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The oprah affect
Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah's Book Club.The Oprah Affect explores the cultural impact of Oprah's Book Club, particularly in light of debates about the definition and purpose of literature in American culture. For the critics collected here, Oprah's Book Club stands, in the c...
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A learned society in a period of transition
Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.This book develops a new approach to the process of institutionalization and its social significance by focusing on Baghdad during the Sunni revival. Ephrat asserts that the Sunni revival was a period during...
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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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Justice as integrity
Strives to show why morality and, in particular, tolerance are each part of the idea of law.Do any moral values underlie the foundations of law and society in America? In Justice as Integrity, David Fagelson argues that morality is indeed a part of the idea of law. Examining controversies of spee...
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Contesting the global order
Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Will...
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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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Reform in school mathematics and authentic assessment
Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in key roles while developing the ...
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A parliament of minds
In this companion volume to the national public television documentary of the same name, interviews of philosophy luminaries expose the relevance of philosophy to everyday life.A Parliament of Minds brings together groundbreaking interviews with a diverse cross-section of contemporary philosopher...
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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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Sensibility and singularity
Establishes the importance of Husserl's phenomenology for Levinas's ethics.Is Emmanuel Levinas a dismissive critic of Husserlian phenomenology, or an important member of its movement? The standard account of Levinas's work assumes his distance from Husserl. In opposition to this account, Sensibil...
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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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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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José maría heredia in new york, 1823–1825
An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.This volume offers the most complete English transl...
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Remaking the frankenstein myth on film
Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative.Focusing on films outside the horror genre, this book offers a unique account of the Frankenstein myth's popularity and endurance. Although the Frankenstein narrat...
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Multicultural education as social activism
Explores connections between multicultural education, social activism, and critical analyses of oppression.Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relation...
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Essays on the foundations of ethics
Presentation of C. I. Lewis's final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title C. I. Lewis, one of America's greatest philosophers, was tremendously influential in the fields of logic and epistemology. However, it was to ethics that he devoted the last years o...
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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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The state, society, and limited nuclear war
An examination of the extent to which nuclear weapons policy has been democratically controlled, showing that a policy elite insulated from society eventually lost its autonomyThis book highlights the role that domestic politics has played in the evolution of U.S. nuclear weapons policy up to the...
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Nietzsche and embodiment
Examines the significance of Nietzsche's writings for contemporary debates about embodiment.In Nietzsche and Embodiment Kristen Brown reveals the smartness of bodies, challenging the traditional view in the West that bodies are separate from and morally inferior to minds. Drawing inspiration from...
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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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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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Hindutva and violence
Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966), the most controversial Indian political t...
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The politics of capital investment
This book examines both the politics and products of the public investment process in one of America's largest cities. It broadens the scope of contemporary debates on the political economy of urban development to include not only large-scale redevelopment projects, but also neighborhood faciliti...
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Reconsidering feminist research in educational leadership
A critical reflection on the field of feminist research in educational leadership.Ten prominent feminist researchers from diverse backgrounds examine educational leadership by focusing on critical questions about the theories, methods, and epistemologies feminist researchers use. The contributors...
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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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The biggest thing in show business
A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 36
The present volume of al-Ṭabarī's monumental history covers the years 255-265/869-878, the first half of the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtamid in Sāmarrā. Although the decade was one of relative calm in the capital, compared with the anarchy of the years immediately preceding, danger signal...
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Democracy through the lens of chinese scholars
The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy.History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central rol...
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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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Hegel and whitehead
Hegel and Whitehead presents a careful exploration of the similarities between these two formidable representatives of systematic philosophy. Some of the most distinguished scholars in European and American philosophy converge herein to explore the similarities in Hegel's and Whitehead's contempo...
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Opening spaces
Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.Calling for an empowerment of student authority and a realization of the constraints placed on critical teachers in the current educational climate, Opening Spaces proposes a new way to theorize cr...
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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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The deities are many
Provides a theology of polytheism—the belief in many deities—using examples from a wide range of world religions.The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide in...
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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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The self on the shelf
The Self on the Shelf examines the cultural and philosophical determinants of popular "recovery" books. Greenberg argues that this literature can be read as documents of the prevailing understanding of the self in American society. The construction of the self promoted by recovery literature is s...
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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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Cézanne and modernism
Explores how traditional relations among the arts have changed in our time, focusing on the radical transformation of Paul Cezanne.This book explores the contemporary modification of traditional relations among the arts. Interpreting Cézanne as a founder of Modernism, it focuses on an aesthetics ...
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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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Aristotle
A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Aristotle.Aristotle belongs to the small class of philosophers who were not only influential in a particular field of philosophy but also shaped the profile of every philosophical discipline. In this book Otfried Höffe provides a comprehensive ...
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Adorno's poetics of form
A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of...
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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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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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Freud, psychoanalysis, social theory
Discusses the reasons for the decline of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis.Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural analysis and critique...
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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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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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African american views of the japanese
The first comprehensive chronicle of the events shaping African Americans' views about Japan and the Japanese.African American Views of the Japanese reveals a page of history long ignored. In black America, Japanese were not always known for racist remarks, Sambo images, and discriminatory hiring...
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Power over rationality
To most Americans, the Gulf War symbolizes the culmination of a highly sophisticated decision-making process within the Bush administration. In this highly readable and challenging book, Hybel demonstrates the shortcomings of such a view by using cognitive models to examine how the administration...
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Philosophy, theology, and hegel's berlin philosophy of religion, 1821-1827
This book examines Hegel's contribution to the debate about the relationship between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. The author locates the debate within the philosophy of religion, displaying that there is a need for philosophy to enter into dialogue with, and to reflect upon, the con...
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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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Imaginary worlds and imperial power
New and ambitious approaches to contemporary China, informed by perspectives taken from civilizational analysis and the specific concept of social imaginaries.This collection of essays by some of today's most prominent scholars on Chinese society, culture, and philosophy offers unusually comprehe...
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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 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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Constructing knowledges
Examines the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, within the academy in general and composition studies in particular.In this thought-provoking and gracefully written new book, Sidney Dobrin examines current debates over the relative value of theoretical and practical knowled...
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The throne carrier of god
This book constitutes a comprehensive investigation of the life and teachings of one of the most famous Sufis of the Iranian world. Simnānī spent his early life as a courtier at the Ilkhanid Mongol court and was a cherished companion of the emperor Arghun. After a mystical experience on the battl...
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Daoism, dandyism, and political correctness
Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.How would Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE,...
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Rethinking the just war tradition
Contributors seek to promote reasoned debate about emerging security threats and potential military responses.The just war tradition is an evolving body of tenets for determining when resorting to war is just and how war may be justly executed. Rethinking the Just War Tradition provides a timely ...
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Slavery and freedom in the mid-hudson valley
Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the central Hudson Valley pri...
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Leaving little italy
Provides an overview of the past, present, and future of Italian American culture.Leaving Little Italy explores the various forces that have shaped and continue to mold Italian American culture. Early chapters offer a historical survey of major developments in Italian American culture, from the e...
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Advice on the art of governance (mau'iẓah-i jahāngīrī) of muḥammad bāqir najm-i s̱ānī
Advice on the Art of Governance portrays the political thinking of the Mughals and exemplifies Indo-Islamic political subtlety. Written by a high-ranking Mughal noble in the early seventeenth century, it discusses the ruler, the state, the nobility, justice, the religious elite, the st rata of so...
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The end of dissatisfaction?
Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work...
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Changing work, changing workers
This glimpse into factories, hospitals, other work settings, and work-related literacy programs, shows the massive changes in expectations for workers' "skills" in the twenty-first century, especially regarding language and literacy.Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and work...
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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...
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Parent-child play
This book provides the latest research and theory in the area of children's play with their parents. It includes discussions of the basic processes involved in parent-child play, parent-child play in atypical populations of children, and parent-child play in cross-cultural perspective.An opening ...
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Higher education and international student mobility in the global knowledge economy
Second, updated edition of a landmark study of how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs and institutions of higher education has evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today's global knowledge economy.Praise for the First Edition:"Higher education has ex...
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Environmental policymaking
Case studies that assess the value of new approaches to environmental policymaking in the United States and abroad.The methods employed in the pursuit of environmental protection are often highly contested, leading to alternative policy approaches. This book details the frequently neglected topic...
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On austrian soil
An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.Finalist for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category Most educators keep their...
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Between levinas and heidegger
Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy's most pressing issues.Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-struct...
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The ends of solidarity
An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory demands that human beings see themselves in relations of solidarity that cross national, racial, and religious divides. W...
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Politics and public policy in hawai'i
Hawai'i is of special interest as a state because its history differs so greatly from that of the other United States and because its social and political institutions are unique. It is, for example, the only state that has no incorporated villages, towns, or cities, and it has the most centraliz...
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For god and fatherland
This analysis of the crises in church-state relations in Argentina over the last 100 years shows that the constitutionally-established Catholic Church was progressively disenfranchised by various governments and responded by struggling to maintain the institution's historic rights and privileges ...
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Mothering queerly, queering motherhood
Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of "good" mothering.Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship ...
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Cities of jiangnan in late imperial china
This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai.Emphasizin...
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The politics of international health
Presents the history of the Children's Vaccine Initiative, examining its successes and failures in promoting the development of both new and improved vaccines for the Third World.Tracing the history of the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI), this book examines its successes and failures in promo...
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John dewey, confucius, and global philosophy
Bringing together the philosophies of John Dewey and Confucius, this work illustrates a means for cultural interaction and provides a model of global philosophy.Joseph Grange's beautifully written book provides a unique synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and Confucius,...
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Nietzsche and depth psychology
Explores the psychological aspects of Nietzsche's thought and his influence on psychological thinkers such as Freud, Jung, and Adler.Exploring the connections between Nietzsche's thought and depth psychology, this book sheds new light on the relation between psychology and philosophy. It examines...
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The redivision of labor
How does economic development affect women in Latin America? This work examines the different ways that economic and social relations between the sexes are redefined in Guatemala as capitalist expansion transforms the nation. An unusual and rich combination of fieldwork in four communities supple...
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God's voice from the void
New and classic explorations of the work of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, a major Hasidic thinker, using a wide range of approaches.Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav was one of the most celebrated masters of late Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, and his writings have become classics. This volume brings together...
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Masked voices
An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.Finalist for the 2013 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBT...
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Waste-site stories
Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.Ours is a wasteful society, consumed with care for its remains, according to the contributors of Waste-Site Stories. Here scholars from around the world probe current notions of waste and the ways in which remains o...
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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...
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Texts in context
The major religious traditions of South Asia are 'religions of the book'. All accept basic arrays of texts of scriptures, often seen as sacred reservoirs of meaning and power. The West has viewed these texts as 'bibles' of their respective traditions, projecting onto them Western values and conce...
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Knights of faith and resignation
Knights of Faith and Resignation brings out the richness of Kierkegaard's creative invention, the contemporary relevance of his contrasts between resignation and faith, and his probing conceptual analysis of aesthetic, moral, and religious psychology and life-perspectives. And in tracing Kierkega...
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Philosophy in process
Philosophy in Process, Volume Eleven, continues the publication of the working journals, the intellectual diary of one of the greatest modern metaphysicians. It presents the opportunity to experience him at work, thinking critically about his past writings and breaking ground in the creation of n...
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