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Sale 9% Quick view Zone Books Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects -- among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood,... $33.00 $30.17 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Quick view Zone Books In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics The quality of blandness: no sooner do you identify it then it begins to appear at every turn. Blandness, by definition, pays little heed to the borders our various disciplines like to draw. As the... $21.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 11% Quick view Zone Books Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper A picture universally recognized, endlessly scrutinized and described, incessantly copied, adapted, lampooned: does Leonardo's near-ruined Last Supper still offer anything new to be seen or to be... $55.00 $48.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 11% Quick view Zone Books Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says... $46.00 $41.16 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 10% Quick view Zone Books Nongovernmental Politics To be involved in politics without aspiring to govern, be governed by the best leaders, or abolish the institutions of government: such are the constraints that delineate the condition common to all... $45.00 $40.31 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Quick view Zone Books Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life Pure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: "a... $23.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view Zone Books Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense -- less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study... $28.95 $26.75 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Sale 8% Quick view Zone Books The Civil Contract of Photography In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Quick view Zone Books The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens Athens, 403 BCE. The end of the bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty. The democrats return to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of amnesia, citizens call for -- if not... $28.45 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Quick view Zone Books The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation This book presents the archaeology of a single sense: the sense of being sentient. Aristotle was perhaps the first to define this faculty when, in his treatise On the Soul, he identified a sensory... $47.11 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view Zone Books The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens,... $33.00 $30.17 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Sale 7% Quick view Zone Books Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, explain, remark on, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would, in short, stop speaking; we would become as mute as... $25.95 $24.22 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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