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Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the... Læs mere
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Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of... Læs mere
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Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives.
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A series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism.
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The CD-ROM in this set contains images from the French Revolution, including: primary documents, songs, maps, caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts. Whilst the text is a narrative of the revolution through to the defeat of Napoleon.
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A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life.
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An interpretive study of the pictorial program of the Ottonian Bernward Gospels. Examines how the manuscript conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember early medieval Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.
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A transcription and annotation of the diary of Emilie Davis, a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
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An English translation of the Abbé Prévost’s 1740 novel The Greek Girl’s Story. Includes foreword by Jean Sgard, notes, and appendices.
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Examines Immanuel Kant's understanding of rhetoric. Argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable, and that communicative practices play an important role in his account of how we become better humans and create morally cultivating communities.
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Examines the place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of his work.
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Explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural... Læs mere