Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503640276)
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the archival revolution due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storytellers sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of...Loe edasi...
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the archival revolution due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storytellers sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503627505)
In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the...Loe edasi...
In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the wo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503628908)
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of why, and...Loe edasi...
What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503632684)
What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book...Loe edasi...
This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the originary scene, the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as s...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503632905)
This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the originary scene, the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Apr-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503614680)
Do we need to be a people, populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes...Loe edasi...
Do we need to be a people, populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? What exactly do we mean by nationality or nationhood? In this book, moral philosopher Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic peoples,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503608870)
Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a pa...Loe edasi...
This book makes a case for the acknowledgment and cultivation of poetic thinking—the kind of thinking we find in literature and the arts—for their uninhibited wisdom is vital for the protection of our social, political, and cultural freedom....Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Aug-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503607002)
Thomas Wyatt didnt publish They Flee from Me. It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of th...Loe edasi...
Thomas Wyatt didnt publish They Flee from Me. It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of th...Loe edasi...
This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as therapies for the pervasive dis-eases of our time. In recent years, th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Aug-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503608337)
In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By c...Loe edasi...
For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we cant help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explainin...Loe edasi...
Sari: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804791939)
This book on Shakespeares language is the first to explore how we modern American or English-speaking readers hear, understand, fail to understand, are amused, disturbed, bored, moved, and challenged by it today. For all that we love and...Loe edasi...
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-his...Loe edasi...
