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What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works explores the impact and relevance of Lyotard's largely undiscussed late philosophical works for contemporary theoretical debates. In his works produced from 1990 until his death in 1998, Lyotard addresses a number of themes that both revisit and move beyond those from his earlier work. These include: art and aesthetics; affect; ethics and politics; modernity and the subject. Despite designating these texts as part of a 'late perio...
One of Hegel’s most controversial and confounding claims is that “the real is rational and the rational is real.” In this book, one of the world’s leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life. ?Kervégan begins with Hegel’s term “objective spirit,” the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with Tocqueville and other theorists o...
A practical and richly illustrated step-by-step guide to successfully performing shoulder arthroplasty. The comprehensive text covers various topics, and also provides specific examples of complications and how to avoid and correct them.
Examines and discusses the pastels, watercolors, and drawings of the nineteenth-century French painter
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This is a high-quality Map Book of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and its surrounding areas. The purpose of this map series is to aid relief workers in their recovery operations, by providing useful landmarks and accurate street data. Also included is a Street Index and Medical Facility Index to make areas of interest easier to find. NVision will donate 40% of all profits made from the Haiti Relief Map Books to the American Red Cross.
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