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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14411-7
EAN 9780231144117
The essays in this volume grapple with one of the most intriguing, enduring, and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age. Relativism comes in many varieties. It is often defined as the belief that truth, goodness, or beauty is relative relative, that is, to some context or frame of reference and that no absolute standards can ...
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Philosophers on Art
from Kant to the Postmodernists
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14095-9
EAN 9780231140959
Philosophers approach art from a wholly unique perspective, and by incorporating their thought into an analysis of art, both our notion of what art can embody and our understanding of what criticism can achieve expand. Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five primary philosophical texts on art written by twenty different philosophers. ...
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Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14301-1
EAN 9780231143011
For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and innovative thinkers endured World War II and the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s, and their ...
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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13851-2
EAN 9780231138512
First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality rather than a futuristic anticipation ...
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Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the ...
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Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, ...
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This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to his metaphysics and ...
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The African Diaspora
A History through Culture
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14471-1
EAN 9780231144711
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic ...
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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12100-2
EAN 9780231121002
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Stalking the Black Swan
Research and Decision-Making in a World of Extreme Volatility
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15048-4
EAN 9780231150484
Kenneth A. Posner spent more than a decade tracking the volatile stock sector known as "specialty finance." A research analyst with Morgan Stanley, Posner monitored markets known for surprise shifts in volatility, including the stocks of controversial credit card companies and mortgage lenders, some of whom catalyzed our recent financial downturn. Extreme volatility is not ...
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China Rising
Peace Power, and Order in East Asia
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14189-5
EAN 9780231141895
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have ...
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Cornwell, Gareth; Klopper, Dirk; Mackenzie, Craig
The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,54 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14796-5
EAN 9780231147965
More and more readers turn to The Best American Magazine Writing for their fix of the year's most brilliant essays and fiction. Chosen from among the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Magazine Awards, current selections include a short story by the novelist everyone is talking about Roberto Bolaño; Selena Roberts's eccentric miniatures of ...
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,44 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13134-6
EAN 9780231131346
When we think of the Italian mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of ...
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14846-7
EAN 9780231148467
Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. ...
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