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Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’. Essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology, aesthetics, and visual culture.
Bywgraffiad un o ddynion enwocaf yn niwylliant Cymru. Ganed Joseph Parry ym Merthyr i weithiwr dur anllythrennog, ond dangosodd y bachgen yn ifanc fod ganddo gryn allu cerddorol a thyfodd i fod yn Gymro enwocaf y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Ymfudodd gyda'i deulu i America yn 12 oed, ond yn ddiweddarach, astudiodd yn yr Academi Gerdd Frenhinol yn Llundain. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.
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This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which e...