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very good black cloth. SAHLINS, PETER. 1668: the year of the animal in France. New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Zone Books, Distributed by the MIT Press, 2017, 491pp., . Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied "animal moment" in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France -- what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism toward more modern expressions of classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes's animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 in which his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668 explores and reproduces the king's animal collections -- in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. ISBN 9781935408994.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition 2nd printing, hardcover 124 b&w ills pp455. Condition page block + DJ As New.

Zustand: New. In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how st.

Zustand: New. In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital concerns with justice bow to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates liberty submits to the impe.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Albrecht Duerer s famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of copperplate engraving titled Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about the melancholic temperament, a dense allegory of the.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitts Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in cont.

orig. cloth. Zustand: Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper. 23x16cm, 176 pp. Contents: Feeding the body/feeding the soul: the symbolic divide -- Preserving the freedom to change -- To feed one's life/to force one's life;or, how the attachment to life turns against life -- Vacations: finding heaven in ourselves -- Without "soul" -- Do we have a "body"? -- Feeding your breath-energy -- Procedures of vital nourishment -- Exempt from happiness -- On hygiene; or, the desperate desire to endure -- Anti-stress:cool, Zen, and so on -- Condemned to the eternal silence of processes. [" The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning, Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends Francois Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten simply to experience life in vital Nourishment, Jullien slows down and begins to think about life from a point outside of Western inquiry, using the third- and fourth-century B.C.E. Chinese thinker Zhuanghi as a foil in this installment of his continuing project of plumbing the philosophical divide between Eastern and Western thought" -from dustwrapper].