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by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of modern philosophy. While the heterogeneity...
Aesthetics and Modernity
Essays by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the...
Michel Foucault and Power Today
International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Foucault's thought finds innumerable applications across the social sciences, from studies in the social aspects of the medical practices and criminal sociology to juridical and economic sciences. Owing to their philosophical ramifications, his ideas have also impacted the spheres of literary studies,...
The State of State Theory
State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs....
by Michael S. Berliner, Andrew Bernstein, Harry Binswanger
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is still remembered and enjoyed today as the philosopher's first best-selling novel. In this unique study of The Fountainhead, Dr. Robert Mayhew brings together historical, literary, and philosophical essays that analyze the novel's style, its use of humor, and its virtues...
Once Iron Girls
Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living,...
Ah Q Archaeology
Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny, and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
Although Lu Xun was a leading intellectual and writer in twentieth century China, and his representative character Ah Q, hero of 'The True Story of Ah Q,' is considered an iconic repository of progressive Chinese thinking about the national character, few works examine the major discourses in his...
Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature
Reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing “theologies of language,” Baumlin reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Donne’s Songs and Sonets, and Milton’s “Lycidas” within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung...
Hunting Down Social Darwinism
Will This Canard Go Extinct?
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Hunting Down Social Darwinism is the third and final installment in the trilogy, The Nature of Liberty. The trilogy gives a secular, ethical defense of laissez-faire capitalism, inspired by Ayn Rand’s ideas. The trilogy’s first book, The Freedom of Peaceful Action, provided the philosophic theory...
Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America
The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. In this insightful political history, Nimtz argues that Marx and his partner, Frederick Engels, had a far more acute and insightful...
Mark Twain's Audience
A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. This study of Twain’s readership and lecture audiences makes use of statistics, literary biography, twentieth-century newspapers, memoirs, diaries,...
Of Khans and Kremlins
Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-Federalism in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic of Tatarstan, one of the constituent members of the Russian Federation. In the first book by a Western...