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| 1. |  | Title: Hegel's ethics of recognition Author: Williams, Robert R 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics Publisher's Description: In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition ( Anerkennung ). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams sh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Cognition: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit  Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-ti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment Author: Charlton, James I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Schopenhauer on the character of the world: the metaphysics of will Author: Atwell, John E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents Author: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | China | Taoism | Buddhism Publisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The unity of the common law: studies in Hegelian jurisprudence Author: Brudner, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Law | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Countering the influential view of Critical Legal Studies that law is an incoherent mixture of conflicting political ideologies, this book forges a new paradigm for understanding the common law as being unified and systematic. Alan Brudner applies Hegel's legal and moral philosophy to fashion a comp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: A theory of language and mind Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect. Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in contemporary American philosophy, contests the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Nothing bad happens to good girls: fear of crime in women's lives Author: Madriz, Esther 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Women's Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing." - 40-year-old womanThis is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Dao de jing: the book of the way Author: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | China | Asian History | Asian Literature | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Classical music and postmodern knowledge Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music - the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoteri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Plato's Parmenides Author: Plato Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a colle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Interpretation radical but not unruly: the new puzzle of the arts and history Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The family romance of the French Revolution Author: Hunt, Lynn Avery Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Retelling U.S. religious history Author: Tweed, Thomas A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | United States History | Asian Studies | American Studies | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught.The range of these essa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Nietzsche: naturalism and interpretation Author: Cox, Christoph 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology, Nietzsche is considered by many critics to share th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Small property versus big government: social origins of the property tax revolt Author: Lo, Clarence Y. H Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Public Policy | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tax reformers, take note. Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items |