Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy. Wasteland Aesthetics, Hardback - Aidan Tynan

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Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it repre...

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This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and it...

Every day we talk about the aesthetics of a piece of art or design. More than a simple response, aesthetics is a philosophy in which perceptions, f...

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Features a 48-page 'Afterword - 1980'.

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Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation between the two...

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Reducere. "Seek for meetings with holy men and women." These words from fifth-century bishop Palladius ring as true today as they did 1600 years ago. Palladi...

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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Collects important papers written by one of the greatest modern scholars of ancient philosophy. Volume 4 offers more technical articles on Plato's ...

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Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relatio...

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This collection of essays re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It pr...

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience i...

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