Steven Connor is a Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the author of several books, including The Book of Skin, Fly, The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal, and A Philosophy of Sport, all published by Reaktion Books.
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Connor Steven Connor: Beyond Words
In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging …
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Connor Steven Connor: Book of Skin
It is the largest and perhaps the most important organ of our body-it covers our fragile inner parts, defines our social identities, and channels our sensory experiences. And yet we rarely give a tho …
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Steven Connor: The Matter of Air
Take a deep breath. Air—without it, life on Earth would cease to exist. Though not usually seen, its presence is relied upon. At once both ethereal and physical, air has been associated with flight a …
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Connor Steven Connor: Madness of Knowledge
Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor’s The Madness of Knowledge …
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€44.99
Steven Connor: A Philosophy of Sport
While previous writing on the philosophy of sport has tended to see sport as a kind of testing ground for philosophical theories devised to deal with other kinds of problems—of ethics, aesthetics, or …
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€21.56
Connor Steven Connor: Living by Numbers
How do we really think about the world? We may use words to tell stories about it or draw pictures to represent it, but one thing we do far more than either of those is make calculations of the thing …
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€32.13
Connor Steven Connor: Dreamwork
Upending our perception of employment, a surprising investigation into the mystical nature of our daily toil. Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads, and ideals we have about work. Its c …
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