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The Inconspicuous God
Heidegger, French Phenomenology, and the Theological Turn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Dominique Janicaud once famously critiqued the work of French phenomenologists of the theological turn because their work was built on the seemingly corrupt basis of Heidegger's notion of the inapparent or inconspicuous. In this powerful reconsideration and extension of Heidegger's phenomenology of...
Imagining Jewish Authenticity
Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering...
Zionism and Melancholy
The Short Life of Israel Zarchi
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This book offers a microhistory of Israeli thought through the work of Israel Zarchi. Zarchi’s political attachments offer a glimpse of Zionist utopia and its many shortfalls.
Nitzan Lebovic is an established scholar of Jewish history and Jewish intellectual history. He is known for his...
John Bartlow Martin
A Voice for the Underdog
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "big slicks," the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper’s, Look, and Collier’s. A former reporter for the Indianapolis Times, Martin was one of a handful of freelance writers able to survive solely on this writing....
Is Birdsong Music?
Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized...
Costume
Performing Identities through Dress
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings...
International Security and Peacebuilding
Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide. Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened international, regional, and individual security and sparked a major refugee crisis. This volume of essays...
New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice
Gender, Art, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Since the 1980s, transitional justice mechanisms have been increasingly applied to account for mass atrocities and grave human rights violations throughout the world. Over time, post-conflict justice practices have expanded across continents and state borders and have fueled the creation of new ideas...
by Sarah Imhoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American...
by Alfred C. Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding...
An Archipelago of Care
Filipino Migrants and Global Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own long-term...
Singing Yoruba Christianity
Music, Media, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members of the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared set of values. She follows parishioners...
by Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known...
Horns and Beaks
Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods...