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Remnants of Song

Ulrich Baer

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Memory in the Present
• In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define t... Lees meer

Exploration Into God

John a T Robinson

• Paperback | Engels
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The Way That Lives in the Heart

Jean Debernardi

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast ... Lees meer

The Ignorant Schoolmaster

Jacques Ranciere

• Boek | Engels
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Belief

• Paperback | Cultural Memory in the Present
• In this highly personal book, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. Lees meer

Politics, Economy, and Society in Contemporary China

Bill Brugger, Stephen Reglar

• Hardcover | Engels
• This analytic overview of contemporary Chinese politics focuses on six major themes: agriculture, urban life and industry, law and policing, intellect... Lees meer

Habermas

William Outhwaite

• Paperback | Engels
• This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the pu... Lees meer

Morbid Symptoms

Gilbert Achcar

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war. T... Lees meer

Rights After Wrongs

Shannon Morreira

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practic... Lees meer

The Right to Dignity

Miguel Pérez

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins--and have long advocated for ... Lees meer

Society and Culture in Early Modern France

Natalie Zemon Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-centu... Lees meer

Modernity and Self-Identity

Anthony Giddens

• Paperback | Engels
• Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its g... Lees meer

The Culture of Power

Qiu Jin

• Hardcover | Engels
• On the night of September 12-13, 1971, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong's officially recognized closest comrade-in-arms and chosen successor, was killed in a myst... Lees meer

The Time That Remains

Giorgio Agamben

• Paperback | Engels | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• In The Time That Remains , Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be t... Lees meer

Involuntary Consent

Akiko Takeyama

• Hardcover | Engels
• The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to dominat... Lees meer

Magnificent Failure

John Martin Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels
• In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, the author vividly recreates the life and times of the Western ... Lees meer

Gridlock

Pardis Mahdavi

• Hardcover | Engels
• The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--but ... Lees meer

Shakespeare

Derek Traversi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Excerpt from Shakespeare: The Last Phase A number of critics have suggested that I have laid too much stress on the symbolic and religious elements ln... Lees meer

Whose Life Is Worth More?

Yagil Levy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those o... Lees meer

The Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman

• Paperback | Engels
• Thirty years after its initial publication, The Sexual Contract remains a seminal work that challenges the standard view of the implications of the id... Lees meer

The Neighborhood Effect

Anna Ohanyan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why are certain regions of the world mired in conflict? And how did some regions in Eurasia emerge from the Cold War as peaceful and resilient? Why do... Lees meer

Anthropology's Politics

Lara Deeb, Jessica Winegar

• Paperback | Engels
• U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the sam... Lees meer

Chinese Justice, the Fiction

Jeffrey C Kinkley

• Paperback | Engels
• During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds--old and new, Chin... Lees meer

Managing Multicultural Lives

Pawan Dhingra

• Hardcover | Engels
• How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minorit... Lees meer