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As Berlin is laid out on an epic scale, this travel guide is organized so that you can take in as much of the city as possible. It will guide you to all of the interesting monuments, museums and art collections Berlin has to offer, as well as giving you ideas for family fun and where to go shopping. The maps, photographs, detailed illustrations, the 3-D aerial views of Berlin's most interesting districts and a huge selection of hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues makes this guide the ultimate travel guide.
One of the fundamental ideas of chaos theory is the "butterfly
effect," first proposed by Edward Lorenz in the 1960s: a single, small
event may yield exponentially enlarged effects, just as the single flap
of a butterfly's wings may produce vast, unpredictable ramifications in
weather patterns far away. Theorists of literature and culture who
derive their conceptual framework from chaos theory are now performing
the butterfly effect: a few suggestions on the part of certain
physicists and biologists have inspired an exponentially growing
literature of metaphorical applications in faraway fields. The
Aesthetics of Chaos makes the salutory attempt to restrain, summarize,
and unify the multivarious aesthetic theories of chaos.
In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin
invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American
literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an
international--a "cosmopolitan"--literary canon. The book comes at a
time when the most influential national media have focused attention on
the subject of the literary canon. They have made it an issue not
merely of academic but of general public concern, expressing strong
opinions on the subject of what the American student should or should
not read as essential or core texts. Is the literary canon simply a
given of tradition and history, or is it, and must it be, constantly
under construction? The question remains hotly contested to the present
moment.
From Romanticism to Critical Theory
explores the philosophical roots of literary theory through the
traditions of German philosophy that started with the Romantic
reactions to Kant. Andrew Bowie traces the continuation of the Romantic
tradition, culminating in Heidegger's approaches to art and truth, the
work of Adorno and Benjamin and the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory.
Despite Plato's banning of poets from the ideal community, some
works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to
literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced
philosophy. Such works have the power to challenge, provoke, and move
the reader, and they upset complacent assumptions and demand new
thinking. They also draw on the resources of language and literature to
explore enduring issues. Written expressly for high school and college
students, this reference conveniently introduces ten widely studied
works of philosophical literature. Included are individual chapters on:
Plato's Republic Augustine's Confessions Dante's Divine Comedy More's
Utopia Voltaire's Candide Goethe's Faust Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra Huxley's Brave New World And Borges'
Labyrinths.