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Bodies of Truth

Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

by Rita Kesselring
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory. In 2002, victims of apartheid-era violence filed suit against multinational corporations, accusing them...
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Rawls and Habermas

Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy

by Todd Hedrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men question how we can be free and autonomous under coercive law and how we might collectively use our reason to justify exercises of political power. In pluralistic...
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Campaigning for Children

Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights

by Jo Becker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution...
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Islandology

Geography, Rhetoric, Politics

by Marc Shell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014

Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece)...
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Convulsing Bodies

Religion and Resistance in Foucault

by Mark D. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline...
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Counterfeit Capital

Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony

by Jennifer Bajorek
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience...
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Transparency in Postwar France

A Critical History of the Present

by Stefanos Geroulanos
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for...
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The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson

Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England

by Jessica Malay
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In...
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Behind the Laughs

Community and Inequality in Comedy

by Michael P. Jeffries
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Comedy is a brutal business. When comedians define success, they don't talk about money—they talk about not quitting. They work in a business where even big names work for free, and the inequalities of race, class, and gender create real barriers. But they also work in a business where people still...
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A Life in Shadow

Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858

by Stephen Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America,...
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Less Rightly Said

Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France

by Antonia Szabari
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009

Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal...
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A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story

Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

by Rebecca Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion...
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Medieval Venuses and Cupids

Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry

by Theresa Tinkle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996

Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus...
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Outlaw Justice

The Messianic Politics of Paul

by Theodore W. Jennings , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben,...
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