Pre-Owned Macat Library: An Analysis of Walter Benjamin s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Paperback from other stores

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art ... The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism s treatment of artworks as fixed unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider... more
  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art ... The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism s treatment of artworks as fixed unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider... more
  • Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitio... Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March s work promotes the preservation of companies competitiveness and sustainability in the... more
  • C. Wright Mills s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as... C. Wright Mills s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology one that sets out a... more
  • Edward Said s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded... Edward Said s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is characterized by close attention to the meanings of terms by clarifying questioning definitions and positing clear definitions.... more
  • 9781912127825. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. ... 9781912127825. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 96. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Macat Library. A Room of One s Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in... more
  • Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him Wordsw... Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him Wordsworth s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century. Readers find themselves drawn back to the essay... more
  • How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had alrea... How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old... more
  • Aristotle a student of Plato wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE in a time of ... Aristotle a student of Plato wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later his thorough exploration of virtue reason and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values... more
  • Edmund Burke s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong exampl... Edmund Burke s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as the foundational work of modern conservative... more
  • There is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and ana... There is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud s 1899 Interpretation of Dreams. Though the original edition of just 600 copies took eight years to sell out it eventually became a classic text... more
  • René Descartes s 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the... René Descartes s 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the history of western thought. One of the most important philosophical texts ever written it is also a masterclass in the art of critical thinking - specifically when it... more
  • A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood in which the French historian Ph... A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries s core idea is that childhood as... more
  • The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectu... The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectual tradition. Made up of twenty-two lengthy books Augustine wrote his masterpiece over a thirteen-year period during which the Western Roman Empire began to unravel. The... more
  • What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we thin... What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good manager what precisely makes them so good at their job is a complex question - and one central to good business organization. Management scholar Douglas... more
Items per page