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Machiavelli’s Art of Politics
Häftad, 2015
993 kr
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In Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli’s …
Literature and the Encounter with Immanence
Häftad, 2017
914 kr
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In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza’s most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: …
Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance
Häftad, 2016
1273 kr
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In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is always in question. …
Dostoevsky’s Legal and Moral Philosophy
The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov
Häftad, 2016
1468 kr
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This work closely examines the trial of Dmitri Karamazov as the springboard to explaining and critically assessing Dostoevsky’s legal and moral philosophy. The author connects Dostoevsky’s objections to Russia’s acceptance of western juridical notions such as the rule of law and an adversary system …
Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature
A Phenomenological Account
Häftad, 2017
914 kr
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In Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden’s theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to relativism. The latter is overcome not through …
Roots in the Air
A Philosophical Autobiography of a Philosopher, Artist, and Musician
Häftad, 2018
1261 kr
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By way of dialogues, Michael Krausz offers philosophical reflections about his life as philosopher, artist, and musician. He also rehearses his views about relativism, interpretation, creativity, and self-realization. Much of Krausz’s work has been inspired by conversations with thinkers such as …
Machiavelliana
The Living Machiavelli in Modern Mythologies
Av Michael Jackson, Damian Grace
Häftad, 2018
1073 kr
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In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social …
Words, Deeds, Bodies: L. Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, M. Merleau-Ponty and M. Polanyi
Inbunden, 2019
1683 kr
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Words, Deeds, Bodies by Jerry H. Gill concentrates on the interrelationships between speech, accomplishing tasks, and human embodiment. Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Michael Polanyi have all highlighted these relationships. This book examines the, as yet, unexplored …
Stain of Errors on the Self
Av Carl Olson
Inbunden, 2024
1596 kr
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Using an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of the self, this study focuses on a gap left by previous philosophers. This shortcoming is related to the nature of the self to commit errors that become part of the identity of the self. These errors stain the self and make "I" what it is. This …
Stories and Memories, Memories and Histories
A Cross-disciplinary Volume on Time, Narrativity, and Identity
Inbunden, 2024
2991 kr
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This edited volume brings together authors from a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A historian first investigates understudied samizdat literature, a film critic then analyzes Balkan cinema via psychoanalysis, a psychologist examines contemporary European border …
Critical Engagements in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Salvaging the Ruins of Empire
Inbunden, 2026
1944 kr
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Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos, to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were “salvaged,” kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes the …
Niccolò Machiavelli
History, Power, and Virtue
Häftad, 2011
680 kr
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This volume is an attempt to rethink Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the most challenging political thinkers in the history of European political thought. In 2013, we will mark 500 years since Machiavelli wrote his puzzling letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Principe. This book is an endeavor to cover …
Politics Otherwise
Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique
Häftad, 2012
1037 kr
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The book is comprised of essays that utilize Shakespeare as a productive window into topics of contemporary social and political relevance. Its interdisciplinary qualities make the book relevant for students of political studies, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and history.
Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit
Av Yuval Lurie
Häftad, 2012
1631 kr
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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein’s discourse as an insightful philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. It offers an edifying perspective on the conceptual underpinnings of culture as a shared expressive spiritual form of life. The ideas …
Yet Another Europe after 1984
Rethinking Milan Kundera and the Idea of Central Europe
Häftad, 2012
1331 kr
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Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade …
Shakespeare and Philosophy
Lust, Love, and Law
Inbunden, 2012
1572 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary work that weaves literary interpretation, legal theory, and philosophical doctrine about sex and love into a coherent mosaic in the context of two of Shakespeare’s plays: The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. In the process, the work advances literary …
Shakespeare and Philosophy
Lust, Love, and Law
Häftad, 2012
730 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary work that weaves literary interpretation, legal theory, and philosophical doctrine about sex and love into a coherent mosaic in the context of two of Shakespeare’s plays: The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. In the process, the work advances literary …
Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia & G.B. Vico
Häftad, 2013
2158 kr
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In September of 1701, events transpired in Naples that, through frequent retellings, became popularly known as “the conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia.” Rapidly gaining fame, this apparently anonymous narrative was soon incorporated by different historians in their history of the transition years …
Narrative Ethics
Av Jakob Lothe
Häftad, 2013
2044 kr
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While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the “ethical turn” in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in …
Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics
Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno
Häftad, 2014
1371 kr
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This book argues that a radical political gesture can be found in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings. The chapters navigate an interdisciplinary landscape by placing Kierkegaard’s passionate thought in conversation with the writings of Georg Lukács, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. At …
Values of Literature
Häftad, 2015
1259 kr
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Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value …
