Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Culture and Art: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of sociology were always infused

The Art of Life (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today - is a study of the ways in which our society - the liquid modern, individualized society of consumers - influences (but does not determine) the way we construct and narrate our life

Liquid Fear (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

In this brilliant new account of the fears and anxieties that weigh on us today, Zygmunt Bauman - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - alerts us to the scale of the task confronting us in the current century if we wish our fellow humans to emerge at its end feeling more secure and

Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a

The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings Volume II (Shoemaker David)(Paperback)

The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema is the second volume of writings by Phyllis Seckler to be published by the Temple of the Silver Star. Like the previous volume, The Thoth Tarot, Astrology, & Other Selected Writings, the work is edited and introduced by three of Seckler's former students: Rorac

Liquid Modernity (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings (Descartes Ren)(Paperback)

Based on the new and much acclaimed two volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and

Moltke on the Art of War - Selected Writings(Paperback / softback)

Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Baudelaire Charles-Pierre)(Paperback / softback)

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and

Selected Writings (Muir John)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

A new afterword to this edition, The Duty to Remember--But What? tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the

Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Hall Stuart)(Paperback)

In Selected Writings on Race and Difference editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this

Selected Writings (Ruskin John)(Paperback)

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and

Modernity and the Holocaust (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback / softback)

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social

John Keats: Selected Writings (Barnard John)(Paperback)

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-1821). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Keats's work afresh, bringing his poetry and letters

Strangers at Our Door (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930 (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in

Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings (Wahl Jean)(Paperback)

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity

Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public

The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) (Peirce Edition Project)(Paperback)

Praise for Volume 1: ' . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need.' --Louis Menand, The New York Review of BooksVolume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's edition provides the first comprehensive

Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (Herder Johann Gottfried)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)