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  • Living as a Bird

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Helen Morrison ...
    In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the presence of other birds and begin to threaten and attack them if they cross a border, which might be invisible to human eyes but ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Brett Buchanan ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the ForewordIs it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Cognitive Development and Working Memory

    A Dialogue between Neo-Piagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

    Edited by Pierre Barrouillet, Vinciane Gaillard ...
    The intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon. Understanding the constraints that limit children’s intelligence, as well as discovering methods to improve it, has always been a challenging undertaking for developmental psychologists. This book presents a unique attempt to address these issues by establishing a dialogue between neo-Piagetian ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Hera of Zeus

    Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse

    by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Gabriella Pironti, Fritz Graf ...
    Translated by Raymond Geuss ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image to the cults of the sovereign goddess in her sanctuaries across Greece? ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Our Grateful Dead

    Stories of Those Left Behind

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Stephen Muecke ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the livingA common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling on the dead, to get over the pain? Vinciane Despret thinks not. In her fascinating, elegantly ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Women Who Make a Fuss

    The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf

    by Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by April Knutson ...
    Series series Univocal
    Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned women against joining the procession of educated men and being co-opted into protecting a “civilization” with values alien to women. Now, as Woolf’s disloyal (unfaithful) daughters, who have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Our Emotional Makeup

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Broken hearts, edgy nerves, tightened throats—our emotions grab and take hold of us. But if our emotions appear obvious to us, are they necessarily real or universal? This, of course, is what researchers in physiology and psychology assert, but they will ultimately be disappointed.Vinciane Despret sets out in this book to show how some of our emotions, precisely those we thought were a natural ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Greek Polytheism: A Historical Subject

    Inaugural lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 7 December 2017

    by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Greek polytheism was not a simple collection of juxtaposed gods and goddesses, but a complex interplay between deities at different levels – local, regional and panhellenic. Significant evidence – combining literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic sources – has profoundly renewed the study of Greek polytheism and made it a relevant subject to understand ancient societies from both a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the ... Read more

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  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

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  • Can China Think?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 11 December 2008

    by Anne Cheng ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes ... Read more

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  • Michel de Certeau

    Interpretation and Its Other

    by Jeremy Ahearne ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
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