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History and Obstinacy

Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt

• Hardcover | Engels
• If Marx's opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the... Lees meer

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

Siegfried Kracauer

• Paperback | Engels
• Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a remarkable work of social and cult... Lees meer

Academic Freedom After September 11

• Hardcover | Engels | Mit Press
• In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, institutions of higher learning have been subjected to an increasingly sophisticated infrastructure of surveil... Lees meer

Profanations

Giorgio Agamben

• Paperback | Engels | Profanations
• The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic,... Lees meer

Reason and Resonance

Veit Erlmann

• Paperback | Engels
• Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense -- less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reas... Lees meer

The Demon of Writing

Ben Kafka

• Paperback | Engels | Mit Press
• Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds -- radical and reactionary, professional and amateur -- have been complain... Lees meer

Third Sex, Third Gender

• Hardcover
• These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture an... Lees meer

Vienna School Reader

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called new Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s, Hans Sedlmayr and... Lees meer

Death and the Idea of Mexico

Claudio Lomnitz

• Paperback | Engels | Death and the Idea of Mexico
• Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examinin... Lees meer

Secrets of Women

Katharine Park

• Paperback | Engels | Secrets Of Women
• Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called "women's secrets," by whi... Lees meer

Society Against the State

Pierre Clastres

• Paperback | Engels | Mole Editions
• In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilizat... Lees meer

The Decadent Reader

• Paperback | Engels
• In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture a... Lees meer

No One's Ways

Daniel Heller-Roazen

• Hardcover | Engels | No One's Ways
• Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He called himself Out... Lees meer

Third Sex, Third Gender

• Paperback | Engels | Mit Press
• Most modern discussions of the relationship of biological sex to gender presuppose that there are two genders, male and female, founded on the two bio... Lees meer

The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

Shigehisa Kuriyama

• Hardcover | Engels
• The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, o... Lees meer

Who Are You?

Valentin Groebner

• Hardcover | Engels | Who Are You?
• Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before... Lees meer

Close Up at a Distance

Laura Kurgan

• Paperback | Engels
• The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition m... Lees meer

Vital Nourishment

François Jullien

• Hardcover | Engels | Vital Nourishment
• The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning. Although this process has given... Lees meer

The Cradle of Humanity

Georges Bataille

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology... Lees meer

Dissimilar Similitudes

Caroline Walker Bynum

• Hardcover | Engels
• From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the t... Lees meer

The Normal and the Pathological

Georges Canguilhem

• Paperback | Engels | The Normal and the Pathological
• The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point... Lees meer

Beyond the Dream Syndicate

Branden W Joseph

• Paperback | Engels | Beyond the Dream Syndicate
• Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker , collabora... Lees meer

Myth and Thought Among the Greeks

Jean-Pierre Vernant

• Paperback | Engels
• " Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant's magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as ... Lees meer

Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts

Alois Riegl

• Paperback | Engels
• The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historians Aloïs R... Lees meer