One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
4.690 kr.One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more.
He won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. This powerful book is a chronicle of Omar’s painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means – as a citizen, as a father – to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.
This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better.
Rauði krossinn á Íslandi: 100 ára saga
3.990 kr.Rauði krossinn á Íslandi var stofnaður árið 1924. Hugsun stofnendanna var að bæta úr brýnni þörf í íslensku samfélagi fyrir betri og faglegri heilbrigðisþjónustu. Á þeirri öld sem Rauði krossinn hefur starfað á Íslandi hefur hann haft grundvallaráhrif á þróun samfélagsins og viðhorf almennings til aðstoðar við þá sem eru í neyð og vanda, hvar á jörðinni sem þeir búa.
Guðjón Friðriksson sagnfræðingur rekur í þessari veglegu og ríkulega myndskreyttu bók sögu Rauða krossins í heila öld og bregður upp margrbrotinni mynd af fjöldahreyfingu sem lætur sér fátt óviðkomandi. Bókin er um leið virðingarvottur við þær þúsundir sem í áranna rás hafa ljáð félaginu krafta sína með óeigingjörnu sjálfboðastarfi og þannig stuðlað að bættu samfélagi.
Íslensk byggingararfleifð I
9.990 kr.Ágrip af húsagerðarsögu 1750-1940.
Í þessu fyrra bindi sem fjallar um íslenska byggingararfleifð leitast höfundur við að rekja húsagerðarsögu okkar í ágripsformi um tveggja alda skeið. Fyrri tímamörk eru miðuð við aldur elstu húsa hérlendis en þau seinni við hernám Íslands 1940.
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.
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