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  • James the Minimalist

    An Essay on the Late Novels

    de John Brenkman ...
    An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.Henry James’s last completed novels—The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl—are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of modern fiction. The stories they tell are perverse: characters are compelling even at their most cruel, their actions often calculating and loving at ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Mood and Trope

    The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

    de John Brenkman ...
    "Reconnect[s] affect studies with major issues in literary studies, philosophy, and aesthetics. . . . a fundamental contribution to this emergent field." —Jonathan Culler, Cornell University, author of Structuralist PoeticsIn Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and ... Leer más

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  • The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy

    Political Thought since September 11

    de John Brenkman ...
    Since 9/11, American foreign policy has been guided by grand ideas like tyranny, democracy, and freedom. And yet the course of events has played havoc with the cherished assumptions of hawks and doves alike. The geo-civil war afflicting the Muslim world from Lebanon through Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan confronts the West with the need to articulate anew what its political ideas and ideals ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Straight Male Modern

    A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis

    de John Brenkman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis
    Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexuality, even culture itself. But, in fact, they were merely theorizing males.In this title, originally published in 1993, the author reassesses the benchmark concepts of Freudian thought, building on feminist criticisms of psychoanalysis and the new ... Leer más

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Bonds of Love

    Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination

    de Jessica Benjamin ...
    Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate the positions of master and slave?In The Bonds of Love, noted feminist theorist and psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    de Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Leer más

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  • Fictions of Authority

    Women Writers and Narrative Voice

    de Susan Sniader Lanser ...
    Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, ... Leer más

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  • Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought

    de Erich Fromm ...
    The renowned social psychologist and New York Times –bestselling author's classic study of Freud's most important—and controversial—ideas: "Simple, thoughtful, and incisive" ( Library Journal )."Brilliant new insights into both the strengths and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, while reaffirming its radical potential." — Publishers Weekly... ... Leer más

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  • Closure In The Novel

    de Marianna Torgovnick ...
    We all want to know how novels end and to feel that they satisfy what we want in a good story. CLOSURE IN THE NOVEL will help you understand and appreciate why artists choose to conclude their novels as they do. It will give you a new appreciation for sequels, epilogues, back-stories, and the way that endings can complete a novel's form, sometimes at the expense of "fudging" some of what the story ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

    de Roger Scruton ...
    "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of ... Leer más

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    de Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Leer más

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