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About Lookingby John BergerISBN 0844666351 (0-8446-6635-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Presentby Mieke Bal, Leo Spitzer, Jonathan CreweISBN 087451889X (0-87451-889-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Americaby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 0860919781 (0-86091-978-1)
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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representationby Brian WallisISBN 0879235632 (0-87923-563-2)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representationby Marcia Tucker, Brian WallisISBN 0879236329 (0-87923-632-9)
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The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticismby Arlyn Diamond, Lee EdwardsISBN 0870236229 (0-87023-622-9)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fictionby Stephen F. SoitosISBN 0870239961 (0-87023-996-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Societyby Andrew RossISBN 0860916545 (0-86091-654-5)
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Crisis and the Crash: Soviet Studies of the West,1917-1939by Richard B. DayISBN 0860910377 (0-86091-037-7)
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Critique of Everyday Lifeby Henri Lefebvre, John MooreISBN 0860913406 (0-86091-340-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Everyday Life'Book summary:Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theories of the semantic field and of moments.
Henri Lefebvres three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth centurys greatest philosophers. The first volume presented an introduction to the concept of everyday life. Written twenty years later, this second volume attempts to establish the necessary formal instruments for analysis, and outlines a series of theoretical categories within everyday life such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.
The moment at which the book appeared1961was significant both for France and for Lefebvre himself: he was just beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at Strasbourg, and then at Nanterre, and many of the ideas which were influential in the events leading up to 1968 are to be found in this critique. In its impetuous, often undisciplined prose, the reader may catch a glimpse of how charismatic a lecturer Lefebvre must have been.
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Critique of Everyday Life: Introductionby Henri Lefebvre, John MooreISBN 0860915875 (0-86091-587-5)
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Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel KantISBN 0872200256 (0-87220-025-6)
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Critique of Judgment: Including the First Introductionby Immanuel KantISBN 0872200264 (0-87220-026-4)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Stephen D. GrantISBN 0872204944 (0-87220-494-4)
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Derrida for Beginnersby Jim Powell, Van HowellISBN 0863161391 (0-86316-139-1)
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Eastern Philosophy for Beginnersby Jim Powell, Joe LeeISBN 0863162827 (0-86316-282-7)
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Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Natureby Greta Claire GaardISBN 0877229899 (0-87722-989-9)
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Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Natureby Greta GaardISBN 0877229880 (0-87722-988-0)
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah ArendtISBN 0844659770 (0-8446-5977-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'Book summary:While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed. [via]
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Erotism: Death and Sensualityby Georges Bataille, Mary DalwoodISBN 0872861902 (0-87286-190-2)
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The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genreby Tzvetan TodorovISBN 0829502459 (0-8295-0245-9)
Hardcover, Press of Case Western Reserve University
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Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memoryby Frigga HaugISBN 0860918750 (0-86091-875-0)
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Foucault for Beginnersby Lydia Alix Fillingham, Moshe SusserISBN 086316160X (0-86316-160-X)
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The Frankfurt Schoolby T. B. BottomoreISBN 085312468X (0-85312-468-X)
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From Prague to Paris: A Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thoughtby Jose Guilherme MerquiorISBN 0860918602 (0-86091-860-2)
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From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Societyby Lucio CollettiISBN 0853453500 (0-85345-350-0)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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The German Ideologyby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, C. J. ArthurISBN 0853152179 (0-85315-217-9)
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The Gormenghast Novelsby Mervyn PeakeISBN 0879516283 (0-87951-628-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gormenghast Novels'Book summary:Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle. The trilogy continues with the novels Gormenghast and Titus Alone, and all three books are bound together in this single-volume edition.
The Gormenghast royal family, the castle's decidedly eccentric staff, and the peasant artisans living around the dreary, crumbling structure make up the cast of characters in these engrossing stories. Peake's command of language and unique style set the tone and shape of an intricate, slow-moving world of ritual and stasis:
"The walls of the vast room which were streaming with calid moisture, were built with gray slabs of stone and were the personal concern of a company of eighteen men known as the 'Grey Scrubbers'.... On every day of the year from three hours before daybreak until about eleven o'clock, when the scaffolding and ladders became a hindrance to the cooks, the Grey Scrubbers fulfilled their hereditary calling."
Peake has been compared to Dickens, Tolkien, and Peacock, but the Gormenghast trilogy is truly unique. Unforgettable characters with names like Steerpike and Prunesquallor make their way through an architecturally stifling world, with lots of dark corners around to dampen any whimsy that might arise. This true classic is a feast of words unlike anything else in the world of fantasy. Those who explore Gormenghast castle will be richly rewarded. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Gormenghast Trilogyby Mervyn Peake, Anthony BurgessISBN 0879519746 (0-87951-974-6)
Hardcover, University of East Anglia
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0837604583 (0-8376-0458-3)
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politicsby Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto LaclauISBN 086091769X (0-86091-769-X)
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History Of Beautyby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 0847826465 (0-8478-2646-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History Of Beauty'Book summary:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it also has a lot to do with the beholder's cultural standards. In History of Beauty, renowned author Umberto Eco sets out to demonstrate how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal. Pages of charts that track archetypes of beauty through the ages ("nude Venus," "nude Adonis," and so forth) may suggest that this book is a historical survey of beautiful people portrayed in art. But History of Beauty is really about the history of philosophical and perceptual notions of perfection and how they have been applied to ideas and objects, as well as to the human body. This survey ranges over such themes as the mathematics of ideal proportions, the problem of representing ugliness, the fascination of the exotic and art for art's sake. Along the way, the text examines the intersection of standards of beauty with Christian belief, notions of the Sublime, the philosophies of Kant and Hegel, and bourgeois culture. More than 300 illustrations trace the history of Western art as it relates, in the broadest sense, to the topic of beauty.
Yet despite its wealth of information, History of Beauty is an odd and unsatisfying book. Beginning with ancient Greece and ending with a too-brief chapter on "The Beauty of the Media," the text focuses exclusively (and unapologetically) on the Western world. Ultimately, it seems that "beauty" serves simply as a sexy peg on which to hang an abbreviated history of Western culture. Readers expecting a sophisticated treatment of the subject will be surprised at the textbook-like design, with numbered sections and boldfaced words keyed to small-type excerpts from writings by thinkers ranging from Boethius to Barthes. The main narrative (or perhaps the translation from the Italian?) can be ponderous and awkward. Only nine of the 17 chapters were written by Eco; the remainder are by lesser-known Italian novelist Girolamo de Michele. All in all, it looks as though someone had the bright idea of translating a textbook for Italian students into English, hoping to coast on the fame of Eco's name. --Cathy Curtis [via]More editions of History Of Beauty:
I See Satan Falling Like Lightningby Rene GirardISBN 0852442904 (0-85244-290-4)
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In Search of Wagnerby Theodor AdornoISBN 0860917967 (0-86091-796-7)
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In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literaturesby Aijaz AhmadISBN 0860913724 (0-86091-372-4)
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In Theory : Nations, Classes, Literatureby Aijaz AhmadISBN 0860916774 (0-86091-677-4)
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Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Researchby Claus-Dieter KrohnISBN 0870238744 (0-87023-874-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Historyby HegelISBN 0872200566 (0-87220-056-6)
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essaysby Louis Althusser, Ben BrewsterISBN 085345213X (0-85345-213-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays'Book summary:No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. The latter was best illustrated in For Marx (1965), and Reading Capital (1968). These works, along with Lenin and Philosophy (1971) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship.
This classic work, which to date has sold more than 30,000 copies, covers the range of Louis Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science.
Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. Thus for Althusser, the interpretation of Marx involves a repudiation of all efforts to draw from Marx's early writings a view of Marx as a "humanist" and "historicist."
Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," "Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre," and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract." The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.
