Stanford University: 1318 books
Broken Links, Enduring Ties
American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact...
The Reckoning of Pluralism
Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism...
Homeless Tongues
Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature:...
Dead Pledges
Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists,...
Inheriting the Future
Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each...
by Maria Boletsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since...
The World of Freedom
Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there...
Transcolonial Maghreb
Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Transcolonial Maghreb offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Arguing that Palestine has become the figure par excellence of the colonial...
A Sense of Justice
Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Throughout Latin America, the idea of "justice" serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires...
The Social Life of Politics
Ethics, Kinship, and Union Activism in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights. What brings activists to Argentine unions and...
Pragmatism Ascendent
A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers the period of American philosophy's greatest influence worldwide, from the second half of the 20th century through the beginning of the 21st. The book...
Requiem for the Ego
Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent...
Sentimental Memorials
Women and the Novel in Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and...
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against...