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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...

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...

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 context...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 mus...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 - 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...

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...

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 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...