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L’assassinat de l’expérience par la peinture, Monory / The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory Jean-François Lyotard

Edited and introduced by Herman Parret. Epilogue by Sarah Wilson

Final volume in the series Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists Lyotard met the French painter Jacques Monory in 1972, and the text on him published at that time was the first that Lyotard dedicated to contemporary art since Discourse, Figure. Lyotard’s interest in the plastic arts thus fits fully within the setting of his political preoccupations. The artistprotagonist stages the recurring motifs that fascinate Lyotard: the scene of the crime, the revolver, the woman, the victim, glaciers, deserts, stars. The atmosphere of the essays on Monory is ‘Californian’. Monory’s imaginary repertoire goes well beyond the masters of modernity and is in line rather with a ‘modern contemporary surrealism’. Both Lyotard and Monory live the ‘dilemma of Americanisation’, the America represented by cinema, fashion, novels, music. It is in this atmosphere that Lyotard and Monory will finally evoke their supreme experience of difference: desire and fear, exultation and a profound malaise. The plastic universe of Monory and the aesthetic meditations of Lyotard are in perfect symbiosis. Sarah Wilson’s epilogue thoroughly outlines both the history of a friendship and, at the same time, the intellectual and artistic climate of the nineteen-seventies. Final volume

herman parret is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.

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n isbn 978 90 5867 881 2 n May 2013 n Hardback, 16 x 23 cm n ca 336 p. n Illustrated n English / French

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Wolfgang Müller-Funk – Ingrid Scholz-Strasser – Herman Westerink (eds) Psychoanalysis,

the sigmund freud Monotheism

museum symposia and Morality

2009-2011

wolfgang müller-funk is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies (University of Vienna) and research coordinator of his faculty. inge scholz-strasser is Chairwoman of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. herman westerink is Assistant Professor of Psychology of Religion, Protestant Theological Faculty, University of Vienna.

n € 39,50 / £35.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 935 2 n March 2013 n Paperback, 16 x 24 cm n ca. 220 p. n English n Figures of the Unconscious 12

Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009–2011

Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Inge Scholz-Strasser, Herman Westerink (eds) In collaboration with Daniela Finzi

International experts reflecting on psychoanalysis in relation to religion and morality In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic insights. Some essays augment traditional religious critiques of Freudianism with later religio-philosophical theories on, for example, femininity. Others explore the relation between psychopathology and morality from the Freudian premise that psychopathology shows in an excessive way aspects or mechanisms of the human psyche that constitute our subjectivity, and as such also our moral capacities and behaviour.

Contributors Andreas De Block (University of Leuven), Fethi Benslama (University of Paris Diderot), Sergio Benvenuto (istc, Rome), Gohar Homayounpour (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran), Felix de Mendelssohn (Sigmund Freud University, Vienna), Julia Kristeva (University of Paris Diderot), Lode Lauwaert (University of Leuven), Siamak Movahedi (University of Massachusetts), Wolfgang Müller-Funk (University of Vienna), Gilles Ribault (University of Paris Diderot), Céline Surprenant (University of Sussex), Inge Scholz-Strasser (Sigmund Freud Foundation), Herman Westerink (University of Vienna), Joel Whitebook (Columbia University), Moshe Zuckermann (Tel Aviv University).

Previously published in the series Figures of the Unconscious

n A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis? A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and Lacan Philippe Van Haute, Tomas Geyskens € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 911 6, paperback n Sexuality and Psychoanalysis. Philosophical Criticisms Jens De Vleminck, Eran Dorfman (eds) € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 844 7, paperback

Seeing Transnationally How Chinese Migrants Make Their Dreams Come True Li Minghuan

Between the early 19th century and the 1930s more than ten million Chinese coolies were shipped abroad to the European outposts and colonies of the tropical world. is great wave of Chinese mobility drew to a halt in the early 1950s a er the midcentury years of war and revolution. However, since 1978, when China’s reform policy li ed the ban on migration, Chinese subjects from the People’s Republic have been on the move again. is time, the movement has been directed largely toward Europe and the western world itself. is volume of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migration. It represents over two decades of untiring empirical eld research, going where the migrants go – the Netherlands, France, Canada – and where they come from – Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian – in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local o cials have to say. Coupled with the historian’s cra of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to o cial labor export, to the migration of students and professionals. Li Minghuan is professor at the Institute of Population Studies at Xiamen University, China, and consultant at the Overseas Chinese A airs O ce of the State Council, China.

Stories and experiences of Chinese migrants This collection of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar ISBN 978-90-5867-901-7 herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migra-9 789058 679017 tion. The book represents over two decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the migrants go – the Netherlands, France, Canada– and where they come from – Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian – in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian’s craft of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the migration of students and professionals.

Also of Interest

n The Global Horizon. Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East Knut Graw, Samuli Schielke (eds) € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 906 2, paperback

Li Minghuan

Seeing

Seeing Transnationally

How Chinese Migrants Make eir Dreams Come True

Transnationally

Li Minghuan

li minghuan is Professor at the Institute of Population Studies at Xiamen University, China, and consultant at the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, China.

Co-publication with Zhejiang University Press Worldwide selling rights excl. China

n € 59,50 / £52.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 901 7 n June 2013 n Hardback, 16 x 24 cm n ca. 328 p. n Illustrated n English