books about: critique     books:       The Critique Handbook7 reviews Kendall Buster, Paula Crawford Prentice Hall, 2006 The Critique Handbook This is a well-written, insightful and important manual that every professor, teacher, curator, gallery owner, student and professional artist should have on their bookshelf. It IS extremely expensive, but worth every single dime. There is a million bucks worth of info between its covers! Run and place your order...I'm glad I did!             Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste9 reviews Pierre Bourdieu Harvard University Press, 1987 A Must Read! This is a fantastic explication of how social class prearranges our tastes and interests. I disagree with the reader who thinks that it is not applicable to American society--to the contrary. It is true that American culture is not so obviously stratified in the exact same ways as French culture (of the 1960s, I would add, when Bourdieu collected his data). Also, in American culture there is ...             Critique of Judgment (Classic Reprint)7 reviews Immanuel Kant Forgotten Books, 2009 Someday we will understand this book The Critique of the Power of Judgment (the 3rd Critique) is the most important work in Modern philosophical aesthetics. The Guyer and Pluhar editions are to be preferred to that of Bernard, as the first two have more extenisve notes, and better translations, including of the First Introduction. The 3rd Critique presents a vision of beauty, sublimity, and art that avoids reduction of them to them ...             Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Immanuel Kant Penguin Classics, 2008 the Über-translation of the Kritik... Über-translation of the Kritik... . The Critique of Pure Reason is the sine qua non of modern thought, as it incorporates the most significant earlier critiques of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Descartes, in turn becoming the point of departure (on one hand) for Schopenhauer, and (on the other) for Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Deleuze--besides its further influence on social and ...             The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and ...70 reviews Kevin MacDonald 1st Books Library, 2002 As A Jew Myself, I Can Tell You That Dr. MacDonald Is Correct As a former leftist Hollywood Jew (I wrote TV shows), I can say from personal experience that Prof. MacDonald is 100% correct in this book. The shows I worked on: Mary Tyler Moore Show, That Girl, & Love American Style, among others, were nothing more than Jewish tools (for the most part) to undermine the innocence of American WASP culture, ("Cultural Marxism" as Prof. MacDonald calls it). I ...             Critique of Pure Reason36 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1999 The Issue of Translation Because of the very negative reviews of the Guyer/Wood translation on this page, I have been conflicted in determining which edition of Kant's first critique I should purchase. I recently saw the Max Muller translation re-released by Penguin, and was tempted to purchase that based on the recommendation by one of the reviewers here. Before I made a decision, however, I still wanted to do more ...             Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings The MIT Press, 2009 "Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own place within galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when?driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art?institutional critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the ...             Immanuel Kant's Critique of pure reason (1881)33 reviews Immanuel Kant General Books LLC, 2009 Standard translation of landmark text Note: this is the edition I'm familiar with, but it's out of print. There are new editions (both with this translation and newer ones) that would be worth checking out. This one has no real guide or preface, but I kind of like that. Norman Kemp Smith's translation seems to be one of the standard English translations of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Is it the best? I don't speak German, but ...             Critique of Everyday Life (3-volume Set) Henri Lefebvre Verso, 2008 The three volumes of the radical sociologist's magnum opus?in a set: a monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals. The Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we ...             The Critique of Pure Reason1 review Immanuel Kant Digireads.com, 2006 A foundation stone of modern philosophy Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered one of the giants of philosophy, of his age or any other. It is largely this book that provides the foundation of this assessment. Whether one loves Kant or hates him (philosophically, that is), one cannot really ignore him; even when one isn't directly dealing with Kantian ideas, chances are great that Kant is made an impact. Kant was a professor of ...             Epistemics and Economics: A Critique of Economic Doctrines G. L. S. Shackle Transaction Publishers, 1991             Critique of Practical Reason (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)8 reviews Immanuel Kant, H. W. Cassirer, ... Marquette University Press, 1998 christian apologetics? did you actually read the book? It's a classic of western philosophy as was just about everything Kant wrote, but that's not my purpose in writing this. I want to refute the silly notion that this is "nothing but Christian apologetics." Merely believing in a higher being does not make one a Christian. Aristotle, Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, and yes Kant all believed in a higher power of some sort (as do Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and ...             Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1 (Critique of Everyday Life (Verso)) Henri Lefebvre Verso, 2008 A monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals. The Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household ...             Critique of Criminal Reason: A Mystery13 reviews Michael Gregorio Minotaur Books, 2008 Interesting mystery I liked the title of this book, a takeoff on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason". Of course, since professor Kant is a vital ingredient in this mystery, the title doesn't come as a real surprise. This book seems to be the beginning of a series featuring a small town magistrate in early 19th century Prussia. The first important case he investigates is a series of seemingly random murders which has ...             Critique of Dialectical Reason (Vol. 1-2)3 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre Verso, 2010 Sartre's Inimitable Greatness - One response to the above reviews Sartre was primarily a moral philosopher - not a metaphysician, epistemologist, or political philosopher. Yet, he was a bit of all these. He is a political thinker by way of his profoundly thought moral philosophy. Thus, I claim: 1) While it may be his last extensive philosophic work, Sartre's CDR is not his "last great philosophic work" - big is not always best. The tragically neglected, "Saint ...             Critique of Practical Reason (Philosophical Classics)1 review Immanuel Kant Dover Publications, 2004 Making the ideas stick The 'Critique of Practical Reason' is the second volume in Immanuel Kant's major Critique project. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered one of the giants of philosophy, of his age or any other. It is largely this book that provides the foundation of this assessment. Whether one loves Kant or hates him (philosophically, that is), one cannot really ignore him; even when one isn't directly ...             Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling2 reviews James Paul Gee Routledge, 2004 Gee is the man... Awesome, amazing perspectives on the ways we teach, learn, and use language. Play theory, multimodality, new media, social learning, and cultural considerations all come together in a very logical and meaningful way. Forget the highlighter when reading this book; it's all that good.             Critique of Judgement (Oxford World's Classics)1 review Immanuel Kant Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Kant's argument for finding the universal concept of beauty I read this book for a graduate seminar on the philosophy of art. Kant is one of the major figures in expression theory. What we understand as aesthetics changed only recently. Kant lays this out well in his "Critique of Judgment," which is one of his easier books to comprehend! Science and math development was momentous in re-interpreting how nature is understood, and all this starts in his ...             Critique of Pure Reason9 reviews Immanuel Kant, Werner S. Pluhar, ... Hackett Pub Co, 1996 Beautiful translation of a beautiful work Pluhar's translation is wonderful. The extensive annotation makes the whole work perfectly clear, offering alternative translations and pointing out the technical German vocabulary (so essential to understanding Kant). The work flows beautifully, and though the material was dense, I could hardly put it down at times. If you're just starting Kant, do not start here. I'd suggest the excellent ...             Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences1 review George E. Marcus, Michael M. J. Fischer University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Toward Critical/Alternative Forms of Ethnography This classic work by Marcus and Fischer is still important to an understanding of changing global and local conditions in postmodernity and how we, as ethnographers, might proceed. This text was very helpful in the researching and writing of my ethnography (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). 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