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The cinema of the real
Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an "emancipatory drive" in transnational cinema.A significant intervention into Lacanian film studies, this book sets forth a new theory of the psychoanalytic Real in cinema. In psychoanalysis, the Real ruptures the Symbolic that organizes...
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Leo strauss and the crisis of rationalism
Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.How can Leo Strauss's critique of modernity and his return to tradition, especially Maimonides, help us to save democracy from its inner dangers? In...
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Family feuds
Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues tha...
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The sound of vultures' wings
Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical-m...
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The catholic church and social change in nicaragua
This book presents an in-depth, uniquely historical perspective on Nicaragua, focusing on the key role of the Catholic Church in the political, social, and religious issues that confront this country today. It examines the profound transformation of the Church via the radical approach of liberati...
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Paper media
This book is published by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis, curated by Francesco Guzzetti, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.Paper Media, the catalog accompanying the exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, is the...
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Justice for children
Applies the concept of personal and political autonomy to children and children's development.In this groundbreaking theory of justice for children, Harry Adams takes the basic moral and political ideal of autonomy and shows what radical implications it has when applied to children and their deve...
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Imagining black womanhood
Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Afrocentric, womanis...
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Beyond beauty
Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world of a...
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Embodied spirituality in a sacred world
Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human spirituality will find something of value in Michael Washburn's new book. Drawing on a rich variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential-phenomenolo...
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The other nietzsche
This volume explores facets of Nietzsche relatively untouched by the majority of the vast literature on him. Stambaugh concentrates on his ideas on art and creativity in general, regarding these realms of human endeavor as not limited to aesthetics in the narrower sense, but as constitutive of li...
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British television intellectuals
The first exploration of the rise of one of Britain's least-recognised but most significant television genres. Working within the frame of public intellectual theory, it tells the story and analyses the means by which 'unusual kinds of star' became Britain's TV intellectuals and have developed as...
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Chimera
Analyzes, through the lens of posthuman philosophy, the practices of artists and designers who explore the potentialities of bio-mechanical, sensory, and cognitive techno-scientific extensions of our bodies, to define the 'Expanded Body' and its new ethic and entangled relationship with the human...
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A phenomenology of trumpism
This thought-provoking book spans historical periods, cultures, and continents to prompt reflection on rhetoric, politics and the enduring challenges of democracy. Revisiting Classical thought, it offers a lens through which to examine the early ideals of democratic governance, social and cultura...
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Matrescence and performance
Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...
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Lines of inquiry
Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...
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Repair across africa
Examines repair as a dynamic social, material, cultural, and economic practice. Spanning diverse African contexts, it explores how mending connects labour, urban lives, and historical memories, revealing the artisanal skills and relational dynamics that underpin everyday acts of material care and...
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The intellect handbook of nordic cinema
The Handbook of Nordic Cinema is a comprehensive reference work providing an overview of cinema in the Nordic countries - Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. By comparing the cinematic cultures of the five Nordic nations as well as Sápmi, the book gives the readers a more comparative an...
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Propositions for studio inquiry
Examining art studios as a way of thinking through a cross-Canada journey into over 100 painters’ studios. Drawn from ways artists described their process, the studio is presented as an active ecosystem wherein artmaking is emergent, performative, generative, material, speculative, messy and in d...
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Studying unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television
A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference ...
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Decolonial media imaginaries
Decolonial Media Imaginaries pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and generativity of cultivating decolonial media imaginaries. 20 b&w illus.
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Regulating new media in africa
A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...
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Outback
Outback is essentially a study of how the Western genre has evolved in Australian cinema history over more than a century. The book reflects on what constitutes the nature of the genre, on its prolificacy in Australia, and on some of the recurring thematic and cultural concerns that have been mat...
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