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  • Enchantment

    Wonder in Modern Life

    par Patrick Curry ...
    Enchantment is a profound human experience. When we encounter wonder, awe or amazement, that is enchantment. Enchantment can reveal profound truths, lead to deep values and become central to a life well-lived.This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts -- in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Ecological Citizen

    Selected papers from the peer-reviewed, ecocentric journal, 2018 - 2019

    Modifié par Patrick Curry, Joe Gray, Adam Dickerson ...
    A selection of papers published in the Ecological Citizen journal; an independent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access journal that provides a forum for inspiring and mobilizing discussion with an Earth-centred perspective. Each paper offers a perspective on ecocentric approaches to life. What does it mean to be ecocentric? Deep green, or ecocentric, is feeling that it is wrong for humans to have an ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Prophecy and Power

    Astrology in Early Modern England

    par Patrick Curry, H Darrel Rutkin ...
    Patrick Curry rediscovers the history of astrology in early modern England: he seeks to overturn the accepted view that astrology was a marginal pursuit that died out after the mid-seventeenth century. Curry demonstrates that in reality, astrology was a vital part of English cultural life, surviving in various forms and despite powerful opposition throughout the eighteenth century. Drawing on a ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Introducing Machiavelli

    A Graphic Guide

    par Patrick Curry ...
    Collections series Graphic Guides
    Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of 'the ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Art and Enchantment

    How Wonder Works

    par Patrick Curry ...
    Collections series Contemporary Liminality
    This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the ... En savoir plus

    $76.94 CAD

  • Astrology, Science and Culture

    Pulling down the Moon

    par Roy Willis, Patrick Curry ...
    Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. From daily horoscopes to in-depth and personalized star forecasts, astrology, for many, plays a crucial role in the organization of everyday life. Present-day scholars and scientists remain baffled as to why this pseudo-science exercises such control ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Divination

    Perspectives for a New Millennium

    Modifié par Patrick Curry ...
    Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

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  • Aesthetics

    A Beginner's Guide

    par Charles Taliaferro ...
    Collections series Beginner's Guides
    Explaining what art is and what’s not art.What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Melancholy and the Landscape

    Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape

    par Jacky Bowring ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • A Performance Cosmology

    Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past

    Modifié par Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Peter Watt ...
    Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics.Contributors include: Philip Auslander, Rustom Bharucha, Tim Etchells, Jane Goodall, ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • Performing Character in Modern Irish Drama

    Between Art and Society

    par Michał Lachman ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists created by such authors as Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Friel and Murphy, and McGuinness and Walsh, it tracks the development of aesthetic ... En savoir plus

    $140.99 CAD

  • The Educated Imagination

    par Northrop Frye ...
    Collections series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education. ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus