Richard Appignanesi
Author
Language
English
Description
Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. The notoriously proclaimed 'end of history', the triumph of liberal democracy over Communist tyranny, proved to be an illusion, and we awoke in the anxious grip of globalization, unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war. Has the 21st century resolved the question of postmodernism or are we more than ever ensnared in its perplexities?...
4) Hamlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Using Shakespeare's original text and drawing inspiration from modern Japan, this book brings to life one of the most important works of literature in the English language."--back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Presented in comic book format.
7) Macbeth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about a man who kills his king after hearing the prophesies of three witches.
9) The tempest
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Miranda and her father, Prospero, have been living on an isolated island for twelve years. When the survivors of a shipwreck land on the island (thanks to Prospero's magical machinations), they're drawn into a web of coincidences, love at first sight, and old revenges that only Prospero's forgiveness--and some otherworldly assistance--can remedy"--P. [4] of cover.
10) As you like it
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Banished to the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a boy, reunites with true love Orlando. Presented in comic book format.
11) Othello
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Othello's fellow soldier Iago starts filling his head with rumors of his wife Desdemona's infidelity, Othello begins down the path of his own destruction. Presented in comic book format.
18) Introducing Kant
Author
Pub. Date
1999, c1996.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on Immanuel Kant's critiques of pure reason, practical reason and judgement, this text leads the reader through the main formal concepts with which Kant has become associated: the relation of mind to the senses, the question of freedom and the law, and the revaluation of metaphysics. This book paces Kant in his context as a thinker of the Enlightenment, and also explains the reasons for his continuing importance to contemporary philosophy....