Claudia Moscovici

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Romanticism and Postromanticism
2007
Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation, she touches upon each main branch of philosophy: aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics.
Gender and Citizenship : The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture
2000
Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Auguste Comte, and Herculine Barbin revealing a shift from a single dialectical (or male-centered) definition of citizenship to a double dialectical (or bi-gendered) one in which each sex plays an important role in suject-citiz....[more]
From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects
1996
From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjectstraces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derr....[more]
Erotisms
1996
Erotisms analyzes selected representations of women and sexual relations as they influence different aspects of life, including family relations, professional hierarchies, the field of cultural production, and artistic representations.
Velvet Totalitarianism : Post-Stalinist Romania
2009
A deeply felt, deftly rendered novel of the utmost importance to any reader interested in understanding totalitarianism and its terrible human cost. Urgent, evocative, and utterly convincing, Velvet Totalitarianism is a book to treasure, and Claudia Moscovici is indeed a writer to watch, now and into the future. –Travis Holland, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Archivist’s Story, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Claudia Moscovici’s first novel, Velvet Tot....[more]
Leonardo Pereznieto
2007
This art book features the sculptures of postromantic artist Leonardo Pereznieto with texts by art critic Claudia Moscovici.
The Painful Poignancy of Desire : An Introduction to Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
2006
This is a collection of romantic love poems by Claudia Moscovici.
Double Dialectics : Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Postmodern Thought
2002
Double Dialectics uses a dialectical method of reading to show the resonance between Enlightenment and postmodern speculations about the nature of knowledge and ethics. Further, it offers a possible answer to the question of which Enlightenment values are worth preserving. Double Dialectics shows that different kinds of Enlightenment discourse chart a nuanced path that mediates between relativism and objectivism, offering creative avenues of thought for contemporary ethical and epistemological p....[more]
Perusals into (Post) Modern Thought
2000
This book looks at arguments in favor of universal ethics versus cultural relativism and sketches a path in between these two extremes.
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