Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106β43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring ...
Continue Reading βIn Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer developed a theory of symbolism, there applied to music, which she felt could be developed to embrace ...
Continue Reading βThe use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectatorβs point ...
Continue Reading βThe Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the re-making of your ...
Continue Reading βBatia Suter?s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first?Parallel Encyclopedia?, ...
Continue Reading βMinima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of ...
Continue Reading βAnaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned ...
Continue Reading βBoth madcap cookbook and manifesto on Futurism, Marinetti’s exuberant and entertaining book has been described as one of ‘the best artistic jokes of the century’No ...
Continue Reading β‘Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students’ revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and ...
Continue Reading βVentriloquism, the art of seeming to speak where one is not, speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing ...
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