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11 produkter
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The Theaters of Consciousness
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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This book focuses on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's intense, lifelong concentration upon a single cohesive set of poetic, philosophical and ethical concerns, a quality of his work which has been neglected in the bulk of existing scholarship. Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of …
All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater
Inbunden, 2004
947 kr
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All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the …
Dark Side of Literacy
Literature and Learning not to Read
Inbunden, 2008
1093 kr
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Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if …
Shaping a Modern Ethics
The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism
Inbunden, 2020
1556 kr
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Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which …
Shaping a Modern Ethics
The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism
E-bok, 2020
503 kr
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Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which …
Shaping a Modern Ethics
The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism
E-bok, 2020
503 kr
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Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which …
Shaping a Modern Ethics
The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism
Häftad, 2021
472 kr
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Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which …
Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism
Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler
Inbunden, 2013
1556 kr
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The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but essentially millennialist, focused on the …
Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism
Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler
Häftad, 2015
711 kr
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The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but essentially millennialist, focused on the …
Gender Ascendant
The Dawn of Feminist Theory in Eighteenth-Century German Writing
Inbunden, 2025
1472 kr
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Does feminist theory—the theoretical grasp of exactly how a patriarchal oppression of women operates and has operated in Western societies—arise simply as women’s response to the experience of oppression? Bennett argues that no such substantial current of thought ever arises in this manner, and …
