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Impossible Modernism
T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release—which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies....
by Brenda Machosky
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways. The contributors include Jody Enders, Karen Feldman, Angus Fletcher, Blair Hoxby, Brenda Machosky, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Stephen Orgel, Maureen Quilligan,...
Clepsydra
Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and...
Critical Excess
Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the...
Chinese Chicago
Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this...
Testing the Limit
Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered...
by Gerald Bruns
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years,...
The Off-Screen
An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a realm we understand as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses. As practices and ideas travel the globe—such as the promotion and transmission of zero tolerance and retributive justice programs, the near ubiquitous acceptance of the...
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...