Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474427855 ISBN 13: 9781474427852
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474453961 ISBN 13: 9781474453967
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0748691839 ISBN 13: 9780748691838
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 074860605X ISBN 13: 9780748606054
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this edition of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson', Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474453406 ISBN 13: 9781474453400
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of philosophy's greatest political liberal of the twentieth century, John Rawls, with that of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics. Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474447244 ISBN 13: 9781474447249
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474449980 ISBN 13: 9781474449984
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474446388 ISBN 13: 9781474446389
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474443036 ISBN 13: 9781474443036
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a unique critical insight into the political dynamics of anti-militarist activism in the UK In the past fifteen years, activists opposing militarism in the UK have auctioned off a tank outside an arms fair, superglued themselves to Lockheed Martin's central London offices, and stopped a battleship with a canoe. They have also challenged militarism on an everyday level in many other ways. This book tells the story of their resistance. It explores why anti-militarists take part in such actions, considers the politics of different tactics, and examines the tensions and debates within the movement. As it explores the multifaceted, imaginative and highly subversive world of anti-militarism, the book also makes two overarching arguments. First, that anti-militarists can help us to understand militarism in novel and useful ways. And second, that the methods and ideas used by anti-militarists can be a potent force for radical political change. Chris Rossdale is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474429246 ISBN 13: 9781474429245
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474410634 ISBN 13: 9781474410632
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0748697470 ISBN 13: 9780748697472
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do we experience theatre through film Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art house and independent films which provide a sophisticated commentary on the interaction between the two media. Through an in-depth analysis of films such as Jacques Rivette's L'Amour fou, Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, this book analyses the embedment of theatre in film and the notion of spectatorial address. Using textual analysis in conjunction with concepts derived from narratology, performance philosophy, and film and theatre phenomenology, it explores the mechanisms of representation involved in the intermedial diegetisation of theatre in film. Laura Sava holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Warwick, UK. She is a lecturer in the School of Film and Television Arts at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, with a research focus on European cinema.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0748645802 ISBN 13: 9780748645800
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 147441639X ISBN 13: 9781474416399
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and how we can see our moral worlds more clearly.Murdoch believed that paying attention to art is a way for us to become less self-centred, and this book argues that cinema is the perfect form of art to enable us to do this. Bringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and love, author Lucy Bolton encourages us to view cinema as a way of studying other worlds and moral journeys, and to reflect upon their ethical significance in the world of the film and in our daily lives.Lucy Bolton is senior lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474450229 ISBN 13: 9781474450225
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474429483 ISBN 13: 9781474429481
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping the cinematic identity of France over the past forty years, yet in many ways his chosen genre of comedy has relegated his work to the margins of Film Studies. Using an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the cinematic canon, this book explores the twelve films Veber directed between 1976 and 2008. These include Le Jouet (1976), Les fugitifs (1986) and L'emmerdeur (2008). Considering also Veber's extensive work as a playwright, theatre director and screenwriter - as well as the numerous remakes and adaptations of his films in Hollywood - author Keith Corson focuses on issues of class, labour and politics to examine the ways in which Veber embeds serious social critiques in his mainstream films. Keith Corson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474425739 ISBN 13: 9781474425735
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474435688 ISBN 13: 9781474435680
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474441157 ISBN 13: 9781474441155
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474441718 ISBN 13: 9781474441711
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474424651 ISBN 13: 9781474424653
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersThis study brings the radicalism of Acker's politics back to life. Moving beyond conventional accounts of her postmodernism, it explores her work as a continuation of the historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including Russian nihilism, Spanish anarchism and the global revolts of the 1960s, to create her own political agenda. In doing so, it presents Acker in a new light: a revolutionary voice in an age when such voices are sorely needed.Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474452310 ISBN 13: 9781474452311
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brings to light the vital role coal miners played in the social and political history of twentieth century Scotland Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The author also uses the experiences of the miners to explore working class wellbeing more broadly throughout the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that culminated in the Thatcherite assault of the 1980s. Key Features - Analyses longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques, workplace safety - Examines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process - Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change - Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfare - Relates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations Jim Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474422810 ISBN 13: 9781474422819
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Positions Luce Irigaray as one of the most important and radical political thinkers alive today This book analyses Irigaray's celebrated works alongside some of her lesser-known writings to make connections between the political, ethical and ontological dimensions of her philosophy. Laura Roberts argues that Irigaray's philosophical-political project must be read as a critique of constructions of Western modernity and rationality and that, when appreciated as such, her work makes significant contributions to key conversations in contemporary political movements and important strands in decolonial thought. This enables readers to recognise that the question of sexual difference in Irigaray's philosophy is concerned with not onlyrefiguring politics and political action but also the foundational structures that govern existence itself. Laura Roberts is Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474445608 ISBN 13: 9781474445603
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Should representative governments restrict the democratic rights of their extremist opponents Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation be consistent with democratic values In this collection of essays, scholars from across politics, philosophy and law address the unresolved practical and theoretical questions concerning democracy and extremism. The collection provides an update to a key contemporary debate in democratic theory and asks us to reconsider the potential promise and costs of militant democracy. Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer in the Department of Government at Uppsala University. Alexander Kirshner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1474443230 ISBN 13: 9781474443234
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