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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Remote Control

    by Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • The Gay Science

    With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Walter Kaufmann ...
    The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

    The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

    by Daniel Barnett ...
    Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy

    by S. Austin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Method of Equality

    Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Inheriting Walter Benjamin

    by Professor Gerhard Richter ...
    Series series Walter Benjamin Studies
    Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida, each chapter attends to a key concern in Benjamin's writing, while reflecting on the challenges that this ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    by Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Expressiveness in music performance

    Empirical approaches across styles and cultures

    Edited by Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers, Emery Schubert ...
    What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Jesus Dub

    Theology, Music and Social Change

    by Robert Beckford ...
    Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.Engaging with the social and cultural heritage that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Dirt

    New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

    Edited by Rosie Cox, Prof. Ben Campkin ...
    Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Art, Mind, and Narrative

    Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie

    Edited by Julian Dodd ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer ... Read more

    $69.29 USD