701 results for '"Marc-Antoine Jullien'

One of the great themes of visual art--the horse--engrossed Franz Marc, whose devotion to this subject was singular. The painter and cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group created...

The quality of blandness: no sooner do you identify it then it begins to appear at every turn. Blandness, by definition, pays little heed to the borders our various disciplines like to draw. As the...

An intellectual history of the concept of life and body politics in Chinese philosophy The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about...

Michel de Montaigne embodies the Humanist ideal. Curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does Montaigne have to tell us about how to think...

Book by Marc Trachtenberg

A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, Mevlido's Dreams is an urgent communiqué from a far-future...

Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather,...

From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to...

Product Description"... Le témoignage d'Antoine Delenda constitue un point de vue doublement original dans la mesure où il n'est pas seulement anti-collaborationniste mais très rapidement...

Marc Lemonier. Includes Bibliographical References (p.229-[230]).

Né en 1887, mort en 1976, René Cassin est resté toute sa vie un soldat de la Grande Guerre. Elle le saisit à la fin de ses études. Grièvement blessé en 1914, il met des mois à se remettre. Cette...

From one of the great bon vivants of our age comes this witty memoir of an extraordinary life lived among a glittering social set. Acclaimed designer and founder of Pret-a-Porter Marc Rosen shares in...

This is an impressive, important, and well-researched book on the Supreme Court's development and elaboration of the constitutional right to privacy. Marc Stein, who is a wonderful microhistorian,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERMarc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together...

Born in 1962 in the city of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province in China, Yue Minjun is an icon of contemporary Chinese painting. Considered one of the protagonists of "Cynical Realism," an art movement...

Gathers the series of watercolors Franz Marc sent to his friend, Else Lasker-Schuler, an Expressionist poet.

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and TimeBest Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy AwardsA...

"Marc Hamer knows how to live--simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul."--Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good Creature From the beloved author of How to...