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Books > Travel > Travel & holiday guides > Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

Heritage Planning - Principles and Process (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Harold Kalman, Marcus R Letourneau Heritage Planning - Principles and Process (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Harold Kalman, Marcus R Letourneau
R4,117 Discovery Miles 41 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation. Positioning professional practice within its broader applied and theoretical contexts, the authors provide a firm foundation for understanding the principles, history, evolution, debates, and tools that inform heritage planning, while also demonstrating how to effectively enact these processes. Few published works focus on the practice of heritage planning. The first edition of this book was developed to fill this gap, and this second edition builds upon it. The book has been expanded in scope to incorporate new research and approaches, as well as a wide range of international case studies. New themes reflect the emerging recognition that sustainability, climate resilience, human rights, social justice, and reconciliation are fundamental to the future of planning. Heritage Planning is indispensable reading, not only for professionals who transform the built environment, but for anyone who wants to understand the ideas and practices of heritage planning and conservation. For the benefit of student readers, twelve chapters-designed to accommodate the academic semester-are augmented with concise summaries, key terms and definitions, questions, and learning objectives.

Presocratics-Arg Philosophers (Paperback): Jonathan Barnes Presocratics-Arg Philosophers (Paperback)
Jonathan Barnes
R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia - Vertiginous Exchange (Hardcover): Natasha Eaton Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia - Vertiginous Exchange (Hardcover)
Natasha Eaton
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity - Practice, and the development of inclusive capital (Paperback): Simon... Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity - Practice, and the development of inclusive capital (Paperback)
Simon Hayhoe
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes. Combining theory with detailed case study research, it unpicks both the current state of play and future directions. The book is based upon detailed case example research on both the self-reported individual experiences of people with disabilities engaging with cultural heritage, and the accessibility approaches of cultural heritage institutions themselves. Hayhoe grounds the analysis in a theoretical and historical overview of disability and inclusion. He interrogates the various ways in which identity is formed through interaction with cultural heritage, and considers the differences in engagement with cultural heritage amongst those who develop disabilities early in life compared to those who acquire disabilities later in life. His conclusions offer insights that can help improve the provision of cultural heritage engagement to all people, but particularly those with disabilities. Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity is key reading for students and scholars of cultural heritage, visitor studies, and disability studies, and will also be of interest to other subject areas engaging with issues of accessibility. It should also be read by institutions looking to improve their accessibility strategy to engage broader audiences.

The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History - Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Paperback): Ray... The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History - Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Paperback)
Ray Hernandez-Duran
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a symptom of the development of modern museum practice in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico City. Also an intellectual history, this study recognizes the role of nationalism in the initiation of art historical practice in what is understood today more broadly as Latin America. Although there has been a steady stream of scholarship produced about the subject, beginning in Mexico and increasingly in the United States, what is variably known as viceregal or colonial Mexican, Spanish colonial, and colonial Latin American art continues to be underplayed or overlooked by most art historians and is thus marginal in the field of art history. Ray Hernandez-Duran redresses that omission, presenting a detailed examination of the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico. Drawing upon archival research, this volume touches upon the role of politics on the formation of the first gallery of Mexican painting in the Academy of San Carlos and the first comprehensive historical treatment of the material in the form of a dialogue. Furthermore, this study promotes further research in colonial art historiography and underlines the pivotal role that the Indo-Hispanic Americas played in the emergence of early modernity and the process of globalization.

Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond - Autopsy, Pathology and Display (Hardcover, New Ed): Piers Mitchell Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond - Autopsy, Pathology and Display (Hardcover, New Ed)
Piers Mitchell
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological anthropologists, alongside experts in the early history of pathology museums in British medical schools and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and medical historians studying the social context of dissection and autopsy in the Georgian and Victorian periods. Together they reveal a previously unknown view of the practice of anatomical dissection and the role of museums in this period, in parallel with the attitudes of the general population to the study of human anatomy in the Enlightenment.

Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Hardcover, New Ed): Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, John Pedro... Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, John Pedro Schwartz
R4,360 Discovery Miles 43 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new. Today there are national museums for antiquities in most Arab countries. While in some cases the political and social climate has hindered the foundation of museums, with existing collections even destroyed at times, the recent museum boom in the Gulf States is again changing the outlook. This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab world, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological basis for future research. The authors are also concerned with investigating the relationship between past and present, since collecting practices tell us a great deal not only about the past but also about the ways we approach the past and present conceptions of our identities. Collections can be textual as well, as in the stories, memories or events selected, recalled, and retold in the pages of a text. As interest in memory studies as well as popular and visual culture grows in the Arab World, so collecting practices are at the heart of any critical approach to the past and the present in that region. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of the modern Arab world but also to professionals in museums and collections in the region, as well as around the world.

