Mathematics Placement Examination Review

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The Davies Group, Publishers

In this first, full-¬length philosophical examination of Sylvia Plath’s work the author develops an applied phenomenological study of her poetry. Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art explores how Plath's poetic themes overlap contemporary philosophical questions in the philosophy of language, environmental ethics, and feminist theory. This book will appeal to a wide audience in many areas of philosophy as well as those concerned with literature, art criticism, women's studies, and religious studies

Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art: A Phenomenological Study of Sylvia Plath's Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Ellen

History & Criticism

The Sense of the World, by one of the most influential of Spanish philosophers, is the author's first book in English and effectively summarizes his entire body of work, which can be divided into four categories: hermeneutical treatises; symbolic and mythological studies, especially interpretations of Basque mythology; metaphysics of the sense of life; and aphorisms. In this work, Ortiz-Osés places the question of the meaning of the world in the context of a philosophy of the soul, a key concept of which is affective reason. He takes into account the meaning of existence and compares several worldviews with a special emphasis on a Latin/Hispanic-American worldview.

The Sense of the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Ortiz-Osés, Andrés

Philosophy

After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Reinhard, Kenneth

The core argument of this book is that this century’s philosophy — precisely in its would-be most radical formulations — has relinquished its original function, by neutralizing those paradoxes of the nature of time that, conversely, science has taken as both the premise and the condition of its work. The aim of the reflection proposed here, however, is not limited to describing the constant elements (or the innumerable metamorphoses) of the modern and post-modern ‘visions’ of time; neither is it to ‘reinstate’ — sic et simpliciter — the neglected dimension of space. Its aim is an attempt at identifying the dimension, that is, the space, of ‘our’ time, starting from the cosmic disorientation that the new scientific image of the universe has transmitted to our experience.

Kairos: Towards an Ontology of 'Due Time'

Marramao, Giacomo

The End of the Line

First published in 1985, The End of the Line brought together a series of essays tracing the notion of the sublime from Longinus’s inaugural treatise through its later exemplifications in eighteenth-century and Romantic writing (Kant, Wordsworth) and its inflections in works of nineteenth-century fiction (Flaubert, George Eliot) to its reappearance as “the uncanny” in Freud’s writings. In this new edition, Neil Hertz has added two more recent essays, one on Descartes and Samuel Johnson, the other on Paul de Man’s engagement with the criticism of William Empson.

Hertz, Neil

There is a widespread feeling that postmodernism is on its way out. However, up to now there has been no attempt to define what the epoch after it would look like. Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism is the first book to offer a systematic theory of culture after postmodernism. The book maintains that we have entered a new, monist epoch in which aesthetically imposed belief replaces endless irony as the dominant force in culture. This new cultural dominant, which I call performatism, works by artificially "framing" readers or viewers in such a way that they have no choice but to accept the external givens of a work and identify with the characters within it. In short, they are forcibly made to believe-if only within an particular aesthetic context. This basic procedure can be shown to operate not only in narrative genres like film and literature, but also in visual ones like art and architecture. This new aesthetic is documented in well-known films and novels such as American Beauty, The Celebration, Life of Pi, Middlesex, and The God of Small Things as well as in the work of major architects and artists such as Sir Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Andreas Gursky, Neo Rauch, and Vanessa Beecroft.

Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism

Eshelman, Raoul

The short stories collected here are stories of family and friction, race and gender, friendship and fear, discovery and despair. These stories - set against the vast diversity of America's big cities and small towns, and mountains and plains - are intended to shape their characters ranging from homeless people to ticket scalpers, from cowboys to youthful voyeurs on the run, from mentors and teachers to searchers and loners. Isolation is about men and women, both young and old, looking for their identities and seeking direction.

Isolation and Other Stories

Greer,Robert

Literary

"These nocturnes are rooted in the same parts of Ireland as I am. They took shape where I was born and grew up. Inevitably, they derive much of their tone and colour from the places, people and events that constitute my background. To the extent that writing has a voice, they speak with the same ac-cent whose inflection and intonation mark every word I utter...The ground covered in them...belongs to the human tribe...even if the universal issues are addressed in an Ulster accent; even if the points of departure are often minutely local..." ©1999 Chris Arthur .

Irish Nocturnes

Arthur, Chris

Epiphanies of Darkness was published originally in 1986. The Davies group is proud to reissue this revision of a work that is so important a part of the literature of deconstructive theology. Few religious thinkers have the philosophical sophistication of this author. This book is profound in its ability to bring together much of what is deepest and most disturbing in our age with the reality of a theological desire for more. Epiphanies of Darkness represents a searching and courageous appraisal of the state of theological discourse, as well as a powerful intervention into that discourse, with the aim of completely reconstituting what we mean by theology.

Epiphanies of Darkness: Deconstruction in Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Charles E. Winquist

Religious Studies

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