The Seasons

The SeasonsPioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism. Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating

The Unconcept is the first genealogy of the concept of the Freudian uncanny

as well as suggesting ways of adjusting and optimising sugarcane irrigation that can make it more sustainable

” the novella showcases Alcott’s gift for storytelling and deep concern for children who have suffered

Author Maria Massi Dakake traces the Quranic origins and early religious connotations of the concept of walayah and the role it played in shaping the sense of communal solidarity among followers of the first Shiite Imam

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In a critique that is both deeply personal and theoretically sophisticated

and Make Poverty History

“Roads of Destiny” is the story of a French poet and shepherd named David Mignot

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Young Lucy Honeychurch leaves Edwardian England for a tour of Italy

and speak about diversity in performance practice

It is the interplay among these texts that reveals the full complexity of Gide's political positionings and the rhetorical brilliance he deployed to redress his tarnished image