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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 32,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6
EAN 9780226403366
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded.Even the human sciences have been ...
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Beethoven's Symphonies
Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45388-0
EAN 9780226453880
In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-46220-2
EAN 9780226462202
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remains one of the more fascinating aspects of that era. As mind and emotion were increasingly understood in terms of biology, aesthetic experience began to be thought of less as abstract judgment and more as an interaction between the nervous system ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 33,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-48470-9
EAN 9780226484709
Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry.Goldstein puts ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45780-2
EAN 9780226457802
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering.What ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-226-44788-9
EAN 9780226447889
N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to function.Marshalling fresh insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive ...
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Our Latest Longest War
Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-26565-0
EAN 9780226265650
The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well.America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty to begin with: dismantle al Qaeda, remove ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-226-35038-7
EAN 9780226350387
George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing, while the New York Times says of his works that the erudition is almost ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 345 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-47920-0
EAN 9780226479200
Beards they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today some New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars for facial hair ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-24962-9
EAN 9780226249629
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these and other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42040-0
EAN 9780226420400
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims, and fewer still have focused on their relation to the special literary and artistic ...
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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42409-5
EAN 9780226424095
Tantra occupies an odd position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its relationship to sex has made its name instantly recognizable, but this emphasis on sex has obscured its philosophical concerns and ritual practices, to say nothing of its overall importance to Hindu religious life. This book offers a clear, well-grounded overview of Tantra that ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-35475-0
EAN 9780226354750
Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht D rer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-01360-2
EAN 9780226013602
Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-92352-9
EAN 9780226923529
Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42488-0
EAN 9780226424880
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41597-0
EAN 9780226415970
The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud, the inaugural book in the Class 200 series, explores the precedents of Malebranche's advice by reading John Donne's poetic prayers ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42099-8
EAN 9780226420998
The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 the main regulatory reform package introduced in the United States also shared with New Deal reforms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 550 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-41826-1
EAN 9780226418261
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest. His successors would follow his example, setting their own constitutional precedents. Tracing the evolution and expansion ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 494 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-28923-6
EAN 9780226289236
In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled often both but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back ...
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