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  • Piano and Song

    How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    by Friedrich Wieck ...
    Translated by Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck masterfully intertwines the intricacies of pianistic technique with the emotive power of song composition. This seminal work offers a profound exploration of the relationship between piano performance and vocal melody, emphasizing the importance of a symbiotic interaction in music-making. Wieck's literary style is both didactic and reflective, enriched by his ... Read more

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  • Piano and Song

    Enriched edition. How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    by Friedrich Wieck, Kelsey Bates ...
    Translated by Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck offers an insightful exploration of the intimate relationship between piano performance and vocal expression, advocating for a harmonious integration of musical elements. This pedagogical text, reflecting the Romantic era's emphasis on emotive expression, serves as both a practical guide for pianists and a philosophical treatise on the nature of music-making. ... Read more

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  • Love, Order, and Progress

    The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte

    Edited by Michel Bourdeau, Mary Pickering, Warren Schmaus ...
    Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's philosophy, the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Auguste Comte: Volume 3

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Mary Pickering ...
    Series series Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
    This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1857. During these early years of the Second Empire, Comte became increasingly conservative and anxious to control his disciples. This study offers the first study of the tensions within his movement. ... Read more

    $96.79 USD

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    Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

    by John Tresch ...
    In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic ... Read more

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  • Auguste Comte

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure.Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive ... Read more

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  • What is Literature for?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Read more

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  • The Self and Its Pleasures

    Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject

    by Carolyn J. Dean ...
    Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief ... Read more

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  • The End of the Soul

    Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

    by Jennifer Hecht ...
    On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of ... Read more

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  • Sewing, Fighting and Writing

    Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture

    by Maria Tamboukou ...
    Series series Radical Cultural Studies
    Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century. As a consequence, French women workers were radicalized much earlier, creating a unique and ... Read more

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  • Rebel Daughters

    Women and the French Revolution

    Edited by Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine ...
    Series series University of California Humanities Research Institute Series
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, "woman" was transformed into an allegorical ... Read more

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  • For Strasbourg

    Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving ... Read more

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