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Jan 7, 2021
01/21
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Christopher Webster
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This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich. The volume explores, through...
Topics: AJ, AJB, AP, JFC, PHO007000, SOC024000, TR73, European Studies, European Studies: German Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0202
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Jul 31, 2017
07/17
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Mark Dimmock; Andrew Fisher
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What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically, with a vivid writing style that enlivens the topics with energy and wit. Individual theories are discussed in detail in the...
Topics: HPC, HPQ, YQZ, EDU040000, PHI005000, PHI031000, BJ66, Philosophy, Textbooks and Learning Guides,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0125
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Jan 16, 2018
01/18
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Whitney A. Bauman
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Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two basic insights that have led to this volume: the authors included here hope to queerly go where no thinkers have gone before. The combination of queer theory and religion has been happening for at least 25 years. People such as John Boswell began to examine the history of religious traditions with a queer eye, and soon after we had the indecent theology of Marcella Althaus Ried. Jay Johnston, one of the authors...
Topics: JFSK, REL033000, SOC064000, JBSJ, cultural studies, ecology, new materialisms, queer studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0194.1.00
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Nov 11, 2022
11/22
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C. Jon Delogu
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A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom offers a multidisciplinary analysis drawing on psychology and literature to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that drive people to abandon democracy in favor of vertically...
Topics: JPA, JPFQ, JPHV, POL007000, POL042030, authoritarianism, democracy, Erich Fromm, fascism, political...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0392.1.00
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Sep 22, 2022
09/22
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Stephanie Polsky
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The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification. The posthuman is very much the product of world-building narratives...
Topics: JFMG, PDR, POL042020, SOC054000, JBFV5, UBJ, capitalism, colonialism, ecology, liberalism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0381.1.00
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Sep 12, 2013
09/13
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Jonathan Kemp
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Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a...
Topics: JFSK, LIT004160, 5PSG, DSB, JBSJ, gay life, gender studies, masculinity, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0047.1.00
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Feb 25, 2019
02/19
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Howard Gaskill
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Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a...
Topics: D, FC, FQ, FIC032000, FOR009000, LIT004170, PT2359.H2, European Studies, European Studies: German...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0160
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May 19, 2022
05/22
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Elliot C. Mason
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Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, however, proposes the construction of a Black...
Topics: AMVD, JFSL3, ARC010000, SOC056000, 5PBD, JBSL, antiracism, architecture, Black studies, race, urban...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0372.1.00
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Jul 11, 2022
07/22
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Susan Hallam; Evangelos Himonides
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Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology. A well-signposted text with helpful subheadings, 'The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence' gathers and synthesises research in neuroscience, psychology,...
Topics: AVA, JHMC, JMH, MUS006000, MUS007000, MUS015000, MUS020000, ML3830, Education, Performing Arts,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0292
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Mar 22, 2018
03/18
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Warwick Gould
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The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses...
Topics: DSC, LIT004120, LIT014000, POE005020, PR5906, European Studies, European Studies: English and Irish...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135
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Nov 7, 2022
11/22
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Daniel J. Crowther; Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources. They focus on traditions of vocalisation signs and accent signs, traditions of oral reading, traditions of...
Topics: 2CSJ, CFF, HBTD, HRCG7, HRJS, FOR011000, LAN009010, LAN009050, LAN011000, REL006410, REL040030,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0330
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Nov 18, 2022
11/22
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Alexandra Juhasz
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This book of poems about fake news written by diverse project participants is foremost an invitation and invocation for readers to participate, with others, in an experiment in knowing and working differently with the internet: Fake News Poetry Workshops. Between 2018 and 2020, Alexandra Juhasz directed more than twenty of these workshops around the world, and these are ongoing beyond the confines of this book. Each differs in form and structure, but participants are always asked to attend to...
Topics: CFC, DCQ, COM060140, POE001000, creative research methods, critical internet studies, fake news,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0394.1.00
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Oct 19, 2021
10/21
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Philip S. Peek
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In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when...
Topics: 2AHA, 4KL, CFP, DB, HBLA1, EDU029080, FOR033000, LIT004190, PA258, Classics, Classics: Greek...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0264
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Dec 12, 2019
12/19
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Ignasi Ribó
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This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study...
Topics: DSB, FYB, H, JNM, YQE, EDU015000, EDU029050, FIC029000, PN212, Literature, Textbooks and Learning...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0187
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Sep 5, 2013
09/13
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Michael Edward Moore
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In this far-reaching essay, historian Michael Edward Moore examines modernity as an historical epoch following the end of the medieval period — and as a “messianic concept of time.” In the early twentieth century, a debate over the meaning and origins of modernity unfolded among the philosophers Ernst Cassirer, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Blumenberg. These thinkers tried to resolve the puzzle of the fifteenth-century master Nicholas of Cusa. Was Cusanus the last great medieval thinker,...
Topics: HPCB, intellectual history, Middle Ages, modernity, Nicholas of Cusa, philosophy
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0045.1.00
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Apr 1, 2010
04/10
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Murielle Lucie Clément
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Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as "deliberately repellent" by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic study of this controversial, best-selling work.Twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. They tackle ideas...
Topics: 2ADF, DSK, LIT004150, PQ3939.L58, European Studies, European Studies: French Studies, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0006
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Apr 18, 2016
04/16
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Gordon Brown
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The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a...
Topics: JPA, JPV, POL000000, POL035000, POL035010, K3238.31948, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Law,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0091
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Jul 1, 2021
07/21
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The Confraternity of Neoflagellants
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With the peristaltic gurglings of this gastēr-investigative procedural – a soooo welcomed addition to the ballooning corpus of slot-versatile bad eggs The Confraternity of Neoflagellants (CoN) – [users] and #influencers everywhere will be belly-joyed to hold hands with neomedieval mutter-matter that literally sticks and branches, available from punctum in both frictionless and grip-gettable boke-shaped formats. A game-changer in Brownian temp-controlled phoneme capture, ρan-ρan’s...
Topics: DSBB, JFFR, FIC052000, LIT011000, FUP, JBFZ, clickbait, heretics, hypereconomy, LARP, medieval...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0304.1.00
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Dec 26, 2019
12/19
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Adam Simmons
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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in...
Topics: 2HNR, HD, HDDG, HRKP1, NK, QRSA, archeology, Egypt, Ethiopia, history, linguistics, Nubian studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0321.1.00
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Mar 26, 2020
03/20
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Cameron Hunt McNabb
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The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present.This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints’ lives and...
Topics: HBLC1, JFFG, LIT011000, JBFM, NHDJ, accessibility, disability, embodiment, identity, illness,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0276.1.00
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Jul 14, 2022
07/22
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Roy Christopher
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The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking in horror movies from David Cronenberg and UFO encounters, metal bands such as Godflesh, ketamine experiments, AI, and cybernetics, Escape Philosophy is an exploration of the ways that human beings have sought to make this escape, to transcend the limits of the human body, to...
Topics: AVGT, HPJ, MUS019000, PHI015000, 6HA, QDTJ, black metal, body horror, Goldflesh, philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0416.1.00
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Oct 5, 2015
10/15
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Bret Mulligan
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Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his...
Topics: CFP, DB, HBLA1, FOR016000, HIS002020, LIT004190, DG249, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0068
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Feb 7, 2020
02/20
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Cymene Howe; Anand Pandian
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The idea of the Anthropocene often generates an overwhelming sense of abjection or apathy. It occupies the imagination as a set of circumstances that counterpose individual human actors against ungraspable scales and impossible odds. There is much at stake in how we understand the implications of this planetary imagination, and how to plot paths from this present to other less troubling futures. With Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, the editors aim at a resource helpful for this task: a catalog...
Topics: JHMC, RNPG, SOC002000, anthropocene, climate change, cultural studies, ecopolitics, environmental...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0265.1.00
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Jul 15, 2015
07/15
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Michael L. Berger
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In the 2011 book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, the artist Gregory Sholette posits that we are living in an era of surplus creative energies concentrated in a teeming archive of artists, the poor, the “unskilled” and the “economically invisible.” It is a potentially disruptive archive that capitalism can’t always manage but can still hope to eventually exploit and assimilate. Within this archive seethes creative energy that can extend itself in unique...
Topics: HPN, ART060000, aesthetics, art activism, disruptive collectives, mail art, manifesto
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0107.1.00
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Jan 24, 2020
01/20
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Ed Simon
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Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between...
Topics: DNF, DNL, Babel, imaginary literature, Jorge Luis Borges, labyrinths, literary criticism, literary...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0254.1.00
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Oct 11, 2022
10/22
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Liliane Campos; Pierre-Louis Patoine
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This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our...
Topics: AFKP, DS, DSB, DSK, FA, PS, RNT, ART060000, LIT000000, SCI008000, SCI020000, PN55, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0303
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Apr 17, 2018
04/18
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Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Philipp Schröder
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This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates. Illuminating translocality as a...
Topics: 1FC, JH, JHMC, JPS, RGCP, SOC002010, SOC015000, JV6121, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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Nov 2, 2021
11/21
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Daniel Rueda Garrido
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'Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy' explores the fundamental question of why we act as we do. Informed by an ontological and phenomenological approach, and building mainly, but not exclusively, on the thought of Sartre, Daniel Rueda Garrido considers the concept of a "form of life” as a term that bridges the gap between subjective identity and communities. This first systematic ontology of "forms of life” seeks to understand why we act in certain...
Topics: HP, HPCF3, HPJ, PDX, PHI006000, PHI018000, SCI075000, SOC026040, B2430.S34, Philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0259
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Sep 20, 2011
09/11
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Maria Manuel Lisboa
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Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly...
Topics: AP, DS, JFC, LIT004260, PER004030, PN56.E63, European Studies, Literature, Visual Arts, 1984,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0015
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Sep 5, 2022
09/22
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John Claiborne Isbell
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Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley’s...
Topics: D, DS, DSBF, DSC, DSK, LIT000000, LIT004120, LIT014000, LIT024030, LIT024040, Literature, Americas,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0302
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Aug 24, 2022
08/22
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William St Clair
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Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual...
Topics: 1DVG, HBLL, JFS, ARC005020, HIS042000, POL031000, NA281, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0279
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Dec 1, 2010
12/10
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Jacqueline Mulhallen
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This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses performances of his plays from the Georgian period to today. In addition, Mulhallen offers details of the...
Topics: DSBF, DSG, LIT004120, LIT004180, LIT013000, PR5438, European Studies, European Studies: English and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0011
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Apr 26, 2022
04/22
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Mathias Nebel; Oscar Garza-Vázquez; Clemens Sedmak
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This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development. Resulting from more than three years of research by an international group of over fifty scholars, the volume advocates for a modern understanding of the common good—rather than a theological...
Topics: HPQ, HPS, JHBC, JHBL, KCP, KCR, POL024000, POL029000, SOC045000, SOC050000, SOC053000, HN49.C6,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0290
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Aug 13, 2020
08/20
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Kendra Sullivan; Dylan Gauthier
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Between Species/Between Spaces assembles text and images resulting from a pilot artistic research residency hosted by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust and the Cape Cod National Seashore in Cape Cod, MA. Artists in the book reflect on the geological forces that are reshaping the landscape and ecology of the Outer Cape which illuminate and to some degree mirror the broader global dynamic of instability, loss, and transition we are facing as a result of anthropogenic climate change. The book...
Topics: AGC, RNA, ART006010, anthropocene, artistic research, art residency, contemporary art, ecology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0325.1.00
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Dec 22, 2021
12/21
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J.M. Tyree; Morgan Meis
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Wonder, Horror, Mystery is a dialogue between two friends, both notable arts critics, that takes the form of a series of letters about movies and religion. One of the friends, J.M. Tyree, is a film critic, creative writer, and agnostic, while the other, Morgan Meis, is a philosophy PhD, art critic, and practicing Catholic. The question of cinema is raised here in a spirit of friendly friction that binds the personal with the critical and the spiritual. What is film? What’s it for? What does...
Topics: APFA, HRAM, HRCM, ART057000, REL067000, ATFA, QRAM, QRVG, agnosticism, film studies, Krzysztof...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0359.1.00
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Aug 24, 2021
08/21
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Roger Paulin
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From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the...
Topics: 1DFG, 2ACG, 3J, D, FC, JFCX, FIC102000, LIT004130, LIT004170, LIT024030, P39, PR2971.G3, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0258
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Jul 28, 2022
07/22
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Gavin Keeney
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Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty tackles “legacy” issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) in artistic production and academic scholarship and proposes a category or class of works that has no relation to IPR nor to proprietary regimes of copyright and academic privilege. Keeney’s book is a structuralist argument for establishing new forms of artistic scholarship that operate in direct opposition to established norms in both the art world and neoliberal academia, and is also...
Topics: ABQ, KCP, LNR, LAW050010, POL023000, academic freedom, copyright, intellectual property, legal...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0375.1.00
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Aug 20, 2019
08/19
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Enrique Dussel; David I. Backer; Cecilia Diego
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Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David I. Backer and Cecilia Diego bring to us Dussel’s The Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American...
Topics: 1KL, HBTR, JNA, EDU040000, PHI019000, 5PB-US-H, NHTR, Argentina, decoloniality, ethical philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0257.1.00
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Mar 12, 2019
03/19
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Sarah Kember; Janis Jefferies
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Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether. The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their...
Topics: KNTP, LNR, LNRC, LAN027000, LAW050010, Z551, Law, Law: Intellectual Property, artist’s...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0159
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Jan 7, 2022
01/22
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Thea Potter
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In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the ‘horos’, a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property.Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace. Horos challenges...
Topics: DB, DSBB, H, HP, HPCA, YQZ, EDU040000, LIT004190, PHI000000, PHI002000, PHI046000, B188, Classics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0266
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Sep 10, 2021
09/21
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Esther-Miriam Wagner
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Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proximity to the vernacular that cannot be encountered in any other surviving historical Arabic material, and thus provide unprecedented access to Arabic language history. This rich material remains very little explored. Traditionally, scholarship on Arabic has focussed overwhelmingly on the literature of the various Golden Ages between the 8th and 13th...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ7624, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0208
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Jun 15, 2017
06/17
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Filip Miscevic; Christopher Mastropietro; John Vervaeke
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Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its...
Topics: APF, JFC, JFCA, JFD, FIC028070, PER004030, PER004130, REL062000, GR581, Literature, Visual Arts,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113
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Jun 20, 2016
06/16
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Denis Diderot; Marian Hobson; Kate E. Tunstall; Caroline Warman
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In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And...
Topics: AVH, HP, LIT004150, MUS020000, MUS028000, PHI000000, PQ1979.A66, European Studies, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0098
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Jun 19, 2020
06/20
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Christine Peel; Jeffrey Love; Erik Simensen; Inger Larsson; Ulrika Djärv
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'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law' is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts – terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws. Legal...
Topics: 1DN, 2ACS, CFM, LAF, LAQ, FOR022000, LAW000000, REF000000, REF008000, KJC544.6, L38 2020, Law,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0188
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, D, JFHF, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies, European Studies:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0132
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Oct 9, 2018
10/18
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Adrian Ivakhiv
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A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality that will outwit and, in the end, bury us. “The Anthropocene,” or The Human Era, is an attempt to name our geological fate – that we will one day disappear into the layer-cake of Earth’s geology – while highlighting humanity in the starring role of today’s Earthly drama. In Shadowing the Anthropocene, Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism that takes as its starting point humanity’s eventual demise. The only question...
Topics: RNT, anthropocene, ecology, eco-philosophy, environmental humanities, realism
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0211.1.00
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Nov 5, 2020
11/20
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Matthew J. Jones
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From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. “What a sight,” he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. “You’re a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don’t care who knows about it.” He then...
Topics: BGF, JFSK2, MJCJ2, BIO004000, SOC012000, 5PSG, DNBF, JBSJ, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ Activism, LGBTQ History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0297.1.00
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Oct 30, 2017
10/17
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Mark McBride
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How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that are necessary for knowledge. To have basic knowledge is to know (have justification for) some proposition immediately, i.e., knowledge (justification) that doesn’t depend on justification for any...
Topics: CFA, GTR, HPK, PHI004000, BD161, Philosophy, Basic knowledge, conclusive reasons, epistemology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0104
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Jan 17, 2013
01/13
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Eileen A. Joy; Anna Kłosowska; Nicola Masciandaro; The Petropunk Collective; Michael O'Rourke
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Proceedings from the two Speculative Medievalisms symposia, held at King’s College London (Jan. 2011) and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Sep. 2011), and organized by The Petropunk Collective (Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O’Rourke). These interdisciplinary events were dedicated to dialogue and cross-contamination between traditional concepts of speculatio, present-minded premodern studies, and contemporary speculative realist and...
Topics: DSBB, HIS037010, PHI044000, medieval studies, object-oriented philosophy, speculative philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.00
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Mar 13, 2013
03/13
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Ben Woodard
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For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as nothing but a stage for phenomenology, deconstruction, or other forms of anthropocentric philosophy. In far too much continental philosophy, the Earth is a cold, dead place enlivened only by human thought—either as a thing to be exploited, or as an object of nostalgia. Geophilosophy seeks instead to question the ground of thinking itself, the relation of the inorganic to the...
Topics: HPCF, dark vitalism, geophilosophy, nature, science fiction, speculative realism
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0025.1.00
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May 13, 2021
05/21
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Simone Ferracina
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Over the past ten years, Organs Everywhere (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline — testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos. Each issue has strung together disparate organs and limbs, activating precarious...
Topics: AMA, AMCR, ARC001000, animal architecture, Anthropocene, atmosphere, augmented reality., design...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0354.1.00
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Oct 13, 2022
10/22
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Roberta Morano
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In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear. Motivated by an urgent need to expand and reinforce our understanding of Omani...
Topics: CFF, CFP, FOR002000, LAN009010, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0298
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Jan 13, 2022
01/22
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Kidder Smith
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In the thirteenth century Dogen brought Zen to Japan. His tradition flourishes there still today and now has taken root across the world. Abruptly Dogen presents some of his pith writings—startling, shifting, funny, spilling out in every direction. They come from all seventy-five chapters of his masterwork, the Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏), and roam through mountains, magic, everyday life, meditation, the nature of mind, and how the Buddha is always speaking from inside our...
Topics: 2GJ, HREZ, PHI025000, REL092000, 3KLN-JP-K, QRFB23, Dogen, enlightenment, Japanese literature, Zen...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0389.1.00
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Feb 20, 2020
02/20
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Geoffrey Khan
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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and accent signs are notation systems that were created in Tiberias in the early Islamic period by scholars known as the Tiberian Masoretes, but the oral tradition they represent has roots in antiquity. The grammatical textbooks and reference grammars of Biblical Hebrew in use today are heirs to centuries of tradition of...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4865, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0194
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Mar 10, 2022
03/22
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Jørgen Bruhn; Ida Bencke
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Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices is a speculative endeavor asking how we may represent, relay, and read worlds differently by seeing other species as protagonists in their own rights. What other stories are to be invented and told from within those many-tongued chatters of multispecies collectives? Could such stories teach us how to become human otherwise? Often, the human is defined as the sole creature who holds language, and consequently is capable of articulating,...
Topics: AFKP, AFKV, AGN, PSAF, PSVS, ART017000, NAT024000, AGNA, artistic research, climate emergency,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0338.1.00
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Sep 10, 2020
09/20
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Zhang Jian; Bruce Robertson
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Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea is the result of a conference where Chinese and Americanist art historians addressed the development of modernism in their respective cultural traditions. The chapters juxtapose historical developments without attempting to map connections or influences. Instead, both national modernisms are presented as part of the larger terrain of global modernism, but generated within specific, localized circumstances. This...
Topics: ACXJ, ART009000, ART015110, 6MC, AGA, art criticism, art history, avantgarde, China, modernism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0269.1.00
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Aug 26, 2013
08/13
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Michael Jacobson; Tim Gaze
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An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped...
Topics: DCF, ART003000, WFU, asemic handwriting, calligraphy, visual poetry
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0220.1.00
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Mar 1, 2021
03/21
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Paola Italia; Giulia Raboni
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A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has...
Topics: D, DS, JFCX, LIT000000, LIT004130, LIT025000, P47, Literature, Literature: Comparative Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0224
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Mar 31, 2021
03/21
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Adam Roberts
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In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In...
Topics: D, DSBF, FIC027070, LIT000000, LIT004120, LIT024040, PN6081, European Studies, European Studies:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0249
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Mar 22, 2015
03/15
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Adrian Martin; Rita Benis
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Onde se encontra a análise fílmica hoje? O que é que a teoria de cinema anda a desenvolver na obscuridade? Este campo, tal como foi definido profissionalmente (pelo menos no mundo académico anglo-saxónico), encontra-se actualmente dividido entre historiadores interessados no contexto das grandes formações da modernidade e connoisseurs que reclamam o regresso estilístico de coisas antiquadas como a visão autoral, o tom ou a mise-en-scène. Mas há também outras correntes, vitais e...
Topics: APFA, Douglas Sirk, Eric Auerbach, film studies, Nicole Brenez, Siegfried Kracauer
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0097.1.00
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Feb 26, 2016
02/16
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Craig Dionne
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Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being — from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance, to that of survival and pondering one’s interdependence with a denuded world. Dionne frames the thematic arc of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the fall of a king as a tableaux of our post-sustainable...
Topics: DSGS, 5PX-GB-S, DSG, anthropocene, literary criticism, posthumanism, William Shakespeare
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0133.1.00
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Apr 20, 2009
04/09
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Lionel Gossman
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Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry—entitled Gott in...
