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Second Read
Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage
- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15931-9
EAN 9780231159319
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Along the way, the authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation ...
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Unlikely Collaboration
Gertrude Stein, Bernanrd Fa and the Vichy Dilemma
- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 96,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15262-4
EAN 9780231152624
In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined ...
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What Does a Jew Want?
On Binationalism and Other Specters
- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15759-9
EAN 9780231157599
"In this book Udi Aloni, causing a power fault in the ruling liberal attitude by way of short-circuiting different levels of ideology, art, and thought; rewrites the Oedipus myth and rejects liberal Zionism. Who but Aloni can combine the tremendous poetic power of creating new myths with the perspicuous mind of a cold theoretician? Who ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15390-4
EAN 9780231153904
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15126-9
EAN 9780231151269
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Benhabib, Seyla; Butler, Judith; Fraser, Nancy; Wallerstein, Immanuel; West, Cornel
Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique
This book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broadly construed-in contemporary society and politics. Faced with the conceptual inflation of the notion of 'culture,' which now imposes itself as an indispensable issue in contemporary moral and political debates, these dynamic exchanges seek to rethink culture and critique ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14335-6
EAN 9780231143356
Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14625-8
EAN 9780231146258
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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Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an area of scholarship he continues to develop. In this collection, English-speaking readers are finally able ...
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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty ...
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Butler, Judith; Habermas, Jürgen; Taylor, Charles; West, Cornel
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15646-2
EAN 9780231156462
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere is a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one all-encompassing contemporary concern: what role doesor shouldreligion play in our public lives? Judith Butler's response reflects her recent work on state-sponsored violence in Israel, examining the function of religion within the context of ...
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- Columbia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15298-3
EAN 9780231152983
"Is it meaningful, as far as you are concerned, to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy and its critical weaknesses. They also reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben ...
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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15753-7
EAN 9780231157537
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 is the strongest evidence yet that the narrative and purpose of print journalism is as vital as ever, providing entertainment, connection, perspective, and unprecedented revelation in increasingly imaginative and engaging ways. This year's selections, chosen from among the finalists of the National Magazine Awards, include David Grann's much-discussed article ...
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The Preparation of the Novel
. Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980)
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13615-0
EAN 9780231136150
"A group of us go in two cars to the Waterfall (a pretty little valley on the way to Rabat). The same, uninterrupted sadness, a kind of listlessness that (since a recent bereavement) bears upon everything I do, everything I think. Return, an empty apartment, a difficult time: the afternoon (I'll speak of it again). ...
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An Ethics for Today
Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 104 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15056-9
EAN 9780231150569
Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. At the same time, the celebrated pragmatist believed there could be no universally valid answers to moral questions, which led him to ...
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Haunting Legacies
Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,05 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15257-0
EAN 9780231152570
From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar ...
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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15080-4
EAN 9780231150804
At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an extraordinary portrait of writing and reading from the novelist's perspective. Organized alphabetically by keyword, ...
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
. A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14399-8
EAN 9780231143998
The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise. The text is an anthology of one hundred waka poems, each written by a different poet from the seventh to the middle of ...
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- Columbia, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 38,44 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14841-2
EAN 9780231148412
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature.Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic ...
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