books about: critiques     books:       Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste9 reviews Pierre Bourdieu Harvard University Press, 2007 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 (Hackett Publishing)6 reviews Immanuel Kant, Werner Pluhar Hackett Publishing Company, 1987 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 the Power of Judgment (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)4 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 2001 A fine edition The placement of the First Introduction at the beginning of the book is very useful, providing a different feel as to the nature of the work as a whole. The relative of lack of [bracketed] comments compared to the Pluhar edition is also a plus.             Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant and The Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)11 reviews Sebastian Gardner Routledge, 1999 First Rate The person who develops an interest in philosophy is likely to discover that, much as you might prefer it weren't so, you can't get very far without a decent knowledge of Kant. Everywhere you turn, he keeps showing up. You can finesse Hegel, you can finesse Heidegger, but you can't finesse Kant. You have to bite that bullet, the only question is where to start. This is where to start. Gardner ...             Critique of Practical Reason (Marquette Studies in Philosophy, No 17)8 reviews Immanuel Kant, G. Heath King, ... 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 ...             The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization11 reviews Nancy Burns, Susan Grove Saunders, 2004 A "know why" and know "how to" conduct research This text is required for my doctoral level quantitative research course. I have been busy actively learning (actual data analysis & critique). For the first time I feel that research can become a reality. It's too bad this text did not cross my path 10 years ago as the beginning point for previous research courses. The text is not a difficult read. The excerpts from actual research and visuals ...             Critique of Pure Reason37 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1999 a good translation I find this translation straightforward and transparent, in that one is not forced to disentangle the philosophical content from the personal idiosyncracies of the author and/or translator. I do not read German, so I am unable to compare with the original, but whether Kant intended it or not, he himself, as an individual with a particular voice, disappears from the work, leaving only the ...             The Critique Handbook5 reviews Kendall Buster, Paula Crawford Prentice Hall, 2006 A terrific book! What a fantastic idea! How is it that something as essential and ubiquitous as the studio critique had not been examined in this way before? This book takes on the task brilliantly. "The Critique Handbook" is a wonderful mixture of how-to manual, theoretical analysis, irreverent debunker and basic gameplan. The authors' analysis of how to make the best use of the critique applies both to those ...             Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)1 review Immanuel Kant Dover Publications, 2003 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 ...             Critique of Pure Reason9 reviews Immanuel Kant, Werner S. Pluhar, ... Hackett Publishing Company, 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 ...             A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present12 reviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Harvard University Press, 1999 A landmark... As you can already tell by the comments, there is a "clash of cultures" in the academy. It's between: * People who think philosophy's job is to expand ideas and challenge, versus those who think it should make the present seem more comfortable and make you nod your head in recognition. * Those who think that gender is relatively unimportant and that work stands for itself; versus those who ...             Predatory Globalization: A Critique Richard Falk Polity, 1999 Trends towards economic globalization are changing the world in fundamental respects.             For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign Jean Baudrillard Telos Press Publishing, 1981 Having been sought in the sphere of economic production for too long, according to Jean Baudrillard, the mainspring of modern society must be located in the sphere of consumption and of the cultural system in general. As with artistic, intellectual, and scientific production, culture is immediately produced as sign and as exchange value. Hence, in modern society consumption defines the stages where the commodity is immediately produced as sign, ...             Critique of Pure Reason, Abridged (Hackett Publishing Co.)32 reviews Immanuel Kant Hackett Publishing Company, 1999 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 Criminal Reason: A Mystery10 reviews Michael Gregorio St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 Critique of Critique of Criminal Reason I purchased Critique of Criminal Reason after reading Gregorio's follow-up: Days of Atonement. Since Hanno's work with Kant was mentioned through-out Atonement, I felt compelled to go back. I was well rewarded for my efforts. In Critique of Criminal Reason Hanmo Stefaniis the Magistrate from a quiet town is summoned to solve a series of murders. The philosopher Kant is Hanno's benefactor ...             Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present4 reviews John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, ... Monthly Review Press, 2008 Very Intelligently Designed - Buy It Now! Finally, a much-needed essay by a bunch of godless guys. Thank God! It is very unlikely that Critique of Intelligent Design will attract folks who believe that Jesus wakes up every day in Heaven to ghostwrite the great book of nature down here on Earth. However, those of us who are at least a little skeptical about this notion will find Critique of Intelligent Design by John Bellamy Foster, ...             Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Immanuel Kant Penguin Classics, 2008 An erudite and extremely readable translation! I studied the Critique back in the '60s using the Kemp Smith translation, and have reread it every number of years since to see if my mind is aging. When I read this translation, I was amazed at how much I understood. Then I compared it to the Kemp Smith and realized that the real reason was that the translation was eminently more readable and understandable than even the Kemp Smith, which ...             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 ...             Critique of Judgement (Oxford World's Classics) Immanuel Kant Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the degree in which nature has a ...             Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposia vol. 2) Andrea Fraser, Isabelle Graw, ... JRP|Ringier, 2006 This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks at Institutional Critique's central aim, the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries, and recent developments that engage with and echo it. IC has been raised again by Andrea ...              search for books 3-volume, abridged, antiquity, cambridge, classics, creationism, criminal, distinction, everyday, globalization, guidebook, guidebooks, handbook, institutional, intelligent, judgement, marquette, materialism, philosophical, philosophy, political, postcolonial, practical, predatory, publishing, routledge, symposia, translation, utilization, vanishing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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