Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy 0268103291, 9780268103293

Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy 0268103291, 9780268103293

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Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions 9780271087634

This book is an in-depth, comparative study of two of the most popular and influential intellectual and spiritual tradit

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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms 0226103455, 9780226103457

"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."

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Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature 9789048535132

The essays in this book highlight how shapeshifting cannot be studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topic

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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy 0367877279, 9780367877279

What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosoph

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North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity 9781503626010

In recent decades more Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian women have immigrated to France than men, yet despite their incr

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The African Imagination in Music 0190263202, 9780190263201

In ‘The African Imagination in Music’, noted music scholar Kofi Agawu offers a fresh introduction to the vast, immensely

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Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History 9780231526425

Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions—including Vijñanabhiksu, Madhava,

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The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory 9781845458812

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectua

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The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics 9781474443371

Shows how philosophers from Nietzsche to Deleuze have used the figure of the desert to theorise space and place Uses the

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