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  • The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718)
    Joseph Trapp / M. M. (Malcolm Miles) Kelsall
    Explore the enduring power of Virgil’s epic masterpiece with Joseph Trapp’s insightful 'Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718).' This meticulously prepared republication offers a fascinating glimpse into 18th-century literary criticism, providing a historical perspective on one of the most influential works of Latin poetry. Trapp’s preface delves into the heart of 'The Aeneid,'...
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    17,17 €

  • Paradoxical Urbanism
    Malcolm Miles
    Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Ma...
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    73,24 €

  • Eco-Aesthetics
    Malcolm Miles
    By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thi...
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    47,11 €

  • Herbert Marcuse
    Malcolm Miles
    When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society.Al...
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    60,63 €

  • Urban Utopias
    Malcolm Miles
    Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plura...
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    83,96 €

  • Cities and Cultures
    Malcolm Miles
    A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city’s culture through case studies ...
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    104,32 €

  • Consuming Cities
    Malcolm Miles / Steven Miles
    Consuming Cities explores patterns of consumption and culture in contemporary urban environments, bringing together debates taking place in sociology and cultural studies. It is written with a broad interdisciplinary readership in mind. The book is thematically organized and draws on an international range of urban case studies from around the world. It critically assesses the ...
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    70,97 €

  • Art, Space and the City
    Malcolm Miles
    This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public space and gender. Using different perspectives, it explores both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium. ...
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    106,94 €