Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent...
by Daniel Arasse
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated...
by C. G. Jung
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. Jung developed this concept between...
by Amin Ghaziani
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear?...
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror...
by Ernest Sosa
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found...
Lyric Poetry
The Pain and the Pleasure of Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual...
The Virtues of Our Vices
A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Are there times when it's right to be rude? Can we distinguish between good and bad gossip? Am I a snob if I think that NPR listeners are likely to be better informed than devotees of Fox News? Does sick humor do anyone any good? Can I think your beliefs are absurd but still respect you?
In...
by Fred Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written...
On Psychological and Visionary Art
Notes from C. G. Jung’s Lecture on Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published...
Tame Passions of Wilde
The Styles of Manageable Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired...
Edgework
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual...
The Global City
New York, London, Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which...
Regulating Aversion
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic,...