Food for Thought by Louis Marin
Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political power-and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic bases.-
Writing History, Writing Trauma
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Hypertext 2.0
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What's Wrong with Postmodernism?
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Subversive Pleasures
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Death and Representation
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France and the Holy Land
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Hypertext 3.0
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Interrupted Dialectic
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The Audience
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Suburban Ambush
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Perpetual Motion
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The Aesthetics of Murder
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On the Edge of the Cliff
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The Well-Tempered Self
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Heterocosmica
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The Past as Text
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Grotesque Figures
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Passions of the Sign
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Color of Melancholy
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Gilles Deleuze
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Styles of Enlightenment
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Revolutionary Acts
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The Fate of Carmen
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Fictional Truth
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Torrid Zones
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Fortune's Faces
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The Cryptographic Imagination
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Cultural Imperialism
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The Office of the Scarlet Letter
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The Frame of Art
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Rules for the Endgame
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National Culture and the New Global System
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Decadent Subjects
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Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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The Translator's Turn
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The Transparent Society
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Albert Cohen
The leitmotif of this book is the way in which.. the sacramental eating of Christ's body is performed through the grammar of the sentence... Marin's admiration for the word made flesh, and hence the word made power, is what makes this book both fascinating and disturbing. Times Literary Supplement
Louis Marin was director of studies at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and an associate of the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University until his death in 1992. His many books include The Portrait of the King and La voix excommuniee: Essais de memoire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801856136 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801856132 |
| Title | Food for Thought |
| Author | Louis Marin |
| Series | Parallax: Re-Visions Of Culture And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1997-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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