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Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents eBook Series

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  • Tosquelles

    Healing Institutions

    Edited by Joana Maso ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
    A landmark anthology of Francesc Tosquelles's intellectual, clinical, and political writings, many available in English translation for the first time.Often consigned to legend, the life of Francesc Tosquelles reads as an adventure story of clinical, political, and collective experimentation around healing institutions. Joining the Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole psychiatric hospital in Nazi-occupied ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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    How your inner strength can set you free from the past

    by Boris Cyrulnik ...
    Translated by David Macey ...
    Many of us experience pain in our childhoods, and young people face trauma all over the world. How is it possible to recover? Do those abused always go on to hurt others? This incredible bestseller has overturned the way we view trauma, by showing how the extraordinary power of resilience can heal damaged lives.Renowned psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik has dealt with many young victims of distress and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Ancestor Syndrome

    Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree

    by Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger ...
    Translated by Anne Trager ...
    In The Ancestor Syndrome Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger explains and provides clinical examples of her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime.The book includes fascinating case studies and examples of ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

    Intersecting Lives

    by Francois Dosse ...
    Translated by Deborah Glassman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Speech Begins after Death

    by Michel Foucault, Claude Bonnefoy ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in English. In this brief and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Disalienation

    Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

    by Camille Robcis ...
    From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Hoarding food with the help of the local population, the staff not only worked to keep patients alive but ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Belle Époque

    A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond

    by Dominique Kalifa ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Thinking Out of Sight

    Writings on the Arts of the Visible

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida's most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks.The book is divided into three sections. The first ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michel Foucault

    by David Macey ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Lives
    Throughout most of his career, Michel Foucault consistently refused to say much about himself and was reluctant to be defined in either professional or personal terms. His stance was ‘Do not ask who I am, and do not ask me to remain the same’. In the last years of his life, he changed his stance, gave many interviews and began to speak of an 'aesthetics of existence' in which ‘the life’ and ‘the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • What Nostalgia Was

    War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

    by Thomas Dodman ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Spain?

    Negotiating "Spanish Music" in Paris, 1908-1929

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD