Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books Ltd., 1999. — 138 p. What is postmodernism? As we enter the 21st century, here is a graphic guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept used to define our cultural condition. Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly "contemporary"...
Insight Press, 2005. - 165 p. This provocative collection of reflections and observations by Bob Avakian on art, culture, science and philosophy offers a rare treat. Excerpted from formal talks as well as more informal discussions and conversations, many of the texts in this collection allow the reader to experience firsthand the freewheeling Bob Avakian – in the process of...
Chicago: Open Court, 2012. — 288 p. — (Popular Culture and Philosophy) — ISBN10: 0812697650; ISBN13: 978-0812697650 Neil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children’s books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman and Philosophy looks...
Rodopi. — NY. — 2011. — 229 P. ISBN: 978-90-420-3336-8. Introduction: Viagra, Lifestyle and Philosophical Perspective. Eros, Viagra and Good Life: Reflection on Cephalus. Diogenes of Sinopes Gets Hard on Viagra. A Question Virtuous Sex : Would Aristotle Take Viagra? Man s Fallen State ; St. Augustine on Viagra. Viagra and Utopia Immortality. Enhancing Desire Phylosophically :...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 157 p. Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 302 p. — ISBN10: 1442235969, ISBN13: 978-1442235960. For many individuals, pornography is a troubling and problematic issue. Regardless of how the public views this topic, one thing is clear: Pornography is as prevalent and accessible as smartphones and laptop computers. Indeed, beyond traditional hardcore material, a pornographic...
Oxford: Oxford University Press — 2002 — 152 p — ISBN10: 0192801597; ISBN13: 978-0192801593. Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. His shifting positions and theoretical...
Foreword by Daniel R. Wildcat, Afterword by David E. Wilkins. — Fulcrum Publishing, 2012. — 328 p. From the most widely read Native American intellectual comes a book that searches for the structure and meaning of reality. Synthesizing ideas from some of the most eminent philosophers of modern times- ideas that have hitherto been given only a perfunctory examination - Vine...
Dialéctica de la Ilustración es una obra escrita por Theodor Adorno y Max Horkheimer, ambos autores dedicados a la llamada Teoría crítica, corriente comprometida con un compromiso social emancipatorio de las estructuras establecidas en la sociedad moderna. En sus páginas encontraremos un análisis crítico de la cultura de masas y del fascismo al mismo tiempo que se vincula el...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. — 256 p. — (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) — ISBN10: 0470597720; ISBN13: 978-0470597729 The first look at the philosophical issues behind Charlaine Harris's New York Times bestsellers The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the True Blood television series. Teeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape of vampires, telepaths,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-7814-3. Opening the Ancient Scrolls : Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets Cylons: Are Toasters People, Too? Worthy of Survival : Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth : The Search for a (Divine ?) Home Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese : Different Worlds, Different Perspectives
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 110 p. — ISBN: 0691091641. This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Harry Frankfurt writes...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 270 p. Nearly everyone has wronged another. Who among us has not longed to be forgiven? Nearly everyone has suffered the bitter injustice of wrongdoing. Who has not struggled to forgive? Charles L. Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts, as well as its...
UK: Zero Books, 2012. — 277 p. — ISBN: 1780992521, 9781780992525. As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from...
Blackwell, 1990. — 379 p. The argument The passage from modernity to postmodernity in contemporary culture The political-economic transformation of late twentieth century capitalism The experience of space and time The condition of postmodernity
Translated by J. Lewis May. — City of Westminster, London: Penguin University Books, 1973. — 510 p. La Crice de la conscience europeenne first published in Paris 1935. This translation first published by Hollins & Carter 1953.
London, Boston, Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0-7100-0578-4. In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits....
Open Court Publishing, 2002. — 280 p. The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers who created The Simpsons and...
John Wiley & Sons ,2012. — 690 p. —ISBN: 978-1-118-20605-8 Part One: " You Win or You Die " Part Two " The Things I Do For Love " Part Three " Winter is Coming " Part Four " The Man Who Passes the Sentence should Swing the Sword " Part Five " Stick them With the Pointy End "
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 424 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures). — ISBN10: 3319787462, ISBN13: 978-3319787466. This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 379 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures). — ISBN10: 3319787462, ISBN13: 978-3319787466. This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted...
Beograd: Otkrovenje, 2004. — 330 str. Umesto uvoda: Stil, najviše načelo palanke. Ideal čistog siromaštva. Duh palanke kao duh plemena u agoniji. Palanka, pozorište normativnosti. Obsustvo tragedije: sentimentalizam i sarkazam. Pamfletizam protiv tragedije. Sreća od nesreće kao pra-uzrok determinizma. Areizam kao načelo javnosti. Smrt i filosofija palanke. Individualizam kao...
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990. - 260 p. Introduerion: Axiornatic. EpisternoJogy of the Closet. Sorne Binarisrns (1). Billy Budd: After the Homosexual. Sorne Binarisrns (2). Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations. of the Maje Body. The Beast in the CJoset. James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic. Proust and the Spectacle of the Closet.
University of North Carolina Press, 1992. — 182 p. – ISBN: 0807820318. Henry Levinson offers a major reinterpretation of the Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952), which highlights his relationship to the tradition of American pragmatism. He shows that Santayana's role in forming the pragmatist tradition was greater than has usually been recognized and...
Princeton University Press, 2002 - 234 p. Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary,...
