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Disaster Deferred
A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities to undertake...
Finding Ourselves at the Movies
Philosophy for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary...
Why America Misunderstands the World
National Experience and Roots of Misperception
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans'...
by Sōseki Natsume
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably...
Freedom and Neurobiology
Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles....
by Gianni Vattimo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality...
by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton...
Horrorism
Naming Contemporary Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new...
A Dharma Reader
Classical Indian Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend...
What Does a Jew Want?
On Binationalism and Other Specters
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians...
by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars...
by Kate Millett, Rebecca Mead
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths...
by Daniel Herwitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its...
Parting Ways
Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and...