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Unlikely Progeny
ISBN: HB: 9781906497668, Seagull Books, December 2010
132 pp., 25x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger has mastered poetry, novels, and the intricate balance between history and fiction, but he's never done anything quite like this before. For the writing of "Unlikely Progeny", Enzensberger developed a persona – Linda Quilt -c...
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£16,50
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Immaterial
ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...
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Letters to Madeleine Tender as Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780857425829, Seagull Books, December 2010
624 pp., 21.6x19.1 cm, 22 halftones
"Letters to Madeleine" collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancee Madeleine Pages during World War I. Stationed in the trenches of Champagne, this man of letters wh...
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Limits of Art Two Essays
ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...
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States of Violence An Essay on the End of War
ISBN: HB: 9781906497187, Seagull Books, September 2010
321 pp., 20.1x16.3 cm
According to political philosopher Frederic Gros, traditional notions of war and peace are currently being replaced by ideas of intervention and security. But while we may be able to speak of an end to war, this does not imply an end to violence. On...
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Fable of the World A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in Our Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497194, Seagull Books, September 2010
346 pp., 19.8x16 cm
Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state – eventually, t...
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Young Light
ISBN: HB: 9781906497545, Seagull Books, September 2010
298 pp., 21.1x14 cm
In "First Light", novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. The book covers only a few summer weeks, following Julian's gradual social and sexual awakeni...
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Incidents
ISBN: PB: 9781906497590, Seagull Books, September 2010
184 pp., 19.3x15.2 cm, 144 colour illus.
French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known works, like S-Z, speak directly to the essential and indivi...
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Kyoto List
ISBN: HB: 9781906497583, Seagull Books, September 2010
334 pp., 24.1x16 cm
If it takes only a few rogue financiers to collapse the economy, can one earnest investment officer save the dollar from collapse? Ken Murai, the protagonist of this fast-paced novel by Michael S. Koyama, is a young officer in the Japanese ministry o...
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Prose
ISBN: PB: 9780857425768, ISBN: HB: 9781906497569, Seagull Books, August 2010
162 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard's distinct darkly comic voice and vision – often compared to Kafka a...
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