The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, 'A Culture of Improvement' documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.
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What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the b…
How is the European Union framed in national intellectual debates? How is the evolving polity conceived? In answer to these questions, 'European Stories' develops a comparison between intellectual narratives of European integration across 12 national cases in order to offer a wi…
"This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. Drawing from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters, and from rare sound…
Rethinking modern European intellectual history
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Issu de conférences au Collège international de philosophie, cet ouvrage examine l'opinion que le XXe siècle a eu de lui-même à partir de l'étude de poèmes, de fragments philosophiques et de pièces de théâtre. Contrairement aux jugements déjà prononcés (siècle des totalitarismes…
Berlin in focus: cultural transformation in Germany
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Frank O'Hara: the poetics of coterie
by Shaw, Lytle
fromContemporary North American poetry series
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"This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African-American thinkers - W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cornel West - each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written pro…