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Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The book reveals a strong humanist heritage which renders Darwin’s theory of song and poetic language far more nuanced and interesting than a monolithic “singing for sex” hypothesis.
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Nomadic Cultures in the Mega-Structure of the Eurasian World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With the swift development of horse domestication and horseback riding, the nomads moved to the forefront of Eurasian history as their world became increasingly... Læs mere
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On the Genesis of Thought and Language (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages.
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The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern-Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism Responses to Modernity in the Philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch and S. D. Luzzatto, Vol. 1 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, prophecy... Læs mere
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Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes: In and Out of a Postwar Jewish Childhood (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book, Aronowicz explores the lives of her parents, who lived through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the post-war Communist world, with... Læs mere
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Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture.
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American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.
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New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then this collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper... Læs mere
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Kchlya: Decembrist Poet. A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Küchlya(1925), the first novel of the great Russian formalist Yury Tynyanov givesus a vividly written and moving recreation of the childhood, youth, beliefs andadventures... Læs mere
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Gendered Violence: Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the first book to recognize and address the problem of mass rape of Jewish women during the pogroms in Ukraine during the Civil War (1917-1921).
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Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacob's Ladder discusses the... Læs mere
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Russian Idea-Jewish Presence: Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed.... Læs mere
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