History of ideas Books
University of Missouri Press History of Political Ideas CW19
Book SynopsisFrom the decline of the Greek Polis to Saint Augustine, this text provides an account of Apostolic Christianity's political implications and the work of the early church fathers. It considers the political philosophy of Rome and includes an analysis of Greek and early Roman law.
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University of Missouri Press Selected Book Reviews CW13
Book SynopsisThis collection of Eric Voegelin's book reviews reflects in miniature the many problems Voegelin tackled in his essays, articles and books from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his reviews are little more than clinical summaries; others are analytic essays.
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Liverpool University Press Cicero Tusculan Disputations Book I
Book SynopsisRecent classical scholarship has seen a revived interest in post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan Disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Book I discusses whether or not death is an evil. Latin text with translation and commentary.Table of ContentsPrefaceSelect BibliographyIntroduction I. Cicero’s Life and Writings II. Cicero and the Hellenistic Tradition in Philosophy III. The Tusculan DisputationsNotes to IntroductionCicero: Tusculan Disputations I Text and Translation Commentary Addendum AppendixIndexes
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Liverpool University Press Cicero Tusculan Disputations II V with a
Book SynopsisBooks II–IV of Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations argue that the perfect human life is unaffected by physical and mental distress or extremes of emotion. Against this background Book V puts the positive, mainly Stoic, case that virtue is alone and of itself sufficient. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPrefaceBibliographyIntroduction Notes to the IntroductionTusculans II: Text and Translation CommentarySummary of Tusculans III & IVTusculans V: Text and Translation CommentaryAppendixIndex
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Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books I and II
Book SynopsisIn The City of God (De Civitate Dei), St Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the recent sack of Rome (AD410), to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. This edition of Books I & II provides Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review'This is a very useful introduction to Augustine in Latin.'Jennifer Milligan, JACT Review, 2006‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK I TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK IIAppendices: I. Retractationes 2.69II. Letter to FirmusIII. Suicide, Roman and ChristianCOMMENTARY ON BOOK I COMMENTARY ON BOOK IIIndicesI. ScriptureII. General
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Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books I and II
Book SynopsisIn The City of God (De Civitate Dei), St Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the recent sack of Rome (AD410), to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. This edition of Books I & II provides Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review'This is a very useful introduction to Augustine in Latin.'Jennifer Milligan, JACT Review, 2006‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK I TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK IIAppendices: I. Retractationes 2.69II. Letter to FirmusIII. Suicide, Roman and ChristianCOMMENTARY ON BOOK I COMMENTARY ON BOOK IIIndicesI. ScriptureII. General
£26.12
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Book V
Book SynopsisIn Book V of The City of God, Augustine addresses a key question. In spite of the moral bankruptcy of the Roman state, Rome has extended her imperial sway throughout Europe and the Near East. If the pagan gods have not guided her to this eminence, how has this success been achieved? Latin text with translation, introduction and detailed commentary.Trade Review‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATIONCOMMENTARYIndices
£72.68
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Book X
Book SynopsisThis edition is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of Augustine's The City of God. In Book X, Augustine continues Book IX’s discussion of demonology and Platonism, using the celebrated Neoplatonist Porphyry as his main source. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARYIndices
£31.86
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Book X
Book SynopsisThis edition is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of Augustine's The City of God. In Book X, Augustine continues Book IX’s discussion of demonology and Platonism, using the celebrated Neoplatonist Porphyry as his main source. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARYIndices
£104.02
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books VIII and IX
Book SynopsisThis edition of Augustine's The City of God provides a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. Books VIII and IX explore demonology, and the similarities between Platonism and Christianity. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review'...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original. [...] The present volume is of particular interest to specialists of Apuleius, since a large part of both books 8 and 9 of the City of God is devoted to an elaborate polemic of Augustine against Apuleius' middle-Platonic ideas on demonology.'Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.10.46Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VIII TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK IXCOMMENTARY ON BOOK VIII COMMENTARY ON BOOK IXIndices
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Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books VIII and IX
Book SynopsisThis edition of Augustine's The City of God provides a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. Books VIII and IX explore demonology, and the similarities between Platonism and Christianity. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review'...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original. [...] The present volume is of particular interest to specialists of Apuleius, since a large part of both books 8 and 9 of the City of God is devoted to an elaborate polemic of Augustine against Apuleius' middle-Platonic ideas on demonology.'Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.10.46Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VIII TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK IXCOMMENTARY ON BOOK VIII COMMENTARY ON BOOK IXIndices
£104.02
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books XI and XII
Book SynopsisPeter Walsh's acclaimed edition of The City of God is the only one in English with a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential work. In Books XI–XII, Augustine turns from attack to defence, initiating his apology for the Christian faith. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’ Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XI TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIICOMMENTARY ON BOOK XI COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIIIndices
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Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books XI and XII
Book SynopsisPeter Walsh's acclaimed edition of The City of God is the only one in English with a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential work. In Books XI–XII, Augustine turns from attack to defence, initiating his apology for the Christian faith. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’ Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XI TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIICOMMENTARY ON BOOK XI COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIIIndices
£104.02
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books XIII and XIV
Book SynopsisThis is the only English edition of The City of God with Latin text and facing-page translation as well as a detailed introduction and commentary. In Books XIII– XIV, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues topics emerging from consideration of Adam's sin.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIII TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIVCOMMENTARY ON BOOK XIII COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIVIndices
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books VI and VII
Book SynopsisThis edition of Augustine's The City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential document. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro, a man revered by Augustine’s pagan contemporaries. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VI TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VIICOMMENTARY ON BOOK VI COMMENTARY ON BOOK VIIIndices
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books VI and VII
Book SynopsisThis edition of Augustine's The City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential document. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro, a man revered by Augustine’s pagan contemporaries. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VI TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK VIICOMMENTARY ON BOOK VI COMMENTARY ON BOOK VIIIndices
£31.86
Liverpool University Press Augustine The City of God Books XIII and XIV
Book SynopsisThis is the only English edition of The City of God with Latin text and facing-page translation as well as a detailed introduction and commentary. In Books XIII– XIV, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues topics emerging from consideration of Adam's sin.Trade ReviewReviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsBibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIII TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XIVCOMMENTARY ON BOOK XIII COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIVIndices
£31.86
John Wiley & Sons Intellectuals in Exile
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Temple University Press,U.S. Passion And Power Sexuality in History
Book SynopsisExplores the experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of modern sexual identities. This work features articles on sexual assault, homosexuality, birth control, venereal disease, sexual repression, pornography, and the AIDS epidemic, which examine the ways that sexuality has become a core element of modern social identity.Trade Review"Brings together some of the most recent and innovative writing on the history of sexuality and explores the experiences, ideas and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of modern sexual identities." --DareTable of ContentsPart I: Sexuality and Historical Meaning 1. Passion and Power: An Introdtion - Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History - Robert A. Padgug Part II: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality, 1790 to 1930 3. "The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman": Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790 to 1820 - Marybeth Hamilton Arnold 4. "Charity Girls" and City Pleasurer: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 - Kathy Peiss 5. Movements of Affirmation: Sexual Meanings and Homosexual Identities - Jeffrey Weeks 6. From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: The Changing Medical Conceptualization of Female "Deviance" - George Chauncey, Jr. 7. "We Were a Little Band of Willful Women": The Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village - Judith Schwartz, Kathy Peiss, and Christina Simmons 8. The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement - Jessie M. Rodrique Part III: Sexual Conflicts and Cultural Authority, 1920 to 1960 9. Modern Sexuality and the Myrh of Victorian Repression - Christina Simmons 10. Venereal Disease: The Wages of Sin? - Elizabeth Fee 11. "Uncontrolled Desires": The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960 - Estelle B. Freedman 12. The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America - John D'Emilio 13. The Reproduction of Butch-Fern Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis Part IV: Private Passions and Public Debate, 1960 to the Present 14. Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different - Ann Barr Snitow 15. (De)Constructing Pornography: Feminisms in Conflict - Duphne Read 16. Gay Villain, Gay Hero: Homosexuality and the Social Construction of AIDS - Robert A. Padgug
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East European Monographs Infamy and Revolt The Rise of the National
Book SynopsisHistorians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This book offers a fresh perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger European Republic of Letters.Trade Review[Infamy and Revolt] adds to the growing literature that seeks to consider the Enlightenment in areas far from its French homeland... Recommended. Choice
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Zone Books Foucault Blanchot
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Intellectual History
Book SynopsisA Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced.Trade Review"this is an exceptionally stimulating book. Each chapter discusses complex matters with lucidity with no loss in rigor, and each raises questions with great intrinsic interest...... An outstanding work." (Choice Connect 2016)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Introduction 1Brian Young Part One Approaches to Intellectual History 5 1 The Identity of Intellectual History 7Stefan Collini 2 Intellectual History and Historismus in Post‐War England 19Brian Young 3 Intellectual History in the Modern University 36Cesare Cuttica 4 Intellectual History and Poststructuralism 48Edward Baring 5 Intellectual History as Begriffsgeschichte 61Keith Tribe 6 Intellectual History and History of the Book 72Jacob Soll 7 Michel Foucault and the Genealogy of Power and Knowledge 83Michael Drolet 8 Quentin Skinner and the Relevance of Intellectual History 97Richard Whatmore 9 J. G. A. Pocock as an Intellectual Historian 113Kenneth Sheppard Part Two The Discipline of Intellectual History 127 10 Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy: Their Genesis and Current Relationship 129Leo Catana 11 Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought 141Duncan Kelly 12 Intellectual History and the History of Science 155John F. M. Clark 13 Intellectual History and the History of Economics 170Donald Winch 14 Art History and Intellectual History 184Katharina Lorenz 15 Intellectual History and Global History 201Andrew Sartori 16 Intellectual History and Legal History 213John W. Cairns 17 The Idea of Secularisation in Intellectual History 230Peter E. Gordon Part Three The Practice of Intellectual History 247 18 Liberty and Law 249Ioannis D. Evrigenis 19 Education and Manners 262Deborah Madden 20 Republics and Monarchies 276Koen Stapelbroek 21 Barbarism and Civilisation 288Michael Sonenscher 22 Religion Natural and Revealed 303Norman Vance 23 Citizenship and Culture 316David Burchell 24 Democracy and Representation 331Manuela Albertone 25 Religion and Enlightenment 345Sarah Mortimer 26 Art and Aesthetics 358Francesco Ventrella 27 Natural Law: Law, Rights and Duties 377Knud Haakonssen and Michael J. Seidler 28 Wars and Empires 402Sophus A. Reinert 29 Reason and Scepticism 417Mark Somos Index 438
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Adventure of the Human Intellect
Book SynopsisThe Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date theoretical underpinning, evidence, and scholarship Provides a broad scope of studies, including discussion of highly developed ancient or early civilizations in China, India, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Examines the world view of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine Considers a diversity of sources representing a wide array of particular responses to differTrade Review"...a modern remake of the classic. ...Raaflaub has further raised the bar for the present volume, including chapters not just on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Israel, but also on Greece, Rome, China, India, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and Native North Americans. ...A truly global work that will be a welcome addition to a range of intellectual history and World-Civ courses. ...an excellent resource, well put together and comprehensive in all the right ways." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Series Editor’s Preface xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Francesca Rochberg and Kurt A. Raaflaub 1 A Critique of the Cognitive‐historical Thesis of The Intellectual Adventure 16 Francesca Rochberg 2 The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Revisiting a Classic 29 Peter Machinist 3 The World of Ancient Egyptian Thought 73 James P. Allen 4 On Speculative Thought in Ancient Mesopotamia 89 Benjamin R. Foster 5 Self, Substance, and Social Metaphysics: The Intellectual Adventures of Israel and Judah 105 Ryan Byrne 6 Ancient Greece: Man the Measure of All Things 127 Kurt A. Raaflaub 7 The Thought‐World of Ancient Rome: A Delicate Balancing Act 149 Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan 8 Self, Cosmos, and Agency in Early China 167 Lisa Raphals 9 Vedic India: Thinking and Doing 185 Stephanie W. Jamison 10 “Chronosophy” in Classic Maya Thought 198 Stephen Houston 11 The Word, Sacrifice, and Divination: Aztec Man in the Realm of the Gods 216 Guilhem Olivier 12 Night Thoughts and Spiritual Adventures: Native North America 239 Peter Nabokov Index 000
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin
Book SynopsisThis collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses how the model of Roman imperialism, challenges to Aristotle's theories of geography and natural slavery, and Cicero's notion of the patria have had a pervasive influence on thought and politics throughout the Latin American regionBrings together essays by specialists in art history, cultural anthropology and literary studies, as well as Americanists and scholars of the classical traditionShows that appropriations of the Greco-Roman past are a recurrent catalyst for change in the AmericasCalls attention to ideas and developments which have been overlooked in standard narratives of intellectual historyTrade Review"Spanning half a millennium, Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America offers an impressive demonstration of the vibrancy of the classical tradition in a wide range of social domains and practices: education, the book trade, public ceremonies, the visual arts, popular culture and, above all, the process of nation-building. The contributors vividly reveal the impact of Greek and Roman culture on creole and indigenous authors and actors in the Americas, from the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Chimalpahin to José Martí and Roberto Bolaño. While there have been several influential studies of the ways in which knowledge of classical antiquity informed early European impressions of the New World, the focus of this volume is on the importance of the afterlife of Greece, Rome and Byzantium within Latin America itself."—David A. Lupher, University of Puget Sound "The twelve chapters contained in the book are wide in scope, not only spatially and thematically, but also chronologically, reaching as far as works of the late twentieth century. They also display a remarkable involvement of researchers from different disciplines (coming not just from the field of classical studies), which produces an appealing crossover of approaches, which will certainly benefit readers."—International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2021) 28(2):255-257Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Classical Traditions and Controversies in Latin American History (Andrew Laird)2. The Early Circulation of Classical Books in New Spain and Peru (Natalia Maillard Álvarez)3. Gardens of Origin and the Golden Age in the Mexican Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis (1552) (Alejandra Rojas Silva)4. Comparison and Seeing in the Mediterratlantic (Byron Ellsworth Hamann)5. The Inca Garcilaso in Dialogue with Neoplatonism (Erika Valdivieso)6. Universal History and New Spain’s Indian Past: Classical Knowledge in Nahua Chronicles (Andrew Laird)7. The Exemplary Power of Antiquity: Humanist Rhetoric and Ceremony in Seventeenth-Century New Spain (Stuart M. McManus)8. Plato and the Guarani Indians (Desiree Arbo)9. Classicism in Modern Latin America from Simón Bolívar to Roberto Bolano (Robert T. Conn)10. Classical Motifs in Spanish American Nation-Building: Looking Beyond the Elites (Nicola Miller)11. Greece and José Martí (Elina Miranda Cancela)12. Pedro Henríquez Urena’s Hellenism and the American Utopia (Rosa Andújar)13. Born with the Wrinkles of Byzantium: Unclassical Traditions in Spanish America, 1815-1925 (Eric Cullhed)14. Envoi: Whose Classical Traditions? (Jorge Canizares-Esguerra)ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ideas about Substance
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1969. Ideas about Substance is a part of the Seminars in the History of Ideas series at Johns Hopkins University Press.Table of ContentsPublisher's NotePrefaceChapter 1. Pre-Socratic Pre-emptionsChapter2. Athenian ElaborationChapter3. Cartesian SimplesChapter4. The English Way of IDeasChapter 5. Phenomenalism and PostphenomenalismIndex
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University of Toronto Press Vital Matters
Book SynopsisLocating materialism within the larger history of ideas, Vital Matters examines how and why eighteenth-century scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists questioned nature and its animating principles.Trade Review'This is a collection that is breathtaking in its range... Deutsch and Terrall have compiled an admirably broad range of contributions on a topic of crucial importance for eighteenth-century studies, and this is a book that deserves to be read by students of its themes and period. In the final analysis, Vital Matters matters.' -- Andrew Wells Modern Language Review vol 109:01:2014 'This study would fascinate anyone with even slightest interest in either the eighteenth century or the perennial issues of life and death that it explores...A superb collection... Vital Matters is a wonderful contribution to the literature of eighteenth century thought.' -- James Stacey Taylor The Historian vol 76:03:2014Table of ContentsIntroduction Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall 1 Living with Lucretius Jonathan Kramnick 2 Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation Helen Deutsch 3 Girodet and the Eternal Sleep Kevin Chua 4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception Raymond Stephanson 5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance Mary Terrall 6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan Propaganda Corrinne Harol 7 From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity Minsoo Kang 8 The 'fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia Helen Thompson 9 Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine Elizabeth A. Williams 10 The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham's rectum Simon Chaplin 11 The Value of a Dead Body Anita Guerrini 12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain Lorna Clymer Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press National Reckonings
Book SynopsisDuring the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent. National Reckonings shows how this widespread eschatological expectation shaped nationalist thinking in the seventeenth century. Imagining what Christ''s return would mean for England''s body politic, a wide range of poets, philosophers, and other writersincluding Milton, Hobbes, Winstanley, and Thomas and Henry Vaughan,used anticipation of the Last Judgment to both disrupt existing ideas of the nation and generate new ones. Ryan Hackenbracht contends that nationalism, consequently, was not merely a horizontal relationship between citizens and their sovereign but a vertical one that pitted the nation against the shortly expected kingdom of God. The Last Judgment was the site at which these two imagined communities, England and ecclesia (the universal churTrade ReviewNational Reckonings is a valuable addition to scholarship on the early-modern understanding of Judgment Day... Hackenbracht's scholarship is solid and needs to be considered and discussed. * Choice *National Reckonings succeeds in detailing the religious texture of early modern nationalism by offering a rich early modern social horizon, one in which ecclesia and the faithful remnant hold power alongside (often beyond) the emerging nation-state... National Reckonings will certainly appeal to Miltonists and scholars of the English revolution looking for a sophisticated yet lucid explication of the biblical roots of early modern political thought. * Renaissance Quarterly *National Reckonings offers a short, lucid, and provocative rereading of some key (and some unjustly neglected) texts of the tumultuous mid-seventeenth-century England. Hackenbracht's prose moves the reader easily and clearly among languages, authors, and genres. His command of Greek and Latin is impressive (he does his own translations of texts in both languages) and he renders the often-obscure prose of writers like Thomas Vaughan and Abiezer Coppe easily accessible in his paraphrases. This [is an] intriguing, thoughtful, and well-written book. * Milton Quarterly *With fresh readings of canonical figures such as Milton and Hobbes, as well as lesser-known religious and literary figures, National Reckonings provides a helpful resource for scholars of early modern religious and political thought. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
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Cornell University Press Unfelt
Book SynopsisUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period''s understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelton philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economycharts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle''s exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the pTrade ReviewNoggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book. * Modern Language Quarterly *Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfelt Affect 1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness 1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay 1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter 1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume 1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith 2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement 2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility 2.2. External and Invisible 2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney 2.4. Austen as Coda 3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions 3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography 3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography 3.3. Gibbon in History 3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling 4. Political Economy: Moving with Money 4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness 4.2. Feeling Untaxed 4.3. The Money Flow 4.4. Invisible versus Insensible Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology
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Cornell University Press The Life of Wisdom in Rousseaus Reveries of the
Book SynopsisThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau''s Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau''s final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing''s complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of lifeand how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made centraland that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of human Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "First Walk"—Rousseau's Introduction 2. "Second Walk"—Nature, Mortality, God 3. "Third Walk"—A Spiritual-Religious Autobiography 4. "Fourth Walk"—The Virtue of Truthfulness 5. "Fifth Walk"—Happiness 6. "Sixth Walk"—Goodness versus Virtue 7. "Seventh Walk"—Botany as Consuming "Amusement" 8. "8"—Renewed Self-exploration 9. "9" and "10"—The Solitary Walker's "Truly Loving Heart"
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Cornell University Press The Life of Wisdom in Rousseaus Reveries of the
Book SynopsisThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau''s Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau''s final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing''s complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of lifeand how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made centraland that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of human Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "First Walk"—Rousseau's Introduction 2. "Second Walk"—Nature, Mortality, God 3. "Third Walk"—A Spiritual-Religious Autobiography 4. "Fourth Walk"—The Virtue of Truthfulness 5. "Fifth Walk"—Happiness 6. "Sixth Walk"—Goodness versus Virtue 7. "Seventh Walk"—Botany as Consuming "Amusement" 8. "8"—Renewed Self-exploration 9. "9" and "10"—The Solitary Walker's "Truly Loving Heart"
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Cornell University Press Unfelt
Book SynopsisUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period''s understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelton philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economycharts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle''s exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the pTrade ReviewNoggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book. * Modern Language Quarterly *Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfelt Affect 1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness 1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay 1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter 1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume 1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith 2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement 2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility 2.2. External and Invisible 2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney 2.4. Austen as Coda 3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions 3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography 3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography 3.3. Gibbon in History 3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling 4. Political Economy: Moving with Money 4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness 4.2. Feeling Untaxed 4.3. The Money Flow 4.4. Invisible versus Insensible Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities
Book SynopsisWhat connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht�s drama? Which of Goethe�s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi�s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka? �One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable�: in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical dimension in the works of Goethe and Kleist, and deciphers the political implications of theatre, from Shakespeare to Lessing to Brecht. Drawing striking comparisons between diverse literary traditions and cultures, Kermani argues for a literary cosmopolitanism that is opposed to all those who would play religions and cultures against one another, isolating them from one another by force. Between Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermani�s speech on receiving Germany�s highest literary prize, an impassioned plea for greater fraternity in the face of the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State. Kermani�s personal assimilation of the classics gives his work that topical urgency that distinguishes universal literature when it speaks to our most intimate feelings. For, of course, love too lies �between Quran and Kafka�. Trade Review"This engaging collection of essays by Kermani… examines topics ranging from 10th-century poetic convention to modern-day extremist attacks in an expertly crafted critique of the East-West paradigm that often dominates contemporary discussions of immigration, globalism, and the preservation of ethnic and national identities... [It] will be a worthwhile read for anyone who is interested in better understanding the intellectual ties that bridge a social and cultural division that is popularly conceived as being thousands of years wide."—Publisher's Weekly "The moral power behind Kermani’s extraordinary achievements is scarcely paralleled among all the great figures of German literature."—Süddeutsche Zeitung "Through his work Kermani shows us the challenges facing the critical mind today and what it can achieve."—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "As one of its best-known intellectuals, Kermani represents the new Germany."—Der Spiegel "Kermani is living proof that, even in the generation after Walser and Habermas, the intellectual has not become obsolete as a public figure. He also attests to the source of this vitality, which comes both from education and from an active participation in the world that he observes."—Die Zeit "In the end, Kermani's exquisite book is marked by a refusal of the fundamentalist’s temptation to let Islam's dogma eclipse its aesthetic permeability, and a refusal to let taut entanglements slacken into cultural amnesia. Taken together, these essays give texture to the tapestry of affinities that weaves together the two poles of his heritage — and, perhaps, of ours."—LA Review of BooksTable of ContentsA Personal Note 1. Don't Follow the Poets! The Quran and Poetry 2. Revolt against God Attar and Suffering 3. World without God Shakespeare and Man 4. Heroic Weakness Lessing and Terror 5. God Breathing Goethe and Religion 6. Filth of My Soul Kleist and Love 7. The Truth of Theatre The Shiite Passion Play and Alienation 8. Liberate Bayreuth! Wagner and Empathy 9. Swimming in the Afternoon Kafka and Germany 10. The Purpose of Literature Hedayat and Kafka 11. For Europe Zweig and the Borders 12. In Defence of the Glass Bead Game Hesse and Decadence 13. The Violence of Compassion Arendt and Revolution 14. Tilting at Windmills Mosebach and the Novel 15. One God, One Wife, One Cheese Golshiri and Friendship 16. Chant the Quran Singingly Neuwirth and Literalist Orthodoxy Appendix On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution Speech to the Bundestag, Berlin, May 23, 2014 On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association Speech in St Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main, October 18, 2015 About the Text Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities
Book SynopsisWhat connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht�s drama? Which of Goethe�s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi�s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka? �One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable�: in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical dimension in the works of Goethe and Kleist, and deciphers the political implications of theatre, from Shakespeare to Lessing to Brecht. Drawing striking comparisons between diverse literary traditions and cultures, Kermani argues for a literary cosmopolitanism that is opposed to all those who would play religions and cultures against one another, isolating them from one another by force. Between Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermani�s speech on receiving Germany�s highest literary prize, an impassioned plea for greater fraternity in the face of the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State. Kermani�s personal assimilation of the classics gives his work that topical urgency that distinguishes universal literature when it speaks to our most intimate feelings. For, of course, love too lies �between Quran and Kafka�. Trade Review"This engaging collection of essays by Kermani… examines topics ranging from 10th-century poetic convention to modern-day extremist attacks in an expertly crafted critique of the East-West paradigm that often dominates contemporary discussions of immigration, globalism, and the preservation of ethnic and national identities... [It] will be a worthwhile read for anyone who is interested in better understanding the intellectual ties that bridge a social and cultural division that is popularly conceived as being thousands of years wide."—Publisher's Weekly "The moral power behind Kermani’s extraordinary achievements is scarcely paralleled among all the great figures of German literature."—Süddeutsche Zeitung "Through his work Kermani shows us the challenges facing the critical mind today and what it can achieve."—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "As one of its best-known intellectuals, Kermani represents the new Germany."—Der Spiegel "Kermani is living proof that, even in the generation after Walser and Habermas, the intellectual has not become obsolete as a public figure. He also attests to the source of this vitality, which comes both from education and from an active participation in the world that he observes."—Die Zeit "In the end, Kermani's exquisite book is marked by a refusal of the fundamentalist’s temptation to let Islam's dogma eclipse its aesthetic permeability, and a refusal to let taut entanglements slacken into cultural amnesia. Taken together, these essays give texture to the tapestry of affinities that weaves together the two poles of his heritage — and, perhaps, of ours."—LA Review of BooksTable of ContentsA Personal Note 1. Don't Follow the Poets! The Quran and Poetry 2. Revolt against God Attar and Suffering 3. World without God Shakespeare and Man 4. Heroic Weakness Lessing and Terror 5. God Breathing Goethe and Religion 6. Filth of My Soul Kleist and Love 7. The Truth of Theatre The Shiite Passion Play and Alienation 8. Liberate Bayreuth! Wagner and Empathy 9. Swimming in the Afternoon Kafka and Germany 10. The Purpose of Literature Hedayat and Kafka 11. For Europe Zweig and the Borders 12. In Defence of the Glass Bead Game Hesse and Decadence 13. The Violence of Compassion Arendt and Revolution 14. Tilting at Windmills Mosebach and the Novel 15. One God, One Wife, One Cheese Golshiri and Friendship 16. Chant the Quran Singingly Neuwirth and Literalist Orthodoxy Appendix On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution Speech to the Bundestag, Berlin, May 23, 2014 On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association Speech in St Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main, October 18, 2015 About the Text Index
£18.04
University of Minnesota Press The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood
Book SynopsisExcavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property, while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic institutions of ownership. In The Dispossessed, Daniel Bensaïd examines Karl Marx’s early writings to establish a new framework for addressing the rights of the poor, the idea of the commons, and private property as a social institution.In his series of articles from 1842–43 about Rhineland parliamentary debates over the privatization of public lands and criminalization of poverty under the rubric of the “theft of wood,” Marx identified broader anxieties about customary law, property rights, and capitalist efforts to privatize the commons. Bensaïd studies these writings to interrogate how dispossession continues to function today as a key modality of power. Brilliantly tacking between past and present, The Dispossessed discloses continuity and rupture in our relationships to property and, through that, to one another.In addition to Bensaïd’s prescient work of political philosophy, The Dispossessed includes new translations of Marx’s original “theft of wood” articles and an introductory essay by Robert Nichols that lucidly contextualizes the essays.Trade Review"In 1842, the young Karl Marx analyzed the consequences of capitalist rural enclosures in Rhineland. Today, patent rights, biotechnologies, and different forms of intellectual property, Daniel Bensaïd convincingly argues, are means of dispossession of human beings exactly as the land enclosures of almost two centuries ago had been a crucial moment in the process of the accumulation of capital. Far from being ‘neutral’ or ‘natural,’ market society was—and still remains—built as a planned dispossession. This is a timely and highly original essay by a towering figure of French critical thought."—Enzo Traverso, author of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory"Within a single volume, this book makes available to English-language readers for the first time not only fresh translations of Marx’s ‘wood theft articles’ but also Daniel Bensaïd’s lucid and incisive commentary on these pieces. Bensaïd’s short book brings the Marx articles alive for contemporary audiences and demonstrates their enduring relevance for longstanding debates about law, property, and rights."—Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University"Bensaïd’s essay, as contextualized in this volume by Nichols, successfully pushes, especially those of a Marxist orientation, to make the idea of dispossession more central to their theoretical and practical work."—Marx & Philosophy Table of ContentsContentsCrisis and Kleptocracy: Bensaïd for Our TimesRobert NicholsNotes on TranslationThe Dispossessed: Karl Marx, the Wood Thieves, and the Right of the PoorI. The Law on the Theft of Wood and the Rights of the Poor“Rural Pauperism” and “Forest Malfeasance”—Hybrid and Uncertain Property—Market versus Popular EconomyII. A Social War of PropertiesThe Right of Necessity versus the Right of Property—“Property Is Theft!”—Possession and Property—Theft or ExploitationIII. The Customary Rights of the Poor to the Communal Goods of Humanity The Privatization of Knowledge—The Privatization of Life—The Common Good and the Freely Given—Inappropriable Goods—Individual and Private Property—The Age of Access?—Enforcing Rights (against Existence)—Who Will Win?Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly, Third Article: Debates on the Law Concerning the Theft of Wood Karl MarxSelected Works by Daniel BensaïdNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of
Book SynopsisA vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, speculative feminist historiography, Marcus Garvey’s finances, and maps drawn by asylum patients have in common? Jonathan P. Eburne explores this question as never before in Outsider Theory, a timely book about outlandish ideas. Eburne brings readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the urgency of taking seriously—especially in an era of fake news—ideas that might otherwise be discarded or regarded as errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. Examining the role of such thinking in contemporary intellectual history, Eburne challenges the categorical demarcation of good ideas from flawed, wild, or bad ones, addressing the surprising extent to which speculative inquiry extends beyond the work of professional intellectuals to include that of nonprofessionals as well, whether amateurs, unfashionable observers, or the clinically insane. Considering the work of a variety of such figures—from popular occult writers and gnostics to so-called outsider artists and pseudoscientists—Eburne argues that an understanding of its circulation and recirculation is indispensable to the history of ideas. He devotes close attention to ideas and texts usually omitted from or marginalized within orthodox histories of literary modernism, critical theory, and continental philosophy, yet which have long garnered the critical attention of specialists in religion, science studies, critical race theory, and the history of the occult. In doing so he not only sheds new light on a fascinating body of creative thought but also proposes new approaches for situating contemporary humanities scholarship within the history of ideas. However important it might be to protect ourselves from “bad” ideas, Outsider Theory shows how crucial it is for us to know how and why such ideas have left their impression on modern-day thinking and continue to shape its evolution.Trade Review"A bracing challenge to academic squeamishness, Outsider Theory is a learned, mischievous, and fascinating book that makes a compelling argument for the positive role of fraud, failure, and error in knowledge production. Outsider art, writing, and thinking can no longer be neatly quarantined in isolated and eccentric individuals, but must be recognized as thoroughly implicated in mass culture, scholarship, laboratory work, and critical theory."—John Wilkinson, University of Chicago"Jonathan P. Eburne has written a generous, curious, rigorous book about ideas often dismissed as ridiculous, embarrassing, and even dangerous. Outsider Theory takes them seriously, which means subjecting them to the same caliber of historical analysis and philosophical critique usually reserved for ‘good’ ideas. In doing so, he launches us on several fascinating voyages across what he calls ‘the oceanic expanse of modern intellectual history.’"—Evan Kindley, author of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture"This timely book is not only genuinely interesting, but makes a strong and original contribution to the discussion concerning the future of the humanities. Jonathan P. Eburne's study of questions of method is itself an achievement of method, engaging with the outsiders not as a cabinet of curiosities, but in a way that troubles thinking, and especially thinking about thinking."—Margret Grebowicz, Tyumen State University "Scholars will find much to consider in Eburne’s methodological innovations, and students will find Eburne’s case studies of outsider theory to be fascinating explorations of how ideas, once discarded, often have had a subterranean influence on contemporary intellectual life."—CHOICE"Jonathan Eburne’s book encourages a resolve to take as seriously and generously as he entertains every strange invention and its productive errancy, even one’s drifting thoughts on finally putting the book aside."—SubStanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Enemies of the TruthIntroductionPart I. Alien Gods1. The Library We’ve Been Waiting For: The Alien Knowledge of Nag Hammadi2. Gnostic MaterialismPart II. Mythomorphoses3. So Dark, the Con of Man4. The Chalice, the Blade, and the Bifurcation PointPart III. Sovereign Institutions5. Garveyism and Its Involutions6. The Sade IndustryPart IV. Products of Mind7. Cartographorrhea: On Psychotic Maps8. Communities of Suspicion: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Laws of ScienceCoda: Thought from Outer SpaceNotesIndex
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Architecture and Objects
Book SynopsisThinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects, the first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO), deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Graham Harman opens with a critique of Heidegger, Derrida, and Deleuze, the three philosophers whose ideas have left the deepest imprint on the field, highlighting the limits of their thinking for architecture. Instead, Harman contends, architecture can employ OOO to reconsider traditional notions of form and function that emphasize their relational characteristics—form with a building’s visual style, function with its stated purpose—and constrain architecture’s possibilities through literalism. Harman challenges these understandings by proposing de-relationalized versions of both (zero-form and zero-function) that together provide a convincing rejoinder to Immanuel Kant’s dismissal of architecture as “impure.”Through critical engagement with the writings of Peter Eisenman and fresh assessments of buildings by Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid, Architecture and Objects forwards a bold vision of architecture. Overcoming the difficult task of “zeroing” function, Harman concludes, would place architecture at the forefront of a necessary revitalization of exhausted aesthetic paradigms.Trade Review"Graham Harman’s Architecture and Objects could very well be a new philosophical blueprint for how to build our emerging twenty-first century world. By reconsidering the relationship between humanity, reality, and the built environment, he shows us, like a UV light at a crime scene, ways of understanding architecture that we’d never even considered but that are now, all of a sudden, glowing with brilliant potential."—Mark Foster Gage, Yale University, and principal of Mark Foster Gage ArchitectsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Architects and Their Philosophers2. I Know Not What3. Object-Orientation4. The Aesthetic Centrality of Architecture5. The Architectural CellConcluding MaximsNotesBibliographyIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press For a New Geography
Book SynopsisFor the first time in English, a key work of critical geography Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography’s past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside.Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. Trade Review"For a New Geography presents an incisive critique of twentieth-century geography rooted in an anti-colonial, Third-Worldist perspective, and makes the case for a new geography linked to global social justice. As the perceptive translator’s introduction makes clear, this volume is an important historical text that continues to hold significant insights for today."—Ruth Craggs, King’s College London"It is great to see this commented translation of a key work by Milton Santos, one of the most iconic radical geographers from the Global South. This book anticipated several critical approaches to the philosophy and history of geography and is now available thanks to the commitment of Archie Davies, who is at the same time a great scholar and a great translator, two qualities that it is rare to see combined in today’s Anglophone scholarship."—Federico Ferretti, University of BolognaTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Newness of Geography Archie DaviesIntroduction: From a Critique of Geography to a Critical GeographyPart I. The Critique of Geography1. The Founders: Scientific Pretensions2. Philosophical Inheritance3. Postwar Renovation: “A New Geography”4. Quantitative Geography5. Models and Systems: The Ecosystems6. The Geography of Perception and Behavior7. The Triumph of Formalism and Ideology8. The Balance of the Crisis: Geography, Widow of SpacePart II. Geography, Society, Space9. A New Interdisciplinarity 10. An Attempt to Define Space11. Space: Reflection of Society or Social Fact?12. Space: A Factor?13. Space as Social OrderPart III. For a Critical Geography14. In Search of a Paradigm15. Total Space in Our Time16. State and Space: The Nation-State as a Geographical Unit of Study 17. The Ideas of Totality and Social Formation and the Renovation of Geography18. The Idea of Time in Geographical Studies Conclusion: Geography and the Future of Man AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Gaian Systems is a pioneering exploration of the dynamic and complex evolution of Gaia’s many variants, with special attention to Margulis’s foundational role in these developments.Bruce Clarke assesses the different dialects of systems theory brought to bear on Gaia discourse. Focusing in particular on Margulis’s work—including multiple pieces of her unpublished Gaia correspondence—he shows how her research and that of Lovelock was concurrent and conceptually parallel with the new discourse of self-referential systems that emerged within neocybernetic systems theory. The recent Gaia writings of Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour contest its cybernetic status. Clarke engages Latour on the issue of Gaia’s systems description and extends his own systems-theoretical synthesis under what he terms “metabiotic Gaia.” This study illuminates current issues in neighboring theoretical conversations—from biopolitics and the immunitary paradigm to NASA astrobiology and the Anthropocene. Along the way, he points to science fiction as a vehicle of Gaian thought. Delving into many issues not previously treated in accounts of Gaia, Gaian Systems describes the history of a theory that has the potential to help us survive an environmental crisis of our own making.Trade Review"Where William Blake found the world in a grain of sand, Gaia finds the planet in a bacterial cell. Bruce Clarke, eminent scholar of literature and science, leads us through the evolution and elaboration of the notion—where complex systems can easily get complicated and cybernetics loopy—with sustained precision and clarity. The necessity to understand is evident throughout."—Douglas Kahn, author of Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts"Gaian Systems is a brilliant labor of love. Intellectual love for a major system of thought and for those who have built it, especially the towering figure of Lynn Margulis. But also profound love for our living planet as a whole, for the complexity and subtlety of the complex assemblages that compose it. Combining rigor with generosity, Bruce Clarke explores the genealogy, the key concepts, and the major implications of a symbiogenetic vision of our planetary system. Humble and yet visionary, this remarkable study instructs, illuminates, and gives us hope."—Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: An Epistemological TransitionPart I. Gaia Discourse1. A Paradigm Shift2. Thinkers of Gaia3. Neocybernetics of GaiaPart II. The Systems Counterculture4. The Whole Earth Network5. The Lindisfarne Connection6. Margulis and AutopoiesisPart III. Gaian Enquiries7. The Planetary Imaginary8. Planetary Immunity9. Astrobiology and the AnthropoceneAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press Singularity: Politics and Poetics
Book SynopsisAn influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Although singularity has long been a keyword in literary studies and philosophy, never has it been explored as in this book, which distinguishes singularity as an “aporetic” notion from individuality, with which it remains historically closely tied.To speak or write of the singular is problematic, Weber argues, since once it is spoken of it is no longer strictly singular. Walter Benjamin observed that singularity and repetition imply each other. This approach informs the essays in Singularity. Weber notes that what distinguishes the singular from the individual is that it cannot be perceived directly, but rather experienced through feelings that depend on but also exceed cognition. This interdependence of cognition and affect plays itself out in politics, economics, and theology as well as in poetics. Political practice as well as its theory have been dominated by the attempt to domesticate singularity by subordinating it to the notion of individuality. Weber suggests that this political tendency draws support from what he calls “the monotheological identity paradigm” deriving from the idea of a unique and exclusive Creator-God. Despite the “secular” tendencies usually associated with Western modernity, this paradigm continues today to inform and influence political and economic practices, often displaying self-destructive tendencies. By contrast, Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singularity into play, not as fiction but as friction, exposing the self-evidence of established conventions to be responses to challenges and problems that they often prefer to obscure or ignore.Trade Review"One of the important thinkers of our time, Samuel Weber has published a magnum opus that is a must-read for anyone interested in poetics and theory today. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, and J-L Nancy, he analyzes singularization from ontology to politics, foregrounding questions central to the comparative humanities. Chapter by exhilarating chapter, this book models the abilities of critical theory to address myriad issues in singular ways."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic"There is a great pleasure in reading this book as it progresses because, even as it lays out the overarching theory of singularity, it also exemplifies, in its very form, the subject matter at hand. The various chapters in this book engage with singularity in innumerable ways and from any number of angles. Here, as is entirely appropriate, each entry remains wholly singular even as it is linked and connected to other moments and phenomena described. In this way we are given a philosophical, literary, and material demonstration of singularity, an issue that, as Samuel Weber makes clear, is both fundamental and critical for our, as well as any other, time."—James Martel, San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefatory Note: Resisting—the SingularAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Singularity: An Aporetical Concept1. Singularity, Individuality: From Anxiety to Anger2. On the Militarization of Feeling3. Bare Life and Life in General: The Question of “Concentration”4. Psychoanalysis and the Mediacy of the Media5. Protection, Projection, Persecution6. The Single Trait7. Money Is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis8. Global Inequality: The Question of Birthright9. Mind the Cap: A Singular Approach to Europe10. West of Eden: After the Good Life11. After Its Kind: The Biblical Origins of Economic Theology12. Like—Come Again?! On Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence13. The Future of Saussure: A Signifying Moment14. Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncanny15. The Singularity of Literary Cognition16. Mis-taking the Measure of Poetry: Hölderlin Asks, Heidegger Answers17. Towers and Walls: Building the Wall of China18. Kafka’s Josefine, or How a Phrase Can Turn Out19. Silencing the SirensNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Singularity: Politics and Poetics
Book SynopsisAn influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Although singularity has long been a keyword in literary studies and philosophy, never has it been explored as in this book, which distinguishes singularity as an “aporetic” notion from individuality, with which it remains historically closely tied.To speak or write of the singular is problematic, Weber argues, since once it is spoken of it is no longer strictly singular. Walter Benjamin observed that singularity and repetition imply each other. This approach informs the essays in Singularity. Weber notes that what distinguishes the singular from the individual is that it cannot be perceived directly, but rather experienced through feelings that depend on but also exceed cognition. This interdependence of cognition and affect plays itself out in politics, economics, and theology as well as in poetics. Political practice as well as its theory have been dominated by the attempt to domesticate singularity by subordinating it to the notion of individuality. Weber suggests that this political tendency draws support from what he calls “the monotheological identity paradigm” deriving from the idea of a unique and exclusive Creator-God. Despite the “secular” tendencies usually associated with Western modernity, this paradigm continues today to inform and influence political and economic practices, often displaying self-destructive tendencies. By contrast, Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singularity into play, not as fiction but as friction, exposing the self-evidence of established conventions to be responses to challenges and problems that they often prefer to obscure or ignore.Trade Review"One of the important thinkers of our time, Samuel Weber has published a magnum opus that is a must-read for anyone interested in poetics and theory today. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, and J-L Nancy, he analyzes singularization from ontology to politics, foregrounding questions central to the comparative humanities. Chapter by exhilarating chapter, this book models the abilities of critical theory to address myriad issues in singular ways."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic"There is a great pleasure in reading this book as it progresses because, even as it lays out the overarching theory of singularity, it also exemplifies, in its very form, the subject matter at hand. The various chapters in this book engage with singularity in innumerable ways and from any number of angles. Here, as is entirely appropriate, each entry remains wholly singular even as it is linked and connected to other moments and phenomena described. In this way we are given a philosophical, literary, and material demonstration of singularity, an issue that, as Samuel Weber makes clear, is both fundamental and critical for our, as well as any other, time."—James Martel, San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefatory Note: Resisting—the SingularAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Singularity: An Aporetical Concept1. Singularity, Individuality: From Anxiety to Anger2. On the Militarization of Feeling3. Bare Life and Life in General: The Question of “Concentration”4. Psychoanalysis and the Mediacy of the Media5. Protection, Projection, Persecution6. The Single Trait7. Money Is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis8. Global Inequality: The Question of Birthright9. Mind the Cap: A Singular Approach to Europe10. West of Eden: After the Good Life11. After Its Kind: The Biblical Origins of Economic Theology12. Like—Come Again?! On Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence13. The Future of Saussure: A Signifying Moment14. Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncanny15. The Singularity of Literary Cognition16. Mis-taking the Measure of Poetry: Hölderlin Asks, Heidegger Answers17. Towers and Walls: Building the Wall of China18. Kafka’s Josefine, or How a Phrase Can Turn Out19. Silencing the SirensNotesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Theory of Monetary Institutions
Book SynopsisThe Theory of Monetary Institutions covers free banking monetary thought and a theoretical account of the evolution of monetary institutions.Trade Review"The Theory of Monetary Institutions is a thorough and insightful treatment of the emergence and evolution of money and banking regimes. Professor White's brilliant exposition of alternative regimes is innovative and sheds a great deal of light upon the crucial features of contemporary money and banking institutions. This tour-de-force is a 'must-read'." Steve H. Hanke, The John Hopkins University "Larry White's The Theory of Monetary Institutions provides a very clear, extremely readable and up-to-date overview of monetary theory. White provides a uniquely insightful perspective into a difficult and controversial area, and his arguments and analysis are unbeatable. All monetary economists should read it." Kevin Dowd, University of Sheffield "White has written an academically rigorous text covering the theory of money, banking, and monetary policy. The text stands out from others in the way it describes the evolution of economists' thinking about monetary institutions. White excels in combining the historic with the contemporary, the abstract with the tangible, and the theoretical with the practical. The chapters on alternative monetary regimes will no doubt challenge many widely-held views about the proper role of government within an economy's monetary system." James A. Overdahl "Lawrence H. White has emerged as one of the most thoughtful monetary economists of his generation, and The Theory of Monetary Institutions fills an important lacuna in the literature. The book is mature and balanced; its encyclopedic knowledge of the literature covers a far broader range of material than conventional texts. I am aware of no other book that does such a superb job of placing institutional arrangements in theoretical and historical perspective." Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part 1: The Evolution of Market Monetary Institutions:. The Mystery of Money. Menger's Theory Restated. Some Implications of the Theory. From Simple Commodity Money to Coins. Bank-Issued Money. Regular Par Acceptance. Clearing Arrangements. The Path to Fiat Money. Spontaneous Separation Between the Media of Redemption and Account?. Questions. Part II: Commodity Money:. Determining the Price Level. The Simple Stock-Flow Analytics of Gold Supply and Demand. The Historical Sources of Gold Supply Disturbances. The Benefits of a Gold Standard. The Resource Costs of a Gold Standard. Is a Gold Standard Worth the Resource Cost?. Questions. Part III: Money Issue by Unrestricted Banks:. The Purchasing Power of Money. Bank Optimization and the Equilibrium Quantity of Bank-Issued Money. Correcting Over-Issue by an Individual Bank. Correcting Over-Issue by the System as a Whole. Responding to Shifts in Demand. Shifts Between Deposits and Currency. Questions. Part IV: The Evolution and Rationales of Central Banking:. Central Banking Roles and Clearinghouse Associations. The Origins of Government Central Banks. Historical Cases. Questions. Part V: Should Government Play a Role in Money?. Is Some Aspect of Money a Public Good?. Are There Relevant External Benefits in the Choice of Which Money to Use?. Are There Relevant External Benefits to the Choice of How Much Money to Hold?. iv. Is the Supply of Base Money a Natural Monopoly?. Questions. Part VI: Should Government Play a Role in Banking? . The Problem of Bank Runs. Inherent Vulnerability in Theory: The Diamond-Dybvig Model. The Fragility of the Diamond-Dybvig Bank: A Numerical Example. Deposit Insurance in the Diamond-Dybvig Model. Criticism of the Diamond-Dybvig Model. Are Deposit Contracts Inherently Fragile?. Historical Evidence on Inherent Vulnerability. Is There a Natural Monopoly in Bank-Issued Money?. Questions. Part VII: Seigniorage:. The Sources of Seigniorage. Maximizing the Take from Seigniorage. Reserve Requirements. Other Legal Restrictions. The Dynamics of Hyperinflation. The Transition Between Steady States: Is Honesty a Government's Best Policy?. How Well Does Seigniorage Explain Actual Governments' Behavior?. Questions. Appendix. Part VIII: Central Bank as Bureaucracy:. Bureaucratic Explanation of the Fed's Operating Procedures. Bureaucracy and "inflationary bias". Questions. Part IX: Political Business Cycle Hypotheses:. The Nordhaus-MacRae Model. The Rational Expectations Critique. An Alternative Formulation: Wagner's Political Seigniorage Cycle. The "Partisan" Political Business Cycle Theory. Questions. Part X: Discretion and Dynamic Inconsistency:. The Kydland-Prescott Model. Positive Implications: Using the Model to Explain Changes in Inflation. Policy Implications Under Discretion. Rules Versus Discretion. Subsequent Literature. Questions. Appendix. Part XI: Monetary Rules:. Benefits and Burdens of Counter-Cyclical Policy. Independence for the Central Bank. Arguments for Rules. Friedman's Proposals. McCallum's Case for a Feedback Rule. Simple Versus Complicated Rules. Questions. Part XII: Competitive Supply of Fiat-Type Money:. i. Klein's Model with Perfect Foresight. ii. Klein's Model with "Imperfect Foresight". Is the Equilibrium Rate of Inflation Bounded under Imperfect Foresight?. Conclusion. Questions. Part XIII: Cashless Competitive Payments and Legal Restrictions:. The Greenfield-Yeager Proposal. Is Bundles-Worth Redemption Workable?. Other Concerns About the GY Proposal. The Legal Restrictions Theory. Historical Evidence on the Non-Coexistence Prediction. Questions. References. Index.
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Michigan State University Press The World of René Girard
Book SynopsisIn 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with René Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a new context of research on self-organizing systems.
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Marquette University Press Legacies of Max Scheler
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Information Age Publishing Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National
Book SynopsisIn his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots, such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past, present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures, schematic narrative templates are typically used without being noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to evidence and resistant to change.The concept of schematic narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines (Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
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Information Age Publishing Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National
Book SynopsisIn his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots, such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past, present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures, schematic narrative templates are typically used without being noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to evidence and resistant to change.The concept of schematic narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines (Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France:
Book SynopsisA study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider debate about the social status quo. Early modern educational travel is usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young nobleman's journey through the established highlights of Europe. Lessons of Travel presents how, in eighteenth-century France, this practice was heavily contested, and the idea of educational travel had far wider implications. Through the study of a huge range of both canonical and little-known sources discussing "the art of travel", from abbé Pluche's educational best seller, The Spectacle of Nature, through Rousseau's Émile to practical prospectuses for collective educational travel in the revolutionary period, Gelléri investigates what it meant to 'think about travels' in eighteenth-century France. Consideration of who should travel and for what purpose, he argues, contributed to an international intellectual tradition but also provided a pretext for debate on the social status quo, including such issues as the place of the merchant class, the necessity for professional training, the uses of travel for young women and the education of a new generation of citizens of the Revolution.Trade ReviewAn extremely well-researched, well-argued and well-written book that deserves to be read not only by specialists in travel history and the Grand Tour, but also by scholars who take a keen interest in the intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and Europe. * FRANCIA *[The author] has written a detailed study that reaches its goal of filling the historiographic gap on travel in eighteenth-century France. Gelléri offers insight into the mechanisms and functions of travel advice literature by examining its forms of discourse with great care. What is really to be applauded is Gelléri's ability to offer fresh analyses of well-known texts, such as Rousseau's Émile. Furthermore, Gelléri continually links the social and intellectual benefits of travel with its moral and sexual danger and carefully examines the question of who should be allowed to travel and for what reasons. -- Jérémy Filet, Université de Lorraine, France and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: on reading arts of travel Defining the Grand Tour From touring to training: the case of diplomacy 1680-1830 Trading with men, dealing with God: abbé Pluche's ideas on travel Travelling on a Moebius strip: Émile's travels The end of an era? The prize contest of the Academy of Lyon (1785-87) Inventing school trips? Revolutionary programmes of collective educational travel Conclusion Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Macaulay and the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisA new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world. Macaulay and the Enlightenment sheds new light on both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of the life and ideas of this most famous of nineteenth-century British historians. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a prominent representative of mainstream British liberalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was also a Member of Parliament and government minister, and famously spent several years as a member of the governing council in India, where he promoted legal and educational reforms. One of the book's key contributions is the investigation of Enlightenment influences on the more well-known aspects of Macaulay's thought: history, politics, social and economic issues, religion, revolution and colonialism. The book also offers new revelations about Macaulay's attitude towards women, and provides insight into his views on art, nature and animals. In this study, Macaulay emerges as a more subversive, at times even radical, figure than previously assumed. The book thus emphasizes the transformation of Enlightenment ideas into early nineteenth-century liberalism.Trade ReviewNo one else has brought all the different strands of Macaulay's intellectual and general biography together as fully, objectively and skifully as Wolloch does here. * Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Advanced Study. *Table of Contents1 . The Enlightenment and Historical Progress 2. Politics, Democracy, and Religious Toleration 3. History and Biography 4. Revolutions 5. Colonialism and Cultural Progress 6. Political Economy and Society 7. Macaulay's Women 8. Nature and Animals 9. Art and Artistic Style Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Collective Ink Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left
Book SynopsisRevolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary political issue. With keywords ranging from academicisation to neoliberalism, from postcolonial to Zionism and with subjects including, Badiou, North Korea, sexual violence and Zizek, the book concludes with an essay mapping the development of progressive keywords before our century of revolution, which began in 1917, keywords that emerged in the fifty years of struggle between 1917 and 1967, and revolutionary keywords for the new left today.
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