books about: parallax     books:       Parallax4 reviews Steven Holl Princeton Architectural Press, 2000 Architectural light Steven Holl's Parallax is the most insiteful handheld account into the world of architecture in some time. Taking architecture to the next realm, Holl has allowed the reader to better understand his process of design through excellent photography and thought provoking essays. More than just describing his latest projects, he uses these projects to illustrate and explain his most fundamental ...             The Parallax View (Short Circuits)10 reviews Slavoj ?i?ek The MIT Press, 2006 Very insightful It's a synthesis in Zizek's trajectory, but also it opens his work toward new discussions             Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful -- and controversial -- influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines such as comparative literature. It was hardly surprising, then, that the 1993 report "Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century" -- which ...             Humans (Volume Two of The Neanderthal Parallax)51 reviews Robert J. Sawyer Tor Books, 2003 Justice triumphant Humans In Humans, the second book of the Neanderthal Parallax Sawyer has Ponter Bodditt spend most of his time in the world that we know along with a dozen or so of the Neanderthal best scientist. In the first book,Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)Sawyer spends most of the time in the Neanderthal world. Sawyer does introduce a novel method for dealing with crime. Treating it as a genetic ...             What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture ... Christopher Norris The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse -- an "enlightened or emancipatory interest" -- in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary ...             Parallax Visions: Making Sense of AmericanEast Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Asia-Pacific, ...3 reviews Bruce Cumings Duke University Press, 1999 Interesting new perspectives, but some problems This book offers a lot of new ideas, and if half of them are true then it is worth reading. But some of the ideas put forth, like for instance trying to relate the cult of Kim Il Sung in post war Korea to the Japanese cult of the emperror when Korea was a colony are a bit of a stretch. Also, the author seems to know much more about Korea, he is okay with Japan, and biased about China, and ...             Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)92 reviews Robert J. Sawyer Tor Science Fiction, 2003 The hominid we are Among the many mysteries of human evolution, Neanderthals are one of the most intriguing. Once depicted as brutes, now many scientists consider them a different, advanced species of hominids not ancestral to ours. And what if in an alternate realities Neanderthals had prevailed? Through an improbable but not implausible accident, a member of a Neanderthal civilization evolved in a parallel ...             Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax)42 reviews Robert J. Sawyer Tor Science Fiction, 2004 The Camel is in the tent Hybrids Hybrids is the book Sawyer has been leading up to all along. You should definitely read all three books in this trilogy. Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)], ][[ASIN:0765346753 Humans (Volume Two of The Neanderthal Parallax), and now Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax). I mentioned in an earlier review that with respect to Sawyer's Liberalism" he let the nose of the camel come ...             Medievalism and the Modernist Temper (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)1 review The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 Excellent collection of essays on a neglected topic The editors of this volume are two of the most important scholars in the field of Medieval Studies today. They are also both exponents of a new approach to the study of the Middle Ages that has come to be called "The New Philology". While this is neither the time nor the place to engage in a discussion of this approach, suffice to say that the essays in this book are informed by a theoretically ...             Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos16 reviews Alan W. Hirshfeld Holt Paperbacks, 2002 magnificent This is the best book on popular astonomy that I have read in many years, perhaps ever. It is hard to imagine a more balanced, better organized and readable description of a thorny technical topic than is presented here. In the mini-biographies of astonomers for 2,500 years, one is reminded ot Richard Rhodes book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" in which he capsules 20th century science, ...             Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne (Parallax: Re-visions of ... Michel Jeanneret The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art: many of the period's major works, including those by da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Montaigne, appeared as works-in-progress, always liable to changes and additions. In Perpetual Motion, Michel Jeanneret argues for a sixteenth century swept up in change and fascinated by ...             The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ... Toby Miller The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 "This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking -- as contemporary readers indomitably do -- what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives." -- Meaghan Morris, author of The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism. "Miller's work is ...             The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture ... Eleanor Kaufman The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium of Praise, this mode of exchange is serious and substantial enough to merit scholarly attention. By not conforming to standard practices of critical discourse, laudatory essays give new status to supposedly inferior forms of communication and states of ...             The Invention of Literary Subjectivity (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) Michel Zink The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 In the course of the thirteenth century, writers in France discovered literary subjectivity. It was not the introspection of philosophy, or the confession of a soul, or the vanity of a memoir. Rather, the subjectivity they disclosed was the play between personality and the page. The discovery allowed differences of individual opinion and perspective which, when expressed through literary means, raised issues of history, of truth and evidence, ...             The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ... Gianni Vattimo The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 In this book, Gianni Vattimo examines the notion of "difference" in scientific knowledge and contemporary mass society and illustrates the importance of Nietzsche and Heidegger in both formulating the concept and exploring its implications for current debates on the nature of modernity.             The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ... Rochelle Tobias The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 Paul Celan has long been regarded as the most important European poet after 1945 but also the most difficult owing to the numerous references in his work to his personal history and to a cultural heritage spanning many disciplines, centuries, and languages. In this insightful study, Rochelle Tobias goes a long way to dispelling the obscurity that has surrounded the poet and his work. She shows that the enigmatic images in his poetry have a ...             Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of Friendship (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) Charles J. Stivale The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 Friendship, in its nature, purpose, and effects, has been an important concern of philosophy since antiquity. It was of particular significance in the life of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most original and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. Taking L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze -- an eight-hour video interview that was intended to be aired only after Deleuze's death -- as a key source, Charles J. Stivale examines the role of ...             The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of ... Joel Black The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. 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