Toward the end of the Algerian war, the FLN, organized a demonstration in Paris to oppose a curfew imposed upon Algerians in France. About 30,000 Algerians gathered... Læs mere
An invaluable resource on the pronunciation of historic European languages for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature With CD
Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.
A work that questions - What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? And what is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence? - that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.
Focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs - communication and signification - and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
A new translation of Heidegger's monumental work
The book that no bassoonist can live without.
Presents Martin Heidegger's important 1924 Marburg lectures that anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking which he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time". This book interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks at the Greek notion of pathos.
an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work because it shows, more clearly and... Læs mere
The social, political, and cultural significance of refugeedom.
Focuses on what the author once called 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation' - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of... Læs mere
Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th.