the university of chicago press jul 1999 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The exhibition 'Space/Sight/Self' was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues--identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights, and selves that enable us to construct and question our identity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on surveys and interviews of 200 gay men, Nardi's new study presents a book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Stoic Idea of the City' offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's 'Republic.' Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of Western political thought. A new foreword by Martha Nussbaum and a new epilogue written by the author further secure this text as the standard work on the Stoics. 'The account emerges from a jigsaw-puzzle of items from a wide range of authorities, painstakingly pieced together and then annotated in a series of appendixes, the whole executed with fine scholarship, clarity, and good humor.'--'Times Literary Supplement'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Religion,' Mark C. Taylor maintains, 'is most interesting where it is least obvious.' From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking 'about' it.Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, 'About Religion' approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's 'The Confidence-Man' through the film 'Wall Street.' As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive.The most accessible presentation of Taylor's revolutionary ideas to date, 'About Religion' gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous and ambiguous. Among the topics addressed are the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the complex relations between law, the image, and identity. With its groundbreaking ideas from a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines, this book puts law and art into a new and exciting conversation that will introduce a new field of study and spark international debate. Contributors are: Georges Didi-Huberman, Costas Douzinas, Hal Foster, Peter Goodrich, Piyel Haldar, Martin Jay, Mandy Merck, Lynda Nead, Jonathan Ribner, Katherine Fischer Taylor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sigmund Koch (1917-1996) was one of the 20th century's most penetrating and wide-ranging critics of the scientistic ambitions of psychology. The essays here reveal his writings to be as fresh and relevant today as ever.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between 'enlightened' values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe.Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment.