1096 results for '"Jean Lipman-Blumen'

'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the...

An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958–1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) changed the art world of the 1980s...

La Bible n'est pas seulement le réceptacle de la parole de Dieu adressée à des multitudes de croyants : elle est aussi, elle est d'abord un opulent recueil de documents écrits et compilés par des...

A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States. While in New York Pop Art offered a fresh perspective on an America in the throes of frenzied change, in Paris...

Although the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa are still scarce. Drawing on a wide...

The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the...

In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well—one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain...

“A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of nationalism and racism in the 21st century.” –Francisco Cantu, author of The Line Becomes a RiverStephen Miller is one of the most...

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love...

How scientific advances in genetic modification will fundamentally change the natural worldThe process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new...

How the internet transformed televisionBefore HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her...

An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone...

Product DescriptionEntre pamphlet et souvenirs, voilà un texte original, un témoignage emblématique d’une génération qui a connu l’effondrement de son pays, puis l’écœurement d’une Occupation et...

Jean Bethke Elshtain has been hailed as one of this country's most influential public intellectuals. Michael Walzer called her award-winning Democracy on Trial "the work of a truly independent,...

"when I admire a film | they say to me | yes, it's very pretty | but it's not | cinema | so | I asked myself | what it was" Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard:...

*A New York Times Notable Book of 2022**A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction**An NPR Best Book of the Year**A New Yorker Best Book of 2022*From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot,...

Product Description Bienvenue à Pattaya, en Thaïlande, capitale mondiale de la prostitution, station balnéaire familiale la plus populaire d'Asie du Sud-Est et paradis des transsexuelles,...

Impréparation de l'armée, insuffisance du matériel, lâcheté du pouvoir politique et démoralisation des soldats face à l'organisation sans faille et la supériorité tactique des Allemands... Autant de...

What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it...

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...