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How to Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher
Category: Fiction | Series: How to Read Ser.
An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In Derrida's view, texts and contexts are woven with inconsistencies and blindspots, which provide us with a chance to thin ...Show more
How to Read European Decorative Arts by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes Spanning three centuries of creativity, from the High Renaissance to the Indust ...Show more
How to Read Freud by Josh Cohen
Category: Philosophy | Series: How to Read Ser.
Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. Approaching the writing of major intellectua ...Show more
How to Read Freud by Josh Cohen
Category: Psychology | Series: How to Read
In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word, or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that makes psychoanalysis have so many oponents.
How to Read Hitler by Neil Gregor
Category: Culture | Series: How to Read
Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitler's texts as his starting point, Neil Gregor discusses 'this second-rate mind of great power' and helps the re ...Show more
How to Read Islamic Calligraphy by Maryam D. Ekhtiar
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
An accessible introduction to the quintessential art form of the Islamic worldHow to Read Islamic Calligraphy explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Aimed at a general audience, the book introduces all five major Islamic calligraphic ...Show more
How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: How to Read Ser.
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire." - Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality? Slavoj Zizek's passionate defence of Lacan reasserts ...Show more
How to Read Medieval Art by Stein Wendy A
Category: Art Books | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle Ages How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which is one of the most comprehensive in the world. This h ...Show more
How to Read Nietzsche by Keith Ansell-Pearson; Simon Critchley
Category: Culture | Series: How to Read Ser.
Nietzsche's thinking revolves around a new and striking concept of humanity--a humanity that has come to terms with the death of God and practices the art and science of living well, free of the need for metaphysical certainties and moral absolutes. How, then, are we to live? And what do we love?Keith A ...Show more
How to Read Paris: A Crash Course in Parisian Architecture by Chris Rogers
Category: Architecture | Series: How to Read Ser.
How to Read Paris is a pocket-sized guide to understanding and appreciating the architecture of Paris. Packed with detailed drawings, plans and photographs, and covering squares, bridges, streets and monuments as well as buildings, it is both a fascinating architectural history and an effective I-spy gu ...Show more
How to Read Plato by Richard Kraut
Category: No Category | Series: How to Read
'The unexamined life is not worth living'. Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value, and few philosophers have escaped his influence or rivaled the ...Show more
How to Read Portraits by Kathryn Calley Galitz
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
This latest volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures--from funerary masks to realism to abstraction Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. Portraits speak to such fundamental human concerns as status, relationships, and ide ...Show more