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Book SynopsisBased on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, the author shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines.Trade Review"By highlighting new challenges and forms of resistance to racist ideologies, Roth-Gordon makes an outstanding contribution to a global dialogue on race that illustrates the hegemonic forces at play that maintain racial inequalities." * American Ethnologist *"Although decades of ink have already been spilled on the still contentious issue of racism in Brazil (and Latin America more broadly), Roth- Gordon’s book points to fruitful areas for future research." * Anthropological Quarterly *" A must-read for scholars studying race and politics in Brazil." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Roth-Gordon offers important in-sights in fewer than two hundred pages of clearly articulated text. . .the book is a rare pedagogical gem." * General Anthropology *"A remarkably accessible book that will be of great interest to scholars of race in Latin America who wish to incorporate an attention to language and practice to theirown work. The book’ s clear explanations of how the research was organized and executed likewise make it an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates and graduate students." * Journal of Latin American Studies *"[Roth-Gordon] presents [her findings] in an accessible narrative that would provide compelling reading for an undergraduate course on race or Brazil and might help us all better understand why famously 'cordial' Brazilians recently elected an uncordially racist president." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. BRAZIL'S "COMFORTABLE RACIAL CONTRADICTION" 2. "GOOD" APPEARANCES: RACE, LANGUAGE, AND CITIZENSHIP 3. INVESTING IN WHITENESS: MIDDLE-CLASS PRACTICES OF LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINE 4. FEARS OF RACIAL CONTACT: CRIME, VIOLENCE, AND THE STRUGGLE OVER URBAN SPACE 5. AVOIDING BLACKNESS: THE FLIP SIDE OF BOA APARENCIA 6. MAKING THE MANO: THE UNCOMFORTABLE VISIBILITY OF BLACKNESS IN POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS BRAZILIAN HIP-HOP CONCLUSION: "SEEING" RACE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Golden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations of the culturally intimate space of prayer on the gramophone-era cantorial golden age. Jeremiah Lockwood proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice that calls upon the sounds and structures of Jewish sacred musical heritage to disrupt the aesthetics and power hierarchies of their conservative community, defying institutional authority and pushing at normative boundaries of sacred and secular. Beyond its role as a desirable art form, golden age cantorial music offers aspiring Hasidic singers a form of Jewish cultural productivity in which artistic excellence, maverick outsider status, and sacred authority are aligned.

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Book SynopsisAnthropological linguistics is concerned with the place of language in its social and cultural context. This book provides a review of research questions which span the disciplines of linguinitics and anthropology, yet presents a biologically based view of this cross-disciplinary field.Trade Review"Foley's book illustrates quite convincingly that 'Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind'(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics "I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist - inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of AdelaideTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction. Part II: The Evolution of Language. 2. The Evolution of Language. Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind. 3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World. 4. Structuralism. 5. Cognitive Anthropology. 6. Kinship. 7. Color. Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind. 8. On Relativist Understanding. 9. Models and Metaphors. 10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition. 11. Space. 12. Classifiers. Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking. 13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples. 14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. 15. Language and Gender. 16. Language and Social Position. 17. Language and Socialisation. 18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art. Part VI: Culture and Language Change. 19. Contact Induced Language Change. 20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering. 21. Literacy. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post--modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality.Trade Review"is to be highly recommended as a basic critical commentary for both specialist and non-specialist alike." Philosophical Studies "A valuable resource not only in providing an interest perspective on Habermas's work but in offering a guide to much of the relevant literature on it." Philosophical Quarterly . "A clear, cogent, sympathetic-critical discussion of issues." James L Marsh, Fordham University .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. The Dilemmas of Modernity2. The Strategy of the Theory of Communicative Action3. The Problems in the Theory of Communicative Action4. Discourse Ethics5. Communication and the Law6. Reading Habermas: Modernity versus Post-Modernity Jurgen Habermas: A Bibliography by Rene GortzenIndex

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Book SynopsisThe main argument of this book is that people use material objects to express themselves and their cultures. Drawing on examples from both Western and developing cultures, it shows that everyday objects reflect not only personal tastes and attributes, but also moral principles and social ideals.Table of ContentsPreface vii Part I Objectification 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Hegel and Objectification 19 3 Marx: Objectification as Rupture 34 4 Munn: Objectification as Culture 50 5 Simmel: Objectification as Modernity 68 Part II Material Culture 83 6 The Humility of Objects 85 7 Artefacts in their Contexts 109 Part III Mass Consumption 131 8 The Study of Consumption 133 9 Object Domains, Ideology and Interests 158 10 Towards a Theory of Consumption 178 References 219 Index 233

