Stanford University: 1318 books
Unexpected Alliances
Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural...
by Zina Weygand
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle...
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers
Volume Two, 1931–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The 1930s marked a turning point for the world. Scientific and technological revolutions, economic and social upheavals, and the outbreak of war changed the course of history. The 1930s also marked a turning point for Robinson Jeffers, both in his career as a poet and in his private life. The letters...
In History's Grip
Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features...
Theaters of Justice
Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials...
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and...
Inventing New Beginnings
On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very fundamental, yet hitherto strangely...
Goddess on the Frontier
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local...
An American Cakewalk
Ten Syncopators of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists,and a polyglot...
by Paul North
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack...
From Deficit to Deluge
The Origins of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts...
The Virtues of Abandon
An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood....
The Kingdom and the Glory
For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order...
Opus Dei
An Archaeology of Duty
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces...