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  • Happiness
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years. The multidisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies, critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an interest in happiness and theories of emotion. ...
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    38,58 €

  • Philosophy as World Literature
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but worldliterature? The authors in this collection explore philosophy through the lens of the 'worlding' of literature--that is, how philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Historically, much of the...
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    50,79 €

  • Catastrophe and Higher Education
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe. Many of the resources for response and resistance to catastrophe have long been identified by thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James to H. G. Wells and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Di Leo posits that hope and resistance are possible if we are willing to resi...
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    195,60 €

  • What’s Wrong with Antitheory?
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and - although seemingly opposite - the two impulses have long been intertwined. Antitheoryis the first book to explore this vexed relationship from the 20th century to the present day, examining antitheory both in its historical context and its current state. The book brings together leading scholars from a wide range of Hum...
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    54,75 €

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theoryis the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art t/Theory in the 21st-century. With chapters written by the world’s leading scholars in their field, the book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial criticism and new areas o...
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    49,76 €

  • American Literature as World Literature
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    For better or worse, America lives in the age of 'worlded†? literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective an...
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    57,40 €

  • Higher Education under Late Capitalism
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    This book explores questions concerning personal identity and individual conduct within neoliberal academe. The author suggests that neoliberal academe is normal academe in the new millennium though well aware of its contested nature and destructive capacities. Examining higher education through a number of ideals, such as austerity and transparency, brings readers on a journey...
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    33,42 €

  • Dead Theory
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Levinas, the book explo...
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    61,51 €

  • Criticism after Critique
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique. ...
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    48,09 €

  • Criticism after Critique
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique. ...
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    66,54 €

  • Corporate Humanities in Higher Education
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future. ...
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    66,66 €

  • Academe Degree Zero
    Jeffrey R. Di Leo
    Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today ...
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    89,87 €