Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Dead Pledges
Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists,...
Inheriting the Future
Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each...
by Maria Boletsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since...
The World of Freedom
Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there...
Transcolonial Maghreb
Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Transcolonial Maghreb offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Arguing that Palestine has become the figure par excellence of the colonial...
A Sense of Justice
Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Throughout Latin America, the idea of "justice" serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires...
The Social Life of Politics
Ethics, Kinship, and Union Activism in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights. What brings activists to Argentine unions and...
Pragmatism Ascendent
A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers the period of American philosophy's greatest influence worldwide, from the second half of the 20th century through the beginning of the 21st. The book...
Requiem for the Ego
Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent...
Sentimental Memorials
Women and the Novel in Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and...
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against...
Letters to the Contrary
A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights. Prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals and leaders—including Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Arnold Schoenberg—engaged with the question of universal human rights....
What Money Wants
An Economy of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the...
The Implicated Subject
Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim,...