Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy. An Essay in Political Aesthetics, Paperback - Fred Evans

Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for consi...

Contributor(s): Author: John DeweyEditor: Melvin L. RogersMore than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a ...

A defense of aesthetic personalism that affirms an inclusive God's eye or ideal observer view of goodness and beauty, the reality and integrity of ...

This book offers a unique reconceptualization of human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience from a reconstructive reading of...

DescriptionWhen she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train t...

An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressNumber of pages: 328Publication date:...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

In The Fragility of Things, eminent theorist William E. Connolly focuses on several self-organizing ecologies that help to constitute our world. Th...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe f...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Mihaela MihaiNumber of pages: 312Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2022Dim...

Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era, with a focus on the relat...

Public Opinion is Walter Lippmann's groundbreaking work which demonstrates how individual beliefs are swayed by stereotypes, the mass media, and po...

Reducere. A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the interse...

The question at the center of the seventeenth edition of The Irony Of Democracy is "How democratic is American society?" While most American govern...

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 ...

Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics a...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

Reducere. An essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal's history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations,...

Reducere. "Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... ...

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol i...

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American ch...

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-rakin...

Reducere. At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with ...

Cand esti un plagiator sau un falsificator de citate, te poti astepta ca viitorul tau sa nu fie tocmai roz daca ajungi sa fii dat in vileag. Dar cu...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Massimo SciarrettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 2...

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 ...

Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, ...

In this original, contemporary doctrine of the Trinity, William Placher places the history of theology in dialogue with postmodern philosophy and y...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

Reducere. 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 ...

DescriptionIn this innovative anthology, Angela Lord presents a unique series of commentaries on art, aesthetics, and color by three of Western cul...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: ScribendiThis book explains how to write an essay in five easy steps. This simple essay writing guide can be used by high s...

A new trade edition of Sartre's magnum opus. First published in 1943, this masterpiece defines the modern condition and still holds relevance for t...

They started as little more than a gang of extremists and thugs, yet in a few years the Nazis had turned Germany into a one-party state and led one...

Reducere. Democracy in Deficit is one of the early comprehensive attempts to apply the basic principles of public-choice analysis to macroeconomic theory and...

How do you use the word "radical?" Committed to the progressive? The cooperative? The communal? The equalitarian? In so far as social, political, a...

Reducere. This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educa...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Lydia (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Columbia Un...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

A veteran journalist discovers an ancient system of speech techniques for overcoming the fear of public speaking--and reveals how they can profound...

Publisher: Anthroposophic Press IncAuthor(s): Rudolf SteinerTranslator: Clifford VenhoCollection: Collected Works of Rudolf SteinerPublication date...