| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 59 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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of the Book -- The Book's End in Itself -- The People of the Book -- Interminable Reading -- The Publication of the Unpublished -- Book Open and Closed -- The Scents of the Bookstore -- The Commerce of Thinking -- The Matter of Books -- Electronic Supplement, Binary Reprise, Digital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 |
| Summary |
Jean-Luc Nancy's On the Commerce of Thinking concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. His reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any such "perfumery, rotisserie, patisserie," as he calls them, dispensaries "of scents and flavors through which something like a fragrance or bouquet of the book is divined, presumed, sensed." On the Commerce of Thinking is thus not only something of a semiology of the specific cu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Booksellers and bookselling -- Philosophy
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Books and reading.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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Books and reading
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Philosophie
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Buch
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Lesen
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Filosofie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009003252 |
| ISBN |
9780823235476 |
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0823235475 |
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0823230384 |
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9780823230389 |
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9780823238033 |
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0823238032 |
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9780823247127 |
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0823247120 |
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