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SUNY Series: Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory by Louis Wirth Marvick
46 primary works • 46 total works
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Mallarme and the Sublime
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Louis Wirth Marvick
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published 1986
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Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology
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Vassilis Lambropoulos
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published 1986
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Psychosis/Sexual Identity: Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case
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David B. Allison
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published 1988
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The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
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published 1978
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Inner Experience
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Georges Bataille
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published 1943
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Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy
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Gayle L. Ormiston
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published 1989
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Tears
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Mark C. Taylor
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Looking After Nietzsche
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Laurence A. Rickels
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published 1990
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The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur
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Gayle L. Ormiston
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The Step Not Beyond
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Maurice Blanchot
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published 1973
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The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany
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Antoine Berman
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Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida
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Leonard Lawlor
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published 1993
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Of the Sublime: Presence in Question: Essays by Jean-Francois Courtine, Michel Deguy, Eliane Escoubas, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Francois ... Rogozinski
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Jeffrey S. Librett
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published 1993
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Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: Three Essays
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Thomas Pfau
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published 1993
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The Necessary Angel
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Massimo Cacciari
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published 1986
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Solitudes: From Rimbaud to Heidegger
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Marc Froment-Meurice
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published 1995
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On Bataille: Critical Essays
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Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
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Idea of Prose
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Giorgio Agamben
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Leaves of Mourning: Hölderlin's Late Work - With an Essay on Keats and Melancholy
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Anselm Haverkamp
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The Retreat of Representation: The Concept of Darstellung in German Critical Discourse
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Martha B. Helfer
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Interruptions
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Hans-Jost Frey
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Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-Rational Criticism
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Carl Rapp
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Manifesto for Philosophy
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Alain Badiou
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published 1989
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Derrida and the Future of Literature
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Joseph G. Kronick
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On the Study of Greek Poetry
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Friedrich Schlegel
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Disgust: Theory and History of a Strong Sensation
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Winfried Menninghaus
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published 2002
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The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
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Manfred Frank
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published 2003
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Idealism without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture
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Tilottama Rajan
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The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and Criticism
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Davide Stimilli
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Alain Badiou: Philosophy and Its Conditions
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Gabriel Riera
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Briefings on Existence: A Short Treatise on Transitory Ontology
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Alain Badiou
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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon
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Novalis
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The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents
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Novalis
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy
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Elizabeth Millán
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Figures of Simplicity: Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville
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Birgit Mara Kaiser
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Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation: Dialectics of Negation and Difference
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Henry Somers-Hall
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Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
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Charles Freeland
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Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald
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David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
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The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
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Francesco Vitale
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The Hand of the Engraver: Albert Flocon Meets Gaston Bachelard
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett
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The Little Crystalline Seed: The Ontological Significance of Mise en Abyme in Post-Heideggerian Thought
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Announcements: On Novelty
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Time in Exile: In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector
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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
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Modernity as Exception and Miracle
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Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory
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María del Rosario Acosta López
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