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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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The sense of semblance philosophical analyses of Holocaust art / by Pickford, Henry W.

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The sense of semblance philosophical analyses of Holocaust art / by Pickford, Henry W.

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Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / by Munro, Michael

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English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Felicity Rash -- Contextualizing nationalism and anti-semitism, 1871-1945 / Ulrich Charpa -- Anti-semitism as mental mechanism: a model suggested by some similarities between nineteenth-century anti-semitisms in music and science / Stefan Hüpping -- 'Mag der Jude seine Religion behalten, wenn er sich nur zum Deutschtum bekennt': the philo-semitic nationalism of Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1883-1936) as a paradigm of German conservative thinking / Isabelle Engelhardt -- A political catholic view: discourses on the Judenfrage in the daily newspaper Germania 1918-1933 / Helen Roche -- In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt (Goebbels): the leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan nationalist paradigm / Karin Stögner -- On anti-semitism and nationalism at the fin de siècle: Walter Benjamin's critique of the German youth movement / Martin Weidinger -- Fridericus, Madame Dubarry and Die Nibelungen: the (nationalist) politics of historical films in Weimar Germany / Simone Borgstede -- Dr Ernst Henrici: just a "well-known arsonist" of the German Kaiserreich or foreman in the production of an Aryan "Volksgemeinschaft"? …”
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Weimar thought a contested legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. …”
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English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Felicity Rash -- Contextualizing nationalism and anti-semitism, 1871-1945 / Ulrich Charpa -- Anti-semitism as mental mechanism: a model suggested by some similarities between nineteenth-century anti-semitisms in music and science / Stefan Hüpping -- 'Mag der Jude seine Religion behalten, wenn er sich nur zum Deutschtum bekennt': the philo-semitic nationalism of Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1883-1936) as a paradigm of German conservative thinking / Isabelle Engelhardt -- A political catholic view: discourses on the Judenfrage in the daily newspaper Germania 1918-1933 / Helen Roche -- In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt (Goebbels): the leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan nationalist paradigm / Karin Stögner -- On anti-semitism and nationalism at the fin de siècle: Walter Benjamin's critique of the German youth movement / Martin Weidinger -- Fridericus, Madame Dubarry and Die Nibelungen: the (nationalist) politics of historical films in Weimar Germany / Simone Borgstede -- Dr Ernst Henrici: just a "well-known arsonist" of the German Kaiserreich or foreman in the production of an Aryan "Volksgemeinschaft"? …”
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Weimar thought a contested legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. …”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Passing glories and romantic retreivals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal / Kate Soper -- Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades / Catriona Sandilands -- Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism / Martin Ryle -- Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts / Axel Goodbody -- From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser / Timo Müller -- The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world / Linda Williams -- From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond / Laura Dassow Walls -- Martin Heidegger, D.H. …”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Passing glories and romantic retreivals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal / Kate Soper -- Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades / Catriona Sandilands -- Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism / Martin Ryle -- Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts / Axel Goodbody -- From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser / Timo Müller -- The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world / Linda Williams -- From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond / Laura Dassow Walls -- Martin Heidegger, D.H. …”
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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Johnston -- Animating copies : Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata -- Framing the postmodern : the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi -- Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre -- African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. …”
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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Johnston -- Animating copies : Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata -- Framing the postmodern : the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi -- Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre -- African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. …”
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Digital Rubbish : A Natural History of Electronics / by Gabrys, Jennifer

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The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Adler, Anthony Curtis

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