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Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies (Hardcover): S Owen Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
S Owen
R1,572 Discovery Miles 15 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies. They examine Hoggart's legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance.

Theorizing War - From Hobbes to Badiou (Hardcover): N Mansfield Theorizing War - From Hobbes to Badiou (Hardcover)
N Mansfield
R1,538 Discovery Miles 15 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilization, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its "other"? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and Zižek.

Democracy - A Life (Paperback): Paul Cartledge Democracy - A Life (Paperback)
Paul Cartledge
R450 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, looking at its many different manifestations and showing how it has changed over its long life, from ancient times right through to the present. For instance, how did the 'people power' of the Athenians emerge in the first place? Once it had emerged, what enabled it to survive? And how did the Athenian version of democracy differ from the many other forms that developed among the myriad cities of the Greek world? Paul Cartledge answers all these questions and more, following the development of ancient political thinking about democracy from the sixth century BC onwards, not least the many arguments that were advanced against it over the centuries. As Cartledge shows, after a golden age in the fourth century BC, there was a long, slow degradation of the original Greek conception and practice of democracy, from the Hellenistic era, through late Republican and early Imperial Rome, down to early Byzantium in the sixth century CE. For many centuries after that, from late Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, democracy was effectively eclipsed by other forms of government, in both theory and practice. But as we know, this was by no means the end of the story. For democracy was eventually to enjoy a re-florescence, over two thousand years after its first flowering in the ancient world: initially revived in seventeenth-century England, it was to undergo a further renaissance in the revolutionary climate of late-eighteenth-century North America and France - and has been constantly reconstituted and reinvented ever since.

The Conquest of Bread (Paperback): Peter Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread (Paperback)
Peter Kropotkin
R309 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Well-being for all is not a dream.' In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over, again and again.

The Philology of Life - Walter Benjamin's Critical Program (Hardcover): Kevin McLaughlin The Philology of Life - Walter Benjamin's Critical Program (Hardcover)
Kevin McLaughlin
R2,580 Discovery Miles 25 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hoelderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole. According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider "crisis of historical experience"-a life crisis to which Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) had instructively but insufficiently responded. Benjamin's literary critical struggle during these years consisted in developing a philology of literary historical experience and of life that is rooted in an encounter with a written image. The fundamental importance of this "philological" method in Benjamin's work seems not to have been recognized by his contemporary readers, including Theodor Adorno who considered the approach to be lacking in dialectical rigor. This facet of Benjamin's work was also elided in the postwar publications of his writings, both in German and English. In recent decades, the publication of a wider range of Benjamin's writings has made it possible to retrace the outlines of a distinctive philological project that starts to develop in his early literary criticism and that extends into the late studies of Baudelaire and Paris. By bringing this innovative method to light this study proposes "the philology of life" as the key to the critical program of one of the most influential intellectual figures in the humanities.

Novelty (Paperback): Michael North Novelty (Paperback)
Michael North
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible? In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and '70s. The terms of the debate, North shows, were established before Plato, and have changed very little since: novelty, philosophers argued, could only arise from either recurrence or recombination. The former, found in nature's cycles of renewal, and the latter, seen most clearly in the workings of language, between them have accounted for nearly all the ways in which novelty has been conceived in Western history, taking in reformation, renaissance, invention, revolution, and even evolution. As he pursues this idea through centuries and across disciplines, North exhibits astonishing range, drawing on figures as diverse as Charles Darwin and Robert Smithson, Thomas Kuhn and Ezra Pound, Norbert Wiener and Andy Warhol, all of whom offer different ways of grappling with the idea of originality. Novelty, North demonstrates, remains a central problem of contemporary science and literature-an ever-receding target that, in its complexity and evasiveness, continues to inspire and propel the modern. A heady, ambitious intellectual feast, Novelty is rich with insight, a masterpiece of perceptive synthesis.

Essays in Cuban Intellectual History (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): R. Rojas Essays in Cuban Intellectual History (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
R. Rojas
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of Jose Marti, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Origenes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.

