Risultati della ricerca - "Philosoph"

Philosophers : their lives and works / di DK.

Soggetti: “...Philosophers Biography 19227...”

Pooh and the philosophers / di Williams, John T. (John Tyerman), 1920-

The consolations of philosophy / di De Botton, Alain

Soggetti: “...Philosophical counseling. 20836...”
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Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities /

Soggetti: “...Identity (Philosophical concept) in art. 15684...”

Humankind : solidarity with nonhuman people / di Morton, Timothy, 1968-

Soggetti: “...Philosophical anthropology. 2187...”

Homo Deus : a brief history of tomorrow / di Harari, Yuval N.

Soggetti: “...Philosophical anthropology. 2187...”

The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier : reinventing realism /

Sommario: “...Between philosophical and sociological theatre: The political Regietheater of Peter Stein and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne Berlin /...”

Rhapsody for the theatre / di Badiou, Alain

Sommario: “...Rhapsody for the theatre : a short philosophical treatise -- Theatre and philosophy -- The political destiny of theatre yesterday and today -- Notes on Jean-Paul Sartre's The condemned of Altona -- The Ahmed tetralogy -- Three questions to the author....”

Nietzsche : a complete introduction / di Jackson, Roy, 1962-

Sommario: “...Introduction -- The young Nietzsche -- Philosophical influences -- Nietzsche's later life and death -- The birth of tragedy -- The revaluation of all values -- The will to power -- Zarathustra, the Superman and the eternal recurrence -- On truth and perspectivism -- Nietzsche and religion -- Nietzsche and politics -- Nietzsche's legacy -- Nietzsche's writings: abbreviations and translations used -- Timeline of important events in Nietzsche's life....”

Plato : a complete introduction / di Jackson, Roy, 1962-

Sommario: “...How are we to live? -- 7. The Philosopher-King -- 8. Love and friendship -- 9. In praise of love: Symposium -- 10. ...”

Musical theatre song : a comprehensive course in selection, preparation and presentation for the modern performer / di Purdy, Stephen

Sommario: “...Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Song Selection -- 1.Introduction to Song Selection and Historical Context: What You Should Know (and Why You Should Care) -- Introduction -- The minstrel show, the saloon revue, and the first "musical" -- The variety show and vaudeville in America -- Tin Pan Alley and Irving Berlin -- George Gershwin, the revue, and cultural crossovers -- The musical comedy in the 1920s and 1930s -- The "fully integrated" musical -- Musical theatre in the 1950s -- Musical theatre in the 1960s -- The 1970s: The doldrums ... and then that happened -- The 1980s -- the wave of the mega-musical -- and the 1990s -- 2000 onward -- 2.Song Selection for Singing Actors Part I: What to Sing and Where to Find It -- the Philosophical -- 3.Song Selection for Singing Actors Part II: The Song Is You -- the Practical -- The feeling's the thing -- Forger "type": Sing who you are --...”

Fashion System / di Barthes, Roland

Sommario: “...The Contest Between Chanel andCourreges, Refereed by a Philosopher \ 12. A Case of Cultural Criticism \ 13.Showing How Rhetoric Works \ Afterword: Clothes, Fashion and System in the Writings of Roland Barthes: 'Something Out of Nothing', Andy Stafford \ Editor's Note and Acknowledgements \ Bibliography \Glossary of Names \ Index....”
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Six not-so-easy pieces : Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time / di Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Sommario: “...Relativity and the philosophers ; The twin paradox ; Transformation of velocities ; Relativistic mass ; Relativistic energy ; Space-Time. ...”

The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / di Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Sommario: “...Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible....”
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AI : unexplainable, unpredictable, uncontrollable / di Yampolskiy, Roman V., 1979-

ART RETHOUGHT : the social practices of art. di WOLTERSTORFF, NICHOLAS

Dance and somatics : mind-body principles of teaching and performance / di Brodie, Julie A.

Political dramaturgies and theatre spectatorship : provocations for change / di Tomlin, Liz

Democracy : eleven writers and leaders on what it is--and why it matters /

Usborne Philosophy for beginners / di Radford, Nick