Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth. The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time--from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons--as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique. Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south--Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples--and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill." She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.
Автор: O`Leary Sara, Morstad Julie, Sara Sara Название: This Is Sadie ISBN: 1770495320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781770495326 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Miller`s Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults was adapted for the Canadian audience with its focus on the older Canadian and the professional Canadian based nurse. This Canadian approach enables students and registered nurses to acquire fundamental knowledge about the health issues faced by older Canadians and the resources that this country can offer us to provide quality nursing care. In every chapter of this textbook, students will have access to Canadian content and resources abound. The authors have showcased and shared many of the best practices that were developed and are being used in this country. In addition, they specifically added an evidence-informed nursing practice box that illustrates some of the research being done in this country. This is research that provides you and us, as Canadian nurses, with the evidence to inform our nursing practice. Evidence-informed practice is an expectation of the Canadian Nurses Association and all provincial / territorial jurisdictions.
Автор: Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker Название: Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates ISBN: 1469652897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469652894 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new light on these crucial debates, using a historical lens. Its essays take strong positions, even arguing with one another, as they explore the many themes and tensions that define how we understand our food—from the promises and failures of agricultural technology to the politics of taste.
In addition to the editors, contributors include Ken Albala, Amy Bentley, Charlotte Biltekoff, Peter A. Coclanis, Tracey Deutsch, S. Margot Finn, Rachel Laudan, Sarah Ludington, Margaret Mellon, Steve Striffler, and Robert T. Valgenti.
Автор: Vaughn Moody William, Morss Lovett Robert Название: A history of English literature ISBN: 9353803950 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353803957 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 34350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Taylor, Sean Morss, Alex Chiu, Cinyee Название: Winter sleep ISBN: 0711242836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711242838 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A mix of narrative and factual content, offering a gentle introduction to the concept of hibernation, seen through the lens of a child`s journey walking through a winter landscape.
Автор: , Lovett Robert Morss 1870-1956 Название: Sir Walter Scott`s Marmion; ISBN: 1372010114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781372010118 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 29370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
A delightful compendium of all the most unusual and unexpected features in the animal kingdom, from puzzling toes to weird ears, and all the other body parts in between
Discover why a firefly's bum glows, take a look at a saiga antelope's dangly nose, and marvel at a sun bear's super-long tongue.
These creatures have strange features - but they all serve a very useful purpose This charming and visually appealing book carries the underlying message that everybody and everything is strange and wonderful in its own way - difference should be celebrated
Автор: Buck-Morss, Susan Название: Year 1 ISBN: 0262044870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262044875 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 39450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way. Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for reason and Jerusalem for faith. And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point--year one--that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences. Buck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writings of three thinkers often marginalized in current discourse: Flavius Josephus, historian of the Judaean war; the neo-Platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria; and John of Patmos, author of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. Also making appearances are Antigone and John Coltrane, Plato and Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi and Jean Anouilh, Nicholas of Cusa and Zora Neale Hurston--not to mention Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva, and Derrida. Buck-Morss shows that we need no longer partition history as if it were a homeless child in need of the protective wisdom of Solomon. Those inhabiting the first century belong together in time, and therefore not to us.
Автор: Morss Willard, Morss Herren Janet Название: Stolen Princess: A Northwest Indian Legend ISBN: 0615999336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615999333 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lanagan, Margo Название: Tender Morsels ISBN: 0099546132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099546139 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: It is the story of two worlds - one real, one magical - and how, despite the safe haven her magical world offers to those who have suffered, her characters can never turn their backs on the real world, with all its beauty and brutality.
