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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we ...Show more
Common as Air : Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Common as Air "offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's Founding Fathers - me ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
""The Gift" actually deserves the hyperbolic praise that in most blurbs is so empty. It is the sort of book that you remember where you were and even what you were wearing when you first picked it up. The sort that you hector friends about until they read it too. This is not just formulaic blurbspeak; i ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imaginatiomn Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Canons
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them u ...Show more
Trickster Makes This World : How disruptive imagination creates culture by Lewis Hyde
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Art is a lie that tells the truth. - Pablo Picasso. Picasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful, mischievous, subversive, and amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of c ...Show more
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