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A Nation of Neighborhoods
Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood...
We Were Adivasis
Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state’s relationship to “Scheduled Tribes,” or adivasis—historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka...
The Alchemical Body
Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by...
Politics without Vision
Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of...
Tough Enough
Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and...
Interpretation and Social Knowledge
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering...
Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents...
How the States Shaped the Nation
American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that have had—and continue to have—sizable local...
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions
Essays in Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends...
The Quest
History and Meaning in Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown...
Poor Tom
Living "King Lear"
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king—Edgar—has often seemed little more than a blank, ignored and unloved, a belated moralizer who, try as...
Making Hispanics
How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics....
American Value
Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income now coming from a massive emigrant workforce—over a quarter of its population—that...
by Kenneth Hart Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides, Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss’s thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss made the radical realization that other ancient and...