Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Designing Disability
Symbols, Space, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal – physical access for the disabled – through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development...
The Culture of Yellow
Or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color...
The First Book of Fashion
The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the...
Advanced English Grammar
A Linguistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Depraetere and Langford, with 40 years of teaching experience between them, present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the specifics. Most linguistically-oriented grammars of English can be...
Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces
Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled now that they are in...
Early Phenomenology
Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Taking the term "phenomenologist†? in a fairly broad sense, Early Phenomenology focuses on those early exponents of the intellectual discipline, such as Buber, Ortega and Scheler rather than those thinkers that would later eclipse them; indeed the volume precisely means to bring into question...
by Eugene B. Young, Gary Genosko, Professor Janell Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two of the most important and influential thinkers in twentieth-century European philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers...
Figures of Natality
Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism...
Fiction and Art
Explorations in Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas.
This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written...
Ecocriticism on the Edge
The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.
Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive...
After the Stasi
Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign Subjectivity in the Writing of German Unification
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Why did so many citizens of the GDR agree to collaborate with the Stasi?
Reading works of literature since German unification in the light of previously unseen files from the archives of the Stasi, After the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have explored collaboration as a challenge...
The Sonic Persona
An Anthropology of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with...
Deleuze and Futurism
A Manifesto for Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This book is an original exploration of Deleuze's dynamic philosophies of space, time and language, bringing Deleuze and futurism together for the first time. Helen Palmer investigates both the potential for creative novelty and the pitfalls of formalism within both futurist and Deleuzian linguistic...
Against Transmission
Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (media that make a new whole from connecting separate parts), by focusing on the analytical function of...