Bøger af Marty Roth

The face circulates through most things of this world: anything that has presence, that presents itself, that has a front, a surface, an appearance, an aspect, a reputation, or honor has a face. Philosopher Marty Roth pursues considerations of the human face in art, literature, philosophy, and other manifestations of human culture.

Change Partners will give an educated reader a deep understanding of a particular conceptual `village' (memory, privacy, now change) -- hence the designation `intellectual ethnography.' As a book about change, this is also a book about motion, becoming, and difference, because all of these concepts circulate around the same patches of meanings.

A book about water in as many of its declensions as the autor has been able to bring together. Its life and its death (chapters 1 and 11), its role in human life and human civilization (chapters 2 and 3), the place of the oceans in the scroll of history and water in warfare (chapters 5, 6 and 7), and the hold of water on the human imagination (chapter 10).

Provides researchers in various disciplines with the full picture of the range of memory studies and demonstrates the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.

An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s.

Exposes the secret history of drink and drugs, from creative stimulant to addictive poison.