Books from Zone Books
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Nongovernmental Politics
By Michel FeherTo be involved in politics without aspiring to govern, be governed by the best leaders, or abolish the institutions of government: such are the constraints that delineate the condition common...
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The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
By Michel FeherIrresistibly charming or shamelessly deceitful, remarkably persuasive or uselessly verbose, everything one loves to hate — or hates to love — about “French lovers” and their self-styled reputation can be...
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Maurice Blanchot, the Thought from Outside
By Michel Foucault, Maurice BlanchotIn these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other’s work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop...
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Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
By Gilles DeleuzePure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple...
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Academic Freedom After September 11
By Beshara DoumaniEssays on the challenges to academic freedom posed by post-9/11 political interventions and the growing commercialization of knowledge.Are the attacks on academic freedom after 9/11 a passing storm, or do...
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
By Katharine Park, Lorraine DastonWonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its...
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
By Branden W. JosephExamining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art.Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism...
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The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler
By Fernand HallynThe Poetic Structure of the World is a major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture: the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler. Conceiving of their...
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The Movement of the Free Spirit: General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief Flowerings of Life in the Middle...
By Raoul VaneigemThis book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life is a fiercely partisan historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped...
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Your Money Or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
By Jacques Le GoffIn this book, one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had...
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Culture in Practice: Selected Essays
By Marshall SahlinsEssays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the...
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The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
By Nicole Loraux"In The Invention of Athens, her first book, Nicole Loraux launched her exploration of Greek - and more particularly Athenian - self-representations: in this case, through the funeral oration. Coordinating...