4397 results for '"Self, Will"'

John Updike’s memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and...

Winner of the Rainbow Book of the Year "I know of no other book that so tenderly, convincingly, and completely authentically captures the quest of a young, queer character. Beautiful!" - Benny...

Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in...

Foreword François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana p. xi Translator's Note p. xvii 1 5 January 1983: First Hour p. 1 Remarks on method Study of Kant's text: What is Enlightenment? Conditions of...

Indie Next Selection"A probing, wild, and fascinating novel."―Publishers WeeklyOn a flight from Berlin to Paris, a woman haunted by composer Arnold Schoenberg’s self-portrait reflects on her romantic...

Soon to be made into a major motion picture—Self Portrait—starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzieLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a "rich and thorny page turner" (Los...

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to...

Liberals smirk at Trump’s narcissism, but, as renowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains, contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.The Greek myth of Erysichthon describes the fate...

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater...

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism...

The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist...

A volume dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits from his earliest works to his final years, a number of which are published here for the first time.Pablo Picasso’s life and art has been depicted...

James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes...

The autobiography of Cuba's finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre.

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly...