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Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters

By: Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; Da Costa, Maria Velho

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1976

Seller ID: 2263071

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Pages toned. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output.
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The Location of Culture

By: Bhabha, Homi K.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 2306065

ISBN: 0415054060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

3rd printing. Wrappers rubbed, two interesting ink stamps on page edges. 1994 Trade Paperback. Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practic...
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Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (The MIT Press)

By: Bjelic, Dusan I.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, MIT Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2269637

ISBN: 0262524481

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejoratively to refer to excessive specialization and nostalgically to refer to Europe's lost people?its wild warriors and passionate geniuses. This book explores the idea o...
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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

By: Heidegger, Martin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bloomington, University of Indiana: 1988

Seller ID: 2279601

ISBN: 025320478X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light creasing to spine. 1988 Trade Paperback. A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (Modern Masters)

By: Pears, David; Kermode, Frank

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2277369

ISBN: 0670019100

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Light stain to edges of wrappers, ink name on half-title page, minor ink marks. 1970 Trade Paperback. 208 pp. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Described by Bertrand Russell as the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating,Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Helping to inspire two of...
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The Final Foucault

By: [Foucault]; Bernauer, James; Rasmussen, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT: 1988

Seller ID: 1964944

ISBN: 0262521326

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Minor ink underlining. 1988 Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault left a rich legacy of ideas and approaches, many of which still await exposition and analysis. The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published (and some as yet unpublished) work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews, a comprehensive bibliography of his publications, and a biographical chronology.Foucault was still working on his history of sexuality when he died in 1984, but his main concern remained, as throughout his career, a deeper understanding of the nature of truth.
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Category: Post-Modernism

Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters

The Location of Culture

Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (The MIT Press)

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Modern Masters)

The Final Foucault

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