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The Aesthetic State: A Quest in Modern German Thoughtby Josef ChytryISBN 0520063902 (0-520-06390-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Societyby Bertell OllmanISBN 052129083X (0-521-29083-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Antonin Artaud: Selected Writingsby Susan Sontag, Antonin ArtaudISBN 0520064437 (0-520-06443-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings'Book summary:A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.[via]More editions of Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings:
Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosisby Norman O. BrownISBN 0520078284 (0-520-07828-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer's Odysseyby Norman AustinISBN 0520027132 (0-520-02713-2)
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Aristotle: Poeticsby AristotleISBN 0472061666 (0-472-06166-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Aristotle Poeticsby S.H. ButcherISBN 0486200426 (0-486-20042-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics'Book summary:Best translation of one of the most influential books in all history. Greek and English on facing pages, plus Butcher's famed 300-page exposition and interpretation of Aristotle's ideas. Seminal discussions of art and morality, poetic truth, much more.[via]More editions of Aristotle Poetics:
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Attitudes Toward Historyby Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520041488 (0-520-04148-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Attitudes Toward History'Book summary:This book marks Kenneth Burke's breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke's first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and here also is an important section on the nature of ritual.[via] 
Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Cultureby Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson, Barbara KrugerISBN 0520077407 (0-520-07740-7)
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A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaosby Alexander J. ArgyrosISBN 0472102214 (0-472-10221-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theoryby Fred RushISBN 0521016894 (0-521-01689-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fictionby Edward James, Farah MendlesohnISBN 0521016576 (0-521-01657-6)
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Civilization and Its Discontentsby Sigmund FreudISBN 0486282538 (0-486-28253-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization and Its Discontents'Book summary:In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness? [via]
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Colonising Egyptby Timothy MitchellISBN 0520075684 (0-520-07568-4)
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Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, J.H. BernardISBN 0486445437 (0-486-44543-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Judgment'Book summary:[via]Kant's attempt to establish the principles behind the faculty of judgment remains one of the most important works on human reason. This third of the philosopher's three Critiques forms the very basis of modern aesthetics by establishing the almost universally accepted framework for debate of aesthetic issues.More editions of Critique of Judgment:
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Culture and Anarchyby Matthew ArnoldISBN 0521091039 (0-521-09103-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Anarchy'Book summary:Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of original gifts, Culture and Anarchy is still a living classic. It is addressed to the flexible and the disinterested, to those who are not committed to the findings of their particular discipline, and it assumes in its reader a critical intelligence that will begin its work with the reader himself. Arnold employs a delicate and stringent irony in an examination of the society of his time: a rapidly expanding industrial society, just beginning to accustom itself to the changes in its institutions that the pace of its own development called for. Coming virtually at the end of the decade (1868) and immediately prior to W. E. Forster's Education Act, Culture and Anarchy phrases with a particular cogency the problems that find their centre in the questions: what kind of life do we think individuals in mass societies should be assisted to lead? How may we best ensure that the quality of their living is not impoverished? Arnold applies himself to the detail of his time: to the case of Mr Smith 'who feared he would come to poverty and be eternally lost', to the Reform agitation, to the commercial values that working people were encouraged to respect, and to the limitations of even the best Rationalist intelligence. The degree of local reference is therefore high, but John Dover Wilson's introduction and notes to this edition supply valuable assistance to a reader fresh to the period. [via]
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thoughtby Martin JayISBN 0520088859 (0-520-08885-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought'Book summary:Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance.[via]
Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty.
