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| 1. |  | Title: Abuses  Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | Cultural Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Psychology | Travel Publisher's Description: Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Althusser and the renewal of Marxist social theory Author: Resch, Robert Paul Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Dilemmas of enlightenment: studies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology Author: Kenshur, Oscar 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History Publisher's Description: Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory.While striving to re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Gadamer's repercussions: reconsidering philosophical hermeneutics Author: Krajewski, Bruce 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | European Studies Publisher's Description: Certainly one of the key German philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans-Georg Gadamer also influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts, and medicine. Indeed, while much attention has been focused on Gadamer's writings about ancient Greek and modern German philosophy, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Media Studies | Gender Studies | Cognitive Science | Social and Political Thought | Art | Sociology Publisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Chicano Studies | Gender Studies | Social and Political Thought | Politics | Social Theory | Immigration Publisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Legitimate differences: interpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates Author: Warnke, Georgia Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The longest night: polemics and perspectives on election 2000 Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social and Political Thought | Law Publisher's Description: The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: My Kantian ways Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In My Kantian Ways , Ermanno Bencivenga, one of the most creative and iconoclastic practitioners of American philosophy, sets out to explore Kant's legacy for contemporary thought. Seeking to extricate the German philosopher's work from the stranglehold of the prevailing analytic tradition, he prese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Nothing but history: reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics Author: Roberts, David D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: What is the role of history in our "postmetaphysical" age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual trad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual History Publisher'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 |
| 15. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 16. |  | Title: Plato's Euthydemus: analysis of what is and is not philosophy Author: Chance, Thomas H Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Classical Philosophy | Literature Publisher's Description: With Plato's Euthydemus , Thomas Chance solves a longstanding riddle of Platonic studies. Thought to be an early, immature work, the Euthydemus has come across to scholars as lacking Plato's characteristic greatness. This apparent lack, Chance argues, is not a failure of the text but of scholarly pe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Punishment: theory and practice Author: Tunick, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Law Publisher's Description: What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment.Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The Question of "eclecticism": studies in later Greek philosophy Author: Dillon, John M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of anci . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Symbols, computation, and intentionality: a critique of the computational theory of mind Author: Horst, Steven W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Psychology Publisher's Description: The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that cognitive states possess the generative and compositional properties of natural languages - has proven enormously influential in recent philosophical studies of cognition. In this carefully argued criti . . . [more] Similar Items |