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The Growth of Minds and Culture: A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience by Willem H. Vanderburg 9781487520342
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment. Such questions cannot be answered by... -
Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research by Kevin Korsyn 9780195104547
Booksplease Price: £97.91As the work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek and others, Decentering Music examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music when humanities... -
A History of Art History by Christopher S. Wood
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.51An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of... -
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant by Robert Doran
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in... -
Retrospective: A Historiographical Aesthetic in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia by June Yap 9781498555814
Booksplease Price: £112.43Developed as an exploratory study of artworks by artists of Singapore and Malaysia, Retrospective attempts to account for contemporary artworks that engage with history. These are artworks that... -
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant by Robert Doran 9781107499157
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.92In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in... -
Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics by Peter Steiner 9780801417108
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.56Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent... -
Narrative and History by Alun Munslow 9781352002683
Booksplease Price: £28.57Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history... -
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice by Allan Megill
Booksplease Price: £28.55In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and... -
Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research by Kevin Korsyn 9780195181647
Booksplease Price: £57.69As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music at a time when... -
Creating the European Area of Higher Education: Voices from the Periphery by Voldemar Tomusk 9781402066917
Booksplease Price: £92.16COM(91) 349 final and the Peripheries of European Higher Education Voldemar Tomusk Open Society Institute - Budapest For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor... -
Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780226981536
Booksplease Price: £24.80"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a... -
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Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution" by Saul Friedlander 9780674707665
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.76Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In... -
Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research by Lytle Shaw
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to... -
The New Cultural History by Lynn Hunt
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals... -
Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon by Stefan Mattessich 9780822329947
Booksplease Price: £34.31For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism-the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at... -
Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains by Renee Hulan 9781137398888
Booksplease Price: £46.74Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of... -
Aesthetic Politics: Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value by F. R. Ankersmit 9780804727303
Booksplease Price: £25.06Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice-which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be... -
Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past by Ethan Kleinberg
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do... -
Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past by Ethan Kleinberg 9781503602373
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do... -
Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart
Booksplease Price: £26.68Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan... -
The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart 9780226773865
Booksplease Price: £93.53Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan... -
History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck by Niklas Olsen 9780857452955
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46This is the first intellectual biography, in any language, on post-war Germany's greatest theorist of history, Reinhart Koselleck. It not only illuminates Koselleck's role in founding conceptual... -
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change... -
Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking by Harwood Fisher 9780231145046
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain, cognitive operations,... -
Historicism: A Travelling Concept by Professor Herman Paul 9781350121959
Booksplease Price: £112.13Throughout the twentieth century, scholars, artists and politicians have accused each other of "historicism." But what exactly did this mean? Judging by existing scholarship, the answers varied... -
On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices by Roger Chartier
Booksplease Price: £25.63The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and... -
Teaching Historical Narratives: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Virtues of Historical Interpretation Jon A. Levisohn 9781350433397
Booksplease Price: £90.57With this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the... -
Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka - Discourses of Cartography, History and Translation in Selected Works by Michael Ondaatje by Paola Brusasco
RRP: £29.90Booksplease Price: £22.25Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's ethnic conflict. By... -
Teaching Historical Narratives: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Virtues of Historical Interpretation Jon A. Levisohn 9781350433427
Booksplease Price: £30.54With this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the... -
Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age by Alan Nadel
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American... -
The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern by Catherine M. Soussloff
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in... -
Hiding from History: Politics and Public Imagination by Meili Steele
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.24In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history... -
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary by Chiara Bottici
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or... -
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The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern by Catherine M. Soussloff 9780822336587 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £18.83Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in... -
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist by Fredric Jameson 9781844672790
Booksplease Price: £25.08The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats-who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality,... -
Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials: Rethinking Victimhood by Cecilia Macon 9781498510387
Booksplease Price: £76.51The origin of Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials: Rethinking Victimhood can be found in the resistance that, using a traditional feminist perspective, alleges that... -
Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary by Chiara Bottici 9780231157780
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or... -
Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie 9780521275880
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century... -
Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989 by Matt Cornish 9780472037568
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is...