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Cities Of Words

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Author : Stanley Cavell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-31

Cities Of Words written by Stanley Cavell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-31 with Performing Arts categories.

Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves. This book offers philosophy in the key of life. Beginning with a rereading of Emerson's "Self-Reliance," Cavell traces the idea of perfectionism through works by Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Rawls, and by such artists as Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and Shakespeare. Cities of Words shows that this ever-evolving idea, brought to dramatic life in movies such as It Happened One Night, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lady Eve, has the power to reorient the perception of Western philosophy.

The City Of Words

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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The City Of Words written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Books and reading categories.

Alberto Manguel sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can lend an identity to a whole society. His book is also about the art of reading, at a time when Manguel argues that it is still possible for stories to change us and the world we live in.

Cities Of Words

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Author : Stanley Cavell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-31

Cities Of Words

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Author : Stanley Cavell
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

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In diesem Buch untersucht der amerikanische Philosoph und Filmtheoretiker Stanley Cavell, wie Gemeinschaften, Städte der Worte, sich entwickeln, aber auch stillstehen und verfallen können. Dabei bringt er Traditionen miteinander ins Gespräch, die sich aus alter Gewohnheit und Misstrauen wenig zu sagen haben: Schwergewichte der Philosophie von Platon bis zur Gegenwart und vermeintliche Leichtgewichte der Kunst wie die Filmkomödien und Melodramen Hollywoods in den dreissiger und vierziger Jahren. Es zeigt sich, dass die Mittel, mit denen diese Filme Schwierigkeiten und Illusionen ehelicher Gemeinschaft darstellen, Erstaunliches zu den Gesichtspunkten beitragen können, unter denen Platon und Locke die Bedingungen und Bedrohungen der politischen Gemeinschaft untersuchen, aber auch zu Emersons und Nietzsches Diagnosen des Konformismus in der Kultur. Mitbestimmung in der politischen Gemeinschaft verlangt ebenso wie in Freundschaft und Ehe danach, eine eigene Stimme zu entwickeln; eine Problematik, die, wie Cavell zeigt, als Dauerthema die Screwballkomödien durchzieht. Der Band bietet neben Interpretationen von Werken Freuds, Shakespeares, Ibsens, Shaws und Henry James' nicht nur eine Einführung zu Klassikern der Philosophie von Platon über Aristoteles, Locke, Kant, Emerson, Nietzsche bis hin zu Mill und Rawls, sondern auch einen neuen, höchst vergnüglichen Zugang zu Klassikern der Filmgeschichte wie “It Happened One Night” (Es geschah in einer Nacht), “The Philadelphia Story” (Die Nacht vor der Hochzeit), “Adam's Rib” (Ehekrieg), “Gaslight” (Das Haus der Lady Alquist), “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt), “Now, Voyager” (Reise aus der Vergangenheit), “Stella Dallas”, “The Lady Eve” (Die Falschspielerin), “His Girl Friday” (Sein Mädchen für besondere Fälle), “The Awful Truth” (Die schreckliche Wahrheit) und “Conte d'Hiver” (Ein Wintermärchen).

Cities Words And Images

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Author : P. Lombardo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-02-21

Cities Words And Images written by P. Lombardo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-21 with Literary Criticism categories.

The city is an essential theme of modernity in literature, architecture, photography and film. This book first focuses on ardent reactions to the metropolitan explosion in the nineteenth century, with Baudelaire and Poe as key figures. More recent representations of the city are then investigated, in Europe and the United States. Lombardo reflects on the way in which the changes in human perception created by urbanization are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content.

Placing Words

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Author : William John Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005

Placing Words written by William John Mitchell and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.

Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA. The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns," he observes. In Placing Words, Mitchell looks at the ways in which urban spaces and places provide settings for communication and at how they conduct complex flows of information through the twenty-first century city. Cities participate in the production of meaning by providing places populated with objects for words to refer to. Inscriptions on these objects (labels, billboards, newspapers, graffiti) provide another layer of meaning. And today, the flow of digital information -- from one device to another in the urban scene -- creates a digital network that also exists in physical space. Placing Words examines this emerging system of spaces, flows, and practices in a series of short essays -- snapshots of the city in the twenty-first century. Mitchell questions the necessity of flashy downtown office towers in an age of corporate Web sites. He casts the shocked-and-awed Baghdad as a contemporary Guernica. He describes architectural makeovers throughout history, listing Le Corbusier's Fab Five Points of difference between new and old architecture, and he discusses the architecture of Manolo Blahniks. He pens an open letter to the Secretary of Defense recommending architectural features to include in torture chambers. He compares Baudelaire, the Parisian flaneur, to Spiderman, the Manhattan traceur. He describes the iPod-like galleries of the renovated MoMA and he recognizes the camera phone as the latest step in a process of image mobilization that began when artists stopped painting on walls and began making pictures on small pieces of wood, canvas, or paper. The endless flow of information, he makes clear, is not only more pervasive and efficient than ever, it is also generating new cultural complexities.

City Made Of Words

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Author : Paul Park
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01

City Made Of Words written by Paul Park and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Fiction categories.

Paul Park is one of modern fiction’s major innovators. With exotic settings and characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his novels and stories explore the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. “Climate Change,” original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. “A Resistance to Theory” chronicles the passionate (and bloody) competition between the armed adherents of postmodern literary schools. “A Conversation with the Author” gives readers a harrowing look behind the curtains of an MFA program. In “A Brief History of SF” a fan encounters the ruined man who first glimpsed the ruined cities of Mars. “Creative Nonfiction” showcases a professor’s eager collaboration with a student intent on wrecking his career. The only nonfiction piece, “A Homily for Good Friday,” was delivered to a stunned congregation at a New England church. Plus: Our candid and colorful Outspoken Interview with one of today’s most accomplished and least conventional authors, in which personal truth is evaded, engaged, and altered, all in one shot.

Large Print World Cities Word Search Book

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Author : Search Word Gifts Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-23

Large Print World Cities Word Search Book written by Search Word Gifts Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-23 with categories.

This challenging contries and cities word search puzzles book is perfect for word puzzles lovers who whant to have fun and challenge during free times, vacations, retirement, waiting times, etc, and learn all about countries name cities names, capital name, contry mucis name Makes a great Christmas, Birthday, Independence Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Mother's or Father's Day gift This puzzle book has: 41 word searches puzzles with Printed solutions at the end of the book, about all animals More than 1000 contries and city, cities, capitas to discover Large print words for easy reading

World Cities Word Search Book For Teens

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Author : Search Word Gifts Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-23

World Cities Word Search Book For Teens written by Search Word Gifts Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-23 with categories.

World Cities Word Search Book

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Author : Search Word Gifts Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-23

World Cities Word Search Book written by Search Word Gifts Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-23 with categories.

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