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Music and Text: Critical Inquiries

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Music and Text: Critical Inquiries - Steven Paul Scher

University | 348 pages | 1992-02-28 | ISBN 0521401585 | PDF | 9 MB

Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted musicologists and literary critics explore diverse topics of shared concern such as literary theory as a model for musical criticism, genre theories in literature and music, the criticism and analysis of texted music, and the role of aesthetic, historical, and cultural understanding in concepts of text/music convergence.

Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries Of Kristeva's Polis

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Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries Of Kristeva's Polis - Tina Chanter, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

State University of New York Press | 217 Pages | 2005-10-06 | ISBN 0791465675 | PDF | 0,6 MB

Kristeva’s varied and voluminous corpus is still growing, and critical commentary has not yet caught up with her most recent concerns. Focusing largely on Kristeva’s most recent work, this collection of original essays examines a number of interconnected strands, in particular, Kristeva’s reevaluation of the concept of revolt, crucial to her early work, in the context of the changing cultural and political conditions in the West; the questions of the stranger, race, and nation; Kristeva’s reflections on narrative, public spaces, and collectivity in the context of her engagement with Hannah Arendt’s work; and finally, Kristeva’s development and refinement of the notions of abjection, melancholia, and narcissism, which proved so central to her work in the 1980s, in her ongoing interrogation of aesthetics. A particular focus of two essays in this volume is a hitherto neglected area of Kristeva’s work, namely her contribution to film theory, within the parameters of these psychic states.


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In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

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In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Routledge | 409 Pages | 2006-05-25 | ISBN: 0415389569 | PDF | 80 Mb

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.

French Feminist Theory: An Introduction

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French Feminist Theory: An Introduction - Dani Cavallaro

Continuum | 220 Pages | 2004-03-01 | ISBN 0826458858 | PDF | 1 MB


French Feminist Theory offers an introduction to the key concepts and themes in French feminist thought, both the materialist and the linguistic/psychoanalytic traditions. These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Nicole-Claude Mathieu, Michele Montreley, Monique Plaza, Paola Tabet, and Monique Wittig.

Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva

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Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva - Kelly Oliver, S. K. Keltner

State Univ of New York | 272 pages | 2009-06-04 | ISBN 1438426496 | PDF | 1 MB

The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva’s work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva’s forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva’s thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva’s oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines.


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Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity

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Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity - Sara Beardsworth

State University of New York Press | ISBN 0791461890 | 2005 | PDF | 309 Pages | 2,1 Mb

"This is the best available study of Kristeva's thought. Beardsworth clearly and cleanly exposes the inner workings of the system of critical thought of this towering intellectual figures. This will become the primary text for understanding--one might even say for constructing--Kristeva's relationship to most of the diverse streams of contemporary feminism."

Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze

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Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze - Russel West-Pavlov

Rodopi | 276 Pages | 2009-02-05 | ISBN 904202545X | PDF | 3 Mb

Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze seeks to give a detailed but succinct overview of the role of spatial reflection in three of the most influential French critical thinkers of recent decades. It proposes a step-by-step analysis of the changing place of space in their theories, focussing on the common problematic all three critics address, but highlighting the significant differences between them.

The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader - Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin (ed.)

Routledge | 520 Pages | 2000 | ISBN 0415186803 | PDF | 27 MB

This reader features the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century.

The themed sections include:

1. Structure and Agency in Language - Theorising the Sign; Language in History; Language and Subjectivity; Language and Gender; Language and Sexuality

2. Unity and Diversity in Language - Order and Difference; Language Communities; Englishes; Language and Creativity

3. Languages, Cultures, Communities - Languages/Cultures; Language and Colonialism; Language, Class and Education.


Essays by: Chinua Achebe, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Basil Bernstein, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Pierre Bourdieu, Edward K. Braithwaite, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Helene Cixous, Brian Cox, Benedetto Croce, David Dabydeen, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Antonio Gramsci, Luce Irigaray, Roman Jacobson, Braj B. Kachru, Julia Kristeva, William Labov, Jacques Lacan, H. L. Mencken, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and many more...


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Representations of the Intellectual

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Representations of the Intellectual - Edward Said

Random House | 1996 | ISBN 0679761276 | 121 Pages | PDF OCR | 4.82 MB

Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns.

Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art

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Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art - Susanne K. Langer

Harvard University Press | ISBN: 0674665031 | 1957-01-01 | PDF | 334 pages | 3.57 Mb

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.

Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher

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Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher - Neil Gross

University Of Chicago Press | ISBN: 0226309908 | 2008-05-15 | PDF | 390 pages | 2 Mb

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil Gross explores the path of Rorty’s thought over the decades in order to trace the intellectual and professional journey that led him to that prominence.

The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas

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The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas - Darrow Schecter

Continuum | 2010 | ISBN: 0826487718 | 254 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

This title explores the most important theoretical and political debates about instrumental reason and political legitimacy, starting with Weber and concluding with the present day. This book analyses the critique of instrumental reason from Weber through to the present day. Weber constitutes the starting point because he represents a key moment of theoretical and political transition.

Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction

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Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction - William Fish

Routledge | 2010-03-17 | ISBN: 041599912X, 0415999111, 0203880587 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enable us to acquire knowledge of the world in which we live, and what exactly it is we are aware of when we hallucinate or dream, the philosophy of perception is a growing area of interest in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

Essays on Definition

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Essays on Definition - Juan C. Sager

John Benjamins Publishing Co | ISBN: 155619773X | edition 2000 | PDF | 256 pages | 10,5 mb

This is a collection of essays on definitions from Plato and Aristotle to the contemporary. They examine the subject from philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the relationship between concepts and terms.

Prose of the World

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Prose of the World - Merleau-Ponty

Northwestern | 1973 | ISBN 0810104121 | 154 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.7 MB

The work which this author planned to call The Prose of the World, or Introduction to the Prose of the World, is unfinished. There is good reason to believe that he deliberately abandoned it and that, he had lived, he would not have completed it, at least in the form that he first outlined.

A History of Western Philosophy

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History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics) - Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Routledge | Number Of Pages: 784 | Publication Date: 2004-03-29 | ISBN-10: 0415325056 | PDF | 5 Mb

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, Russell's History of Western Philosophy offered a cogent précis of its subject. Of course this cannot be the only reason it ended up the best selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. Russell's book was 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of the most important philosophical works of all time.

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Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy

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Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy - Paola Marrati

JHU Press | 2008 | ISBN 0801888026 | 152 Pages | PDF OCR | 2.8 MB

In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy?

Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity

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Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity - Ben-Ami Scharfstein

University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (April 15, 2009) | English | 0226736091 | 558 pages | PDF | 1.91 MB

People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to art and to each other?

The Plague of Fantasies (Second Edition)

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The Plague of Fantasies (Second Edition) - Slavoj Zizek

Verso | 2009 | ISBN 1844673030 | 343 Pages | PDF OCR | 12 MB

The Plague of Fantasies: Zizek explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the intensifying antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives--whether through digitization or the market--and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround us.

Pascalian Meditations

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Pascalian Meditations - Pierre Bourdieu

Stanford University Press | 2000-02-01 | ISBN: 0804733317 | 264 pages | PDF | 12 MB

A synthesis of forty years’ work by France’s leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu’s unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought.

Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language

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Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language - Scott Soames

Princeton University Press | 477 Pages | 2009-03-09 | ISBN 0691136831 | PDF | 1,3 MB

The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays.