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Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Häftad, 1992
423 kr
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In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by …
One of Us
The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
Häftad, 1997
350 kr
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The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master; master mariner, storyteller, and writer; his reputation has been linked …
Humanities and the Dream of America
Häftad, 2011
287 kr
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In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and …
Humanities and the Dream of America
E-bok, 2011
697 kr
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In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today’s humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities …
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?
The American Revolution in Education
Inbunden, 2017
824 kr
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one …
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?
The American Revolution in Education
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one …
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?
The American Revolution in Education
E-bok, 2017
564 kr
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one …
Language Alone
The Critical Fetish of Modernity
Inbunden, 2002
2585 kr
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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as …
Language Alone
The Critical Fetish of Modernity
Häftad, 2002
846 kr
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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as …
Character of Criticism
Inbunden, 2006
2886 kr
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful …
Character of Criticism
Häftad, 2006
744 kr
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful …
Scholarship and Freedom
Inbunden, 2020
334 kr
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A powerful and original argument that the practice of scholarship is grounded in the concept of radical freedom, beginning with the freedoms of inquiry, thought, and expression.Why are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues …
Ends of Race
The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Myth
Inbunden, 2026
617 kr
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A new history of the scientific inquiry into raceThe attempt to define the concept of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often described as a corrupt “pseudo-science,” but in this strikingly original account, Geoffrey Galt Harpham describes the inquiry into race as a serious …
Ends of Race
The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Myth
E-bok, 2026
441 kr
Kommande
A new history of the scientific inquiry into raceThe attempt to define the concept of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often described as a corrupt ';pseudo-science,' but in this strikingly original account, Geoffrey Galt Harpham describes the inquiry into race as a serious …
Ends of Race
The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Myth
E-bok, 2026
441 kr
Kommande
A new history of the scientific inquiry into raceThe attempt to define the concept of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often described as a corrupt ';pseudo-science,' but in this strikingly original account, Geoffrey Galt Harpham describes the inquiry into race as a serious …
Language Alone
The Critical Fetish of Modernity
E-bok, 2013
746 kr
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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone , Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as …
Language Alone
The Critical Fetish of Modernity
E-bok, 2013
857 kr
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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone , Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as …
Character of Criticism
E-bok, 2013
857 kr
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful …
Character of Criticism
E-bok, 2013
857 kr
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Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful …
Citizenship on Catfish Row
Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2022
1488 kr
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Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George …
Citizenship on Catfish Row
Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
Häftad, 2022
378 kr
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Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George …
Humanities and the Dream of America
Inbunden, 2011
786 kr
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In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were, Harpham contends, invented after World War II as an expression of American culture and character, and …
Shadows of Ethics
Criticism and the Just Society
Inbunden, 1999
1294 kr
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In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or …
Shadows of Ethics
Criticism and the Just Society
Häftad, 1999
301 kr
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In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or …
