Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Women and the Gift
Beyond the Given and All-Giving
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects of the gift from a woman’s point of view. In the light of philosophical work by Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Bataille, Women and the Gift reflects how women respond to the...
Radical Theology
A Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Radical theology" and "political theology" are terms that have gained a lot of currency among philosophers of religion today. In this visionary new book, Jeffrey W. Robbins explores the contemporary direction of these movements as he charts a course for their future. Robbins claims that radical theology...
The Big Move
Life Between the Turning Points
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
When her husband’s ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds herself surrounded by elderly residents. In this lively and provocative collection, other distinguished gerontologists reflect on Anne’s moving account of her transition to becoming...
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley
A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During...
by Alphonso Lingis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
... thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis’s work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing." —Radical Philosophy
... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well...
by Edward S. Casey
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
From one of continental philosophy's most distinctive voices comes a creative contribution to spatial studies, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology. Edward S. Casey identifies how important edges are to us, not only in terms of how we perceive our world, but in our cognitive, artistic, and...
The Legacy of Dell Hymes
Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the field. Hymes (1927–2009) is arguably best known for his pioneering work in ethnopoetics, a studied approach to Native verbal art that elucidates cultural...
Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
An 18th century sailor is cast away in a multi-ethnic New World in this long-neglected classic regarded as the first American novel every written.
Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a Llewellin Penrose who flees an unhappy home life to seek his fortune on the high seas. Having learned the...
Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France
Rebuilding Family and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews...
Communist Daze
The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This darkly comic memoir “reveal[s] much about the poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, anti-Semitism, and fundamental absurdity of rural life in the Soviet 1960s” (Deborah A. Field author of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia).
Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet...
Clio's Battles
Historiography in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus...
Speaking Pictures
Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical...
Petrarch
The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " —Chronicles
"As...
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Call of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer....