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HOW RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICS INFLUENCE THE WAY WE MOVE

The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze and many others, Shestov developed a fascinating anti-Enlightenment philosophy that critiqued the limits of reason and triumphantly affirmed an ethics of hope in the face of hopelessness....

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science.

Immer, wenn wir gehen, gehen wir irgendwohin. Vor allem, wenn wir nirgendwohin gehen. Wenn wir uns in der modernen Stadt bewegen, geht es nicht nur darum, von A nach B zu kommen, sondern darum, zu verstehen, wer und wo wir sind. In fesselnden intellektuellen Streifzügen zeichnet Matthew Beaumont Episoden aus der Geschichte des Fußgängers seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nach. Von Dickens' nächtlichen Spaziergängen bis hin zu rastlosen Wande...

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From the bestelling author of 'e' comes a hilarious and moving novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinary

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Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?There is no such thing as the wrong step, every time we walk we are going somewhere. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces a history of the w...

There is no such thing as the wrong step, every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont, retraces a history of the walker. From Charles Dicken's insomniac night rambles to wandering through the faceless, windswept monuments of the neoliberal city, the act of walk...

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science.

A literary portrait of the poets, novelists and thinkers who have shone a light on the shadowy world of London at night. New in paperback.

In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book re-examines the rise of utopian thought at the fin de siècle, situating it in the social and political contradictions of the time and exploring the ways in which it articulated a deepening sense that the capitalist system might not be insuperable after all. The study pays particular attention to Edward Bellamy's seminal utopian fict...

This collection of essays, by a number of established scholars and artists, proposes new directions for Marxist cultural theory and the criticism of modern visual culture. It addresses a diverse range of topics, including the state and revolution, Communist and post-Communist aesthetics, Situationist thought and the avant-garde, subjectivity and commodification, and the politics and problems of contemporary artistic practice. The contributions...

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central ...

Uncovers the preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature

This literary-historical account of late-nineteenth century utopianism offers a fascinating rereading of the "fin de siecle" in terms of the political futures that were produced in England during a period of cultural upheaval, and marks an original contribution to the Marxist critique of utopian ideology.

Updated ed. of: Adventures in realism. 2007.

Adventures in Realism" offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 16 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Zizek and Frederic Jameson Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts necessary to ...