• Rok vydání 2011

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political…

Provides a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. The authors…

• Rok vydání 2020

How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from…

• Rok vydání 2013

We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these…

• Rok vydání 2008

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the…

• Rok vydání 1998

Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering…

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye…

A look at the increasing political polarization of America that locates its roots in, among other things, our increasing…

• Rok vydání 2020

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a…

• Rok vydání 2022

Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including…

• Rok vydání 2016

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through…

• Rok vydání 1991

"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, "New York…

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in…

• Rok vydání 2009

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel…

• Rok vydání 2000

A recent report warns that nearly 20 per cent of the world's primates may go extinct by 2020. This work integrates…

• Rok vydání 1997

This is a portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. Regarded as an historical…

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was…

In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a…

• Rok vydání 2010

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, 'gay pride' has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political…

• Rok vydání 2020

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over…

This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in…

"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the…

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\nInspired by Virgil\'s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.\n…

Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences, Darby…

Piper shows how we can use data in digital humanities to learn more about the texts under consideration, making use of the…

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Produkt Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy - Laugier, Sandra zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

A CLASSIC WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY--OVER SEVENTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLD With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner David I.…

• Rok vydání 2007

David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures…

• Rok vydání 1997

This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and…

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of…

• Rok vydání 2013

There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and…

In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the…

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such…

• Rok vydání 1990

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest…

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special…

• Rok vydání 1994

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our…

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major…

• Rok vydání 2017

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in…

• Rok vydání 2016

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far…

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic,"…

Records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of…

In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly…

In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of…