Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and ...
Continue Reading →Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that ...
Continue Reading →Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today’s Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times ...
Continue Reading →Vitruvius’s De architectura has long been subject to critical commentary on the grounds that its language is irregular and even untranslatable, that its technical treatment ...
Continue Reading →What does it mean to write “This is not a pipe” across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte’s famous canvas provides the ...
Continue Reading →In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present. Students will welcome this ...
Continue Reading →The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, ...
Continue Reading →Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for architecture and history ...
Continue Reading →‘Structure and Architecture’ is a textbook which explains the basic principles of structure and describes the ranges of structure types in current use. ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
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