Examines the life of Mira Lloyd Dock, a Pennsylvania conservationist and Progressive Era reformer. Explores a broad range of Dock’s work, including forestry, municipal improvement, public health, and woman suffrage.
Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.
Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts... Læs mere
Unites the core body of paintings and drawings, providing an account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Samuel Seymour's and Titian Ramsay Peale's complex responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment.
In this interdisciplinary book, Keala Jewell reunites Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with his brother, Alberto Savinio... Læs mere
An exploration of American philosophy, connecting the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey and James with Native American beliefs and practices. Bruce Wilshire's search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities.
Giammaria Mosca was among the leading sculptors in Northern Italy during the early 16th century and he also played a role in... Læs mere
This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the... Læs mere