The limits of knowledge

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.The Limits of Knowledge provides an understanding of what pragmatist feminist theories look like in practice, combining insights from the work of American pragmatist John Dewey...

Leadership and legacy

Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.Historic, intriguing, and important in so many ways, the Obama presidency will be studied by scholars and students for years to come. With the rise in hyperpartisanship, legisl...

Embracing illusion

Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddhist philosophical discourse. The capacity of fiction to speak on behalf of Buddhist truths is set in the larger context of how the literary imagina...

The new abolitionists

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.This collection of essays and interviews provides a frank look at the nature and purposes of prisons in the United States from the perspective of the prisoners. Written by Nativ...

Black cultural mythology

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement orig...

Globalization and the environment

Examines how globalization and the environment are connected issues.This groundbreaking study brings together economic globalization and the environment as never before. Gabriela Kütting argues for an "eco-holistic" approach that merges social, political, economic, and environmental analysis, so ...

Seeking mahādevī

Explores the identity of the Hindu Great Goddess and how it relates to the many goddesses worshipped in India.While Hindus recognize and revere a variety of different goddesses, they also tend to speak of one Great Goddess, Mahadevi, as a singular divine being who is the unity underlying all fema...

The world of agha shahid ali

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001). Though sometimes identified as an...

Rebel girl and the godfather

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true story of a rivalry between a pair of improbable social justice crusaders––Mary Sansone, an Itali...

The mughals and the sufis

Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian...

Integrated curriculum and developmentally appropriate practice

Combines research and practice on integrated developmentally appropriate curriculum that helps theorists, researchers, parents, and teachers understand how to match early childhood teaching practices to the integrated manner that young children naturally think and learn.This volume combines resea...

The other rāma

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and an...

On the ethics of torture

A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.The question of when, and under what circumstances, the practice of torture might be justified has received a great deal of attention in the last decade in both academia and in the popular media. Many of t...

Engendering rationalities

Cutting edge feminist investigations of rationality.Engendering Rationalities brings together theorists whose work has been foundational to the development of feminist investigations of reason, objectivity, and knowledge with the work of scholars who build up and extend their insights. Contributo...

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...

Res publica

Analysis of Plato's influence on the political thinking of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte.In Res Publica, Günter Zöller offers a concise and perceptive analysis of the influence that Plato's Republic had on the political thought of three leading German philosophers rarely discussed together-Kant, Hegel,...

Conversations with remarkable native americans

Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today's most important Native Americans.In these lively and informative interviews, noted ethnohistorian and international consultant Joëlle Rostkowski brings to light major developments in the Native American experience over the last thirty y...

Roll over adorno

Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In...

Hegel and the other

A new, highly accessible commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kan...

East-west poetry

Poetry that responds to the Qur'an and to the tradition it created.Written for the general reader and the specialist, Muslim and non-Muslim, East-West Poetry responds to the Qur'an, scriptural heart of Islam, and to the tradition it created. An introduction relates the Qur'an to Hebrew and Christ...

The intersubjective turn

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.A first of its kind, this book maps out current academic approaches in higher education to second-person contemplative education, which addresses contemplative experience from an intersubjective perspe...

Youth peacebuilding

Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.This book highlights the important role youth can play in processes of peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in such activities. As Lesley J. Pruitt discusses throughout the...

One over many

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.Finalist for the 2022 PROSE Award in the Philosophy category presented by t...

Stopping the plant

Detailed account of the controversy surrounding the building of a coal-fired cement factory in the Hudson Valley.When the St. Lawrence Cement Company proposed building a massive coal-powered cement plant near the banks of the Hudson River in the town of Greenport, New York, in 1999 it ignited a c...

Understanding language acquisition

How is language acquisition possible? How is it that humans, within a few years of birth, can speak and understand language, transcending both its limited experience and biological limitations?In this challenge to the narrow confines of psychology and philosophy, Christina Erneling argues that la...

Zhuangzi and the becoming of nothingness

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical...

Critiques of theology

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumen...

Progressive new york

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history.Progressive New York provides a firsthand portrait of one of the most exciting times in New York's and the nation's history: the progressive era, 1900–1920. This was a time of vast u...

The writing of weddings in middle-period china

A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses ...

The metaphysics of the pythagorean theorem

Explores Thales's speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the Pythagorean theorem. Thales, whom Aristotle called the first philosopher and who was ...

Descriptions

Phenomenology in America has developed in unique directions with respect to descriptive analysis and in relation to interdisciplinary fields. Descriptions examines current trends in phenomenology. It begins by reflecting on phenomenological description itself, then takes phenomenology into such a...

Anne sexton

The poet's life as a teacher.Winner of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who confessed the unrelenting anguish of addiction and depression, Anne Sexton (1928–1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, Paul...

The school within us

The inspirational story of a group of teachers, parents, and students who face and overcome many challenges in their struggle to create a very unconventional school within a school.This book tells the story of a community of teachers, parents, and students who thoughtfully took charge of their ve...

Sacred play

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.Frivolity isn't always frivolous-sometimes it can be sacred. Sacred Play uncovers levity and playfulness in a variety of South Asian traditions where one might least expect to find it: in the heart of ritual. While ...

The trauma controversy

Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into c...

The robe of love

Commonplaces

This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities, suburbs, and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communities, it shows how people construct a sense of identity based on their communities, and how they perce...

Sisters outside

Shows how radical women advocate for women in prison while acknowledging the racial and class division between them.How can radical women activists for women prisoners be a "voice and a presence" for people so different from themselves? The radical activists who envision a postprison society are ...

Suffering and the remedy of art

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of suffering and literature examines how literature can give expression to the essentially wordless reality of suffering.This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice-versa. It is not only that literature t...

Emerging from the shadows

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.Although once derided as an insignificant office, the vice presidency in the last forty years has witnessed an increase in stature, prominence, and influence. Emerging from the Shadows focuses...

Feminist sport studies

Uses personal narratives to highlight the development of feminist sport studies.This book highlights the development of feminist sport studies through personal narratives of prominent feminist sport researchers from North America, Europe, and New Zealand. With expertise in sport history, literatu...

Masters of mahamudra

In Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable union of wisdom and compassion, of emptiness and skillful means. These eighty-four masters, some historical, some archetypal, accomplished this practice in India where they lived between t...

Resist, organize, build

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.The 1980s was a period of political and social tumult in Britain and the United States. Facing resurgent conservative forces, feminist and queer activists organized in wa...

Religion and the muse

Looks at the relationship between religion and literature and how both have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility.Ever since Plato banished poets from his ideal state, Western religion and literature have been in tension. Through close readings of selected texts, Religion and the Muse exp...

Free schools, free people

The first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s.This first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s documents the formation of hundreds of small, independent schools across the United States that marked a turning point in American education. The book revis...

The fifth republic at twenty

The first twenty years of the Fifth Republic encompass four presidential elections, alternating political control of the National Assembly, and years of rapid economic growth and contraction. Thus a variety of events now allow an evaluation of the efficacy of the Fifth Republic. The chapters of t...

Yogi heroes and poets

An exploration of the history, religion, and folklore of the Nāths, a Hindu lineage known for Hatha yoga practice.This book provides a remarkable range of information on the history, religion, and folklore of the Nāth Yogis. A Hindu lineage prominent in North India since the eleventh century, Nāt...

Kāma's flowers

Explores the transformation of Hindi poetry as it reflects a changing society during the period from 1885 to 1925.Kama's Flowers documents the transformation of Hindi poetry during the crucial period of 1885-1925. As Hindi was becoming a national language and Indian nationalism was emerging, Hind...

A dream of hitchcock

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock's work-dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect-by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, Rebec...