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Symbolic Exchange and Death
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Symbolic Exchange and DeathJean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work, appearing in English for the first time, occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism.

It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, the body and sex, economic versus symbolic exchange and their differing effects on the rituals of death.

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Tags: social, represents, significantly, Baudrillards, elaboration, versus, symbolic, exchange, economic
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
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Trouble with Strangers: A Study of EthicsIn this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world’s greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan’s categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the ‘richer’ ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.
 
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Tags: Eagleton, ethical, Symbolic, measuring, against
Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms - A Philosophical Commentary
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Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms - A Philosophical CommentaryCassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms - A Philosophical Commentary

This book—the first commentary on Ernst Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms—provides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher’s conceptions of symbolic form and human culture.


 
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Tags: Forms, Metaphysics, Symbolic, human, symbolic, Philosophical, Commentary
Persian Sufi Poetry - An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classic Poems
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Persian Sufi Poetry - An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classic PoemsPersian Sufi Poetry - An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classic Poems

Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
 
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Tags: Persian, poetry, symbolic, homiletic, epigram, Classic, Poems, Poetry
Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity
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Home Territories: Media, Mobility and IdentityHome Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity

Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state.

 
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Tags: Territories, nation, around, boundaries, symbolic, Identity, Mobility, Media