Stanford University Press: 1317 books
The Messianic Reduction
Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of...
Georges Bataille
Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought...
The Limits of Whiteness
Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be...
by Kathryne M. Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne M. Young was one of those disgruntled law students. After finishing law school (and a PhD), she set out to learn more about...
Violence Taking Place
The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former...
Building Colonial Cities of God
Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home...
by Adam Kotsko
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle:...
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the...
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance
Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated—culturally, socially, and politically—into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied...
by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining...
The Parable and Its Lesson
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these...
Beyond Expulsion
Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships...
Brides of Christ
Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to...
The Invisible War
Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native...