Topics: BG, HBJD, BIO000000, HIS014000, DD256.5, Biography, European Studies, European Studies: German...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0003
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Mar 12, 2019
03/19
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Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; Katherine Manthorne
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From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibition spaces in America, Japan, and Western Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the...
Topics: A, AB, AG, WTHM, ARC007010, ART000000, ART059000, NK2115.5.L5, Material Culture, Visual Arts,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0151
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Feb 21, 2022
02/22
by
Daniel A. Wagner; Nathan M. Castillo; Suzanne Grant Lewis
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Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those who need improved 'learning at the bottom of the pyramid' (LBOP). This volume brings together...
Topics: 1QFG, JN, JNFN, EDU001030, EDU008000, EDU036000, EDU048000, LC213, Economics, Politics and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0256
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Jun 23, 2022
06/22
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Geoff Meeks; J. Gay Meeks
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Statistical studies over the last forty-five years show that, although there are success stories, very many mergers and acquisitions do not result in the increased operating profits that economics textbooks would lead one to expect. As consultancy McKinsey have put it, ‘Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail’. Yet—mysteriously—M&A activity has boomed across the globe, with a forty-fold increase in deals done each year now compared with four...
Topics: JHBC, K, KCA, KJVB, LNCD1, BUS001010, BUS015000, BUS017010, BUS027010, BUS034000, BUS045000,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0309
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Jan 13, 2014
01/14
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Florence Goyet; Yvonne Freccero
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The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un...
Topics: DSK, FYB, LIT018000, LIT020000, PN441, Literature, Literature: Comparative Literature, Akutagawa...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0039
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Jul 21, 2022
07/22
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Floris Schönfeld; Kees Ligtelijn; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei; David Yonge-Mallo; Marc Okrand
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paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses, and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father’s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty tyrant Molor. To regain his honor he must travel into the Underworld, create the first bat’leth, and unite...
Topics: 2ZX, FLS, DRA006000, POE014000, conlang, epic literature, Kahless the Unforgettable, Klingon,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0345.1.00
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Jul 9, 2021
07/21
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Pascal Boyer
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This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and...
Topics: JH, JHM, JHMC, PSA, SCI080000, SCI086000, SOC002000, SOC002010, SOC002020, GN502, Anthropology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0257
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Apr 20, 2015
04/15
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Mikuláš Teich
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The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such...
Topics: HBJD, HBTB, PDX, HIS010000, HIS054000, SCI034000, Q125.2, Economics, Politics and Sociology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0054
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Feb 12, 2016
02/16
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Nachoem M. Wijnberg; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
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The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Third Reich. Suspecting that the Frankfurt School, headed by Vice-Chancellor Walter Benjamin, has masterminded this takeover, he dispatches two Jewish actors, Salomon Maimon and Natalia Goncharova, to...
Topics: FA, FIC112000, 5PGJ, FD, fiction, holocaust, Jewish studies, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0129.1.00
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Dec 11, 2018
12/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
texts
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, AMX, AVGC, D, JFHF, ARC005060, ART035000, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0149
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Sep 20, 2013
09/13
by
Mathew Owen; Ingo Gildenhard
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The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation...
Topics: 4KL, CFP, HBLA1, FOR033000, HIS002020, LIT004190, PA6705.A9, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0035
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Nov 28, 2019
11/19
by
Jody Cohen; Anne Dalke
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Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke construe “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name. Exploring what is usually left out can create conditions ripe for breaking through, where real and abstract reverse and melt, the distinction between them disappearing. These are ecotones, transitional spaces that are testing grounds, places of danger and opportunity.In college classrooms, an urban high school, a public library, a...
Topics: JNA, JNAM, JNF, JNH, JNS, cognitive studies, inclusive education, pedagogy, philosophy of...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0261.1.00
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Feb 24, 2017
02/17
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Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
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At the end of his life, Pierre Hadot was a professor at the Collège de France — a “professor’s professor” — and he helped Michel Foucault, most famously, conceptualize ethics. Hadot devoted his career to recovering the ancient conception of philosophy, according to which the discourses of universities are but a fragment of what philosophy is. His engagement with this theme helped Bendik-Keymer understand and develop a personal counter-culture to his academic work, a kind of original...
Topics: BM, aphorisms, ecology, ethics, memoir, philosophy, poetry
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0165.1.00
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Jul 4, 2013
07/13
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Léopold Lambert
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The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema. The Funambulist Pamphlets is published as part of the Documents...
Topics: AMA, architecture, Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0038.1.00
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