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Book SynopsisThis book is Lash''s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of ''difference'' and ''reflexivity'' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. ThTrade Review"Serious, intelligent and innovative, this book compels us to rethink our modern/ postmodern certainties." Mark Poster, Laguna Beach, CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Space:. 2. The First Modernity: Humans and Machines. Garden City and Functionalism. Structuralism. Formalism. Modernist Humanism?. Conclusions. 3. Simulated Humanism: Postmodern Architecture. Avant-gardes. History. Humanism. Complexity. Vernacular. Conclujsions. 4. Ground the City. Fields of Mapping: Grids and Labyrinths. Productions of Space: Classical and Gothic. The Other Modernity: Lived Space in Japan. Urban Space and Allegory. Part II: Society. 5. From System to Symbol: Durkheim and French Sociology. Space and Society. System. Symbol: Durkheim and Mauss. 6. Symbol and Allegory: Simmel and German Sociology. Values and Facts. From Symbol to Allegory. Conclusion. Part III: Experience. 7. The Natural Attitude and the Reflexive Attitude. Alfred Schutz: from Meaning to Understanding Signification and Existence. 8. Difference and Infinity: Derrida. Kant, Husserl, Derrida. Escape from Totality. Time and Self-presence. Three Modes of Signification. Part IV: Judgement. 9. Reflexive Judgement and Aesthetic Subjectivity. Finality of the Object, Singularity of the Subject. Permanence and Finitude: Gadamer. 10. Discourse, Figure....Sensation. The Body With Organs. Greeks, Jews, Pagans. Conclusions. Part V: Objects. 11. Objects that Judge: Latour's Parliament of Things. Towards a Non-Modern Constitution. Morphisms Weavers and Object Trackers. Ç'accuse. Networks: Spiralling Time and Space. 12. Bad Objects: Virilio. From Cité to War Machine. Death: Bads, Contingency, Theodicy. From War to Cinema. From the Mental and the Instrumental: The End of the Gaze. Polar Inertia: The Last Vehicle. Time of Exposure. 13. The Symbolic in Fragments: Walter Benjamin's Talking Things. Allegory: The Aesthetics of Destruction. Protestant Ethic, Baroque Melancholy. 14. Conclusion. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is Lash''s most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts. Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment rationality of progress, order, homogeneity and cognition - initiated a different rationality of uncertainty, transience, experiment, and the unknowable. This second, this other modernity, is present in notions of ''difference'' and ''reflexivity'' so central to the contemporary world-view. The logic, however, of such notions can, itself, lead to the same unhappy abstraction of the first modernity. What is forgotten, Scott Lash argues, is the dimension of the ground. This book consists of explorations into this ground: as place, community, belonging, sociality, tradition, life-world; as symbol, sensation, in the tactile character of the sign. ThTrade Review"Serious, intelligent and innovative, this book compels us to rethink our modern/ postmodern certainties." Mark Poster, Laguna Beach, CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Space:. 2. The First Modernity: Humans and Machines. Garden City and Functionalism. Structuralism. Formalism. Modernist Humanism?. Conclusions. 3. Simulated Humanism: Postmodern Architecture. Avant-gardes. History. Humanism. Complexity. Vernacular. Conclujsions. 4. Ground the City. Fields of Mapping: Grids and Labyrinths. Productions of Space: Classical and Gothic. The Other Modernity: Lived Space in Japan. Urban Space and Allegory. Part II: Society. 5. From System to Symbol: Durkheim and French Sociology. Space and Society. System. Symbol: Durkheim and Mauss. 6. Symbol and Allegory: Simmel and German Sociology. Values and Facts. From Symbol to Allegory. Conclusion. Part III: Experience. 7. The Natural Attitude and the Reflexive Attitude. Alfred Schutz: from Meaning to Understanding Signification and Existence. 8. Difference and Infinity: Derrida. Kant, Husserl, Derrida. Escape from Totality. Time and Self-presence. Three Modes of Signification. Part IV: Judgement. 9. Reflexive Judgement and Aesthetic Subjectivity. Finality of the Object, Singularity of the Subject. Permanence and Finitude: Gadamer. 10. Discourse, Figure....Sensation. The Body With Organs. Greeks, Jews, Pagans. Conclusions. Part V: Objects. 11. Objects that Judge: Latour's Parliament of Things. Towards a Non-Modern Constitution. Morphisms Weavers and Object Trackers. Ç'accuse. Networks: Spiralling Time and Space. 12. Bad Objects: Virilio. From Cité to War Machine. Death: Bads, Contingency, Theodicy. From War to Cinema. From the Mental and the Instrumental: The End of the Gaze. Polar Inertia: The Last Vehicle. Time of Exposure. 13. The Symbolic in Fragments: Walter Benjamin's Talking Things. Allegory: The Aesthetics of Destruction. Protestant Ethic, Baroque Melancholy. 14. Conclusion. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Beginning with the celebration of true love in contemporary popular romance, and the reluctant scepticism of postmodern novels, she goes on to explore past representation of passion by Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Spenser, Donne, Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennyson and Bram Stoker. Belsey also discusses the role of desire in the utopian writings of Plato, More and William Morris, as well as its treatment by a range of speculative feminists, from Charlotte perkins Gilman to Marge Piercy.Trade Review"A book that is pointed, illuminating and beautifully written ... Belsey pursues her topic through western culture with a quickness and subtlety that seems equal to the elusive twists and turns of desire itself." THES "Her account is a ripping yarn in its own right. Such writing contributes directly to what Morris liked to call the 'education of desire': the vital task of teaching us not only to contest and resist what exists, but how to desire, and how to expand the scope of what we might desire instead. Thanks to Catherine Belsey's splendid book, that task no longer looks quite so tough." Kiernan Ryan, University of Cambridge "A superb account of desire in popular and canonical literature, as Belsey conclusively demonstrates, desire itself is not only operative in sexual and romantic fantasies. It is operative everywhere. Belsey's book should be required reading for writers of romance novels." Harriet Hawkins, Critical Survey "Both unsettling and strangely moving. By tracing the constraints and resistances of desire in their historical discontinuity, Belsey proposes to provide desire with a history." Margaret Bridges, The European English MessengerTable of ContentsIllustrations. Preface. Part I: Desire Now:. 1. Prologue: Writing About Desire. 2. Reading Love Stories. 3. Desire in Theory: Freud, Lacan, Derrida. 4. Postmodern Love. Part II: Desire at Other Times:. 5. Adultery in King Arthur's Court. 6. John Donne's Worlds of Desire. 7. Demon Lovers. 8. Futures: Desire and Utopia. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis open university reader is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It contains more than eighty extracts drawn from a variety of genres including political, religious, philosophical and legal writing, diaries, letters, plays, poems and fiction. Some have never previously been published, others have not been reprinted since their original appearance in the sixteenth century, and a number are translated into modern English for the first time. `Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600'' includes writing from such renowned thinkers as Erasmus, Luther, Machiavelli, and Sir Thomas More, besides that of lesser-known authors. Works of literature also feature extensively, and writings from Cervantes, Rabelais, Edmund Spenser, and Sir Philip Sidney amongst many others are all to be found here. A general introduction describes the anthologTable of ContentsPart I: Humanism, Popular Culture and Belief: . 1. The Spicers' Play (1463-1477). 2. The Pewterers and Founders 'Play (1463-1477). 3. Late Medieval Ghost Stories. 4. The Pilgrimage of William Wey (1456). 5. Pico: A Young Philosopher Defends his right to Dispute in Public (1486). 6. Summa Theologica: Thomas Aquinas. 7. The Profession of the Religious: Lorenzo Valla. 8. Erasmus and John Colet (1499-1516). 9. Erasmus: Colloquies and Writings (1523-1526). 10. The Prince: Machiavelli (1513). 11. The Courtier: Castiglione (1528). 12. Gargantua (1534) and Pantagruel (1532): Rabelais. 13. The Church and Discipline. Part II: Civic Pride and Civic Patronage: Venice and Antwerp: . 14. Governing Venice: Contarini (1534). 15. Antwerp: Guicciardini (1567). 16. The Civic Inventory of Household Goods: a Sample for the Antwerp Notary (1582). 17. Inventory of Michiel's Description of the Collection of Andrea Odoni, Venice (1530). 18. The Inventory of Margaratta Boge (1574). 19. Marcantonio Michiel's Description of the Collection of Andrea Odoni, Venice (1530). 20. The Inventory of Willem Pauwels (1481). 21. Bessarion's Act of Donation (1468). 22. Bessarion's Library (1474). 23. Harmony of the World: Giorgi (1525). Part III: Reformation: . 24. Articles of Tabor (1420). 25. Lollard Documents. 26. The Council of Trent and Religious Act (1563). 27. Against the Heavenly Prophets: Luther (1525). 28. The Old Game: Hans Sachs (1554). 29. Martin Luther (1520s). 30. John Calvin (15360. 31. William Tyndale and the Principles of Protestantism (1530). 32. 'The Wittenberg Nightingale': Hans Sachs. 33. The Vanity and Uncertainty of the Arts and Sciences (1530): Agrippa. Part IV: Religious Reform and Cultural Change: Spain and England:. 34. Caxton's Prologue to Virgil's Aeneid (1490). 35. Dialogue Concerning Heresies: Sir Thomas Moore (1528). 36. Preface to Euclid's Elements: John Dee (1570). 37. Autobiography: Ignatius de Loyola (1553). 38. Spiritual Exercises: Ignatius de Loyola (1522-1577). 39. Life: St Teresa of Avila (1565). 40. Three Poems by Luis de Leon (1572-1577). 41. 'Whether it is Right to Destroy a Tyrant': Juan de Mariana (1599). Part V: Europe and the Wider World:. 42. On the Netherlands (1520-1521): Dürer. 43. Travel Journal (1580-1581): Montaigne. 44. An Itinerary: Fynes Moryson (1591-1597). 45. A View of the Present State of Ireland: Spenser (1590s). 46. Letter from Isabella and Ferdinand to the Moorish King (1491). 47. Petition from Francisco Nunez Muley, Morisco Noble (1567). 48. Impressions of Turkey: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1556-1564). 49. Navigations Made into Turkey: Nicholas de Nicolay (1567). 50. Accounts of Mexico: Bernal Diaz (1568). 51. Voyage to Virginia: John White. 52. Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (1519). 53. Letter to Piero Soderini: Amerigo Vespucci (1504). 54. First Voyage: Columbus (1492-1493). 55. On the Indians: Sepulveda (1547). 56. On the Indians: Las Casas (1552). 57. On the Indians: Mendieta (1596). 58. Defence of the Indians: Vitoria (1537-1539). 59. On the Indiands and Animals of the New World: Jose de Acosta (1590). 60. Questionnaire on the Spanish American Empire (1577-1586). Part VI: Print Culture:. 61. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory. 62. 'Sermon on the Ploughers': Hugh Latimer (1548). 63. Don Quixote: Cervantes. Part VII: The Crisis of Authority: France:. 64. The Monarchy of France: Claude de Seyssel. 65. Restoration of the Gospel: Lefèvre d'Étaples. 66. Autobiography: Cellini (1559). 67. Claude de Seyssel Three Bridles on Princely Power (1519). 68. Strengths and Weaknesses of France: Suriano (1561). 69. Exclusion of Women: Hotman (1573). 70. Innocent Gentillet: Anti-Machiavel (1576). 71. Method: Bodin (1566). 72. Six books of the Commonwealth: Bodin. 73. Entertainment at Antwerp (1582). Part VIII: Church, State and Literature in Britain:. 74. The Acts of Supremacy (1534, 1559). 75. The Vestiarian Controversy: Laurence Humphrey, Thomas Sampson and Bishop Grindal (1563-1566). 76. Scottish Ballards and Court Poetry. 77. Astrophil and Stella: Sir Philip Sidney (1582). 78. A Defence of Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney (1582). Index.

