History of ideas Books
The University of Chicago Press Exotic No More Second Edition Anthropology for
Book SynopsisThough Tocqueville is the main subject, this book also examines Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche. It offers an interpretation of Tocqueville as a moral historian, concerned less with history as an objective record than as a disclosure of the trajectory of the human spirit.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Max Weber and German Politics 18901920
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The University of Chicago Press Class War What Americans Really Think about
Book SynopsisThis work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments To The Reader Prologue Texts and Histories Pt. 1: Drama, Theatre, Society, and the State: Form and Pressure I: The Reformation of Playing II: A Theatre of Changes III: Anatomies of Playing IV: The Theatre, the City, and the Crown V: From the Stage to the State VI: The Power of Personation VII: The Cross-Purposes of Playing Pt. 2: The Shaping Fantasies of A Midsummer Night's Dream VIII: The Discord of This Concord IX: Stories of the Night X: The Imperial Votaress XI: Bottom's Dream Epilogue: A Kingdom of Shadows Index
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Christian Tradition
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£21.42
The University of Chicago Press Intellectual Life in America A History
Book SynopsisThis historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectualsa sense of historical orientation.
£40.85
The University of Chicago Press Making a Social Body British Cultural Formation
Book SynopsisDrawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. Readings of Disraeli, Gaskell and Dickens are included in the discussion.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Making of the Modern University
Book SynopsisA study of moral education in American universities that examines the consequences of the 19th-century debates over the purpose and pursuit of higher education, and the modernization efforts of the academic reformers of that era.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories
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The University of Chicago Press A Natural History of Time
Book SynopsisFor most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age. This title tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself.Trade Review"Richet is fascinated by every speculation in the entire history of Western thought that bears upon the question of the earth's antiquity. The wonderful thing is that he succeeds in changing what might have been dry recitation into an almost Dickensian world of characters in conflict and in love." - William Bryant Logan, Globe and Mail "The story of how the age of the earth was determined is a marvelous concatenation of red herrings and presuppositions from which the truth eventually emerges.... I cannot imagine a better attempt at such a broad sweep through science and history.... Richet's natural history is - dare I say it? - timely." - Richard A. Fortey, Times Literary Supplement "Geology and natural science buffs will discover a rich, baroquely embellished birthday cake to dig into and enjoy." - Publishers Weekly"
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Bengal in Global Concept History
Book SynopsisExamines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts. This interdisciplinary study is suitable for historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism.Trade Review"This is an innovative work of exceptional intellectual quality - a sophisticated study of a significant but analytically intractable subject in Bengali intellectual history. Sartori's approach is methodologically complex, and he combines this with a rich reading of a great deal of Bengali material." - Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Fear of Diversity
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought a force that would unify, constrain, and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than value the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real complexitiesparticularly regarding women, the family, and sexualityin both their political and personal lives. Saxonhouse opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press A Social History of Truth Civility and Science in
Book SynopsisThis work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Invisible Hands SelfOrganization and the
Book SynopsisWhy is the world orderly, and how does order occur? Humans inhabit many systems - natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others - with seemingly obscure origins. In this book, the authors trace the versatile language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West.Trade Review"Invisible Hands is a landmark piece of work, a brilliant excavation of eighteenth-century patterns of thought. Sheehan and Wahrman demonstrate in a virtuoso manner that eighteenth-century thinkers came to discern the same fundamental quality of self-organization at work in many different systems. The authors often wax lyrical, beautifully so, in their exploration of their topic, and do not shy away from posing questions of profound philosophical import. This book will cause a stir." (David A. Bell, Princeton University)
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisExplores how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process. It focuses on how various methods came to interact with practices of craftspeople to create new ways of knowing.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Honor
Book SynopsisThis text analyzes the notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from diverse sources and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society - the Bedouin - the author argues that honour must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect.
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The University of Chicago Press What Color Is the Sacred
Book SynopsisA meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images.Trade Review"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Invisible Hands SelfOrganization and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wide ranging, with substantial discussions of Bayle, Defoe, Locke, Mandeville, Montesquieu, Newton, Pope, Rousseau, and Vico, among others, including some lesser-known figures. . . . Recommended.” * Choice *“A fascinating exploration of the proliferating logics of self-organization across various Enlightenment discourses, ranging from metaphysics and political economy to botany, mathematics, and epistemology.” * Immanent Frame *“Even if it was not his original intention, Marx . . . signaled the existence of a manifold phenomenon—economic theology. Recovering its eighteenth-century history demands the same critical rigor that Wahrman and Sheehan so admirably employ in their survey of self-organization.” * Modern Intellectual History *“The key concept [of self-organization] develops a broad and enlightening link in the study between such disparate discursive fields as psychology, biology, mathematics and probability theory, political theory, and financial economics. . . . A detailed and thoughtfully structured work.” * Merkur *“Jonathan Sheehan is a gifted intellectual historian; Dror Wahrman, an accomplished cultural historian. They have combined their talents and approaches here to achieve one of the richest recent books on the origins of how we moderns reason.” * New Rambler *“The deep research and the breadth of learning on display in Invisible Hands are impressive. . . . Sheehan and Wahrman have done a great service by identifying a central topos and a veritable state of mind in eighteenth-century European life. Not only specialists of the eighteenth century but all historians of science and math, economic historians, and specialists of moral philosophy will reap rewards from this intelligent book.” * American Historical Review *“The authors have provided a fascinating view into the growing culture behind the idea of divine order in the eighteenth century.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"One senses that one important goal of Invisible Hands is to make the eighteenth century seem like a familiar country. I, at least, came away from the book feeling that enlightenment writers were in important ways like us, with similar questions about apparent patterns in the world, about the relation of the individual subject to those larger patterns, and about the meaning of it all.More questions than answers, in fact—another measure of this book’s rich and generative dialogue." * Politics, Religion, and Ideology *“Invisible Hands is a landmark piece of work, a brilliant excavation of eighteenth-century patterns of thought. Sheehan and Wahrman demonstrate in a virtuoso manner that eighteenth-century thinkers came to discern the same fundamental quality of self-organization at work in many different systems. The authors often wax lyrical, beautifully so, in their exploration of their topic, and do not shy away from posing questions of profound philosophical import. This book will cause a stir.” -- David A. Bell, Princeton University“Sheehan and Wahrman offer exciting insights into the discourses of order and self-organization, which informed such disparate domains as the emerging life sciences, concepts of human cognition, politics, and economics. The reader is skillfully guided on a complex journey of discovery, at times through arcane archives, which are opened up for new and creative uses. Enjoyably witty, this is a most engaging read for anybody interested in the intersections of intellectual and cultural history.” -- Dorothea E. von Mücke, Columbia University“Free markets; non-linear systems; chaotic dynamics: our world seems always at the mercy of uncertainty but still mysteriously orderly. Sheehan and Wahrman ingeniously locate the origins of our anxieties about self-organization in the busy, bruising world of the early Enlightenment. Invisible Hands is itself something of a miracle of organization, drawing together the histories of theology and botany, political economy and epistemology, mechanics and medicine, into an unsettling but strangely satisfying whole.” -- David Armitage, Harvard University
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University of Chicago Press Aesthetics of Renewal Martin Bubers Early
Book SynopsisMartin Buber's embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. This title analyzes Buber's writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism.Trade Review"Urban's superb study combines remarkable erudition with refined interpretative skills in an innovative contribution to our understanding of the often elusive role of Hasidism in Martin Buber's thought. Because her focus on Buber always points towards an evocative periphery, her book opens a field of larger relevance that will engage readers far beyond the circle of Buber scholars." - Asher D. Biemann, University of Virginia"
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The University of Chicago Press Banquet at Delmonicos The Gilded Age and the
Book SynopsisDraws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post - Civil War America. This title situates Darwinism in the context of the Gilded Age.Trade Review"Readers who want an engaging story... will find Banquet at Delmonico's to be a literary treat." (Boston Globe) "On one level, the book is a study of how ideas are understood, reworked, mangled and applied to society: Banquet at Delmonico's is like a racier version of The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand's worthy study of the origins of pragmatism. But... Werth also offers a portrait of how ideas can be transformed if their originators vacate the public sphere." (Nation) "Histories of ideas are rarely page-turners, but Werth has done the trick." (Kirkus, starred review) "A beautifully written classic of non-fiction narrative." (Nature) "What Werth has done, cleverly, in addition to drawing Spencer out from behind Darwin's shadow... is to create a narrative double helix of his own." (Los Angeles Times) "A surprisingly suspenseful and fast-paced story.... Banquet at Delmonico's crackles with energy and wit.... Werth is a gifted writer, and his subject is especially important in our current economic crisis." (New York Times Book Review)"
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Problem of Atheism
Book SynopsisThe Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theology, and modernity.
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press France in the World The Career of Andr233
Book SynopsisAndré Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.Trade Review“It is too easy to view Siegfried as ‘a man of his time.’ Instead, Kennedy aligns Siegfried's eclectic and wide-ranging theories with a racial and ethnic essentialism that is linked as much to eugenics and racial science as it is to the soft prejudices of his class and era. Revealing this thread throughout the academic’s entire life work, France in the World makes a devastating, convincing, and important argument that transcends the case of Siegfried and can be widely applied to a whole generation of interwar/postwar intellectuals.” Seth Armus, St Joseph's College and author of French Anti-Americanism 1930¬–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History"Kennedy’s intellectual biography of the French political scientist André Siegfried offers a multifaceted and insightful, if ultimately negative, appraisal of the legacy of this influential thinker. Recommended. Graduate students, and faculty.” Choice“André Siegfried (1875-1959) was that political oxymoron, a liberal-conservative. The label might appear to defy definition, but Sean Kennedy’s well-researched and judicious intellectual biography of the man gives flesh and meaning to the term.” H-France
£67.15
Columbia University Press Human Culture A Moment in Evolution
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Columbia University Press Sources of Indian Tradition Modern India and
Book SynopsisPrimary sources in the history, philosophy, and religions of South Asia: Volume II focuses on the subcontinent's history from 1498 to 1984, with such topics as the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslin social and religious movements; and Pakistan's formation as an Islamic state.Trade ReviewThis is a serious, careful, dependable book, broader and more varied even than the old Sources...It is also easy to read, to look at, and to hear; the new translations are always sound, often charming and occasionally quite brilliant. This is the primary study of Indian civilization. -- Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, University of Chicago For over thirty years, anyone seriously interested in India has always had to keep a copy of this classic within arm's reach. Sources of Indian Tradition is so useful -- as a reference work, sourcebook, or textbook -- that it has been indispensable to scholars all over the world. I welcome the 'return' of this important work to the marketplace. Better still, I am delighted to note that, in matters of fine-tuning, this is an improved and updated and revised version. -- Robert Eric Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of Contents20. The Opening of India to the West 21. The Renascence of Hinduism 22. Nationalism Takes Root: The Moderates 23. The Marriage of Politics and Religion: The Extremists 24. The Muslim Revival 25. Tagore and Gandhi 26. Pakistan: Its Founding and Future 27. Six Paths to India's Future
£35.70
Columbia University Press Parables of Possibility
Book SynopsisA reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity.
£66.00
Columbia University Press Socialist Thought A Documentary History Rev
Book SynopsisSets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society.Table of ContentsEarly French communism; Utopian socialism; the emergence of the proletariat; early German socialism; Marx and Engels; anarchism; revisionism; Bolshevism; contemporary socialism - two views; new currents in socialist thought.
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Columbia University Press Communism In America A History in Documents
Book SynopsisA controversial examination of the Jewish success story in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.Trade Review"A useful and scrupulously fair account of what is a true American epic." -- The New York Times Book Review "A trenchant history... Arthur Hertzberg is sounding an alarm that no Jew can afford to ignore if he cares about the survival of American Jewry." -- The Boston Globe "[Hertzberg's] book, which is a product of lived experience as well as wide reading, springs from dedication rather than detachment. It is certainly an affectionate narrative of achievements and of the notable Jews identified with them." -- New York Review of Books
£35.70
Columbia University Press The Inhuman Race The Racial Grotesque in
Book SynopsisIn revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Parchment Printing and Hypermedia
Book SynopsisThis text considers the ebb and flow of political power and authority as a function of changes in modes of communication. It examines the emergence of printing and its impact on the transformation of medieval to the modern order and then considers the impact of digital electronic communications.
£29.75
Columbia University Press Modernity and Culture
Book SynopsisBetween the 1890s and the 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic and cultural changes. This study provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity.Trade ReviewThe guiding vision behind this collection is profound, and the overall quality of the articles is excellent. American Historical Review The volume is a major contribution to the growing field of comparative history...Modernity and Culture, although focused on the Middle East and South Asia, will be of broad interest to students and teachers of world history for its explicit content and the stimulation it provides toward fresh conceptions and presentations of two major world regions in a global context. -- Frank F. Conlon History: Reviews of New Books This book can be regarded as a landmark achievement in expanding the scope of historical studies... It will provide a most valuable starting point for a new type of comparative studies. -- Ulrike Freitag School of Oriental and African Studies The contributors to Modernity and Culture capture many of the important trends that shaped the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Jennifer Derr Arab Studies Journal The totality of the essays in Modernity & Culture validate the need for cross-regional analysis. MESA Bulletin With its complex approach to the problems under study and its innovative interpretations, this collection represents an important stimulus. -- Svetla Ianeva Mediterranean Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Connected World of Empires, by C. A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz Section 1. Trade Routes and Patterns of Exchange from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Michel Tuchscherer A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Andre Raymond The Red Sea Ports during the Revolution in Transportation, by Colette Dubois Section II. Cities as Centers of Exchange Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s - 1920s, by Kenneth McPherson Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order, by May Seikaly Islamic Universalism and Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited, by Hala Fattah Section III. Survival of the Inland Cities Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan, by Abdul-Karim Rafeq Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925, by Peter Sluglett Section IV. Cultural Production and Diffusion Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914, by C. A. Bayly Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels, by Resat Kasaba Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, c. 1878-1914, by Ayesha Jalal Section V. Politics Race and Community The Tangled End of Istanbul's Imperial Supremacy, by Engin Deniz Akarli Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia, by Susan Bayly Section VI. Representing the Modern Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production, by Robin Ostle Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by Elisabeth Kendall Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920, by Juan Cole Section VII. Comparisons and Connections Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History, by Sugata Bose
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Columbia University Press Virtual Publics Policy and Community in an
Book SynopsisA collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and public life.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Reality of Virtuality Part 1. Users and the Structure of Technology The Net Effect: The Public's Fear and the Public Sphere, by Gilbert B. Rodman The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, by Paul Schiff Berman Architectural Design for Online Environments, by Anna Cicognani Community, Affect, and the Virtual: The Politics of Cyberspace, by J. Macgregor Wise Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?, by Helen Nissenbaum Part 2. Technology and the Structure of Communities TV Predicts Its Future: On Convergence and Cybertelevision, by Tara McPherson Women Making Multimedia: Possibilities for Feminist Activism, by Mary E. Hocks and Anne Balsamo Is It Art, in Fact?, by Mitch Geller Making the Virtual Real: University-Community Partnerships, by Alison Regan and John Zuern Where Do You Want to Learn Tomorrow? The Paradox of the Virtual University, by Collin Gifford Brooke Community-Based Software, Participatory Theater: Models for Inviting Participation in Learning and Artistic Production, by Susan Claire Warshauer Communication, Community, Consumption: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Online City, by David Silver Can Technology Transform? Experimenting with Wired Communities, by Mark A. Jones
£98.10
Columbia University Press The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self
Book SynopsisTraces the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveals the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. This title considers ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories.Trade ReviewWith plentiful notes and a full list of references; recommended for academic and larger public systems. -- Jason Moore Library Journal Review The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self is probably destined to become a benchmark of sorts. -- Chris Scott Ideas Book Review The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self is... destined to become a benchmark of sorts. -- Chris Scott The Globe and Mail Barresi and Martin provide an enjoyable and rich account of the history of personal identity in Western thought. -- Simon Blackburn New Scientist This solid book faithfully and intelligibly summarises the ideas of all the western figures who have tackled personal identity. -- Christian Tyler Financial Times Martin and Barresi offer a succinct but comprehensive history of the concept of self. Their work is uniquely successful... Highly recommended. Choice Inviting, informative, and free of mystification and arrogance. PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Myth to Science 2. Individualism and Subjectivity 3. People of the Book 4. Resurrected Self 5. The Stream Divides 6. Aristotelian Synthesis 7. Care of the Soul 8. Mechanization of Nature 9. Naturalizing the Soul 10. Philosophy of Spirit 11. Science of Human Nature 12. Before the Fall 13. Paradise Lost 14. Everything That Happened and What It Means Notes References Index
£90.25
Columbia University Press The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self
Book SynopsisTraces the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveals the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. This title considers ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories.Trade ReviewWith plentiful notes and a full list of references; recommended for academic and larger public systems. -- Jason Moore Library Journal Review The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self is probably destined to become a benchmark of sorts. -- Chris Scott Ideas Book Review The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self is... destined to become a benchmark of sorts. -- Chris Scott The Globe and Mail Barresi and Martin provide an enjoyable and rich account of the history of personal identity in Western thought. -- Simon Blackburn New Scientist This solid book faithfully and intelligibly summarises the ideas of all the western figures who have tackled personal identity. -- Christian Tyler Financial Times Martin and Barresi offer a succinct but comprehensive history of the concept of self. Their work is uniquely successful... Highly recommended. Choice Inviting, informative, and free of mystification and arrogance. PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Myth to Science 2. Individualism and Subjectivity 3. People of the Book 4. Resurrected Self 5. The Stream Divides 6. Aristotelian Synthesis 7. Care of the Soul 8. Mechanization of Nature 9. Naturalizing the Soul 10. Philosophy of Spirit 11. Science of Human Nature 12. Before the Fall 13. Paradise Lost 14. Everything That Happened and What It Means Notes References Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] brilliant study. -- Lauran R. Hartley The Journal of Asian Studies This elegant, readable work portrays the considerable traditional Tibetan enterprise of book production. -- Jonathan C. Gold Religious Studies Review This innovative and highly original exploration into the Tibetan culture of the book... is highly recommended reading for everybody interested in Tibetan Studies and cultural studies in general. Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Stuff of Books 2. The Editor's Texts 3. The Scholar's Dream 4. The Physician's Lament 5. The King's Canons 6. The Cost of a Priceless Book Epilogue: The Boy Who Wrote Sutras on the Sky Appendix 1. Buton Rinchendrup's Letter to Editors Appendix 2. The Contents of the Buddhist Canons Appendix 3. The Cost of the Canon at Dege Notes References Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Global Intellectual History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs intellectual history takes a global turn, the field urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism. Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike. -- David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International ThoughtTable of ContentsPreface Part I. A Framework for Debate 1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History (Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori) Part II. Alternative Options 2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary-Nomadic Frontier: Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun (Siep Stuurman) 3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity (Sheldon Pollock) 4. Joseph Banks's Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange (Vanessa Smith) 5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy (Andrew Sartori) 6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century (Christopher L. Hill) 7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World" (Cemil Aydin) 8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas (Samuel Moyn) 9. "Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples' Feet": Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History (Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais) 10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place (Janaki Bakhle) 11. Making and Taking Worlds (Duncan Bell) Part III. Concluding Reflections 12. How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be? (Frederick Cooper) 13. Global Intellectual History: Meanings and Methods (Sudipta Kaviraj) List of Contributors Index
£79.80
Columbia University Press Global Intellectual History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs intellectual history takes a global turn, the field urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism. Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike. -- David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International ThoughtTable of ContentsPreface Part I. A Framework for Debate 1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History (Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori) Part II. Alternative Options 2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary-Nomadic Frontier: Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun (Siep Stuurman) 3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity (Sheldon Pollock) 4. Joseph Banks's Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange (Vanessa Smith) 5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy (Andrew Sartori) 6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century (Christopher L. Hill) 7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World" (Cemil Aydin) 8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas (Samuel Moyn) 9. "Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples' Feet": Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History (Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais) 10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place (Janaki Bakhle) 11. Making and Taking Worlds (Duncan Bell) Part III. Concluding Reflections 12. How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be? (Frederick Cooper) 13. Global Intellectual History: Meanings and Methods (Sudipta Kaviraj) List of Contributors Index
£23.75
University of Notre Dame Press Curing Mad Truths
Book SynopsisIn his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague''s lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creationincluding human beingsas the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving.Curing Mad Truths will be of interest toTrade Review“Rémi Brague is a most singular polyglot and polymath, not to mention one of Europe’s wisest and wittiest Christian intellectuals. Curing Mad Truths is an impressive collection of his addresses to English-speaking audiences. As with all of Brague’s work, the volume uniquely combines cleverness and profound insight.” —Douglas Kries, Gonzaga University "With his distinctive combination of philological, philosophical, and historical erudition that ranges from the ancient world to our present moment, Rémi Brague poses more to ponder in each of these essays—about God and the good, creation and culture, virtues and values, modernity and meaning—than most writers manage to convey in a book. At issue, ultimately, is whether human beings have the will and wherewithal to go on living in a humane manner. Curing Mad Truths is a gem, and the stakes couldn’t be higher." —Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame “Brague's Curing Mad Truths is a radical assault on many of the things taken for granted in modern liberal societies… It calls us to reconnect the branches of truth upon which modernity sits to the metaphysical trunk from which they have been severed. It's a provocative, convincing, and accessible little book by an important scholar, and it deserves wide attention.” —Faith and Theology"Brague argues that the modern world is dying because it cannot answer the question of why it should live. To answer that question will require humility, according to Brague, because it is medieval truths about God, man, reason, and nature that are necessary for renewal." —The Catholic World Report"Rémi Brague argues that the modern project has failed, and that the source of the failure is a kind of heresy. To be sure, he does not himself use that word. But it is an apt label for what he describes. Modernity, on Brague’s account, is defined by several ideas it borrowed from Christianity, while at the same time it rejects the larger conceptual context that made those ideas intelligible." —Catholic Herald"Remi Brague this month releases a new book arguing for a reevaluation of medieval thought. . . . It’s Brague’s first book in English. . . . Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists." —Law and Religion Forum“The brevity of this anthology... does not prevent the careful reader from gazing beyond its idealism. Like many thinkers, Brague may be less useful in directing us away from our predicament to our fulfillment. But he does restore a wise insight into a conservative approach... which treasures aesthetic and nourishing measures to bring back to life deadened sensibilities of billions who seek, deep down, lasting meaning.” —Spectrum Culture Magazine"While he argues convincingly for the superiority of abandoned ways of thinking, Brague is not a ‘restorationist’ seeking to return us to an idealized past, his concern is to point out the weaknesses in the conversations we are having and so to improve them and our chances of a better future. He is a delightful, witty, interlocutor. He makes his vast learning accessible and relevant, providing a master-class in critical thinking all can attend." —Irish Catholic"Culture and politics are different, but they are not separate. They influence one another in unpredictable ways. Rémi Brague has given us a most insightful analysis of one half, perhaps more than a half, of the pairing that encompasses our human experience." —Society“Should humanity survive and adapt itself to the modern project? More specifically, now that humanity has commodified its existence (being) . . . is its existence better than its nonexistence? . . . These are the questions at the center of . . . Rémi Brague‘s . . . short collection of essays consisting primarily of unpublished lectures given in Europe and North America.” —The Review of Politics“Brague proposes that the medieval Christian view demonstrates the good of man’s existence by reorienting him to God and Creation.” —Catholic Social Science Review“This intriguing cultural critique will prove useful to anyone exploring how the modern world came to be and how a disciple of a more classical tradition might respond to the decadence of society in the modern period.” —Homiletic and Pastoral Review"Curing Mad Truths, a short collection of essays and lectures, is Rémi Brague’s plea for ‘some sort of return to the Middle Ages’...in the teeth of the ideology of Modernity which, he posits, threatens human flourishing and even survival.... Although many will reject his assessment, few philosophers are better placed to handle these matters than Brague, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne, a noted multi-disciplinary intellectual." —The New Bioethics"Curing Mad Truths might, from the title, look like just one more expression of Catholic nostalgia for a bygone age that the secular world has dismissed as the Dark Ages. But Brague has in mind quite specific and sophisticated points of medieval wisdom that need to be recovered, even as he would want to reform or reject other parts of that heritage." —The Catholic Thing
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University of Notre Dame Press Alasdair MacIntyre on Practical Philosophy
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SPCK Publishing The Human Odyssey East West and the Search for
Book SynopsisAn absorbing account of the emerging sense of the individual and the search for universal human values in the different cultures of Eurasia - past, present and futureTrade Review‘Erudite, bold and wide-ranging – a book that makes you think about knowledge, wisdom and what the future has in store.’ * Peter Frankopan, Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford, and author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World *‘Ranging from Japan to Iceland, and from Babylon to the Belt and Road Initiative, this is a book of remarkable sweep and scope - not just learned, but deeply humane." * Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind *‘Stephen Green asks important questions about what happens to humanity in the next hundred years. His book is a bold enterprise given the scale and pace of change around the world.’ * Baroness Valerie Amos CH, Director, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and former Leader of the House of Lords and United Nations Under-Secretary General *‘Stephen Green’s book is reflects his unique background: he has combined his deep international business experience with his strong appreciation of cultural and philosophical issues to present the evidence so persuasively.’ * Lord Jim O’Neill, Chair of Chatham House and former Head of Global Economic Research at Goldman Sachs *‘Through his thrillingly unusual and unfailingly wise probe into the moral and intellectual dilemmas that have defined Europe and Asia, Stephen Green leaves us better placed to understand the stakes and ever more complex future of Eurasia – thecauldron of human history.’ * Sunil Khilnani, Director of the India Institute, Kings College London, and author of The Idea of India *
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Reason after Its Eclipse On Late Critical Theory
Book SynopsisTackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term “reason” over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.Trade ReviewMartin Jay is one of the most respected intellectual historians now working, and any book by him is an important event. His subject here could hardly be bigger: the idea of reason in Western thought over two millennia."" - Michael Rosen, Harvard University""A magisterial rethinking of the fate of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas."" - Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University""The overriding strength of Jay's book is the breadth and depth of the intellectual history of reason it offers, a history that illuminates Critical Theory's concern to criticize our deeply imperfect societies, and the damaged lives they produce."" - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews""A magisterial rethinking of the fate of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas."" - Anson Rabinbach,Princeton UniversityTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I. The Ages of Reason 1 From the Greeks to the Enlightenment 2 Kant: Reason as Critique; the Critique of Reason 3 Hegel and Marx 4 Reason in Crisis Part II. Reason’s Eclipse and Return 5 The Critique of Instrumental Reason: Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno 6 Habermas and the Communicative Turn 7 Habermas and His Critics Notes Index
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Yale University Press Fins de Siécle
Book SynopsisExploring the final decade of each century from the 15th to the 20th, this work investigates factors such as cultural and economic attitudes, and artistic, scientific and political change. It finds that a consciousness of time has influenced the way people perceive their place in history.Trade Review"an extraordinary, panoramic view of British society in transition over 700 years." Amanda Foreman, the Independent "the contributors...have produced a series of unusually lively sketches." John Gross, The Sunday Telegraph "well timed...provides plenty of food for thought" Martin Jacques, The Observer
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Yale University Press Sesame and Lilies
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Yale University Press The Waning of the Renaissance 15501640
Book SynopsisHistorian William J. Bouwsma here examines the conventional view of the European Renaissance as the root and foundation of modern culture, arguing instead that while it had a beginning and a climax, the Renaissance also had an ending.
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Yale University Press Reading Matters Five Centuries of Discovering
Book SynopsisExamines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. This title also investigates the means by which books were sold, and lends insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares.Trade Review"'How do books furnish rooms - and minds? How have they been produced, sold, acquired, and read since William Caxton? These questions, always intriguing, are illuminated in this colourful bibliophilic excursion.' Jonathan Rose 'a wide-ranging history of readers and reading... a book rich in anecdote.' Christina Hardyment, Oxford Today 'Every now and again, an enchanting and delightful book appears which mixes real scholarship with eminently readable prose. Margaret Willes's Reading Matters is one such work... Books about books can be tricky affairs but this one is captivating; it is at once both instructive and entertaining. Anyone who loves books and their history will love Reading Matters.' Peter H. Reid, Library and Information History"
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University of California Press Rethinking Popular Culture Contempory
Book SynopsisSelects some of the important work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon developments in cultural theory and the techniques of critical analysis, this title includes essays that break down disciplinary boundaries in a fresh fashion. It touches on a variety of features of popular culture, from photography to fashion, romance novels to television.Table of ContentsRethinking Popular Culture, Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson Printing and the People, Natalie Zemon Davis Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Robert Darnton The Rise of the Saloon, Roy Rosenzweig William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation, Lawrence W. Levine The Dream World of Mass Consumption, Rosalind Williams Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, Clifford Geertz La Pensee Bourgeoise, Marshall Sahlins Jokes, Mary Douglas Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems, Paul Hirsch Movies of the Week, Todd Gitlin Sport and Social Class, Pierre Bourdieu Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America, Paul DiMaggio The Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory, Raymond Williams The Suit and the Photograph, John Berger Written Clothing, Roland Barthes What Is an Author? Michel Foucault Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading, Janice Radway
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University of California Press Braid of Feathers American Indian Law and
Book SynopsisChallenges the dominant legal history of American Indians and their tribes - a history that concedes far too much power to the laws and courts of the 'conqueror'. This book makes an urgent call for the advancement of tribal sovereignty and of tribal court systems that are based on Indian culture and values.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Indian Tribes and Indian Law Matter PART 1. DIFFERENT ROOTS, DIFFERENT BRANCHES: THE CULTURAL AND LEGAL SETTING 1. The Reservation as Place 2. The Colonized Context: Federal Indian Law and Tribal Aspiration PART 2. JUSTICE, LIBERATION, AND STRUGGLE: TRIBAL COURTS AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY 3. The Crucible of Sovereignty: Tribal Courts, Legitimacy, and the Jurisdictional Backdrop 4. Liberation, Dreams, and Hard Work: A View of Tribal Court Jurisprudence PART 3. ISSUES IN THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE: A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE 5. Tribal-State Relations: Hope for the Future? 6. Economic Development in Indian Country Conclusion: A Geography of Hope Notes Index
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University of California Press Eating Right in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisProviding an account of the differences between the nutritional logic of the past and our own time, this book examines the range of dietary literature of the Renaissance. Ken Albala reveals the working of the Renaissance mind through the exploration of Renaissance ideas on food.Trade Review"Albala 's engaging tour through the host of Renaissance dietary theories reminds us that our preoccupations with food and susceptibility to cranky advice about nutrition are nothing new. This is superior scholarship delivered with a light touch."-Rachel Laudan, author of The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage; "This stimulating work is an important contribution to social and especially medical-dietetic history. Albala is the first to explore in detail the role of dietetic literature in the development of the European nation state. His book is a pleasure to read."-Melitta Weiss Adamson, editor of Food in the Middle AgesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Spelling Introduction 1. Overview of the Genre 2. The Human Body: Humors, Digestion, and the Physiology of Nutrition 3. Food: Quality, Substance, and Virtues 4. External Factors 5. Food and the Individual 6. Food and Class 7. Food and Nation 8. Medicine and Cuisine Postscript: The End of a Genre and Its Legacy Bibliography Index
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MP-MEL Melbourne University European Vision and the South Pacific
Book SynopsisThe republication of European Vision and the South Pacific is an essential part of the discourse reframing the interconnections and crossing of cultural boundaries between Europe and antipodean societies. This new edition of a significant Australian classic coincides with the 250th anniversary of Cook's landing on the east coast of Australia.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Social Change
Book Synopsisaeo The first comprehensive survey of a key area of contemporary sociology. aeo The author is respected worldwide as a leading authority in the field. aeo Carefully structured and clearly written.Trade Review"Piotr Sztompka's book on social change is at once a masterful textbook, a comprehensive encyclopedia of theoretical approaches and an innovative contribution to the field. This book by the prominent Polish sociologist will certainly change sociologists' and historians' view on social change." Prof Dr Hans Joas, Freie Universitat Berlin "I can think of no sociologist with more scope and sense of balance than Piotr Sztompka. The Sociology of Social Change gives remarkable evidence of both qualities. It covers the field thoroughly and well; it has to be the authoritative treatment of the subject. Moreover, it balances breadth and depth, objective reporting with critical interpretation, and others' ideas with Sztompka's own. This volume is simultaneously an original and synthetic contribution to our thinking about social change." Neil J. Smelser, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Concepts and Categories:. 1. Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change. 2. Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress. 3. Temporal Dimension of Society: Social Time. 4. Modalities of Historical Tradition. 5. Modernity and Beyond. 6. Globalization of Human Society. Part II: Three Grand Visions of History:. 7. Classical Evolutionism. 8. Neo-evolutionism. 9. Theories of Modernization: Old and New. 10. Theories of Historical Cycles. 11. Historical Materialism. Part III: Alternative Vision: Making History:. 12. Against Developmentalism: Modern Critique. 13. History as a Human Product: Evolving Theory of Agency. 14. New Historical Sociology: Concreteness and Contingenc. 15. Social Becoming: the Essence of Historical Change. Part IV: Aspects of Social Becoming:. 16. Ideas as Historical Forces. 17. Normative Emergence: Evasions and Innovations. 18. Great Individuals as Agents of Change. 19. Social Movements as Forces of Change. 20. Revolutions: the Peak of Social Change. Bibliography
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