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This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought: recent theories of power, as articulated by Foucault, Deleuze, Butler, and Agamben, theories of trauma and testimony developed by Felman and Caruth, the new thinking of ethics, articulated...

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses" is an examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist that is, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories--frame, camera movement, editing cut, close-up, and the relations between vision and sound.

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses" is an examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist that is, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories--frame, camera movement, editing cut, close-up, and the relations between vision and sound.

A highly unusual meditation on Moby-Dick, powerful and enigmatic in itself." --Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.

Eyal Peretz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary (Stanford, 2007).