This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unf...

A classic text of enduring significance, Moses Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem" (1783) stands as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also as the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion eminently compatible with the ideas of the...

Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...

Contents: On the De-definition of Art Part One: Art and Words 1. Redmen to Earthworks 2. De-aestheticization 3. Educating Artists 4. Surrealism in the Streets 5. Art and Words Part Two: Artists 6. Pro-Art Dada – Jean Arp 7. Primitive a la Mode – J...

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...

Illustrations Table of Symbols Overture Part One: Theme and Variations 1. Bororo Song a. The Bird-Nester's Aria b. Recitative c. First Variation d. Interlude in a Discrete Mode e. Continuation of the First Variation f. Second Variation g. Coda 2. G...

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology". As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structur...

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictiona...