Stanford University: 1318 books
Paint the White House Black
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Barack Obama's election as the first black president in American history forced a reconsideration of racial reality and possibility. It also incited an outpouring of discussion and analysis of Obama's personal and political exploits. Paint the White House Black fills a significant void in Obama-themed...
Connected
How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological...
Jaws
The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct...
Philosophers and Thespians
Thinking Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and...
Haunting History
For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization...
by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on...
The Messianic Reduction
Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of...
Georges Bataille
Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought...
The Limits of Whiteness
Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be...
by Kathryne M. Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne M. Young was one of those disgruntled law students. After finishing law school (and a PhD), she set out to learn more about...
Violence Taking Place
The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former...
Building Colonial Cities of God
Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home...
by Adam Kotsko
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle:...
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the...