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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and …
Objectivity
The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday …
The Accursed Share
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory …
Myth and Thought among the Greeks
A classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in multifaceted contexts.When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it …
Publics and Counterpublics
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.Most of the people around us belong to our world not …
Perspective As Symbolic Form
Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical …
Vienna School Reader
An English-language introduction to the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history.This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the …
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. …
Culture in Practice
Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from …
The Wicked Queen
Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today.In The Wicked Queen, Chantal …
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.Winner of the History of Science Society's …