Author | : Tony Baldwinson |
Publisher | : Tony Baldwinson |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 0957260628 |
Author | : Tony Baldwinson |
Publisher | : Tony Baldwinson |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 0957260628 |
Author | : Peter Godman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069119453X |
Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512. He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio Adriani--Poliziano's successor in his Chair at the Studio and Machiavelli's colleague at the Chancery of Florence. And he examines in depth the intellectual impact of Savonarola and the relationship between secular and religious and oral and print cultures. Godman shows a complex reaction of rivalry and antagonism in Machiavelli's approach to Marcello Virgilio, who was the leading Florentine humanist of the day. But he also demonstrates that Florentine humanists shared a common culture, marked by a preference for secular over religious themes and by constant anxiety about surviving and prospering in the city's dangerous political climate. The book concludes with an appendix, drawn from previously incaccessible archives, about the censorship of Machiavelli by the Inquisition and the Index. From Poliziano to Machiavelli adds new depth to the intellectual history of Forence during his most dynamic period in its history. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : A. B. Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521030315 |
A comprehensive examination of Shakespeare's use of Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphoses.
Author | : M. Reiss |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137364475 |
Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.
Author | : Linguistic Survey of India |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Antony Easthope |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1403907048 |
Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way. Celebrating variety for its own sake, Antony Easthope argues, cultural criticism too readily ignores the role of the text itself in addressing the desire of the reader. With characteristic directness, he takes to task the foremost theorists of the current generation one by one, including Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, Dona Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler. In a final tour de force, he contrasts what he calls the two Jakes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, to bring out the way their respective theories need each other. The book is vintage Easthope: wide-ranging, fearless, witty and a radical challenge to complacency wherever it is to be found.
Author | : Katie Ellis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2019-01-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317627849 |
Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception. Television, as a central medium of communication, has marginalized people with disability through both representation on screen and the lack of accessibility to this medium. With accessibility options becoming available as television is switched to digital transmissions, audience research into television representations must include a corresponding consideration of access. This book provides a comprehensive and critical study of the way people with disability access and watch digital TV. International case studies and media reports are complimented by findings of a user-focused study into accessibility and representation captured during the Australian digital television switchover in 2013-2014. This book will provide a reliable, independent guide to fundamental shifts in media access while also offering insight from the disability community. It will be essential reading for researchers working on disability and media, as well as television, communications and culture; upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural studies; along with general readers with an interest in disability and digital culture.
Author | : Celia Brickman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231125836 |
This work explores how the colonialist and racist discourse of late-19th-century anthropology found its way into the work of Sigmund Freud, influencing the model of racial difference implicit in his notions of subjectivity.
Author | : Roy A. Rappaport |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1999-03-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521296908 |
Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.