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  • Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida

    by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography
    Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III.The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colette

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    This intellectual biography of Colette—the final volume of Julia Kristeva's trilogy on "female genius"—is a major breakthrough in understanding one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century.Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure and invented a language for it at a time when women writers were inhibited about dealing with the topic. Female sexuality in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Latest Catastrophe

    History, the Present, the Contemporary

    by Henry Rousso ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called "contemporary history," a history of the present time, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • We Are All Cannibals

    And Other Essays

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the author’s major ideas about structural anthropology, a field he helped establish. Critiquing insights of ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

    by Olivier Wieviorka ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun—but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Infinite Desire for Growth

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Radicalization

    Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence

    by Farhad Khosrokhavar ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over “homegrown terrorism” have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that all of the perpetrators in Paris were European citizens. A sought-after commentator in France and a widely respected international scholar of radical Islam, Farhad Khosrokhavar has spent years ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transfixed by Prehistory

    An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time

    by Maria Stavrinaki ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoricPrehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies

    Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism

    by Guillaume Payen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd, Steven Rendall ...
    A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopherIn this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher’s life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of Heidegger in his time, using all available sources—lectures, letters, and the notorious “black notebooks. ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD