First published in 1992. “Acts of Literature”, compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida’s writings on ...
Continue Reading →The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. “A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves” (The ...
Continue Reading →With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great ...
Continue Reading →On Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language ...
Continue Reading →A thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary world Based on George Steiner’s extensive experience ...
Continue Reading →When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In ...
Continue Reading →Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities—and particularly academic philology—that assume language to be a given entity rather than an ...
Continue Reading →This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves’s vast reading and curious research into strange ...
Continue Reading →Best known for his 1947 memoir L’Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi ...
Continue Reading →The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting ...
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