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by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine,...
Subjects of Desire
Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the...
Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open...
The Power of Tolerance
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations?...
Knowledge Matters
The Public Mission of the Research University
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate....
Critical Theory at a Crossroads
Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing territory,...
What Does Europe Want?
The Union and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Slavoj iek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. To general...
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates...
The Lioness in Winter
Writing an Old Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the...
Uncreative Writing
Managing Language in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive...
by Maggie Hennefeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap,...
Contemporary Drift
Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What does it mean to call something “contemporary”? More than simply denoting what’s new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we’re living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the...
Melodrama Unbound
Across History, Media, and National Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women....