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Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide
Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one...- £6.50
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Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide
Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does - that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world children...- £6.50
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Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide
What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists,...- £6.50
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Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide
René Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes explains...- £6.50
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? " Introducing Foucault...- £6.50
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Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of...- £6.50
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Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide
What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades. Introducing Postmodernism tracks...- £6.50
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Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide
Ludwig Wittgenstein has captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the master of enigmatic logic, a fascinating and attractive icon of modernism. But what did he really think? In Introducing Wittgenstein we meet a strange man: a rigorous logician who prized poetry above philosophy,...- £6.50
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