Robert J. Richards: The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, biography, biology, darwinism, ecology, evolution, history of science, materialism, monism, science
“Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards’s intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel’s eventful life.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2008
ISBN 0226712192, 9780226712192
512 pages
Heinrich Goertz: Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten (1974) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, epic theatre, theatre
A comprehensive introduction into the work of Erwin Piscator, a German theatre director, producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre.
Publisher Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1974
ISBN 3499502216, 9783499502217
155 pages
Review (Herbert Knust, Brecht-Jahrbuch, 1978)
PDF (56 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Philip Marchand: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger (1989)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, biography, communication, mass media, media, media theory, print, radio, religion, technology, television
He was described as “the greatest put-on artist of all time” and even as the greatest intellectual pioneer since Freud. Bouncing back and forth between the quiet University of Toronto campus and the glitzy world of the New York media, McLuhan was surely the most unlikely prophet of the sixties, yet his work underlies any serious discussion of the effects of media on our lives. (from the back cover)
Publisher Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1989
ISBN 0899194850
320 pages
Review (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Books, 1989)
Review (E. Hamilton, Canadian Literature, 2001)
Review (Robert McKenzie, IPCT, 1994)
Review (William H. Melody, Information, Communication & Society, undated)
PDF (50 MB, no OCR)
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