Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin, Ronald Miller Dworkin, Karl Sennett Miller, New York Institute for the Hum, … Humanities in Review: Volume 1 English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics addressed are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject. The volume is the first of a series based upon lectures given under the auspices of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Zusammenfassung The articles in this volume are diverse! each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject and based upon lectures given under the auspices of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Body and Society: 1. Sexuality and solitude Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett; 2. A short history of body consciousness Jean Starobinski; 3. The sacred and the body social in sixteenth-century Lyon Natalie Zemon Davis; Part II. The Nature of Acting: 4. Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting Victor Turner; 5. The actor as a celebrity Richard Gilman; Part III. How form in Art is Related to Culture: 6. The breaking of form Harold Bloom; 7. The 'I' as an other in poetry Stephen Spender; 8. Music does not flow: constant and variable elements in music's patterning Virgil Thomson; Part IV. Studies in Cultural History: 9. The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age Frances Yates; 10. Triumph or downfall of civil society Alain Touraine.