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The Transformations of Man

The Transformations of Man

Originally published in 1957 this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities. It shows how each radical new stage of human development grew out of changes in human personality and consciousness such as the invention of language and symbols the origins of universal religions and the mechanization of everyday life. Despite the threat that the author foresees from an over-reliance on automation the book maintains that humanity still has the means spiritual personal and technological to create a sustainable future for itself by increasing the usefulness and freedom of all men. | The Transformations of Man

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Remaking the Readymade Duchamp Man Ray and the Conundrum of the Replica

Remaking the Readymade Duchamp Man Ray and the Conundrum of the Replica

Replication and originality are central concepts in the artistic oeuvres of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Remaking the Readymade reveals the underlying and previously unexplored processes and rationales for the collaboration between Duchamp Man Ray and Arturo Schwarz on the replication of readymades and objects. The 1964 editioned replicas of the readymades sent shock waves through the art world. Even though the replicas undermined ideas of authorship and problematized the notion of identity and the artist they paradoxically shared in the aura of the originals becoming stand-ins for the readymades. Scholar-poet-dealer Arturo Schwarz played a crucial role opening the door to joint or alternate authorship—an outstanding relationship between artist and dealer. By unearthing previously unpublished correspondence and documentary materials and combining this material with newly conducted exclusive interviews with key participants Remaking the Readymade details heretofore unrevealed aspects of the technical processes involved in the (re)creation of iconic long-lost Dada objects. Launched on the heels of the centenary of Duchamp’s Fountain this new analysis intensifies and complicates our understanding of Duchamp and Man Ray’ initial conceptions and raises questions about replication and authorship that will stimulate significant debate about the legacy of the artists the continuing significance of their works and the meaning of terms such as creativity originality and value in the formation of art. | Remaking the Readymade Duchamp Man Ray and the Conundrum of the Replica

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The Routledge Guidebook to Paine's Rights of Man

The Routledge Guidebook to Paine's Rights of Man

Upon publication in 1791-92 the two parts of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man proved to be both immensely popular and highly controversial. An immediate bestseller it not only defended the French revolution but also challenged current laws customs and government. The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man provides the first comprehensive and fully contextualized introduction to this foundational text in the history of modern political thought addressing its central themes reception and influence. The Guidebook examines: the history of rights populism representative governments and challenges to monarchy from the 12th through 18th century; Paine’s arguments against monarchies mixed governments war and state-church establishments; Paine’s views on constitutions; Paine’s proposals regarding suffrage inequality poverty and public welfare; Paine’s revolution in rhetoric and style; the critical reception upon publication and influence through the centuries as well as Paine’s relevance today. The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man is essential reading for students of eighteenth-century American and British history politics and philosophy and anyone approaching Paine’s work for the first time. | The Routledge Guidebook to Paine's Rights of Man

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The Book of the Civilised Man An English Translation of the Urbanus magnus of Daniel of Beccles

The Book of the Civilised Man An English Translation of the Urbanus magnus of Daniel of Beccles

A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously little-known text. Known in Latin as Urbanus magnus it is a complex and illuminating text which covers an array of topics related to social mores in the Middle Ages including: how to be a good and moral citizen how to dine courteously how to maintain standards of hygiene how to regulate your diet and how to run your household. Often described as one of the earliest ‘courtesy texts’ this translation will reveal a text which cannot be easily categorised in any genre but is relevant widely for anyone with an interest in medieval life. An expansive text of enormous breadth this translation will provide scholars new insight in areas such as social hierarchy citizenship morality friendship family ties household administration food consumption standards of etiquette and much more. | The Book of the Civilised Man An English Translation of the Urbanus magnus of Daniel of Beccles

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Donald W. Winnicott and the History of the Present Understanding the Man and his Work

Donald W. Winnicott and the History of the Present Understanding the Man and his Work

In November 2015 The Winnicott Trust held a major conference in London to celebrate the forthcoming publication of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott. Most of the papers given then now constitute the chapters in this book. It not only reflects the ongoing contemporary relevance of Winnicott's work clinical and theoretical but these chapters demonstrate the aliveness of Winnicott's contribution as present day practitioners and academics use his ideas in their own way. The chapters range from accounts of the early developmental processes and relationships (Roussillon Murray) the psychoanalytic setting (Bolognini Bonaminio Fabozzi Joyce Hopkins) creativity and the arts (Wright Robinson) Winnicott in the outside world (Kahr Karpf) to the challenge to the psychoanalytic paradigm that Winnicott's ideas constitute (Loparic). | Donald W. Winnicott and the History of the Present Understanding the Man and his Work

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Eduard Mörike The Man and the Poet

Eduard Mörike The Man and the Poet

Originally published in 1957 this was the first biography and full account of Eduard Mörike’s works to appear in English. One of the greatest German lyric poets Mörike is according to some critics equal to Goethe as a lyricist. This book was the first attempt to analyse Mörike’s highly suggestive drawings some of which are reproduced in the book. The contents of poems are summarized so no prior knowledge of German is assumed and a large number of poems are quoted in full. | Eduard Mörike The Man and the Poet

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God and Man In the Old Testament

God and Man In the Old Testament

Originally published in 1955 and containing some 500 passages this Biblical anthology brings together in their original wording the highest expressions of the Biblical view of life. The anthology is non-historical and non-doctrinal. It starts with the confrontations of man with God as seen in the ‘calls’ of the prophets and proceeds to the ways of life demanded of man and the duties accompanying the privilege of vocation. It ends with the visions of the ideal society which in times of trial the author believes have sustained the mind. When this was first published the anthology used often forgotten texts and in so doing stimulated much attention to these enduring religious documents. | God and Man In the Old Testament

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Voices of Man The Meaning and Function of Language

Voices of Man The Meaning and Function of Language

Originally published in 1964 this book examines where and how the pattern and texture of speech emerged and whether language is logical. It looks at linguistics from both the historical and descriptive points of view as a physical science and as a social science. It also discusses the problem of aesthetics in language and what happens when different languages come into contact with each other. The book concludes with a discussion of the possibility of an international language and indeed whether such a development would be progress or something that is needed or wanted. | Voices of Man The Meaning and Function of Language

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The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency in modern philosophical treatises in modern animal behavioral studies and in animal rights literature to argue both for and against the position that human beings are special and unique because of one or another attribute or skill that they are believed to possess. Some of the claims of man’s unique endowments have in recent years become the subject of intensive investigation by cognitive ethologists carried out in non-laboratory contexts. The debate is as lively now as in classical times and what is of particular note the examples and methods of argumentation used to prove one or another position on any issue relating to the unique status of human beings that one encounters in contemporary philosophical or ethological literature frequently recall ancient precedents. This is the first book-length study of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos in classical literature not restricting its analysis to Greco-Roman claims of man’s intellectual uniqueness but including classical assertions of man’s physiological and emotional uniqueness. It supplements this analysis of ancient manifestations with an examination of how the commonplace survives and has been restated transformed and extended in contemporary ethological literature and in the literature of the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Author Stephen T. Newmyer demonstrates that the anthropocentrism detected in Greek applications of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos is not only alive and well in many facets of the current debate on human-animal relations but that combating its negative effects is a stated aim of some modern philosophers and activists. | The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

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The Melancholy Man A Study of Dickens's Novels

The Melancholy Man A Study of Dickens's Novels

First published in 1980 this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The author considers the peculiarity of Dickens being unanimously acclaimed as a great writer considering the difficulty in placing him definitively within the literary tradition. The author argues Dickens was an isolated figure indifferent to changing fashions and with a strong sense of the dignity of human nature and that this formed the basis of his character and writings. | The Melancholy Man A Study of Dickens's Novels

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The Family of Man Revisited Photography in a Global Age

The Family of Man Revisited Photography in a Global Age

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition still in print is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955 the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived curated and designed the exhibition. He explained its subject as `the everydayness of life' and `the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world'. The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common future for humanity after 1945. The popular international response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Many critics however have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history politics and cultural difference. This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Also presented are documents about the exhibition never before available in English. Commentaries by critical theorist Max Horkheimer and novelist Wolfgang Koeppen letters from photographer August Sander and a poetic sequence on the images by Polish poet Witold Wirpsza enable and encourage new critical reflections. A detailed survey of audience responses in Munich from 1955 allows a rare glimpse of what visitors thought about the exhibition. Today when armed conflict environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man. | The Family of Man Revisited Photography in a Global Age

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Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright conflict is high perhaps higher than ever. As Andrea L. Smith convincingly argues in her new introduction to this classic work certain questions are as valid today as in 1949 when Mirror for Man was first published. Can anthropology break down prejudices that exist between peoples and nations? Can knowledge of past human behavior help solve the world’s modern problems? What effect will American attitudes likely have on the future of the world? In Mirror for Man Clyde Kluckhohn scrutinizes anthropology showing how the discipline can contribute to the reconciliation of conflicting cultures. He questions age-old race theories shows how people came to be as they are and examines limitations in how human beings can be molded. Taking up one of the most vital questions in the post-World War II world whether international order can be achieved by domination Kluckhohn demonstrates that cultural clashes drive much of the world’s conflict and shows how we can help resolve it if only we are willing to work for joint understanding. By interpreting human behavior Kluckhohn reveals that anthropology can make a practical contribution through its predictive power in the realm of politics social attitudes and group psychology. Andrea L. Smith’s new introduction provides convincing evidence for the continuing importance of one of the earliest “public intellectuals. ” | Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

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Existential Psychology and the Way of the Tao Meditations on the Writings of Zhuangzi

Existential Psychology and the Way of the Tao Meditations on the Writings of Zhuangzi

In ancient China a revered Taoist sage named Zhuangzi told many parables. In Existential Psychology and the Way of the Tao a selection of these parables will be featured. Following each parable an eminent existential psychologist will share a personal and scholarly reflection on the meaning and relevance of the parable for psychotherapy and contemporary life. The major tenets of Zhuangzi's philosophy are featured. Taoist concepts of emptiness stillness Wu Wei (i. e. intentional non-intentionality) epistemology dreams and the nature of reality character building in the midst of pain meaning and the centrality of relationships authenticity self-care the freedom that can come from one's willingness to confront death spiritual freedom and gradations of therapeutic care are topics highlighted in this book. | Existential Psychology and the Way of the Tao Meditations on the Writings of Zhuangzi

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The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor. Mr. Wakamatsu recounts captivating first hand experiences with the man who changed the way the world looks at manufacturing. | The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

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The Vertical Man A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture

The Vertical Man A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture

Originally published in 1947 The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies with a focus on two kinds of sculpture from the province of Bihar. The book provides detailed analysis of the formal characteristics of the sculpture and the influences of the myth ritual and context in which they were commissioned and made. It explains why the sculpture is regional and why the styles are what they are. It is an original study which throws light on important subjects such as the relations of art and religion and of art and economics. The Vertical Man will appeal to those with an interest in art specifically sculpture and the art of the Indian countryside. | The Vertical Man A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture

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A Visit to a Gñáni Or Wise Man of the East

A Visit to a Gñáni Or Wise Man of the East

Originally published in 1911 this edition published in 1920 this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenter’s Adam’s Peak to Elephanta originally published in 1892 which details his travels in India and Ceylon. This excerpt in particular details his visit to a Gñáni or religious wise man and what he learned of their ancient wisdom-religion which would be more recognisable as Hinduism to a modern reader. This title will be of interest to students of sociology anthropology and religious studies. | A Visit to a Gñáni Or Wise Man of the East

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Rise of the Tomb Raider - Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch Steam CD Key

Rise of the Tomb Raider - Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch Steam CD Key

Deep in the wilds of Siberia lies a forest that no man will enter, where a Soviet expedition vanished without a trace. Lara enters the Wicked Vale in search of a missing man, but she finds a nightmare that defies explanation. Is the witch, Baba Yaga, haunting the forest? Or is there more to the myth? Featuring three hours of new gameplay, Lara will face new adversaries, explore a new tomb, solve a decades old mystery, and face off against an ancient evil. Includes a new outfit, and a new bow.

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The Myth of Modernity

The Myth of Modernity

First published in 1950 this was a new work by Charles Baudouin world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the myth of Modernity characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress he says had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself reasons for unhappiness inasmuch as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man’. This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch The Prestige of Action Technique versus Mysticism Opinion and Tolerance etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this simulating book now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.

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The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

In a career spanning 70 years composer conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works chamber music and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians playwrights artists actors and writers including Jack Kerouac Woody Guthrie Leonard Bernstein Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Arthur Miller Elia Kazan Bob Dylan Judy Collins Elmira Darvarova Paul Newman Willie Nelson Steve Earle and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions Amram’s career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram’s work and influence from the rich pioneering days of 1950s America to today’s embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram’s gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors musicians performers scholars and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music. | The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

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