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In Sorcery's Shadow
A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.
The Lost Paradise
Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical...
Cultural Graphology
Writing after Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
“Cultural Graphology” could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida’s speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertook the project himself but did leave two brief...
The Analysis of the Self
A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis...
Vegetables
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash,...
Biological Individuality
Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different...
Thinking in the Past Tense
Eight Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the history...
by Philippe Descola
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central...
Make It Rain
State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with...
How Lifeworlds Work
Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted.
In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in...
To Save the Phenomena
An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde’s most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students...
by Robin Reames
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true...
Poetic Justice
Rereading Plato's "Republic"
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato’s dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the...