Originally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet, who lived over 3700 years ago, this is the tale of one man's struggle against death. Not content with the immortal renown won by reckless deeds, the hero of the epic seeks immortality itself and journeys to the end of the earth and beyond.
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 19 May 2010
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Body Language: Representation in Action
An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world. In "Body Language", Mark Rowlands argues that the problem of representation - how it is possible for one item to represent another - has been exacerbated by the assimilation of representation to the category of the word.