Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Becoming Soviet Jews
The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
An “endlessly rewarding” contribution to the study of Jewish life in the Soviet Union: “Fascinating . . . nuanced and respectful of human limitations” (Slavic Review).
Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our...
The Holocaust
History & Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
“A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical...
Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi
An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Joachim Prinz (1902–1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never one for conformity, Prinz developed and modeled a new rabbinical role that set him apart from his colleagues in Weimar Germany. Provocative, strikingly informal and determinedly anti-establishment,...
In Search of Jewish Community
Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1999
A collection of essays interrogates the nature of Jewish identity in the time between two world wars.
The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation,...
A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross
The Cruciform Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? In this provocative book, Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self—through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor—and a theology of the cross—through Luther, Kierkegaard,...
Nomadic Text
A Theory of Biblical Reception History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission,...
Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology
Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his thought together with the theology and practices of an important contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume provokes active, productive, critical, and creative...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts and contexts, of...
Pragmatic Fashions
Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a...
by Deborah Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative,...
The Style of Paris
Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
... impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." —Sixteenth Century Journal
In this book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They...
Nietzsche and Phenomenology
Power, Life, Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
What are the challenges that Nietzsche's philosophy poses for contemporary phenomenology? Elodie Boublil, Christine Daigle, and an international group of scholars take Nietzsche in new directions and shed light on the sources of phenomenological method in Nietzsche, echoes and influences of Nietzsche...
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1976
"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises...