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Livro Weimar Thought
A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics-such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjam...
2015
1 novo
R$ 347,05
Marxism and Form
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time...
1974
1 novo
R$ 479,24
Livro Machiavelli's Ethics
Machiavellis Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the Machiavellian maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory,...
2009
1 novo
R$ 304,14
Livro Patagonia
Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--the uttermost end of the earth. Their arrival marked the culmination of humankinds epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story.The book describes how these intrepid nomads confro...
2014
1 novo
R$ 333,55
Livro Patagonia
Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--the uttermost end of the earth. Their arrival marked the culmination of humankinds epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story.The book describes how these intrepid nomads confro...
2014
1 novo
R$ 333,55
Livro Music as Thought
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as more pleasure than culture, and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from th...
2015
1 novo
R$ 298,58
The Ambiguous Frog
How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. ...
2014
1 novo
R$ 491,41
Livro Weimar Thought
A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics-such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjam...
2015
1 novo
R$ 347,05
The Ambiguous Frog
How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. ...
2014
1 novo
R$ 491,41
Livro Music as Thought
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as more pleasure than culture, and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from th...
2015
1 novo
R$ 298,58
Livro Weimar Thought
A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics-such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjam...
2015
1 novo
R$ 347,05
Livro The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 2
Charles S. Singletons edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dantes great masterpiece.The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singletons prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is...
1990
1 novo
R$ 698,86
Livro Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greeces artistic and literary origins.
1995
1 novo
R$ 997,79
Livro Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy
Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Courts justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the bene...
2009
1 novo
R$ 399,61
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro Machiavelli's Ethics
Machiavellis Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the Machiavellian maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory,...
2009
1 novo
R$ 304,14
Livro Machiavelli's Ethics
Machiavellis Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the Machiavellian maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory,...
2009
1 novo
R$ 304,14
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro Public Man, Private Woman
Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world-the political sphere dominated by men-and to denigrate the private world-the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the ...
1993
1 novo
R$ 631,26
Livro The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion (AM-6), Volume 6
The classic book that inspired Alan Turing and helped to lay the foundation for theoretical computer scienceThis book provides a concise introduction to the calculi of lambda-conversion first discovered by Alonzo Church and developed by him in collaboration with his students, S. C. Kleene and J. B. Rosser. The first four chapters present the calculus of lambda-conversion in detail, with subsequent...
1985
1 novo
R$ 612,28
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative lite...
2005
1 novo
R$ 370,72
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Marxism and Form
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time...
1974
1 novo
R$ 479,24
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative lite...
2005
1 novo
R$ 370,72
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central debate...
2011
1 novo
R$ 371,11
Livro Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas ar...
2016
1 novo
R$ 299,08
Livro Weimar Thought
A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics-such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjam...
2015
1 novo
R$ 347,05
Livro The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative lite...
2005
1 novo
R$ 370,72
Livro The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative lite...
2005
1 novo
R$ 370,72
Livro Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greeces artistic and literary origins.
1995
1 novo
R$ 997,79
Livro The Art of Social Theory
A practical guide to the art of theorizing in the social sciencesIn the social sciences today, students are taught theory by reading and analyzing the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and other foundational figures of the discipline. What they rarely learn, however, is how to actually theorize. The Art of Social Theory is a practical guide to doing just that.In this one-of-a-kind users manual for so...
2015
1 novo
R$ 303,58
Livro The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative lite...
2005
1 novo
R$ 370,72
Livro Machiavelli's Ethics
Machiavellis Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the Machiavellian maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory,...
2009
1 novo
R$ 304,14
Livro Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greeces artistic and literary origins.
1995
1 novo
R$ 997,79