Jalal Toufic: The Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The first in a landmark three-volume series gathering the complete writings of an indispensable voice in contemporary thought and aesthetics.

No Place Press is collaborating with Jalal Toufic on an ambitious publishing project: The Collected Writings (1991--2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic . Spanning three volumes of more than six hundred pages each, the series gathers re-edited versions of his earlier works alongside two newly written books, arranged and organized by the author himself. For new readers, the volumes provide an introduction to Toufic's central concepts---including the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster, radical closure, silence-over, the 180-degree over-turn, and the dancer's two bodies---while for longtime readers they offer a comprehensive view of more than three decades of thought, presented in their most rigorous and fully articulated form. Yet, in keeping with Toufic's practice---which participates in untimely collaboration (including with future filmmakers, thinkers, and artists) and abides in the suspension of the avenir of messianism / Mahdism---some of these works remain forthcoming even after their inclusion in the Collected Writings .

Volume 1 (2025) includes newly revised editions of Toufic's first three books---Distracted (1991 / 2003); (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993 / 2003); and Over-Sensitivity (1996 / 2009)---together with the script Jouissance in Postwar Beirut (2014) and, new, The Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker(2024).