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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: Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theory Author: Feenberg, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | History and Philosophy of Science | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: The art of living: Socratic reflections from Plato to Foucault Author: Nehamas, Alexander 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Literature and Language | Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Literature Publisher's Description: For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a mod . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The body/body problem: selected essays Author: Danto, Arthur Coleman 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent - and misrepresent - actual and possible worlds. Addressing philosophical questions of mental r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Contesting Earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity Author: Zimmerman, Michael E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Natural History | Ecology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy Author: Branham, Robert Bracht Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays - the first of its kind in English - brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Dangerous emotions Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Social and Political Thought | Travel Publisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identity Author: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Social and Political Thought | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Emerson: the mind on fire: a biography Author: Richardson, Robert D 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Social and Political Thought | United States History Publisher's Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual History Publisher'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 |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | Title: The genesis of Heidegger's Being and time Author: Kisiel, Theodore J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies Publisher's Description: This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theod . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | Rhetoric Publisher'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 |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | Title: Imaginary communities: utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity Author: Wegner, Phillip E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Politics | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: In the shadow of catastrophe: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment Author: Rabinbach, Anson Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | German Studies | Social and Political Thought | Philosophy Publisher's Description: These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.Analyzing the work of Benjamin . . . [more] Similar Items |