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Socrates and the State
Richard KrautFocusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a ...
How To Read Plato
Richard KrautRichard Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasizes the influence of Socrates, whose devotion to the examined life and death at the hands of Athenian democracy are memorialized in many of Plato's ...
Against Absolute Goodness
Richard Kraut"When one reads this, one sees the possibility of real philosophical progress. If Kraut is right, I'd be wrong to say that this book is good, period. Or even great, period.
Choreographing the folk: the dance stagings of Zora Neale ...
Anthea KrautIn Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston’s little-known choreographic work.
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being
Richard KrautWhat is good, how do we know, and how important is it? In this book, one of our most respected analytical philosophers reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish.
Apeiron
Roger A. ShinerIn an influential article,12 Richard Kraut concedes that some of the things Aristotle says about eudaimonia sound strange or paradoxical when understood as claims about happiness. Nonetheless, he argues that it would be a mistake to ...
Aristotle on the Human Good
Richard KrautThis book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life.
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays
Richard KrautThe essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Richard KrautThis volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion.
Aristotle: Political Philosophy
Richard KrautThis book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times.
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays
PreviewCritical Essays Richard Polt ... Plato's Republic: Critical Essays edited by Richard Kraut Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito: Critical Essays edited by Rachana Kamtekar Aristotle's Ethics: Critical Essays edited by Nancy Sherman ...
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays
Richard KrautDesigned for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.
Physical Review: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and ...
More editionsW.) E 59, 3544 Krall, A. H. — (see Gang, Hu) E 59, 715 Krapivsky, P. L. — (see Ben-Naim, E.) E 59, 88 Krasik, Ya. E. — l see Weingarten, A.) E 59, 1096 Krassowska, Wanda — (see Neu, John C.) E 59, 3471 Kraut, Suso, Ulrike Feudel , and ...
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
PreviewSee Anthea Kraut, “'Stealing Steps' and Signature Moves: Embodied Theories of Dance as Intellectual Property,” Theatre Journal 62, no. 2 (May 2010): 173–189, for more on the ways in which a dancer's idiosyncratic movement could serve as ...
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...
Anthea KrautAs revisionist dance historians like Srinivasan, Yutian Wong, Jane Desmond, and Amy Koritz, building on the work of Edward Said, have pointed out, early modern dancers such as Ruth St. Denis and Maud Allan, whose choreography took on ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work
Henry SavageRichard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, ...
PreviewAnthea Kraut, “'Stealing Steps' and Signature Moves: Embodied Theories of Dance as Intellectual Property,” Theatre Journal 62, no. 2 (May 2010): 174, last accessed 11 May 2016, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40660601. “In 1871 a decree was ...
Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the ...
Douglas C. Baynton... Linda Kerber, Cathy Kudlick, Alan Kraut, Lawrence Levine, Beth Linker, Paul Longmore, Lucy Salyer, Kirilka Stavreva, James Trent, and Lauri Umansky. Thanks also to the archivists at the National Archives in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, ...
Watching Weimar Dance
Kate ElswitA comparison to another early 1950s event concerning choreographic copyright is instructive. In “Race-ing Choreographic Copyright,” Anthea Kraut points toward the concealed set of racialized power relations implicit in the United States's first ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...
Richard S. NewmanBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
Hands, Eyes, Butts and Thighs: Women's Labor, Sexuality, and ...
Angela D. Gittens147 Authors such as Anthea Kraut, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi, and Robert Nicholls have impacted dance scholarship with their research on specific African and African descendant populations, vernacular dances and ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Richard WilsonRichard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third
Alice Ida Perry WoodIn 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance
Dorothea Fischer-HornungAnthea Kraut Canonization and Obscurity: Zora Neale Hurston's Place in the Academy Over the last two decades, the study of Zora Neale Hurston has flourished, with her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in particular earning a ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery, ...
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...
Anthea KrautBut the book also uncovers a host of marginalized figures--from the South Asian dancer Mohammed Ismail, to the African American pantomimist Johnny Hudgins, to the African American blues singer Alberta Hunter, to the white burlesque dancer ...
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Choreographing Asian America
Yutian WongI thank Priya Srinivasan, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, San San Kwan, Esther Kim Lee, Sean Metzger, Dan Bacalzo, Karen Shimakawa, Josephine Lee, and Anthea Kraut for years of listening. Their insights are reflected on the pages of this ...
Richard III
Richard AndersenRichard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
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