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The Secret History of Our Streets: London : a Social History Through the ...

Joseph Bullman, Brian Hill, Neil Hegarty - 2012 - London (England) - No preview available
"In a modern version of a classic survey from the 19th century, where Charles Booth [(1840-1916)] spent 17 years exploring the social and economic conditions of every street in Victorian London, this ... book tells the story of six London streets ...

World Spectators

Kaja Silverman - 2000 - Philosophy - No preview available
Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato’s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could ...

The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State

Hilary Powell, Isaac Marrero-Guillamón - 2012 - London (England) - No preview available
This new book, The Art of Dissent, brings together a body of work that has emerged in response to the arrival of the Olympics in East London. Featuring contributions from a range of artists, film makers, photographer and writers including Stephen ...

The Poetics of the Margins: Mapping Europe from the Interstices

Rossella Riccobono - 2011 - Europeans - Limited preview
This volume contains a selection of the proceedings of a conference on European problems of identity titled Europe and its Others, which was held in St Andrews in July 2007. It looks at some of the histories and stories that connect the European ...

Transcendental Guilt: Reflections on Ethical Finitude

Sami Pihlstrsm - 2011 - Philosophy - Limited preview
Transcendental Guilt challenges traditional ways of understanding moral philosophy by proposing, instead of mainstream ethical theorizing, a serious moral reflection on our ethical finitude, focusing on the concept of guilt. It argues that guilt ...

The Ethics of Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah - 2010 - Philosophy - Limited preview
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we ...