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by Gianni Vattimo, John Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo...
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery
An Essay on Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards...
by Jacques Le Goff
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the...
Born Translated
The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques...
by Zong-qi Cai, Jie Cui
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form. Also a remarkable...
Beyond the Cyborg
Adventures with Donna Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion...
Thick and Dazzling Darkness
Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and...
Introduction to Metaphysics
From Parmenides to Levinas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. He follows the theological turn in the metaphysical...
Futures Past
On the Semantics of Historical Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative...
Strange Wonder
The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to...
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Two Lessons on Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship,"...
Must We Kill the Thing We Love?
Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in Emerson’s writings, that gave classical Hollywood...
by Robert L. Belknap
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures,...
China
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural...