wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Speaking of Universities
ISBN: 9781786631657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universities
A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universities
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151,56 zł |
What are Universities For?
ISBN: 9781846144820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and skepticism about their value. This title offers an argument for rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them.
Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose a...
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55,70 zł |
Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914
ISBN: 9780521274081 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging book, Collini explores the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
In this wide-ranging book, Collini explores the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
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216,69 zł |
Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait
ISBN: 9780199541881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable cultural reference point today.
In this stylish and entertaining book Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual controversies of the nineteenth century. By attending to the distinctive power of Arnold's writing to charm, tease, persuade, and irritate, the book provides... Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and cri...
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222,46 zł |
Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780521639781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectual historians of the period. The essays in Economy, Polity and Society begin by addressing aspects of the eighteenth-century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of "commercial society" and its distinctive notions of the self, of political liberty, and of economic progress. They then explore the adaptations of and responses to the Enlightenment legacy in the work of such early nineteenth-century...
Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectua...
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158,58 zł |
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism
ISBN: 9780198860334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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111,90 zł |
History, Religion, and Culture
ISBN: 9780521626385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and...
Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes con...
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306,05 zł |
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate
ISBN: 9780198813118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini, one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain in the twentieth century.
In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini, one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, explores aspects of the ...
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146,30 zł |
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
ISBN: 9780199216659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of "he question of intellectuals" n twentieth-century Britain--have such figures ever existed, have they always been more prominent or influential elsewhere, and are they on the point of becoming extinct today?
Recovering neglected or misunderstood traditions of reflection and debate from the late nineteenth century through to the present, Stefan Collini challenges the familiar cliche that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain. The book... A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of ...
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207,72 zł |
Economy, Polity, and Society
ISBN: 9780521630184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectual historians of the period. The essays in Economy, Polity and Society begin by addressing aspects of the eighteenth-century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of "commercial society" and its distinctive notions of the self, of political liberty, and of economic progress. They then explore the adaptations of and responses to the Enlightenment legacy in the work of such early nineteenth-century...
Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectua...
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448,56 zł |
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
ISBN: 9780199291052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain and offers a persuasive analysis of 'the intellectual' as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.
The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator...
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399,42 zł |
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism
ISBN: 9780198800170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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180,69 zł |
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics
ISBN: 9780199569793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership.
Among the critics discussed are Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchett, Aldous Huxley, Rebecca West, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell, while the historians include A.L. Rowse, Arthur Bryant, E.H. Carr, and E.P. Thompson.... In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain fr...
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183,15 zł |
That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History
ISBN: 9780521277709 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.
In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.
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206,37 zł |
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate
ISBN: 9780198758969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach such audiences. Among the figures discussed are T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Trevor-Roper,...
In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from ...
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249,49 zł |
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930
ISBN: 9780198204220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of...
This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian an...
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276,57 zł |
History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780521626392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and...
Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes con...
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158,58 zł |
English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture
ISBN: 9780198207801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is an accessible collection of essays by a leading historian and critic. Subjects include the idea of "the national past," the historian as social critic, the claims of Cultural Studies, the nature of academic "research," the function of the literary biography, and the lives and ideas of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, R. H. Tawney, Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Williams, and Richard Hoggart.
This is an accessible collection of essays by a leading historian and critic. Subjects include the idea of "the national past," the historian as socia...
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266,74 zł |
What Is Cultural Criticism?
ISBN: 9781804293379 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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136,50 zł |
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
ISBN: 9780521425544 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion ranges from Dante to The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, to Chomsky and Derrida, and bears all the hallmarks of his inimitable personal style. Three of the world's leading figures in philosophy, literary theory and criticism take up the challenge of entering into debate with Eco on the question of interpretation....
The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexit...
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197,89 zł |