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On the Nature of Limbs
A Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof of evolution. Among his many lasting contributions to science was the first clear definition of the term homology—“the same...
The Sexuality of History
Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero—even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theorists have noticed, as the genres of “creative nonfiction”...
by Ilya Kabakov
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the “leader” of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Circle. Throughout this time, he created texts...
Fast, Easy, and In Cash
Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
“Artisan” has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving realities of the artisan economy, however, never...
God's Businessmen
Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What’s less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessmen at the time were quite...
by Frederic R. Kellogg
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic, Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Through discussions with his mentor Chauncey Wright...
Reckoning with Matter
Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed—but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind.
In...
Touching Encounters
Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in male-with-male—or m4m—Internet escorting,...
God Being Nothing
Toward a Theogony
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of...
Nietzsche's Enlightenment
The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsistent with the rest of his thought. With Nietzsche’s...
Persius
A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34–62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metaphors and unpleasant imagery and show little concern...
by Patrick Jagoda
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected...
Plotinus
Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians, but have frequently been dismissed by modern scholars...