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Politics of Deconstruction
A New Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The book offers a new introduction to Jacques Derrida and to Deconstruction as an important strand of Continental Philosophy. From his early writings on phenomenology and linguistics to his later meditations on war, terrorism, and justice, Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) achieved prominence on an international...
Human Rights as a Way of Life
On Bergson's Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially...
Deleuzian Concepts
Philosophy, Colonization, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. They situate his thought in the contemporary intellectual landscape by comparing him with contemporaries such as Derrida, Rorty, and Rawls and show how elements of his philosophy...
The Problem with Grace
Reconfiguring Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political theology, Vincent Lloyd investigates a series of religious concepts such as love, faith, liturgy, and...
Refugees of the Revolution
Experiences of Palestinian Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees...
Burying the Beloved
Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism...
Mandatory Separation
Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated varied responses over the last century. Taking Jewish and Islamic education as its objects of inquiry,...
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but...
by Robert A. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work,...
by Selina Lai-Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese...
Figuring Korean Futures
Children’s Literature in Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart, the perception that the child's...
Accident Society
Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents."...
A River Flows from Eden
The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality. Hellner-Eshed's book investigates...
The Emotional Politics of Racism
How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens...