Stanford University Press Forlag
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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late 19th century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these media-including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and... Læs mere
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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
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On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical tradition.
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A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the first historically comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a modern nation-state and find its place in the modern world.
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H.L.a. Hart, Second Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A substantially revised second edition of the classic book that discusses the work of H.L.A. Hart and analyzes his important contributions to analytical jurisprudence.
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Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Monolingualism of the Other: Or, the Prosthesis of Origin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume makes available in English leading philosopher, Jacques Derrida's reflections on the individual's relationship with his or her own language.
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution As History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76), and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary people at the base of rural and urban society.
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Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is a personal account of the Cultural Revolution. As a student, the author was caught up in dramatic events as, with jeers and chants,... Læs mere
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Reason in Human Affairs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This book explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major... Læs mere
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The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late... Læs mere
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The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book, Agamben investigates monasticism from its beginnings up through the Franciscan movement in an attempt to find a new form-of-life that escapes from the logic of Western politics as put forth in his Homo Sacer series.
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