The Writing of the Disaster

8 best books like The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot): Endgame, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, The Way Things are, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, The Politics of Friendship, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection, Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Endgame

Author	Samuel Beckett
ISBN	0571070671

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered...

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Author	Peter Marshall
ISBN	0006862454

Lively and authoritative, this study of a widely misunderstood subject skillfully navigates the rough waters of anarchistic concepts--from Taoism to Situationism, ranters to punk rockers, individualists to communists, and anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists.

Exploring...

The Way Things are

Author

Lucretius

ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)

When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...

Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

Author	Paul De Man
ISBN	0816611351

De Man is often merely lumped together with Derrida, Miller, and others aas representatives of "Deconstruction." There is a certain truth to this, but it is perhaps more useful to think of De Man in terms of a turn towards or return to rhetoric. Rhetoric is that material element of language consisting...

The Politics of Friendship

Author	Jacques Derrida
ISBN	1844670546

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.

“O, my friends, there is no friend.” The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

Until relatively recently,...

The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

Author	Judith Butler
ISBN	0804728127

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what “one” is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand...

Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence

Author	Emmanuel Levinas
ISBN	0820702994

Otherwise than being or beyond essence is a sequel to Levinas's totality and infinity. An immensely challenging and sophisticated work, it is generally considered Levinas's most important contribution to the contemporary debate surrounding the closure of metaphysical discourse, much commented...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...