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On the commerce of thinking : of books and bookstores / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by David Wills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nancy, Jean-Luc.
- Standardized Title:
- Sur le commerce des pensées. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Booksellers and bookselling--Philosophy.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study, by one of France's leading contemporary philosophers, celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing and selling books.
- Contents:
- Contents; Translator's Foreword Thinking Singular Plural; On the Commerce of Thinking; On the Commerce of Thinking Of Books and Bookstores; The Idea and Character of the Book; The Book's End in Itself; The People of the Book; Interminable Reading; The Publication of the Unpublished; Book Open and Closed; The Scents of the Bookstore; The Commerce of Thinking; The Matter of Books; Electronic Supplement, Binary Reprise, Digital Counterpoint; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613297150
- 9780823235476
- 0823235475
- 9780823247127
- 0823247120
- 9781283297158
- 1283297159
- 9780823238033
- 0823238032
- 9780823230389
- 0823230384
- OCLC:
- 647876512
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