Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Romance Languages Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Animal that Therefore I Am
Author: Jacques DerridaPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823227901
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction--dating from Descartes--between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.
French books in print, anglais
Author: ElectrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
Book Description
The World Through Picture Books
Author: IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults SectionPublisher:
ISBN: 9789077897805
Category : Collection development (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --
The Wolf Who Travels Back in Time
Author: Orianne LallemandPublisher: Editions Auzou
ISBN: 9782733829851
Category : Time travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the Wolf travels back in time, where does he visit?
Dictionnaire Royal François-anglois Et Anglois-françois, Tiré Des Meilleurs Auteurs Qui Ont Écrit Dans Ces Deux Langues; Par Mr. A. Boyer
Author: Abel BoyerDictionary of St. Lucian Creole
Author: Lawrence D. CarringtonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126259
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Stigmata
Author: Hélène CixousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134680996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work: * love's labours lost and found * feminine hours * autobiographies of writing * the prehistory of the work of art Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.
Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Author: Ann BladesPublisher: Groundwood Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When six of her seven kids are swallowed by a wicked wolf, Old Mother Goat devises a way to rescue them.