2002, ISBN: 9780262112284

Cornell University Press, May 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Most Dostoevsky criticism proceeds from Dostoevsky the great literary artist to the great philosophical insights that sp… Mehr…

Cornell University Press, May 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Most Dostoevsky criticism proceeds from Dostoevsky the great literary artist to the great philosophical insights that spun out of his creations. James Scanlan has chosen to reverse this sequence and examine Dostoevsky the great thinker whose philosophical insights were expressed in literary modes (''his novels were about ideas as much as about people'' said Victor Terras). Paying special attention not only to the novels but also to Dostoevsky's notebooks and journals, Scanlan formulates the principle focus of his philosophy as ''anthropomorphic, prompted not by abstract cosmological and epistemological concerns but by an obsession with humanity..wthat it means to be a human being.'' Against the rational materialism burgeoning in late nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoevsky posited human beings as ''moral creatures whose standards of both personal conduct and social relationships were provided by the New Testament image of Jesus Christ.'' Scanlan is a fine guide, thoroughly conversant in all the literature, primary and secondary, English and Russian. And he is not uniformly laudatory; Dostoevsky's reactionary and autocratic political views, and especially his Russian messianism, come in for devastating critique. But ultimately Dostoevsky emerges as one who could philosophically and artistically connect the possibility of faith in God with love of the neighbor, and do so in a way that makes his shortcomings an eccentric oddity and his central insights perennially relevant . Owner inscription, jacket and text appear almost as new., Cornell University Press, 4, MIT Press, 1997. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover book with dust jacket, neither ex-library nor marked as a remainder. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Binding is strong and all signatures are intact. Text block is free of markings and highlighting. All leaves are intact; no dog-ears or creased corners; a few leaves in the rear have a small thumb crease. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1978, while collecting documentary photographs of the artists' community in Montparnasse from the first decades of the century, Billy Kluver discovered that some previously unassociated photographs fell into significant groupings. One group in particular, showing Picasso, Max Jacob, Moise Kisling, Modigliani, and others at the Cafe de la Rotonde and on Boulevard du Montparnasse, all seemed to have been taken on the same day. The people were wearing the same clothes in each shot and had the same accessories. Their ties were knotted the same way and their collars had the same wrinkles. A total of twenty-four photographs, four rolls of film with six photographs each, were eventually found. With the challenge of identifying the date, photographer, and circumstances, Kluver embarked on an inquiry that would illuminate the minute texture of that time and place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biographical research into the subjects' lives led Kluver to focus on the summer of 1916 as the likely time the photos were taken. He then measured buildings and plotted angles and lengths of shadows in the photographs to narrow the time frame to a spread of three weeks. Further investigation eventually allowed Kluver to identify the photographer as Jean Cocteau and to determine the day that Cocteau had taken the photographs: August 12, 1916. A computer printout of the sun's positions on that date, obtained from the Bureau des Longitudes, together with the length of the shadows, enabled Kluver to calculate the time of day of each photograph, and thus to put them in proper sequence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a tour de force of art historical research, Kluver then reconstructed a scenario of the events of the four hours depicted in the photographs. With evocative attention to detail, noting when Picasso is no longer carrying an envelope or Max Jacob has acquired a decoration in his lapel, Kluver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends, a group of remarkable people in early twentieth-century Paris. Besides the central &quot;portfolio&quot; of photographs by Cocteau, the book contains additional photographs and drawings, short biographies of all the subjects, and a historical section on the events and activities in the Paris art world at the time. Heavy books or multi-volume sets will require additional postage. Send me a message before purchase if you want a quote; otherwise, I will contact you after purchase with the final shipping price., MIT Press, 1997, 3<

1997, ISBN: 9780262112284

Cambridge:: MIT Press,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0262112280 . Twenty-four black and white photographs by Jean Cocteau. First edition. Fine in an about fine dust j… Mehr…

Cambridge:: MIT Press,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0262112280 . Twenty-four black and white photographs by Jean Cocteau. First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. ., MIT Press, 1997, 4.5<