Modernity as Exception and Miracle Medical diagnosisProposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity. Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities functions
Did Christian conservative US officials and elites do everything in their power to publicize
This accessible and comprehensive overview of the work of Stanislav Grof
vacuum microelectronic tubes and frequency and power ranges
and global digital citizenship and responsibility
Coveing films of the 1920s right up to those of the 1990s
a popular translator of French drama
It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life
Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms
Centuries of reading and writing practice have made us Homo typographicus
Remarks on Colour is shown to be a good way into the philosophy
Nonlinear physics today is a well established discipline of physics
It documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire