wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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Maestros & Monsters
ISBN: 9781942134886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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94,84 |
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Excitable Women, Damaged Men: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781885586407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Tightly focused, European in feel, portraits of men and women in distress. A fearless investigation into the fundamental eccentricity of life.
Tightly focused, European in feel, portraits of men and women in distress. A fearless investigation into the fundamental eccentricity of life.
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60,63 |
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The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals
ISBN: 9780231173803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society. Organizing his chapters around specific ideas, Boyers anatomizes the process by which they fall in and out of fashion and often confuse those who most ardently embrace them....
As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture...
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153,41 |
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The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists
ISBN: 9780231136747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J. M. Coetzee and John Updike, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues...
In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the polit...
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218,60 |
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The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
ISBN: 9781982127190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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64,62 |
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Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945
ISBN: 9780195050820 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand these works. A penetrating study, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates some of the major fiction of our time and makes an important contribution to contemporary political thought.
Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel G...
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388,28 |
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The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals
ISBN: 9780231173810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society.
Organizing his chapters around specific ideas, Boyers anatomizes the process by which they fall in and out of fashion and often confuse those who most ardently embrace them.... As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture...
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112,50 |
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The New Salmagundi Reader
ISBN: 9780815603849 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) These articles, orginally published in the American quarterly Salmagundi since 1983, provides a record of some of the thinking about a wide range of cultural, political and literary issues.
These articles, orginally published in the American quarterly Salmagundi since 1983, provides a record of some of the thinking about a wide range of c...
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cena:
97,10 |
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The Ways of the Will: Selected Essays Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780465023585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as the pornographic anguish of jealousy and the despair of psychotherapy, were collected in 1966 (The Ways of the Will) and 1976 (Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life) and have been out of print for nearly twenty years. Based partly on his experiences as a therapist, but more importantly on his special insight, Dr. Farber's observations provide us with a unique...
The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrat...
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97,10 |