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Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 9" X 6". xii, 309pp. First edition thus, with full number line indicating first printing thus. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Creasing to corners of wraps. Small amount of sticker residue above bar code on rear wrap. Dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot's essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation that defines the trajectory of the whole volume. These essays like those collected in the other five books of criticism published over several decades have established Blanchot as the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the twentieth century. Sober reconstructions of the main tenets of both classical and modern, both literary and theoretical texts, they have attained the status of model readings for authors as diverse as da Vinci and Kierkegaard, Melville and Proust, Molière, Goethe, and Mallarmé. However, the book is not a miscellaneous collection of exquisite essays. The first section of the volume, "From Anguish to Language," indicates the relative unity of its trajectory and its special moment in the development of Blanchot's thought. "Anguish" was a prominent notion for the existentialist philosophies of the period of his first work, and in this book Blanchot reflects on the necessary transition from the paradoxes of anguish to a focus on the paradoxes of language. He does so without ever betraying the affective tensions that attach themselves to linguistic utterances, but he also insists that the pathos of anxiety is, in the last resort, comical. Whoever writes "I am lonely" can judge himself to be quite comical, as he evokes his solitude by addressing a reader and using means that make it impossible to be alone. This comedy of language is retraced in Blanchot's intensely luminous essays on poetry and narration, on silence and symbolism, the novel and morals, the stranger, the enigma, time, and the very possibility of literature in the works of Blake, Balzac, Rimbaud, and Gide, Bergson and Brice Parain, Rilke and Bataille, Sartre, Camus, Queneau, and so many others.(Publisher).…

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Soft cover. Condition: About Fine. First USA Edition. Since Hegel, philosophy cannot stop thinking its end. The violent transformation that Hegel's philosophy uncovered and caused in the structure of philosophical terms and in the terms under which philosophy is possible is Hamacher's topic. Hegel [1770-1831]. viii, 304 pages ; 23 cm. Translated from the German by Nicholas Walker and Simon Jarvis. A very clean and bright copy, unmarked. Very slight wear to corner tips of the front cover. No spine creases.…

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, very good, small but deep fold mark on rear outer corner, light wear to foredges and corners. HAMACHER, WERNER. Premises: essays on philosophy and literature from Kant to Celan. Translated by Peter Fenves. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999, reprinted, 400pp., . Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) "Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself";, wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. - CONTENTS: Premises - Hermeneutic ellipses : writing the circle in Schleiermacher - The promise of interpretation : remarks on the hermeneutic imperative in Kant and Nietzsche - Disgregation of the will : Nietzsche on the individual and individuality - Lectio : de Man's imperative - Position exposed : Friedrich Schlegel's poetological transposition of Fichte's absolute proposition - The quaking of presentation : Kleist's Earthquake in Chile - The gesture in the name : on Benjamin and Kafka - The second of inversion : movements of a figure through Celan's poetry. ISBN 9780804736206 18.00.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. "Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. In Premises Hamacher demonstrates that the promise of a subject position is not only unavoidable-and thus operates as a structural imperative-but is also unattainable and therefore by necessity open to possibilities other than that defined as "position," to redefinitions and unexpected transformations of the merely thetical act. Proceeding along the lines of both philosophical argument and critical reading, Hamacher presents the fullest account of the vast disruption in the theories and ethics of positional and propositional acts-a disruption first exposed by Kant's analysis of the minimal requirements for linguistic and practical action. Focusing on the double trait of every premise-that it is promised but never attained-Hamacher analyzes nine decisive themes, topics, and texts of modernity: the hermeneutic circle in Schleiermacher and Heidegger, the structure of ethical commands in Kant, Nietzsche's genealogy of moral terms and his exploration of the aporias of singularity, the irony of reading in de Man, the parabasis of positing acts in Fichte and Schlegel, Kleist's disruption of narrative representation, the gesture of naming in Benjamin and Kafka, and the incisive caesura that Paul Celan inserts into temporal and linguistic reversals. There is no book that so fully brings the issues of both critical philosophy and critical literature into reach. Reviews "Werner Hamacher's Premises is the heir and successor to the most important theoretical and critical work done in American departments of comparative literature from the 1960s through the 1980s. Yet, Premises is no more a work of literary scholarship than one of philosophical submission to philosophy. With the gesture that is genuinely called post-structural, which is the suspicion and suspension of every code, the book's act of freedom is freedom to read and write language tout court." -Timothy Bahti, University of Michigan "Hamacher's project can be described as the retracing of the epistemological ground upon which the modern conception of the literary was erected. It is quite clear to me that there is nothing presently available to rival this book." -Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Since Hegel, philosophy cannot stop thinking its end. The violent transformations which Hegel's philosophy has uncovered and caused in the structure of philosophical terms and in the terms under which philosophy is possible is Hamacher's topic. Starting from Hegel's commentaries on biblical scripture, Hamacher traces the genealogy and unfolding of Hegel's thought into his mature works-the Phenomenology of Spirit, the Encyclopedia, the Philosophy of History-focusing throughout on the limits and borders, the limitations and extremities of its conceptual and textual movements. Because the concept for Hegel is the end of the thing-the point where it peaks-because it occurs by severance from its representational content, the trace of this splitting appears imprinted into its discursive articulation. The Hegelian text is punctuated by a series of terms and topics that operate according to the logic of the turning point: one function activating its opposite, they serve as pores between mutually exclusive experiences and establish their unity. This dialectical procedure falters, its unity dissolves, the pores turn into aporias, wherever conceptual exigencies surpass the reality they have instilled. Hamacher shows that dialectics, proceeding by way of aporias, remains unable to account for its own movement. Hegel's system must be read from the point where its rupture fails to converge with its end. Analyzing both the historical and the systematic aspects of Hegel's philosophy, addressing Kant and religious fetishism, Nietzsche and the impossible repetition of the same, Marx and the aroma of religion, Freud and the hysterical body, Hamacher's argument is directed toward what in Hegel's philosophy of spirit resists spiritualization and defeats philosophy. Aspiring to be the last philosophy, speculative idealism has to incorporate all previous systems and spiritualize its incorporation. Its logic of ingestion must, however, reject with repulsion and nausea (Ekel) everything that resists appropriation. Emphasizing Hegel's claim to present the political theology of modern society, Hamacher shows that the mechanism of nausea meant to keep the system intact is in fact itself a mechanism foreign to its body; it averts the promised incorporation, defeats idealization, leaves the body politic disintegrated, and voids the claim of the most powerful ontology of modern society to mark the end, the completion and plenitude-the pleroma-of philosophy and history. What remains-the indigestible, the unreadable, the nondiscursive-demands yet another kind of discourse and another practical gesture: toward a pleroma other than Hegel's.…