Stanford University Press: 1317 books
A Covenant of Creatures
Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works...
Memos from the Besieged City
Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing...
The Great Social Laboratory
Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad...
by Paul A. Kottman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence...
Transformative Beauty
Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, Transformative Beauty examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral...
by Elizabeth S. Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance of phenomena—including money, gender, urban...
Anthropology's Politics
Disciplining the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as...
The Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity,...
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily...
by F. David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
In 1830, the dominant social outlook of the early Victorians was a paternalism that looked to property, the Church, and local Justices of the Peace to govern society and deal with its ills. By 1860, however, the dominant social outlook had become a vision of a laissez faire society that relied on...
Lucrecia the Dreamer
Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Set in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de León, a young woman of modest background who gained a dangerously popular reputation as a prophetic dreamer predicting apocalyptic ruin for her country. When Lucrecia was still a teenager, several Catholic priests...
Twilight Nationalism
Politics of Existence at Life's End
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish...
The Power of Representation
Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas...
Faces of Aging
The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implications for the future, we do not know much about the actual aging process. Senior citizens and their varied experiences have, for the most part, been obscured by stereotypes. This...