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Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this classic work of music theory Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who he presents as dialectically opposed to one another in terms of their musical styles, techniques and directions. Adorno's readings, especially of Schoenberg, continue to cause controvers ...Show more
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skil ...Show more
Roots for Radicals - Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice by Edward T. Chambers
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on these fundamental principles of community activism: how, ...Show more
Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The author compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and seeks to explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war. Drawing on such sources as butchering texts, cookbooks, Victorian hygiene manuals, and Alice Walker, the author argu ...Show more
Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political right ...Show more
The Actor Speaks - Voice and the Performer by Patsy Rodenburg
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this Bloomsbury Revelations edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what leading professional actors must achieve ever ...Show more
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: Military | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Chu ...Show more
The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus by Martin Heidegger
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionis ...Show more
The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact by Jean Baudrillard
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and ...Show more
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida; Lorna Marshall
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control ...Show more
The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature by David Lodge
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questi ...Show more
The Nazi Dictatorship - Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Known for his clear and accessible style when deal ...Show more