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Book SynopsisPresents the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of Europe. This companion conveys the feel of a particular period and the preoccupations of the public to which writers addressed their plays, novels, and poems.Trade Review"The whole book is more thoughtfully planned and more disciplined in execution than the Cambridge volume {'History' by Watanabe}." "Due attention is paid to women's writing without distortion of historical reality." "Overall it is fair to say that Sagarra and Skrine win on points over the Cambridge team {'History' by Watanabe}." Boyd Mullan, The Year's Work in Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsPreface. List of Maps. Note to the Reader. 1. The Sixteenth Century. 2. The Seventeenth Century. 3. The Augustan Age of German Literature. 4. The Classical Age of German Literature. 5. The Romantic Era. 6. From Biedermeier to Realism. 7. The Literature of the Metropolis. 8. Classical Modernism. 9. Literature after 1945. Postscript. Biographical Index. General Index.

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Book SynopsisTerry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Michael Payne and M.A.R.Habib; The significance of theory, Terry Eagleton; art after Auschwitz - Adorno's political aesthetics Terry Eagleton; criticism, ideology, and fiction, Terry Eagleton and Michael Payne.

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Book SynopsisCentral to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present.Table of ContentsList of contributors vi Preface vii Part I Structuralism 1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Beyond 3 Part II Hermeneutics 2 Paul Ricoeur: Action, Meaning and Text 85 3 Clifford Geertz: Towards a More 'Thick' Understanding? 121 Part III Post-Structuralism 4 Roland Barthes: From Sign to Text 163 5 Jacques Derrida: 'There is nothing outside of the text' 206 6 Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology 281 Index 348

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Book Synopsisaeo The first introduction to the work of Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva in one volume. aeo Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists. aeo Clear, accessible and introductory. aeo Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida.Trade Review"[Shows] perception and originality." Julia Kristeva "By intensive reading clarified by historical and intertexual contexts of each of the authors, he achieves a series of brilliant explications".... I have never read a more lucid explanation of these ideas". James R. Bennett, University of ArkansasTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Theoretical Beginnings: Introductions to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva. 2. Ecrits: A Selection. 3. Of Grammatology. 4. Revolution in Poetic Language. 5. Reading Paintings. Appendix I: Lacan's Use of Freud's German Terms. Appendix II: Derrida's Abbreviated Citations. Appendix III: Some Kristevan Terms. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat is, or are, Cultural Studies? In this outstanding critical and historical account, Fred Inglis, strips away the philosophical incoherence of Cultural Studies to reveal a common focus within the protean subject--matter and complex history of the field.Table of ContentsA Summary of the Argument. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Politics of Experience: . 1. The Politics of Experience. Part II: Origins:. 2. English for the English. 3. Marxism under Fascism: the intellectual in Politics. 4. Doing things with Words. Part III: For and Against Method:. 5. For and Against Method. 6. Relativism and Heumeneutics. 7. Grand Theory and Local Knowledge. Part IV: The Varieties of Intellectual Experience:. 8. Art or Culture?. 9. Experience into History: Theory and Biography. 10. How to do Cultural Studies. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they now constitute the new academic order. Scott Wilson explains and demonstrates the power of these modes of critical enquiry and explores their limitations. His book provides a forceful critical engagement with major figures in the field - Francis Barker, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Greenblatt, Alan Sinfield. He also shows how cultural materialism is applied in practiceTrade Review"Wilson focuses each of the three large parts of this book on one of three philosophical areas central to cultural materialism: value, history, and community. He provides excellent theoretical accounts of these areas. However, what makes this book more than an introduction is the author's decision to make each of these three abstract discussions a preface to textual analysis (chiefly of texts by Shakespeare, Middleton and Rowley, and Wilde). Through his textual analysis, he concretely demonstrates many of the strengths and weaknesses of cultural materialism and also suggests the power of his own brand of cultural materialism, which is deeply infused by Foucault, Benjamin, Lacan and Bataille. The book thereby becomes, elegantly, not only a brilliant account of cultural materialism but also a major contribution to its future." (I) Choice (D)Table of ContentsPreface. Part One: Cultural Materialism:. 1. Introduction. 2. Culture and Materialism. 3. Stephen Greenblatt and New Historicism. Part Two: Value:. 4. Shakespeare. 5. Usure in The Merchant of Venice. Part Three: History:. 6. The Four Fundamental Discourses of History. 7. Enjoying the Nature of Britain in King Lear. 8. General Economy and The Changeling. Part Four: Community:. 9. The Utopian Orgy. 10. Queer Gifts. 11. Oscar Wilde and the Love of the Impossible. 12. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisZygmunt Baumana s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.Trade Review"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of 'moral law inside me' as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules. 2. The Elusive Universality. 3. The Elusive Foundations. 4. The Moral Party of Two. 5. Beyond the Moral Party. 6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral. 7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks. 8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning. Index.

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Book SynopsisNo project holds a more prominent place in the development of modern European thought than the critical theory. Usually associated with various members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research of the 1920s and 1930s, critical theory has been enormously influential and quite controversial in its manifold claims. Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists provides unique interpretations of critical theory''s most important representatives: Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas, and others. Inspired by the interdisciplinary character of the original enterprise, Stephen Bronner ranges across many fields, from philosophy and aesthetics to politics and anthropology, reconstructing the radical aims of critical theory, and evaluating its success, its failings and its legacy. Of Critical Theory and its Theorists offers a panoramic view of an exciting tradition, and a bold new perspective, from one of AmeriTrade Review"Has the foundation of critical theory been withdrawn with the collapse of communism? Stephen Eric Bronner argues the opposite: only now, liberated from marxian dogmatism, can a genuine critique of modern society begin. He develops his ideas in an immanent and emancipatory confrontation with critical theory and its proponents. A brilliant book! Don't miss it!" Ulrich BeckTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory. 3. Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the 'Reification' Essay of Georg Lukacs. 4. Utopian Projections: In Honor of Ernst Bloch. 5. Horkheimer's Road. 6. Ontology and its Discontents: Unorthodox Remarks on the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. 7. Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin. 8. Political Aesthetics in Retrospect: Reflections on the Expressionism Debate and its Contemporary Relevance. 9. Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. 10. From in America. 11. Remembering Marcuse. 12. The Anthropological Break: Herbert Marcuse and the Radical Imagination. 13. Left Instrumentalism: A Critique of Analytic and Rational Choice Marxism. 14. Jürgen Habermas and the Language of Politics. 15. Points of Departure: Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims. Index.

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Book SynopsisDelineates the concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of multiculturalism. This readers analyzes themes such as the relations between self and other, selves and others; between knowledge, power, pedagogy, and empowerment; and between meaning, ambiguity, and representation.Table of ContentsPreface. General Introduction. Introduction: Multicultural Conditions (David Theo Goldberg). Part I: Thinking the Unthinkable: Setting Agendas. 1. White Terror and Oppositional Agency: Towards a Critical Multiculturalism (Peter McLaren). 2. The Politics of recognition (Charles Taylor). 3. Introduction to "Critical Multiculturalism" (Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner). 4. Critical Multiculturalism (Chicago Cultural Studies Group). 5. Diversity's Diversity (Judith Stiehm). 6. Ethnic Studies: Its Evolution in American colleges and Universities (Ramon A. Gutierrez). 7. Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy (Barbara Christian). 8. On being a Role Model (Anita L. Allen). Part II: breaking the Bounds of Disciplines. 9. Goodbye, Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism (Henry Louis Gates JR.). 10. Essentialism and the Complexities of Racial Identity (Michael Eric Dyson). 11. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice (Tommy L. Lott). 12. The Search for the "Good Enough" Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis (Michele Wallace). 13. "Chicana! Rican? No, Chicana-Riquena!" Refashioning the Transnational Connection (Angie Chabram Dernersesian). 14. Contested Histories: Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism, and the Media (Robert Stam and Ella Shohat). 15. Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Promise of Pedagogy (Henry E. Giroux). 16. Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties (Sandra Harding). 17. Identity: Cultural, Transcultural, and Multicultural (Peter Caws). 18. Ota Benga's Flight Through Geronimo's Eyes: Tales of Science and Multiculturalism (Cedric Robinson). 19. Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What Is Anthropology that Multiculturalists Should Be Mindful of It (Terence Turner). List of Contributors. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging volume integrates documentary sources and contemporary archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Swahili history, anthropology, language and culture.Trade Review"[Horton and Middleton's] portrait of the Swahili is drawn from multiple sources of data, including archival records, ethnographic fieldwork, and recent archaeological finds expertly providing comprehensive, up-to-date accounts if African peoples that are both scholarly and accessible." CHOICE "Despite their high profile, the identity of the Swahili has been elusive to define. The sensible discussion of this issue by Horton & Middleton should finally put this question to rest ... The Swahili is a fine addition to the series on the peoples of Africa published by Blackwell. South African Archaeological Bulletin "Well supplied with maps and plates depicting locales, excavations, and architecture, the book will be useful to a general readership, as well as to younger scholars interested in the African littoral. The archeological chapters are very informative."Greg Cameron, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Swahili Coast. 2. Origins. 3. The Acceptance of Islam. 4. The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean World. 5. The Trading System of the Swahili Coast. 6. The Urban Landscape. 7. The Social Landscape. 8. Governance and Politics. 9. The Swahili in a Changing World. 10. Constructing the Mercantile Landscape. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first biography of John Calvin since 1975 and the only life of the great reformer to analyse his impact on subsequent generations of theologians, politicians, economists and philosophers. This biography is theologically unbiased and is written as much for historians and general readers as for those interested in Calvin the Church reformer.Trade Review"A most welcome study filling a real need for a scholarly biography that is historically sensitive and theologically well-informed." Religious Studies Review "Not since Wendel's Calvin has one volume given as much breadth and depth to the life and thought of Calvin as this one... A splendid resource for both novices and Calvin scholars. McGrath's work will endure as a balanced, sensitive, historical-theological treatment." Sixteenth Century Journal "A full range of Calvin students and scholars will be grateful for this book. Wide in scope, detailed in coverage, yet clear in focus, McGrath's work will find a secure niche for many years to come." Christianity Today "A Skillful combination of biography, theology and history. A number of maps, charts and (monochrome) reproductions of paintings and other art works enhance the attractiveness of this handsome volume, which should serve students as a useful and readable introduction to John Calvin's life and times." Critical Review "An absorbing study. It cannot be stated too strongly that Beyond Borders deserves high praise. Better than any other book known to the author." The Expository Times "The best study of Calvin in English." Teaching HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Paris: The Formation of a Mind. 3. The Years of Wandering: Orleans and the Encounter with Humanism. 4. From Humanist to Reformer: The Conversion. 5. Geneva: The First Period. 6. Geneva: The Consolidation of Power. 7. Christianity according to Calvin: The Medium. 8. Christianity according to Calvin: The Message. 9. The Invasion of Ideas: Calvin and France. 10. The Genesis of a Movement. 11. Commitment to the World: Calvinism, Work and Capitalism. 12. Calvin and the Shaping of Western Culture. Appendix I: A Glossary of Theological and Historical Terms. Appendix II: Referring to Works by Calvin. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book reassesses Renaissance English literature and its place in Elizabethan society. It examines, in particular, the role of Italianate literary imitation in addressing the ethical and political issues of the sixteenth century.Trade Review"Fox's clear style suits his difficult material. This is one of few recent works treating Italian influence in detail with a good command of the evidence as well as a fresh point of view. Strongly recommended for graduates, researchers, and faculty." Choice ‘Alistair Fox offers a new and compelling version of the literary culture of Tudor England, one that finds its defining qualities in the complex interactions of English Protestantism and Italian humanism. If a full synthesis of the two systems finally proved impossible for English writers, Fox impressively shows how their brave effort to achieve it animates the most important imaginative literature of the period.’ – David Scott Kastan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University ‘The English Renaissance registers how the secular narratives of Catholic culture were reinvented by England’s new Protestant culture. It shows the English writing of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare undergoing a rebirth out of its Italian sources. In the process it fully justifies Alistair Fox’s re-application of the term "Renaissance" to the products of this fertile period.’ – Professor Andrew Gurr, Department of English, University of ReadingTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics. 2. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Onset of English Petrarchism. 3. Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self. 4. Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser, Sidney, and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral. 5. Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto, Tasso, and The Faerie Queene. 6. Appraising 'The Seeming Truths' of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a critical introduction to the philosophy of social science. While most social scientists maintain that the social sciences should stand free of politics, this book argues that they should be politically partisan.Trade Review"This is a very attractive book. It is exceedingly well written. It is well organised; filled with interesting examples; and is quite comprehensive in scope. It contains any number of illuminating observations. Most importantly, its subject is significant, it keeps this subject in focus throughout, and it proposes its own distinctive approach to it." Brian Fay, Wesleyan University "Raises so many fascinating and important questions in the philosophies of the social sciences." Marthe Atwater Chandler, EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Liberal Ideal. 2. Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences. 3. Theories of Development in Psychology and Political Science. 4. Functional Theories in Sociology and Biology. 5. Rational Choice Theories in Positive and Normative Economics. 6. Collecting Data in the Social Sciences. 7. Sorting Data into Kinds. 8. Explaining the Data. 9. The Fact/Vale Distinction. 10. Social Science and Perfectionism. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations.Trade Review"Historians are said to be moving back towards the idea of an enduring national identity. Alan Macfarlane wrote a paradigm-busting book back in the late 1970s, The Origins of English Individualism. That must have taken courage considering the sort of a decade it was ... A brilliant analysis." The IndependentTable of ContentsApologies and acknowledgements viii Abbreviations and conventions x List of abbreviated titles xi Introduction 1 1 The nature of a peasant society 7 2 When England ceased to be a peasant society: Marx, Weber and the historians 34 3 English economy and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 62 4 Ownership in England from 1350 to 1750 80 5 Ownership in England from 1200 to 1349 102 6 English economy and society in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 131 7 England in perspective 165 8 Some implications 189 Postscript 204 List of manuscript sources 207 Index 210

