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The Unbearable Frenchness of Being: Albert Camus's Expensive Depression for Beginners Finally, a philosophy book that admits what we're all thinking: Camus was basically a very attractive man who tu……続きを見る

Una ecología de los signos recoge siete ensayos dedicados a interrogar las relaciones entre las configuraciones de los modos de experiencia (artística, vital, corporal) y los modos en los que podemo……続きを見る

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori an……続きを見る

This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of ……続きを見る

Infinite Gradation is an astonishing meditation on the mystery at the heart of our mortality. In lines as precise and profound as any Michaels has written, Infinite Gradation movingly explores the n……続きを見る

« Demain sera féminin » affirme un personnage de Michel Houellebecq. On pourrait s’attendre à ce que ce soit là l’effet en Occident de l’égalité socio-juridique entre les hommes et les femmes et de……続きを見る

Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A Literary Hub Book of the Year “Makes the case that the gimmick…is of tremendous critical value…Lies somewhere between critical theory ……続きを見る

More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar tr……続きを見る

Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see att……続きを見る

In this collaborative work between artist and theorist Suzanne Anker and art historian Sabine Flach, the study of image production unveils the reality of pictures beyond their function as mere repre……続きを見る

Die Autorin rekonstruiert die leidenschaftliche Beziehung Friedrich Theodor Vischers (1807–1887) zu Italien im Kontext der Italienreisen seiner Vorgänger, Goethe und Winckelmann, und Nachfolger, Nie……続きを見る

Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures car……続きを見る

»Über Geschmack lässt sich streiten, über die Klugheit und Relevanz dieses Buches nicht!« Samira El Ouassil Der ausgewiesene Skandalforscher und Literaturwissenschaftler Johannes Franzen fragt, waru……続きを見る

In "Die Nihilisten" entfaltet Johannes Scherr eine fesselnde Erzählung, die sich mit den geistigen Strömungen des 19. Jahrhunderts auseinandersetzt. Das Werk präsentiert die Konflikte zwischen Ideal……続きを見る

Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications……続きを見る

The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In ……続きを見る

Uncover the philosophical undercurrents that propel a century of artistic revolution, jolting cutting-edge French art from the calm elegance of David's Madame Recamier (1800) to the psychedelic worl……続きを見る

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma ……続きを見る

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are r……続きを見る

Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham a……続きを見る

Nye kulturstudier er den første samlede fremstilling på dansk af den type kulturforskning der er blevet etableret i en række lande i kølvandet på oprettelsens af Centre for Contemporary Studies i Bi……続きを見る

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology……続きを見る

This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention ……続きを見る

Den kvindeligt centrerede salon er i perioden omkring 1800 et udbredt europæisk fænomen med en række fællestræk, der gør det meningsfuldt at tale om en kulturform, om en salonkultur. Men hvori bestå……続きを見る

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectivesーthey’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To stu……続きを見る

Dans "Les questions esthétiques contemporaines", Robert de La Sizeranne explore la nature de l'art et de l'esthétique à travers une série de réflexions critiques. Son style littéraire, à la fois poé……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual f……続きを見る

'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one' John Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of s……続きを見る

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and trave……続きを見る

Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860 Western philosophy's most profound and unrelenting pessimist, Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he……続きを見る