Hillel Schwartz
Autor(a) de The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
About the Author
Hillel Schwartz is an independent scholar, poet, translator, and public arts consultant. He has written Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang Beyond; Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin de Siecle from the 990s through the 1990s; and Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, mostrar mais Fantasies and Fat. mostrar menos
Obras de Hillel Schwartz
Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin De Siecle From the 990s Through the 1990s (1989) 50 cópias
The French Prophets: the history of a millenarian group in eighteenth-century England (1980) 5 cópias
Knaves, fools, madmen, and that subtile effluvium : a study of the opposition to the French prophets in England,… (1978) 2 cópias
Noise and Silence: The Soundscape and Spirituality 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Locais de residência
- Encinitas, California, USA
- Educação
- Brandeis University (BA|1969)
Yale University (PhD|1974)
University of California, Berkeley (MLS|1975) - Organizações
- University of California, San Diego
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 388
- Popularidade
- #62,338
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 20
- Idiomas
- 3
It's dense, obsessive, and filled with arcane details and witty digressions. Hillel Schwartz seems to have read and synthesized everything on the topic, from technical scientific papers to the rantings of cranks. The prose is rather florid -- the author suggests that book be read aloud -- and the richness of the text forms its own kind of noise. Unlike, for example, Foucault's History of Madness, which this book superficially resembles, Schwartz isn't grinding a thesis but rather reveling in his topic, like a jazz musician riffing on a theme. The book is a pure pleasure.… (mais)