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41. | | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more]Similar Items | 43. | | Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History | Rhetoric | Comparative LiteraturePublisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. | | Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialismAuthor: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. | | Title: The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century Author: Frängsmyr, Tore 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Intellectual HistorySimilar Items | 46. | | Title: Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideologyAuthor: Thomas, Julia Adeney 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Intellectual History | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changin . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. | | Title: Reshaping the psychoanalytic domain: the work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, and D.W. WinnicottAuthor: Hughes, Judith M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating. Similar Items | 48. | | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient GreeceAuthor: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 49. | | Title: Rethinking American history in a global ageAuthor: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | HistoriographyPublisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more]Similar Items | 50. | | Title: Rethinking evil: contemporary perspectivesAuthor: Lara, María Pía Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Social Theory | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. | | Title: Rethinking home: a case for writing local historyAuthor: Amato, Joseph Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | United States History | WritingPublisher's Description: Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural hi . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. | | Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theaterAuthor: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology | Opera | Musicology | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more]Similar Items | 53. | | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophyAuthor: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 54. | | Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European Literature | Intellectual HistorySimilar Items | 55. | | Title: Sister of wisdom: St. Hildegard's theology of the feminineAuthor: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Religion | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Intellectual History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. | | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justiceAuthor: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. | | Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism Author: Crane, Gregory 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Politics | Political Theory | History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. | | Title: Unsnarling the world-knot: consciousness, freedom, and the mind-body problem Author: Griffin, David Ray 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists - those who accept the reality of the physical world - the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consen . . . [more]Similar Items | 60. | | Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern questionAuthor: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Intellectual History | Politics | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more]Similar Items |
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