Heresies of Modern Art
Xavier Rubert de Vent6s
A dazzling interpretation of the meaning of modern art, including
the cinema, theater, literature, painting, music, fashion, and archi–
tecture, in which Spanish philosopher Rubert de Vent6s launches
an attack on the growing "Puritanism" of art since the Renaissance.
Man in the Age
of Technology
Arnold Gehlen
Translated by Patricia Lipscomb
$17.50
Published in Germany in 1949 and translated here for the first time,
this seminal work by the prominent German social theorist reflects
his lifelong concern with man's need to stabilize his life by
constructing his own world. $15.00
Rules and Representations
Noam Chomsky
Presenting further evidence of the persistent regularities in human
language that have led Chomsky to postulate a universal grammar,
"these rigorous lectures will reward serious laypersons and stu–
dents."-Publishers Weekly $14.95
Destructive Poetics
Heidegger and Modern American Poetry
Paul A. Bove
Focusing on the works of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and
Charles Olson,
Destructive Poetics
reveals how Modern and Post–
modern American poetry decenters man and replaces post-Renais–
sance egocentrism with a more truly human universe. $17.50
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