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Chronicle of Separation

On Deconstruction's Disillusioned Love

Michal Ben-Naftali

Translated by Mirjam Hadar

Foreword by Avital Ronell

A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in-and as-deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter as manifested in anorexia, passion between two women, love after separation and in mourning, the tension between one's self and the internalized other. Traversing each of these investigations, Chronicle of Separation takes up Derrida's Memoires for Paul de Man and The Post Card, Lillian Hellman's famed friendship with a woman named Julia, and adaptations of the biblical Book of Ruth. Above all, it is a treatise on the love of theory in the name of poetry, a passionate book on love and friendship.

Michal Ben-Naftali is a writer and a translator who lectures at Tel Aviv University. Her other books include The Visitation of Hannah Arendt, Childhood, a Book-a Novella, On Retreat: Four Essays, and Spirit. Her translations into Hebrew include works by Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Andre Breton, and Maurice Blanchot.

Mirjam Hadar is an editor and translator who lives in Tel Aviv.

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her most recent book is Loser Sons: Politics and Authority.

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Pragmatism with Purpose:

Selected Writings

Peter Hare

Edited by Joseph Palencik, Douglas Anderson & Steven A. Miller

“Peter Hare is a significant figure in contemporary Anglo-American thought, not least of all because his writings no less than his character are a concrete embodiment of intellectual pluralism.”—Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University

Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on "holistic pragmatism" that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.

Peter Hare was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.

Joseph Palencik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indian River State College.

Douglas R. Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Steven A. Miller is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

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The Life of Things, the Love of Things

Remo Bodei

Edited by Murtha Baca

"Bodei's philosophical expertise is obvious, but he surpasses by far the level of most phenomenologies of 'things' thanks to his refined sensibility with regard to the vital, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and religious aspects of various types of things.”—Adriaan T. Peperzak, Loyola University, Chicago

From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.

The meaning of "thing" is richer than that of "object," which is something that is manipulated with indifference or according to impersonal technical procedures. Things also differ from merchandise, objects that can be sold or exchanged or seen as status symbols. Things, in the philosophical sense, are nodes of relationships with the life of others, chains of continuity among generations, bridges that connect individual and collective histories, junctions between human civilizations and nature.

Things incite us to listen to reality, to make them part of ourselves, giving fresh life to an otherwise suffocating interiority. Things also reveal the hidden aspect of a "subject" in its most secret and least explored side. Things are the repositories of ideas, emotions, and symbols whose meaning we often do not understand.

In an unexpected but coherent journey that includes the visions of classic philosophers from Aristotle to Husserl and from Hegel to Heidegger, along with the analysis of works of art, Bodei addresses issues such as fetishism, the memory of things, the emergence of department stores, consumerism, nostalgia for the past, the self-portraits of Rembrandt and Dutch still-lifes of the seventeenth century. The more we are able to recover objects in their wealth of meanings and integrate them into our mental and emotional horizons, he argues, the broader and deeper our world becomes.

Remo Bodei is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Pisa after having taught for many years at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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