Stanford University Press: 1317 books
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France
The Political Thought of Mably
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship....
Silencing the Sea
Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military...
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism
When God Left the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms...
Male Confessions
Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective...
Inequality in the Promised Land
Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Nestled in neighborhoods of varying degrees of affluence, suburban public schools are typically better resourced than their inner-city peers and known for their extracurricular offerings and college preparatory programs. Despite the glowing opportunities that many families associate with suburban...
Race and Classification
The Case of Mexican America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population,...
The Latino Threat
Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the...
Broken Links, Enduring Ties
American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact...
The Reckoning of Pluralism
Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism...
Homeless Tongues
Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature:...
Dead Pledges
Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists,...
Inheriting the Future
Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each...
by Maria Boletsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since...
The World of Freedom
Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there...