When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chica
Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts,
This is the first commentary on the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 90-95 - c. 167). It aims at an extensive grammatical, stylistic and historical interpretation of the letters and the ancient
Although carotid endarectomy (CEA) has long been considered the gold standard technique, recent studies report that short- and long-term results with carotid angioplasty and stenting(CAS) are comparab
This resource covers all aspects of the diagnosis and clinical management of patients with diseases of the neuromuscular junction. It breaks down each disease by pathophysiology, clinical presentation
Since the 1970s, a great number of experimental and ethnomethodological studies have brought out the fact that social interaction influences cognitive development. However, two major questions remain:
In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in th
It's the passionate professional chef with a compulsion to explore whom we should thank for those extraordinary techniques and ideas that continually find their way into the home kitchen. Whether it'
Today, many children and adolescents living in Europe have an immigrant background. For the first time, studies investigating youth belonging to several immigrant groups were collected to form a speci
French and Japanese mathematicians were responsible for founding and articulating singularity theory, so Franco-Japanese Symposia on Singularities have been held occasionally since 1998. The 19 papers
Cable is a man on a mission once again! To protect the fi rst mutant born since M-Day, Cable flees into the timestream with her - and now must raise young Hope as his daughter! But hot on their trail
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais is best known for pioneering the somatic therapy that bears his name. Less well known is that he was also one of the earliest European practitioners of the martial art of judo an
Presents an assortment of quotations, arranged alphabetically, that illumine the Pope's thoughts on such topics as atheism, baptism, the Eucharist, love, reason, terrorism, and worship.
The diversity of the living world has become the raw material for thenew biotechnologies and the object of patent claims. There are many contentious issues surrounding biodiversity and different prior
In the autumn of 1924, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was just 27 and had recently started working at the Bibliothèque nationale. Michel Leiris, 23, was beginnin
