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Nietzsche and Heidegger were both lovers of language, and author JeanGraybeal argues that their writing styles demonstrate a relationship with thefeminine dimension of language. Using as a framework the theories of Julia Kristevaconcerning the "symbolic" and "semiotic" dispositions in language, Graybeal readsNietzsche and Heidegger as writers and thinkers whose experimentation with languageis directly relevant both to their quests for nonmetap...

..". stimulating and insightful... a thoroughly researched and timelycontribution to the secondary literature of ethics... " -- LibraryJournal "His important new work establishes Scott... as one of theforemost interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition of the US....Necessary for anyone working in ethics or the Continental tradition." --Choice ..". a provocative discourse on the consequences ofthe ethical in the thought of Nietzsch...

The Alliance Isra lite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization foundedin 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in themodern period. In the fifty years after its creation, the Alliance established avast network of schools in the lands of Islam for the purpose of "civilizing" thelocal Jewish communities and remaking them in the idealized self-image of FrenchJewry. This study, drawing on the author's extensive re...

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video fromthe underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp tracesand charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring malesubject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinarysociety, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of GillesDeleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of...

This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yetpublished." -- Choice "A bravura performance." --Thomas Sebeok "N th's handbook is an outstandingencyclopedia that provides first-rate information on many facets of sign-relatedstudies, research results, and applications." -- Social Sciences inGeneral

Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, andconnotations -- an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned toDerrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptuallydisciplined. He is surely one of the most astute translators and readers incontemporary Continental thought." -- Charles E. Scott

In Echoes, John Sallis mobilizes the figure of echo, used by Heidegger tocharacterize originary thinking, as the motif around which to organize a radicalreading of Heidegger's most important texts.