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  • Sensing the Nation's Law

    Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy

    Edited by Stefan Huygebaert, Angela Condello, Sarah Marusek, Mark Antaki ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Eyewitnessing

    The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

    by Peter Burke ...
    Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are ‘reflections’ of specific ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Means Without End

    Notes on Politics

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Theory Out of Bounds
    An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Left and Right

    The Significance of a Political Distinction

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten.In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism

    by Amintore Fanfani, University of Parma Italy Campanini P ...
    This classic work is an exhaustive philosophical, historical, and religious look at the relationship between Catholic and Protestant religious doctrine and both the historical and ideological growth of capitalism. Starting with a definition of capitalism, Fanfani examines how that definition squares with Catholic and Protestant teaching. He then looks at the historical development of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Partisan Canons

    by Robert Jensen, James Elkins, James Cutting, Paul Duro ...
    Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon’s production and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    History of an Idea

    by Vincenzo Ferrone ...
    Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino ...
    A compelling reevaluation of the Enlightenment from one of its leading historiansIn this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it ... Read more

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  • The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

    by Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard ...
    An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth centuryWritten by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

  • Contributions to L'Année Sociologique

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    These reviews, notices, and introductory sections by a major figure in intellectual history represent more than a decade of effort to define and clarify a new form of scientific investigation. Together, they offer a suggestive new picture of Emile Durkheim as "Scholarch" of the "French School" and master of a whole school of social thought.For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L ... Read more

    $15.99 USD