Maria-Ana Tupan

Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism

By: Maria-Ana Tupan

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Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.

Relativism-Relativity

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept

By: Marin Cilea, Maria-Ana Tupan

£39.99

This revisionary work challenges stereotypes of an absolutist Enlightenment. Cutting across science, philosophy, and art, it traces modern notions of complexity, non-linear reality, and relativity back to the pioneering thought of Leibniz, Sterne, and D’Alembert.

The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity

An Essay in Aesthetics and Epistemology

By: Maria-Ana Tupan

£45.99

Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.

The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes

The Mirror and the Signet

By: Maria-Ana Tupan

From £29.99

Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.

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