Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The narrative shape of truth The narrative shape of truth Ilya Kliger "Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of con… OL15998954W
Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Sabrina Achilles "This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's constructivist thi… OL16167571W
How Literature Saved My Life How Literature Saved My Life David Shields Blends criticism, anthropology, and biography to celebrate the power of literature, concluding that the fundamental truths found in literature render it an essential component of life. OL17380244W
Philosophy, literature, and politics Philosophy, literature, and politics Cooper, Barry,Charles R. Embry "Festschrift honoring Ellis Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Essays explore philosophy, literature, and… OL19166479W
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs Kazuo Ishiguro Presents the author and Nobel Prize winner's lecture in literature, revealing his influences and what he thinks about the future of literature. OL19733101W
The Lost Art of Reading The Lost Art of Reading David L. Ulin audio of discussion with author https://www.ciispod.com/view-more-1#/david-ulin/ The former LA Times book critic expands his short book, rich in ideas, on the consequence of reading to include t… OL20722407W
Authorisms Authorisms Paul Dickson "William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays… OL20907962W
To Be Unfree To Be Unfree Christian Dahl To Be Unfree is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical disc… OL20930568W
The sovereign ghost The sovereign ghost Denis Donoghue x, 229 p. ; 21 cm OL2733510W
Humanism Humanism Davies, Tony Seemingly an appeal to simple, shared humanity, humanism has proved over the last two hundred years one of the most contentious and divisive of concepts. It has provoked a succession of bitter alterc… OL3267086W
Cryptonymie Cryptonymie Mária Török,Nicolas Abraham Grand classique de la psychanalyse française et mondiale de l'après-guerre, *Le Verbier de l'homme aux loups* – publié jadis par les soins de Jacques Derrida – est peut-être la pièce maîtresse de l'œ… OL3519036W
Institution and interpretation Institution and interpretation Weber, Samuel "Institution and Interpretation investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Whereas the prevailing use of the term institutions tends to reduce their role to that of maintain… OL519696W
Pour une théorie de la production littéraire Pour une théorie de la production littéraire Pierre Macherey Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, "A Theory of Literary Production" dared to challenge perceived … OL875790W