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Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context
ISBN: 9780195159929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's...
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic int...
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116,81 zł |
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
ISBN: 9781250829641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,63 zł |
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Pragmatism: A Reader
ISBN: 9780679775447 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.
Now the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James and John Dewey to Richard Rorty and Cornel West, have been brought together and reprinted unabridged. From the first generation of pragmatists, including the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and the... Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, ...
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103,32 zł |
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The Future of Academic Freedom
ISBN: 9780226520056 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institution is the concept of academic freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. Scott, consider the problems confronting the American University in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.
"Louis Menand has assembled "The Future of Academic Freedom" to better define and delineate what... At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multi...
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131,04 zł |
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The Marketplace of Ideas
ISBN: 9780393339161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard professor Louis Menand thinks he's found the answer. Despite the vast social changes and technological advancements that have revolutionized the society at large, general principles of scholarly organization, curriculum, and philosophy have remained remarkably static....
The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard...
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81,59 zł |
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American Studies
ISBN: 9780374529000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's New Yorker and William Paley's CBS. He uncovers the connection between Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism, between the atom bomb and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He locates the importance of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Pauline Kael, Christopher... At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of Wi... |
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99,02 zł |
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
ISBN: 9780374528492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine... The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. |
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86,10 zł |
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The Best American Essays
ISBN: 9780618357093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" ("Booklist") chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand. "The Best American Essays" once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind.
Here is another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" ("Booklist") chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand. "The Be...
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94,50 zł |
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The New Yale Book of Quotations
ISBN: 9780300205978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) |
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218,40 zł |
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History
ISBN: 9780374533458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin's arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson's own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a... One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution... |
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116,24 zł |
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The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780226414713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources--many translated into English for the first time--that outline what would become the university as we know it. The editors...
The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know ...
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152,88 zł |
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism
ISBN: 9780521317238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 565 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) This volume provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others. The book provides a companion to the other twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the development of the key literary-critical movements, genres, and individual critics.
This volume provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (...
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227,38 zł |
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