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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

by Sherry Turkle

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas. This volume's special contribution is its focus... (more)

Bonaventure (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series)

Bonaventure (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series)

by Zachary Hayes

The life, ideas, and selected writings of one of the greatest mystical philosophers of all time. St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) is known as the Seraphic Doctor in honor of one of the basic qualities of his teaching--the purest love. He left us with a treasury of class writings of philosophical mysticism that explored the ascent of our minds and souls to God.

World Literature and Thought: The Middle Periods, Volume II

World Literature and Thought: The Middle Periods, Volume II

by Donald Gochberg, Surjit Singh Dulai, Edward D. Graham, Kenneth Harrow, Priscilla Melendez

WORLD LITERATURE AND THOUGHT is an anthology of fifty literary, historical, and philosophical selections from around the globe. Volume II chronologically covers 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D., and includes many classic selections such as "Beowulf", "The Song of Roland", "The Pillow Book", "Canterbury Tales", and Ibn Battuta's "Travels in Asia and Africa."

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

by Hollis Frampton

As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and... (more)

Le Corbusier and the Occult

by Jan Birksted

When Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursues disinterested ideas; he does not wish to compromise himself.... He is an entity free of the burdens of carnality."... (more)

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