On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230376
• ISBN13: 9780823230372
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.3"