Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: martin l davies

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  • THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    MARTIN L. DAVIES
    Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications o...

    $1,340.00

  • HOW HISTORY WORKS
    MARTIN L. DAVIES
    How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that hi...

    $1,380.00

  • IMPRISONED BY HISTORY
    MARTIN L. DAVIES
    Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is, in historical terms, already historicized, shaped by history – and thus history loses sight of the world, seeing it on...

    $1,560.00

  • HISTORICS
    MARTIN L. DAVIES
    From an author at the forefront of research in this area comes this provocative and seminal work that presents a unique and fresh new look at history and theory. Taking a broadly European view, the book draws on works of French and German philosophy, some of which are unknown to the English-speaking world, and Martin L. Davies spells out what it is like to live in a historicize...

    $1,160.00