Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization: Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory 9781136576942, 1136576940

Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity 9781350041974, 9781350042001, 9781350041981

In recent decades the previously assumed dominance within the international art world of western(ized) conceptions of ae

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Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary - a Critical Perspective 1315647486, 9781315647487

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Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe 9781501301360, 9781441116260

Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe introduces the major contributions critical theorists made to the study of Europ

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Critical Theory and Critical Genres: Contemporary Perspectives from Poland (Literary and Cultural Theory) 9783631647936, 9783653036220, 363164793X

This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. Wha

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Towards a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Tonality

This thesis pursues three successive and related areas of research. First, it undertakes a critique of Schoenberg’s inte

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Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative 9780585124063

This study re-examines narrative theory and outlines the consequences for narratology of deconstructive, poststructurali

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Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide 9780773585560

Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers s

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Spaces of neoliberalization: towards a theory of uneven geographical development [2 ed.] 3515115218, 9783515115216

In this second edition of essays David Harvey searches for adequate conceptualizations of space and of uneven geographic

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Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal 9780231510417

No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, Ameri

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Brecht and Critical Theory: Dialectics and contemporary aesthetics 9780415349741, 0415349745

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