Reducere. Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and...
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Reducere. One of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--s...
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Reducere. The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of A...
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Reducere. Winner of the 1993 Baltic Assembly Prize An immediate sensation upon its 1993 publication in Europe, already translated into more than a dozen lang...
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Reducere. The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. ...
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Reducere. This tale of a young woman's not-so-sentimental education is the story of fifteen-year-old Lolenka, who encounters an exiled radical named Veretits...
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Reducere. Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of disl...
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Reducere. Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States--now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible o...
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Reducere. In the next chapter of the Cave Canem/Northwestern University Poetry Prize, we enter the poetic world of Vievee Francis. Bold and skilled, Francis ...
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Reducere. Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" an...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. PalmerThis classic, first published in 1969, introduces to English-speaking readers a field which is of increasi...
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Reducere. Included are essays in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology by one of the most important twentieth-century continental philosoph...
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Reducere. Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eugene GendlinContribution by: Robert A. ParkerEugene T. Gendlin (1926-2017) is increasingly recognized as one of the semin...
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Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed anti-fascist novel, The Mortal Storm was Phyllis Bottome's dramatic warning against the warmongering, antisemitism, a...
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Reducere. Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called...
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Reducere. Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentine's work and a critical document for understanding influential French scho...
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Reducere. DescriptionMerleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense ...
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Reducere. Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. In her younger days, essayist Megan Stielstra saw Jane's Addicti...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Eileen Rizo-PatronAppearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the Instant--Bachelard'...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan P. MerriamAuthor: Valerie MerriamIn this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a so...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyTranslator: Richard C. McCleary"Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole."Thus...
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Reducere. The Structures of the Life-World is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 193...
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Reducere. In this first study in English of a master of Polish cinema, Annette Insdorf explores Has's thirteen feature films with the same deep insight of he...
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Reducere. Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj...
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Reducere. In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as ...
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Reducere. Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the...
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Reducere. Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday expe...
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Reducere. Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyTranslator: Alphonso LingisThe Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and workin...
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Reducere. In Force, Drive, Desire, Rudolf Bernet develops a philosophical foundation of psychoanalysis focusing on human drives. Rather than simply drawing u...
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