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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pederson brings a particular and consistent understanding of what a 'game' is, one that distinguishes her work from that of other gaming scholars."—Kevin Hamilton, author of Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War"Gaming Utopia is meticulously researched and provides original insights through its focus on the relationship between avant-garde traditions and political theories of emancipatory social change. . . . It uses highly accessible language and will most definitely be of interest to a general audience interested in the history and culture of videogames, as well as in issues relating to activism and emancipatory social change."—Judith Aston, editor of I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive DocumentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Avant-Garde Plays2. Action, Participation, and the Digital Avant-Garde3. Cybernetic Ecologies of Art and Counterculture4. Gaming Electronic Civil Disobedience5. A Dreampolitik of Persuasive and Other Queer GamesConclusion: Unfinished ProcessesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKarapanagiotis skillfully examines the complex dynamic of a movement that originated in India with the specific mission of spreading throughout North America and Europe that eventually alienated its target converts. . . . This book will clearly be very useful for scholars of new religions, who will make up the majority of those wanting to know what happened with ISKCON after the lawsuits and scandals of the 1970s and 1980s. Students and scholars of religion and marketing in general will also find this book worth reading. However, it will also appeal more widely to a general audience because it is a well written and carefully argued study. -- Susannah Crockford * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction1. A Brief History of ISKCON: 1965-present2. Contextualizing the Krishna Branders3. Krishna Gets a New PR Team: Branding ISKCON as a Meditative Social Club4. Branding ISKCON as the Heart of Yoga5. Krishna West: ISKCON Must Be Reinvented, Not (Just) RebrandedConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis powerful collection of 16 critical essays takes aim at the myriad forms in whichhate, violence, othering, disenfranchisement, etc., manifest in social life as the resultof dominant power structures supported by the "legacies of white supremacy,homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, ableism, and other injustices and forms ofdiscrimination" (19). It is these power structures, among others, that have keptcertain individuals and communities at the margins. The "margins," as presented in thebook, vary by author and range from the physical (such as prisons) to the symbolic (asin the intersections between methodologies and ideas). . . . The result is an illuminating, moving, and reflexivity-inducing work that takes us into and through very different marginal worlds "among, and with, Mexican, Wolof, Native American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, Martinican, Andean, North American, African Diaspora, and LGBTQI folk cultures and communities"(13). -- Julián Antonio Carrillo * Journal of Folklore and Education *Table of ContentsPart I: Critical PathsIntroduction: How does Folklore find its voice in the 21st century? An offering/invitation from the margins1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies2. Un Tumbe Ch'ixi: Incorporating Afro-descendant Ideas into an Andean Anti-Colonial Methodology3. Disrupting the ArchivePart II: Framing the Narrative4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Visual Representation: Interstices and Anti-Authenticity5. Behaving Like Relatives: Or we don't sit around and talk about politics with strangers6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of "Group" from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective8. movimiento armado/armed movementPart III: Visualizing the Present9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba10. "¿Batata? ¡Batata!": Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversities11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic: Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in Lukumí Religion12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian VodouPart IV: Placing Community13. "No one would believe us": An Auto-Ethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict14. "La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition on a university campus15. Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness & Disability through My ChildIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Worlds of John Wick is a brilliant, wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and theoretically savvy collection on one of the most compelling and successful phenomena of action cinema in recent years: the John Wick franchise. Using approaches ranging from the discussion of 'world-building' in the 'Wickverse,' to the films' striking use of games and play, and allusions to forms such as folklore and fairy tales, the contributors present a stellar case for (re-) engaging with these remarkable movies. The chapters offer groundbreaking readings referencing Frankfurt School 'Culture Industry,' gender performance and masculinity, and much more. Caitlin G. Watt and Stephen Watt are to be applauded for their bold, original, and exciting work."—Oliver Buckton, author of The World is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming, Florida Atlantic University"Especially because the John Wick franchise is largely viewed by the critical establishment as well-made, but fundamentally inconsequential, this volume is important in revealing the layers of meaning and significance."—James Kendrick, author of A Companion to the Action Film"This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays is essential reading. Its breadth and accessibility will appeal not only to fans of the John Wick franchise but also to anyone interested in film, gender studies, architecture, and popular culture as a whole."—David Schmid, Professor of English, University at Buffalo"The Worlds of John Wick explores the (first) three John Wick films. In fifteen richly referential essays, Caitlin and Stephen Watt and their contributors discuss the balletic fight choreography, allusive storytelling, underlying philosophies, folkloric roots, and more. An illuminating academic examination of one of the very best – and most popular – contemporary action film franchises."—Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"Through an inventive array of critical lenses, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives on gender, the body, and space and time, Watt and Watt's collection explicates the crucial importance of the John Wick franchise within contemporary action cinema, confirming its place alongside the enduring legacies of action cinema icons James Bond, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, and John Rambo."—Ian Kinane, editor of the International Journal of James Bond StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Worlds of John Wick, by Caitlin G. Watt and Stephen WattPart I: John Wick and Action Cinema1. Red Circle of Revenge: Anatomy of the Fight Sequence in John Wick, by Lisa Coulthard and Lindsay Steenberg2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Stunt-Craft Work in John Wick and the Networked Worlds of 87Eleven Action Design, by Lauren Steimer3. Killing in Equanimity: Theorizing John Wick's Action Aesthetics, by Wayne WongPart II: The Economies and Phenomenology of the Wickverse4. The Continental Abyss: John Wick vs. the Frankfurt School, by Skip Willman5. Bitcoin, Shitcoin, Wickcoin: The Hidden Phenomenology of John Wick, by Aaron JaffePart III: John Wick: Other Cultural Forms and Genres6. Fortune Favors the Bold: The State of Games and Play in the John Wick Films, by Edward P. Dallis-Comentale7. 'The One You Sent to Kill the Boogeyman': Folklore and Identity Deconstruction in the John Wick Universe, by Caitlin G. Watt8. Captain Dead Wick: Grief and the Monstrous in the John Wick and Deadpool Films, by Mary NestorPart IV: John Wick's Matrix: Space and Time9. Classical Orders, Modernist Revisions, Fantastical Expansions: Reading the Architecture of the John Wick Franchise, by Andrew Battaglia and Marleen Newman10. Out of Time and Going Sideways: John Wick, Time Traveler, by Charles M. Tung11. John Wick's Blank Cosmopolitanism and the Global Spatiality of the Wickverse, by Mi Jeong LeePart V: Gender and the Body in John Wick12. John Wick's Multiply Signifying Dogs, by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick13. Masculinity, Isolation, and Revenge: John Wick's Liminal Body, by Owen R. Horton14. Professionalism and Gender Performance in the John Wickverse, by Vivian Nun Halloran15. Style and the Sacrificial Body in John Wick 3, by Stephen WattBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review" ... An imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia's historical development." oSlavic Review "On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations." oHistory "Combining rigorous analysis of the major scholarly findings with his own research, Halperin has produced both a much-needed synthesis and an important original work." oLibrary Journal "Halperin's new book combines sound scholarship and a flair for storytelling that should help publicize this all too unfamiliar tale in the West." oVirginia Quarterly Review "It is a seminal work that will be repeatedly cited in the future ... " oThe Historian " ... Ingenious and highly articulate ... " oRussian ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI The Medieval Ethno-Religious FrontierII Kievan Rus' and the SteppeIII The Mongol Empire and the Golden HordeIV The Mongol Administration of RussiaV The Mongol Role in Russian PoliticsVI The Russian "Theory" of Mongol RuleVII Economic and Demographic ConsequencesVIII The Mongols and the Muscovite AutocracyIX The Mongols and Russian SocietyX Cultural LifeXI ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisEmbarks upon a provisional description of what author calls "Dasein," the field in which both being and time become manifest. This title analyzes Dasein in its everydayness in a deepening sequence of terms: being-in-the-world, worldhood, and care as the being of Dasein.Trade Review" ... an excellent translation of an extremely important book." - The Modern Schoolman

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Book SynopsisSets the pieces of the story that are known to historians into their cultural, religious, and political context. This book explores important questions about the period and about historical memory that is of interest to both the general reader and students of the period.Table of ContentsAuthor's NoteI Enchanted TimeII CarnivalIII LentIV WalpurgisnachtV The Feast of Corpus ChristiVI The Feast of the Visitation of MaryVII The Feast of St. MargaretVIII Historical TimeBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe definitive study of the great filmmaker, set in the context of Russian cultural history.Trade Review"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films -- a very difficult task in any case -- must read it." The Russian Review "This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis... the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner." Europe-Asia Studies "[This book,] with its wealth of new research and critical insight, has set the standard and should certainly inspire other writers to keep on trying to collectively explore the possible meanings of Tarkovsky's film world." Canadian Journal of Film Studies "For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider." CineasteTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on ReferencesA Note on TransliterationIntroductionPart One1. A Martyred Artist?2. Shaping an Aesthetics of Cinema3. Working MethodsPart Two4. Beginnings: The Steamroller and the Violin and Ivan's Childhood5. Andrei Roublev6. Solaris7. Mirror8. Stalker9. Nostalghia10. The SacrificePart Three11. Imprinted Time: The Development of a Style12. The Image: Indivisible and Elusive13. Life as Appearance, Life as a Dream14. A Dialogue with ArtAppendix: Film SymopsesNotesFilmographyWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisContains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy.Trade Review" . . . an important contribution . . . offers a penetrating glimpse into certain uncharted waters in the development of German thought." —Review of Metaphysics "A must for all students of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger." —Choice

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Book SynopsisA work that presents the registrational practices of organists from 1550 to 1800. Along with the many stoplists and discussions of performance traditions, it discusses the religious and political context for each period and region - and how these affected the work of composers and organ builders.Trade Review"In this book, Barbara Owen has created a rich resource of historical information coupled with strategies for interpreting that information on today's instruments." oJournal of the American Musical Instrument Society "... Barbara Owen has succeeded admirably in distilling three centuries of organ registration practice into a volume less than three hundred pages long... Anyone with an interest in the history of the organ and its music ... will not want to ignore this book." oSixteenth Century Journal "It is rare to find a book that combines such careful scholarship with a practical focus that makes it accessible to performing musicians as well as research specialists." oNotes "An excellent volume from historical, musical style and interpretive standpoints. Highly recommended for all large academic and professional music collections." Choice " ... recommend this book to all serious organists." oThe American Organist MagazineTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Prologue: Renaissance and Reformation 1. The Music, Compoers, and Organs 2. England, France, Italy, and Spain 3. Netherlands, Germany, and Central EuropePart II. Late Renaissance to Early Baroque 4. England 5. France and Catholic Netherlands 6. Italy 7. Spain and Portugal 8. Northern Netherlands 9. North and Central Germany 10. South Germany, Austria-Hungary, and SwitzerlandPart III. High Baroque 11. England 12. France and Lower Netherlands 13. Italy 14. Spain, Portugal, and Mesoamerica 15. Northern Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia 16. Central Germany 17. South Germany, Austria, and Eastern EuropePart IV. Summation: Late Baroque to Classical 18. England and Coastal United States 19. France, Alsace, and Lower Netherlands (Belgium) 20. Italy 21. Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 22. Protestant Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia 23. Catholic Germany, Austria, and Eastern EuropeAppendix I: Restored Historic Organs in North AmericaAppendix II: Modern Historically Based Organs in North AmericaBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents 29 texts, beginning with "Immortality in the Light of Synechism", in which the author proposes synechism, tendency to regard everything as continuous, as a key advance over the 3 'isms' materialism, idealism, and dualism, and ending with the author's unfinished investigations of the relative merits of different kinds of reasoning.

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Book SynopsisPresses contemporary philosophy of religion toward a new modes of thinking about GodTrade Review"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy... and joins hands with its fundamental project, "what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics?" --John D. CaputoTable of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Toward a Phenomenology of the Persona2. I Am Who May Be3. Transfiguring God4. Desiring God5. Possibilizing GodConclusion: Poetics of the Possible GodNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.Trade ReviewThis work by Andrea de Jorio, first published in Naples in 1832, is regarded as a classic by those with a scholarly interest in gesture since it was the first ethnographic study of the subject. . . Wisely, Kendon has retained the period flavour of the text and not attempted to render de Jorio into modern English. Certainly, both Adam Kendon and the Indiana University Press are to be congratulated for undertaking this project in view of the fact that this is something of niche market. I was delighted to be given the opportunity to review it.June 2001 * The Lancet *Table of ContentsList of illustrations with sources acknowledgedEditor's PrefaceAndrea de Jorio and his work on gesture by Adam KendonGestural Expression of the Ancients in the light of Neapolitan gesturingIntroductionABC of GesturesAbbracciare Embrace to Unione de gesti Gestures in combinationThe Plates and Explanations of the PlatesAppendixIndex I: Index of TitlesIndex II: Explanations of the PlatesIndex III: GesturesIndex IV: MeaningsIndex V: Monuments newly ExplainedLetters of Recommendation and PermissionBibliographical AppendixA. Publications by Andrea de JorioB. References and Sources in Gestural ExpressionC. Editor's References and Sources

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Book SynopsisReconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. This volume approaches Plato through Aristotle.Trade ReviewStudents and scholars alike can now see for themselves why Heidegger's lectures on the Greeks in the 1920s caused such a stir, and they can judge just what it means to read a Greek text with Heidegger. The English translation is excellent, managing to capture some of the vibrancy of the lectures while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and readability. -- John EllisThematic and methodological parallels render this volume a fine source for those interested in the archaeology of Being and Time. . . . The text shows us a young Martin Heidegger at ease and passionate about his subject. * International Philosophical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisOffers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of viewTrade ReviewThis richly layered collection of essays explores materiality from the perspectives of an international group of feminist theorists. The editors categorize the essays into three sections: Material Theory, Material World, and Material Bodies. In the introduction, the editors argue that feminist theorists tend "to focus on the discursive at the expense of the material." Rather than the concept of mind over matter, this work maintains that matter and mind are equal forces, and that there are real consequences to placing one above the other. After defining the theory, section two looks at nature, which the editors state is "entangled with the nature of philosophy, politics, literature, and popular culture." The third section grounds the other two, giving body to the theories of material feminisms. It is in this last section that readers can see how feminist theory can embrace matter without hierarchy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. -- K.G. Saulton * Choice *. . . Material Feminisms . . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . [It] provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today. . . . Material Feminisms includes articles that address race, ethnicity, and disability. -- Olivia P. Banner * SIGNS *. . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today. -- Olivia P. Banner * University of California, Los Angeles *This richly layered collection of essays explores materiality from the perspectives of an international group of feminist theorists. . . . Recommended.November 2008 -- K.G. Saulton * Capella University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan HekmanPart 1. Material Theory1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance / Elizabeth Grosz2. On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential / Claire Colebrook3. Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism / Susan Hekman4. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter / Karen BaradPart 2. Material World5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms / Donna J. Haraway6. Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana7. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby8. Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature / Stacy Alaimo9. Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking through (My Mother's) Body and Place / Catriona Mortimer-SandilandsPart 3. Material Bodies10. Disability Experience on Trial / Tobin Siebers11. How Real Is Race? / Michael Hames-García12. From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism / Suzanne Bost13. Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals and the Embodiment of Depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson14. Cassie's Hair / Susan BordoList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisEnlarged edition of a classic work on the significance of placeTrade ReviewCasey's contributions complement those [of other writers], but they surpass most extant works in their majestic breadth, depth, and scope, offering insightful analyses, careful explications, and creative re-readings of both environmental phenomena and historical texts. * Environmental Ethics *This important and inspiring book is without question the most significant statement on place in our time. * Theology Today *Getting Back into Place offers an even more generous approach to place. According to Casey, we connect with a place merely by being attentive to it, open to its possibilities. * Environmental History Review *This rich intervention in the current discourse among scholars in the humanities and social sciences asserts the pervasiveness of place in constructing culture and identity. * World Trade *Table of ContentsPreface: Being before PlaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Second EditionPart 1. Finding Place 1. Implacement 2. DisplacementPart 2. The Body in Place 3. Directions 4. DimensionsPart 3. Built Places 5. Two Ways to Dwell 6. Building Sites and Cultivating PlacesPart 4. Wild Places 7. The Arc of Desolation and the Array of Description 8. Going Wild in the LandPart 5. Moving Between Places 9. Homeward Bound: Ending (in) the JourneyEpilogue. New Work on Place: Space, Time, and History How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of PlaceNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Examining Wollstonecraft’s philosophical writings on sex, sexuality, and motherhood—as a lens through which to view the history of feminism in the United States—Bachiochi argues that between the 19th and 21st centuries, too many American women abandoned Wollstonecraftian ideals of virtue and fairness, replacing them with the self-defeating ideology (and various waves) of progressive feminism." —National Review"The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision . . . portrays women as increasingly disadvantaged by principles that became prominent in the 20th century's conception of liberty. Rather than merely liberating, [Bachiochi] argues, the industrial and sexual revolutions have disrupted longstanding dynamics that allow the sexes to pursue authentic freedom; that is, the freedom to pursue virtue in familial and social relationships." —FoxNews“Part history, part legal theory, and part political philosophy, The Rights of Women provides a compelling contribution to feminist dialogue, both applauding the gains and critiquing the missteps made during women’s quest for advancement. . . . Bachiochi offers a judicious analysis of women’s history that informs her refreshing portrait of dignitarian feminism.” —Law & Liberty"Along with the maternal accompaniment of Our Lady, the Wollstonecraft-Glendon understanding of women’s rights—a truly ennobling and liberating moral vision—reimagines feminism, and Bachiochi’s book brilliantly explains how that understanding evolved." —National Catholic Register"Bachiochi offers us a cohesive historical lens through which to adopt Wollstonecraft’s program of virtue today, even as we already see it bearing fruit in households that we admire. 'Without that intentional human development properly prioritized in the life of the home,' Bachiochi asserts, 'persons (and markets) [will] do little good outside of it.'" —The Interim"The purpose of freedom is for human flourishing, not flouting the virtues, as this excellent work so clearly demonstrates." —Catholic Medical Quarterly"Bachiochi’s work is a call to reimagine feminism. What if men and women pursued equality, not as self-destructive license, but as freedom for the sake of human excellence? " —National Catholic Register"At the heart of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is the assertion that human beings are not defined by autonomy but rather by relations of dependency and obligation." —The Catholic World Report"Bachiochi takes her readers on a thorough and scholarly examination of leading feminist thought as it developed through the past 200-plus years, through the lens of early feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. . . . Let us hope that Bachiochi’s vision is realizable, for it would certainly be the beginning of a more humane world, for both sexes." —The University Bookman"In Bachiochi’s book, we see Wollstonecraft’s legacy percolate through the 19th-century American women’s movement—in which the tension between individualism and life in common hums." —UnHerd"Erika Bachiochi, in her book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, offers a memorial to Wollstonecraft, an effort to reclaim the moral vision of this early feminist for our time. . . . I earnestly commend Bachiochi’s book to a wide audience and to feminists of every stripe." —Marginalia"Rights of Women doesn’t claim to be a conservative book, but it renews a challenge that cuts to the heart of the conservative movement." —The American Conservative"Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women is the most impressive anti-abortion book to appear in years." —First Things"Now and then a book comes along that changes the way one thinks about the world. Erika Bachiochi's The Rights of Women is one of these books." —Modern Age"Women’s (and men’s) freedom is linked to the response to the question, what are freedoms for? According to Bachiochi’s account, freedoms are rooted neither in the market, nor in power clashes or gender antagonism, but in a heritage that celebrates everyday human flourishing." —Church, Communication, and Culture"Just as Wollstonecraft challenged prevalent mistakes in thinking about the rights of women, so too Bachiochi is uprooting mainstream myths about what women’s wellbeing and success require today. The effort of students and teachers to read her work carefully will be well-rewarded." —American Journal of JurisprudenceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Moral Vision 2. Men, Marriage, Law, and Government 3. The Young Republic and the Unequal Virtues of the Agrarian Home 4. Women’s Suffrage, Rational Souls, Sexed Bodies, And the Ties that Bind 5. The Industrial Revolution and the Debate Between Abstract Rights and Concrete Duties 6. The “Feminine Mystique” and Human Work 7. Sex Role Stereotypes and the Successful Quest for Equal Citizenship Status 8. Caring for Dependency in the Logic of the Market 9. Sexual Asymmetry, American Law, and the Call for a Renewed Family Ecology 10. Reimagining Feminism Today in Search of Human Excellence

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Touch the Wounds will be a source of great insight and inspiration for seekers, drawn potentially to Christian faith, and will liberate many others from stultifying forms of false certainty. It will open others again to ecumenical exchanges that will enrich their faith. The world needs more Tomáš Halík.” —Charles Taylor, co-author of Reconstructing Democracy“We’re part of a world full of wounds. For many people, the dark cloud of pain conceals the certainty of faith; the face of a benevolent God is hidden in the darkness that we are passing through together. But the Easter scene that inspired this book can speak to us with enormous urgency precisely at such a time. It is through Jesus’s wounds that the apostle Thomas sees God.” —from the preface"One of the most profound meditations on suffering, from a Christian perspective, that I have ever read." —James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray"Tomáš Halík's Touch the Wounds is an elegant and profound set of meditations on the place and purpose and meaning of suffering. Halík shows that, and how, attention to suffering is attention to Jesus, and, therefore, a means of entry for Christians into the world's healing. It is a lovely book, and an inspiring one." —Paul J. Griffiths, author of Regret: A Theology"Tomáš Halík is one of the most insightful voices in contemporary Catholicism, and his book on the wounded church and sin in the church is a turning point in the effort to make sense of the ecclesial crisis that has taken shape in the last few years: from the new phase in the abuse crisis to the pandemic." —Massimo Faggioli, author of Catholicism and Citizenship"In this deeply personal narrative, Tomáš Halík invokes the figure of Thomas, less to affirm the importance of doubt in religious life than to remind us that Christian faith passes through our wounds and through the reality of pain and suffering. As ever, Halík manages to offer a fresh and hopeful Christian message without condemning the secular world." —Catherine Cornille, co-author of Christian Identity between Secularity and Plurality"What we need now is the voice of a prophet in the tradition of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, who were unafraid to confront hypocrisy in high places and fearless in identifying the self-inflicted wounds of a society in desperate need of a particular and urgent healing touch. That prophetic voice for our time and our world belongs to Tomáš Halík, an impressive scholar who writes with flawless grace and instinct so that truth is disclosed page after page in his latest, powerful book." —Doris Donnelly, editor of Sacraments and Justice"Tomáš Halík's Touch the Wounds is a masterfully written, personal, and at the same time critical book that brings into dialogue contemporary life experience, biblical message, mystical tradition, and modern criticism of religion, all showing how in the wounds of our world as Christians we touch the wounds of God not by turning away from suffering but by confronting it. A fascinating, challenging, and encouraging vision." —Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity"Offers profound reflections on faith and its roots in suffering. . . . Halík’s erudition is dizzying . . . with a theological depth that makes for slow, rewarding reading. . . . those seeking deeper Christian insight will find much to gain." —Publishers Weekly"Consistent with his numerous other writings on faith in a post-religious and post-secular age, Halik, a Czech Roman Catholic priest, offers a series of meditative reflections on finding faith amidst our personal, interpersonal, and social wounds. . . . [T]he overall effect is a beautiful and challenging account of a Gospel-inspired faith that highlights the extreme paradox of God becoming flesh, and thus a God who indwells our creaturely vulnerability without reserve." —Theological Studies"A fine resource for Lenten and Eastertide reading—or, for that matter, in any season when wisdom is sought." —Commonweal“Masterfully translated—conveying both the insights and personality of Halík—by the distinguished Gerald Turner.... A balm to the soul for those who are battered by this world and find their own faith wounded.” —Scottish Theological Journal“A rich tapestry capable of nourishing and sustaining Christian faith and theology in a shifting cultural context. . . . Halík offers hope in rebuilding faith through facing up to the challenges of a future for which our recent past has not fully prepared us.” —Modern Theology"A profound yet accessible meditation on faith in our secular age. ...Halík offers not simply a corrective on how to approach seekers, but also a rich spiritual reflection intended to help us lead with our wounds....Halík’s book is a provocation in the best sense of the term, one that pushes his reader to leave behind a pristine faith that prefers to rest in certainty in exchange for one that asks the 'agonized question' and, like St. Thomas, does not shy from the wounded world." — AmericaTable of ContentsPreface to the English-language Edition The Gate of the Wounded Without Distance Arcanum Cordis A Torn Veil A Dancing God Worshiping the Lamb Stigmata and Forgiveness Knocking on the Wall Bodies A Little Place for Truth Veronica and the Imprint of the Face Wounds Transformed The Last Beatitude

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Book SynopsisThis translation shows that "The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry" contains much that is original to the author. As a military manual it provides details about the strategy, tactics and technology of mediaeval warfare and is an important source for early gunpowder weapon technology.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of Vulgar Latin, those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. It portrays the subject as a complicated one, where little is known with certainty, but a great deal can be worked out from analysis of the data.Trade Review“Undoubtedly the most intelligent and clearly and cogently presented analysis of the whole topic of popular Latin’s development that I have ever read. This book has no equal that I know of.”—Paul Lloyd,University of Pennsylvania“No other book presents the complexities involved in the developments from Latin to Romance in such a compact synthesis. Vulgar Latin should be one of the standard references for scholars and students interested in the historical development of the Romance languages.”—Robert Blake,University of California, Davis“This is a marvelous and definitive book, having been written by one who is an acknowledged master in his field, and translated by a man who is now his equal. Thus two first-class minds come together and their mastery of the subject is conveyed (as true mastery often is) with easy, charming and limpid simplicity. The result is an essential book for specialists, which will also be attractive (mirabile dictu!) to all amateurs of language.”—David Daintree Parergon“This little book is highly recommended as an essential contribution to our knowledge of the development of Latin and the emergence of the romance languages.”—David Daintree Parergon“This is a marvelous and definitive book, having been written by one who is an acknowledged master in his field, and translated by a man who is now his equal. Thus two first-class minds come together and their mastery of the subject is conveyed (as true mastery often is) with easy, charming and limpid simplicity. The result is an essential book for specialists, which will also be attractive (mirabile dictu!) to all amateurs of language. . . . This little book is highly recommended as an essential contribution to our knowledge of the development of Latin and the emergence of romance languages.”—David Daintree Parergon“This is an exceedingly useful basic introduction to the subject, and its appearance will be very welcome to anyone who teaches undergraduate or graduate course involving Vulgar Latin.”—

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Book SynopsisJulian of Norwich is recognized as one of the great speculative theologians of the Middle Ages, whose thinking about God as love made a permanent contribution to the tradition of Christian belief. This book presents Julian's writings in Middle English, for students and scholars and those with little or no previous experience with the language.Trade Review“This is a fine and very welcome addition to the growing corpus of scholarly work on what may well be the most important work of Christian reflection in the English language.”—Rowan Williams,Archbishop of Canterbury“This is an edition like no other. Word for word and thought for thought, Watson and Jenkins give Julian’s texts the closest reading they have ever had. The editors’ daring break with current trends will make it much easier henceforth to read A Revelation of Love and much harder to evade the challenge of its intricate and radical thought. Adopting a wholly new approach to Julian’s sources, the copious notes initiate the novice reader gently into the mysteries of Middle English, while inviting specialists to enter more fully than ever before into the process of making this book, which, in the final words of its author, ‘is begotten by Goddess gifted and his grace, but it is not yet performed.”—Barbara Newman,Northwestern University“Embracing both scholarly and pedagogical needs, this remarkable volume meets the editors’ stated goal of providing an edition that is true to their understanding of Julian’s rigorous and eloquent thought and that makes that thought accessible, as Julian herself would wish, to readers at all levels.”—E. Robertson Choice“Watson and Jenkins’s exemplary edition allows for a much wider understanding of Julian’s texts than previous such undertakings, and is, by more than a little, the best edition we now have.”—John C. Hirsch Medium Aevum“This is not an inexpensive text and may well be out of the reach of the ordinary reader. Yet for the teacher/lover of medieval spirituality, it is an indispensable work.”—Lawrence S. Cunningham Commonweal Magazine“Clearly this edition has much to contribute to the growing interest among scholars, students, and enthusiasts of contemplative writers from the medieval period. Anyone interested in understanding the differences and similarities among manuscripts of Julian’s writing will be well served by using this text.”—Rick McDonald Sixteenth Century Journal“A book that offers this much material takes a while to unpack, and instructors might hesitate at its bulk. But quite apart from the advantages of the text, the notes will be invaluable for an attentive student. . . . Watson and Jenkins’s edition is liberal indeed, but their sensitivity to the fine detail of Julian’s argument justifies their audacity.”—Andrew Taylor University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface AcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION Part One: On Julian and Her Writings Part Two: On Readers of Julian’s Writings Part Three: On Editing Julian’s Writings Part Four: On Using This EditionA Vision Showed to a Devout WomanA Revelation of LoveTextual NotesAPPENDIX: RECORDS AND RESPONSES, 1394-1674A. The Westminster Revelation (with Hugh Kempster)B. Bequests to Julian of Norwich, 1393-1416C. Excerpt from The Book of Margery Kempe (chapter 18)D. The Cambrai Nuns” Margaret Gascoigne and the Upholland ManuscriptE. Serenus Cressy’s Edition of a Revelation and the Stilling fleet ControversyBibliography (by Amy Appleford)

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Basic Concepts of Poetics by Emil Staiger | 9780271027807

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Drawing on Catharine MacKinnon, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, Clare Chambers argues that although all our choices are socially constructed, some are more in keeping with the demands of justice, equality, and autonomy than others. Focusing on choices by women in liberal cultures, she detects two troubling features—disadvantage and influence. When both are present, an injustice is likely to be done, warranting state intervention. An incisive, well-written book with a sustained, original argument.”—Ruth Abbey,University of Notre Dame“Chambers’s refreshing approach has the potential to expand the scope of conventional liberal theory by showing how liberals can (and should) directly meet the challenge of postmodern approaches and by demonstrating that feminist contributions are the well from which most innovations in liberalism are drawn.”—Avigail Eisenberg,University of Victoria“This book takes up an important topic in the political philosophy of liberalism: what is the state to do when individuals make choices that are socially constructed and disadvantageous to them? It insightfully and originally bridges the divide between continental and analytic political philosophy, combining the insights of Foucault, Bordieu, and Butler on one side, and those of Rawls, Raz, Nussbaum, Okin and others on the other side. The book contributes significantly to the literature of liberalism, autonomy, and feminism.”—Ann Cudd,University of Kansas“The argument is clear, and the review of the literature on liberalism, paternalism, and autonomy is thorough and succinct.”—S. C. Schwarze Choice“It is a very valuable contribution to many different bodies of work (liberal theory, multiculturalism, feminism, and social theory); equally important, however, it should generate interesting and further debates of the role of the state in promoting gender equality.”—Cecile Fabre PhilosophyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Theories of Social Construction1. Creativity, Cultural Practice, and the Body: Foucault and Three Problems with the Liberal Focus on Choice2. Masculine Domination, Radical Feminism, and Change3. Social Construction, Normativity, and DifferencePart Two: Liberalism, Culture, and Autonomy4. All Must Have Prizes: The Liberal Case for Interference in Cultural Practices5. Two Orders of Autonomy and Political Liberalism: Breast Implants Versus Female Genital Mutilation6. Paternalism and Autonomy7. Liberal Perfectionism and the Autonomy of Restricted LivesConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisStudies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Trade Review“Lucidly written and beautifully illustrated. . . . Just as Medicean artists and their patrons cast their city as heir to the legacy of ancient Rome, Markey shows the myriad ways in which they were able to reimagine Florence as the discoverer and the master of the New World through the power of representation.”—Louis Alexander Waldman Renaissance Quarterly“An important resource for scholars of art history, material culture, print culture, and transatlantic studies.”—Lauren Beck SHARP News“The book’s scholarly apparatus and color illustrations make it a valuable resource. . . . Highly recommended.”—D. N. Dow Choice“Lia Markey’s Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence represents the best in Renaissance global studies. If the art of Florence enjoys canonical status, the Medici collection of artifacts and images of the New World has been more peripheral, the subject of pioneering but outdated studies by Detlef Heikamp and Hugh Honour. Revising the work of these predecessors, Markey shows how collectors and artists alike drew inspiration from a flood of new knowledge produced in the wake of discovery and colonization.”—Cristelle Baskins,coauthor of The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance“The Medici participated in the New World discoveries secondhand, by avidly collecting artifacts and turning these materials into images. Rather than telling the story of the discoveries, Lia Markey’s lively book tells us a story about world-making—how new information traveled and was shaped by artists, patrons, and scholars into theaters of the imagination.”—Alexander Nagel,author of The Controversy of Renaissance Art“Lia Markey’s book is pathbreaking. For too long Italian Renaissance art-history studies have been introspective and provincial. The author insists upon what Shakespeare already knew: that the Mediterranean world had opened to new places and people. Her study reveals that the Medici of Florence not only received images from and about the New World but also incorporated these distant forms and iconographies into their own visual vocabulary. Markey demonstrates that Italian artists worked not to exoticize but to familiarize the new and, in doing so, engaged with America in complex and contradictory ways.”—Thomas B. F. Cummins,author of Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels“Lia Markey’s new book will prove a further important resource and corrective for scholarship as it forms a bridge between traditional Italo-centric studies of the Renaissance and those of the New World, the like of which has not been attempted since Hugh Honour’s book, European Images of America (1975). Markey’s work should also be of particular interest to readers of this journal since it is one of the first books to address in detail the collecting and display of works from the Americas in an Italian context, specifically that of Florence.”—Journal of the History of CollectionsTable of ContentsContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The New World and Italy in the Early Sixteenth Century 2 A Turkey in a Medici Tapestry 3 The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova 4 Francesco’s Exchange and Documentation of American Nature 5 The Stanzino and the Representation of the New World 6 Between Ethnography and Fantasy in Ferdinando’s New World 7 The Florentine Codex and Buti’s Frescoes of Amerindians 8 Stradano’s Invention of the Americas 9 The Americas Both Real and Imagined Conclusion: Vicarious Conquest Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAddresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.Trade Review“A superb book that shows how Houellebecq—like Nietzsche before him—is the best diagnostician and therapist for the deepest ills that beset our culture. Another ‘canary in the mineshaft’, he ‘sees the end in everything’, and drags us—kicking and screaming—to face intelligently the social priorities we have been induced to commit to.”—Patrick Madigan Heythrop Journal“A timely and valuable addition to the growing critical corpus.”—Russell Williams French Studies“Betty’s book is an admirable contribution to American literary criticism, as it is the first study of its kind to be produced by an American scholar, but more importantly, it will prove to be an invaluable contribution to the study of Houellebecq writ large. By recognising that Michel Houellebecq is a fundamentally post-secular thinker, Betty offers readers a key to unlocking his fiction, opening doors of understanding that had remained closed until now, and reveals that the author poses a robust challenge to the new materialisms gaining ascendency in the Western academy.”—Andrew Ball Literature and Theology“Entirely brilliant from a methodological point of view, Without God sheds a great deal of light on the work of Michel Houellebecq. Given its very broad perspective and the importance of the issues at stake, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers.”—Bruno Viard,Université de Provence“Michel Houellebecq is the most important novelist writing about religion today, and Louis Betty has written the first book to explore Houellebecq’s views on religion. Betty guides the reader through Houellebecq’s oeuvre, makes French discussions of Houellebecq accessible to English-speaking audiences, and situates Houellebecq’s work in the context of recent scholarly discussions about the secular. This book should be of broad interest to scholars of religion and literature as well as to those interested in contemporary French thought.”—Vincent Lloyd,Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: THE HOUELLEBECQUIAN WORLDVIEWMaterialist Horror and the Question of CapitalismChapter SummariesHouellebecq as Character: A Brief ConsiderationCHAPTER ONE: MATERIALISM AND SECULARISMHouellebecquian Materialism: A Qualified Case?Quantum UncertaintiesLifting the Sacred CanopyMaterialism and Suicide: Logical Consequences of the Death of GodMaterialist Horror and Moral SecularizationCHAPTER TWO: THE FUTURE OF RELIGIONThe Return of ReligionCan a Cloning Cult Be a Religion?Elohimism, Islam, and the Question of Religious DisciplineCHAPTER THREE: RELIGION AND UTOPIAThe Fresh Ruins of FranceAbandoned UtopiasCHAPTER FOUR: MATERIALIST HORRORDangerous CredibilityLovecraft, Pascal, HouellebecqCHAPTER FIVE: LIBERALISM IS GOD AND THE WEST IS ITS PROPHETThe Modern Western Woman: A 200-Year Disaster in the MakingAs Goes France, So Goes FrançoisA Conversion au conditionnelReaction, Romanticism, or Something Else?NOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX

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Book SynopsisExamines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.Trade Review“Any Jamesian will be surprised at how much new light Murphy casts on these eerie tales of revenants and demons.”—Michael Dirda Washington Post“Demonstrates a kind of scholarly curiosity that one hopes M. R. James himself would have approved.”—A. S. G. Edwards Times Literary Supplement“Murphy's interesting book shows that perhaps M.R. James’ stories were more than just idle pieces of entertainment.”—John DeNardo Kirkus Reviews“For anyone interested in James, the scholar, this book is an essential read; it presents much that is new, is fascinating throughout, and offers perceptive analysis of James’s unparalleled wisdom in the field.”—Peter Bell Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter“This book is a pleasure to read: beautifully written and presented. It is never less than thoroughly eloquent.”—David Matthews Review of English Studies“In this thorough, eloquent, and convincing study, Patrick Murphy sheds important new light on one of the most renowned medievalists of the early twentieth century and on the means by which the Middle Ages continue to remake, and be remade by, popular culture.”—Karl Fugelso,editor of the journal Studies in Medievalism“This book goes further than any other in making sense of M. R. James’s dual identity as a medieval scholar and a ghost-story writer. In elucidating some of the hidden meanings in James’s classic ghost stories, Patrick Murphy makes ingenious connections between antiquarian fiction and the emergence of medieval studies in the early twentieth century.”—Shane McCorristine,author of The Hand of Glory: Folklore, Crime, and Fiction“The very best part of this book is the way in which both authors—Patrick Murphy and M. R. James—unravel puzzles that others have avoided or perhaps not even recognized as significant. Readers will admire the scholarship behind the solving of these puzzles and will also take great pleasure in following Murphy’s line of reasoning, which reveals what the subtle scholar-storyteller James is after. Reading this book is like following the adventures of those on a quest, or the unraveling of clues in a really good mystery novel.”—Marijane Osborn,coauthor of Beowulf: A Likeness“There are some seminal studies that have shed light on the genesis and development of medieval studies: Ulrich Wyss’s work on Jacob Grimm, Tom Shippey’s on J. R. R. Tolkien, and Michelle Warren’s on Joseph Bédier. Patrick Murphy’s book completes these other studies by telling the story of M. R. James, a fascinating medievalist forefather working at the exact moment of transition from English antiquarianism and extra-academic medievalist enthusiasms to a medieval studies almost entirely exclusive of writers, artists, and musicians. Murphy’s meticulously researched narrative provides ample proof that both enterprises, the creative and the scholarly reception of medieval culture, should not be viewed as mutually exclusive but richly symbiotic.”—Richard Utz,president, International Society for the Study of the History of Medievalism“Patrick Murphy’s deeply researched and wittily written book puts James’s work in the context of the development of medieval studies and, more broadly, an academic culture in transition and the great loss and unimaginable changes wrought by the Great War. By delineating the entanglement of various competing timelines—antiquarian, professional, and institutional, for example—in James’s endeavors, Murphy compellingly illuminates a profound disquiet haunting this liminal figure and his famous ghostly tales.”—Carolyn Dinshaw,author of How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time“Until comparatively recently, the prevailing critical consensus on James’s fiction could be characterised by Julia Briggs’s insistence that, though masterfully entertaining and obviously the work of a learned scholar, his tales were superficial edifices with little to offer the serious literary critic. Perhaps paradoxically, in resolutely laying bare the sheer elusiveness of James’s fictions—their absolute refusal to settle into one final ‘meaning’—Murphy has fashioned a rich, allusive study, which demonstrates just how fertile a field for theoretical and historical enquiry these endlessly fascinating tales can be.”—Dewi Evans Irish Journal of Gothic & Horror StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Terror and ErrorChapter 2: Recasting the AntiquaryChapter 3: Ex CathedraChapter 4: A Desideratum of WingsChapter 5: To the CuriousAfterword: Professions of ReticenceNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAddresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Trade Review“Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole is thoroughly researched and wonderfully illustrated; it contributes to the richness of current interest in the histories of interiors, architecture, and design, particularly those that foreground subjective qualities of lived experiences. This is why it is important that Matthew M. Reeve has situated Horace Walpole, his character and personality, at the centre of this study, explaining how Strawberry Hill signifies the summation of his complex, homosocial, and singular life.”—Helen McCormack Journal of Design History“Echoing the prodigious propagation of architectural offspring of the book’s subject, it seems clear that Reeve’s deeply researched, critically engaged and massively compelling study of Strawberry Hill will be the progenitor of many fascinating studies to come.”—Freya Gowrley Art History“The lavish publication is reflected in the high standard of Reeve’s research. His prose is Daedalian in its eloquence but firmly maintains the threads of coherence sometimes abandoned by scholarly theorists, resulting in a work which is accessible and pleasing for all. The range of subject matter will interest an array of audiences, including medievalists; early modernists; historians of art, architecture, and literature; anthropologists; and queer theorists.”—Nele De Raedt, Frances Sands, Erin J. Campbell, Vanessa Vanden Berghe Architectural Histories“In this imaginative, erudite, and lavishly illustrated book, Reeve delineates the connections between style, subjectivity, and sexuality in Horace Walpole’s vision of the Gothic—and as a general matter for the study of visual and material culture—with force, clarity, and nuance. Deeply researched and elegantly written, the book will interest historians of the Middle Ages and of the eighteenth century, art and architectural historians, queer theorists, students of medievalism, and many other readers. It is a stunning achievement of historical imagination and moral eloquence.”—Whitney Davis,author of Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond“This book makes a brilliant and substantive contribution to research on eighteenth-century Gothic. In keeping with Walpole’s own interdisciplinary leanings, Reeve cuts through the disciplinary boundaries that have tended to shape previous studies of Walpole and his circle. Rightly, he treats Walpolean Gothic as a thoroughly multimedia enterprise. In so doing, Reeve raises the critical discourse on medievalism and queer aesthetics to a new level of sophistication.”—Robert Mills,author of Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment in Medieval Culture“Reeve’s book is careful and precise at the same time that it is far-reaching and inspiring! It builds on earlier works with enormous care, and it takes Walpole studies to a new location entirely.”—George E. Haggerty,author of Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form“Horace Walpole was an important cultural innovator in both gothic literature and architecture. Although he saw these interests as complementary it has been scholars in literary studies who have most extensively explored his sexual subjectivity. This book is, therefore, a welcome and pioneering study of the queer architectural passions of Walpole and his circle of intimate friends.”—Dominic Janes,author of Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900“Bridging queer theory, medieval studies, architectural history, and histories of Georgian architecture, Reeve’s compelling interpretation shows that in Walpole’s circle, the Gothic Revival was a sign that alternative masculinities were not merely surviving, but thriving.”—Ayla Lepine West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material CultureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: Medievalism, Modernity, and the History of SexualityAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The New Medievalism: Constructing the Gothic in the Circle of Horace Walpole2. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill3. Queer Family Romance in the Strawberry Hill Collection4. Dicky Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor5. “The Spirit of Strawberry-Castle”: Donnington Grove, The Vyne, and Lee Priory6. From Strawberry Hill Gothic to the Gothic RevivalNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond.Trade Review“This opus represents many, many evenings of intelligent, friendly, and finally life-changing dialogue that culminate in a near-symphonic quality. Cayley’s deep understanding and clear prose pull a complex, balanced harmony out of themes that to the casual reader of Illich could seem eclectic.”—Marcus Rempel Clarion: Journal for Religion, Peace, and Justice“David Cayley, who conducted two lengthy radio interviews-turned-books with Illich (in 1988 and 2000) and had a decades-long friendship with him, has written a gripping and unconventional biography of this deeply unconventional man.”—Michael J. Sauter Front Porch Republic“As a friend of Illich, Cayley’s book carries forward and, in many ways, completes the vision Illich had not the time in his relatively short life to fully elaborate and explain.”—Robert Inchausti Angelus“Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey can itself be seen as an act of love, restoring Illich to his rightful place among the significant social and religious thinkers of our time.”—Brian C. Anderson First Things“Ivan Illich’s work offers us a much needed intellectual and spiritual balm in a time distinguished by the untidy dissolution of certainties. But such a balm is not purchased by cheap grace. It is costly; it requires a new visioning. David Cayley’s retrieval of this “vanishing clergyman” offers a way forward in a darkening landscape.”—Michael W. Higgins Literary Review of Canada“A crucial contribution to Illich’s rediscovery.”—Geoff Shullenberger American Affairs“After years of reading Illich, Cayley’s genealogy—richly documented and carefully argued—provides the definitive account of how to make sense of one of the last great polymaths and cultural critics.”—Myles Werntz Reading Religion“Cayley convincingly illuminates how Illich’s thought developed and how it revolves around certain central insights: complementarity, the vernacular, incarnation, and a reading of history that sees the West as a deviation from the Gospel. In so doing, Cayley reconnects Illich with the work of important contemporary social theorists—Latour, Agamben, Milbank, and others—and shows how Illich anticipated their work in many ways. This book is unique, much needed, and masterfully executed.”—William Cavanaugh,author of Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World“No other book yet published summarizes and synthesizes Illich’s life and thought at this length and in this detail. It is a much-needed intervention with sustained political, social, philosophical, and theological resonance. Cayley’s book should now form the starting point for all future critical conversation around Illich’s varied, generative, challenging, and often surprising ideas.”—Simon Ravenscroft,Magdalene College, University of Cambridge“Illich provides a vocabulary for identifying both the core assumptions underwriting these responses (from systems thinking to the imperatives of medically defined ‘life’) as well as challenging counterproductive interventions and their ‘well-intended’ justifications. For the contemporary legibility of his life and thought in this way - and innumerable ways for readers to discover – we owe a debt of gratitude to David Cayley.”—Oscar Krüger Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ivan Illich as I Knew HimPrologue: Early Life1. Exile2. Cuernavaca3. Church4. Deschooling Society5. Illich as Revolutionary6. Disabling Professions7. Certainties8. Gender9. Embodiment/Disembodiment10. “A Bulldozer Lurks in Every Computer”: On Reading, Writing, and Language11. To Hell With Life12. Corruptio Optimi Pessima13. Apocalypse14. Illich’s Way of LifeEpilogue: The Art of SufferingConclusion: An Intellectual JourneyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata.Trade Review“This valuable book, written in an engaging storytelling mode that never sacrifices rigor, teaches us much that we did not know about Amsterdam’s doolhoven. Before its publication, those enriched, dynamic display environments were nearly lost to us. Now, thanks to Vanhaelen, we at last have a clear vision of them.”—Arthur Di Furia The Historians of Netherlandish Art“A fascinating and convincing exploration of an undeservedly forgotten phenomenon, and a challenge to re-examine our perceptions of the Dutch ‘Golden Age.’”—Kirsten Tambling Apollo Magazine“Vanhaelen’s book, like the doolhof itself, is full of so many surprises that simply are too good to give away...”—Christopher Heuer Architectural Histories“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is an entirely original study of Amsterdam’s pleasure palaces, or doolhoven, and a fascinating read that delights and instructs in a manner akin to the spaces it deftly analyzes. Vanhaelen’s text considers courtyard fountains, labyrinths, automata, waxworks, and clockworks, moving beyond standard descriptions of wonder to reflect on the nature of the city, the body, and knowledge itself in the early modern period.”—Stephanie Porras,author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is highly original and will be fascinating to almost everyone with an interest in early modern visual culture. The book guides the reader on a dazzling tour with surprises at every corner. This fascinating study reveals the early modern park of public entertainment as a site of learning and lively debate.”—Hanneke Grootenboer,author of The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam articulates a position that becomes increasingly convincing as one wanders further into the book. An amazing study about mazes indeed.”—Joseph Wachelder Technology and Culture“This valuable book, written in an engaging storytelling mode that never sacrifices rigor, teaches us much that we did not know about Amsterdam’s doolhoven. Before its publication, those enriched, dynamic display environments were nearly lost to us. Now, thanks to Vanhaelen, we at last have a clear vision of them.”—Arthur Di Furia The Historians of Netherlandish Art“A fascinating and convincing exploration of an undeservedly forgotten phenomenon, and a challenge to re-examine our perceptions of the Dutch ‘Golden Age.’”—Kirsten Tambling Apollo Magazine“Vanhaelen’s book, like the doolhof itself, is full of so many surprises that simply are too good to give away...”—Christopher Heuer Architectural Histories“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is an entirely original study of Amsterdam’s pleasure palaces, or doolhoven, and a fascinating read that delights and instructs in a manner akin to the spaces it deftly analyzes. Vanhaelen’s text considers courtyard fountains, labyrinths, automata, waxworks, and clockworks, moving beyond standard descriptions of wonder to reflect on the nature of the city, the body, and knowledge itself in the early modern period.”—Stephanie Porras,author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is highly original and will be fascinating to almost everyone with an interest in early modern visual culture. The book guides the reader on a dazzling tour with surprises at every corner. This fascinating study reveals the early modern park of public entertainment as a site of learning and lively debate.”—Hanneke Grootenboer,author of The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam articulates a position that becomes increasingly convincing as one wanders further into the book. An amazing study about mazes indeed.”—Joseph Wachelder Technology and Culture

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Book SynopsisA photographic exploration of life in the Jewish communities of Iran.Trade Review“The eclectic photographs in this attractive coffee-table volume run the gamut from two Jewish carpet merchants working in their shop in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to a group of Jewish boys playing football at a Hebrew school. Still other photos illuminate the diversity of Jewish life in contemporary Iran.”—Sheldon Kirshner Times of Israel“Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle is a timely reveal of one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of contemporary Iran.”—James A. Cox Midwest Book Review“A remarkable feat—Jews of Iran is a vivid portrayal of the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, documenting a group rendered invisible by global geopolitics.”—Kamin Mohammadi,author of The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran“A rare glimpse into the lives of a community that has survived in Iran through thick and thin for 2,700 years, bringing together identities that are distinctively Jewish yet thoroughly Iranian.”—Jim Muir,BBC Iran correspondent, 1999–2004“This remarkable collection of photographs beautifully captures the daily life of Iranian Jews under the Islamic Republic. It shows how survival involves daily compromise, and how this dwindling community has maintained its cultural and religious identity against all odds.”—Janet Afary,author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution“If ‘one picture is worth more than a thousand words,’ this book captures the complex world of the Jews of Iran. With sensitivity and artistic talent, Sarbakhshian and Vahidmanesh reveal their humanity, which is too often hidden from view.”—David Menashri,author of Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power“This text will certainly fill a gap in both research and synagogue/Jewish community center library collections of material on Iranian Jewish history and culture.”—Mindy C. Reiser Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews

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Book SynopsisDavid Howes's sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people. In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be approached on its own sensory terms. Part 2 documents how the senses have been disciplined psychologically within the Western tradition, starting with Aristotle and moving through the rise of Lockean empiricism and cognitive neuroscience. Here, Howes presents an anthropologically informed critique of experimental and cognitive psychology, sensory science, and phenomenology. In part 3, he introduces the paradigm of the historical anthropology of the senses and sensation and applies it to the analysis of trade relations between Europe and China in the early modern period, to the treaty-makinTrade Review“David Howes is a leading figure in sensory studies. In this masterful work, he addresses an extraordinary array of topics and theories in uncovering the history of the legal, anthropological, and psychological dimensions of the senses. In showing how the senses are made, not given, Howes offers an expansive analysis that both links and extends each of these disciplines in unexpected ways.”—Deborah Lupton,SHARP Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales Sydney“This engaging and erudite book reminds us that the academy suffers, to a greater or lesser extent, from sensory deprivation. For David Howes, history and anthropology invite a crossing of cultures and disciplines through the senses. For the law, Howes advocates a ‘cross-cultural jurisprudence’ in which song, dance, and smell coexist with the written word. Sensorial Investigations celebrates ‘con-sensus’ rather than ways of knowing tied exclusively, and senselessly, to words on a page.”—Nicholas Kasirer,Justice, Supreme Court of Canada“In Sensorial Investigations, David Howes shows how an anthropology of the senses deepens and expands our understanding of human history and potential. Meticulously exploring varieties of sensory experience, and challenging the universalizing reductions of social science, this book helps us learn more from difference. The investigations described and prescribed open an exciting vista for a sensorial mode of attention in the human sciences.”—Judith Farquhar,Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago“Sensorial Investigations is a timely, exciting, and vitally important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies, especially sensory anthropology and sensory history. Erudite and wide-ranging in scholarship, it is inventive in its argument and written in lively, engrossing prose by a leading light in the field.”—Peter Denney,author of The Senses in World History“‘Neuroscientists need to get out of their own heads,’ David Howes says in introducing his rich and thought-provoking exploration of the sensorium. His bold project of crossing disciplines, cultures, and historical periods delivers a vision of the senses that takes us far beyond the narrow explorations of philosophy and the sciences.”—Raymond Tallis,author of Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science“Sublime and magisterial, Sensorial Investigations is a critical assemblage and rereading of Wittgenstein, Arendt, Simmel, and many others. At once provocative, accessible, and poignant, Howes deftly charts the intellectual trajectory of the senses anew and pronounces nuanced and interdisciplinary approaches that both make and unmake the senses. A must-read for researchers and students of sensory inquiry.”—Kelvin E. Y. Low,Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore“David Howes is a leading figure in sensory studies. In this masterful work, he addresses an extraordinary array of topics and theories in uncovering the history of the legal, anthropological, and psychological dimensions of the senses. In showing how the senses are made, not given, Howes offers an expansive analysis that both links and extends each of these disciplines in unexpected ways.”—Deborah Lupton,SHARP Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales Sydney“This engaging and erudite book reminds us that the academy suffers, to a greater or lesser extent, from sensory deprivation. For David Howes, history and anthropology invite a crossing of cultures and disciplines through the senses. For the law, Howes advocates a ‘cross-cultural jurisprudence’ in which song, dance, and smell coexist with the written word. Sensorial Investigations celebrates ‘con-sensus’ rather than ways of knowing tied exclusively, and senselessly, to words on a page.”—Nicholas Kasirer,Justice, Supreme Court of Canada“In Sensorial Investigations, David Howes shows how an anthropology of the senses deepens and expands our understanding of human history and potential. Meticulously exploring varieties of sensory experience, and challenging the universalizing reductions of social science, this book helps us learn more from difference. The investigations described and prescribed open an exciting vista for a sensorial mode of attention in the human sciences.”—Judith Farquhar,Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago“Sensorial Investigations is a timely, exciting, and vitally important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies, especially sensory anthropology and sensory history. Erudite and wide-ranging in scholarship, it is inventive in its argument and written in lively, engrossing prose by a leading light in the field.”—Peter Denney,author of The Senses in World History“‘Neuroscientists need to get out of their own heads,’ David Howes says in introducing his rich and thought-provoking exploration of the sensorium. His bold project of crossing disciplines, cultures, and historical periods delivers a vision of the senses that takes us far beyond the narrow explorations of philosophy and the sciences.”—Raymond Tallis,author of Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science“Sublime and magisterial, Sensorial Investigations is a critical assemblage and rereading of Wittgenstein, Arendt, Simmel, and many others. At once provocative, accessible, and poignant, Howes deftly charts the intellectual trajectory of the senses anew and pronounces nuanced and interdisciplinary approaches that both make and unmake the senses. A must-read for researchers and students of sensory inquiry.”—Kelvin E. Y. Low,Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore

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