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Book SynopsisExamines the development of England and Scotland between 1529 and 1603. The text focuses on the political and religious developments in both countries but it also considers economic, social, cultural and educational change.Trade Review"Dr Nicholls has proved to be a resourceful choice ... he delivers an accurate, sensitive and engaging account, never allowing the reader to be lost in the quagmires of scholarly debate." History "The book is fluently written and well produced." English Historical Review "An impressive achievement ... well written: lucid, concise and stylistically unpretentious." Irish Historical StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. Acknowledgements. A Note on Conventions. Introduction. 1. Sixteenth-century England. 2. Divorce, Schism and Statute: England 1529-36. 3. Pilgrimage, Dissolution and Reform: England 1536-40. 4. The Last Years of Henry VIII: England 1540-47. 5. Pre-Reformation Scotland, 1528-57. 6. The Reformation and the Reign of Queen Mary: Scotland 1557-67. 7. Protector Somerset: England 1547-49. 8. The Dudley Supremacy and the Reign of Jane Grey: England 1549-53. 9. Queen Mary's Regime: England 1553-58. 10. The Third Kingdom: Ireland, and Beyond, 1529-60. 11. The Elizabethan Settlement: England 1558-63. 12. Unelizabethan England: England 1560-72. 13. The Elizabethan State: England in the 1570s and Beyond. 14. England's Empire: Ireland, and Beyond, 1560-1603. 15. The Loss of Peace: England 1580-89. 16. A Nation at War: England in the 1590s. 17. The Jacobean Minority: Scotland 1568-85. 18. The Personal Rule of James VI: Scotland 1585-1603. 19. The Elizabethan Dusk: England 1599-1603. Further Reading. Chronology. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Aims to create a new 'kinda of psychology, that of corporeal psychology. aeo Distinctive in its analysis of how bodies are used and how they are talked about. aeo Third part of a successful trilogy (following Social Being, 2nd edition, 1993, and Personal Being, 1983).Trade Review"A masterly guided tour. Harre surveys a wonderful range of attitudes and aspects of experience, from hysteria to embarrassment, from earnest body-building to corporal punishment, from Kretschmerian body-types to sexual differences." Times Literary Supplement "An intriguing and useful set of analyses" Contemporary PsychologyTable of ContentsPart I: Metaphysics.1. Embodiment. 2. Body Kinds I: Categories and Characters. 3. Body Kinds II: Shapes and Temperaments. 4. The Experience of Embodiment I: Parts and States. 5. The Experience of Embodiment II: Feelings. Part II: Evaluations. 6. Bodily Rights and Obligations. 7. Emotions of the Body. 8. Disease into Illness. 9. Body Cultivation. 10. The Body as a Locus of Social Control. Part III: Meanings. 11. Corporeal Semantics. 12. Anthropographie. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the new theories of discourse developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, while in particular drawing on central insights provided by Slavoj Zizek. The book accounts for intellectual development of the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe from a Gramsci-inspired critique of structural Marxism over a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse to a new type of postmodern theorizing of great relevance for social, cultural and political theory. The central concepts of discourse, hegemony and social antagonism are carefully explained and discussed and the theoretical framework is applied both on a variety of theoretical problems and in a sample of empirical studies. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of discourse theory for our political understanding of democracy, citizenship and ethics. New Theories of Discourse is written out of the basic conviction that postmodernity provides a great challengTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Discourse theory in context. Part I: Intellectual development:. Introduction. 1. A Gramsci-inspired critique of structural Marxism. 2. The advancement of a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse. 3. Towards a new type of postmodern theorizing. Part II: Theoretical concepts:. Introduction. 4. Discourse. 5. Hegemony. 6. Social antagonism. Part III: Problems and possible solutions:. Introduction. 7. Structure and agency. 8. Power and authority. 9. The universal and the particular. Part IV: Discourse analysis at work:. Introduction. 10. The politics of nationalism and racism. 11. The politics of mass media. 12. The politics of the modern welfare state. Part V: Political perspectives:. Introduction. 13. Towards a radical plural democracy. 14. Beyond libertarianism and communitarianism. 15. The contours of a postmodern ethics?. Conclusion: The tasks ahead. Glossary. Further reading. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisGives an account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries. This work covers topics such as: the civilizing process, gender identity, sexuality, consumerism, city life, the role of popular culture and the media in structuring experience and aspirations, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: The Modern Self. 1. The Theatrical Self: social drama and personal identity. 2. Subjects and Citizens: the politics of everyday life. 3. Street People: the city as experience, dream and nightmare. 4. The Consolations of Consumerism. 5.'We Are Born Naked - Everything Else is Drag': clothing the body, fashioning the self. 6. The Seduction of Romance: fictions of love, narratives of selfhood. Part II: The Modern Age. 7. Sacred, Secular, Sublime: modernity performs the death of God. 8. Machines and Skyscrapers: technology as experience, hope and fear. 9. From Enlightenment to Holocaust: modernity and the end of morality. 10. Modernism, Art and Culture. 11. The Image, the Spectral, and the Spectacle: technologies of the visual. 12. Postmodern Times?. Key Terms. Biographical Notes. Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisGives an account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries. This work covers topics such as: the civilizing process, gender identity, sexuality, consumerism, city life, the role of popular culture and the media in structuring experience and aspirations, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: The Modern Self. 1. The Theatrical Self: social drama and personal identity. 2. Subjects and Citizens: the politics of everyday life. 3. Street People: the city as experience, dream and nightmare. 4. The Consolations of Consumerism. 5.'We Are Born Naked - Everything Else is Drag': clothing the body, fashioning the self. 6. The Seduction of Romance: fictions of love, narratives of selfhood. Part II: The Modern Age. 7. Sacred, Secular, Sublime: modernity performs the death of God. 8. Machines and Skyscrapers: technology as experience, hope and fear. 9. From Enlightenment to Holocaust: modernity and the end of morality. 10. Modernism, Art and Culture. 11. The Image, the Spectral, and the Spectacle: technologies of the visual. 12. Postmodern Times?. Key Terms. Biographical Notes. Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisContaining 17 essays by 16 contemporary literary critics, this text presents late-1990s thinking of 17th- to 18th-century literature. It aims to help students and teachers find new approaches to central canonical works and also provides introductions to several of the less well known writers.Trade Review"[This anthology] of critical essays makes a welcome addition to the scholarship and teaching of that historical span of English literary history often awkwardly referred to as 'the long eighteenth century."Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. A Note on the Form of Reference. 1. Areopagitica, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere: David Norbrook. 2. From 'Milton and the Fit Reader', Sharon Achinstein. 3. 'The Balance of Power in Marvell's "Horatian Ode"': Thomas M. Greene. 4. 'Oroonoko's Blackness': Catherine Gallagher. 5. 'Lordly Accents: Rochester's Satire' (1994): Claude Rawson. 6. From Brittania's Issue, 'Dryden's "Anne Killigrew": Towards a New Pindaric Political Ode": Howard Weinbrot. 7. Ironic Monologue and 'Scandalous Ambro-dexter Conformity'" in Defoe's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters": D. N. DeLuna. 8. 'Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of a Tub': Roger Lund. 9. From Resemblance and Disgrace, 'The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic': Helen Deutsch. 10. From English Women's Poetry 1649-1714, 'Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Self': Carol Barash. 11. 'The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume': Adam Potkay. 12. From The Muses of Resistance, 'An English Sappho Brilliant, Young and Dead?' Mary Leapor Laughs at the Fathers': Donna Landry. 13. O Lachrymarum Fons: Thomas Gray's Sensibility: George E. Haggerty. 14. 'The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England': Terry Castle. 15. From The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke, 'Theater and Counter-Theater in Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France': Frans De Bruyn. 16. Cowper's Hares: David Perkins. 17. Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth-Century England: Ruth Perry. 18. Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton: Claude Rawson. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDesigned to complement DeMariaa s textbook British Literature 1640--1789: An Anthology , this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.Trade Review"[This anthology] of critical essays makes a welcome addition to the scholarship and teaching of that historical span of English literary history often awkwardly referred to as 'the long eighteenth century."Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. A Note on the Form of Reference. 1. Areopagitica, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere: David Norbrook. 2. From 'Milton and the Fit Reader', Sharon Achinstein. 3. 'The Balance of Power in Marvell's "Horatian Ode"': Thomas M. Greene. 4. 'Oroonoko's Blackness': Catherine Gallagher. 5. 'Lordly Accents: Rochester's Satire' (1994): Claude Rawson. 6. From Brittania's Issue, 'Dryden's "Anne Killigrew": Towards a New Pindaric Political Ode": Howard Weinbrot. 7. Ironic Monologue and 'Scandalous Ambro-dexter Conformity'" in Defoe's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters": D. N. DeLuna. 8. 'Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of a Tub': Roger Lund. 9. From Resemblance and Disgrace, 'The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic': Helen Deutsch. 10. From English Women's Poetry 1649-1714, 'Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Self': Carol Barash. 11. 'The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume': Adam Potkay. 12. From The Muses of Resistance, 'An English Sappho Brilliant, Young and Dead?' Mary Leapor Laughs at the Fathers': Donna Landry. 13. O Lachrymarum Fons: Thomas Gray's Sensibility: George E. Haggerty. 14. 'The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England': Terry Castle. 15. From The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke, 'Theater and Counter-Theater in Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France': Frans De Bruyn. 16. Cowper's Hares: David Perkins. 17. Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth-Century England: Ruth Perry. 18. Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton: Claude Rawson. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisResponds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Subculture:. 1. The Politics of Football Hooliganism. 2. Keeping Off the Grass. 3. The Soccer War. 4. Thatcher's Boys (Next Door). Part II: Subculture into Clubculture:. 5. The Rehabilitation of Football. 6. The New (Football) Men. 7. Shamble On. 8. What's so Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?. 9. The Age of Rock. 10. Down the Tube: Pop on Television. 11. Post-pop. 12. Pop Time, Acid House. 13. Lager Louts and the English Disease. 14. Moynihan Brings Out the Hooligan in Me. 15. Supertifo. Part III: Clubcultures:. 16. Oh Manchester, So Much to Answer For. 17. Licensed to Thrill. 18. The Last Generation?. 19. Clubcultures. 20. Oasis: (What's the Story) Manchester's Glory?. References. Notes. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Informed by original ethnographic research and oral history into popular music and youth culture. aeo Presents a broad--ranging history from the post--Punk era of the late 70a s through the 80a s to the internationalisation ---- or globalisation ---- of sport and music influenced youth and dance clubcultures of the 1990s.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Subculture:. 1. The Politics of Football Hooliganism. 2. Keeping Off the Grass. 3. The Soccer War. 4. Thatcher's Boys (Next Door). Part II: Subculture into Clubculture:. 5. The Rehabilitation of Football. 6. The New (Football) Men. 7. Shamble On. 8. What's so Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?. 9. The Age of Rock. 10. Down the Tube: Pop on Television. 11. Post-pop. 12. Pop Time, Acid House. 13. Lager Louts and the English Disease. 14. Moynihan Brings Out the Hooligan in Me. 15. Supertifo. Part III: Clubcultures:. 16. Oh Manchester, So Much to Answer For. 17. Licensed to Thrill. 18. The Last Generation?. 19. Clubcultures. 20. Oasis: (What's the Story) Manchester's Glory?. References. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisFeminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power. Key book features: Classic text. Now updated and revised. New final chapter on feminism and postmodernism. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface to the Second Edition. 1. Feminism and Theory. 2. Principles of Poststructuralism. 3. Feminist Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis. 4. Language and Subjectivity. 5. Discourse, Power and Resistance. 6. Feminist Critical Practice. 7. Feminism and Postmodernism. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisRe-examines the place of the Renaissance in European and World history. Views the culture of Western Europe in co-existence with it's neighbours especially Byzantium and Islam. Examines the Renaissance movement in the whole of Europe from the centre to the peripheries.Trade Review"Nothing by Peter Burke should ever be left unread, and this book displays many of his admirable talents: the unerring eye for evidence, the gift for concise language, the reliable habit of detailed exemplification." Times Literary Supplement "This is a delightfully nimble book distinguished by the coherence of its general structure and the clarity of its connections, qualities which are complemented by the vivid deployment of compressed detail." History Today "Few themes have consumed as much ink as the Italian Renaissance. However, this book by Peter Burke, professor at the University of Cambridge, is original in that it explains, in a suggestive and highly accessible manner, the reasons for the success and spread of the Renaissance spirit throughout Europe between the Quattrocento and the 17th century." Bulletin Quotidien Europe "Burke's remit remains refreshingly wide-ranging. Here, as in previous titles, he confirms that his metier is the synthetic, and always enviably accessible, introduction." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Series Editor’s Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Framing the Renaissance 1 1 The Age of Rediscovery: Early Renaissance 18 2 Reception and Resistance 47 3 The Age of Emulation: High Renaissance 66 4 The Age of Variety: Late Renaissance 101 5 The Domestication of the Renaissance 170 Coda: The Renaissance after the Renaissance 227 Chronology 242 References 247 Bibliography 256 Index 275

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Book SynopsisA collection of debates on both modern and postmodern religion from an international perspective. This looks at whether there are postmodern forms of religion and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture.Trade Review"A fascinating and very timely book ... I feel sure that it will find a place in seminars, and on the shelves of any serious academic in the field." Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University "This book is essentially aimed at students in theology and philosophy, but I believe that it will also provide sociologists and historians with some fascinating and original material. An Excellent book" Dominique Macneill, University of Exeter "Heelas has collected essays from scholars across the English speaking world. The result is the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of the benefits and imitations of postmodern description of religion yet available. Highly recommended for graduate level collections, suitable also for upper-division undergraduates, faculty and researchers, and professionals and practitioners." S.H. Webb, Walsh College "The volume does collect together summative essays by a number of important thinkers, and everyone will find something of value here." Philip Goodchild, St Martin's College "Theology and the Sociology of Religion have traditionally been kept separate, and specialists in each field have often been suspicious of the other. This book brings both of them together for the benefit of both.... I was pleased to see that the bibliographies were not limited to works published in English, but also include many sources published in other languages. This way, having had their appetite whet by such compelling reading, both polyglot and the less-able linguist can find further intellectual nourishment." Dominique Macneill, University of Exeter "... The volume collects together summative essays by a number of important thinkers, and everyone will find something of value here." Philip Goodchild, St Martin's College "Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is an excellent collection of scholarly arguments about the state of religion, and religious studies, at the end of the twentieth centry. It is one of those books that will be read over and over again by graduate students and scholars for both ideas and content." Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Contributors. 1. Introduction: On Differentiation and Dedifferentiation: Paul Heelas (University of Lancaster). 2. Cathedrals to Cults: The Evolving Forms of Religious Life: Steve Bruce (University of Aberdeen). 3. Terminal Faith: Mark C. Taylor (Williams College). 4. Postmodern Religion? Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds). 5. Tradition, Retrospective Perception, Nationalism and Modernism : Ninian Smart (University of California at Santa Barbara). 6. From Fundamentalism to Fundamentalisms: A Religious Ideology in Multiple Forms: Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University). 7. From Pre- to Postmodernity in Latin America: The Case of Pentacostalism: Bernice Martin (Royal Holloway College, London). 8. Secularization and Citizenship in Muslim Indonesia: Robert W. Hefner (Boston University). 9. Religion and National Identity in Modern and Postmodern Japan: Winston Davis (Washington and Lee University). 10. The Construals of 'Europe': Religion, Theology and the Problematics of Modernity: Richard H. Roberts (Lancaster University). 11. Post-Christianity: Don Cupitt (University of Cambridge). 12. Kenosis and Naming: Beyond Analogy and Towards Allegoria Amoris: Graham Ward (University of Cambridge). 13. Sublimity: The Modern Transcendent: John Milbank (University of Cambridge). 14. The Primacy of Theology and the Question of Perception: Philip Blond (University of Cambridge). 15. The Impossible: Kevin Hart (Monash University). Index.

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Book Synopsis* Presents both modern and postmodern religious debates in one volume. * Includes newly commissioned contributions by recognised experts in this area. * Discusses religion, modernity and postmodernity from an international perspective. .Trade Review"A fascinating and very timely book ... I feel sure that it will find a place in seminars, and on the shelves of any serious academic in the field." Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University "This book is essentially aimed at students in theology and philosophy, but I believe that it will also provide sociologists and historians with some fascinating and original material. An Excellent book" Dominique Macneill, University of Exeter "Heelas has collected essays from scholars across the English speaking world. The result is the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of the benefits and imitations of postmodern description of religion yet available. Highly recommended for graduate level collections, suitable also for upper-division undergraduates, faculty and researchers, and professionals and practitioners." S.H. Webb, Walsh College "The volume does collect together summative essays by a number of important thinkers, and everyone will find something of value here." Philip Goodchild, St Martin's College "Theology and the Sociology of Religion have traditionally been kept separate, and specialists in each field have often been suspicious of the other. This book brings both of them together for the benefit of both.... I was pleased to see that the bibliographies were not limited to works published in English, but also include many sources published in other languages. This way, having had their appetite whet by such compelling reading, both polyglot and the less-able linguist can find further intellectual nourishment." Dominique Macneill, University of Exeter "... The volume collects together summative essays by a number of important thinkers, and everyone will find something of value here." Philip Goodchild, St Martin's College "Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is an excellent collection of scholarly arguments about the state of religion, and religious studies, at the end of the twentieth centry. It is one of those books that will be read over and over again by graduate students and scholars for both ideas and content." Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Contributors. 1. Introduction: On Differentiation and Dedifferentiation: Paul Heelas (University of Lancaster). 2. Cathedrals to Cults: The Evolving Forms of Religious Life: Steve Bruce (University of Aberdeen). 3. Terminal Faith: Mark C. Taylor (Williams College). 4. Postmodern Religion? Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds). 5. Tradition, Retrospective Perception, Nationalism and Modernism : Ninian Smart (University of California at Santa Barbara). 6. From Fundamentalism to Fundamentalisms: A Religious Ideology in Multiple Forms: Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University). 7. From Pre- to Postmodernity in Latin America: The Case of Pentacostalism: Bernice Martin (Royal Holloway College, London). 8. Secularization and Citizenship in Muslim Indonesia: Robert W. Hefner (Boston University). 9. Religion and National Identity in Modern and Postmodern Japan: Winston Davis (Washington and Lee University). 10. The Construals of 'Europe': Religion, Theology and the Problematics of Modernity: Richard H. Roberts (Lancaster University). 11. Post-Christianity: Don Cupitt (University of Cambridge). 12. Kenosis and Naming: Beyond Analogy and Towards Allegoria Amoris: Graham Ward (University of Cambridge). 13. Sublimity: The Modern Transcendent: John Milbank (University of Cambridge). 14. The Primacy of Theology and the Question of Perception: Philip Blond (University of Cambridge). 15. The Impossible: Kevin Hart (Monash University). Index.

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Book Synopsis* Engages readers in issues of current interest in critical theory, deconstruction and philosophy of science. * Includes an extensive bibliography at end of each chapter. * Lucid writing style to appeal to both specialists and non--specialists. .Trade Review"With his characteristic energy and scruple, Christopher Norris has mounted an unusually wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary attack on a family of doctrines - all prominent forms of cultural relativism - tethered to the singular claim that truth is constructed and, therefore is whatever we make of it. Securing that lone thread, Norris weaves before our eyes a tapestry of rogue theories that include anti-realism, social constructionism, the 'strong programme', neopragmatism, relativism, scepticism, Kuhnian and Foucaudlian fashions, and more." Joseph Margolis, Temple University "This author provides a great service to modern and postmodern philosphers of science who are held at somewhat of a distance by the writing styles of their counterparts...Norris' survey is extensive...it is wonderful at bringing out how postmodern discussions of language and ontology can be sewn into the fabric of arguments grounded in the assumptions of the Received View." J.F.Metcalfe, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol.39, No.3Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Metaphor, Concept, and Theory-Change: Deconstruction as Critical Ontology. 2. Deconstruction and Epistemology: Bachelard, Derrida, de Man. 3. Ontological Relativity and Meaning-Variance: A Critical-Constructive Review. 4. Deconstructing Anti-Realism: Quantum Mechanics and Interpretation-Theory. 5. Hermeneutics, Anti-Realism, and Philosophy of Science. 6. Anti-Realism and Constructive Empiricism: Is There a (Real) Difference?. 7. Ontology According to Van Frassen: Some Problems with Constructive Empiricism. 8. Stuck in the Mangle: Sociology of Science and its Discontents. 9. But Will It Fly? Aerodynamics as a Test-Case for Anti-Realism. 10. Why Strong Sociologists Abhor a Vacuum: Shapin and Schaffer on the Boyle/Hobbes Controversy. 11. Leviathan and the Turbojet: A Critique of Sociological Unreason. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the foremost and widely--respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and political economy of media analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Intentionality. 2. Sociability. 3. Sincerity. 4. Eventfulness. 5. Authenticity. 6. Identity. 7. Dailiness.

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and political economy of media analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Intentionality. 2. Sociability. 3. Sincerity. 4. Eventfulness. 5. Authenticity. 6. Identity. 7. Dailiness.

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the European city from the early Middle Ages to the present. Tracing the city from the survival of urban life after the collapse of the Roman Empire to the effects of modern industrialization and transportation, Professor Benevolo''s book also provides a fascinating account of the relationship between urban life and cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"Leonardo Benevolo has achieved a remarkable double: he now only produces a convincing synthesis of the history of Europe's cities since the early Middle Ages, but also avoids superficiality and false generalization . . . a most timely, distinguished and scholarly contribution to the literature on European urban history." The Geographical Journal "Leonardo Benevolo writes with energy and verve on the European city." The Times "Professor Benevolo's extensively illustrated book reflects the author's architectural expertise. He examines successfully the classical city, the medieval town and the drive for urban perfection in the Renaissance." History Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Emergence from the Ancient World. 2. The Creation of a New Urban System. 3. The Touching Up of the Urban Environment. 4. Confrontation with the World. 5. The Difficult Adjustment to the Laws of Perspective. 6. The Industrial City. 7. Europe in the Contemporary World.

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Book Synopsis* Introduces complex arguments in lively accessible form. * Deals with key contemporary theorists and historicizes postmodernism, back from Heidegger to Hobbes, and to its eighteenth--century origins. * Discusses postmodern fiction by such authors as Acker, Auster, Barth, and Pynchon. .Trade Review"...such is the challenging reading of things Niall Lucy offers in his magnificent book, Postmodern Literary Theory." McKenzie Wark, Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Mind and Myth. 2. Simulation and the Sublime. 3. The Death of History. 4. Literature and the Liminal. 5. Interpretation as Invention. 6. The Death of Criticism. 7. Rhetorical Reading. 8. Performing Politics. 9. The Death of Theory. 10. Concept Creation. 11. Ethical Evaluations. 12. The Return of Reason. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career.Trade Review"Every student of English will be thankful to Regan for assembling this Reader. Useful essays frame each section and the collection as a whole serves as a splendid introduction to Eagleton's work. His delightful wit and debunking similes make reading him fun, as well as necessary." Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement "As this anthology makes clear, Eagleton's work has been held together for nearly 20 years by a startling proposal for the reform of the academic syllabus." "If the humanities are to be rescued from their current state of over-specialised torpor, then Eagleton's work will be one of the main sources to which the reformers will turn." Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Literary Criticism:. Introduction. 1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence. 2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973). 3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974). 4. Wuthering Heights (1975). 5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986). 6. Tony Harrison's V (1986). 7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987). Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics:. Introduction. 8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967). 9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978). 10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982). 11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992). 12. Body Work (1993). Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory:. Introduction. 13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976). 14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981). 15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992). 16. Ideology (1994). 17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995). 18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995). Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism:. Introduction. 19. The End of English (1987). 20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989). 21. Defending the Free World (1990). 22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994). Part V: Friends and Philosophers:. Introduction. 23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989). 24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990). 25. My Wittgenstein (1994). Part VI: Ireland's Own:. Introduction. 26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971). 27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988). 28. Saint Oscar (1989). 29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991). 30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995). The Ballad of Marxist Criticism. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career.Trade Review"Every student of English will be thankful to Regan for assembling this Reader. Useful essays frame each section and the collection as a whole serves as a splendid introduction to Eagleton's work. His delightful wit and debunking similes make reading him fun, as well as necessary." Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement "As this anthology makes clear, Eagleton's work has been held together for nearly 20 years by a startling proposal for the reform of the academic syllabus." "If the humanities are to be rescued from their current state of over-specialised torpor, then Eagleton's work will be one of the main sources to which the reformers will turn." Morning StarTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Literary Criticism. Introduction. 1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence. 2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973). 3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974). 4. Wuthering Heights (1975). 5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986). 6. Tony Harrison's V (1986). 7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987). Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics. Introduction. 8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967). 9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978). 10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982). 11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992). 12. Body Work (1993). Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory. Introduction. 13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976). 14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981). 15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992). 16. Ideology (1994). 17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995). 18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995). Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism. Introduction. 19. The End of English (1987). 20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989). 21. Defending the Free World (1990). 22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994). Part V: Friends and Philosophers. Introduction. 23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989). 24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990). 25. My Wittgenstein (1994). Part VI: Ireland's Own. Introduction. 26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971). 27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988). 28. Saint Oscar (1989). 29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991). 30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995). The Ballad of Marxist Criticism. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* The first systematic sociological study of urban Japan by a western scholar. * Breaks methodological and conceptual ground by exploring contemporary Japanese urban lifestyles through an analysis of consumption behaviour. .Trade Review"Contemporary Urban Japan is a useful book: simultaneously a thoughtful window into a consumerist urban Japan, and an engaging challenge to conventional understandings of consumption, modernity, and social theory." A Latham, University of Auckland "I found the book to be creative, very current about the latest trends and extraordinarily interesting. It provides a framework for understanding the various consumer crazes that are always so apparent in Japan ... as well as a novel and fruitful approach for presenting details about the physical form, patterns of land use and daily rountines of Tokyo and cities like it. An important addition to the social science literature about contemporary Japan, as well as a contribution of interest to scholars working on the space-society nexus in contemporary urban culture in any post-modern or post-industrial society." Roman Cybriwsky, Temple University " Clammer's Sociology of Consumption opens a window on Japanese urban society that is as intriguing as it is informative. His complex analysis ranges across a vast array of topics." Michael Tansey, Service Industries JournalTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption. 2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City. 3. The Context of Desire. 4. Shopping and the Social Self. 5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption. 6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body. 7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism. 8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* The first systematic sociological study of urban Japan by a western scholar. * Breaks methodological and conceptual ground by exploring contemporary Japanese urban lifestyles through an analysis of consumption behaviour. .Trade Review"Contemporary Urban Japan is a useful book: simultaneously a thoughtful window into a consumerist urban Japan, and an engaging challenge to conventional understandings of consumption, modernity, and social theory." A Latham, University of Auckland "I found the book to be creative, very current about the latest trends and extraordinarily interesting. It provides a framework for understanding the various consumer crazes that are always so apparent in Japan ... as well as a novel and fruitful approach for presenting details about the physical form, patterns of land use and daily rountines of Tokyo and cities like it. An important addition to the social science literature about contemporary Japan, as well as a contribution of interest to scholars working on the space-society nexus in contemporary urban culture in any post-modern or post-industrial society." Roman Cybriwsky, Temple University " Clammer's Sociology of Consumption opens a window on Japanese urban society that is as intriguing as it is informative. His complex analysis ranges across a vast array of topics." Michael Tansey, Service Industries JournalTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption. 2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City. 3. The Context of Desire. 4. Shopping and the Social Self. 5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption. 6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body. 7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism. 8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Brings together well--established contributors and emergent scholars in postcolonialism. * Presents essays in dialogue with each other to create a controversial collection that examines the current state of postcolonial studies.Trade Review"Taken together, the diverse contributions to this book represent a sustained attempt to bring postcolonial criticism into a dialogue with some of the most pressing and enduring issues of our times. I cannot think of any other book that helps us to see so clearly where postcolonial criticism is headed." Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago "This volume is a fine demonstration of the inexhaustible connectivity of postcolonialism-as-critical-thinking – not only across academic disciplines and sociopolitical formations but also across generations of scholars with divergent intellectual practices. For anyone concerned with this major field of knowledge, it will prove a stimulating and rewarding read." Rey Chow, Brown University "This much needed collection indicates the continuing significance of postcolonial discourse today and its complex relationship to fields such as critical race theory, ethnic studies, and disability studies. The wide-ranging discussions will make this volume particularly useful to scholars committed to cross-cultural exchanges." Sangeeta Ray, University of MarylandTable of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements x Introduction: Scale and Sensibility xi Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg 1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1 Edward Said 2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15 Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff 3 Resident Alien 47 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66 Benita Parry 5 Racial Rule 82 David Theo Goldberg 6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103 Ann Laura Stoler 7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122 Anne Bailey 8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143 Barnor Hesse 9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174 Olu Oguibe 10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184 Pal Ahluwalia 11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205 Zane Ma-Rhea 12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217 Ato Quayson 13 Theorizing Disability 231 Rosemarie Garland Thomson 14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270 John K. Noyes 15 Passing as Korean American 282 Wendy Ann Lee 16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294 Eve Darian-Smith 17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320 Dawn Duncan 18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334 Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope 19 Post-Scriptum 349 François Vergès Index 359

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Book SynopsisThis text illustrates how the Continental Reformation movement was bound and shaped by the society in which it was broadcast, how the reformers interacted with the trends and tensions of the period, and how the forces of religious change came to influence European culture and society.Trade Review"A collection which is likely to become a standard point of reference in years to come." German History "These are truly "essential" readings for the study of the German Reformation and early modern Europe in general ...This book is an excellent introduction to the study of the German Reformation." Sixteenth Century Journal "Dixon's book ... offers its readers a fine balance of work on both ... the Reformation as a theological event and the Reformation as a social/ cultural/ political event. This volume is a very helpful and useful text for those teaching or studying the subject." Westminster Theological Journal "Dixon has brought together and, in his commentary, illuminated the significance of eight pieces revealing some of the most important documents in recent scholarship on the relation of the Reformation to society. The work is a resounding success." Protestantismus "... it would be hard to imagine a more readable and informative collection of new work on the German Reformation." German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Narratives of the German Reformation: C. Scott Dixon. 2. What was Preached in German Towns in the Early Reformation?: Bernd Moeller. 3. What was the Reformation Doctrine of Justification?: Berndt Hamm. 4. The Reformation of the Common Man, 1521-1542: Thomas A. Brady Jr. 5. Reformation and the Communal Spirit: Peter Blickle. 6. The Reformation and the Modern Age, an attempt: Richard Van Dulman. 7. Forced Confessionalization? Prolegomena for a Theory of the Confessional Age: Wolfgang Reinhard. 8. Success and Failure in the German Reformation: Gerald Strauss. 9. The Reformation, Popular Magic and the Disenchantment of the World: Robert W. Scribner. Index.

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