Stanford University: 1318 books
Kantian Ethics and Economics
Autonomy, Dignity, and Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This book introduces the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—in particular, the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—to economic theory, explaining the importance of integrating these two streams of intellectual thought. Mainstream economics is rooted in classical utilitarianism, recommending...
Class Work
Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What happens to youth who fail the state's high-stakes...
Markets and Bodies
Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also...
A Place to Call Home
Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory...
The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole
Algerian Families and the French Welfare State during Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of...
Having It All in the Belle Epoque
How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having it All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France. The first two photographic magazines aimed at women, Femina and La Vie Heureuse...
Queer Theory
The French Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology imported from the United States....
An Unpromising Land
Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Jewish migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was one of the dramatic events that changed the Jewish people in modern times. Millions of Jews sought to escape the distressful conditions of their lives in Eastern Europe and find a better future for themselves...
Our Conrad
Constituting American Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world....
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic...
Dreaming of Michelangelo
Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover"...
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic...
Plant Theory
Biopower and Vegetable Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian...