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Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of...

Teaching at University has been written to provide you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions, and assessments with confidence. Clear and engaging throughout, this guide will offer: Accessible and generic language to support postgraduates in all disciplines Basic but relevant advice A direct and practical approach and style An emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence in the first few classes you teach Integration of theory (in small doses) with practice

Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical...

In den Ferien bei Oma Sylvie gibt es so viel zu entdecken: Auf der Frühlingswiese huschen Haselmäuse vorbei, summen Insekten und in der Dämmerung beeindruckt die Fledermaus mit ihren Flugkünsten. Doch ein paar Monate später sieht die Wiese ganz verändert aus. Alles liegt unter einer dichten Schneeschicht und von den vielen Tieren ist nichts mehr zu sehen. Wohin sind sie verschwunden? Oma Sylvie weiß, wo die Tiere sich versteckt haben. Im Boden eingegraben oder warm eingekuschelt in kleinen Höhlen warten sie auf die ersten Sonnenstrahlen. Sie alle schlummern friedlich, bis die...

Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.

First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed such ideas as the ‘recapitulation’ of evolutionary ancestry in the developing child, even though this is inconsistent with his natural selection theory. The first great developmentalists – Hall, Baldwin, Freud – adopted and applied these non-Darwinian evolutionist ideas. The next...