Heterologies. Discourse on the Other, Paperback - Michel De Certeau

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Michel De CerteauNumber of pages: 302Collection: Theory and History of LiteraturePublication dat...

Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with commentary, this text shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in...

Reducere. In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and ...

To remain unconsumed by consumer society was the goal of the first volume. Delving even deeper, this volume develops a social history of "making do...

Reducere. Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian ...

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original wo...

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexu...

Reducere. From the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars, a coming-of-age novel that presents two powerfully different visions of what it means to...

Expresses the author's views on relationships. This title contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Michel de MontaigneTranslator: Marjorie GreneNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2003Dimensions: ...

Kim, Inge, Mai Lan and Hector have been camping for weeks in the wilds of Betelgeuse's canyons, waiting for Hector's ankle to heal. As they get rea...

Reducere. DescriptionMichel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the e...

A collection of the essential works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. "The Confessions", regarded as the firs...

DescriptionThis book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Ke...

Reducere. The amazing predictions of the "Seer of Provence" are collected in this startling book. Learn the strange, cryptic secrets of the mysterious, legen...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTranslator: Daniel GarberNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 1991Dimensio...

Reducere. DescriptionThe amazing prophecies of the "Seer of Provence" are presented here in both the original French and English translations. Covering such ...

"This book is a translation of a work previously published in French by Editions Gallimard as L'inquiaetude permanente: Suivi de Glossaire des prin...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Robert LefortNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 22Cover type: Pape...

Description'Humanism of the Other' argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanit...

A HEART-STOPPING, VISCERAL THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWIST. A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes hi...

Reducere. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: G. D. H. ColeJean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chai...

Publisher: OrionAuthor(s): Michel BussiPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 35Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-...

Reducere. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Ec...

Reducere. Discours de la m thode is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by Ren Descartes in 1637.It is one of the most influential works ...

Reducere. The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the cont...

Publisher: De GruyterIllustration(s): 6 Tables, black and white; 19 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 380Coll...

Reducere. In TROLLRÚN: A Discourse on Trolldom and Runes in the Northern Tradition, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold opens the door to landscapes little known ou...

DescriptionThis volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed ...

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If ineq...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: Donald A. CressNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1992Dimension...