Indiana University Press: 1129 books
by Richard McCombs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets...
A Phenomenology of Christian Life
Glory and Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
How does Christian philosophy address phenomena in the world? Felix Ó Murchadha believes that seeing, hearing, or otherwise sensing the world through faith requires transcendence or thinking through glory and night (being and meaning). By challenging much of Western metaphysics, Ó Murchadha shows...
Living in the Ottoman Realm
Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire’s existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals,...
Social Housing in the Middle East
Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both...
Built to Move Millions
Streetcar Building in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
At the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. Once ubiquitously visible on the city streets, by mid-century the streetcar was nothing more than a distant memory. Ohio was home to several large streetcar systems, especially in Cleveland and...
Self-Understanding and Lifeworld
Basic Traits of a Phenomenological Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What are the foundations of human self-understanding and the value of responsible philosophical questioning? Focusing on Heidegger's early work on facticity, historicity, and the phenomenological hermeneutics of factical-historical life, Hans-Helmuth Gander develops an idea of understanding that reflects...
by Søren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Søren Kierkegaard's 13 communion discourses constitute a distinct genre among the various forms of religious writing composed by Kierkegaard. Originally published at different times and places, Kierkegaard himself believed that these discourses served as a unifying element in his work and were crucial...
by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is “a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts” (Science).
What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various...
Rice Talks
Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Rice Talks explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting...
Lynton Keith Caldwell
An Environmental Visionary and the National Environmental Policy Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This is the story of a visionary leader, Lynton Keith Caldwell, who in the early 1960s introduced the study of the environment and environmental policy at a time when such areas of expertise did not exist. Caldwellwas a principal architect of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 andis recognized...
by Jennifer Givhan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask.
In four rich...
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas
Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such exercises...
Have the Mountains Fallen?
Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from three Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay fled to the West and was charged as a traitor in his homeland of Kyrgyzstan in Soviet Central Asia. Chingiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, propelled by family loss to write...
Preserving Petersburg
History, Memory, Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation,...