His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.More editions of Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought:
The Eiffel Tower: And Other Mythologiesby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520209826 (0-520-20982-6)
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Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno ; Selected, With Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Richard Leppert ; New Translations by Susan H. Gillespieby Theodor W. Adorno, Richard D. Leppert, Susan H. GillespieISBN 0520231597 (0-520-23159-7)
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Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literatureby Arnold KrupatISBN 0520076664 (0-520-07666-4)
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Experiment in Criticismby C. S. LewisISBN 0521093503 (0-521-09350-3)
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Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticismby Gayle AustinISBN 0472064290 (0-472-06429-0)
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Fiction As History: Nero to Julianby G. W. BowersockISBN 0520208811 (0-520-20881-1)
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Folktaleby Stith ThompsonISBN 0520035372 (0-520-03537-2)
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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critiqueby Adolf GrunbaumISBN 0520050177 (0-520-05017-7)
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Freud, Proust, and Lacan: Theory As Fictionby Malcolm BowieISBN 0521275881 (0-521-27588-1)
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The Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Nietzsche, Horace Barnett SamuelISBN 0486426912 (0-486-42691-2)
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The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980by Roland Barthes, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0520072375 (0-520-07237-5)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
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History and Illusion in Politicsby Raymond GeussISBN 0521000432 (0-521-00043-2)
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A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950: The Age of Transitionby Rene WellekISBN 052127074X (0-521-27074-X)
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A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950: The Later Nineteenth Centuryby Rene WellekISBN 0521270758 (0-521-27075-8)
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A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950: The Romantic Ageby Rene WellekISBN 0521282969 (0-521-28296-9)
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How Societies Rememberby Paul ConnertonISBN 0521270936 (0-521-27093-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Societies Remember'Book summary:Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written practices and how they are transmitted. This study concentrates on incorporated practices and provides an account of how these things are transmitted in and as traditions. The author argues that images and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances, and that performative memory is bodily. This is an essential aspect of social memory that until now has been badly neglected. [via]
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Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jurgen Habermasby William RehgISBN 0520208978 (0-520-20897-8)
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Interpretation of Culturesby Clifford GeertzISBN 0465097197 (0-465-09719-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpretation of Cultures'Book summary:In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.[via]More editions of Interpretation of Cultures:
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund Freud, A.A. BrillISBN 0486453197 (0-486-45319-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys: The Love Story That Gave Birth to Peter Panby Andrew BirkinISBN 0517538733 (0-517-53873-3)
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Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relationsby William Howe RueckertISBN 0520044177 (0-520-04417-7)
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Lectures on the Philosophy of World Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H.B. Nisbet, Duncan ForbesISBN 0521205662 (0-521-20566-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the Philosophy of World History'Book summary:An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers, derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures, Hegel lays down the principles and aims which underlie his philosophy of history, and provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive and voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction, and is therefore not included in this volume. [via]
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Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practiceby American Political Science Association, Gregory LeyhISBN 0520072847 (0-520-07284-7)
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Literature And Revolutionby Leon TrotskyISBN 0472060430 (0-472-06043-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature And Revolution'Book summary:"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."-Mike Davis
"Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."-Tariq Ali
Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs- and can alter-our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.
Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life.
William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems.
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Manifestoes of Surrealismby Andree BretonISBN 0472061828 (0-472-06182-8)
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Marxism and Literary Criticismby Terry EagletonISBN 0520032438 (0-520-03243-8)
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Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adornoby Eugene LunnISBN 0520053303 (0-520-05330-3)
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Masculinitiesby R. W. ConnellISBN 0520246985 (0-520-24698-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masculinities'Book summary:Here is a powerful reply to Iron John, a fresh look at the complicated nature of what R.W. Connell calls "masculinities." One of the most important voices in the new feminist scholarship by men, Connell provides a nuanced and incisive analysis of how our notions of masculinity have evolved in psychoanalysis, social science, and historically in the creation of a global economy. There is not one but many masculinities, he claims, in a bold critique of the "men's movement" and other simplistic approaches to sexual identity. Instead, Connell delineates the complicated dynamics of masculine politics and recent changes in male identity.[via]
Drawing on rich ethnographic work, Connell offers portraits of dozens of men of different classes, some working to change masculinities, some resisting change. Eel openly disparages his wife: "The first chance I can see to get rid of her, she's gone." Mark, who calls himself "a very straight gay," thinks men should behave in traditionally masculine ways. "If you're a guy why don't you just act like a guy?" he asks. Danny, undertaking the "long haul" of his own sexism, admits, "It's hard not to be aggressive sometimes."
Connell offers the first critical history of ideas and the most sophisticated theoretical analysis of masculinity to date. His attempts to understand changes in male identity and to think about these issues on a global scale are unique. Integrating social science, feminist theory, gay theory, and psychoanalysis in an innovative yet unusually accessible way, he develops a new theory of masculinity politics. This is a book for everyone interested in the history of western masculinities and the sexual politics of the contemporary era.-
Mental Illness and Psychologyby Michel FoucaultISBN 0520059190 (0-520-05919-0)
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Micheletby Jules Michelet, Roland BarthesISBN 0520078268 (0-520-07826-8)
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Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thoughtby Timothy MurrayISBN 0472066358 (0-472-06635-8)
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The Nation-State and Violenceby Anthony GiddensISBN 0520060393 (0-520-06039-3)
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0486421309 (0-486-42130-9)
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Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purposeby Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520041461 (0-520-04146-1)
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The Phenomenology of Mindby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. B. BaillieISBN 0486432513 (0-486-43251-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phenomenology of Mind'Book summary:Remarkable for its breadth and profundity, this work combines aspects of psychology, logic, moral philosophy, and history to form a comprehensive view that encompasses all forms of civilization. Its three divisions consist of the subjective mind, the objective mind, and the absolute mind. A wide-ranging survey of the evolution of consciousness.[via]More editions of The Phenomenology of Mind:
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Philosophy of Historyby George Hegel, J. SibreeISBN 0486437558 (0-486-43755-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of History'Book summary:One of the great classics of Western thought develops concept that history is not chance but a rational process, operating according to the laws of evolution, and embodying the spirit of freedom. Translated by J. Sibree. Introduction by Carl Friedrich. [via]
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Poeticsby Aristotle, S.H. ButcherISBN 048629577X (0-486-29577-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:Among the most influential books in Western civilization, the Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. It offers seminal ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more, including such concepts as catharsis, the tragic flaw, unities of time and place and other rules of drama.[via]More editions of Poetics:
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Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.by Heinrich W”OlfflinISBN 0486202763 (0-486-20276-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.'Book summary:[via]Originally published in Germany during the 1920s, this now-classic study surveys the works of 64 major artists in terms of style, quality, and mode of representation. A brilliant contribution to the methodology or art criticism, it features 120 black-and-white illustrations of works by Botticelli, Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer, and others.More editions of Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.:
Profiles and Critiques in Social Theoryby Anthony GiddensISBN 0520049640 (0-520-04964-0)
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The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thoughtby Kian TajbakhshISBN 0520222784 (0-520-22278-4)
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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essaysby Hans-Georg GadamerISBN 0521241782 (0-521-24178-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representationby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520072383 (0-520-07238-3)
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Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local Historyby Joseph Anthony AmatoISBN 0520232933 (0-520-23293-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History'Book summary:Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy.[via]
Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places.More editions of Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History:
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The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logologyby Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520016106 (0-520-01610-6)
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Robert Smithson: The Collected Writingsby Jack D. Flam, Robert SmithsonISBN 0520203852 (0-520-20385-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings'Book summary:Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is the poster child for the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. A revised and expanded version of The Writings of Robert Smithson, this book is a charged combination of articles and images in which the author demystifies the distinction between theory and practice. [via]
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Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practiceby Peter L. ShillingsburgISBN 0472066005 (0-472-06600-5)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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A Selection from Scrutinyby F.R. LeavisISBN 0521069548 (0-521-06954-8)
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The Semiotic Challengeby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520087844 (0-520-08784-4)
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The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642by Andrew GurrISBN 0521078164 (0-521-07816-4)
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Simulacra and Simulationby Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria GlaserISBN 0472065211 (0-472-06521-1)
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Tender Buttonsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486298973 (0-486-29897-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Buttons'Book summary:Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques.[via]More editions of Tender Buttons:
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This Is Not a Pipeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0520049160 (0-520-04916-0)
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas CommonISBN 0486406636 (0-486-40663-6)
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The Tragedy Of Enlightenment: An Essay On The Frankfurt Schoolby Paul ConnertonISBN 0521296757 (0-521-29675-7)
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Visions of the Modernby John GoldingISBN 0520087925 (0-520-08792-5)
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Lectures on the Philosophy of World Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Duncan Forbes, Hugh Barr NisbetISBN 0521281458 (0-521-28145-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the Philosophy of World History'Book summary:An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers, derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures, Hegel lays down the principles and aims which underlie his philosophy of history, and provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive and voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction, and is therefore not included in this volume. [via]
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Thus Spake Zarathustra (Selections)/Also Sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Bookby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486437116 (0-486-43711-6)
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