fordham university press mär 2016 (4 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays and short stories about space travel and religion. Touching the Face of the Cosmos explores the desire, essentially spiritual, to understand more about our place in the universe, how our lives on Earth are inextricably part of that bigger picture. Drawing on scientists, religious thinkers, and science fiction writers, Paul Levinson and Michael Waltemathe have assembled a volume that combines space travel and religion for anyone interested in outer space, theology, and philosophy.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Renaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods-'Renaissance' signifying a rebirth of the ancient and 'Posthumanism' a death of the modern-to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.