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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william d melaney”
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  • Figural Space

    Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

    by William D. Melaney ...
    Series series Global Aesthetic Research
    This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Alterity and Criticism

    Tracing Time in Modern Literature

    by William D. Melaney ...
    How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of the self.Alterity and Criticism: Retracing Time in Modern Literature argues that the role of time in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Poetry and the Sense of Reversal

    Unsettling the Limits

    by William D. Melaney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of literature in the wake of modernity. This study shows how an experience of absence is the starting point for a reversal that occurs ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Adorno and Existence

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger, an impresario for a “jargon of authenticity” cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Manifestos for World Thought

    Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Lucian Stone ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Environmental Humanities

    Voices from the Anthropocene

    Edited by Serpil Oppermann, Serenella Iovino ...
    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Horizons of Continental Philosophy

    Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty

    Edited by H.J. Silverman ...
    Series Book 30 - Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library
    lacan. Barthes. Jakobson. Horkheimer. Adorno. Gadamer. Ricoeur. Foucault. Deleuze. Derrida. lyotard. Vattimo. Kofman. and Irigaray are also part of that outer horizon of continental philosophy. The purpose of this volume however is to establish that space within the core of continental philosophy - specifically in relation to the work of Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty -- and to move out to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness

    The Passions of the Soul in the Onto-Poiesis of Life

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

    by Wesley Phillips ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human `passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence.Continuing the inquiry into the `elemental passions of the soul' and the Human Creative Soul pursued in several previous volumes of this series, the present volume focuses on the `passions of the earth', bringing to light some of the primogenital existential threads ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Problem of Critical Ontology

    Bhaskar Contra Kant

    by D. McWherter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries. Going beyond the traditional and current references to the mental and the sensory, mind and body, perceptual content and the abstract ideas conveyed in language, etc., these studies range from the `hidden spheres of reality ... Read more

    $143.99 USD