Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism – serie
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Simulacra and Simulation
Häftad, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
247 kr
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This foundational work in postmodern philosophy and cultural theory explores how contemporary society has replaced reality and meaning with symbols and signs, leading to a condition Baudrillard calls “hyperreality.” In his provocative treatise, Baudrillard examines the implications of a world where …
Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World
Av Slavoj Zizek, F.W.J. von Schelling
Häftad, 1997
308 kr
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In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant's philosophical revolution and in so doing opened up the way for a viable critique of Hegel. In noted philosopher Slavoj Zizek's view, the main …
Philodemus in Italy
The Books from Herculaneum
Häftad, 2002
423 kr
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A lively and concise survey of current scholarship on difficult but fascinating texts by this Epicurean poet and philosopher
Body and Physical Difference
Discourses of Disability
Av David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
Häftad, 1997
472 kr
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For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curiously neglected within the humanities. The Body and Physical Difference seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by …
Stately Bodies
Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender
Häftad, 2002
383 kr
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Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. In that work …
Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Häftad, 2001
423 kr
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What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live …
Tremulous Private Body
Essays on Subjection
Häftad, 1995
338 kr
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This ambitious and immensely readable study helped establish Francis Barker's reputation on both sides of the Atlantic,. Now available in paperback with a revised preface from the author, The Tremulous Private Body studies several seventeenth-century texts to document the birth of the modern, …
Power and Knowledge
Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2002
457 kr
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Power and Knowledge charts a history of three ancient scientiae in the Roman Empire--astrology, medical prognosis, and physiognomy (the art of discerning character or destiny from a person's physique). Drawing on contemporary approaches in social theory and the philosophy of science, Tamsyn Barton …
Body and Physical Difference
Discourses of Disability
Av David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
Inbunden, 1997
1302 kr
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For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curiously neglected within the humanities. The Body and Physical Difference seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by …
Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Inbunden, 2001
1374 kr
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What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live …
Under the Sign
John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness
Av Stephen Bann
Inbunden, 1995
976 kr
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The curious items collected by a 17th-century English nobleman shed light on the origins and limitations of modern museum practices
Cutting the Body
Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis
Inbunden, 2000
1264 kr
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This book is about how poets, filmmakers, and psychoanalysts look upon the female body, how they examine it as if dissecting it--at times relishing it, at others anguishing over its fragmentation. Eliane DalMolin examines how Charles Baudelaire, François Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their …
Pedagogical Contract
The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World
Av Yun Lee Too
Inbunden, 2000
1161 kr
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The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by …
Staging Masculinity
The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World
Inbunden, 2000
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Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from concerns such as composition and memory. The ancient performer was supposed to be a "good man" and his performance a manifestation of an authentic and …
Utterly Dark Spot
Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Inbunden, 2000
1057 kr
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Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body (Aristotle, Plato, …
Limits of Heroism
Homer and the Ethics of Reading
Av Mark Buchan
Inbunden, 2005
1454 kr
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The plots of Homeric poems depend upon the uncertainty of Odysseus and Achilles getting what they want, while the endings imply that getting what one wants may itself be a disaster. By examining specific episodes of the Odyssey, Mark Buchan illustrates the centrality of hazard and doubt to …