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being - Exploring Material Connections (Hardcover): Thomas Kador, Helen Chatterjee Object-Based Learning and Well-Being - Exploring Material Connections (Hardcover)
Thomas Kador, Helen Chatterjee
R4,065 Discovery Miles 40 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material culture and curated collections. Following on from the widely acclaimed Engaging the Senses, this volume explicitly explores the connection between the value of material culture for both learning and well-being. Bringing together experts and practitioners from eight countries on four continents, the book analyses the significance of curated collections for structured cultural interventions that may bring both educational and well-being benefits. Topics covered include the role of material culture in relation to mental health; sensory impairments; and general student and teacher well-being. Contributors also consider how collections can be employed to positively address questions of identity and belonging relating to marginalisation, colonialism and forced displacement. Object-Based Learning and Well-Being should be a key first point of reference for academics and students who are engaged in the study of object-based learning, museums, heritage, health and well-being. The book will be of particular interest to practitioners working in higher education, or those working in the cultural, heritage, museums and health sectors.

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (Hardcover): Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate, Sandra... Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (Hardcover)
Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate, Sandra Dudley
R4,221 Discovery Miles 42 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting. This includes considering the entanglement of objects and collectors in webs of social relations, value and change, object biographies and the sometimes conflicting stories that things come to represent, and the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of objects. The book includes considerations of individual and groups of objects, such as domestic interiors, novelty tea-pots, Scottish stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also contains chapters dealing with particular collectors - including Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter - and representational techniques.

Producing the Past - Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850 (Paperback): Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz Producing the Past - Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850 (Paperback)
Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz; Preface by Stephen Bann
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history. With a preface by Stephen Bann and introduced by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz, Producing the Past has contributions from Stephen Bending, Alexandrina Buchanan, Susan A. Crane, David Haycock, Maria Grazia Lolla, Heather MacLennan, Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz, Annegret Pelz, Sam Smiles and Johann Reusch.

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities (Hardcover): Spencer Acadia, Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities (Hardcover)
Spencer Acadia, Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.

Heritage from Below (Hardcover, New Ed): Iain J.M. Robertson Heritage from Below (Hardcover, New Ed)
Iain J.M. Robertson
R4,354 Discovery Miles 43 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.

Heritage and Social Media - Understanding heritage in a participatory culture (Hardcover): Elisa Giaccardi Heritage and Social Media - Understanding heritage in a participatory culture (Hardcover)
Elisa Giaccardi
R4,061 Discovery Miles 40 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of participatory culture the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it.

To highlight the specific changes produced by social media, the book is structured around three major themes:

  • Social Practice. New ways of understanding and experiencing heritage are emerging as a result of novel social practices of collection, representation, and communication enabled and promoted by social media.
  • Public Formation. In the presence of widely available social technologies, peer-to-peer activities such as information and media sharing are rapidly gaining momentum, as they increasingly promote and legitimate a participatory culture in which individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests and affinities.
  • Sense of Place. As computing becomes more pervasive and digital networks extend our surroundings, social media and technologies support new ways to engage with the people, interpretations and values that pertain to a specific territorial setting.

Heritage and Social Media provides readers with a critical framework to understand how the participatory culture fostered by social media changes the way in which we experience and think of heritage. By introducing readers to how social media are theorized and used, particularly outside the institutional domain, the volume reveals through groundbreaking case studies the emerging heritage practices unique to social media. In doing so, the book unveils the new issues that are emerging from these practices and the new space for debate and critical argumentation that is required to illuminate what can be done in this burgeoning sector of heritage work.

Who's Buried Where in London (Paperback): Peter Matthews Who's Buried Where in London (Paperback)
Peter Matthews 1
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and St Paul's Cathedral, as well as the City churches and many suburban parish churches. The book gives biographical details, information on the monuments, and is richly illustrated. As well as being an historical guide, it also serves as an indispensable reference guide for any budding tombstone tourist.

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country - Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Paperback): Louise Erdrich Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country - Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Paperback)
Louise Erdrich 1
R419 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R78 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life.

In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways in which her tribe--whose name derives from the word ozhibii'ige, "to write"--have influenced her. Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her.

A blend of history, mythology, and memoir, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an enchanting meditation on modern life, natural splendor, and the ancient spirituality and creativity of Erdrich's native homeland--a long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her blood.

The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (Hardcover): Himanshu Prabha Ray The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (Hardcover)
Himanshu Prabha Ray
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (Paperback): Himanshu Prabha Ray The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (Paperback)
Himanshu Prabha Ray
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain - The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854 (Hardcover, New Ed): Shawn Malley From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain - The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Shawn Malley
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), and were then dispersed into the public domain of popular amusements. That the stones of Assyria resonated in debates far beyond the interests of religious and scientific groups is apparent in the prevalence of poetry, exhibitions, plays, and dioramas inspired by the excavation. Of particular note, correspondence involving high-ranking diplomatic personnel and museum officials demonstrates that the 'treasures' brought home to fill the British Museum served not only as signs of symbolic conquest, but also as covert means for extending Britain's political and economic influence in the Near East. Malley takes up issues of class and influence to show how the middle-class Layard's celebrity status both advanced and threatened aristocratic values. Tellingly, the excavations prompted disturbing questions about the perils of imperial rule that framed discussions of the social and political conditions which brought England to the brink of revolution in 1848 and resurfaced with a vengeance during the Crimean crisis. In the provocative conclusion of this meticulously documented and suggestive book, Malley points toward the striking parallels between the history of Britain's imperial investment in Mesopotamia and the contemporary geopolitical uses and abuses of Assyrian antiquity in post-invasion Iraq.

Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims (Paperback): Roger Rosewell Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims (Paperback)
Roger Rosewell 1
R273 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R46 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the Middle Ages, it was thought that praying at the right shrine could save you from just about anything, from madness and famine to false imprisonment and even shipwreck. Kingdoms, cities, and even individual trades had patron saints that would protect them from misfortune and bring them wealth and prosperity, and their feast days were celebrated with public holidays and pageants. With saints believed to have the ear of God, veneration of figures such as St Thomas Becket, St Cuthbert, and St Margaret brought tens of thousands of pilgrims from all walks of life to sites across the country. Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims takes the reader across Britain, providing a map of the most important religious shrines that pilgrims would travel vast distances to reach, as well as descriptions and images of the shrines themselves. Featuring over 100 stunning photographs and a gazetteer of places to visit, it explains the history of pilgrimage in Britain and the importance that it played in medieval life, and describes the impact of the unbridled assault made on pilgrimage by the Reformation.

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm (Hardcover): Cameron Cartiere, Leon Tan The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm (Hardcover)
Cameron Cartiere, Leon Tan
R6,433 Discovery Miles 64 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices, while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices, as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, urban studies, and museum studies.

Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity (Paperback): Norman A Stillman Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity (Paperback)
Norman A Stillman
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sentient Relics - Museums and Cinematic Affect (Paperback): Janice Baker Sentient Relics - Museums and Cinematic Affect (Paperback)
Janice Baker
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion-exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, 'rational' museum of reason contrasting this with the museum of affect and reveals these 'two museums' operating alongside one another in a productive paradox. In structuralist-orientated museum theory the affective realm is often subsumed within the imperatives of Marxist theory and practice, identity politics, semiology and psychoanalysis. Sentient Relics, while valuing the insights of ideologically focused meaning-making, turns to the capacity of the affective realm of experience to transform the passive subject and object relation. The author uses museum encounters and cinematic affect to engage with problems of difference, temporality, emotion and the sublime. In so doing the book advances research in museum studies by demonstrating what is at stake in pragmatically working toward a deeper understanding of the museum socially, culturally and philosophically.

Nietzsche - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback): Richard Schacht Nietzsche - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback)
Richard Schacht
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. This book, in compliance with the aims of the series, attempts to provide a comprehensive and critical account of Nietzsche's thought. The present study is an examination of his philosophical thinking; and while this already makes it selective (as well as interpretive), it is of necessity selective in other ways as well.

Descartes-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback): Margaret Dauler Wilson Descartes-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback)
Margaret Dauler Wilson
R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. In this volume, the author offers what she believes to be a somewhat different over-all reading of Descartes' philosophy, and particularly of the Meditations, from other commentators-especially those written in English.

Santayana-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback): Timothy L.S. Sprigge Santayana-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Paperback)
Timothy L.S. Sprigge
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. The arguments of the philosophers take on many differing forms. Those of George Santayana bear little similarity to what we find today in the Journal of Philosophy: indeed, some have been misled by his imagery and splendid prose style to believe that no arguments are being made at all in Santayana's many books. Timothy Sprigge's gift is an ability to draw clear ties between these writings and important contemporary issues, and to show that Santayana makes a contribution to today's arguments.

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