{"product_id":"dying-of-thinking-the-last-kingdom-ix-9781803092423","title":"Dying of Thinking: The Last Kingdom IX","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDying of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignard's Last Kingdom series. It explores three themes: how thought and death coincide, how thought is close to melancholy, and how thought takes shelter near traumatism. One who thinks, Quignard shows us, \"compensates\" for a very ancient abandonment. Even as a dream is a meaning whose disorderly, condensed, paradoxical images intuit something which has preceded sleep and which returns in them, thought is a meaning which uses words that are written, re-transcribed, dissected, etymologized and neologized. Throughout the Last Kingdom series, Quignard has sought to experience another way of thinking, one that has nothing to do with philosophy, a way of attaching himself \"literally\" to texts and of progressing by decomposing the imagery of dreams. \u003ci\u003eDying of Thinking \u003c\/i\u003eis the heart of this quest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803092423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Pascal Quignard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705095520437,"sku":"9781803092423","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_522696eb-5976-46fd-a8c9-c79de227ec81.jpg?v=1709654441","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dying-of-thinking-the-last-kingdom-ix-9781803092423","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}