Books from Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

  • Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
    Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
    By Bernard Stiegler

    The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming ...

  • Technics and Time: Disorientation
    Technics and Time: Disorientation
    By Bernard Stiegler

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  • Writings on Art and Literature
    Writings on Art and Literature
    By Sigmund Freud

    All texts are drawn from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by James Strachey. The volume includes the notes prepared for that edition by the editor.

  • Technics and Time: The fault of Epimetheus
    Technics and Time: The fault of Epimetheus
    By Bernard Stiegler, Head of the Institut de Recherche Et D'Innovation

    This book, the first of three volumes, develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.

  • On Plato's Statesman
    On Plato's Statesman
    By Cornelius Castoriadis

    This book represents the first publication of one of the seminars (transcribed) of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in 20th-century thought.

  • Care Crosses the River
    Care Crosses the River
    By Hans Blumenberg

    In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues--metaphors, gestures, anecdotes--essential to grasping ...

  • Resistances of Psychoanalysis
    Resistances of Psychoanalysis
    By Jacques Derrida

    The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.

  • Faux Pas
    Faux Pas
    By Maurice Blanchot

    Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot, the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century.

  • Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
    Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
    By Mark Anton Allee, Philip C. Huang, Kathryn Bernhardt

    This pathbreaking volume demonstrates that, contrary to previous scholarly understanding, Qing and Republican courts dealt extensively with such civil matters as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance, and did so with striking ...

  • Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past
    Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past
    By Ethan Kleinberg

    This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the ...