Wellek Library Lectures – serie
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44 produkter
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Häftad, 1994
392 kr
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for 'great' writing: The School of the …
Dark Ecology
For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
277 kr
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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. …
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
Inbunden, 2019
240 kr
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Academic freedom rests on a shared belief that the production of knowledge advances the common good. In an era of education budget cuts, wealthy donors intervening in university decisions, and right-wing groups threatening dissenters, scholars cannot expect that those in power will value their …
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Häftad, 2020
162 kr
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting …
Violence and Civility
On the Limits of Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2016
368 kr
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In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker …
Morphing Intelligence
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
Inbunden, 2019
864 kr
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What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships …
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
Av Wendy Brown
Häftad, 2019
229 kr
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Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring?In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by …
Death of a Discipline
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares …
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Inbunden, 2008
651 kr
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting …
Morphing Intelligence
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
Häftad, 2021
221 kr
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What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships …
Dark Ecology
For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
866 kr
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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. …
On Suicide Bombing
Av Talal Asad
Inbunden, 2007
221 kr
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Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"--a conceptual leap that …
Musical Elaborations
Av Edward Said
Häftad, 1993
525 kr
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Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted …
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology
Häftad, 1996
540 kr
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-- Utne Reader
History's Disquiet
Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2000
2073 kr
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Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity-as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter …
History's Disquiet
Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life
Häftad, 2002
281 kr
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Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity-as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter …
Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death
Häftad, 2002
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
254 kr
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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship-and open …
The Range of Interpretation
Inbunden, 2000
1387 kr
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There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore we are. While such a basic human disposition makes interpretation appear to come naturally, the …
The Range of Interpretation
Häftad, 2001
343 kr
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There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore we are. While such a basic human disposition makes interpretation appear to come naturally, the …
Death of a Discipline
Inbunden, 2003
1855 kr
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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares …
Postcolonial Melancholia
Av Paul Gilroy
Inbunden, 2004
1613 kr
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In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing …
Postcolonial Melancholia
Av Paul Gilroy
Häftad, 2006
302 kr
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In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing …
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
Av David Harvey
Inbunden, 2009
324 kr
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often …
Hiroshima After Iraq
Three Studies in Art and War
Inbunden, 2010
735 kr
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Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate dissent was all but dead. Through an …
Violence and Civility
On the Limits of Political Philosophy
Inbunden, 2015
1377 kr
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In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker …
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Inbunden, 2012
897 kr
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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry …
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Häftad, 2014
498 kr
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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry …
