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Book SynopsisExtending his investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can be viewed as just as "real" as physical nature.Trade Review“This book [presents] a bold and eloquent defense of ‘cultural realism’. . . as this applies to the arts and, in lesser degree, history and literature. Throughout, major epistemological and metaphysical issues—especially those raised by the artwork (e.g., its ontological status, its referential powers, holism, its constative claims, etc.)—are addressed, with ingenious and intriguing solutions offered, fresh at every turn. . . . A distinctive contribution of this book is its catholicity of outlook, which allows Margolis to draw upon and merge the best insights of both analytical and continental traditions in philosophy. There is no one in today’s philosophical world who has a comparable mastery of both of these often antithetical traditions—and who is able to combine them so skillfully and creatively. . . . The result is a book that will be of broad appeal to practitioners and students of both schools of philosophical thought. . . . No other book combines such an effective critique of the views of others in aesthetics and the humanities generally with such an original point of view as his own.”—Edward S. Casey,SUNY, Stony Brook“This is a truly thought provoking and surprisingly easily understood text that should be read by not only philosophers, but artists and historians as well.”—Tim Fife Design Issues: A Journal of History, Theory, and Criticism
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Penn State University Adventures in Paradox Don Quixote and the Western
Book Synopsis"Don Quixote" confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers. In a study that aims to revise the way we read and debate "Don Quixote", Charles Presberg discusses the topic of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in the text.Trade Review“A beautiful book—one of extraordinary originality—on the pervasive presence of paradox in Cervantes’s masterpiece. Few studies in modern times have so convincingly won their point within the covers of a single volume and added a genuinely new province of understanding to a much-studied and major item of the canon.”—Henry W. Sullivan,Tulane University“This study examines the trope of paradox from classical antiquity to the present, with a special focus on its application to early modern Spanish texts, most notably to Don Quixote. This is a significant undertaking, and Presberg manipulates the difficult task of synthesizing rhetoric, philosophy, and literature with competence and elegance. In sum, this is a beautifully crafted work of criticism, original in its own right.”—E. H. Friedman CHOICE“This is a beautifully crafted work of criticism, original in its own right.”—E.H. Friedman CHOICE“This is a fine book written in the tradition of the humanists and scholars it venerates. From the humanists, it takes much of its impressive breadth and passionate zeal to identify continuities among canonical works in the Western tradition. From Erasmus in particular it also derives a special blend of urbanity and carefful moderation. From the great comparative cervantistas such as Alban Forcione, whom this scholar cites repeatedly, this book gains its authority to ask the ‘big’ questions and hazard guesses at some of their answers. A great historian of Spain, Sir John Elliott, once made the famous remark that ‘miccrohistory is for minihistorians.’ This is no microhistory, and it is laudable that Presberg is willing to take on the challege of a topic this large. He [Presberg] acquits himself with finesse, and it is the opinion of this reviewer at least that more books like this one ought to be attempted by scholars and subsequently published by major university presses.This is a book to which progessors will direct their students for many, many years to come. It is also a study that reveals how much Hispanism has to say to the larger scholarly community.”—Hilaire Kallendorf South Central Review“This is a fine book written in the tradition of the humanists and scholars it venerates. . . . This is no microhistory, and it is laudable that Presberg is willing to take on the challenge of a topic this large. He acquits himself with finesse, and it is the opinion of this reviewer at least that more books like this one ought to be attempted by scholars and subsequently published by major university presses. . . . This is a book to which professors will direct their students for many, many years to come. It is also a study that reveals how much Hispanism has to say to the larger scholarly community.”—Hilaire Kallendorf South Central Review“Presberg’s analysis of this turn of mind and discourse is both ludic and serious as well befits its subject while its range and subtlety belong to the very best of our scholarly tradition.”—Salvador J. Fajardo South Atlantic Review“Adventures in Paradox is an essential study for readers interested in the puzzles of logic and storytelling that Cervantes presents to us.”—Stephen Rupp Modern Language Review
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Penn State University Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume, grappling with questions about the position of women in political society, investigate whether Machiavelli was truly a misogynist and a proto-fascist or instead a proto-feminist and a democratic republican.Trade Review“This volume of 14 essays makes a valuable contribution to three related academic fields: history of feminist thought, history of political thought in North America, and the general history of political thought. In her Introduction, editor Maria Falco has done an excellent job of bringing her readers up to date on the evolving state of the feminist critiques of Machiavelli. . . . The new possibilities that Feminist Interpretations of Nicolò Machiavelli has opened up are challenging and rewarding. Young scholars who have the mental flexibility and the time to reread, to rethink, and to reinterpret him should take full advantage of them.”—Anthony Parel Perspectives on Politics“Falco provides a helpful introduction with a brief biography of Machiavelli and sets the context for the developing trends in feminist interpretation of Machiavelli. . . . From this volume it is clear that feminist scholars are not in accord in their view of Machiavelli, echoing other disagreements concerning his work. Feminist Interpretations provides a useful compilation of the diverse feminist approaches to Machiavelli and shows an added complexity to his thought not found in mainstream accounts. As such the volume fulfills the goal of its series in expanding our appreciation of the canon and providing an introduction to feminist readings of a major thinker.”—John M. Theilmann Sixteenth Century Journal“This edited volume will be helpful for scholars of Machiavelli who may not be well versed in feminist theory, but, more significantly, it can be of use to feminist theorists developing approaches to politics.”—Mindy Peden Feminism and PhilosophyTable of ContentsContents Preface by Nancy Tuana Acknowledgments Introduction1. The Modernity of Machiavelli Donald McIntosh2. Meditations on Machiavelli Hanna Fenichel Pitkin3. Niccolò Machiavelli: Women as Men, Men as Women, and the Ambiguity of Sex Arlene W. Saxonhouse4. Renaissance Italy: Machiavelli Wendy Brown5. The Root of the Mandrake: Machiavelli and Manliness Mary O’Brien6. Fortune Is a Woman—But So Is Prudence: Machiavelli’s Clizia Catherine H. Zuckert7. Machiavelli and the Citizenship of Civic Practices R. Claire Snyder8. The Seriously Comedic, or Why Machiavelli’s Lucrezia is not Livy’s Virtuous Roman Melissa M. Matthes9. Rhetoric, Violence, and Gender in Machiavelli Cary J. Nederman and Martin Morris10. Beyond Virtù John Juncholl Shin11. Machiavelli, Civic Virtue, and Gender Vesna Marcina12. Rethinking Machiavelli: Feminism and Citizenship Jane S. Jaquette13. Machiavelli and Feminist Ethics Andrea NickiAppendix A Summary of La MandragolaAppendix B Summary of Clizia Selected Bibliography Index
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Book SynopsisThis overview of the Oxford Movement highlights five key areas in which the movement affected English society more broadly - politics, religion and theology, friendship, society, and missions. The thematic approach illuminatesthe wider political, social, and cultural impact of the movement.Trade Review“Anyone trying to understand why the institutions of Christianity refuse to disappear and why some of its branches—well, its key branch, which remains Roman Catholicism—continue to be obstinate and even belligerent in the face of growing secular tolerance on key social issues like gay rights will find the history of the Oxford Movement remarkably pertinent. It is Faught’s great achievement as a historian and communicator that he leads readers through all the theological and metaphysical complications and occasional muddle with such writerly clarity and scholarly élan.”—John Fraser National Post“The Oxford Movement is something of a niche volume, but it illuminates that niche nicely.”—Alan Cochrum Morning Star-Telegram“The strength of this book lies in its thematic approach to the Oxford movement and its influence on English society.”—R. M. Kollar Choice“This is a tightly written, well-argued, and thoroughly annotated work. It should become a required text for anyone teaching in this area.”—Mary Eleanor Hill Anglican Theological Review“Faught’s training as a journalist as well as a historian makes the story unfold in a brisk and compelling manner.”—Pegram Johnson III Anglican and Episcopal History“Brad Faught is right to say that a new one-volume history of the Oxford Movement is needed and that the movement is best understood as multifaceted. Much has been written on the subject, but the time has come for a synthetic work that touches on the main personalities, events, and issues. With the publication of this book, we now have such a work.”