Page-Barbour Lectures – serie
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Three Rings
A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Inbunden, 2020
244 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year.In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.Combining …
Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970
Inbunden, 1970
805 kr
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These three essays deal with public policy with respect to the business corporation in the United States from 1780 into the 1960's. They trace the development of the business corporation from the time it was treated as a matter of special privilege to the end of the nineteenth century when …
Significance of Territory
Av Jean Gottman
Inbunden, 1973
782 kr
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The elusive nature of the concept of territory is broken down here, and the term's significance reassessed. In his analysis of Western concepts and history, Gottmann closely examines the concept of territory as a psychosomatic device, and comments on how its evolution is similar to basic human …
Many-colored Glass
Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
Häftad, 2010
206 kr
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A Many-Colored Glass does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist's thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is, instead, on the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us - and how, as observers and participants in its processes, we …
Fatalism in American Film Noir
Some Cinematic Philosophy
Häftad, 2013
247 kr
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The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most …
Dialect Diversity in America
The Politics of Language Change
Häftad, 2014
297 kr
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The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically …
Structural Intuitions
Seeing Shapes in Art and Science
Av Martin Kemp
Inbunden, 2016
392 kr
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All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge", wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and to …
Hope Without Optimism
Häftad, 2021
236 kr
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In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of …
Philosophy As Poetry
Häftad, 2025
246 kr
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Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable …
In and Out of the West
Reconstructing Anthropology
Häftad, 2026
326 kr
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Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial domination and cultural imperialism by other means, or has it--since its nineteenth-century rebirth as a purportedly scientific discipline--produced reliable knowledge about the cultures it studies? Is anthropology a mirror--which reflects only the …
Conversation of Humanity
Inbunden, 2007
356 kr
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Based on the author's Page-Barbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, ""The Conversation of Humanity"" critically examines the idea that the nature of language can best be understood in terms of the model or figure of conversation. According to this idea, language has an …
Fatalism in American Film Noir
Some Cinematic Philosophy
Inbunden, 2012
407 kr
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The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most …
Philosophy As Poetry
Inbunden, 2016
244 kr
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Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable …
