Philosophy

 
 
Pierre-Damien Huyghe - Commencer à deux - Propos sur l\'architecture comme méthode
2009
French edition
Mix
The architecture as method: an essay by philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.
Pierre-Damien Huyghe - Faire place - Remarques sur la qualité d\'une certaine pauvreté moderne
2009
French edition
Mix
currently out of stock
A short essay on the experience of intimacy in socialized modern life, followed by two new texts on the concepts of sustainability and habit.
Reyes Mate - Minuit dans l\'histoire - Commentaires des thèses de Walter Benjamin « Sur le concept d\'histoire »
2009
French edition
Mix
Commentary on Walter Benjamin's theses: On the concept of history.
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Nicolas Bourriaud - The Radicant
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
15.00 7.50 €
Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Paul Virilio - Grandes Conférences (DVD)
2009
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Conferences (DVD)
A conversation between the architect and the philosopher.
Alfred Gell - L\'art et ses agents - Une théorie anthropologique
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.
Charles Fourier - Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2009
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.
Boris Groys - Wait to Wait - A Conversation
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.
Dominique Chateau - L\'art comptant pour un
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.
Thomas Schlesser - Paul Chenavard - Monuments de l\'échec (1807-1895)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
Kathrin Thiele - The Thought of Becoming - Gilles Deleuze\'s Poetics of Life
2008
English edition
Diaphanes - Subjektile
A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.
Thinking Worlds - The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.
Daniel Birnbaum - The Hospitality of Presence
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).
Horst Bredekamp - Les coraux de Darwin - Premiers modèles de l\'évolution et tradition de l\'histoire naturelle
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Victor Considerant
2008
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).
Paul-Emmanuel Odin - L\'absence de livre - Gary Hill et Maurice Blanchot – Écriture, vidéo
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.
Furio Jesi - La fête et la machine mythologique
2008
French edition
Mix
Two essays in which the Italian philosopher proposes a study of the concept of festivity.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Fabien Vallos - Six modèles d\'analyse herméneutique
2007
French edition
Mix
Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.
Slavoj Žižek - Ernteschach dem Dämon
2007
German edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.
Patrick Tacussel - L\'imaginaire radical - Les mondes possibles et l\'esprit utopique selon Charles Fourier
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronologie
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond by the curator and art critic, around the works of Stan Douglas, Eija-Lisa Athila, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean, Darren Almond, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2007
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The Fourierist Studies Association Review.
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology - With a Special Project by Paul Chan
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.
Inter - Giordano Bruno
2007
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Giordano Bruno's actuality.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2006
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The Fourierist Studies Association Review.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2005
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."
Michel Onfray - Oxymoriques - Les photographies de Bettina Rheims
2005
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.
Norma Jeane - Body Proxy
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).
Soun-Gui Kim - Montagne c\'est la mer - Tchouang-tseu et Wittgenstein
2003
French edition
various
Quotes, aphorisms and stories to relate Tchouang-tseu's Eastern thought to Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Hiérarchie du cocuage
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.
Soun-Gui Kim - Stock Exchange
1999
French edition
various
Jean-Luc Nancy reflects on the concept of value, around Soun-Gui Kim's “Stock exchange” project.
Michel Gaillot - Multiple Meaning - Techno, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present
1998
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Michel Gaillot - Sens multiple - La techno, un laboratoire artistique et politique du présent
1998
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."
Après Deleuze - Philosophie et esthétique du cinéma
1997
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This essay considers Deleuze's film theory on both an epistemological and historical angle and brings forward recent studies on cinema's aesthetics and philosophy.
L\'Esthétique des philosophes
1996
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
Ten French, American and German philosophers come together in discussion around several of the major problems raised today in æsthetics.
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