Essays in Cuban Intellectual History (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): R. Rojas Essays in Cuban Intellectual History (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
R. Rojas
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on--and offers alternatives to--the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of Jose Marti, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine "Origenes, "the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Transformative Learning for a New Worldview - Learning to Think Differently (Hardcover): M. Jackson Transformative Learning for a New Worldview - Learning to Think Differently (Hardcover)
M. Jackson
R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize alternative assumptions, and then test them in practice. The author describes the process, offering a critique of contemporary assumptions, and suggests alternatives to illustrate the process. The primary focus of the book is on transformative learning in mainstream global culture, but the special problems and opportunities for people of post-colonial societies are also dealt with. Practical suggestions for conducting transformative learning exercises are given.

Theorizing War - From Hobbes to Badiou (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): N Mansfield Theorizing War - From Hobbes to Badiou (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
N Mansfield
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its 'other'? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and Zizek.

Screen Theory Culture (Hardcover): M. Nash Screen Theory Culture (Hardcover)
M. Nash
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mark Nash's "Screen Theory Culture" demonstrates the influence of Screen magazine on structuralist and post-structuralist film studies. More current articles make connections between this body of work and the art of the contemporary moving image art work.

The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 (Hardcover): I. Jaksic The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 (Hardcover)
I. Jaksic
R1,417 R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Save R303 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War of 1812, a crucial time for the young republic, and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the collapsing Spanish empire.

The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 (Paperback): I. Jaksic The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 (Paperback)
I. Jaksic
R1,393 R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Save R303 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.

Intellectuals and the People (Hardcover): A. Sandhu Intellectuals and the People (Hardcover)
A. Sandhu
R2,955 Discovery Miles 29 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society by examining this question in political theory. She critically engages with contemporary debates on the subject both in Britain and the U.S. drawing on a wide range of material. "Intellectuals and the People" carefully sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy.

Intellectuals and the People (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): A. Sandhu Intellectuals and the People (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
A. Sandhu
R2,957 Discovery Miles 29 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy.

Hans Christian Orsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science - Ideas, Disciplines, Practices (Hardcover): Robert M. Brain, Robert... Hans Christian Orsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science - Ideas, Disciplines, Practices (Hardcover)
Robert M. Brain, Robert S. Cohen, Ole Knudsen
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The relations between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century remain one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian A~rsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism. They show how A~rsted, an intrepid traveller and cosmopolitan from the periphery of enlightened Europe, mediated between the great scientists of Germany, France, and Britain and profoundly shaped post-kantian philosophy and the emerging new energy physics of the nineteenth-century.

Ways of Knowing - New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning (Hardcover, New): Mark Harris Ways of Knowing - New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning (Hardcover, New)
Mark Harris
R4,100 Discovery Miles 41 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here consider how humans come to know themselves and their worlds. Should anthropologists should seek complexity or simplicity in their analyses of other societies? By going beyond the notion that a way of knowing is a perspective on the world, this book explores paths to understanding, as people travel along them, craft their knowledge and shape experience. The topics examined here range from illness to ignorance, teaching undergraduates in Scotland to learning a Brazilian martial arts dance, Hegels concept of the dialectic to the poetry of a Swahili philosopher. A central concern is how anthropologists can know and write about the silent, the concealed and the embodied.

Republics of Knowledge - Nations of the Future in Latin America (Hardcover): Nicola Miller Republics of Knowledge - Nations of the Future in Latin America (Hardcover)
Nicola Miller
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola Miller offers new insights into the process of nation-making through an account of nineteenth-century Latin America, where, she argues, the identity of nascent republics was molded through previously underappreciated means: the creation and sharing of knowledge. Drawing evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Peru, Republics of Knowledge traces the histories of these countries from the early 1800s, as they gained independence, to their centennial celebrations in the twentieth century. Miller identifies how public exchange of ideas affected policymaking, the emergence of a collective identity, and more. She finds that instead of defining themselves through language or culture, these new nations united citizens under the promise of widespread access to modern information. Miller challenges the narrative that modernization was a strictly North Atlantic affair, demonstrating that knowledge traveled both ways between Latin America and Europe. And she looks at how certain forms of knowledge came to be seen as more legitimate and valuable than others, both locally and globally. Miller ultimately suggests that all modern nations can be viewed as communities of shared knowledge, a perspective with the power to reshape our conception of the very basis of nationhood. With its transnational framework and cross-disciplinary approach, Republics of Knowledge opens new avenues for understanding the histories of modern nations-and the foundations of modernity-the world over.

Sociology in Theology - Reflexivity and Belief (Hardcover): K Flanagan Sociology in Theology - Reflexivity and Belief (Hardcover)
K Flanagan
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sociology has taken a recent and unexpected theological turn that has radical implications for reflexivity. This original study explores these in four areas: visual aspects of reflexivity and theology; Simmel and Mauss on prayer as a form of spiritual capital; identity and the constitution of character; and finally, and most controversially, a reflection on sociological expectations of theology. This is one of the few works that explores a new terrain with profound implications for sociology and theology.

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment - From China to Africa (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): B. Tautz Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment - From China to Africa (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
B. Tautz
R1,554 Discovery Miles 15 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case of eighteenth-century Germany and Europe, the book adds an important cross-cultural and historical dimension to questions relevant to our world today.

The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking (English, French, Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Anne Fagot-Largeault, Juan Manuel... The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking (English, French, Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Anne Fagot-Largeault, Juan Manuel Torres, Shahid Rahman
R4,649 Discovery Miles 46 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume reflects on the effects of recent discoveries in genetics on a broad range of scientific fields. In addition to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and medicine, contributors analyze the effects of genetics on theories of health, law, epistemology and philosophy of biology. Social and moral concerns about the relationship between genetics, society and the individual also figure prominently. Genetic discoveries fuel central contemporary public policy debates concerning, for example, human cloning, equitable access to healthcare or the role of genetics in medicine. Perhaps more fundamentally, advances in genetics are altering our perception of human life and death.

Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories - Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Catarina Dutilh Novaes Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories - Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
R4,686 Discovery Miles 46 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents formalizations of three important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. These are based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. The analysis of medieval logic is relevant for the modern philosopher and logician. This is the first book to render medieval logical theories accessible to the modern philosopher.

The Scientific Outlook (Paperback): Bertrand Russell The Scientific Outlook (Paperback)
Bertrand Russell
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell delivers one of his most important works, exploring the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science. Insightful and accessible, this impressive work sees Russell at his very best.

Apprehension and Argument - Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Miira Tuominen Apprehension and Argument - Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Miira Tuominen
R4,698 Discovery Miles 46 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If we know something, do we always know it through something else? Does this mean that the chain of knowledge should continue infinitely? Or, rather, should we abandon this approach and ask how we acquire knowledge? Irrespective of the fact that very basic questions concerning human knowledge have been formulated in various ways in different historical and philosophical contexts, philosophers have been surprisingly unanimous concerning the point that structures of knowledge should not be infinite. In order for there to be knowledge, there must be at least some primary elements which may be called a ~starting pointsa (TM).

This book offers the first synoptic study of how the primary elements in knowledge structures were analysed in antiquity from Plato to late ancient commentaries, the main emphasis being on the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition. It argues that, in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, the question of starting points was treated from two distinct points of view: from the first perspective, as a question of how we acquire basic knowledge; and from the second perspective, as a question of the premises we may immediately accept in the line of argumentation. It was assumed that we acquire some general truths rather naturally and that these function as starting points for inquiry. In the Hellenistic period, an alternative approach was endorsed: the very possibility of knowledge became a central issue when sceptics began demanding that true claims should always be distinguishable from false ones.

Culture and the Unconscious (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): C Bainbridge, Susannah Radstone, M. Rustin, Candida Yates Culture and the Unconscious (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
C Bainbridge, Susannah Radstone, M. Rustin, Candida Yates
R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since Freud, psychoanalysis has always concerned itself with questions of art, creativity, politics, and war. This collection of essays from leading writers on psychoanalysis explores questions of culture through a close dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical and academic traditions. "Culture and the Unconscious" is a major contribution to these debates. With accessible introductions to its central themes, the book opens up conversations between the spheres of art, academia and psychoanalysis, revealing points of commonality and divergence.

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