Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Julian Bell
From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic...
Opera and the City
The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea...
After Yugoslavia
The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of...
Moscow in Movement
Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series...
Police Aesthetics
Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the...
Genocide in the Carpathians
War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II,...
Giorgio Agamben
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have...
After La Dolce Vita
A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was...
Living Thought
The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world...
Inclinations
A Critique of Rectitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes...
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader...
Jewish Rights, National Rites
Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depicted a variety of Jews in seeking to enlist the support of the broadest possible segment of Russia's Jewish population. It forsook neither traditional religious and economic life like the...
Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity
Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered mainly for his coinage of the word "Zionism," Birnbaum was a towering figure in early Jewish nationalism. Because of his unusual intellectual trajectory,...