Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic...
Dreaming of Michelangelo
Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover"...
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic...
Plant Theory
Biopower and Vegetable Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian...
Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas...
The Mystery of Evil
Benedict XVI and the End of Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question...
Anonymous Life
Romanticism and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana...
Sediments of Time
On Possible Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory...
After 1945
Latency as Origin of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging...
by Kaja Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized...
The Yield
Kafka's Atheological Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this book presents us with a Kafka few will...