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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides by Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more ...Show more
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, t ...Show more
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls 'The Precariat' - a growing number of people across the world living and working precar ...Show more
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office...I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with more authority than ...Show more
The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World by Mario Perniola
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic, Mario Perniola puts forth the radical argument that we are shifting away from organic sexuality, based on desire and pleasure, and moving towards a more neutral inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form. Pe ...Show more
The Shifting Point - Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87 by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Hailed as 'the theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatization of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, one of theatre's great visionaries assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant ...Show more
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is ...Show more
The Three Ecologies by Felix Guattari
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new form of capitalism and that a new ecosophical approac ...Show more
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Search, Discovery and Clearance of the Antechamber: Volume 1 by Howard Carter
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with ...Show more
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: The Annexe and Treasury: Volume 3 by Howard Carter
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact w ...Show more
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: The Burial Chamber: Volume 2 by Howard Carter
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact w ...Show more
The Universal Exception by Slavoj iek; Rex Butler (Editor); Scott Stephens (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj Zizek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today.Bringing together a broad selection of Zizek's major writings on politics, The Universal Exception showcases Zizek's formidable range of intere ...Show more