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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory Series

16 primary works • 16 total works
Idiom publishes books developing new critical and theoretical idioms. What can be said is how it is written—this is the series’ basic premise, which guides editorial decisions and book acquisitions.

Books in the series develop idioms that expand, deform, reinvigorate, or exceed existing genres and styles of theoretical writing in any discipline. The…
Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
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0.00 · published 2016 · 4 editions
Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundam…

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    Chronicle of Separation: On Deconstruction’s Disillusioned Love
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    2.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2000 · 6 editions
    A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacque…

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    Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    What is flirtation, and how does it differ from se…

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    Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    In the four centuries leading up to the death of E…

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    Minima Philologica
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    3.76     · 25 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2015 · 7 editions
    Minima Philologica brings together two essays by W…

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    Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 7 editions
    What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the…

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    Intoxication
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    3.70     · 27 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2015 · 11 editions
    From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacc…

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    The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Poetry, or poiēsis, has long been understood as a …

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    Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    Deciding what is and what is not political is a fr…

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    Poetry and Mind: Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this es…

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    Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty
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    0.00     · 5 editions
    Why have generations of philosophers failed or ref…

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    Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 5 editions
    What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated fr…

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    Technologies of Critique
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 5 editions
    Critique―a program of thought as well as a disposi…

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    The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · 5 editions
    The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and …

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    Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · 5 editions
    This volume, the first sustained critical work on …

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    Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique
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    4.50     · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2021 · 5 editions
    Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize…

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