Filosofi: æstetik

Offers a source of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. This book is for scholars and students as well as for all those working in the cultural field, especially in the field of cultural transfer.

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play.

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the process of interpretation.

This book is a collection of 11 essays addressing the place of death and its denial from a philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary perspectives. The collection offers contemporary and fresh insights on these timely questions. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

A critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) - one of Europe's foremost leading practitioners in contemporary music. It traces the phenomenon of repetition as it works in and through Lang's oeuvre and investigates his use of textual quotation and musical borrowing. 42 b/w illus.

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsessionthat defines us but a need for self-transformation?