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Philosophy of Living
ISBN: HB: 9780857422163, Seagull Books, December 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary – to be alive – and the absoluteness of our aspiration – finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In "The Philosophy of Living", Francois Jullien meditat...
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Secure the Base Making Africa Visible in the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9780857423139, Seagull Books, December 2015
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrat...
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This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
ISBN: HB: 9780857420107, Seagull Books, December 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "This Strange Idea of the Beautiful", Francois Jullien explores what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonl...
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Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...
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Obscurity
ISBN: HB: 9780857423078, Seagull Books, October 2015
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the young man into a disciple before sending him out into the world to put his teachings into practice. Re...
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Conversations, Volume 2
ISBN: HB: 9780857423009, Seagull Books, October 2015
352 pp., 19.5x14 cm
Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges's final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina's master writer and favorite conversationalist. In "Conversations: Volu...
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These Figures Lining the Hills
ISBN: HB: 9780857423047, Seagull Books, October 2015
80 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Alice Attie's inaugural volume of poetry is an invitation to collectively "bend into silence as we bend into words". In "These Figures Lining the Hills", readers enter an eloquent, philosophically poignant space where we slip into the folds of langua...
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Inventors And Other Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857423245, Seagull Books, October 2015
112 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French poetry". Translated by Mark Hutchinson, "The Inventors" is a companion volume to Char's critically acclaimed "Hypnos"....
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Anchor's Long Chain
ISBN: HB: 9780857423023, Seagull Books, September 2015
112 pp., 19.5x14 cm
Widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation, Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. First published in France in 2008, "The Anchor's Long Chain" is an indispensable addition to his oeuvre. En...
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Nationalism and the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780857423184, Seagull Books, August 2015
92 pp., 18.5x11.4 cm
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's "On Grammatology" and her groundbreaking essay, "Can th...
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