Stanford University: 1318 books
Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas...
The Mystery of Evil
Benedict XVI and the End of Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question...
Anonymous Life
Romanticism and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana...
Sediments of Time
On Possible Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory...
After 1945
Latency as Origin of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging...
by Kaja Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized...
The Yield
Kafka's Atheological Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this book presents us with a Kafka few will...
Exemplarity and Mediocrity
The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary...
In Praise of Nonsense
Kant and Bluebeard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque...
In the Self's Place
The Approach of Saint Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian...
Mother Folly
A Tale — Enhanced Ebook Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...
Italy’s Eighteenth Century
Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock...