Melancholy and the critique of modernity 9781134817283, 0203993861, 0415117224, 0415117232, 9780203993866

Critique of Freedom: The Central Problem of Modernity 9780226466064

In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Höffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its r

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Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World [1 ed.] 9781531503529

How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditio

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Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World 9781531503529

. A cogent articulation of the crucial role of Arab literature and cinema in inspiring human resilience and cultural r

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Multiple Experiences of Modernity: Toward a Humanist Critique of Modernity 9783737002295, 9783847102298, 9789860350449, 9783847002291

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Ethos: A Critique of Eurocentric Modernity 9780755647774, 0755647777

Ethos is a radical critique of Eurocentrism. In it, Ahmad Kasravi unleashes a scathing attack on Europe's self-perc

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The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity 9780231528115

Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of w

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Architecture and Modernity: A Critique 0262082640, 9780262082648, 9780585450599

"Architecture and Modernity traces some of the most important moments of the discourse on the `crisis' of arch

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Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity 9781350006331, 9781350006362, 9781350006355

What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great trib

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Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy 9781474417341

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantly Iconic as Hamle

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Boats on the Marne : Jean Renoir's Critique of Modernity 9780253029423, 9780253029263

Boats on the Marne offers an original interpretation of Jean Renoir's celebrated films of the 1930s, treating them

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