This text analyzes Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical…

• Rok vydání 2021

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological…

• Rok vydání 1994

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont…

What is the opposite of freedom? The author answers this question with definitive force: slavery. Examining this overlooked…

In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that…

The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and…

A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure…

• Rok vydání 2013

The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of…

\nExposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than…

• Rok vydání 1959

Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of…

• Rok vydání 2022

It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods…

• Rok vydání 2006

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us…

The Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were interested in the emotions. This book shows that they did not simply…

Introduces revisions throughout and expands authors' restatement of his position in light of Kojeve's commentary to bring it…

Focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2020

Produkt Teaching Archive - Buurma, Rachel Sagner a Heffernan, Laura zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University…

Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important…

• Rok vydání 2012

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero,…

First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston.…

Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of…

\nExamines public opinion as a form of social control in which individuals, almost instinctively sensing the opinions of…

Examines the reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, revealing how this symbiosis influences both the…

• Rok vydání 2011

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and…

A guide to the Divine Comedy that provides readers with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the…

• Počet stran 376
• Rok vydání 2010

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and…

The ills of education are caused, this text argues, because we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which…

• Počet stran 348
• Rok vydání 1995

Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to…

Examining the complex confrontation between Jewish fundamentalism and Israeli political sovereignty, this study discusses…

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world…

• Rok vydání 2017

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly…

• Rok vydání 1995

In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational…

• Počet stran 400
• Rok vydání 2019

Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More," held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.…

• Rok vydání 1991

Emphasizing the primary importance of Hermetism in Renaissance thought, Yates demonstrates that Bruno was at once a rational…

Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated…

• Čeština

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in…

Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title…

• Rok vydání 2017

The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial…

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive,…

Demonstrates that ethnography is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. This book addresses the central…

In this book, distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark shows that they form a vital set of spiritual exercises by which…

• Rok vydání 2003

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain." But…

\nIn this sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza\'s iconoclastic philosophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his uncompromising…

• Rok vydání 1994

This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the…

• Rok vydání 1998

The classic study of dog behavior gathered into one volume. Based on twenty years of research at the Jackson Laboratory,…