Johan van de Gronden, filosoof en directeur van het Wereld Natuur Fonds, verkent het schemergebied tussen wijsbegeerte en natuurbescherming. Een tocht met een taoïstisch meester voert langs heilige bergen en eeuwenoude natuurgebieden in China. Een nachtelijke sterrenhemel in de Sahara leidt ons naar Immanuel Kant en de bronnen van de westerse natuurbeweging. Van de Gronden bezoekt het geboortedorp van wildernisprofeet Henry David Thoreau en speurt aan de oevers van de Hudson naar de inspirat...

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jeffers...

Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies.

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Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami provides a concise introduction to the literature of Japan that traces its origins in the seventh century and explores a literary legacy—and its cultural contexts—marked by the intersection of aristocratic elegance and warrior austerity. Coverage extends to the present day with a focus on the complex twists and turns that mark Japan’s literature in the modern period. In under one-hundred pages of narrative, Marcus’s account of Japanese litera...