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'Art and Fear' and 'Art As Far As the Eye Can See' by Paul Virilio; Julie Rose (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, architecture, science, politics, visual culture and warfare. In Art a ...Show more
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Beyond the Chains of Illusion : My Encounter With Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
Category: Self-Help | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings i ...Show more
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
Category: Music | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In this follow up to his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develop his influential 'system' of acting by exploring the imaginative processes at the heart of the actor's craft. Building a Character deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage through such tools as express ...Show more
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Mary Midgley
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Cinema I - The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, well known for his works on the philosophy of art and for his master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus. Cinema I is the first volume of Deleuze's revolu ...Show more
Cinema II: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Film | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies of work in contemporary thought. Cinema II is Deleu ...Show more
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the Course in General Linguistics ushered in the structuralist mode which marked a key turning point in modern thought. Philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Roland Ba ...Show more
Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski's acting 'system' to the English-speaking world. Here Stanislavski describes the elaborate preparation that an ac ...Show more
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and com ...Show more
Discourse on Free Will by Desiderius Erasmus
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the c ...Show more