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Recollecting Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin
The Love That Moves the Sun and the Other Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book studies several of Mark Helprin’s novels in terms of their relation to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The authors demonstrate that A Soldier of the Great War, In Sunlight and in Shadow, and Winter’s Tale substantially correspond to, respectively, Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso....
Her Husband was a Woman!
Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood.
Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women...
Erotic City
Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. In this highly original book, Josh Sides explains how this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San...
Castiglione's Allegory
Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing...
Unframing Martin Heidegger’s Understanding of Technology
On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger’s most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger’s notion of modern technology. Heidegger’s...
by Kristian Klett
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Present, grade: Pass, University of Melbourne, course: Introduction to Critical Theory, language: English, abstract: While we live in a post-modern World - having the age of Enlightenment, the eighteenth century, far in...
Medieval and Renaissance Lactations
Images, Rhetorics, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal...
by Silvia Mostaccio
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits's work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In...
US Cruisers 1883–1904
The birth of the steel navy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
By the end of the Civil War the US Navy was the most advanced in the world, but in subsequent years America's naval might dwindled. However, in the 1880s a 'New Navy' was born and at the forefront of its fleet were the mighty cruisers. Naval historian Lawrence Burr details how these cruisers allowed...
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain...
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography,...
TIME World War I
The War That Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Vast in scope and sweeping in impact, World War I cut through history to shape the modern world. The Great War toppled monarchies, re-drew the map of Europe and made the U.S. one of the major powers of the modern age. The war gave the world new weapons: warplanes and U-boats, dirigibles and machine...
by Jürgen Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.