On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores by Jean-Luc Nancy; Translator-David Wills - 2009-06-15

Fordham University Press, June 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A little shelf worn but looks unread.

Fordham University Press, 2009. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Fordham University Press, 2009. Softcover. New. 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 cultural practice that begins with the unique character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home to a comfortable chair, but also an understated yet persuasive plea in favor of an endangered species.In evoking the peddler who, in times past, plied the streets with books and pamphlets literally hanging off… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.