Disgust

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings ...

Global women, colonial ports

Combines analysis of transnational prostitution and traffic in women with a social history of the League of Nations and interwar globalization.Global Women, Colonial Ports is a transnational history of state-regulated prostitution in the Middle East and North Africa between the two world wars. Be...

Who translates?

Argues for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities.2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Translators have long claimed that their job is to "step aside and ...

The perils and promise of global transparency

Argues that increasing levels of transparency do not always change international politics for the better.While the trend toward greater transparency will bring many benefits, Kristin M. Lord argues that predictions that it will lead inevitably to peace, understanding, and democracy are wrong. The...

Suffering, politics, power

Suffering and politics in the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche.Suffering, Politics, Power argues that human suffering on a global scale constitutes the most urgent and least understood question of contemporary politics and political theory. In the modern age, the experience of s...

A good little school

An inspiring story of the student-centered learning that can take place in a democratic, caring school.A Good Little School pays homage to Jefferson County Open School, a public school of choice with a thirty-year history of providing an alternative education for students in K-12. Chronicled in t...

The politics of unreason

The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School's research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.Although the Frankfurt School represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, its multifaceted work on modern antisemitism has so far largely been neglec...

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Art nature dialogues

Environmental artists from Europe and North America talk about their work.Art Nature Dialogues offers interviews with artists working with, in, and around nature and the environment. The interviews explore art practices, ecological issues, and values as they pertain to the siting of works, the us...

Hegel's phenomenology of self-consciousness

Presents a new translation with commentary of chapter IV ("Self-Consciousness") of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Offering a new translation of the famous chapter IV ("Self-Consciousness") of Phenomenology of Spirit, this book reflects the far-reaching insights of contemporary Hegelian scholarsh...

Partnership within hierarchy

Examines intra-alliance politics between the United States, Japan, and South Korea.In an age of increasingly complex security situations around the world, it is essential that students and practitioners understand alliances and minilateral security mechanisms. Partnership within Hierarchy examine...

Tradition, innovation, conflict

This book examines religion in Israeli society: what it is and how it functions. Here is a clear picture of how Judaism provides a matrix of continuity for Israeli society notwithstanding a wide diversity of beliefs and practices.

Valentin weigel (1533-1588)

This first English-language consideration of Valentin Weigel, an important but neglected figure in German intellectual history, examines his life and his writings on tolerance.This is the first book-length treatment in English of a central but neglected figure in German intellectual history, Vale...

The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 37

This volume of Ṭabarī's annals deals almost exclusively with the final stages of the Zanj revolt, the most serious external challenge faced by the central authorities in the last half of the third/ninth century. The rebellion, which began as an 'Alid uprising, but soon gave way to Khārijite influ...

Heidegger's neglect of the body

Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger's account of the body.Martin Heidegger's failure to acknowledge the role of the body in his analysis of everyday human existence (Dasein) has generated a cottage industry of criticism from such prominent continental figures as Merleau-Ponty, Sar...

Wandering heart

This first Western language study of one of Japan's most popular writers includes translations of key passages, critical commentary, and full translations of three essays by Hayashi Fumiko.Despite being one of the most popular writers of her day, Hayashi Fumiko (1903–1951) has remained virtually ...

Fighting colonialism with hegemonic culture

Explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.How and why do American Indians appropriate images of Indianness for their own purposes? How do these representatives promote and sometimes challenge sovereignty for indigenous people...

Post-jungian criticism

Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.This groundbreaking collection brings the range and diversity of post-Jungian thought into the realm of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. These ...

John emmett connors

An artist's appreciation of the Collar City, Troy, New York.Although he has traveled and painted throughout the world, John Emmett Connors has returned time and again to paint the houses, buildings, and neighborhoods of his hometown, Troy, New York. Collected here are his depictions of some of hi...

Constructing female identities

An insightful, and often surprising, look at adolescent girls' socialization in a historically elite, private, single-sex high school.Research conducted in schools over the past two decades has found that youth shape who they are in ways that do not simply mirror class, race, and gender discourse...

Warrior women

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues CategoryWinnerof the 2015 Emil...

Home is somewhere else

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years...

College girl

The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Book of the YearGold Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle / Health Issues) catego...

Before revelation

Studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and theological thought by analyzing the dispute that raged from the ninth to the nineteenth century over the assessment of acts that took place before the Qur'anic Revelation.Before Revelation studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and...

Tommy, trauma, and postwar youth culture

The cultural history of one of rock's greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator.Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture traces the development of one of rock music's central masterpieces and its relation to the social-cultural history of the era. Composer and guitarist Pete Town...

Zlochov, my home

Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the full scope of his oeuvre.Described by Ruth Wisse as one of "the most original and distinctive voices in Yiddish poetry," Moyshe-Leybe Halpern (1886–1932) was born in Zlochov, in present-day western Ukraine. When he was twelve, his...

Facing toward the dawn

Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vib...

Perfect pitch

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas Slonimsky. A boy prodigy as a pianist, Slonimsky fled pre-Communist Russia, reaching Paris at the he...

Religion in multidisciplinary perspective

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective provides the first comprehensive treatment of the work of Wesley J. Wildman, one of the most inventive thinkers in the field of religious studies. Scholar...

Looking for home

Looking for Home: A Phenomenological Study of Home in the Classroom contains stories of children who seek "a home" in the classroom. The book focuses on the extraordinary in the ordinary moments with children in the day-to-day life in the classroom. Sinclaire blends stories of her classroom with ...

Lives in spirit

Explores the roots of modern transpersonal psychology and spirituality through psychobiography.Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both energized and distorted the spiritual development of key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or "this-worldly" mysticism. With its histor...

Governing the female body

A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically so...

The gaucho martín fierro

This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampas—a protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and the Argentine poli...

Mystery of the night café

Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh's painting The Night Café.Written like a detective story, this book explores the spirituality of one of the world's most beloved artists, Vincent van Gogh, through one of Western art's most mysterious paintings, The Night Café. Done in almost garish color...

The creation of the world or globalization

Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that ...

The joy of noh

Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater.Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan. The women profiled are amateur practitioners of Noh theater, learning the dance and chant e...

Encounters with god in augustine's confessions

This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.This book continues Carl G. Vaught's thoroughgoing reinterpretation of Augustine's Confes...

System and history in philosophy

The book begins with the problem of the relationship between systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy. Why does philosophy attach so much importance to history? Consideration of this question is an essential part of metaphysics, and it has important consequences for the methodology of ...

Zines in third space

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color. Adela C. Licona ...

The peppers, cracklings, and knots of wool cookbook

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.Fifteen years in the making, this book emerges as a new approach to presenting culinary information. It showcases a myriad of sumptuous, mouth-watering recipes comprising the many commonalities in ingredients ...

An american girl in india

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming ye...

Whose tradition? which dao?

Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.In an incisive work of comparative philosophy, James F. Peterman considers the similarities between early Chinese ethicist Confucius and mid-twentieth century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Their enduring legac...

Mappila muslim culture

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.This book provides a comprehensive account of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims, a large community from the southern Indian state of Kerala. Although they were the first Muslim community in South Asia, ...

Racial inequality in new york city since 1965

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview o...

The repose of the spirits

Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a...

Fleeing the universal

Rapp mounts a devastating critique against the notion that literary and cultural theory since the 1960s has succeeded in effecting, or at least reporting, both the demise of philosophy and the emergence of a genuinely post-philosophical culture.Fleeing the Universal takes issue with the popular v...

Voices of yugoslav jewry

Emphasizes the role of history in shaping Yugoslav Jewish identity.Voices of Yugoslav Jewry emphasizes the role of history in shaping Yugoslav Jewish identity. World War II imposed irreversible effects on this population of Jews, leaving them with an acute sense of disjuncture and fragmentation. ...

From motherhood to mothering

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.In the years since the publication of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central issue in feminist scholarship. Arguably still the best feminist book on mothering and motherhood, Of Wom...