Stanford University: 1318 books
by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the...
Mourning Sickness
Hegel and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought...
New Demons
Rethinking Power and Evil Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given...
Defending National Treasures
French Art and Heritage Under Vichy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was a crucial locus of power struggles between German and French leaders and among influential figures in each country. Karlsgodt examines the preservation...
Julian Bell
From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic...
Opera and the City
The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea...
After Yugoslavia
The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of...
Moscow in Movement
Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series...
Police Aesthetics
Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the...
Genocide in the Carpathians
War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II,...
Giorgio Agamben
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have...
After La Dolce Vita
A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was...
Living Thought
The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world...