History Theory category: 16752 books
The Educational Philosophy of Elijah Muhammad
Education for a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the patriarch of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America's history. This timely book outlines Elijah Muhammad's educational ideas in relation to critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and critical white...
by Olabode Ibironke
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major authors:...
The Possibility of a World
Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life’s work. But like Schlegel’s historian—“a prophet facing backwards”—Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought.
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by Ernst Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna...
Cartographies of Exile
A New Spatial Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The vital intimacy of the relationship between...
Reading Orientalism
Said and the Unsaid
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book Orientalism. Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels,...
The Ephemeral History of Perfume
Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves...
Political Freud
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic...
To Shape a New World
Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature,...
The Eyes of the People
Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green makes the case for considering the People as an ocular entity rather than a vocal one. Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand...
John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics
Vision and Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mechanics. While the debate over quantum theory between the supremely famous physicists, Albert Einstein...
by Nicholas Marston
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erl�erungsausgabe) of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas. Each publication would comprise a score, newly edited by Schenker and using the composer's autograph manuscript as principal...
Music Theory, Analysis, and Society
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author of the well-known Norton volume...
Organized Time
Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason Yust demonstrates...