Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Rawls and Habermas
Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic...
Campaigning for Children
Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution...
Islandology
Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece)...
Convulsing Bodies
Religion and Resistance in Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline...
Counterfeit Capital
Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience...
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for...
The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson
Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In...
Behind the Laughs
Community and Inequality in Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Comedy is a brutal business. When comedians define success, they don't talk about money—they talk about not quitting. They work in a business where even big names work for free, and the inequalities of race, class, and gender create real barriers. But they also work in a business where people still...
A Life in Shadow
Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America,...
Less Rightly Said
Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal...
A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story
Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion...
Medieval Venuses and Cupids
Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus...
Outlaw Justice
The Messianic Politics of Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben,...
by Sabina Donati
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations....