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Brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman and numerous other publications. As well as being passionate and knowledgeable about jazz, the pieces are beautifully written.

Sets out the author's theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed and its pivotal role in contemporary global society. Moving through human history from the cave paintings at Lascaux, to the 'stealth technologies' deployed in contemporary warfare, this book shows how resistance to speed and movement has consistently been eroded.

Presents a series of interviews, at once inspiring, provocative and illuminating, between Schillebeeckx and fellow theologians Huub Oosterhuis and Piet Hoogeveen. Schillebecckx distills and refines his thinking to make it accessible for all readers on such subjects as feminism, the poor, the Churches future and the sacrements.

Offers the most thorough explanation of the most fundamental and abiding theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the relationship of an individual's existence to truth.

Derrida, notorious French philospher, literary critic and film star, is responsible for the fundamental change in the way that literature and philosophy are approached in the Western world.

Comprises a key element of his thriteen volume magnum opus 'The Church Dogmatics". This edition reproduces a central section of this seminal work, showing how Man is reconciled with God and himself.

An analysis of the kabbalah, a mystical Judaic system. This book provides a study of the Kabbablah itself, of its commentators - the 'revisionary ratios' they employed - and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism.

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. It gathers his important work and reveals the development of his thought. It looks at issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory.

Presents a comprehensive overview of Alain Badiou's ambitious system. Beginning with Badiou's controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, this volume sets out his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event. It provides an introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Presents a study of key musical works of the twentieth century. Here, the author brings a range of social and cultural questions to bear on the analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.