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Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Works and Days
- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 33,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14816-0
EAN 9780231148160
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have lived as contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomorrow. In the capable hands of Scott Donaldson, however, the affinities ...
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An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva's writing--semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory--and are each prefaced by a clear, instructive introduction. For beginners or those familiar with Kristeva's work this is a good complement to The Portable Kristeva with a ...
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The Moral Fool
A Case for Amorality
- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14509-1
EAN 9780231145091
Justice, equality, and righteousness these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as a pathology a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused like a weapon. An expert ...
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14045-4
EAN 9780231140454
In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by Daniel Dennett and John ...
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One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness, its vivid and humorous episodes, its dramatic narratives, and its eloquent exposition of the key doctrine of emptiness or nondualism. Unlike most sutras, its central figure is not ...
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The Art of War
Sun Zi's Military Methods
- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,43 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13383-8
EAN 9780231133838
Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning ...
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-05347-1
EAN 9780231053471
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse.
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Four Jews on Parnassus
A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg
- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14654-8
EAN 9780231146548
Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism. Carl Djerassi, himself a refugee from Hitler's Austria, dramatizes a dialogue between these four men in which ...
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Albert Camus the Algerian
Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice
- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14087-4
EAN 9780231140874
In this original reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface ...
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- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,88 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13824-6
EAN 9780231138246
All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970- prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff bylines shatter tradition, but the pictures were revolutionary. Unlike anything ever seen in a newspaper, Op-Ed art became a globally influential ...
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In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts - ...
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- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14624-1
EAN 9780231146241
The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the ...
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- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12336-5
EAN 9780231123365
No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the ...
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- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14518-3
EAN 9780231145183
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the ...
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Martin, Raymond x{0026} Barresi, John
The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self
An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 20,93 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13745-4
EAN 9780231137454
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized ...
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- Columbia, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12945-9
EAN 9780231129459
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and ...
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