Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Akintunde Akinyemi
Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy

This book discusses the new roles assigned to oral traditions in the works of contemporary playwrights, and asserts that these oral materials, though old, have enduring vitality and relevance for modern-d…

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

Clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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Sound and Silence - Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers

Severino Gazzelloni, Frans Brüggen, Ilse Hollweg, Eva Bornemann, Friedrich Lenz, Swingle Singers, Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF, English Chamber Orchestra, Orch…

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Tore Rye Andersen
Planetary Pynchon

While Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravi…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Musa Sadr,
Musa Sadr

Musa Sadr was a leading force in Lebanese politics from the early 1960s until his disappearance in Libya in 1978. Like now, this was a time of turmoil, violence, and change in the Middle East. Sadr has be…

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Musa Sadr,
Musa Sadr

Musa Sadr was a leading force in Lebanese politics from the early 1960s until his disappearance in Libya in 1978. Like now, this was a time of turmoil, violence, and change in the Middle East. Sadr has be…

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Harriet A Washington
Renaissance Men

The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of …

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Inflationary Modernities

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

Collecting ten essays from prominent and emerging scholars of diverse backgrounds, this book offers distinctive perspectives from both the Global North and South---a range appropriate to the multifaceted …

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Auke de Haan
The History of Philosophy

Philosophy is not a relic of university lecture halls - it is the ongoing human attempt to understand the world, establish how to live well, and ask questions that resist easy answers. The History of Phil…

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Mao Nie,
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era

An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era serves as an essential window for international audiences to understand the rapid development of China over more than three decades and offers a critical i…

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Robert Bud
Applied Science

For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important. Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear? By taking a l…

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Heather Brink-Roby
A Wider Reality

Theorizes how treating lives as "representative" has been used, in and beyond the novel, to frame the problems and paradoxes of modernity.In the nineteenth century, claims that someone or someth…

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Adriana Novoa
From Virile to Sterile

As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building …

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Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, C. 1860-1940

Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks. Aside from a few …

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Kathryn Brush
Arthur Kingsley Porter's Pilgrimage to Romanesque Art

The author of trailblazing studies of medieval art and a globetrotter who vanished in Ireland, Harvard scholar Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883--1933) remains a legendary figure. A century ago Porter and his …

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Agnes Poirier
Right Bank

Paris, 1885. As Victor Hugo 's funeral procession winds from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon before two million mourners, a new era is taking shape. In the cabarets, circuses, brothels, studios, salon…

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The Shape of the Sacred

How Eastern Orthodox churches are reimagining sacred space for the modern worldWhen Santiago Calatrava's St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine opened at the World Trade Center in 2022, it…

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