Master Narratives and Their Discontents 9781135872571, 9780415972697

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and po

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Master Narratives and Their Discontents
9781135872571, 9780415972697

This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theo

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Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stori

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Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new politica

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A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's

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An innovative reconsideration of post-Stalinist Bulgaria in the context of the socialist world and the global 1960s and

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The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: "Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometime

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Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dicho

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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wid

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With incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession, this volume discusses the

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Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education problematizes one of the least researched phenomena in teacher education, the d

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