The problem with pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents 9780231526463, 9780231152723, 2012036521

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English Year 2013

The problem with pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
9780231526463, 9780231152723, 2012036521

Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,' " or the proliferation of mass produced, wi

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

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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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An argument that the sensation of speed (made available to many through the mass-produced automobile) was the quintessen

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

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A major voice in the architectural culture of the fifties and sixties, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with moder

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10 critical essays challenge speculative realism from perspectives from German idealism to phenomenology and deconstruct

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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry,Psychiatry and Its Discontentsprovides a wide-

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