New York Institute for the Hum, Dworkin

Humanities in Review

Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The articles in this volume are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject and based upon lectures given under the auspices of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521271059
• ISBN-10: 0521271053
• Artikelnr.: 26056735

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Body and Society: 1. Sexuality and solitude Michel Foucault and
Richard Sennett; 2. A short history of body consciousness Jean Starobinski;
3. The sacred and the body social in sixteenth-century Lyon Natalie Zemon
Davis; Part II. The Nature of Acting: 4. Acting in everyday life and
everyday life in acting Victor Turner; 5. The actor as a celebrity Richard
Gilman; Part III. How form in Art is Related to Culture: 6. The breaking of
form Harold Bloom; 7. The 'I' as an other in poetry Stephen Spender; 8.
Music does not flow: constant and variable elements in music's patterning
Virgil Thomson; Part IV. Studies in Cultural History: 9. The occult
philosophy in the Elizabethan age Frances Yates; 10. Triumph or downfall of
civil society Alain Touraine.