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  • Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic

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    In the year 2020, what we used to think that our habits have been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all of those who went through it since it radically affected our freedom of movement and social interaction, that used to make up our everyday lives. Some people believe that once the pandemic ends, nothing will be the same. Others think that once the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration

    by Marco Piazza ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book challenges Voltaire’s doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire’s attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Maine de Biran's 'Of Immediate Apperception'

    by Maine de Biran ...
    Translated by Dr Mark Sinclair ...
    Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of the possibility of an 'immediate apperception' of the self. It contains the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

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    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

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  • Enemies of the Enlightenment

    The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while ... Read more

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  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

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  • French Literature

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    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

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  • New Ritual Society. Consumerism and culture in contemporary society

    by Gianpiero Vincenzo ...
    “New Ritual Society is impressively thorough and wide- ranging” - Randall Collins“The development of consumerism-related and mass-culture art is also taken into consideration.And this is not merely by chance, because Vincenzo, professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania, deems the understanding of such crucial aspects of present society and culture as essential, in order to educate young ... Read more

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  • Must We Divide History Into Periods?

    by Jacques Le Goff ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth ... Read more

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  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Television

    Experiences and Theories

    by Milly Buonanno ...
    At a stage of major change in the world of television (the coming of digital TV, multiple channels, mobile TV on cellphones) this book seeks to take stock of the impact of the advent and presence of television on daily life over the past fifty years, or slightly longer. The author takes as her standpoint, or rather places at the centre of her analysis and considerations, the human experience and ... Read more

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