Indiana University Press: 1129 books
From Text to Txting
New Media in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Literary scholars face a new and often baffling reality in the classroom: students spend more time looking at glowing screens than reading printed text. The social lives of these students take place in cyberspace instead of the student pub. Their favorite narratives exist in video games, not books....
Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue
How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping...
The Swan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
“Alternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, The Swan is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can―and cannot―endure.” —Publishers Weekly
Indianapolis, 1957. Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has...
Gadamer
A Philosophical Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights...
Bremen and Freiburg Lectures
Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
This volume consists of two lecture series given by Heidegger in the 1940s and 1950s. The lectures given in Bremen constitute the first public lectures Heidegger delivered after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him...
Play as Symbol of the World
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience...
Heidegger's Poietic Writings
From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Engaging the development of Heidegger’s non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals what Heidegger's private writings kept hidden. Vallega-Neu takes readers on a journey through these volumes, which are not philosophical works in the traditional sense as they...
The Life of Understanding
A Contemporary Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In Gadamer’s hermeneutics, interpretation is inseparable from the broader concern of making one’s way in life. In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy...
Daimon Life
Heidegger and Life-Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1992
Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John Llewelyn
Disclosure of Martin Heidegger’s complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger’s...
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality
Religion in a Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1988
An important book which deserves the careful attention of serious students of religion." —Religious Studies Review
Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.
Demonizing the Jews
Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
“An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther’s anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich.” —Contemporary Church History Quarterly
The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. III
Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, prepared by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, examines the universe of camps and ghettos)—more than 40,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway...
Ex-Centric Migrations
Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb...
by Kathryn T. Gines
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt’s treatment of the "Negro question." Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to...