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

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a…

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

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Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the…

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In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of…

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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…

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…

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

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

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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits,…

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not…

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

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How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this…

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…

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Produkt Madness, Language, Literature - Foucault, Michel zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago…

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

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Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Heffernan explores this ambivalent poetry, which simultaneously celebrates…

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

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

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

This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of…

Abraham and Torok advocate a form of psychoanalysis that insists on the particularity of any individual's life story, the…

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

In this ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb focusses on the Beng people of West Africa. A Beng infant is thought to begin…

A contemporary analyses of the problem of technology.…

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

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…

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"Dreamscapes of Modernity" offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by…

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

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What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists…

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

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

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

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An investigation of the boundaries of science. Gieryn argues that when scientific claims reach courtrooms, boardrooms and…

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Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American…

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

"Wow. No one ever told me this " Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and…

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