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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Danto argues that recent developments in art—in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things—make urgent the need... Læs mere
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: 1931-1934 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collected here are “Franz Kafka,” “Karl Kraus,” and “The Author as Producer,” the meditation “A Berlin Chronicle,” discussions of photography... Læs mere
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When the King Took Flight (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a group of... Læs mere
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Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers... Læs mere
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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures.
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Annals: Books 13–16 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tacitus (ca. AD 55–120) is an essential historian of the early Roman empire. Agricola narrates its subject's career in Britain. Germania is a description of German tribes as known to the Romans. Dialogus concerns the decline of oratory and education.
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The Republic of Choice: Law, Authority, and Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this exploration of modern legal culture, Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority... Læs mere
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The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The authors explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to conventional wisdom that all Americans... Læs mere
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The Trial of Joan of Arc (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words, unveils... Læs mere
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The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the... Læs mere
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Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Sean Safford offers a probing historical explanation for the decline, fall, and unlikely rejuvenation of the Rust Belt.
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Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus–Chrysippus. Other Fragments (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Euripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete,... Læs mere
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