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paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good Cond, yellow hilighted & ink underlined at beginning & end of book.creative bookplate inner cover name"Kate Clover." else quite clean, snd solid copy. bright cover PAPERBACK; white titles on dark orange paper covers.Moon behind mountain cover art ; 169 pages; Sociological study of domestic society, religious & cultures.Black Women; kali; muslim women; buddhist, israel; christian; apache, freethinkers.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American cultureWhen Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French theory, a set of recondite ideas that had taken American campuses by a storm during the preceding decades. In retrospect, the influence of these men and their writings seems both extraordinary and improbable. The Frenchmen argued that language is all-powerful, meaning unstable, and the self is an illusion. Their prose was brilliant, dazzling even, but often mystifyingly elaborate and highly abstract. Yet American students and scholars flocked to their books and lectures, intoxicated by a powerful new means of understanding-and perhaps even changing-the world. For Eakin, an unsophisticated graduate of a small-town Midwestern high school, theory was no mere intellectual exercise but a way of being-a heady shortcut to worldly glamour and wisdom.The Frenchmen is the story of Eakin's youthful love affair with French theory, alongside a wider examination of its rise and fall. Looking closely at Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, and the French-speaking Belgian Paul de Man, Eakin untangles their famously difficult works with peerless, delightful clarity. What's more, she brings to light the eccentric, scandalous-at times criminal!-lives of thinkers who themselves were often highly averse to biography, in a daringly original weave of storytelling and exegesis.As she explores the magnetism of their work, Eakin illuminates not just the Frenchmen's enduring legacy but some of today's deepest political, social, and intellectual arguments. She neither rejects nor flatters the Frenchmen's ideas but instead reveals how they indelibly changed our understanding of power, truth, and identity. Eakin shows how, for better or worse, the Frenchmen continue to shape and unsettle our lives today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Magazine. First edition. Fine magazine with light signs of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The May 13, 2001, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine with: the revival of the movie musical by Jesse Green with a photo from "Moulin Rouge" by Ellen von Unwerth; the detritus left behind by the New Economy crash by David Brooks with a photo by Richard Barnes; the corporate-industrialization of the organic food market by Michael Pollan; Matt Kahn, modernist interior designer, by Pilar Viladas and photographed by Jason Schmidt; residents of Oklahoma City who lost loved-ones in the bombing on the execution of Timothy McVeigh, by Jeff Goodell with photographs by Michael O'Brien; interviews with subjects of a Naomi Harris photo on what they were thinking when photographed; an interview with Marcel Marceau; a profile of dancer Angel Corella by Emily Eakin and photographs by Alexei Hay; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 68 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

Magazine. First edition. Near Fine magazine with a tiny tear to one page and a tiny crease to one corner of the front cover. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The September 2, 2001, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine with: a profile of Nathan Lane by Alex Witchell with portraits by Henry Leutwyler; a profile of Jonathan Franzen by Emily Eakin with a portrait by Dana Lixenberg; a portfolio of portraits of tennis pros by Lauren Greenfield; a fashion portfolio by Mark Peterson; Kevin Kline on "What They Were Thinking" about a portrait of him by Brigitte Lacombe; Beijing should have learned from Moscow that's better to pursue political reforms before economic by Ian Buruma with a lead illustration by Seth; the mayor of York, Pa., is charged with a murder during the race riots of 1969 by William Bunch; interview with Elizabeth Mackay; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 54 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xi, 157 p. illus. 25 cm.; ISBN: 0520024133; 9780520024137 LCCN: 72-97740 ; LC: QL949; Dewey: 596/.01/823 ; OCLC: 820898 ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Dramatis personae -- Evolution -- Structure -- Development -- Function. ; "The third eye was not.an embryonic mistake, a cyclopian eye, but a pineal eye, the kind I shall discuss in this book. It must have neem a remarkable.throwback to the third eye of our reptilian ancestors." ; color plates by Robert C. Stebbins ; FINE. Book. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American cultureWhen Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French theory, a set of recondite ideas that had taken American campuses by a storm during the preceding decades. In retrospect, the influence of these men and their writings seems both extraordinary and improbable. The Frenchmen argued that language is all-powerful, meaning unstable, and the self is an illusion. Their prose was brilliant, dazzling even, but often mystifyingly elaborate and highly abstract. Yet American students and scholars flocked to their books and lectures, intoxicated by a powerful new means of understanding-and perhaps even changing-the world. For Eakin, an unsophisticated graduate of a small-town Midwestern high school, theory was no mere intellectual exercise but a way of being-a heady shortcut to worldly glamour and wisdom.The Frenchmen is the story of Eakin's youthful love affair with French theory, alongside a wider examination of its rise and fall. Looking closely at Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, and the French-speaking Belgian Paul de Man, Eakin untangles their famously difficult works with peerless, delightful clarity. What's more, she brings to light the eccentric, scandalous-at times criminal!-lives of thinkers who themselves were often highly averse to biography, in a daringly original weave of storytelling and exegesis.As she explores the magnetism of their work, Eakin illuminates not just the Frenchmen's enduring legacy but some of today's deepest political, social, and intellectual arguments. She neither rejects nor flatters the Frenchmen's ideas but instead reveals how they indelibly changed our understanding of power, truth, and identity. Eakin shows how, for better or worse, the Frenchmen continue to shape and unsettle our lives today. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American cultureWhen Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French theory, a set of recondite ideas that had taken American campuses by a storm during the preceding decades. In retrospect, the influence of these men and their writings seems both extraordinary and improbable. The Frenchmen argued that language is all-powerful, meaning unstable, and the self is an illusion. Their prose was brilliant, dazzling even, but often mystifyingly elaborate and highly abstract. Yet American students and scholars flocked to their books and lectures, intoxicated by a powerful new means of understanding-and perhaps even changing-the world. For Eakin, an unsophisticated graduate of a small-town Midwestern high school, theory was no mere intellectual exercise but a way of being-a heady shortcut to worldly glamour and wisdom.The Frenchmen is the story of Eakin's youthful love affair with French theory, alongside a wider examination of its rise and fall. Looking closely at Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, and the French-speaking Belgian Paul de Man, Eakin untangles their famously difficult works with peerless, delightful clarity. What's more, she brings to light the eccentric, scandalous-at times criminal!-lives of thinkers who themselves were often highly averse to biography, in a daringly original weave of storytelling and exegesis.As she explores the magnetism of their work, Eakin illuminates not just the Frenchmen's enduring legacy but some of today's deepest political, social, and intellectual arguments. She neither rejects nor flatters the Frenchmen's ideas but instead reveals how they indelibly changed our understanding of power, truth, and identity. Eakin shows how, for better or worse, the Frenchmen continue to shape and unsettle our lives today. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…