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Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Av Michael Keren, Richard Hawkins
Häftad, 2016
301 kr
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Online discourse has created a new media environment forcontributions to public life, one that challenges the socialsignificance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectualswho, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issuesof the day. The value of such commentary is rooted …
Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
Häftad, 2016
412 kr
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The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan's request for a "special study" of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape. These critical …
How to Read Like You Mean It
Av Kyle Conway
Häftad, 2023
338 kr
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In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don't understand, we must embrace confusion as …
Northern Love
An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity
Häftad, 2008
288 kr
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In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity.In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks), Nonnekes ranges from Hegel to …
Valences of Interdisciplinarity
Theory, Practice, Pedagogy
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call forenlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce aninformed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved,specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more preciseresearch and increasingly nuanced …
Imperfection
Häftad, 2012
287 kr
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Benjamin Whichcote once said that "only madmen and fools arepleased with themselves: no wise man is good enough for his ownsatisfaction." While Whichcote's wise man accepts thisdisparity, the madmen and fools suffer from a deluded self-satisfactionwhich, one can assume, might make them dangerous. …
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Häftad, 2015
394 kr
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A reading of Van Gogh's collected correspondence by way of aset of ideas about dialogue and self-fashioning derived especially fromMikhail Bakhtin. Patrick Grant's central claim is that VanGogh's letters raise from within themselves questions and issuesto which they also respond dialogically, …
Making Game
An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is
Häftad, 2009
288 kr
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Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which theauthor reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications ofhunting wild game. Through the activity of hunting, Atkinson finds aconnection to the roots of his identity: both his family historyand his sense of self.This engaging essay is …
Undiscovered Country
Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Av Ian Angus
Häftad, 2013
412 kr
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In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity,power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadianphilosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a criticaltheory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into threeparts. The opening …
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
A Critical Study
Häftad, 2014
394 kr
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Vincent van Gogh's letters are frequently admired for theirexceptional literary quality, but there is no extended critique of thisaspect of his writing. Addressing key constellations of metaphors andideas, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh shows the remarkableimaginative coherence underlying the …
