Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life [Paperback]
Karen Ida Dannesboe (Editor); Jon Dag Rasmussen (Editor); Anne-Lene Sand (Editor)
£22.63ISBN: 9788772191386
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The anthology In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is a collection of empirically based texts all of which are based on ethnographic (field)work. The joint interest shared by the contributing authors evolve around the small... .... Learn More -
Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture [Hardback]
Nancy Rose Marshall (Editor)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946533
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human ... .... Learn More -
The “Aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: Fifty Years Later [Paperback]
Samir Gandesha (Editor); Johan Hartle (Editor); Stefano Marino (Editor)
£25.99ISBN: 9788869773099
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Aesthetics
Not yet published - available for pre-order
If 2019 was an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has been an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Adorno’s great but unf... .... Learn More -
Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India [Hardback]
Deepanwita Dasgupta (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946564
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Science is usually known by its most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Periphery draws our attention to unknown figures in science - those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its ... .... Learn More -
Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry [Hardback]
Amy Dayton (Editor); Jennie Vaughn (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780822946731
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
The historiography of feminist rhetorical research raises ethical questions about whose stories are told and how. Women and other marginalized people have been excluded historically from many formal institutions, and researchers in this field ofte... .... Learn More -
The Voice of Science, British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America [Hardback]
Diarmid A. Finnegan (Author)
£43.50ISBN: 9780822946816
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contes... .... Learn More -
Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam [Hardback]
Kevin Lambert (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822946830
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industria... .... Learn More -
The Atmospheric "We": Moods and Collective Feelings [Paperback]
Tonino Griffero (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9788869773334
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Not yet published - available for pre-order
What contribution can the atmospherological approach make to the debate on collective feelings? In answering this question, the book provides a brief introduction to the so-called "atmospheric turn", examines the complex emotional "games" to which... .... Learn More -
Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Art and Science [Hardback]
Richard J. Oosterhoff (Editor); José Ramón Marcaida (Editor); Alexander Marr (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9780822946885
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience, discourse and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examini... .... Learn More -
The Core of Learning: N.F.S. Grundtvig's Philosophical Writings [Hardback]
Edward Broadbridge (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9788772192376
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The ground-breaking 6-volume series of Grundtvig's works translated into English has already seen the publication of Grundtvig's educational ideas in The School for Life (2011), his hymns, songs, and poems in Living Wellsprings (2015), his theolog... .... Learn More
