Product Description: Leading cultural historian and broadcaster Christopher Frayling reflects on gothic themes in literature, art, and popular culture, through the lens of his friendship and correspondence with Angela Carter during her formative writing years...read more

Focusing on Immanuel Kant's critiques of pure reason, practical reason and judgement, this text leads the reader through the main formal concepts with which Kant has become associated: the relation of mind to the senses, the question of freedom and the law, and the revaluation of metaphysics. This book paces Kant in his context as a thinker of the Enlightenment, and also explains the reasons for his continuing importance to contemporary philosophy.

Preparing to deliver a lecture in Pisa, Horace Dorlan plans to incorporate music and performance into his scientific presentation. On the eve of his big event, however, strange things start to happen. Where, for instance, is his wife, why is there a miniature musical quintet in his room, and what of the accident that afflicted him?

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Product Description: An account of how Picasso redefined 20th-century Western art. The book explores his Catalan roots and separates the personal mythology surrounding Picasso from the essential nature of his artistic achievements.