The Remnants of Modernity

Przemyslaw Czaplinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 6
• Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and int... Lees meer

Illusion in Painting

Mateusz Salwa

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 2
• This book aims to present trompe-l'oeil painting as an ambigous aesthetic ideal offered by early modern theory of art. It embodies the idea of an imag... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of Modern Man

Jacek Dobrowolski

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 9
• Award winning essay in philosophical anthropology reflecting on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become... Lees meer

Culture as Verb

Ryszard Nycz

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 19
• The book deals with what the author calls the new humanities: a broad and diversified front of orientations, directions, and turns grouped around five... Lees meer

Deconstruction, Politics, Performatics

Anna R Burzyńska

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 11
• The book examines the philosophy of Jacques Derrida not only as the creator of a specific mode of interpretation called "deconstruction" but also as a... Lees meer

Agency at Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 17
• Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions b... Lees meer

Relaciones intelectuales entre Nicolai Hartmann y José Ortega y Gasset en los años 1906-1914

Dorota Leszczyna

• Hardcover | Spaans | Modernity in Question | nr. 20
• He aquí un libro de lectura imprescindible para conocer a fondo los primero pasos de Ortega en la filosofía alemana". De la reseña de Nelson R. Orring... Lees meer

Insane Run

Wojciech Tomasik

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 14
• "Insane run" focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word "dark" is understood as a metaphor... Lees meer

Ortega Y La Escuela de Marburgo

Dorota Leszczyna

• Hardcover | Spaans | Modernity in Question | nr. 13
• El libro analiza los orígenes kantianos de la filosofía de Ortega desde su etapa inicial hasta las más tardías. Ortega descubre la filosofía de Kant c... Lees meer

Magic in Popular Narratives

Jan Kajfosz

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 15
• The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tìsínské Slezsko). The au... Lees meer

Farewell to Postmodernism

Bartosz Kuzniarz

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 7
• The grand narrative of capitalism continues at the beginning of the 21st century, though in a different (postmodern) key from its previous forms. In s... Lees meer

The Semantic Theory of Knowledge

Adam Olech

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 12
• The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementatio... Lees meer

Aesthetics and Modernity

Iwona Lorenc

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 16
• The book is a reflection over how art functions in late modernity. It emphasizes processes of fictionalizing reality and exposes, how phenomenology ca... Lees meer

The Changing Guise of Myths

Andrzej Leder

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 1
• This book is an analysis of contemporary life, seen under the perspective of immutable, ancient myths. It researches into the field of philosophical a... Lees meer

Dialectics Beyond Dialectics

Malgorzata Kowalska

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 8
• The book deals with contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida (Sartre, Aron, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard etc.). Lees meer

Strangers by Choice

Andrzej Waskiewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 4
• Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege... Lees meer

Time and Alterity in South African Writing

Paulina Grzęda

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 18
• Reevaluating neoliberalism's temporal regimes of growth and decline, the book invites us to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on works ... Lees meer

Morales et politiques postmodernes

• Hardcover | Frans | Modernity in Question | nr. 3
• Morales et politiques postmodernes Les auteurs contribuant à ce recueil ont été invités à réfléchir sur notre condition postmoderne, non pas tant sur ... Lees meer

Toward Metaphysics

Jacek Migasinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 5
• The book presents new metaphysical tendencies in 20th century French philosophy (1930s-1960s). Particular attention is given to the writings of Louis ... Lees meer

Between an Animal and a Machine

Pawel Majewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernity in Question | nr. 10
• The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. It contains an analysis of one of his early works, The Dialogues, as well as of his essay... Lees meer