Collection: Philosophie

20th-century French philosophy can also be read through its print runs.Les aventures de la dialectique, Maurice Merleau-Pontyis among the 38 numbered copies on pure Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper, the only large-paper edition of the 1955 Gallimard original edition: the text that broke with Sartre on the question of history, in its rarest print run. Next to it, an enriched copy shows the other side of the trade, that of provenance: Michelet par lui-même, Roland Barthes bears an inscription from Barthes to Pierre Klossowski, this friend who lived two steps away from him, and himself a figure of post-war ideas. These are two distinct criteria for collecting, the rank in the print run and the nominative provenance, which we systematically verify before cataloging. As members of SLAM and LILA, we apply the same collation method to all our holdings. For vocabulary references (justification of print run, original edition, large paper), the dedicated glossary page remains the reference.thought and religionbrings together all of this universe, includingesoteric booksfor readers who follow ideas to their margins.

No. The rank in the print run counts as much as the originality: a numbered large-paper copy, like the 38 pure vellum Merleau-Ponty copies, far exceeds a common print run of the same text, even if it is later.

It depends on the edition, the print run, and the condition, rarely on the title alone. As members of SLAM, we offer free appraisals of your copy at the bookstore or through photo exchange.

As long as the recipient is identifiable and dated. Barthes' inscription to Klossowski documents a real link between two figures of ideas, which no reprint can reproduce.