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Resisting Abstraction
Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works.
With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirty...
Building Histories
The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.
Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction...
The Nuptial Deal
Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists’ rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles, feelings, and thought of marriage equality activists,...
Curious and Modern Inventions
Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition—but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully explored. Curious and Modern Inventions offers fresh...
Tuhami
Portrait of a Moroccan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and...
Influences
Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early...
Worldly Consumers
The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows...
by Michael Hampe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With What Philosophy Is For, Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic critique of philosophical doctrines.
Philosophers...
Autonomy After Auschwitz
Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy—the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves—has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theodor Adorno asked, be related to the extreme evils...
Androids in the Enlightenment
Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities...
by D. N. Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural...
by Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by...
Anthropology
A Continental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines,...
by Derek Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology,...