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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the…
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The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it,…
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Marcel Mauss: A Biography
TLDR
A student at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, a teacher at the Institut d'Ethnologie, and a student in the War and Postwar Years.
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The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. "The Forbidden Image" traces the dual…
The French resistance
Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out. As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of…
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Hezbollah
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Conversations with Picasso
Preface, by Henry Miller (1966) Introduction, by Pierre Daix Conversations with Picasso Postscript Notes Photographs Index ??
We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays
Foreword, by Maurice Olender Part 1: Santa Claus Burned as a Heretic, 1952 Part 2: We Are All Cannibals, 1989-2000 1. "Topsy-Turvydom" 2. Is There Only One Type of Development? 3. Social Problems:…
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Two Interviews with Simone de Beauvoir
In these interviews from 1982 and 1985, I ask Beauvoir about her philosophical differences with Jean-Paul Sartre on the issues of voluntarism vs social conditioning and embodiment, individualism vs…
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The gods of ancient Egypt
An organized profusion the world order the challenge of death the individual and the gods. Glossary and index of principal deities annotated bibliography maps chronology list of illustrations.
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