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What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
What Nostalgia Was unearths...
Outsider Scientists
Routes to Innovation in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics,...
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism...
The Sciences of the Soul
The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Fernando Vidal’s trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Originally published in...
Socrates and the Jews
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking...
Judaism Despite Christianity
The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Collected here, this correspondence provides an intimate...
Alive in the Writing
Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer—but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing—an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis—anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some...
God
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
At the center of Franco Ferrucci's God: An Autobiography is one tender, troubled character: God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with Earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve...
by Michael Polanyi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy.
Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood...
Beyond Weird
Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”
Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002–2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses...
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when...
Birth of the Living God
A Psychoanalytic Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Utilizing both clinical material based on the life histories of twenty patients and theoretical insights from the works of Freud, Erikson, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, Ana-Maria Rizzuto examines the origin, development, and use of our God images. Whereas Freud postulated that belief in God is based on...
Image Science
Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell’s now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial...