The truths and lies of nationalism as narrated by charvak

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely ...

Tax increment financing and economic development

Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.This book brings together leading experts to examine the evolving nature of tax increment financing (TIF), the most widely used tool of local economic and community development. Originall...

A queer way out

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing e...

Religious zionism and the settlement project

An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.The Jewish settlements in disputed territories are among the most contentious issues in Israeli and international politics. This book delves into the ideological and rabbinic discourses of the...

The korean neo-confucianism of yi t'oegye and yi yulgok

A study of the most significant debate in Korean Neo-Confucianism between the two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers, summarizing their philosophies and providing refreshing insights into Confucian language and cultureThis comparative study of Yi T'oegye (1501-1570) and Yi Yulgok (1536-1584), Ko...

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The fatah-hamas rift

Analyzes the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since 2007, a period of time that has been marked by the parties' continual failure to end political disagreements and formulate a common national vision.How did two national movements-which both share the same national ethos b...

The death of empedocles

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thin...

The environmental presidency

Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns.The Environmental Presidency develops a systematic understanding of how presidents have influenced the development of environmental and natural resource policy through an examination of environmental behavior and interacti...

Critical postmodernism in human movement, physical education, and sport

Explores the possibilities of postmodernism in the field of human movement and shows how the profession is related to broader social, political, and cultural contexts and histories.This book proposes alternative ways of looking at human movement and brings into question the traditional role of th...

Subsidizing capitalism

Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower t...

Ecstasy, catastrophe

Lectures on ecstatic temporality and on Heidegger's political legacy.In Ecstasy, Catastrophe, David Farrell Krell provides insight into two areas of Heidegger's thought: his analysis of ecstatic temporality in Being and Time (1927) and his "political" remarks in the recently published Black Noteb...

Black male outsider

One man's account of becoming a feminist professor.This fascinating book traces the development of the author's consciousness as a black male pro-feminist professor. Gary L. Lemons explores the meaning of black male feminism by examining his experiences at the New York City college where he taugh...

The sense of space

A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body.The Sense of Space brings together space and body to show that space is a plastic environment, charged with meaning, that reflects the distinctive character of human embodiment in the full range of its moving, perceptu...

Transferring to america

Uses recent psychoanalytic theory to analyze the work of three contemporary scholars—Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch—while viewing their work as expressing Jewish immigrant desires for integration into American culture.This book primarily concerns the work of three prominent l...

Coming to be

Synthesizes Thomistic and Whiteheadian metaphysics.This book explores the possibility of using the twentieth-century "process" philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to modernize the thirteenth-century metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas in order to make better philosophical sense of the evolutionary...

The trinity and creation in augustine

Looks at Augustine's theology in light of environmental concerns.The first English-language book on Augustine's Trinitarian doctrine of creation, The Trinity and Creation in Augustine explores Augustine's relevance for contemporary environmental issues. Modern, environmentally conscious thinkers ...

A semiotic of ethnicity

Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. I...

Ellipsis

Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot.What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and absence? For Martin Heidegger this experience is central to any thinking that would seek to articulate ...

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Set - history of al-ṭabarī

Collecting all forty volumes of The History of al-Ṭabarī.Completed in 1999 by a distinguished group of Arabists and historians of Islam, the annotated translation of The History of al-Ṭabarī is arguably the most celebrated chronicle produced in the Islamic lands on the history of the world and th...

Yasodharā, the wife of the bōdhisattva

Translations of two works from Sri Lanka on Yasodharā, the wife of the Buddha—an allusive and intriguing figure in Buddhist lore and literature.What about Buddha's wife? We all know that Prince Siddhartha left his wife and infant son to begin his journey to enlightenment. The Pali canon does not ...

Ready for what?

This book looks at readiness from a different perspective, arguing that we must move away from the readiness-as-child characteristic so prevalent in education and the popular press. Instead, readiness is explained as an idea constructed by parents, teachers, and children as they interact in their...

The ontology of socratic questioning in plato's early dialogues

A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.Winner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Modern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out ob...

Metaphysics and its task

Systematically analyzes the nature of metaphysics.By offering the first systematic analysis of the nature of the discipline, Metaphysics and Its Task answers why metaphysics always recovers from the attacks it has been subjected to throughout its history. This is done by examining its object, met...

The post-boom in spanish american fiction

Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteri...

Sound-bite saboteurs

Argues that the reliance on sound bites in recent political discourse is harmful to the democratic process.Sound-Bite Saboteurs examines the emergence of a multifaceted, multimedia culture that encourages the use of sound bites to silence one's opponents at the expense of democratic deliberation ...

The bear river massacre and the making of history

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks o...

We're not robots

Raises provocative questions about how we care for infants and toddlers, and how to provide education and support for their caregivers.This fascinating book presents the stories of infant/toddler caregivers and their work to illustrate the complexity of balancing relationships with babies, famili...

Avant-gardes in crisis

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and socia...

The primary way

A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.In The Primary Way, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the Yijing, also known as the I Ching or Book of Changes. Cheng offers a systematic enga...

A longhouse fragmented

Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal.A Longhouse Fragmented is a historic ethnography of the Ohio Iroquois and, in particular, of the people known as the Seneca of Sandusky during the early nineteenth century. Using contemporary social theory and i...

For love of matter

A bold and original work in ecocosmology and metaphysics.In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests...

Passport to hollywood

Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic BooksIn Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors...

Cardinal giacomo antonelli and papal politics in european affairs

Coppa provides the first full-length study of Giacomo Antonelli, friend and advisor to Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) and his Secretary of State and chief minister from 1849 to 1876. Based on the documents of the secret Vatican Archives, and neglected family papers in the State Archive in Rome, the book...

Symposia

Argues that the underlining of erotic matters in Plato's dialogues marks the most significant moment in his career.Socrates was wise, because he knew that he did not know anything; this has long been the prevailing wisdom of the Socratic-Platonic tradition. In Plato's Middle Period-spanning dialo...

Topologies of sexual difference

Brings together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analyses of Luce Irigaray's rethinking of space with respect to sexual difference and the visual arts.A rethinking of space is central to Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. Topologies of Sexual Difference is the first edited collection...

Mutual othering

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic are juxtaposed with French and British writing about Morocco in a critical exploration of nineteenth-ce...

Tragedies of spirit

Examines tragedy in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.In Tragedies of Spirit, Theodore D. George engages Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to explore the philosophical significance of tragedy in post-Kantian continental thought. George follows lines of inquiry originally developed by Nietzsche, Heide...

The early muslim tradition of dream interpretation

Explores dream interpretation among the early Muslims, who saw dreams as a type of prophecy.Reportedly, the prophet Muhammad told his followers that after he was gone prophecy would come only through "true dreams." Based on this and other statements, early Muslims created what might be called a t...

The archetypal sunnī scholar

Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.This is a rare study of a late premodern Islamic thinker, Ibrahim al- Bājūrī, a nineteenth-century scholar and ...

Human survival and consciousness evolution

In addition to the apocalyptic prospect of global nuclear destruction, there are other dismal scenarios involving resource and environmental issues that are less imminent but still serious in the long term. Past analyses, seeking remedies, have focused on symptoms rather than causes. They represe...

Dreamworlds of shamanism and tibetan buddhism

Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that ex...

Leaving children behind

Argues for a more valid and democratic approach to assessment and accountability.The federal government has based much of its education policies on those adopted in Texas. This book examines how "Texas-style" accountability-the notion that decisions governing retention, promotion, and graduation ...

The history of men

A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American...

Philosophy and the city

The definitive source book on philosophy and the city.Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the City demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to ur...

Nature and heaven in the xunzi

This translation and commentary on Xunzi's Tian Lun argues against naturalistic interpretations of Tian. Tracing the course of interpretation of Xunzi down to the present, discussing some of the influences that affected how he was understood, and raising questions about some contemporary revision...