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Modern Art and the Grotesque
This volume examines how the grotesque has shaped the history, practice, and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The grotesque...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is universally recognised as one of the most important science books ever written. The Origin of Species is...
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Three Works
First published in 1955, this volume contains three works by Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), the German Romantic philosopher and poet whose...
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Artistic Truth
It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues traditionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed, questions...
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The Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis
Psychotic illness is managed and treated with best results when it is recognized at the earliest stages of a person developing the disorder, or when...
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The Sins of the Fathers
For nearly two millennia, Western law visited the sins of fathers and mothers upon their illegitimate children, subjecting them to systematic...
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An Introduction to Catholicism
The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news....
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The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty
In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of...
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Heidegger's Concept of Truth
This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Daniel O. Dahlstrom...
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Locke: A Biography
This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke’s life within exciting historical...
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Perception: A representative theory
What is the nature of, and what is the relationship between, external objects and our visual perceptual experience of them? In this book, Frank...
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The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter was one of the world’s leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion...
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Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861
For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of...
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Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy
The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was...
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Sisters in Sin
The prostitute, and her sister in sin - the so-called ‘fallen’ woman - were veritable obsessions of American Progressive Era culture. Their...
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Debussy and the Theatre
Debussy and the Theatre means, in effect, 'Debussy and Pellias et Milisande', the only stage work Debussy chose and completed himself without a...
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Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar depression is now known to exist as a spectrum of disorders rather than a single disease entity. Bipolar II Disorder exists on this spectrum...
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The Spectator and the Spectacle
Spectators and audiences are everywhere in contemporary culture. However, even in conventional performance, whether in the theatre, in film or...
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Alternative Christs
Few, if any, individuals have had such a profound influence on Western culture as Jesus, even though not a single detail of his life or teaching can...
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Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion
Coleridge’s relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last...
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Political Judgement
From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and...
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A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy
The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal...
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After Tragedy and Triumph
The story of American Jewry is inextricably entwined with the awesome defeat of the Holocaust and the rebirth of the state of Israel. However, for...
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