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  • The Varieties of Temporal Experience

    Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time

    de Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Varieties of Temporal Experience

    Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time

    de Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • As Wide as the World Is Wise

    Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology

    de Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists closer together? Would it lead to greater insights across historical and cultural divides?In As ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Work of Art

    Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

    de Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Harmattan

    A Philosophical Fiction

    de Professor Michael D. Jackson ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds.Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    de Clifford Geertz ...
    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Melancholy and the Landscape

    Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape

    de Jacky Bowring ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Fictionalizing Anthropology

    Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human

    de Stuart J. McLean ...
    What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Parallax View

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    de Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Funny Weather

    Art in an Emergency

    de Olivia Laing ...
    “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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