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Race and Reconciliation
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 67.50Seeking the timeless through the timely, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa?from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television. A public intellectual?s reflections on public life, Herwitz?s essays question how the new South... more...
Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 120.00Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues, such as meaning, identity, and medium, that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered... more...
The Star as Icon
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 34.99Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly& mdash;the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic and zealously guarded. With skill and... more...
Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 34.99The act of remaking one?s history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism?s history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth... more...
The Don Giovanni Moment
Columbia University Press 2006; US$ 27.99Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book... more...
Action, Art, History
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 54.99Renowned philosophers and art historians revisit Danto's theories of art, action, and history, and the depth of his innovation as a philosopher of culture. more...
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