Oxford University Press

A Self-Representational TheoryUriah Kriegel develops an objective theory of what it is for a mental state to be        conscious. The key idea is that consciousness arises when self-awareness and        world-awareness are integrated in the right way. Conscious mental states differ from        unconscious ones in that, whatever else they represent,...

The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJIn Groove Music, award-winning music historian and aspiring turntablist Mark Katz weaves together the tales of DJs from all over the world united by the turntable, the art of spinning discs, and hip-hop as he tells the story of how this new type of instrument, musician, and music conquered the...

St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and Patron of the Americas. In this engrossing new biography, Frank Graziano offers the most comprehensive examination of the life of Rose to appear in any language. Graziano argues that the cult that grew up around St. Rose during her life...

The Theban PlaysThis volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and    Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict...

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