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Literature As Explorationby Louise M. RosenblattISBN 087352568X (0-87352-568-X)
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Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life: Toward a Permanent Cultural Revolution.by Bruce BrownISBN 0853453063 (0-85345-306-3)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Marxism and Philosophyby Karl KorschISBN 0853451893 (0-85345-189-3)
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Marxism and Politicsby Ralph MilibandISBN 0850365317 (0-85036-531-7)
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The Masks of God: Creative Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0844667072 (0-8446-6707-2)
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The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causalityby Slavoj ZizekISBN 086091688X (0-86091-688-X)
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On Poetry and Styleby AristotleISBN 0872200728 (0-87220-072-8)
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On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemicby Maudemarie Clark, Alan J. Swensen, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0872202836 (0-87220-283-6)
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One-Way Street and Other Writingsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0860910148 (0-86091-014-8)
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Poetics Iby Aristotle, Richard JankoISBN 0872200337 (0-87220-033-7)
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Poetics I With the Tractatus Coislinianus: A Hypothetical Reconstruction of Poetics IIby AristotleISBN 0872200345 (0-87220-034-5)
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The Politics of Aestheticsby Jacques RanciereISBN 0826489540 (0-8264-8954-0)
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Politics of Modernismby Raymond Williams, Tony PinkneyISBN 0860919552 (0-86091-955-2)
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The Politics of Time : Modernity and Avant-Gardeby Peter OsborneISBN 0860914828 (0-86091-482-8)
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Postmodernism for Beginnersby James N. Powell, Joe LeeISBN 086316188X (0-86316-188-X)
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Principles of Art History the Problem of the Developmentby H. WolfflinISBN 0844632058 (0-8446-3205-8)
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Problems in General Linguisticsby Emile BenvenisteISBN 087024132X (0-87024-132-X)
Softcover, Univ of Miami Pr
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Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literatureby George E. Haggerty, Bonnie ZimmermanISBN 0873525639 (0-87352-563-9)
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Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlanticby Paul GilroyISBN 0860916758 (0-86091-675-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlantic'Book summary:This text sketches a critical account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The book explores the reactions of black writers to modernity's colour-coded promises, demonstrating the value of a politicized post-modernism in re-reading black cultural politics and political culture. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences outside the US in Europe and Africa. Gilroy provides an extensive discussion of black vernacular cultures, especially music. Moving beyond debates about modernity that confine it to Europe, "Promised Lands" views the black Atlantic as a transnational alternative to black political theory based, often by default, on conceptions of the nation imported from European letters. The black Atlantic is a hetero-cultural formation in which routes count for as much as roots and travelling and displacement are more usual than permanent fixity. This text should be of interest to students and teachers of English Cultural Studies and African and American Studies, as Gilroy presents a thorough indictment of their institutionalized ethnocentrism and inability to see beyond the structures of cultural nationalism and the borders of the nation state. [via]
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Musicby Theodore Adorno, Rodney LivingstoneISBN 0860916138 (0-86091-613-8)
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Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Informationby James Brook, Iain A. BoalISBN 0872862992 (0-87286-299-2)
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 0848812271 (0-8488-1227-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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Russian Folk Beliefby Linda J. IvanitsISBN 0873328892 (0-87332-889-2)
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 086068055X (0-86068-055-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sadeian Woman'Book summary:[via]"Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality. This is a world where all tenderness is false, and all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, celebrated novelist Angela Carter takes on these figments of his extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our timethe Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a stunning vision of love that admits neither the conqueror nor the conquered. It is a dazzling meditation on women's sexual freedom.More editions of The Sadeian Woman:
Saints and Scholarsby Terry EagletonISBN 0860915395 (0-86091-539-5)
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The Seal of Orestes: Self-Reference and Authority in Sophocles' Electraby Ann G. BatchelderISBN 0847679918 (0-8476-7991-8)
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Shades of Noir: A Readerby Joan CopjecISBN 0860916251 (0-86091-625-1)
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Studies in European Realismby LukacsISBN 0865274215 (0-86527-421-5)
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Studies in Human Timeby Georges Poulet, Elliot ColemanISBN 0837193486 (0-8371-9348-6)
