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In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing "Philosophy of New Music". Presented with an introduction by distinguished translator, Robert Hullot-Kentor, this book looks at Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre.

Ranging from the earliest days of the cinema to the present, this volume begins with a review of the history of class in social and political thought, going on to chronicle its disappearance from film and cultural studies.

In this critique, the author demonstrates the failure of international law to address the issues surrounding African self-determination during decolonization. The volume uses the case of Namibia to illuminate the general context of Africa.

The writing or reading or buying or selling or judging of a written work is always at the same the act of making a place - or making places. This text develops a geography of this process, a theory of the nature of space and places in written work.

Addressing issues of the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, this work examines the ramifications of these concerns for society today.

Leaving their depleted fields for better prospects, Senegalese immigrants have made their way to Italy in significant numbers. What this migration means, in the context of both the migratory traditions and conditions of Africa, and the history and future of the European nation-state, is the subject of this timely study. Illustrated.

The essays in this book focus on contested memories in relation to time and space. These ethnographic studies explore fundamental questions about the nature of memory, the limits of politics, and the complex links between them.

Additions to this third edition include a comparison of freshwater basin wetlands with swamps, tidal marsh, and other wetlands; expanded information on wetland evaluation, mitigation, and restoration; and a new glossary of current wetland terminology.

A study of the transformation of television in Spain following the end of Franco's dictatorship, Maxwell's book examines the politics of the privatization of television, the rise of regional television, and the transnational realignment of national media space.

This volume features original essays which combine feminism and Bakhtin by interpreting texts through these two perspectives, to arrive at new theoretical approaches. Together, the essays point to a direction that would lead to a feminine "etre" rather than a feminine "ecriture".

Reveals that James Joyce's "Ulysses" can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.

Scott's investigation of "Yaktovil" within the Sri Lankan Sinhala cosmology, also inquires into the ways in which anthropology (ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions and relationships it seeks to describe) tends to reproduce ideological, often specifically colonial, objects.

Offers perspectives and subjects largely outside traditional historiography. This book broadens the concept of media history to include lesser-studied media, and offers alternative interpretations of traditional media.

In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

For Clarice Lispector, narrative demands a victim, and Marta Peixoto details the dynamics of victimization that her writing describes. By the end of this study, we are left with a sense of Lispector's work which is less comfortable but infinitely more complicated and interesting.

Jenny Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction. She introduces race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference.

Ours is an era of dramatic changes in basic social relationships, changes we usually negotiate without thinking about them in any systematic way. In this study, the author sets out to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the complicated social transformations of our day.

The Medieval Monastery was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The Medieval Castle was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The result of a study conducted by the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the political science department of the University of Minnesota, commissioned to investigate the decline of public confidence in the Minnesota state legislature.

Deals conceptually and historically with the types of changes an Eastern European socialist state might undergo. Selecting the Yugoslav model for analysis, Denitch examines issues of decentralization, autonomy for non-party and non-state institutions, the role of women and multi-ethnicity.

Ranges from the history of Western philosophy to concepts of rationality in non-Western countries, to offer new perspectives on the workings of individual judgment and the social responsibility it entails.