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41. |  | Title: Cinema and the invention of modern lifeAuthor: Charney, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Intellectual History | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popul . . . [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: The novel according to Cervantes Author: Gilman, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | European History | Literature in Translation | Intellectual HistorySimilar Items | 44. |  | 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 | 45. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisisAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. |  | Title: Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thoughtAuthor: Jay, Martin 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History | French Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to p . . . [more]Similar Items | 48. |  | Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big businessAuthor: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | American Studies | Popular Culture | Intellectual History | Media Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more]Similar Items | 49. |  | Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mindAuthor: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | RhetoricPublisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more]Similar Items | 50. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. |  | Title: The myth of the noble savageAuthor: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Intellectual History | European History | American Studies | European Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items | 53. |  | 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 | 54. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | California and the West | Intellectual History | Californian and Western History | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more]Similar Items | 55. |  | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practicesAuthor: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early ChristianityAuthor: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. |  | 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 | 58. |  | Title: Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectivesAuthor: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Social and Political Thought | European History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison . Beginning where tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. |  | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more]Similar Items | 60. |  | 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 |
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