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| Title: Aesthetics at Work |
| Edited by: Arne Melberg PhD |
| ISBN10-13: 8274772946 : 9788274772946 |
| This anthology deals with the changing state of the arts and the incorporation and relevance of the aesthetic dimension in daily life in general. The articles are not restricted to the arts, but the emphasis are given to aesthetics at work: the arts in their interaction, new aesthetical forms, new aesthetical activities, media and expressions including aesthetical dimensions in current economical and technological development, all those aesthetical tendencies that contribute to our world today. The book represents a decisive development in existing theories of art, mainly for taking the expanding field of aesthetics seriously. The authors make a critical contribution to a contemporary social tendency and is therefore of general as well as academic interest. The contributors represent aesthetic studies, musicology, art-history, literature and media. Together they have published widely within the aesthetic field and they all take part in the development of an aesthetic program at the University of Oslo. |
| About The Author: |
| Arne Melberg took his Ph.D. in literature at the University of Stockholm 1973, and is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo since 1987. |
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Pages: 176
Size: 155x230mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - December 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics |
| List Price: 21.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 13 |
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| Title: Aesthetics in Prose |
| By (author): Arne Melberg PhD |
| ISBN10-13: 8274773748 : 9788274773745 |
| This book is an investigation into the phenomenology of prose. The first section deals with two champions in the modern history of prose: Montaigne and Nietzsche. The second section considers some versions of prose and modernity through two profiles in the history of modernism: Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Furthermore, modern prose is examined through the development of the modern prose-poem. The third section assembles a wide range of examples from two vital sections of modern prose on the boundaries of literary fiction: travel writing and life writing. The final section consists of four shorter extensions: prose in photos, design and blogs. The final extension is a brief summary of the idea of prose. The phenomenology of prose will be presented in many forms and via many metaphors. Montaigne's essayistic body, disparate but still hanging together, never finished, always something to add. Nietzsche's labyrinth, showing by hiding, hiding by showing. Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul or Ryszard Kapuscinski's World: diligently mapped by foot and pen. Thomas Bernhard's or W.G. Sebald's meandering syntax, indicating a state where everything is connected with everything else -- together with the insight in the boundless contingency of everything that exists. Network is the final metaphor: the network connects and includes. It encompasses the world while leaving the world open. |
| About The Author: |
| Arne Melberg took his Ph.D. in literature at the University of Stockholm 1973, and is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo since 1987. |
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Pages: 182
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - September 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics |
| List Price: 32.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 13 |
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| Title: Affluence & Activism |
| Sub-title: Organized Consumers in the Post-War Era |
| Edited by: Even Lange, Iselin Theien |
| ISBN10-13: 8274771869 : 9788274771864 |
| Consumer interests and concerns reveal themselves in different forms of consumer organisation. In this book, the agenda of affluent consumers in post-1945 Western societies is investigated through a collection of essays on the consumer movement in Britain, the USA, France and Norway. These contributions challenge a stereotype of the consumer as passive and individualistic by demonstrating how citizens have continued to organise on matters relating to consumption in the post-war era. Coming from the fields of history and the social sciences, the contributors offer fresh insights into questions of how and why consumers have chosen to organise in a context of increasing affluence. The book should appeal to students, scholars and others interested in the history of consumption and social movements. |
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Pages: 104
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - December 2004 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Consumerism |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 13 |
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| Title: Are We Captives of History? |
| Sub-title: Historical Essays on Turkey & Europe |
| Edited by: Edgeir Benum, Alf Johansson, Jan-Erik Smilden, Alf Storrud |
| ISBN10-13: 8274772806 : 9788274772809 |
| One of the most central questions in European politics today is the complex relationship between Turkey and the European Union. To better understand the controversies and ambiguities aroused by this issue it is necessary to go back in history. In 1529 and 1683, the conquering armies of the Ottoman Empire appeared at the gates of Vienna, threatening to overrun central Europe. But in recent years Turkey, with its 70 million mostly Muslim inhabitants, has been seeking closer integration with Western Europe, knocking at the door of Brussels. The ensuing debates on the possible Turkish membership of the European Union frequently evoke attitudes seemingly conditioned by an historical memory of one form or another, often originating centuries ago. The essays in this volume examine the assumptions, images and stereotypes developed about the 'Other' through the long historical relationship, focusing especially on European images of 'the Turk'. They also explore the interaction of the two parties at different times and in different geographical locations. Chronologically, they range from the origins of the 'East/West controversy' in classical times, to the present question concerning the future relationship of Turkey and 'Europe'. This volume provides a valuable source of knowledge for those interested in the persistence, as well as in the transformation, of basic notions through history, and in seeking a deeper under standing of how present day attitudes and arguments are related to historical memory. |
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Pages: 152
Size: 180x260mm
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - December 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: General & world history : International relations : Europe : Turkey |
| List Price: 21.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 13 |
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| Title: Dante |
| Sub-title: A Critical Reappraisal |
| Series: (Nordic Dante Studies III) |
| Edited by: Unn Falkeid PhD |
| ISBN10-13: 8274773470 : 9788274773479 |
| As one of the dominating names in Western literature, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has also been read and studied with great enthusiasm in the Nordic countries. His masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy" has been translated into Nordic languages several times and over the last few decades many introductions and popular monographs have been published. Moreover, the interest seems to be increasing: Dante's works are studied across different disciplines -- within Italian and comparative literature, theology, philosophy and the history of ideas -- to the extent that we can now talk of a new generation of dantisti among Nordic scholars. The anthology consists of proceedings from the Third Conference of the Nordic Dante Network at the University of Oslo, September 2006. As such it paints a clear picture of what is currently going on within Dante studies in the Nordic countries: the domestic readings are the result of a fruitful dialogue within international scholarship, whilst concurrently having their own individual characteristics. The opening chapter is written by one of the world's leading Dante scholars, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor at Yale University and the current President of the American Dante Society. |
| About The Author: |
| Unn Falkeid, Ph.D. teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. She has published articles and a monograph on Petrarch (2007), essays on and translation of modern Italian literature, and is currently working with a postdoctoral project about the cultures of Avignon in the fourteenth century. She has previously been the chief-editor of modern fictional literature in the Norwegian publishing house Gyldendal. She is the Norwegian co-ordinator of the Nordic Dante Network. Contributors: Unn Falkeid (ed.), Giuseppe Mazzotta, Trond Berg Eriksen, Anders Cullhed, Hanne Roer, Ülar Ploom, Leonardo Cecchini, Jesper Hede, Asbjørn Bjornes, Espen Grønlie, Päivi Mehtonen, Jørn Moestrup, Ole Meyer, Conni-Kay Jørgensen. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 155x230mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - July 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval |
| List Price: 31.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 13 |
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| Title: Edvard Munch |
| Sub-title: An Anthology |
| Edited by: Erik Mørstad |
| ISBN10-13: 8274772318 : 9788274772311 |
| This anthology springs out of a productive environment that in recent years has been created in Norway for research into the art of Edvard Munch. Comprising scholars from both the University of Oslo and the Munch Museum, this environment is seeking to internationalise the research and broadening the network of scholars working on Munch's art. The nine essays written by art historians from USA, Germany, Switzerland and Norway shed new light upon different sides of Munch and his art, as well as on the impact he has had in art history. The authors in this anthology are more critical of their sources than has been seen earlier in research on Munch, and their interpretations of works are increasingly based on information that can be documented. A diversity of theory now supplements the traditionally biographical approach. One of the authors describes the process of identifying a formerly unknown Munch painting, Seated nude and three male heads, as well as addressing general problems of dating concerning Munch's oeuvres. Another essay focuses on Munch's portrayals of one of the most radical Norwegian art movements in the late 19th century, Kristianiabohemen, and the importance of this movement for Munch's development as an artist. Through analysis of Munch's paintings the authors also focus on Munch's role in the creation of a national identity, and his perception of the male role in contemporary society. In the last essay of the book it is being argued that Munch and his works have often been better comprehended by other artists than by traditional art historians. The essay shows how certain artists, most of them American such as Jim Dine, Andres Serrano and Elizabeth Jones, have appropriated and developed Munch's pictorial imagination, in independent works or in visual quotations. |
| About The Author: |
| Erik Mørstad, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Classics, Philosophy, History of Ideas, University of Oslo; Gerd Woll, Munch Museum, Oslo; Tina Yarborough, Ass. Prof. of Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Georgia College & State University. |
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Pages: 225
Size: 195x270mm
Illustrations: colour illus
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - December 2006 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - |
| List Price: 49.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 13 |
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| Title: Foundations of Health Care |
| Sub-title: Ethical Dilemmas & Communicative Challenges |
| By (author): Halvor Nordby PhD |
| ISBN10-13: 8274774477 : 9788274774476 |
| This book is a collection of articles about communication and ethics in the field of medicine and health care. Common to all the articles is that they are not directly based on empirical investigations. The discussions refer to research, but this is research that has already been carried out and documented in existing literature. In this sense the articles belong to what is often called applied philosophy. All the articles address communicative and ethical challenges in patient interaction on the basis of assumptions in modern moral philosophy and philosophy of language. There is a great need for literature that deals more comprehensively with the themes in this book than many introductory books do. It is particularly difficult to find suitable reading material that can be used in teaching at graduate and master levels. This book is designed to meet this need. It is suitable for use in all higher-level courses where the aim is to give students a theoretical understanding of ethical dilemmas and communicative challenges in health care. |
| About The Author: |
| Halvor Nordby has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford and is professor of philosophy at the University College of Lillehammer and is also working at the Department of health management and health economics at the University of Oslo. |
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Pages: 182
Size: 160x215mm
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - November 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Medical ethics & professional conduct |
| List Price: 25.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 13 |
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| Title: Haakon Lie, Denis Healey & the Making of an Anglo-Norwegian Special Relationship, 1945-1951 |
| Series: (Issues in Contemporary History) |
| By (author): Dr Dr Tony Insall, Ph.D. Ph.D. |
| ISBN10-13: 8274774884 : 9788274774889 |
| This book analyses the remarkably close relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties and two of their leaders, Haakon Lie and Denis Healey, during the immediate post-war period. It examines the extent of party co-operation in disseminating anti-Communist propaganda produced by Information Research Department (IRD) of the Foreign Office in London, and a separate chapter looks at the history of IRD. There are also chapters examining the extent of co-operation aimed at rebuilding the Socialist International and attempts at party collaboration over Spain. The book is largely based on unpublished material from over ten different archives in Britain, Norway, the Netherlands and Russia and also incorporates material released at the request of the author under the Freedom of Information Act in Britain. |
| About The Author: |
| Dr Tony Insall is an Oxford University graduate in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and has a PhD from the Department of War Studies, which was based on a study of the early post war relationship between the British and Norwegian Labour parties. |
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Pages: 300
Size: 220x140mm
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - August 2010 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Politics & government : British Isles : Norway |
| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 15 |
| Title: 8 of: 13 |
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| Title: Intellectuals in the Public Sphere |
| Sub-title: in Britain & Norway After World War II |
| Series: (Issues in Contemporary History: 4) |
| Edited by: Jan Eivind Myhre |
| ISBN10-13: 8274772911 : 9788274772915 |
| In this volume, three Norwegian and three English scholars probe the issue of the role of intellectuals in the two countries following World War II. The intellectuals studied comprise many kinds: from academics in general (particularly sociologists) to journalists and politicians, amongst others. The book investigates the influence of intellectuals on politics and also between the two countries. Several tendencies in post-war societies have shaped the role of intellectuals: secularisation, professionalisation, internationalisation and the rise of populism, to name but a few. Although "intellectual" is a fairly common term in both countries, it often tends to fall between two chairs as an analytic concept. Therefore, it should perhaps rather be viewed as a terminological meeting point where several interesting societal phenomena may be studied. |
| About The Author: |
| Jan Eivind Myhre (b. 1947) is professor of modern history at the University of Oslo since 1996, and has been a professor at the University of Tromsø and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim. He has been a visiting scholar in Oxford, Cambridge, Leicester, Berlin and Osnabrück. His main fields of research are social history, (classes, professions, migration, urbanisation, childhood) history of universities and historiography. He is the author/editor of about 20 books. |
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Pages: 211
Size: 140x215mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - July 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Cultural studies : Europe |
| List Price: 29.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 9 of: 13 |
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| Title: Organised Crime |
| Sub-title: Norms, Markets, Regulation & Research |
| Edited by: Karsten Ingvaldsen, Vanja Lundgren Sorlie |
| ISBN10-13: 8274773934 : 9788274773936 |
| This book highlights some of the main issues currently being discussed within the international academic debate on organised crime: What constitutes organised crime? How does organised crime work as a normative system, as a market and as an economic activity? How organised is organised crime? How international is it? How is organised crime regulated and controlled and what are the bases for these regulatory and controlling strategies? The book provides an up-to-date presentation of organised crime from a criminological and sociological perspective. It contributes to the study of both empirical research and theoretical perspectives on organised crime. |
| About The Author: |
| The book is edited by Karsten Ingvaldsen and Vanja Lundgren Sørli, both criminologists and holding positions as, respectively, Researcher and Senior Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. The anthology also includes contributions from Amedeo Cottino, Sociologist and Professor in Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Turin, Italy; Per Ole Johansen, Sociolologist and Professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway; Paul Larsson, Criminologist and Professor at the Police Academy in Oslo, Norway; Petrus van Duyne, Psychologist and Professor of Empirical Law at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands; Klaus von Lampe, Attorney and Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration in New York, USA. |
| The book is edited by Karsten Ingvaldsen and Vanja Lundgren Sørli, both criminologists and holding positions as, respectively, Researcher and Senior Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. The anthology also includes contributions from Amedeo Cottino, Sociologist and Professor in Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Turin, Italy; Per Ole Johansen, Sociolologist and Professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway; Paul Larsson, Criminologist and Professor at the Police Academy in Oslo, Norway; Petrus van Duyne, Psychologist and Professor of Empirical Law at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands; Klaus von Lampe, Attorney and Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration in New York, USA. |
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Pages: 211
Size: 150x200mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ) - March 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Crime & criminology |
| List Price: 21.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 10 of: 13 |
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