Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Exemplarity and Mediocrity
The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary...
In Praise of Nonsense
Kant and Bluebeard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque...
In the Self's Place
The Approach of Saint Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian...
Mother Folly
A Tale — Enhanced Ebook Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...
Italy’s Eighteenth Century
Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock...
The Social Imperative
Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between...
Organizing Organic
Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Stakeholders in the organic food movement agree that it has the potential to transform our food system, and yet there is little consensus about what this transformation should look like.
Tracing the history of the organic food sector, Michael A. Haedicke charts the development of two narratives...
Immigrant Ambassadors
Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is...
Bernie Madoff and the Crisis
The Public Trial of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and...
The Tourism Encounter
Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
In recent decades, several Latin American nations have experienced political transitions that have caused a decline in tourism. In spite of—or even because of—that history, these areas are again becoming popular destinations. This work reveals that in post-conflict nations, tourism often takes...
Emissaries from the Holy Land
The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean...
Memories of Absence
How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study...
Regulating Prostitution in China
Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities....