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Pictures of Romance Form against Context in Painting and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226772301, ISBN: HB: 9780226772295, University of Chicago Press, December 1991
225 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 49 halftones
How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the...
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£28,00
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Martin Heidegger
ISBN: PB: 9780226772325, University of Chicago Press, September 1991
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism.
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£19,50
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Critique of Pure Modernity Hegel, Heidegger, and After
ISBN: PB: 9780226450292, University of Chicago Press, August 1991
334 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Modernity" is a troubling concept, not only for scholars but for the general public, for it seems to represent a choice between oppressive traditions and empty, rootless freedom. Seeking a broader understanding of modernity, Kolb first considers the...
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Nietzsche's New Seas Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226293790, ISBN: HB: 9780226293783, University of Chicago Press, August 1991
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Nietzsche's New Seas" makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together schol...
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£43,00
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John Locke's Liberalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226306087, ISBN: HB: 9780226306070, University of Chicago Press, August 1991
230 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this work, Ruth W. Grant presents a new approach to John Locke's familiar works. Taking the unusual step of relating Locke's "Two Treatises" to his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", Grant establishes the unity and coherence of Locke's politi...
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Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780874515558, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 1991
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constit...
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£36,00
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Power of Images Studies in the History and Theory of Response
ISBN: PB: 9780226261461, University of Chicago Press, May 1991
560 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 190 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression 2. The God in the Image 3. The Value of the Commonplace 4. The Myth of Aniconism 5. Consecration: Making Images Work 6. Image and Pilgrimage 7. The...
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£30,00
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Crossings Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
ISBN: PB: 9780226734378, ISBN: HB: 9780226734361, University of Chicago Press, April 1991
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Boldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that "The Birth of Tragedy" is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the crossing of these basic art im...
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Vocation of a Teacher Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988
ISBN: PB: 9780226065823, ISBN: HB: 9780226065816, University of Chicago Press, January 1991
372 pp., 23x15 cm
This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also v...
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