Stanford University Press, 2005. — 265 p. Translator's Note. The Economy. Principal Themes. A Semantic Study of the Term Economy. The Iconic economy. The Doctrine of the Image and Icon. Sacred Precinct and Profane Space. Iconic Space and Territorial Ru19. Idoli and Veronicas. The Idol's Delenda Est. Ghost Story. The Jew, Frontally and in Profile. Extracts from the Iconoclast...
Arktos Media Ltd, 2010. — 100 p. A Handbook of Traditional Living consists of two texts originally published by the Italian cultural organisation Raido, translated here for the first time: The World of Tradition and The Front of Tradition. The first is a comprehensive summary of the principal ideas of Julius Evola. The esoteric history of the world, the nature of the Primordial...
Oxford, 2015. — 300 p. Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two centuries, the dominant view (from psychology to...
London; New York: Routledge, 2000. — 224 p. — (New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 0-415-10229-4. Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines: culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis;...
Universitat de València, 2002. — 252 p. — ISBN13: 9788437054384. Este libro examina la problemática combinación de autorreferencialidad literaria, revisionismo histórico y pensamiento utópico en varias novelas producidas en Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad de los años setenta. El énfasis de este estudio recae en aquellas obras que tratan con mayor...
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 9783631651346; ISBN13: 978-3631651346 There is an intrinsic connection between the notions of image and time. Visual images can strike us as incomplete, as ambiguous, unless they are moving ones, happening in time. However, time cannot be conceptualized except by metaphors,...
London: Verso, 2011. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 1844676730; ISBN13: 978-1844676736 — (Radical Thinkers) If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmodern and tradition — which are usually only...
Vintage Books, 1992. — 354 p. — ISBN: O — 679 — 74101 — 1. A provocative and intelligent new book by the author of the national bestseller Sexual Personae. Camille Paglia has been called everything from "the intellectual pin-up of the '90s" to an academic Rottweiler to "the bravest and most original critic of our day". And she lives up to her various reputations in this...
Vintage Books, 1994. — 564 p. — ISBN: 0-679-75120-3. The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time. А selection...
Routledge, London, 1995. - 250 P. Introduction: Performativie and Performance. The Unhappy Performative. Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World. Writing the Absent Potentlal: Drama, Performance, and the Canon of African-American Literature. Traumatic Awakenings. Katharsis: The Ancient Problem. The Play of Conscience. The Shudder of Catharsis in Twentieth-Century...
In The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Cristina Pepe offers a complete overview of the concept of speech genre within ancient rhetoric. By analyzing sources dating from the 5th-4th century BC, the author proves that the well-known classification in three rhetorical genres (deliberative, judicial, epideictic), introduced by Aristotle, was rooted in...
Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009. — 80 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-933254-46-3 What is conceptual writing, how does it differ from Conceptual Art, what are some of the dominant forms of conceptualism,where does an impure or hybrid conceptualism fit in, what about the baroque, what about the prosody of procedure, what are the links between appropriation and conceptual...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 257 p. This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 373 p. Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. It unravels an ongoing conversation across centuries and continents as thinkers interpret, respond, and build on each other's work.
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 197 p. In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression. The chapters are ordered into three categories: those about intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression; those that emphasize aspects of the moral, psychological and medical features of these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 454 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). — ISBN: 978-0-8122-4865-4. What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful...
New York: Fordham University Press, 2011 — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0823233979; ISBN13: 978-0823233977. Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in 20th-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, and W.G. Sebald, Mourning...
Routledge,Taylor & Francis, 2011. — 222 p. — (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature). — ISBN13: 978-0-415-88041-1. This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi's works - from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 257 p. Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, overstimulation, and stress. We are plagued by a growing variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one’s knowledge, performance, and...
With Introduction by Stefan Collini. — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 196 p. "The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures – namely the sciences and the humanities – and that this was a...
New York: Vintage Books, 1971. — 204 p. — ISBN: 0-394-74742-9 This collection brings together the author's important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as an analysis of...
Picador, 2013. — 329 p. — ISBN: 9781466853591. This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time. On Paul Goodman Approaching Artaud Fascinating Fascism Under The Sign Of Saturn Syberberg's Hitler Remembering Barthes...
Picador, 2002. — 721 p. — ISBN: 9781429923828. Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that...
Chicago: Open Court, 2010. — 288 p. — (Popular Culture and Philosophy) — ISBN10: 0812696700; ISBN13: 978-0812696707. Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at their core. Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away are just a few of the films analyzed in...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009. — 238 p. — (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) — ISBN: 978-0-470-39685-8 (pbk.) Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — xviii, 194 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09656-2. In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of holistic pragmatism can accommodate its breadth....
Westport CT; L.: Praeger, 1996. - 303 p. "Provocative social-cultural theory; jeremiad; prophecy of an already arrived technocratic dystopia. This book by a senior media scholar is all these. The human condition has evolved from a cyclical oral tradition to a linear culture of written intellectualism, but events of the last 35 years indicate descent into a Web culture of...
Westport CT; L.: Praeger, 2003. - 266 p. The West is declining, and Wood blames it on the self-implosion of our intellectual cultural heritage. Modernism is collapsing under its own weight, as postmodern ideals eat away at the West's twin pillars of reason and responsibility. Our media-fueled, image-driven, non-linear recasting of the good life has led to the rejection of...
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2018. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 1845192494; ISBN13: 978-1845192495 — (Critical Inventions) The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction' can be seen to bear in changing contexts. The book first looks at...
Vintage, 1998. - 314 p. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity...
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