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What Are We to Understand Gracia to Mean?: Realist Challenges to Metaphysical Neutralism by Robert A. Delfino 9789042020306
Booksplease Price: $166.24This book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J. E. Gracia's views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracia's... -
Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain by Maria Luisa Femenias 9789042022072
Booksplease Price: $166.24This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy... -
Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud by Seth Whidden 9789042022102
Booksplease Price: $164.58Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud considers how the crisis of the lyric subject in the middle of the nineteenth century in France is a direct response to the aesthetic... -
Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition by Oscar Vilarroya 9789042022164
Booksplease Price: $226.32This book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental... -
Philosophical Knowledge: Its Possibility and Scope by Christian Beyer 9789042022348
Booksplease Price: $224.64The former Queen of Science seems to be lacking both a specific subject and a particular method. Thus the need arises for intra- and metaphilosophical orientation - especially since the way... -
Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions by Manfred Pfister 9789042023147
Booksplease Price: $227.98National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes... -
Epistemology and the Social by Evandro Agazzi 9789042024212
Booksplease Price: $164.58Epistemology had to come to terms with "the social" on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the "social" sciences, and in this case... -
Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations by Professor Andrzej Gasiorek 9789042024373
Booksplease Price: $200.95The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies... -
Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction by Robert Ziegler 9789042027008
Booksplease Price: $184.42Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction offers a radically new approach to the psychology of Decadent creation. Rejecting traditional arguments that Decadence is a celebration of deviance and... -
Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics by Matti Hayry 9789042028029
Booksplease Price: $226.32Is there any justification for the common practice of allocating expensive medical resources to rescue a few from rare diseases, when those resources could be used to treat devastating diseases that... -
'Bethinke Thy Selfe' in Early Modern England: Writing Women's Identities by Ulrike Tancke 9789042028081
Booksplease Price: $192.68Early modern women writers are typically studied as voices from the margin, who engage in a counter-discourse to patriarchy and whose identities prefigure postmodern notions of fragmented selfhood... -
Hybrid Humour: Comedy in Transcultural Perspectives by Graeme Dunphy 9789042028234
Booksplease Price: $136.48An interdisciplinary and transcultural study of comedy in a pan-European perspective that include East, West, and Southern European examples. These range from humour in Polish poetry via jokes about... -
Subjects Not-at-home: Forms of the Uncanny in the Contemporary French Novel: Emmanuel Carrere, Marie NDiaye, Eugene Savitzkaya by Daisy Connon 9789042030053
Booksplease Price: $207.56Subjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny (Das Unheimliche) in the context of French literature. It explores the ways in which certain contemporary French... -
Shoreless Bridges: South East European Writing in Diaspora by Elka Agoston-Nikolova 9789042030206
Booksplease Price: $133.16Exiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous... -
Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination by John Parham 9789042031067
Booksplease Price: $221.32This book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explores the dimension that social ecology offers to an ecocriticism hitherto dominated by romantic nature writing. The... -
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature by Christine Baron 9789042031159
Booksplease Price: $166.24Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and... -
New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy by Rosa M. Calcaterra 9789042033214
Booksplease Price: $123.25The strong influence of pragmatism in the early 20th-century international debate, its subsequent and apparently inexorable decline, and its recent revival are intertwined with the fate of other... -
The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9789042033368
Booksplease Price: $164.58The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a... -
Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide by Nancy Billias 9789042033382
Booksplease Price: $156.30This volume offers new and fascinating insights into some of the most urgent and relevant dimensions of violence in our time. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines explore some of the reasons... -
Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation by John Newman 9789042034013
Booksplease Price: $209.85This volume consists of selected papers from the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. The chapters cover aspects of language use (usage-based accounts of morphology/syntax... -
Reconstructing Subjects: A Philosophical Critique of Psychotherapy by Hakam H. Al-Shawi 9789042034044
Booksplease Price: $106.72This work is about the deceptive nature of psychotherapy. In particular, it is about those therapies that claim to provide the client with insight and self-knowledge when in practice they are a means... -
In Paris or Paname: Hemingway’s Expatriate Nationalism by Jeffrey Herlihy 9789042034099
Booksplease Price: $146.39Alongside a liberating treatment of the English language, Ernest Hemingway realized some often overlooked innovations in multicultural subject matter. In six of the seven novels published during his... -
Art in the Offertorium: Narcissism, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Metaphysics by Harvey Giesbrecht 9789042035010
Booksplease Price: $199.92This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the... -
Agents of uncertainty: Mysticism, scepticism, Buddhism, art and poetry by John Danvers 9789042035126
Booksplease Price: $166.24Through an analysis of many different examples, Danvers articulates a new way of thinking about mysticism and scepticism, not as opposite poles of the philosophical spectrum, but as two fields of... -
Samuel Beckett and Pain by Mariko Hori Tanaka 9789042035232
Booksplease Price: $176.15Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett's works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found... -
Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte by Ian Maclachlan 9789042036093
Booksplease Price: $164.58Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined... -
Placing Poetry by Ian Davidson 9789042036147
Booksplease Price: $247.97The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and... -
Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora by Sissy Helff 9789042036284
Booksplease Price: $176.15While many people see 'home' as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past... -
Reading Coetzee by Elizabeth MacFarlane 9789042037014
Booksplease Price: $139.78Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves... -
Perspectives on Mobility by Ingo Berensmeyer 9789042037083
Booksplease Price: $176.15Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of... -
Wandering into <i>Brave New World</i> by David Leon Higdon 9789042037168
Booksplease Price: $192.68Wandering into Brave New World explores the historical contexts and contemporary sources of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel which, seventy years after its initial publication remains the best known and... -
Looking Beneath the Surface: Medical Ethics from Islamic and Western Perspectives by Hendrik M. Vroom 9789042037304
Booksplease Price: $162.92Looking Beneath the Surface explores Arab-Islamic and Western perspectives on medical ethical issues: genetic research and treatment, abortion, organ donation, and palliative sedation and euthanasia... -
The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic by Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff 9789042037328
Booksplease Price: $248.60This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the... -
Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language by John M. Kirk 9789042037397
Booksplease Price: $227.98The skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots... -
Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power, and Literature by Joel Kuortti 9789042039155
Booksplease Price: $169.53This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural... -
Lautréamont, Subject to Interpretation by Andrea S. Thomas 9789042039254
Booksplease Price: $169.53Since the 1874 publication in Belgium of the first posthumous edition of Les Chants de Maldoror, the enigmatic work has served as an inspiration for the poetic and creative liberation of countless... -
The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship by Wim van Mierlo 9789042039308
Booksplease Price: $182.76This is the 11th volume of Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Founded in 2002, Variants provides an international, interdisciplinary and comparative forum for the... -
New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042004665
Booksplease Price: $237.97Ever since the publication of 'Truth' in 1959 Sir Michael Dummett has been acknowledged as one of the most profoundly creative and influential of contemporary philosophers. His contributions to the... -
The United Stories of America: Studies in the Short Story Composite by Rolf Lundén 9789042006928
Booksplease Price: $111.68This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this... -
Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature by Meng Hua 9789042007505
Booksplease Price: $124.91The present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural...