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From the Back CoverIn 1950 Krishnamurti said: "It is only when the mind is not escaping in any form that it is possible to be in direct communion w...

About the Book This volume consists of a single long essay that analyses the work ofMaurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), the leading phenomenologic...

About the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short but incisive essays that make up this important...

About the Book On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would hav...

About the Book We find ourselves face to face with Sartre the literary critic in thiscollection of brief but insightful essays that carefully exami...

Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating th...

About the Book This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing the work of several Black poets of th...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618408); The moral and political arguments, judgements and commitments of Britain's outsta...

John D. Caputo explores the very roots of religious thinking in this thought-provoking book. Compelling questions come up along the way: 'What do I...

About the Book In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question "what ...

About the Book On Revolution includes a long essay in two parts in which Sartre dwellsupon the ‘myth’ of revolution and goes on to analyse revo...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope...

John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figure...

Examines the emotion of shame psychologically and philosophically, in order to show how it can be a galvanizing force for moral action against the ...

About the Book This book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949. Provides insights i...

While Marx and Engels wrote detailed critiques of capitalism they could only suggest the bare outlines of what socialism as the order of society su...

Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Storie...

From the Back CoverWhile C. S. Lewis was a professor of literature at Oxford University, he was renowned for his insightful and often witty present...

About the Book Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and...

About the Book Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

About the Book In the early 1980's, Jiang Zemin, then Minister of Electronics Ministry of China, assessed the IT industry as 'the strategic high gr...

About the Book During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the ce...

On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today.

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a level of community? This title agues that there is much in common...

Jung's discovery of the 'collective unconscious', a psychic inheritance common to all humankind, transformed the understanding of the self and the ...

From the Inside Flap"On the night you were born, ""the moon smiled with such wonder""that the stars peeked in to see you ""and the night wind whisp...

Editorial Reviews - On the Poetry of Matthew Arnold

Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this...

The media often talk about public opinion, the 'American' or 'British' public, or the movie-going public. A public can hold an opinion and be divid...

Magdeburg, Germany, 2011 A lover’s note among a senile woman’s possessions sets off a chain of events that could lead to the discovery of a Van Gog...

Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her w...

About the Book Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhap...