philosophy

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

First of 29 volumes of Reiner Schürmann's so far unpublished lecture notes on the history of western thought, this publication traces the rise of self-consciousness in its modern form and function, with Luther as the central figure of Schürmann's study.

Six short stories by Maria Kakogianni, between literary fiction and philosophy.

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's “Les Immatériaux” exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology.

Oliver Marchart traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.”

Sexuality as a properly philosophical problem of psychoanalysis.

This volume of Reiner Schürmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.

The contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism.

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

The letters of Maurice Blanchot to François Dominique, which illuminate one of the last editorial projects of Blanchot; “Maurice Blanchot, writing and power”; an unpublished letter from Blanchot on the Cuban Revolution; the 68 years of Blanchot...

The first French edition of the text on exile by ancient philosopher Favorinos (circa 80-150).

A genealogy of modern architectural culture through an analysis of the project both theoretical and practical of the Italian architect, historian and critic of architecture Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994).

Proposé par le collège des écrivains de la revue Lignes, À l'air libre dans la nuit fraîche et pensive est un livre à pensées multiples agencé comme un libre parlement d'écritures qui supplémentent la démocratie pour qu'elle se fasse un peu plus ouverte, un peu plus radicale et résolue, contre les idiots de la haine et les fous du pouvoir (textes de Philippe Beck, Véronique Bergen, Georges Didi-Huberman, Alain Jugnon, Serge Margel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Frédéric Neyrat, Christian Prigent, Frank Smith...).

An essay on Philippe Beck, Jean-Paul Curnier and Michel Surya.

One of Levinas' rare statements focusing on the fine arts.

This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.

A conversation, accompanied by an introduction by Andrea Soto Calderón, to better understand the crucial role that images occupy in Jacques Rancière's work, and how images are the site of imaginative and reconfiguring operations.

Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.

Dans ce livre vaste et pointu, Erin Manning élargit ses recherches concernant la politique du mouvement au concept de geste mineur.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

Once upon a time, in a coral palace at the bottom of the sea, hidden from human eyes, there lived a princess with a fish's tail. Her parents adored her, and she was engaged to the most tender and beautiful of all the mermen, and she could have been the happiest of all the mermaids. But the little princess was desperately unhappy… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

A reflection on the myth of abundance, at the intersection of philosophy, arts and letters, anthropology, political and natural sciences.

For its twelfth issue, Initiales pays tribute to Sylvère Lotringer who, in the 1970s, imported the French Theory in the United States.

Interview with influential astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau on animal welfare and related issues, including ecology and vegetarianism.