edinburgh university press jul 2015 (13 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to literature, other arts and society.This special issue of Paragraph is the first sustained critical reflection following the publication of the Dictionary of Untranslatables, and includes contributions by those who were most closely involved in the editing of this volume, by two of the translators (Mehlman, Syrotinski), as well as others whose work has been significantly inflected or influenced by the questions raised by the Dictionary.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Gasiorek and Waddell should be commended for bringing together a truly impressive cast of authorities on Lewis, who reaffirm here the provocative vitality of Lewis's work for modernist studies today. Critically eclectic and thematically comprehensive, this book combines broader cultural and literary-historical essays with energetic readings of key novels from Lewis's formidable oeuvre.' David James, Queen Mary, University of London The first guide to the work of Wyndham Lewis as writer, novelist and critic Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly companion to his written work. It features dedicated chapters on such novels as Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), The Revenge for Love (1937), The Human Age sequence (1928-55) and Self Condemned (1954). Also included are chapters on Lewis's pre-war writing, cultural criticism, politics, satire and reputation and legacy. Other chapters consider such varied topics as Vorticism and avant-gardism, war, race and gender, technology and mass media and modernism. Wyndham Lewis is essential reading for scholars working on Lewis, modernism and twentieth-century socio-cultural history. Key Features - Provides a clear overview of Lewis's literary, critical and non-fictional achievements - Explores Lewis's most important novels in individual chapters - Expert contributors include: Faith Binckes (Bath Spa University), David Bradshaw (University of Oxford), Paul Edwards (University of East Anglia), Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria University), Miranda Hickman (McGill University), Scott W. Klein (Wake Forest University), Ian Patterson (University of Cambridge) and Alan Munton (University of Exeter) Andrzej Gasiorek is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Nathan Waddell is an Assistant Professor of Literary Modernism at the University of Nottingham.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'There is no doubt that The Badiou Dictionary will represent a landmark. Its entries provide a series of red threads through the work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, written with clarity and based on vast scholarship. Steven Corcoran has gathered a most impressive group of outstanding scholars, each with an independent voice. Indispensible for beginners and a treat for all who have been following the development of Badiou's thought over the last decades.'Mladen Dolar, University of LjubljanaThe first dictionary dedicated to the ambitious philosophical project of Alain BadiouAlain Badiou's philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of fields, from philosophy to anthropology, including art, politics and theatre.From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary, provide detailed explanations and engagements with his key concepts and some of his major interlocutors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in Badiou scholarship in a productive and enlightening way.Written by leading commentators from around the world, including Justin Clemens, François Nicolas, Christopher Norris and Alenka Zupancic this dictionary will guide beginners through Badiou's complex philosophical system and give specialist readers advanced critical insights.Steven Corcoran is a researcher at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Baogang He develops a 'real utopian' democratic alternative to China's empire-based approaches to Tibet and Taiwan. A unique strength of He's approach is that it combines indigenous deliberative practices, such as those within the Confucian tradition, with the modern architecture of democracy. The result is an optimistic but realistic view of possible futures for Tibet and Taiwan within a post-imperial China.' Mark E. Warren, University of British Columbia Problematises China's current policies towards Tibet and Taiwan and offers a fresh democratic approach. China is facing a national identity crisis. This is compounded by the political situation and aspirations of Tibet and Taiwan, where significant proportions of both populations do not identify with the Chinese nation-state. Given the prevalence of democracy on the world stage, questions need to be asked about whether democracy can realistically address the problems in China's national identity. Chinese nationalists argue it cannot and Chinese liberals remain unduly silenced, but this book opens up a dialogue in which Chinese liberals can offer viable alternatives in defense of key democratic principles and governance. It also problematises existing hard-liners' realist policies towards Tibet and Taiwan by examining how and under what conditions democracy can or cannot provide an answer, and analyses the different meanings, practices, institutions and various impacts of democracy with regards to the problem of China's national identity. While it presents the difficulties and obstacles to the democratic approach to the respective Tibet and Taiwan questions, it upholds the search for a political space in which democratic governance in China can feasibly be developed. Baogang He is Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Chair in International Studies at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of The Democratization of China (1996), The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China (1997), Nationalism, National Identity and Democratization in China (with Yingjie Guo, 2000) and Rural Democracy in China (2007). Cover images: top image courtesy of the author, bottom image courtesy of Getty Images.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - EDINBURGH STUDIES IN LAW Series Editor: Elspeth Christie Reid Volume 13 Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 John W Cairns A further collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of John W Cairns This second volume of two is a collection of essays on Scots law representing a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside the UK, in a wide variety of journals and collections. Enlightenment, Legal Education and Critique deals with broad themes in legal history, such as the development of Scots law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophical traditions within law. John W Cairns holds the Chair of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor (with Paul du Plessis) of two successful volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series published by Edinburgh University Press: Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (2007) and The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (2010).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - EDINBURGH STUDIES IN LAW Series Editor: Elspeth Christie Reid Volume 12 Law, Lawyers, and Humanism Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 John W Cairns A collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of John W Cairns The first volume of two, this collection of essays on Scots law represents a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside the UK, in a wide variety of journals and collections. This collection reproduces essays covering the foundation and continuity of Scots law from 16th- and 17th-century Scotland through the 18th-century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century and the further development of the Scots legal system and profession. John W Cairns holds the Chair of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor (with Paul du Plessis) of two successful volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law Series published by Edinburgh University Press: Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (2007) and The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (2010).