Penn State University Press: 456 books
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Volume 5: Britannicus
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent’s translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racine’s dramas, and the coiled strength of his verse, while breathing new vigor into...
Art for Animals
Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people...
Humanism and the Urban World
Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the...
by James Rolleston
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Can one speak of Kafka's heroes as "characters"? If so, why is it so hard to define their characteristics? If not, how is the reader persuaded to accompany them on their existential journeys, accepting their behavior as falling within the realm of human logic? This study argues that Kafka's...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation”...
From Memory to Memorial
Shanksville, America, and Flight 93
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
On September 11, 2001, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, became a center of national attention when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a former strip mine in sleepy Somerset County, killing all forty passengers and crew aboard. This is the story of the memorialization that followed, from immediate, unofficial...
Jacob Green’s Revolution
Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading...
The Schenley Experiment
A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The Schenley Experiment is the story of Pittsburgh’s first public high school, a social incubator in a largely segregated city that was highly—even improbably—successful throughout its 156-year existence.
Established in 1855 as Central High School and reorganized in 1916, Schenley High...
Letters to Power
Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval,...
Framing Majismo
Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed...
by John Kenneth Rhoads
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1991
Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx,...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
by Daniel A. Dombrowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
To probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order, John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that abstracted from many of the details of ordinary life. But this very abstraction became a point of criticism, as it left unclear the implications of his theory for public policies...
From Alienation to Forms of Life
The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory...