Author: jAMES HAYES
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: athlone, death
Number of Pages: 623
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1411676017
ISBN-13: 9781411676015
WHO OR WHAT IS KILLING THE PEOPLE OF THIS MIDLAND TOWN. IT IS HERE THAT THE HUNGER IS GREAT FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE UNDEAD.
Author: Felix Guattari
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: european, thinkers, contemporary, athlone, ecologies, three
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2005-12-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826480659
ISBN-13: 9780826480651
A critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a new way of thinking, this book is also an introduction to the work of one of Europe’s most radical thinkers. Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, "The Three Ecologies" argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new form of capitalism and that a new ecosophical approach must be found which respects the differences between all living systems. A powerful critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a n
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: thinkers, european, contemporary, athlone, mindfulness
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 2006-06-15
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0826480810
ISBN-13: 9780826480811
This brand new translation of Martin Heidgger’s Mindfulness (Besinnung) makes available in English for the first time Heidegger’s second major being-historical treatise. Here Heidegger returns to and elaborates in detail many of the individual dimensions of the historically self-showing and transforming allotments of be-ing. In addition to the main text, this volume also includes two further important texts, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway (1937/8) and ’The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)’ (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished work
Author: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: european, thinkers, contemporary, athlone, theory, aesthetic
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-03
List price: $168.00
ISBN-10: 0485300699
ISBN-13: 9780485300697
This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of the Artwork.
Authors:Hanns Eisler, Theodor W. Adorno,
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Grou
Keywords: european, thinkers, contemporary, athlone, films, composing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-08-25
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0826480160
ISBN-13: 9780826480163
This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book’s authors. Eisler’s time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when music is used in the production of films, while Adorno was able to contribute on wide aesthetic and sociological matters as well as specifically musical questions. Above all, the authors envisaged the book as a contribution to the study of modern, industrialized culture; and, in this
Authors:Gilles Deleuze, Paul Patton,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: european, thinkers, contemporary, athlone, repetition, difference
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2004-11-12
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0485113600
ISBN-13: 9780485113600
Since its publication in 1968, "Difference and Repetition", an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are related, difference implying divergence and decentring, repetition being associated with displacement and disguising. The work moves deftly between Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Althusser and Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Wester
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: The Athlone Press
Keywords: amp, ancient, eastern, egyptology, publications, sumerian, poetry, athlone, reading
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $168.00
ISBN-10: 048593003X
ISBN-13: 9780485930030
Sumer was the first literary culture in the history of the world, as early as 2500 BC. Dr Black explroes how we can "read" this oldest poetry today. His account is structured around the the narrative poem that treats the hero Lugalbanda and his enounter with a monstrous bird.