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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucaultby Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, Patrick H. HuttonISBN 0870235931 (0-87023-593-1)
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Tender Buttons:Objects, Food, Rooms: Objects, Food, Roomsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0879680032 (0-87968-003-2)
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas WayneISBN 0875862098 (0-87586-209-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'Book summary:A considerable part and parcel of Nietzsche's genius is his ability to make his language dance, and this is what becomes extraordinarily difficult to translate. Some have failed in the attempt while others have hardly tried. Our present translator, Thomas Wayne, is himself an aphorist of palpable genius if not yet repute, with several collections to his credit which I have been privileged to edit. He knows that wordplay is the thing wherein he'll catch the conscience of the reader. I have seen him wrestle with a particularly intractable word or phrase of Nietzsche's masterwork and snatch an exasperated success from the jaws of failure. While the great tendency among earlier translators has been to smooth out the rough edges, cut corners and sometimes omit troublesome passages outright, this one honors and respects the original as no other. [via]
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Thomas Common, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 087968206X (0-87968-206-X)
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Triumphs of the Imagination: Literature in Christian Perspectiveby Leland RykenISBN 0877845832 (0-87784-583-2)
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Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernismby Douglas R. GroothuisISBN 0830822283 (0-8308-2228-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism'Book summary:A 2001 Award of Merit winner! The concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately, truth is what we make it to be. What factors have accelarated this decay of truth? Why are people willing to embrace such a devalued concept? How does this new view compare and contrast with a Christian understanding? While postmodernism contains some truthful insights (despite its attempt to dethrone truth), Douglas Groothuis sees its basic tenets as intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this spirited presentation of a solid, biblical and logical perspective, Groothuis unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts. [via]
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Unequal Protection : Environmental Justice and Communities of Colorby Robert D. Bullard, John Lewis, Benjamin F. ChavisISBN 0871563800 (0-87156-380-0)
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Walter Benjamin the Story of a Friendby ScholemISBN 0827601972 (0-8276-0197-2)
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The Weary Sons of Freudby Catherine ClementISBN 0860918882 (0-86091-888-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weary Sons of Freud'Book summary:In this passionately written and controversial book, first published in 1978, Catherine Clement, Communist, feminist and analysand, asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become. She attacks psychoanalysis as an institution disdainful of treatment and cure, serving the interests of a new intelligentsia, the nouveaux riches of a narcissistic literary culture and publishing industry. Contrasting the insights of psychoanalytic theory to the obsessive imitations of Jacques Lacan by those who followed him as a practitioner-trainer, she offers an anthropological perspective and a political critique of Parisian psychoanalysis as a profession. How has the attentive ear of the analyst become deaf to questions about the social and political meaning of his or her work? Does a woman who is both a socialist and analysand necessarily hear such questions more clearly and answer them differently? Clement reflects on her own history, the history of psychoanalysis and the history of the French left to demonstrate what an activist and feminist restoration of psychoanalysis could be. [via]
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What Is Deconstruction?by Christopher Norris, Andrew BenjaminISBN 0856709611 (0-85670-961-1)
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Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Readerby Karen V. Hansen, Ilene J. PhilipsonISBN 0877226547 (0-87722-654-7)
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Writing Theory and Critical Theoryby John Clifford, John SchilbISBN 0873525760 (0-87352-576-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Theory and Critical Theory'Book summary:The third volume in the MLA's award-winning Research and Scholarship in Composition series, Writing Theory and Critical Theory discusses the growing body of work linking composition studies and literary studies. Enlisting the strategies of deconstruction, hermeneutics, post-modernism, feminism, neo-Marxism, neopragmatism, psychoanalysis, reader-response criticism, and cultural studies, the twenty-seven contributors investigate the resources that critical theory can bring to an examination of discourse. Part 1, "Refiguring Traditions," contains six essays that use critical theory to illuminate the history and orthodoxies of writing instruction. The four essays in part 2, "The Language and Authority of Theory," analyze recent clashes between theorists and empirical researchers. Part 3, "Narrative Theory and Narratives," addresses issues ranging from the significance of narrative as a defining feature of human nature to the problems - both political and pedagogical - with a writing course based on "difference." In the final section, a symposium, five contributors evaluate their roles in past and future developments in composition. Composition teachers, critical theorists, and writing program administrators will find this collection a provocative and insightful overview of the field of composition studies. [via]
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