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Category Archives: ICI Press
LIBRARY SHELF: Histoire de L’oeil
Bataille, George; Histoire de L’oeil (1979) ICI Shelf: Fiction FIRST LINE: “J’ai ete eleve seul et, aussi loin que je me le rappelle, j’etais anxieux des choses sexuelles.” LAST LINE: “Mais c’est la solitude et l’absence de sens qui la fondent.” ICI … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History
Steinberg, Michael P.; Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History (1996) ICI Shelf: Philosophy Accession #: ICI-00300
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LIBRARY SHELF: The Dialectics of Seeing
Buck-Morss, Susan; The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989) ICI Shelf: Philosophy Accession #: ICI-00294
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