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  • Ibsen and Degeneration

    Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization

    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and the arts, Ibsenian drama highlights the creative potential offered by contemporary evolutionary thought. In his plays, Ibsen explores variations on the theme of degeneration, imagining how families can ... Read more

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  • The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as Rainer Maria Rilke, August Strindberg, W.B. Yeats, Joséphin Péladan and the artist Jan Švankmaier, as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Architecture and Design for the Future Internet

    4WARD Project

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Architecture and Design for the Future Internet addresses the Networks of the Future and the Future Internet, focusing on networks aspects, offering both technical and non-technical perspectives. It presents the main findings of 4WARD (Architecture and Design for the Future Internet), a European Integrated Project within Framework Programme 7, which addressed this area from an innovative approach. ... Read more

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    More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine

    Series Book 12 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.The essays in this volume tackle the ... Read more

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  • Jung the Mystic

    The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings

    by Gary Lachman ...
    This bold, compact new biography of Carl Jung fills a gap in our understanding of the pioneering psychiatrist by focusing on the occult and mystical dimension of Jung's life and work, a critical but frequently misunderstood facet of his career.Although he is often called the "founding father of the New Age," Carl Jung, the legendary Swiss psychiatrist best known for his groundbreaking concepts ... Read more

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  • A New Introduction to Legal Method

    A New Introduction to Legal Method provides a comprehensive overview of legal science and the scientific character of legal knowledge.In five chapters, the book analyses and explores: (i) legal methodology in general, the main features of different schools of thought, and the nature of science in general; (ii) American realism, which offers an ideal starting point for law students to reflect on ... Read more

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  • A Secret History of Consciousness

    by Gary Lachman ...
    For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to another approach to the study and exploration of consciousness that erupted ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy

    You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? Presenting entirely new essays, no aspect of the myth and magic of George Lucas’s creation is left philosophically unexamined in The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy.The editors of the original Star Wars and Philosophy strike back in this Ultimate volume that ... Read more

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  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Edited by Christopher Grau ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics:philosophical issues surrounding ... Read more

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  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Pippi Longstocking

    Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the ... Read more

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