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Contemporary Action Cinema
Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and …
Badiou and Plato
An interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou. This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim …
Guardians of Shi'ism
Based on a political sociology of two families of religious scholars, al-Hakim and al-Khu'i, Elvire Corboz explains the internal workings of transnational leadership patterns in …
Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
Virginia Woolf and Classical Music
This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's …
Ensemblance
Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this …
Filmmaker's Philosopher
Known as the 'Georgian Socrates' of Soviet philosophy, Merab Mamardashvili was a defining personality of the late-Soviet intelligentsia. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught required …
Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned to 'bare …
Studies in Arab Architecture
Modernism, fashion and interwar women writers
An unprecedented sartorial revolution occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century when the tight-laced silhouettes of Victorian women gave way to the figure of the flapper. …
Priority of Events
Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to …