Author: J. B. Bullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: european, art, criticism, british, crosscurrents, continental
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198186916
ISBN-13: 9780198186915

Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the "discovery" of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of re

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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: perspectives, continental, philosophy, derrida, jacques, nutshell, conversation, deconstruction
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0823217558
ISBN-13: 9780823217557

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, the community, the distinction between the messianic and the concrete messianisms, and his interpretation of James Joyce. Derrida convincingly refutes the charges of relativism and nihilism that are often leveled at

Author: Yehuda Liebes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: continental, philosophy, contemporary, series, zohar, studies
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1993-04
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 0791411893
ISBN-13: 9780791411896

Author: Martin L. Cody
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: continental, archipelago, dynamics, diversity, islands, plants
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2006-06-27
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0520247299
ISBN-13: 9780520247291

This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable both because of its geographical setting and because of the duration of the study, Plants on Islands summarizes the diversity, dynamics, and distribution of the approximately three hundred species of plants on more than two hundred islands. Martin Cody uses his extensive data set to test various aspects of island biogeographic theory. His thoughtful analysis, constrained by taxon and region, eluc

Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: north, america, cultures, remapping, divides, continental
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226005526
ISBN-13: 9780226005522

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among  cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.  Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our

Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: continental, thought, studies, research, phenomenological, introduction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0253345707
ISBN-13: 9780253345707

Introduction to Phenomenological Research, volume 17 of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe, contains his first lectures given at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923–1924. In these lectures, Heidegger introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle’s treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger’s ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time. Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between Heidegger’s phenomenology and tha

Author: John Salli
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: continental, thought, studies, elemental, imagination, sense, force
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253337720
ISBN-13: 9780253337726

" . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call ’ecology’ but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking at this historical moment." --Edward S. Casey In this major original work, John Sallis probes the very nature of imagination and reveals how the force of imagination extends into all spheres of human life.