Is the American West in Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns” the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch’s movies? In Calexico’s music? Or is the American West, a
Campbell(philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier U.) examines how mental events lead to physical action. Rather than taking the road of reductionism that has been so popular in recent years, Campbell argues it is
One of the most profound philosophical problems is the nature of mind and its relationship to the body. A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind provides an introduction, written in clear langua
In April 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte, onetime emperor of France and master of Europe, was exiled to the island of Elba. Sir Neil Campbell was instructed to accompany the fallen monarch.Part guardian, part
This much-needed update of American Cultural Studies provides an introduction to the central themes in modern American culture and exploring how these themes can be interpreted.Neil Campbell and Alasd
This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture.? The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas dra
This original collection of essays by experts in the field weave together the first comprehensive examination of Nevada-born Willy Vlautin’s novels and songs, as well as featuring 11 works of ar
Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how—indeed, whether or not—our mental st
