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This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, wide...

This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, wide...

Aesthetics and Its Discontents Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a p...

Aesthetics and Its Discontents Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a p...

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that...

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that...

How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell o...

How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell o...

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to l...

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to l...

Afghanistan has become synonymous with violence. In the past 25 years alone, the country has endured Russian invasion and occupation, civil war and...

Afghanistan has become synonymous with violence. In the past 25 years alone, the country has endured Russian invasion and occupation, civil war and...

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and pol...

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and pol...

Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forg...

Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forg...

African-American Politics is a cutting-edge introduction to the political successes, failures, and persistent challenges of African-American politi...

African-American Politics is a cutting-edge introduction to the political successes, failures, and persistent challenges of African-American politi...

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nu...

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nu...

From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass me...

From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass me...

For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of...

For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of...