Stanford University Press: 1317 books
The Origins of the Tiandihui
The Chinese Triads in Legend and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
The Tiandihui, also known as the Heaven and Earth Association or the Triads, was one of the earliest, largest, and most enduring of the Chinese secret societies that have played crucial roles at decisive junctures in modern Chinese history. These organizations were characterized by ceremonial rituals,...
The Fringes of Belief
English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional...
National Matters
Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice. Examining a range of "things"—from art objects, clay fragments, and broken stones to clothing, food, and urban green space—the contributors to...
No Billionaire Left Behind
Satirical Activism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class. Many Americans leave it to politicians and the media to debate these topics in the public sphere. Yet other seemingly ordinary Americans have decided to enter the conversation of wealth in America by donning ball...
Ethics as a Work of Charity
Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious commitments than our own. Rather than flattening or ignoring the deep difference between various visions of the good life, as is so often done,...
Being Given
Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Henry), it ventures a bold...
About Europe
Philosophical Hypotheses
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing. All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European identity is to be open to multiplicity, but this very openness could dissolve Europe as such. This book...
Philosophy and Melancholy
Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by Heidegger's discussion...
Poetic Force
Poetry after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by...
The Book of Shem
On Genesis before Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Can anyone say anything that has not already been said about the most scrutinized text in human history? In one of the most radical rereadings of the opening chapters of Genesis since The Zohar, David Kishik manages to do just that. The Book of Shem, a philosophical meditation on the beginning of...
The Practice of Misuse
Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "rugged consumers" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior...
Between Philosophy and Literature
Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin as a Modernist thinker torn between an ideological secularity and a profound religious sensibility, invariably concerned with questions of ethics and...
World and Life as One
Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
In this volume, senior scholars come together to explore how Jewish and African American experiences can make us think differently about the nexus of religion and politics, or political theology. Some wrestle with historical figures, such as William Shakespeare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nazi journalist Wilhelm...