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  • Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring English Literature: A Critical Analysis of Literary Works

    by William Hazlitt, Paige Gibson ...
    In "Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature," William Hazlitt presents a rich tapestry of literary critique that seeks to illuminate the art of reading and understanding English literature. Hazlitt's prose is characterized by its vivid expressions and his profound engagement with aesthetic values, inviting readers to appreciate literature not only as a ... Read more

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  • The Voice as Something More

    Essays toward Materiality

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series New Material Histories of Music
    In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of desire and material ... Read more

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  • Nothing to Do with Dionysos?

    Athenian Drama in Its Social Context

    Edited by John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin ...
    These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Hobbes in Dialogue

    Historical and Philosophic Insights into Political Thought

    Edited by Professor Peter Schröder, Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin ...
    Bringing together expert contributors across a range of disciplines from the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe, Hobbes in Dialogue shines a much-needed light on the political and philosophical dialogues of Thomas Hobbes.Hobbes in Dialogue is divided into three major parts which address, first, earlier dialogues which shaped the background to Hobbes's own; second, Hobbes's philosophic ... Read more

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  • Before Sexuality

    The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World

    Edited by Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin ...
    A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Color Protocols

    Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media

    Edited by Carolyn L. Kane, Lida Zeitlin-Wu ...
    An edited volume that explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media.What is at stake when categories like color, race, and ethnicity are transformed into a common language, lexicon, or industry standard? And more critically, how can we avoid the epistemic and ontological violence that seems inevitable in organizing color ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • JEWels

    Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling

    Edited by Steve Zeitlin ...
    JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems—Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Liberty and Equality

    by Raymond Aron ...
    Translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin ...
    An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy—and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the Collège de France by Raymond Aron, one of the most influential political and social thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important work, the most prominent French ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Leo Strauss

    by Clemens Kauffmann, E. H. Odzuck, S. G. Zeitlin ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    An outstanding short introduction to the work of Leo Strauss.Upon its initial appearance in German the dust jacket bore the following description: "Whoever engages in political philosophy today cannot evade Leo Strauss (1899–1973). Stauss's work spans the whole horizon of European intellectual history from classical poetry, philosophy, and historiography up to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Strauss ... Read more

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  • The Power to Manage?

    Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Perspective

    Edited by Steven Tolliday, Jonathan Zeitlin ...
    The contributors point the way to a new interpretation of the employer's role in industrial relations, by evaluating and explaining the distinctiveness of British developments in comparison to a variety of other countries. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

    Towards a New Architecture

    Edited by Charles F. Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin ...
    This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within-and increasingly beyond-its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy domains. In this architecture, framework goals and measures for gauging their achievement are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me

    by Meredith Zeitlin ...
    **A high school sophomore navigates a series of unplanned escapades and unexpected reunions in Greece—all while documenting the trip through one-of-a-kind commentary.“Sharp, hilarious, and possessed of decidedly un-sophomoric heart and wisdom.”—Bennett Madison, author of September Girls“Hilarious, charming, and gave me a serious case of wanderlust.”—Sarvenaz Tash, author of Three Day Summer**Zona ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD