books about: angelaki

books about: angelaki

books:

Angelaki

Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity (Angelaki Humanities)

Manchester University Press, 2001

Incorporating a diversity of approaches from a variety of disciplines, this book provides a major reassessment of the question of nihilism in modernity and interrogates this through the growing interest in angels and demons in contemporary philosophy. The collection examines the uncanny return of angelic and demonic principles in current cultural ...

The New Bergson (Angelaki Humanities)

Manchester University Press, 2000

At the threshold of the twentieth century, Bergson reset the agenda for philosophy and its relationship with science, art and even life itself. Concerned with both examining and extolling the phenomena of time, change, and difference, he was at one point held as both "the greatest thinker in the world" and "the most dangerous man in the world." ...

Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Angelaki Humanities)
Peter Hallward

Manchester University Press, 2002

Contrary to its usual characterisation in terms of plurality, particularity and resistance, this book argues that the postcolonial is best understood as an ultimately singular or non-relational category, one that generates the medium of its own existence. Drawing on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou and guided by comparisons ...

Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne (Angelaki Humanities)
Anthony Mellors

Manchester University Press, 2005

This book explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the familiar notion that modernism dissolved during the 1930s, it argues that the fusion of rationalism and mysticism which characterizes modernist poetics was sustained long after its politics had been discredited by the events of ...

Subversive Spinoza: (UN) Contemporary Variations
Antonio Negri

Manchester University Press, 2004

In Subversive Spinoza , Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Spinoza. For Negri, Spinoza's philosophy ...

Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (Angelaki Humanities)
John Kinsella

Manchester University Press, 2008

John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity.

The Angelakis Name in History
Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com, 2007

This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name. The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, ...