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Contemporanea :a glossary for the twenty-first century
"A glossary of conceptual terms (with short essay-entries explaining the reasons) for the 21st century (and how we may work through this century) by leading names in philosophy and cultural studies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378093
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- 1 online resource
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Winds of doctrine :studies in contemporary opinion
"In a few hundred pages Santayana endeavors to sum up the dominant intellectual currents of early twentieth-century thought and trace their implications for American culture, for ethics and religion, for arts and letters, and for philosophy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Critical edition.
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- 9780262377324
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- 1 online resource.
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Art for coexistence :unlearning the way we see migration
"How contemporary artistic practice insists on and models coexistence in the face of the 21st century's monumental migration crises and its alienating and dehumanizing effects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371618
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- 1 online resource.
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Uncommon sense :aesthetics after Marcuse
"Uncommon Sense reinvigorates Herbert Marcuse and places his aesthetic theory into practice in relation to contemporary antiracist, environmental, and anti-capitalism activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371685
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- 1 online resource.
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Autotheory as feminist practice in art, writing, and criticism
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262362961
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- 1 online resource.
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GrowthFrom microorganisms to megacities
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- 9780262354516
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- 1 online resource (688 pages).
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Think tank aesthetics :midcentury modernism, the Cold War, and the neoliberal…
How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
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- 9780262357029
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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The mental life of modernism :why poetry, painting, and music changed at the …
An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Ind…
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- 9780262356947
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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How history gets things wrong :the neuroscience of our addiction to stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…
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- 9780262348416
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- 1 online resource (289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) :illustrations (some color), maps
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We are all monsters :how deviant organisms came to define us
"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372473
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