Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action, Paperback - Stephen Teo

This book focuses on the philosophy of Chinese martial arts film, arguing that philosophy provides a key to understanding the whole genre.Publisher...

This is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema kno...

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The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements o...

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If Saint Thomas Aquinas was a great theologian, it is in no small part because he was a great philosopher. And he was a great philosopher because h...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Frederick TurnerIllustration(s): 58 black and white photosNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 202...

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DescriptionReligion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of hum...

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Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into ...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Phillip StarrIllustration(s): B&W PHOTOSNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 155 x...

Reducere. These translations of Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness and the intelligible world are accompanied with a scholarly introduction that expl...

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Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work wa...

The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for studen...

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Presents an important new reading of Jacques Derrida's writings on religion and ethics. Eddis Miller argues that Derrida's late texts on religion c...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture - Yoram Hazony

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through deta...

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Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Vitalik ButerinNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 234 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

DescriptionThis moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the traditional Japanese arts--from archery to flower arranging--is celebrat...

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DescriptionThe Philosophy of Death Reader presents a collection of classic readings from across the centuries and the continents. Organised around ...

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance ...

DescriptionReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosoph...