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On Ethics and History

Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng

by Philip J. Ivanhoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009

Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's...

Tokyo in Transit

Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

by Alisa Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010

Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic,...

Copy, Archive, Signature

A Conversation on Photography

by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010

This book makes available for the first time in English—and for the first time in its entirety in any language—an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary...

Literary Passports

The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe

by Shachar Pinsker
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010

Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist...

Sanctuary in the Wilderness

A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry

by Alan Mintz
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011

The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....

Glory and Agony

Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

by Yael Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging...

From Continuity to Contiguity

Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

by Dan Miron
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010

Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped...
by Ivan Jablonka
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016

Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous, and they left little behind except their...

In Good Company

An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility

by Dinah Rajak
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

Under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations have become increasingly important players in international development. These days, CSR's union of economics and ethics is virtually unquestioned as an antidote to harsh neoliberal reforms and the delinquency of the state, but...

A Jewish Life on Three Continents

The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden

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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States,...

The Mind-Body Stage

Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater

by R. Darren Gobert
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between...

Engines of Empire

Steamships and the Victorian Imagination

by Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could...

Overruled?

Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court-Congress Relations

by Jeb Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004

Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides—laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes. Whether front-page news or not, overrides serve potentially vital functions in American policy-making. Federal statutes—and court cases interpreting...

Chimalpahin's Conquest

A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico

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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success....
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