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In Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers world-renowned philosopher Michel Serres takes us on a voyage that unveils a different map than the geographical or political world maps we are accustomed to. Using the tools of the ethnologist, Serres examines our Western cultures to reveal that our influential writers, philosophers, scientists and inventors have a worldview analogous to that of First Peoples.
This thought-provoking book takes on the form of an ode to curiosity to reveal the Great Story of the emergence and wandering of humanity.
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In this Q&A Gila Walker shares her thoughts on the transformative power of translation and what keeps her enthralled by her profession.
Can humanity be divided into good and evil? And if so, is it possible for the good to vanquish the evil, eradicating it from the face of the Earth by declaring war on evildoers and bringing them to justice? Can we overcome evil by the power of memory? In Memory as a Remedy for Evil, Tzvetan Todorov answers these questions in the negative, arguing that despite all our efforts to the contrary, we cannot be delivered from evil.
In this work on evil, memory and justice, Todorov examines the uses of memory and the spate of memorial laws in France in order to show how memory has failed as a remedy against evil and how efforts to come to grips with past evil through trials and punitive justice have failed as well. Todorov locates the fatal flaw of all these approaches in our erroneous relationship with evil as alterity, the distinction that we draw between ourselves and others that allows us to imagine ourselves in the appealing role of hero and victim and confine others to the role of villain and criminal.
Similarly, in his analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Todorov argues in favor of restorative justice, which “seeks not to punish but to restore relations that should never have been interrupted” between former perpetrators and former victims.
Memory as a Remedy for Evil is a powerful and timely work that asks that we recognize the good and evil within each of us—and reminds us that it is only by coming to terms with evil and trying to understand it that we can hope to tame it.
London: Seagull Books, 2011
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE & RELIGION
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Michel Serres, Around the World with Writers, Scientists and Philosopher (Gazebo Books, 2024)
Léonora Miano, Afropea (Seagull Press, 2024)
Nathalie Etoke, Shades of Black (Seagull Press, 2021)
Myriam Tadassé, Blind Spot (Seagull Press, 2021)
Georges Didi-Huberman, "Out of the Dark" in Critical Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, Autumn 2020)
Rafael Mandressi “Anatomy Theater: The Order of Curiosity,” in Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions (Sternberg 2019)
Olivier Surel “Mutations of Sergeant Sade,” Anna Long “Love in the Age of Algorithms,” Three Billion Perverts excerpts (including Michel Foucault’s testimony at the trial of Félix Guattari), in Glass Bead: Site 2. Dark Room: Somatic Reason and Synthetic Eros (2019)
Thomas Golsenne, "The Creole Ninfa" in Eloj Kreyol – Field Essay 55.3 (Onomatopee Projects, 2019)
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Nicolas Bancel & Pascal Blanchard, “Politics of Colonial Remembrance in France 1980-2012” in Stefan Jonsson & Julia Willén, Austere Histories: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories (Routledge, 2016)
Sylvain Lazarus, The Anthropology of the Name (Seagull Press, 2015)
Shmuel Trigano, “Paris January 11: A Disturbing Event,” New English Review (April 2015)
Dan Jaffé, “Exta Ecclesiam nulla Salus Birkat ha-minim reconsidered: Text and Context” in Yavne Revisited: The Historical Rabbis and the Rabbis of History (Compendium Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum), ed. J. Schwartz, P. Tomson, CRINT series (Leiden: Brill, 2017)
Dan Jaffé, “Talmudic polemics and incantations in the name of Jesus: Saliva as materia medica” in Judaica, Beitrage sum Verstehen des Judentums (December 2015)
Dan Jaffé, “Index Librorum Prohibitorum: New Perspectives on the Tannaim and Jewish Christian Books” (unpublished, 2015)
Christophe Foultier, Regimes of Hospitality: Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization – the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015)
Jaffé D., « From the Maccabees to the Rabbinic Judaism : Canonicity, Martyrology and the Story of Reinvented Tradition », in M.-F. Baslez ; O. Munnich (eds.), La mémoire des persécutions. Autour des livres des Maccabées (Paris-Louvain-Walpole, 2014)
Shmuel Trigano, “Jews Alongside Non-Jews,” The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy. Ed. Kavka, Braiterman, and Novak (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Henri Alleg, Algerian Memoirs: Days of Hope and Combat (Seagull Press, 2012)
Dan Jaffé, “Contra-Martyrology in the Talmud or The Story of a Reinvented Tradition” (unpublished, 2012)
Tzvetan Todorov, Memory as a Remedy for Evil (Seagull Press, 2011)
Shmuel Trigano, Philosophy of the Law: The Political in the Torah (Shalem Press, 2011)
Tzvetan Todorov, The Limits of Art: Two Essays (Seagull Press, 2010)
Tzvetan Todorov, The Spirit of the Enlightenment (Grove Press, 2009)
Shmuel Trigano, Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, The Unthought in Political Modernity (SUNY, 2009)
Tzvetan Todorov, Torture and the War on Terror (Seagull Press, 2009)
Tzvetan Todorov, Duties and Delights (Seagull Press, 2008)
Sabine Hillen “Suspending Events, Loving the Margin: Solitude According to Barthes,” Paragraph 31 (March 2008)
François Laplanche, “Christian Erudition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and the Hebrew State,” Hebrew Political Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Winter 2008)
Tzvetan Todorov, “Moving Targets: An Interview by Danny Postel,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Winter 2008)
Alain Finkielkraut, “The Religion of Humanity and the Sin of the Jews,” Azure 21 (2005)
Jacques Derrida, “A certain impossible possibility of saying the event”, and “Final Words” in The Late Derrida, Ed. W. J. Thomas Mitchell, Arnold Ira Davidson (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
François Jullien, “The Shadow on the Picture: Of Evil or the Negative,” Critical Inquiry 32 (University of Chicago Press, 2005)