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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor robert doran”
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  • The Ethics of Theory

    Philosophy, History, Literature

    by Professor Robert Doran ...
    In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive.In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical underpinnings of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Liszt and Virtuosity

    by Robert Doran, Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke, Shay Loya, David Keep, Dolores Pesce, Jim Samson, Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Kregor, Kenneth Hamilton, Nicolas Dufetel0, Olivia Sham1 ...
    In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense of awe-inspiring excitement andan icon whose star power radiated far beyond the realm of music, Liszt was, along with his early model, Paganini, among the first major performer-composers to define ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Philosophy of History After Hayden White

    Edited by Professor Robert Doran ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
    This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature. Representing a variety of disciplines and approaches, the ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

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  • The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)

    by Ambrose Bierce ...
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    Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who had two beautiful sons and one little daughter, who was so pretty that no one who saw her could help loving her. When it was time for the christening of the Princess, the Queen—as she always did—sent for all the fairies to be present at the ceremony, and afterwards invited them to a splendid banquet... ... Read more

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    The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

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    by Catherine Seltzer ...
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