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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Rene Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard's vision is a brilliant and de ...Show more
Time for Revolution by Antonio Negri
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Antonio Negri wrote the two essays that comprise Time for Revolution while serving a prison sentence for alleged involvement with radical left-wing groups. Although the essays were written two decades apart, their concerns are the same: is there a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by ca ...Show more
To Have Or to Be by Erich Fromm
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence stru ...Show more
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West by A. C. Grayling
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a ...Show more
Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected tradit ...Show more
Understanding Music : Philosophy and Interpretation by Scruton Roger
Category: Rock & Roll | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the mora ...Show more
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by ...Show more