—Denis Paz,University of North Texas“To those familiar with the Oxford Movement, this book provides some additional details and suggests a few variant interpretations, particularly in relation to the movement in the second half of the nineteenth century.”—John T. Ford Religious Studies Review“In sum, this study provides an accessible but conventional introduction to an important and still controversial episode in Victorian religion.”—William Whitla University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPreface & Acknowledgments1 PoliticsControversy and Passion2 Religion and Theology Principles and Promulgation3 FriendshipFraternity and Farewell4 SocietyRevival and Reclamation5 MissionsChurchmanship and BishopricsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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Penn State University Revolutionary Saints Heidegger National Socialism
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Penn State University Otto III
Book SynopsisOtto III (980-1002) was one of the most powerful rulers in Europe in the late tenth century. He is also one of the most enigmatic. Gerd Althoff provides a much-needed biography of this fascinating figure. In the process, he uses Otto's life to explain how in practice early medieval kingship worked.Trade Review“Althoff's careful attention to the sources (quoted extensively in the translation with full Latin citations) and his insights regarding the ritualistic and demonstrative behavior of the early Middle Ages mark this as a book that demands the attention of scholars and students alike and one that should have an English translation.”—John W. Bernhardt Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies“Previous historians have seen Otto III as a misguided or even tragic political innovator. But for Gerd Althoff, Otto was a savvy ruler well attuned to the political ‘theater’ of his day. Otto III is an excellent introduction to Althoff’s vision of the Middle Ages, where power is exercised and communicated through ritual; where political players follow intricate and well-known—though unwritten—'rules of the game'; and where modern notions of ‘policies’ and ‘ideologies’ have no place. This book rightly challenges us to suspend our modern statist assumptions as we consider the nature of medieval rulership.”—Barbara H. Rosenwein,Loyola University“During his short life contemporaries held widely differing opinions about Emperor Otto III. Modern German scholarship has been just as divided, branding him a genius bent on restoring the glory of the ancient Roman Empire whose death at twenty-two prevented him from achieving his goals or an ineffectual dreamer whose love of Rome set Germany on the path of political disaster. Refusing to ascribe to Otto any consistent ideological or political program or to dismiss him as an unrealistic failure, Gerd Althoff has produced a controversial study of the Emperor that emphasizes the limitations and parameters of medieval kingship, focusing on the rules of play by which Otto and his contemporaries lived and acted. Thanks to Phyllis Jestice's translation, English readers are introduced not only to Otto and his age but also to the ongoing debated in German historiography concerning this most fascinating and enigmatic ruler.”—Patrick J. Geary Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies“The complexity of Otto’s reign and earlier historians’ wildly divergent interpretations of it, along with many of Althoff’s interests in early medieval rulership, all nicely coincide in this study so that the book effectively conveys the style and research interests of a major scholar while offering a careful, richly documented, and perceptive study of Otto III and his reign.”—E. Peters Choice“This is a mould-breaking biography and an exemplary work of modern scholarship that showcases a very important recent approach to the period as a whole.”—Simon MacLean Bulletin of International Medieval ResearchTable of ContentsContents Translator’s Note Preface to the German Edition Preface to the English Edition Introduction The Modern Assessment of Otto III Royal Rule and the Idea of the State at the End of the Tenth Century Central Questions and the Problem of Sources1. A Child on the Throne Henry the Quarrelsome and the Disturbances over the Succession The Regency of the Empresses2. The Beginning of Independent Rule The First Independent Decisions The First Italian Expedition The Encounters with Gerbert and Adalbert3. The "Revenge Expedition" to Rome and the Beginning of the "Roman Renewal" The Fight Against Crescentius and the Antipope Otto III’s "Idea of Roman Renewal" in Older and Newer Scholarship4. The Journey to Gniezno Preconceptions and Preparations The Journey From Gniezno to Aachen5. The Last Expedition to Rome "Government Business" on the Way The Gandersheim Conflict The "Ingratitude" of the Romans The Death of Otto III6. Building Blocks for an Assessment of Otto III: Observations, Insights, Open Questions Demonstrative Ritual Behaviors "Friends" of Otto III and His Interaction with Them Dealing with the Heritage Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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