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Conflito e coexistência
Os estudos historiográficos relativos ao mundo do Mediterrâneo na Antiguidade Tardia (séculos III – VIII) oferecem uma gama de abordagens que são dinâmicas e fascinantes. Este é o caso do trabalho apresentado por Ana Carolina Picoli Sotocorno como resultado de sua Dissertação de Mestrado recentemente defendida. Partindo do confronto entre as comunidades cristã nicena e judaica na Hispania romana dos primórdios do século V e lançando um olhar crítico sobre o episódio da conversão dos judeus de Minorca apresentado pelo documento legado por Severo de Minorca (418), a abordagem oferecida pela autora traz à superfície histórica debates sobre o conflito e a confrontação, ao m...
School Memories
This book reveals how school memories offer not only a tool for accessing the school of the past, but also a key to understanding what people today know (or think they know) about the school of the past. It describes, in fact, how historians’ work does not purely and simply consist in exploring school as it really was, but also in the complex process of defining the memory of school as one developed and revisited over time at both the individual and collective level. Further, it investigates the extent to which what people “know” reflects the reality or is in fact a product of stereotypes that are deeply rooted in common perceptions and thus exceedingly difficult to do away with. The book includes fifteen peer-reviewed contributions that were presented and discussed during the International Symposium “School Memories. New Trends in Historical Research into Education: Heuristic Perspectives and Methodological Issues” (Seville, 22-23 September, 2015).
The Art of the Publisher
'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain' In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the 'most hazardous and ambitious' profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits.
Present Past
This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Wait Till I'm Dead
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M. Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications and unjustly forgotten. Containing more than a hundred previously unpublished poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, Wait Till I'm Dead is the final major contribution to Ginsberg's sprawling oeuvre, a must have for Ginsberg neophytes and long-time fans alike.
Technics and Time, 1
What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex...
Second Princess
The Second Princess devises various dastardly plots to depose her older sister. This sibling rivalry is solved by the royal parents, but not before the Second Princess has tried to enlist the help of a host of characters.
The Age of Disruption
Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in a kind of technological Wild West in which they find themselves increasingly power...
Dejanoff
This first monograph on Bulgarian artist Plamen Dejanoff, who became known internationally for his 1990s collaborations with Swetlana Heger, includes a range of work--including his most recent construction-project-as-artwork: a complex of buildings including a museum, bookshop and studio in his hometown--produced together with a host of collaborating architects, designers and artists.
