1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785933703321

Titolo

How not to be governed [[electronic resource] ] : readings and interpretations from a critical anarchist left / / edited by Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Martel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

0-7391-5036-7

1-283-61407-3

9786613926524

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KlausenJimmy Casas <1976->

MartelJames R

Disciplina

320.5/7

Soggetti

Anarchism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : how not to be governed / James Martel & Jimmy Casas Klausen -- Anarchist methods and political theory / Jacqueline Stevens -- An anarchism that is not anarchism : notes toward a critique of anarchist imperialism / George Ciccariello-Maher -- Beside the state : anarchist strains in Cuban revolutionary thought / Katherine Gordy -- Kant via Rancière : from ethics to anarchism / Todd May -- Nietzsche, aristocratism, and non-domination / Vanessa Lemm -- Max Stirner, postanarchy avant la lettre / Banu Bargu -- The late Foucault's premodernity / Jimmy Casas Klausen -- The ambivalent anarchism of Hannah Arendt / James Martel -- Emma Goldman and the power of revolutionary love / Keally McBride -- "This is what democracy looks like" / Elena Loizidou.

Sommario/riassunto

How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practices,



this volume reveals the central values and tactics of anarchism that remain with us, practiced even in the most

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796597603321

Titolo

Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences / / edited by Mohammad Gharipour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-08069-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 250 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps ;

Disciplina

635.094

Soggetti

Gardens, Renaissance

Gardens - Europe - History

Islamic gardens - History

Gardens, European - History

Gardens - Islamic countries - History

Gardens - Islamic countries - Design - History

Gardens - Europe - Design - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue : paradigm problems : Islamic gardens in an expanding field / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Embracing the other : Venetian garden design, early modern travelers, and the Islamic landscape / Christopher Pastore -- Staging the civilizing elements in the gardens of Rome and Istanbul / Simone M. Kaiser -- The art of garden design in France : Ottoman influences at the time of the "scandalous alliance" / Laurent Paya -- "For beauty, and air, and view" : contemplating the wider surroundings of sixteenth-century Mughal and European gardens / Jill Sinclair -- The gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy : a new urban landscape? / Mohammad Gharipour -- "Elysian fields such as the poets dreamed of" : the Mughal garden in the early Stuart mind / Paula



Henderson -- Garden encounters : Portugal and India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cristina Castel-Branco -- Carved pools, rock-cut elephants, inscriptions, and tree columns : Mughal landscape art as imperial expression and its analogies to the Renaissance garden / Ebba Koch -- Epilogue : Italian Renaissance gardens and the Middle East : cultural exchange in the longue duree / Anatole Tchikine.

Sommario/riassunto

"A collection of essays exploring similarities between gardens and designed landscapes in Europe and the Islamic world after the fifteenth century. Essays identify possible direct or indirect influences and examine transcontinental mutual influences in garden design"--Provided by publisher.