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Hypermodern Times

Hypermodern Times

Gilles Lipovetsky

Gilles Lipovetsky, French social theorist, argues that we've entered a new phase of 'hypermodernity', characterized by hyper-consumption and the hypermodern individual.
Empire de L'éphémère:

Empire de L'éphémère:

Gilles Lipovetsky

In a book full of playful irony and striking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common ...
A era do vazio: ensaio sobre o individualismo contemporâneo

A era do vazio: ensaio sobre o individualismo contemporâneo

Gilles Lipovetsky

Gilles Lipovetsky escreve sobre as novas atitudes surgidas na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, a apatia, a indiferença e a substituição do princípio da sedução ao da convicção.
Culture-monde (La): Réponse à une société désorientée

Culture-monde (La): Réponse à une société désorientée

Gilles Lipovetsky

Gilles Lipovetsky et Jean Serroy, tout en analysant ce bouleversement, avancent des pistes d’action possibles visant à faire reculer l’empire croissant du consumérisme et la désorientation généralisée de l’époque.
Les temps hypermodernes

Les temps hypermodernes

Gilles Lipovetsky

L'un des mérites des analyses que propose Gilles Lipovetsky depuis vingtans est de rompre avec ces jugements excessifs, toujours trop élémentaires parce qu'ils n'envisagent qu'un aspectdes choses, afinde dégager toutela complexité ...
El occidente globalizado: Un debate sobre la cultura planetaria

El occidente globalizado: Un debate sobre la cultura planetaria

Gilles Lipovetsky

Lipovetsky es el pesimista, obligado a desarrollar un juego optimista. Juvin es enemigo de la globalización, ve en ella la muerte de la pluralidad cultural y de todo lo que la ha sustentado.
De la légèreté: essai

De la légèreté: essai

Gilles Lipovetsky

La culture médiatique, l’art, le design, l’architecture expriment également le culte contemporain de la légèreté. Partout il s’agit de connecter, miniaturiser, dématérialiser.
A FELICIDADE PARADOXAL: ENSAIO SOBRE A SOCIEDADE DO HIPERCONSUMO

A FELICIDADE PARADOXAL: ENSAIO SOBRE A SOCIEDADE DO HIPERCONSUMO

GILLES LIPOVETSKY

Mas estes prazeres privados originam uma felicidade paradoxal - nunca o indivíduo contemporâneo atingiu um tal grau de abandono.
L'occident mondialisé

L'occident mondialisé

Gilles Lipovetsky

« La civilisation occidentale est unique et universelle, même si tout en elle, à l’évidence, n’est pas universel. » Le mode de vie occidental s’exporte, jusque dans son besoin de consommation frénétique auquel la culture ...
Da Leveza - Para uma Civilização do Ligeiro

Da Leveza - Para uma Civilização do Ligeiro

Gilles Lipovetsky

Vivemos atualmente uma grande revolução que, pela primeira vez, nos transporta para uma civilização da leveza.
Gratoony the Loony: The Wild, Unpredictable Life of Gilles ...

Gratoony the Loony: The Wild, Unpredictable Life of Gilles ...

Gilles Gratton

A rare view of the wilder side of hockey from the lost soul behind the tiger mask. In this honest and revealing tale of soul searching, skating naked, and defying management, New York Rangers legend Gilles Gratton finally tells his tale.
Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos: Dialogue ...

Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos: Dialogue ...

Mark Lipovetsky

MARK LIPOVETSKY (pen name of Mark Leiderman) specializes in literary theory and contemporary Russian culture. He is the author of two books, Poetics of the Literary FairyTale and The Hard Work of Freedom: Articles on Contemporary ...
The Supreme Court Review, 2011

The Supreme Court Review, 2011

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Professor Myriam Gilles predicted the “near-total demise” of the class action, partly because of contractual arbitration clauses, before the litigation in AT&T Mobility even commenced. Myriam Gilles, Opting Out of Liability: The Forthcoming, ...
Resolving Mass Disputes: ADR and Settlement of Mass Claims

Resolving Mass Disputes: ADR and Settlement of Mass Claims

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... see Myriam Gilles and Gary Friedman 'After Class: Aggregate Litigation in the Wake of AT&T Mobility v Concepcion' 79 U Chi L Rev 623 (2012); Myriam Gilles, ' Opting Out of Liability: The Forthcoming Near-Total Demise of the Modern Class  ...
Gilles

Gilles

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

Soudain, il eut peur de lâcher la parole décisive : « Je ne l'aime pas, je n'en veux qu'à son argent » Cette parole frapperait enfin Ruth qui la relaterait à Myriam. Gilles eut peur et par quelques transitions amena la conversation à finir. Ce qui ...
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy ...

Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy ...

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An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, Mark Lipovetsky. POLITICIZING MAGIC
Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Structures in Space

Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Structures in Space

Susanne Deicher

... Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen Alexander Calder Jacob Baal-Teshuva Caravaccio Gilles Lambert Paul Ce'zanne Ulrike Becks-Malorny Marc Chagall IngoF. Walther Christo & Jeanne-Claude Jacob Baal-Teshuva Salvador Dal( Gilles Neret ...
Opting out of liability: the forthcoming near-total demise ...

Opting out of liability: the forthcoming near-total demise ...

Myriam Elizabeth Gilles

Michigan Law Review April 22, 2005 Author Revisions Opting Out of Liability: The Forthcoming Near-Total Demise of the Modern Class Action Myriam Gilles* Introduction In recent years, there have been hundreds of academic articles and  ...
Die schweizerischen Berggebiete in der Politik:

Die schweizerischen Berggebiete in der Politik:

Gilles Rudaz

Gilles Rudaz, Bernard Debarbieux Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies ICAS, Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Berggebiete SAB. Die wandelnde Rolle der Berggebiete in der schweizerischen Politik Die Schweiz ist ein ...
Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot

Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot

Mark Lipovetsky

The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of ...

Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of ...

Birgit Beumers

Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights.
Russian Literature since 1991

Russian Literature since 1991

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Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky After censorship Even among specialists, not to mention the much wider reading public, the widespread impression of Russian literature is limited to the works of the great nineteenth-century writers as  ...
Charms of the Cynical Reason: The Trickster's ...

Charms of the Cynical Reason: The Trickster's ...

Mark Lipavetsky

Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means, its historical ...
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European ...

Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European ...

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From the Bad to the Blasphemous Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren, Mark Lipovetsky. PaspyLIIMTch, TIAHB, HoBoe 3esieheeT uTo-To paspyLIIMTembHoe Toxe, Kak-To IIo Koctam ceóa coöHpaet M XMBeT, 9To Moń CIIyuaí, 9To IIpocTo 3, ...
Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity

Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity

John Marks

The book explores what characterises a a good lifea and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism."
Cinema II

Cinema II

Gilles Deleuze

Offers a fascinating analysis of the representation of time in film and the cinematic treatment of memory, thought and speech, and looks at the work of Godard, Hitchcock and Welles.

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