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  • Remote Control

    Serie serien Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, ... Les mer

    21,63 kr

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  • One-Way Street

    Oversatt av Edmund Jephcott ...
    One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Les mer

    154,89 kr

  • Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

    The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

    Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of ... Les mer

    414,22 kr

  • Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy

    av S. Austin ...
    Serie serien Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments. ... Les mer

    539,46 kr

  • The Method of Equality

    Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan

    Oversatt av Julie Rose ...
    The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect ... Les mer

    203,39 kr

  • Inheriting Walter Benjamin

    Serie serien Walter Benjamin Studies
    Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamin's writing, while reflecting on the challenges that this ... Les mer

    316,31 kr

  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    av Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Les mer

    463,03 kr

  • Expressiveness in music performance

    Empirical approaches across styles and cultures

    What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse ... Les mer

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  • The Politics of Imagination

    Redigert av Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Serie serien Birkbeck Law Press
    The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives, the political role of imagination has undergone a massive ... Les mer

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  • Jesus Dub

    Theology, Music and Social Change

    Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.Engaging with the social and cultural heritage that ... Les mer

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  • Dirt

    New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

    Redigert av Rosie Cox, Prof. Ben Campkin ...
    Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how ... Les mer

    374,67 kr

  • Art, Mind, and Narrative

    Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie

    Redigert av Julian Dodd ...
    Serie serien Mind Association Occasional Series
    This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer ... Les mer

    787,22 kr