wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Melancholy and Culture : Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain
ISBN: 9780708320105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite melancholy s long tenure in European history, little attention has been paid to the subject of melancholy during the Spanish Golden Age, in spite of its enormous importance to Spanish thinking and culture. This volume demonstrates that the melancholy that prevailed in this historical period is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to further understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity. Staring with an exploration of "Libro de la melancholia," the first book on melancholy written in vernacular Spanish, "Melancholy and Culture"... Despite melancholy s long tenure in European history, little attention has been paid to the subject of melancholy during the Spanish Golden Age, in... |
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54,86 zł |
Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will
ISBN: 9781107629820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for...
In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind...
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133,79 zł |
Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition
ISBN: 9780822329237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico.
Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays most translated into English here for the first time suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America s leading public intellectuals. The essays... Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political tran...
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114,72 zł |
The Mexican Transition : Politics, Culture and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780708325537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Until the year 2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party won the presidential election, Mexico was ruled by one of the most enduring autocratic regimes of the twentieth century, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Here Roger Bartra chronicles the key moments that led to the Mexican transition to democracy and reflects on the different aspects of civic culture, the political process, and electoral struggles that played a role in that journey. Bartra also explores the setbacks that have plagued the nation since Fox s election, including the war on drug trafficking, and offers some...
Until the year 2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party won the presidential election, Mexico was ruled by one of the most enduring autocra...
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82,37 zł |
Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will
ISBN: 9781107060364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for...
In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind...
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322,56 zł |
Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition
ISBN: 9780822329084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico.
Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays most translated into English here for the first time suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America s leading public intellectuals. The essays... Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political tran...
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443,44 zł |
Shamans and Robots: On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness
ISBN: 9781517917494 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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104,29 zł |