Melville casper (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 112, Frontispiece, Figure.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 114 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: As New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears--interest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are offended and attempting to ban, gag, even kill, those deemed to be the offenders. Intellectual heavyweights throughout the Anglo-American world of letters have charged to the defence of free expression. There have been many highly charged incidents, in particular around Islam, offering opportunities for an orgy of media self-congratulation about the superiority of secular democracy and the vital role of the press in supporting freedom. Using his experience as editor of New Humanist (itself accused of 'offensiveness'), Melville tries to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our current situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism.…

Zustand: New. Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvini.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. In Portuguese. Vol. 1: Lectures given in 1941; vol. 2, in 1942. Paperbacks, 19x13cm, 226 and 423p. Spines reinforced with cardboard. Cover of volume 2 with paper loss at the bottom margin. Traces of tape and foxing on the same cover. Most copies still unopened. Complete copies, without stamps, signatures, annotations, highlights, or loose pages. Fragile copies due to poor paper quality. Yellowed core. Contributions by Willard van Orman Quine, then a professor at Universidade São Paulo ((Os Estados Unidos e o Ressurgimento da Lógica - The United States and the Resurgence of Logic, unpublished), Décio de Almeida Prado, Casper Líbero, Maurício da Rocha e Silva, Jorge Americano, Armando de Arruda Pereira, Lewis Hanke, Melville Heskovits, and many others. Lectures given at the Brazil-United States Cultural Union during the war. Scarce.…