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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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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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PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12100-2
EAN 9780231121002
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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