Cultural Critique & Interpretation

This collection deals with issues of poetry, literature, psychology, philosophy and art.

Aesthetic Research of Designed Consumer Products

This is the first book in Hebrew that deals with philosophy and aesthetics of design through discussion and dialogue with major contemporary aesthetic authors.

Changing Rhythms

Towards a Theory of Prosody in Cultural Context

Vered Karti Shemtov

This book updates prosodic theory and integrates it within recent developments in literary criticism.

Agnon and Germany

The Presence of the German World in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon

Edited by: Hillel Weiss,Hans Juergen Becker

The book includes studies and research on Agnon's work in Germany between the years 1913 to1924, during which time his art earned its classic status. The studies deal also with the influence of the German world and its culture on his entire body of wor

New Interpretations of Literary Texts

From Theory to Method

Hillel Barzel

Methods of interpretation based on the theories of Derrida, Levi-Strauss and others are presented and analysed. Theoretical assumptions are substantiated by specific interpretations. The work is a must for scholars, teachers and students of Hebrew Literat

Contemporary Jewish Culture

Crisis or Revitalization

Edited by: Yoav Elstein,Theodor Dreyfus

These collected papers deal with the dual process of crisis and revitalization in modern Judaism, resulting from the confrontation between Jewish tradition and current reality, which is changing at an accelerated rate.

Menachem Alexenberg

The author develops an ecological model and provides a map of a man-environment system on which the dynamics of the creative process can be plotted.

Cultural Criticism & Interpretation