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The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe
Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of...
From Psychology to Phenomenology
Franz Brentano's 'Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint' and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Although highly influential, Brentano's doctrines from Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint were taken up and changed by his students and subsequent thinkers. Tassone's study of this important text offers readers a better understanding of PES and outlines its ongoing relevance for contemporary philosophy of mind.
The Art of Reconciliation
Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The basic question is this: why does dialectical metaphysics fail to keep what it promises? What is it about dialectics, that makes it fall into irreducibly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
With renewed attention to German idealism in general and to Fichte in particular, this timely collection of new papers will be of interest to anyone concerned with transcendental philosophy, German idealism, modern German philosophy and transcendental arguments.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, his work offer us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems to guide us without directing us...
by Julian Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars.
by T. Tinkle
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
by O. Bradley Bassler
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: “What is the Matrix?” Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper...
by J. Moores
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has been called its 'golden age of caricature', coinciding with intense rivalry and with war with France. This book shows how Georgian satirical prints reveal attitudes towards the French 'Other' that were far more complex, ambivalent, empathetic and multifaceted than has previously been recognised.
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature
Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization.
by Jean-Etienne Joullié
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The book proposes a critique of Nietzsche's works 'from within'. In doing so, it answers the continuing question asked by any reader of Nietzsche: Why did he decide not to write the major work he said he would write?
Pragmatism and Diversity
Dewey in the Context of Late Twentieth Century Debates
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.