinction, neither identity nor difference, neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiling, neither the inside nor the outside, etc.; the gram is neither a signifier nor a signified, neither a sign nor a thing, neither a presence nor an absence, neither a position nor a negation, etc.; spacing is neither space nor time; the incision is neither the incised integrity of a beginning, or of a simple cutting into, nor simple secondarity. Neither/nor, that is, simultaneously either or; the mark is also the marginal limit, the march, etc.)"-Jacques Derrida, Positions
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Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
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"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
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Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
3. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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4. Ethics
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4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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3.13
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3.87
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3.90
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13. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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4.70
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3.51
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4.29
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19. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
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20. Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information
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4.20
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21. Positions
By: Jacques Derrida
3.67
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and l… read more
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"(the pharmakon is neither remedy now poison, neither good nor evil, neither the inside nor the outside, neither speech nor writing; the supplement is neither a plus nor a minus, neither an outside no…"-Jacques Derrida, Positions
