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The Theater of Truth

The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics

by William Egginton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation...
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Arendt and Adorno

Political and Philosophical Investigations

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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012

Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study...
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Europe, or The Infinite Task

A Study of a Philosophical Concept

by Rodolphe Gasché
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008

What exactly does "Europe" mean for philosophy today? Putting aside both Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism, Gasché returns to the old name "Europe" to examine it as a concept or idea in the work of four philosophers from the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Patočka,...
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Religion in Public

Locke's Political Theology

by Elizabeth A. Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional...
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The Aesthetics of Hate

Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France

by Sandrine Sanos
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

The Aesthetics of Hate examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms. A broad, ambitious cultural and intellectual history, the book offers a provocative reinterpretation of a topic that...
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African Americans Against the Bomb

Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement

by Vincent J. Intondi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015

Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman's decision to drop atomic...
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by Sheldon M. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012

This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time...
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Fact in Fiction

1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

by Kristin Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin...
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The Eclipse of Equality

Arguing America on Meet the Press

by Solon Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable. Entering the fray, Solon Simmons offers an intriguing...
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Fumo

Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette

by Carl David Ipsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016

For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history. Starting around 1900, the new and popular cigarette spread down the social hierarchy and eventually,...
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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition

Reform, Rationality, and Modernity

by Samira Haj
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008

Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers—Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703–1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849–1905)—each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through...
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Rebellion Now and Forever

Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800–1880

by Terry Rugeley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009

This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions...
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New Babylonians

A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

by Orit Bashkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic...
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Current Flow

The Electrification of Palestine

by Ronen Shamir
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013

Whether buried underfoot or strung overhead, electrical lines are omnipresent. Not only are most societies dependent on electrical infrastructure, but this infrastructure actively shapes electrified society. From the wires, poles, and generators themselves to the entrepreneurs, engineers, politicians,...
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