Stanford University: 1318 books
Philosophy and Melancholy
Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by Heidegger's discussion...
Poetic Force
Poetry after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by...
The Book of Shem
On Genesis before Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Can anyone say anything that has not already been said about the most scrutinized text in human history? In one of the most radical rereadings of the opening chapters of Genesis since The Zohar, David Kishik manages to do just that. The Book of Shem, a philosophical meditation on the beginning of...
The Practice of Misuse
Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "rugged consumers" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior...
Between Philosophy and Literature
Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin as a Modernist thinker torn between an ideological secularity and a profound religious sensibility, invariably concerned with questions of ethics and...
World and Life as One
Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
In this volume, senior scholars come together to explore how Jewish and African American experiences can make us think differently about the nexus of religion and politics, or political theology. Some wrestle with historical figures, such as William Shakespeare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nazi journalist Wilhelm...
Transcendence
On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this by offering an original theory of self and society....
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new...
A Humanist Science
Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and argues that human values belong to the world of...
The Art of Revolt
Snowden, Assange, Manning
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce...
Arresting Cinema
Surveillance in Hong Kong Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside...
Strangers in the City
Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges...
The Choice of Achilles
The Ideology of Figure in the Epic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation...