Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities – serie
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38 produkter
Totalitarianism
A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
Av Simona Forti
Häftad, 2024
272 kr
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In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what …
Love As Human Freedom
Inbunden, 2017
1189 kr
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Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the …
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Av Paula Blank
Inbunden, 2018
1432 kr
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For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language …
Inclinations
A Critique of Rectitude
Inbunden, 2016
1238 kr
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In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an …
Inclinations
A Critique of Rectitude
Häftad, 2016
297 kr
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In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an …
Inclinations
A Critique of Rectitude
E-bok, 2016
351 kr
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In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an …
Love As Human Freedom
Häftad, 2017
288 kr
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Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the …
Love As Human Freedom
E-bok, 2017
336 kr
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Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the …
Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem
Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt
Av Peter Murphy
Inbunden, 2019
1561 kr
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Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive …
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Av Paula Blank
Häftad, 2018
348 kr
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For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language …
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Av Paula Blank
E-bok, 2018
418 kr
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For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language …
Ordinary Unhappiness
The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
Av Jon Baskin
Inbunden, 2019
1302 kr
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In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with …
Poetic Thinking Today
An Essay
Av Amir Eshel
Inbunden, 2019
1302 kr
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Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a …
Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem
Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt
Av Peter Murphy
Häftad, 2019
380 kr
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Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive …
Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem
Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt
Av Peter Murphy
E-bok, 2019
263 kr
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Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive …
Ordinary Unhappiness
The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
Av Jon Baskin
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with …
Ordinary Unhappiness
The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
Av Jon Baskin
E-bok, 2019
379 kr
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In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with …
Poetic Thinking Today
An Essay
Av Amir Eshel
Häftad, 2019
373 kr
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Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a …
Poetic Thinking Today
An Essay
Av Amir Eshel
E-bok, 2019
478 kr
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Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a …
Political Grammars
The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy
Inbunden, 2021
1561 kr
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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic, liberal peoples—how to define them, …
Political Grammars
The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy
Häftad, 2021
380 kr
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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic, liberal peoples—how to define them, …
Political Grammars
The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy
E-bok, 2021
444 kr
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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic, liberal peoples—how to define them, …
Totalitarianism
A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
Av Simona Forti
Inbunden, 2024
1133 kr
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In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what …
Why?
The Philosophy Behind the Question
Inbunden, 2023
347 kr
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A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the …
Critique of Critique
Av Roy Ben-Shai
Inbunden, 2023
1108 kr
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What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what …
Shakespeare's Mad Men
A Crisis of Authority
Inbunden, 2022
1561 kr
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This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking …
Shakespeare's Mad Men
A Crisis of Authority
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking …
Shakespeare's Mad Men
A Crisis of Authority
E-bok, 2022
448 kr
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This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking …
Critique of Critique
Av Roy Ben-Shai
Häftad, 2023
348 kr
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What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what …
Why?
The Philosophy Behind the Question
E-bok, 2023
399 kr
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A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the …
