Showcases ten years of projects by the theoretician and architect Peter Eisenman, including such structures as the Aronoff Center for Design and Art, the Nunotani Office Building and the Columbus Convention Center.

Product Description: This text explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and Holderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings and how Benjamin's understanding of the relationship between criticism and Romanticism can still play a vital role in contemporary philosophical and literary practice...read more

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Product Description: Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An understanding of what we mean by the present is one of the key issues in literature, philosophy, and culture today, but also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. Present Hope develops a fascinating philosophical understanding of the present, approaching this question via discussions of the nature of historical time, the philosophy of history, memory, and the role of tragedy...read more

Product Description: As the creation and implementation of health policy become increasingly managed at the community level, ways must be found to ensure the proper measurement and monitoring of health program efficiency. Indicators of Chronic Health Conditions explores the current understanding of selected chronic conditions and the capacity of community-level health services and delivery systems to address the health care needs for persons with the various illnesses...read more

Product Description: An understanding of what we mean by the present is one of the key issues in literature, philosophy, and culture today, but also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. Present Hope develops a fascinating philosophical understanding of the present, approaching this question via discussions of the nature of historical time, the philosophy of history, memory, and the role of tragedy...read more

Product Description: Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and Being and The Question of Being...read more