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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocquevilleby Bernard-Henri Levy, Charlotte MandellISBN 0812974719 (0-8129-7471-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville'Book summary:What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the return of ideology and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocquevilles most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by the tyranny of the majority, explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelists eye and a philosophers depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voicessome wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the Old World, America remains the fulfillment of the worlds desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishesa place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.
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The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800by Antoine De Baecque, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804728178 (0-8047-2817-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Book to Comeby Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804742243 (0-8047-4224-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book to Come'Book summary:During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and substance, left their unmistakable imprint on the work of the most distinguished French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, for example, are hardly imaginable without Blanchot.[via]
The Book to Come gathers together essays originally published in La Nouvelle Revue Française; almost all of them appear in English for the first time. Not a random collection of essays, this book is organized into four sections: "the secret of literature"; literature as exigence and as meaning; literature and the novel; and the future of writing and of the book. The authors discussed constitute a veritable repertoire: Rousseau, Proust, Artaud, Brach, Musil, James, Beckett, Bataille, Mallarmé, Joubert, and Claudel, among others. -
Faux Pasby Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804729352 (0-8047-2935-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faux Pas'Book summary:Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot's essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation that defines the trajectory of the whole volume. These essayslike those collected in the other five books of criticism published over several decadeshave established Blanchot as the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the twentieth century. Sober reconstructions of the main tenets of both classical and modern, both literary and theoretical texts, they have attained the status of model readings for authors as diverse as da Vinci and Kierkegaard, Melville and Proust, Molière, Goethe, and Mallarmé.[via]
However, the book is not a miscellaneous collection of exquisite essays. The first section of the volume, "From Anguish to Language," indicates the relative unity of its trajectory and its special moment in the development of Blanchot's thought. "Anguish" was a prominent notion for the existentialist philosophies of the period of his first work, and in this book Blanchot reflects on the necessary transition from the paradoxes of anguish to a focus on the paradoxes of language. He does so without ever betraying the affective tensions that attach themselves to linguistic utterances, but he also insists that the pathos of anxiety is, in the last resort, comical. Whoever writes "I am lonely" can judge himself to be quite comical, as he evokes his solitude by addressing a reader and using means that make it impossible to be alone.
This comedy of language is retraced in Blanchot's intensely luminous essays on poetry and narration, on silence and symbolism, the novel and morals, the stranger, the enigma, time, and the very possibility of literature in the works of Blake, Balzac, Rimbaud, and Gide, Bergson and Brice Parain, Rilke and Bataille, Sartre, Camus, Queneau, and so many others. 
The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writingby Jacques Ranciere, Charlotte MandellISBN 080474078X (0-8047-4078-X)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Fragments of the Artworkby Jacques Ranciere, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804742863 (0-8047-4286-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Geography of Hope: Exile, The Enlightenment, Disassimilationby Pierre Birnbaum, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804752931 (0-8047-5293-1)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolutionby Charlotte Mandell , Antoine De BaecqueISBN 0415926165 (0-415-92616-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Listeningby Jean-Luc Nancy, Charlotte MandellISBN 0823227731 (0-8232-2773-1)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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The Problem of Meaning: Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectivesby Allyssa McCabe, Charlotte MandellISBN 0444824790 (0-444-82479-0)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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A Voice from Elsewhereby Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte MandellISBN 0791470164 (0-7914-7016-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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The Work of Fireby Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte MandellISBN 0804724938 (0-8047-2493-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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