Tony Brown Bücher

Jimi Hendrix is still widely revered as one of the most gifted guitarists in the history of rock. His fluency on an electric guitar was breathtaking, and he had a way with words that somehow paralleled his music. Fortunately, Jimi gave many interviews during his short life and this text contains many quotes from some of them.

This book is the result of 25 years of research through press cuttings, books, magazines, interviews, concert and studio tapes and conversations with many people from all over the world, and it is published here for the first time in its entirety.

Focusing on the intrinsic role of mathematical learning in human activity, the book presents a novel social theory that transcends traditional psychology and sociology. It defines mathematics through collective discourse and emphasizes the student's active participation in evolving the field. By integrating psychoanalytic theory, it critiques conventional educational practices, advocating for a renewal of mathematics that responds to contemporary demands. This perspective highlights the importance of collaborative understanding in shaping the future of mathematics.

At his death in 2000, R S Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. This title provides an introduction to Thomas' life and work, as well as fresh perspectives and insights for those already familiar with the poetry.

A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessnessJust as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself—in the New World, several hundred years earlier. Through close readings of political philosophers from Hobbes to Rousseau to Kant, Tony C. Brown argues that statelessness became a central problem for political thought early on, with far-reaching implications for thinking both on the state and on being human. What Europeans thought they saw among the “savages” of the Americas was life without political order, life less than human. Lacking almost everything those deemed clearly human had achieved, the stateless existed in a radically precarious, almost inhuman privation. And yet this existence also raised the unsettling possibility that state-based existence may not be inevitable, necessary, or even ideal.  This possibility, as Brown shows, prompts the response—as defensive as it was aggressive—that we call Enlightenment political philosophy, which arguably still orders much thinking on being stateless today, including our discourses concerning migrants and Indigenous peoples.

Jimi Hendrix den po dni doprovázen spoustou barevných i černobílých fotografií.