Search Results - "philosopher"

Philosophers : their lives and works / by DK.

Subjects: “…Philosophers Biography 19227…”

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

The consolations of philosophy / by De Botton, Alain

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

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

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

Subjects: “…Philosophical anthropology. 2187…”

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

Subjects: “…Philosophical anthropology. 2187…”

The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier : reinventing realism /

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

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

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

Rhapsody for the theatre / by Badiou, Alain

Table of Contents: “…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 / by Jackson, Roy, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”

Fashion System / by Barthes, Roland

Table of Contents: “…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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Musical theatre song : a comprehensive course in selection, preparation and presentation for the modern performer / by Purdy, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…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 --…”

Six not-so-easy pieces : Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time / by Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Table of Contents: “…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 / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…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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Being and nothingness : an essay in phenomenological ontology / by Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

AI : unexplainable, unpredictable, uncontrollable / by Yampolskiy, Roman V., 1979-

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

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

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

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