Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
4.390 kr.During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualise the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death.
Much like Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool
3.990 kr.1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles’s sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their roads on from there. It’s a book about music and business, race and heroin, and an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering.
But above all this is the story of three very different men – their struggles, their choices, their inspiration. The tapestry of their lives is, in James Kaplan’s hands, an American Odyssey.
A Philosophy of Walking
3.690 kr.In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us.
Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
3.990 kr.Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that ”Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,” meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what are the ways in which we can disentangle literary translation from its roots in imperial violence? 24 writers and translators from across the world share their ideas and practices for disrupting and decolonising translation.
”For the past few years, I”ve written and rewritten this line in journals and proposals: literary translation is a tool to make more vivid the relationships between Afro-descendent people in the Americas and around the world.”
– Layla Benitez James
Á Íslendingaslóðum í Kaupmannahöfn
4.990 kr.Örlagasögur af Íslendingum
Um aldir var Kaupmannahöfn höfuðborg Íslendinga. Þaðan var landinu stjórnað, þar stunduðu menn framhaldsnám eða afplánuðu tukthúsvist. Í þessari stórfróðlegu og skemmtilegu bók rekur Björn Th. Björnsson þróun borgarinnar, fjallar um sögufrægar byggingar og rifjar upp örlagasögur af Íslendingum sem þangað sigldu, bæði broslegar og átakanlegar. Hér koma Fjölnismenn við sögu, Jónshús, furðufuglinn Þorleifur Repp, Jóhann skáld Sigurjónsson, Árnasafn og íslenskir námsmenn á Gamlagarði, svo nokkuð sé nefnt. Bókin kom fyrst út árið 1961 og hefur lengi verið ófáanleg, en nú hefur textinn verið aukinn og lagaður að breyttum aðstæðum. Einnig eru á þriðja hundrað nýjar ljósmyndir í bókinni og hverjum kafla fylgir götukort sem gerir bókina handhæga til að rata eftir um Íslendingaslóðir. Hinir vinsælu sjónvarpsþættir höfundar um Íslendinga í Kaupmannahöfn voru byggðir á nokkrum köflum úr bókinni.
Íslensk listasaga I-V
14.990 kr.Íslensk listasaga er fimm binda verk sem spannar tímabilið frá síðari hluta 19. aldar til upphafs 21. aldar. Bindin eru gefin út samtímis í vandaðri öskju og er verkið allt um 1400 blaðsíður. Ritstjóri verksins er Ólafur Kvaran en fjöldi höfunda kemur að verkinu.
Í Íslenskri listasögu er lögð sérstök áhersla á einkenni íslenskrar myndlistar á hverju tímaskeiði, sögulegt samhengi hennar og samband við alþjóðlega listasögu. Í umfjöllun og túlkun höfundanna er þannig leitað svara við ýmsum sameiginlegum spurningum en jafnframt eru áherslur þeirrar ólíkar því viðfangsefnin eru um margt ólík.
Í verkinu eru litljósmyndir af á annað þúsund listaverkum, sem varðveitt eru á söfnum hérlendis sem erlendis eða eru í einkaeigu, og yfirgripsmikill fróðleikur um listasögu Íslendinga á einum stað. Útgáfa Íslenskrar listasögu er því mikið menningarlegt framlag enda er markmiðið með útgáfunni ekki aðeins að gera grein fyrir sögu íslenskrar myndlistar heldur einnig að styrkja og móta hugmyndir okkar um myndlist þjóðarinnar, sameiginlega arfleifð hennar og sjálfsmynd.