Edmund Husserl's last great work is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism.
In this book, his major work, Alfred Schutz attempts to provide a sound philosophical basis for the sociological theories of Max Weber. Using a Husserlian phenomenology, Schutz provides a complete and original analysis of human action and its ""intended meaning.
A collection of short stories, which includes a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, and more.
Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism.
This volume considers the Russian writer Bulgakov's work, ""The master and Margarita"". It discusses the work in the context of the writer's oeuvre as well as... Læs mere
The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for a grand building where all the town's will live happily and "in silence."
Examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and - perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age - the dispassionate acceptance of art.
A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Havel’s concept of “living within the... Læs mere
A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism-in India, South Africa, and Black America-used print media to connect... Læs mere
The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The Kukotsky Enigma is a gynaecologist contending with Stalin’s prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the... Læs mere
Calls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. Claude Romano contends that the main concern of phenomenology, and its originality with respect to other philosophical... Læs mere
An artful and gripping new novel that recounts the human and environmental damage caused by actual disasters in Simi Valley, California. In Yxta Maya Murray’s novel, federal... Læs mere