Stanford University: 1318 books
Hasidism Incarnate
Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together insightful new statements from scholars in religious studies, art history, philosophy, and musicology to show...
Suddenly, the Sight of War
Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed as they became aware of...
Ancestral Tales
Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population...
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even...
Common Knowledge?
An Ethnography of Wikipedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even...
Nisei Naysayer
The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the U.S. government's...
Reinventing the Republic
Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse...
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
On a Hidden Potential of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language...
To Save the Children of Korea
The Cold War Origins of International Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.
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Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new theories of civil conflict and terrorism after the...
Desire and Distance
Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Desire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in significant and original ways from their...
K-pop Live
Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of...
Youth and Empire
Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire. Youth and Empire brings to light new research and new interpretations on two relatively neglected fields of study: the history of imperialism in East and South East Asia and, more...