Search Results: Titles starting with I from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7" x 9.75", is like new. Illustrated with color and b&w plates of tiles. 133 pages.Work devoted to the history of the production of Italian floor and wall tiles ("riggiole").

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", has three dog-eared pages. Book is otherwise in fine condition. 187 pages.Work by French philosopher Régis Debray (b. 1940) on the historical evolution of the role of the French intellectual."" IF " = L'INTELLECTUEL FRANÇAIS. " IO " = L'INTELLECTUEL ORIGINAL, VERSION 1900. " IT " = L'INTELLECTUEL TERMINAL, VERSION 2000. Il importe de rapporter l'état ultime d'une figure à son état princeps pour déceler ce qui unit et distingue l'IO et l'IT. D'embrasser d'un même trait l'élan, l'inflexion et la chute ; reconnaître la continuité depuis le point de lancement sans déguiser la déconvenue de l'arrivée. L'héritier du nom est à la fois le continuateur du dreyfusard et son contraire. L'IF fut un éclaireur, c'est devenu un exorciste. Il accroissait l'intelligibilité, il renchérit sur l'opacité des temps. Il favorisa la prise de distance, il s'applique à resserrer les rangs. Ce fut un futuriste, c'est, tout accrocheur qu'il soit, et… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and red paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 229 pages."In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage ("can't divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right") to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau's notion of a "broad margin," hoping to expand her vista: "I'm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway— / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat /… Read More

First Bison Book Printing. Translation by Frank Jellinik of "Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et mon frere..." (Gallimard, 1973). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. xiv/288 pages."To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.Michel Foucault, author of "Madness and Civilization" and "Discipline and Punish," collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière's memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a brilliant… Read More

Antique volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in quarter leather and decoratively-patterned paper-covered boards with leather-tipped corners. Spine has stamped gilt lettering and ornamental designs. Book shows wear, with cracking to lower outside corner of rear board, rubbing and scuffing at edges of boards. Very minor loss is visible at outside corners. Binding is cracked between the two works. Pages and plates exhibit foxing.This volume brings together two rare Italian-language works on architecture, presenting the work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture. 24 pages, engraved title page and 25 numbered leaves of engraved plates / 13 leaves of engraved plates. "L'oggetto, per cui da qualche anno intrapresi ad illustrare i cinque Ordini dell'Architettura di Andrea Palladio, ed a ridurgli in un sistema chiaro, ordinato e facile, fu unicamente per giovare a me stesso nelle… Read More

Twentieth Century Views. First printing. Volume is bound in black cloth, with faded gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. 184 pages.

Second printing. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. 226 pages.

New Directions in Scandinavian Studies. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xii/283 pages.
"Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern "Danishness" (Danskhed) that… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Name of previous owner is discretely written at top edge of front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, in mylar cover, is in fine condition. x/254 pages.
"These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.
McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/416 pages."In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are… Read More

Small-format hardcover volume (5.75" x 7.5") is new, still in shrinkwrap. Bilingual in Italian and English. 304 pages."The Empty Pedestal. Ghosts from Eastern Europe", the exhibition dedicated to art research in Eastern Europe, is designed to offer visitors to Arte Fiera 2014 and the public at large an initiative that has never been tried before. The exhibition is the result of an ongoing partnership between the art show and the world of Italian art collecting: all the works featured in the exhibition belong to some of Italy's top private art collections"--Page 5.Exhibition was held at the Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, featuring works by the following artists: Marina Abramovic, Vyatscheslav Akhunov, Victor Alimpiev, Pawel Althamer, Evgeny Antufiev, Janis Avotins, Said Atabekov, Miroslav Balka, Mircea Cantor, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Thea Djordjadze, Petra Feriancova, Yona Friedman, Dmitry Gutov, Ion Grigorescu, Igor Grubic, Petrit Halilaj, Lukáš Jasanský e Martin Polák, Ilya e Emilia Kabakov,… Read More

Folio Actuel, 161. Revised and enlarged edition ("Edition revue et augmentee"). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.25" x 7", is in fine condition. 448 pages."C'était déjà la féminisation de la pauvreté, l'insécurité sexuelle et la montée des intégrismes qui avaient motivé, la première édition de ce recueil. Le constat négatif que je faisais alors, loin d'être obsolète, est plus que jamais d'actualité. Les nouveaux textes de cette réédition attestent une régression, une contre-libération menaçantes. Libérer à sa source la libido creandi des femmes, c'est lancer un défi permanent à cette guerre et s'ouvrir à la géni(t)alité des deux sexes. Se souvenir que le premier environnement de chaque humain est un corps vivant, parlant ; se souvenir qu'on naît d'une femme (et aussi d'un homme) et en éprouver de la gratitude, c'est abolir un ordre symbolique, tyrannique, hégémonique ; c'est vaincre l'addiction spéculaire de Narcisse, s'évader des dogmes et des illusions… Read More

First edition signed by author Alexandra Ilf. Oblong softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 9" x 8.5"and shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Parallel text in Russian and English. 169 pages.
Author's name is written on first preliminary page.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ilya Ilf as photographer--collection of Alexandra Ilf, Moscow, organized by Marina Loshak, director, Moscow Arts Center."Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) "was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. Together they published two popular comedy novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931), as well as a satirical book Odnoetazhnaya Amerika (often translated as Little Golden America) that documented their journey through the United States between 1935 and 1936." (Wikipedia)In the 1930s, Illya Ilf became fond of photography.… Read More

Literature and Philosophy series. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. 345 pages."David McNeill seeks in this book to illuminate Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, the book demonstrates how Socrates' confrontation with profound ethical questions about his public philosophic activity is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy.Taking a cue from Nietzsche's account of "the problem of Socrates," McNeill shows how the questions Nietzsche raises are questions that Plato depicts Socrates as aware of and responding to. McNeill also shows how the Republic provides a view of Socratic moral psychology that resembles Nietzsche's account of human psychology: it deals with the internalized… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in quarter maroon cloth and speckled light brown paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xix/256 pages."How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups―notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans―developed their own cartographies in accordance with… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 12.5", is, together with dust jacket, in a new condition. Volume is preserved in mylar cover. 384 pages.Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 16, 2010-Feb. 6, 2011. - Includes bibliographical references and index."From around 1250 to the close of the fifteenth century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably in French vernacular history manuscripts. This volume celebrates the vivid historical imagery produced during these years by bringing together some of the finest masterpieces of illumination created in the Middle Ages. It is the first major publication to focus on exploring the ways in which text and illumination worked together to help show medieval readers the role and purpose of history. The images enabled the past to come alive before the eyes of medieval readers by relating the adventures of epic figures such as Hector of… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume (10" x 13.5") is new. Numerous color illustrations, including reproductions of manuscript pages. Text is bilingual in Italian and English. 406 pages.
Catalogue of exhibition produced by Fondazione Federico II in collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, 23 march-26 May 2013 in Messina, Sicily, and 5 June-23 August 2013 in Palermo, Sicily.
Preface by Giovanni Ardizzone, introduction by Anastasia Lazaridou. With essays by Kalliopi-Phaidra Kalafti, Nikolaos Konstantios, Anastasia Lazaridou, Elena Papastavrou, Maria Skleida, and Terpsichori-Patricia Skotti.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/244 pages."Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?Some contend that borders should generally be open and people should be free to migrate in search of better lives. Others insist that governments have the right to unilaterally close their borders and should do so. In "Immigration and Democracy," Sarah Song develops an intermediate ethical positionthat takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. She argues… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", is in fine condition. xx/260 pages."Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism, writers for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no one's voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. "To consent to being anonymous," Weil wrote, "is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels? " Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibility? from a "truth" that… Read More

Independent Task Force Report, No. 78. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with color graphs. xi/141 pages."The United States and the world were unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, despite decades of warnings highlighting the inevitability of global pandemics and the need for international coordination. The failure to prioritize and adequately fund preparedness and effectively implement response plans has exacted a heavy human and economic price, and the crisis is not yet over. Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are a threat to global and national security that neither the United States nor the world can afford to ignore. This Task Force proposes a comprehensive strategy that includes institutional reforms and policy innovations to help the United States and the multilateral system perform better in this crisis and when the next one emerges. Without increased U.S.… Read More