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Equality and excellence in ancient and modern political philosophy
Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.Is it possible to reconcile human excellence with a dedication to equality? Equality and Excellence in Ancien...
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Rewriting difference
A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.In this definitive reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to "the ...
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The body, self-cultivation, and ki-energy
An inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body.This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the...
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Wolf-women and phantom ladies
Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Popular culture in the 1940s is organized as patriarchal theater. Men gaze upon, evaluate, and coerce women, who are obliged in their turn to put themselves on sexual display. In suc...
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Speaking the lower frequencies
Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.Speaking the Lower Frequencies demonstrates how students can be critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they der...
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Forms of disappointment
Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and f...
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Machiavelli's secret
Uncovers clues regarding the inner life of Machiavelli's political leaders.The political statesman, Machiavelli tells us, must love his country more than his own soul. Political leaders must often transgress clear moral principles, using means that are typically wrong, even horrifying. What sort ...
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Thinking life with luce irigaray
A broad exploration of Irigaray's philosophy of life and living.Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in women's and gender studies, stands in contrast to ...
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Lionel lincoln: or, the leaguer of boston
Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Lionel Lincoln was a radically new experiment in historical fiction. To recreate its events with the utmost accuracy, Cooper visited Boston in person in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, examine battl...
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Queer externalities
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U.S.In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and movies like Brokeback Mountain, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage ...
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Contemporary italian political philosophy
Highlights and critically assesses the work of contemporary Italian political philosophers.Italy has a rich philosophical legacy, and recent developments and movements in its political philosophy have produced a significant body of thought by internationally renowned philosophers working on quest...
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Grappling with the good
Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, Grappling with the Good offers a vision of public education in which students learn to ...
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Changing religious worlds
Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.Changing Religious Worlds measures the nature and significance of Mircea Eliade's contribution to the understanding and academic study of religion in North America today. It incl...
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Totalitarian space and the destruction of aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then can it be truly controlled. The gaze of po...
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Interruptions
This untraditional text is a series of parables, allegories, and prose poems that reflect on the problem of the fragment. Studying the fragment lays the theoretical ground for the basic question of where a text begins and ends.Interruptions is a highly original book which refuses characterization...
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Fichte's addresses to the german nation reconsidered
Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.One of J. G. Fichte's best-known works, Addresses to the German Nation is based on a series of speeches he gave in Berlin when the city was under French occupation. They feature Fichte's diagnosis of his own era in European history...
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Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world
Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.This book offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual pr...
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Nietzsche and the gods
Examines Nietzsche's complex attitudes toward religion and his understanding of how particular religions and deities affect the intellectual, moral, and spiritual lives of their various proselytes and adherents."I have slain all gods-for the sake of morality!" - Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheAlthoug...
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From comparison to world literature
Reintroduces the concept of "world literature" in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.The study of world literature is on the rise. Until recently, the term "world literature" was a misnomer in comparative literature scholarship, which typically focused on Western literature in...
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The redskins
Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.The Redskins, James Fenimore Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, is now available in a scholarly edition. The final work in the "Littlepage trilogy," The Redskins i...
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Resurrecting the death of god
Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.In 1966, an infamous Time magazine cover asked "Is God Dead?" and brought the ideas of theologians William Hamilton and Thomas J. J. Altizer to the wider public. In the years that followed, both men suffered professionally and there was no notab...
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Men of uncertainty
A fascinating exploration of the subculture of Japanese day laborers, whose lives depart radically from the traditions of stability Westerners associate with Japan.Men of Uncertainty presents an unknown side of Japanese society-the world of Japan's day laborers (hiiyatoi rodosha), the urban labor...
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Cognition and practice
Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.This is the first book on the role of cognition in the aesthetic theory of Li Zehou (1930–2021), one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers. The cognitive dimensio...
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Sustainability and spirituality
Argues that true sustainability must be based in spirituality and looks at religious communities dedicated to the environment.This groundbreaking book explores the inherent interconnectedness of sustainability and spirituality, acknowledging the dependency of one upon the other. John E. Carroll c...
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Green voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.The written works of nature's leading advocates-from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few-have been the subject of many texts, bu...
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The china record
Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Ch...
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Deep history
Blends insights from several disciplines to offer a general theory of social evolution.Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and cultures? Seeking to answer these questions, Deep History offers a fresh theor...
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Anthems
An examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance.Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encoura...
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Eleven stories high
This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the proces...
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The international self
Uses a social-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity shapes foreign policy changes.The International Self explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing adversa...
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The sphinx of the ice realm
The first complete English translation of Jules Verne's epic fantasy novel.Decades after Edgar Allan Poe's longest and weirdest tale, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, was published-the protagonist disappearing into the misty, mystifying Antarctic seas; his fate unknown-Jules Verne took up the ...
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Companion to dante's divine comedy
An in-depth companion guide to Dante's Divine Comedy.Companion to Dante's Divine Comedy is a comprehensive in-depth guide for the student at any level, as well as the general reader. It seeks to unlock the complexities of Dante's meaning and to initiate the reader to the poet's incomparable aesth...
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Religion and practical reason
This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosop...
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Tales from du bois
Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.Tales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer ...
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Women's lives/women's times
Points to the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally.Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizin...
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The rehabilitation of whitehead
Lucas treats Whitehead within the framework of major themes in current Anglo-American "analytic" philosophy, viewed against the backdrop of significant historical trends in European and American thought since the Enlightenment. This most misunderstood of twentieth-century philosophers is critical...
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The magdalenian household
A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era.What was home and family like in Paleolithic Europe? How did mobile hunter-gatherer families live, work, and play together in the fourteenth millennium BP? What were the functional and spatial constraints and markers...
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Encountering the goddess
Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in mod...
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Edible ideologies
Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.Edible Ideologies argues that representations of food-in literature and popular fiction, cookbooks and travel guides, war propaganda, women's magazines, television and print advertisements-are not just about nourish...
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The sunday of the negative
A comprehensive philosophical introduction to the thought of Georges Bataille.Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers-including Baudr...
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An introduction to islamic cosmological doctrines
This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within whic...
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The wounded body
Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physic...
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Kernel of the kernel
An English translation of a seminal book on Sufism from a Shi'i perspective by an eminent Muslim thinker.Kernel of the Kernel is an authoritative work on Sufism from a Shi'i perspective that is not only fascinating, but also contains much practical advice. In addition to providing a theoretical d...
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The illusion of freedom and equality
Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.Arguing that the ideology of freedom and equality today bears little resemblance to its eighteenth-century counterpart, Richard Stivers examines how these values have been radically transformed in a technologi...
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The goddesses' mirror
In this book, you can see how the divine has been perceived in feminine form. Here are ten of the best known goddesses from a variety of cultures — East and West, past and present. A wide range is presented, from the fierce Durga, to the gentle, but firm, Sita; from the erotic goddeses Inanna and...
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The comedy of philosophy
Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie...
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Buddhist women and social justice
Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.This book on engaged Buddhism focuses on women working for social justice in a wide range of Buddhist traditions and societies. Contributors document attempts to actualize Buddhism's liberating ideals ...
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