wyszukanych pozycji: 12
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education
ISBN: 9780226480787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, "Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?" The question, said Ramirez, changed his life because "it was the first time anyone had asked me that." Realizing that his opinion had value set him on a course that led to his becoming a distinguished professor.
That, says... Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of a...
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434,28 zł |
Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781643363271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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407,14 zł |
Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781643363288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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135,44 zł |
The Character of Criticism
ISBN: 9780415971331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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195,92 zł |
The Humanities and the Dream of America
ISBN: 9780226316994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities portray a "dream of America" in two senses: they represent an aspiration of Americans since the first days of the Republic for a state so secure and prosperous that people could enjoy and appreciate culture for its own sake; and they embody in academic terms an idealized conception of the... In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years follo... |
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141,14 zł |
Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
ISBN: 9780415942188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey and critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey ...
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696,20 zł |
Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society
ISBN: 9780822323006 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and culture? And why are ethical issues so often unresolved? In short, why does ethics seem to be both urgent and problematic? This book deals with these questions.
What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and cu...
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448,67 zł |
Scholarship and Freedom
ISBN: 9780674245013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees. Far from ivory-tower intellectuals, scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Linda Nochlin undertake the radical social act of questioning received wisdom.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding...
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146,30 zł |
Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society
ISBN: 9780822323204 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Collection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cultural aesthetics, even theory--have become implicated with and confused with the 'lowes
Collection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cul...
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113,40 zł |
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education
ISBN: 9780226480817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, "Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?" The question, said Ramirez, changed his life because "it was the first time anyone had asked me that." Realizing that his opinion had value set him on a course that led to his becoming a distinguished professor.
That, says... Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of a...
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130,28 zł |
Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
ISBN: 9780415942195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey and critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone Geoffrey Halt Harpham provides a comprehensive survey ...
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195,92 zł |
The Character of Criticism
ISBN: 9780415971324 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse of character.
Through a series of detailed and intimate intellectual portraits of leading critics--Elaine Scarry, Martha... Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, a...
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696,20 zł |