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Libro · 190 páginas
PVP: 38,12 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77696-5
EAN 9780226776965
In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major ...
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Libro · 260 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-89921-3
EAN 9780226899213
Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with Marxism and Literature and Culture and Society. Continuing the work of those studies, The Sociology of Culture offers debate on the origin and evolution of culture. It defines sociology of culture as a convergence of various fields and explores ways in which culture is ...
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""Criticism and Social Change" speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals."--Frederic Jameson "A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticism--this last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and ...
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Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that ...
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By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture - a culture that has eroded conventional categories defining jazz and the jazz musician. Radano accomplishes all this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony Braxton.Born in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-906497-26-2
EAN 9781906497262
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and episodic? In "The Idea of ...
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Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioural sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became an issue in the 1870s, growing even more heated in recent years following official recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a book ...
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The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master; master mariner, storyteller, and writer; his reputation has been linked in recent years to the negative masteries of racism, imperialism, and patriarchy. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 38,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-25725-9
EAN 9780226257259
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Giordano Bruno
Philosopher Heretic
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-73024-0
EAN 9780226730240
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77106-9
EAN 9780226771069
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style - and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency - Stark is a master of crime writing, his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 44,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-46804-4
EAN 9780226468044
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. .. . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-76865-6
EAN 9780226768656
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 138 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-73127-8
EAN 9780226731278
Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds ...
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PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56158-5
EAN 9780226561585
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 213 páginas
PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77104-5
EAN 9780226771045
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Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own, excerpts from his life and thought that resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of ...
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