The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | Penguin Great Ideas

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. One of the most important

some quite polemical – as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization

Typology offers a new perspective for the ongoing project of creating a transformative built environment and society

and Jordan Chan

In medieval art

he explains how antiblackness arose in the Islamic world and became entangled with normative tradition

divergent histories

Estranged from his wife and two children

Scaling People is a detailed roadmap for company builders to put the right operating systems and structures in place to scale the most important resource a company has: its people

A thorough exploration of slavery from the perspective of Islam’s authoritative texts as well as moral and philosophical debates on the subject

But it doesn’t have to be this way

atmospheric

and psychology