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  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Neo-Classical Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Classical Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Romantic Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Modern Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $38.99 USD

  • Bomb the Suburbs

    Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

    by William Upski Wimsatt ...
    Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the 'burbs? That's the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, and street art, and the culture and politics that surround it.Taking on a broad range of topics, including suburban sprawl, racial identity, and youth activism, Wimsatt (a graffiti artist himself ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • No More Prisons

    Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to

    by William Upski Wimsatt ...
    A truly remarkable collection of activist writings across all topics and perspectives, all while recounting a personal evolution from idealistic urban wanderer to community organizer, from graffiti writer to renowned essayist.Author William Upski Wimsatt delivers stories, strategies, suggestions, straight talk, and conversations with maverick activists. He advocates youth taking charge of their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs

    A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement

    by William Upski Wimsatt ...
    "A book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society . . . Billy Wimsatt has grown up." —CounterPunchAs a potty-mouthed graffiti writer from the South Side of Chicago, William Upski Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

    Edited by Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, William C. Wimsatt ...
    Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.This volume examines the idea of levels of organization as a distinct object of investigation, considering its merits as a core organizational principle for the scientific image of the natural world. It approaches levels of organization--roughly, the idea ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Characterizing the Robustness of Science

    After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Thomas Nickles, William Wimsatt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since all these notions, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition

    Edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, William C. Wimsatt ...
    Series Book 17 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution."Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology, cognitive science, social ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Beyond the Meme

    Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

    Edited by Alan C. Love, William Wimsatt ...
    Series series Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over timeHow do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex ... Read more

    $28.79 USD