Indiana University Press: 1129 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the religious life, and what it means to...
Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility
The Ethical Significance of Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other...
The First Book of Jewish Jokes
The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections...
The Bare Bones
An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, paleobiologist...
The Return of Nature
On the Beyond of Sense
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space for...
Plato's Laws
Force and Truth in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on...
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1987
Meir Sternberg’s classic study is “an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work.” (Adele Berlin, Prooftexts)
In “a book to read and then reread” (Modern Language Review), Meir Sternberg “has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding...
Spain Unmoored
Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Long viewed as Spain’s "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical narratives about the city’s Muslim past in order to navigate...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Drawing on the expertise of Chinese and Western academics and practitioners, the contributors to this volume aim to advance the understanding of philanthropy for health in China in the 20th century and to identify future challenges and opportunities. Considering government, NGO leaders, domestic philanthropists,...
Humble Theory
Folklore's Grasp on Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for...
Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age
Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the...
by Dale R. Herspring
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1996
... a volume that provides both solid historical background for the novice reader and provocative and thoughtful material for the more advanced scholar. It should find wide classroom use at all levels and will be an important addition to the bookshelf of any analyst of post-Soviet security affairs."...
David Bergelson's Strange New World
Untimeliness and Futurity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects...
Logic of Imagination
The Expanse of the Elemental
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imagination, John Sallis sets out to unsettle the traditional conception of logic, to mark its limits, and,...