William J. Thomas Mitchell befasst sich mit visueller Kultur und Medientheorie und überzeugt uns, Bilder als lebende Entitäten zu betrachten. Seine Arbeit, die auf Freud und Marx zurückgreift, untersucht, wie Bilder mit unserem Leben interagieren und sich inmitten digitaler Medien entwickeln. Mitchell konzentriert sich auf die einzigartige Kraft von Bildern und ihre Rolle bei der Gestaltung unseres Weltverständnisses. Seine intellektuellen Bestrebungen gestalten die visuelle Kultur zu einer dynamischen und vitalen Existenzform um.
Six essays on how to live a good life written by an Aberdeenshire farmer in 1913. A measured view of life as it was on the eve of the First World War, and a plea to take responsibility for others in society. Published for the first time.
The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power. Mitchell's superb history addresses the most crucial issues surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of Athenian democracy
This text considers landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This edition adds a new preface and five new essays.