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Author : David Michael Levin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922565
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Gaze written by David Michael Levin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living. In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision—if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing—the prospects for a radically different lifeworld. The world, after all, inevitably reflects back to us the character, the reach and range, of our vision. In these provocative essays, the author draws on the language of hermeneutical phenomenology and at the same time refines phenomenology itself as a method of working with our experience and thinking critically about the culture in which we live.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004409815
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Seghers written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide.

Author : Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111078469
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Home written by Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our democratic capacities and created complex crises. The Death of Home aims to intellectually engage readers via enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today’s crises.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375712690
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories of Franz Kafka written by Franz Kafka and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—a collection of stories that represent the art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales that are scrupulously naturalistic on the surface and uncanny in their depths. This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Author : Clara Sarmento
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443870889
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster written by Clara Sarmento and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early works of Paul Auster convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to the work of writing, as if he were confined within the book that dominates his life. All through Auster’s poetry, essays and fiction, the work of writing is an actual physical effort, an effective construction, as if the words aligned in the poem-text were stones to place in a row when building a wall or some other structure in stone. This book studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, inside the walls of the room, closed in space and time, though open to an unlimited mental expansion. Paul Auster’s work is an aesthetic-literary self-reflection about the mission of writing. The writer-character is like an inexperienced God, whose hands may originate either cosmos or chaos, life or death, hence Auster’s recurring meditation on the work and the power of writing, at the same time an autobiography and a self-criticism. The stones, the wall, and the room – the words, the page, and the book – are the ontological structure of the imaginary cosmos generated in Paul Auster’s mind, like a real world born of the magma of words lost in another, interior world.

Author : Gabriel Josipovici
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178410213X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teller and the Tale written by Gabriel Josipovici and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a quarter of a century's worth of critical reflection on modern art and literature, Biblical culture, Jewish theology, European identity, the nature of beginnings, and the bittersweetness of writing fiction – to name but a few of the subjects upon which Josipovici's ranging, pansophic attention rests. The author describes paths between these distant regions of space and time with characteristic warmth and ingenuity. Proust, Kafka, Woolf, Pasternak, Eliot, Spark, Valéry, and Beckett dwell here alongside Dante, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cervantes, and the Brothers Grimm. Each of these great writers is a point of departure for personal reflection, and a series of critical essays takes on a second life as a book of intimate recollections and fond remembrances, recalling departed friends and peers, evoking the pain and ecstasy of childhood, the personal struggle to be a writer, and the life-long project of becoming a person. Here is a snapshot of influences on one of the English language's most distinctive voices, and an opinionated, sensual, and informed exposition on Western literature and culture.

Author : Isak Winkel Holm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347845
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kafka’s Stereoscopes written by Isak Winkel Holm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call "stereoscopic," juxtaposing, like the optical stereoscope, two images of the same object seen from slightly different perspectives. Isak Winkel Holm argues that Kafka's stereoscopic style is crucial to an understanding of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka's work. At the level of content, the stereoscopic style offers a representation of the basic order of a specific community. At the level of form, the stereoscopic style is structured as the juxtaposition of two dissimilar images of the same community. At the level of function, finally, the style provokes a reconsideration, and perhaps even a reconfiguration, of the social order itself. With insights from literary studies, philosophical aesthetics and political theory, Kafka's Stereoscopes offers a detailed but highly readable argument for the relevance of Kafka's literary works in today's political reality.

Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061424
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia written by Richard T. Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Andreas Huyssen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674416724
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miniature Metropolis written by Andreas Huyssen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307496775
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”