Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Making Sense of Taste
Food and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience,...
Mixed
Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally...
Logics of War
Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive?...
by John Kekes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding...
by Jenny Jochens
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old...
Philosophers in the "Republic"
Plato's Two Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In Plato’s Republic Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind’s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual,...
Mi Voz, Mi Vida
Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society.
The fifteen Latino college...
Muslims and Matriarchs
Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also Muslim and famous for their piety. In this book,...
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...
Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts
Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In...
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific...
Empire of Humanity
A History of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism’s remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to...
Interfaces of the Word
Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces...
"No One Helped"
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses...