Harvard University Press: 1090 books

Cover of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1999

Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.
Cover of Retrieving Realism
by Hubert Dreyfus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.
Cover of The Story of Alice

The Story of Alice

Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of Wonderland—a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.
Cover of The Fateful Triangle
by Stuart Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017

In this work drawn from lectures delivered in 1994 a founding figure of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, deadly consequences of our politics of identification. Stuart Hall untangles the power relations that permeate race, ethnicity, and nationhood and shows how oppressed groups broke apart old hierarchies of difference in Western culture.
Cover of The Lyric in the Age of the Brain
by Nikki Skillman
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
Cover of Race and the Totalitarian Century
by Vaughn Rasberry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

Vaughn Rasberry turns to black culture and politics for an alternative history of the totalitarian century. He shows how black writers reimagined the standard anti-fascist, anti-communist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the U.S. as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also an agent of Asian and African independence.
Cover of Strangers in Our Midst

Strangers in Our Midst

The Political Philosophy of Immigration

by David Miller Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016

How should democracies respond to the millions who want to settle in their societies? David Miller’s analysis reframes immigration as a question of political philosophy. Acknowledging the impact on host countries, he defends the right of states to control their borders and decide the future size, shape, and cultural make-up of their populations.
Cover of How to Do Things with Pornography
by Nancy Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

In Nancy Bauer’s view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings’ everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women’s self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.
Cover of Adorno and Existence
by Peter E. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

Adorno was forever returning to the philosophies of bourgeois interiority, seeking the paradoxical relation between their manifest failure and their hidden promise. As Peter E. Gordon shows, Adorno’s writings on Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger present us with a photographic negative—a philosophical portrait of the author himself.
Cover of What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
by Miguel Tamen
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.
Cover of The Irish Enlightenment
by Michael Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016

Scotland and England produced well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received less attention. Michael Brown shows that Ireland also had its Enlightenment, which for a brief time opened up the possibility of a tolerant society, despite a history of sectarian conflict.
Cover of Persophilia

Persophilia

Persian Culture on the Global Scene

by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.
Cover of The Topological Imagination
by Angus Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
Cover of Metaphor
by Denis Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it.
First 29 30 31 32 33 34 3536 37 38 39 40 41 Last
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy