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(P/B) THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE
The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining--The Chiasm," that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought. The working notes for the book provide the reader with a truly exciting insight into the mind of the philosopher at work as he refines and develops new pivotal concepts. (From the ...
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THEATER GAMES FOR THE CLASSROOM A TEACHER'S HANDBOOK
The games in this book are exercises designed for teachers of diverse backgrounds. But, although they are accessible to students and teachers alike, the games have a very serious intent. They help students in developing performance skills and lead them to an understanding of what it is to be an artist. The writer intends, that is, not merely to provide students with theater experiences but to help them become responsive to their fellow players, able to create an environment through behavior and to transform ordinary objects into extraordin...
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(P/B) THEATER GAMES FOR THE LONE ACTOR
Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. Available for the first time, this handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, ...
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(P/B) WRITING JAPONISME
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, French visual artists began incorporating Japanese forms into their work. The style, known as Japonisme, spanned the arts. Identifying a general critical move from a literal to a more metaphoric understanding and presentation of Japonisme, Pamela A. Genova applies a theory of "aesthetic translation" to a broad response to Japanese aesthetics within French culture. She crosses the borders of genre, field, and form to explore the relationship of Japanese visual art to French prose writing of the mid...
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(P/B) COLLECTED WRITINGS ON EDUCATION AND DRAMA
What does it mean to be "an excellent teacher?" To Dorothy Heathcote, one of this century's most respected educational innovators, it means seeing one's pupils as they really are, shunning labels and stereotypes. It means taking risks: putting aside one's comfortable, doctrinaire role and participating fully in the learning process. Above all, it means pushing oneself and one's students to the outer limits of capability--often, with miraculous results. In this lively collection of essays and talks from 1967-80, Heathcote shares the finding...
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(P/B) GADAMER'S HERMENEUTICS
In Gadamer's Hermeneutics Robert J. Dostal provides a comprehensive and critical account of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy, arguing that Gadamer's enterprise is rooted in the thesis that "being that can be understood is language." He defends Gadamer against charges of linguistic idealism and emphasizes language's relationship to understanding, though he criticizes Gadamer for too often ignoring the role of the prelinguistic in our experience. Dostal goes on to explain the important role of the concept of "the inner word" for...
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(P/B) LIMITED INC
Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statement of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of Derrida's most controversial idea, that linguistic meaning is fundamentally indeterminate because the contexts that fix meaning are never stable. Limited Inc includes an important new afterword by the author. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) IMPROVISATION FOR THEATER
Here is the thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater. Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TRAGIC WISDOM AND BEYOND
This is not the place to attempt what Gabriel Marcel himself has neither wanted nor accomplished-a synoptic presentation of his philosophical concerns. What may be worthwhile, however, is to call attention briefly to several features of this book which may not be immediately evident and which do enhance its philosophical interest. In one sense, Marcel's philosophy requires little introduction now. For a number of American philosophers have first-hand acquaintance with much of his work, which has been available in translation since before t...
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(P/B) THE NOISE OF TIME
Though known primarily as a poet, Osip Mandelstam worked in many genres. This collection of his works, presented with essays by Mandelstam's biographer, illuminates the poet's accomplishments as a prose stylist and includes "The Noise of Time," a series of autobiographical sketches; "The Egyptian Stamp," a short story echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; and his famous travel memoirs, "Theodosia" and "journey to Armenia." (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) THE BASIC FAULT
When it was first published in 1968, Michael Balint's The Basic Fault laid the groundwork for a far-ranging reformation in psychoanalytic theory. This reformation is still incomplete, for it remains true today that despite the proliferation of techniques and schools, we do not know which are more correct or more successful--and all psychoanalysts continue to encounter intractable cases of mental disorder. Balint argues that ordinary "rigid" techniques and theories are doomed to failure in such cases because of their emphasis on interpretat...
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(P/B) EDMUND HUSSERL
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award The product of many years of reflection on phenomenology, this book is a comprehensive and creative introduction to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Natanson uses Husserl's later work as a clue to the meaning of his entire intellectual career, showing how his earlier methodological work evolved into the search for transcendental roots and developed into a philosophy of the life-world. Phenomenology, for Natanson, emerges as a philosophy of origin, a transcendental discipline concerned with consciousn...
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(P/B) EXPERIENCE AND JUDGEMENT
In Experience and Judgment, Husserl explores the problems of contemporary philosophy of language and the constitution of logical forms. He argues that, even at its most abstract, logic demands an underlying theory of experience. Husserl sketches out a genealogy of logic in three parts: Part I examines pre-predicative experience, Part II the structure of predicative thought as such, and Part III the origin of general conceptual thought. This volume provides an articulate restatement of many of the themes of Husserlian phenomenology. (From t...
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(P/B) PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORY
David Carr examines the paradox of Husserl's transcendental philosophy and his later historicist theory....
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(P/B) THE MERLEAU-PONTY AESTHETICS READER

(P/B) HUSSERL
In the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, phenomenology and existentialism come of age. As part of the discipline that led to his mastery of phenomenological philosophy, Ricoeur made a number of translations and studies of Husserl's writings. Many of his studies are published in this volume. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HISTORY AND TRUTH
In this volume, Paul Ricoeur investigates the antinomy between history and truth, or between historicity and meaning. He argues that history has meaning insofar as it approaches universality and system, but has no meaning insofar as this universality violates the singularity of individuals' lives. Imposing unity upon truth, or unifying the diversity of knowledge and opinion, creates a singular and universal history but destroys historicity and subjectivity. Allowing for singularities in history promotes a multiplicity of truths over a sing...
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(P/B) THE THEORY OF INTUITION IN HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGY
This is a study that discusses the aspects and function of intuition in Husserl's thought and its meaning for philosophical self-reflection. It focuses on the role of intuition in Husserl, demonstrating how his theory of intuition follows directly from his new conception of being. He then identifies intuition as the original phenomenon that leads to the concept of truth itself. The introduction has updated the critical apparatus, and places this work in the context of contemporary phenomenology....
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(P/B) THE FRAME AND THE MIRROR
If the postmodern is a collage - as some critics have suggested - or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way of understanding the world? The Frame and the Mirror uses this question to probe the distinctive question of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SELECTED PROSE
The writings published here are not so much an epitome as episodes. But most do not digress. They mark the turns and turning points of a human style, the tropes of an expressive life embodying the changing tempos of an age. Until we fall silent, all of us are trying to say. These fragmentary efforts to speak to, rejoin, and help create a new community of liberated human beings constitute the epigraphs of Sartre's historical inscription. "We Write for Our Own Time," one of them snaps out at those who dream of ancient absolutes. The passiona...
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