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Affiche du document Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity — Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity
Leo Strauss
6h34min30
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Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker.These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted.These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought 1. Progress or Return? (1952) 2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965) Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers 3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948) 4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952) 5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972) Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues 6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958) 7. Why We Remain Jews (1962) Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible 8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957) 9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967) Part V: Comments on Jewish History 10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954) 11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957) 12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957) Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism 13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) 14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963) Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections 15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959) 16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965) 17. A Giving of Accounts (1970) Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946) Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950) Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961) Sources Bibliography Index

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity
Leo Strauss
6h34min30
Histoire
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526 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h34min.
Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker.These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted.These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought 1. Progress or Return? (1952) 2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965) Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers 3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948) 4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952) 5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972) Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues 6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958) 7. Why We Remain Jews (1962) Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible 8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957) 9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967) Part V: Comments on Jewish History 10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954) 11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957) 12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957) Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism 13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) 14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963) Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections 15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959) 16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965) 17. A Giving of Accounts (1970) Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946) Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950) Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961) Sources Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Reform in the Balance — Reform in the Balance
Anthony DeBlasi
2h51min45
Philosophie
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229 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h52min.
Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Recreating a world of intense philosophical debate, influenced by political uncertainty and social disorder, he reveals the logic behind the period's most popular philosophical positions.Reform in the Balance casts aside traditional evaluations of the predominance of the Ancient Style Movement (guwen) during this era. Building on recent scholarship and his own reading of Tang sources, the author argues that the period's dominant intellectual position advocated moderately conservative cultural reform designed to defend literary pursuits and the broader cultural tradition from more strident critics.Acknowledgments Prelude: The Changing World in Eighty-Century China Intellectual Culture in the Mid-Tang Mainstream Defining the Mid-Tang Mainstream Politics and Social Change in the Mid-Tang The Confucian Revival The Plan of This Study 1. The Literary Response to the Mid-Tang Crisis Literary Decline and the Roots of Disorder The Continuing Promise of Literary Pursuits The Nature of the Literary Man Completeness and Balance in Mainstream Thought The Evolution of the Literary Mainstream Conclusion 2. Literary Education in the Mid-Tang Mainstream Educational Assumptions in Medieval China Mid-Tang Literary Learning and the Tradition The Guiding Tradition Learning Broadly in the Mid-Tang Alternative Visions Conclusion 3. Literary Politics in the Mid-Tang The Elements of Mainstream Political Thought Bai Juyi and His Celin Liu Yuxi's Accomodative Political Philosophy Conclusion 4. Moral Choices in the Literary Mainstream Literature and the Self Models for the Moral Man Desire and Morality in Quan Deyu's Thought A Remedy for Desires Conclusion 5. The Guwen Alternative Guwen Literary Theory Guwen Approaches to Learning The Basis of Morality in Guwen Ideology The Politics of Individual Responsibility Conclusion Final Considerations The Vitality of Tang Literary Conservatism The Legacy of the Mainstream Notes Bibliography Index

Reform in the Balance
Anthony DeBlasi
2h51min45
Philosophie
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229 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h52min.
Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Recreating a world of intense philosophical debate, influenced by political uncertainty and social disorder, he reveals the logic behind the period's most popular philosophical positions.Reform in the Balance casts aside traditional evaluations of the predominance of the Ancient Style Movement (guwen) during this era. Building on recent scholarship and his own reading of Tang sources, the author argues that the period's dominant intellectual position advocated moderately conservative cultural reform designed to defend literary pursuits and the broader cultural tradition from more strident critics.Acknowledgments Prelude: The Changing World in Eighty-Century China Intellectual Culture in the Mid-Tang Mainstream Defining the Mid-Tang Mainstream Politics and Social Change in the Mid-Tang The Confucian Revival The Plan of This Study 1. The Literary Response to the Mid-Tang Crisis Literary Decline and the Roots of Disorder The Continuing Promise of Literary Pursuits The Nature of the Literary Man Completeness and Balance in Mainstream Thought The Evolution of the Literary Mainstream Conclusion 2. Literary Education in the Mid-Tang Mainstream Educational Assumptions in Medieval China Mid-Tang Literary Learning and the Tradition The Guiding Tradition Learning Broadly in the Mid-Tang Alternative Visions Conclusion 3. Literary Politics in the Mid-Tang The Elements of Mainstream Political Thought Bai Juyi and His Celin Liu Yuxi's Accomodative Political Philosophy Conclusion 4. Moral Choices in the Literary Mainstream Literature and the Self Models for the Moral Man Desire and Morality in Quan Deyu's Thought A Remedy for Desires Conclusion 5. The Guwen Alternative Guwen Literary Theory Guwen Approaches to Learning The Basis of Morality in Guwen Ideology The Politics of Individual Responsibility Conclusion Final Considerations The Vitality of Tang Literary Conservatism The Legacy of the Mainstream Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document The Living and the Dead — The Living and the Dead
2h49min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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226 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and historical study of religion, the contributors also record the voices and actions of marginalized groups-such as tribal peoples, women, and members of lower castes-who are often underrepresented in studies of South Asian deathways, which typically focus on the writings and practices of elite groups. For many religious people, death entails a journey leading to some new condition or place. As the ultimate experience of passage, it is highly ceremonial and ritualized, and those beliefs and practices associated with the moment of death itself-death-bed ceremonies, funerary rites, and rituals of mourning and of remembering-are examined here. The Living and the Dead offers historical depth, ethnographic detail, and conceptual clarity on a subject that is of immense importance in South Asian religious traditions.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Transcription Introduction: Passing On: The Social Life of Death in South Asian Religions Liz Wilson 1. Ashes to Nectar: Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nath Siddhas David Gordon White 2. Human Torches of Enlightenment: Autocremation and Spontaneous Combustion as Marks of Sanctity in South Asian Buddhism Liz Wilson 3. When a Wife Dies First: The Musivayanam and a Female Brahman Ritualist in Coastal Andhra David M. Knipe 4. Return to Tears: Musical Mourning, Emotion, and Religious Reform in Two South Asian Minority Communities Richard K. Wolf 5. Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri Lanka Jonathan S. Walters 6. The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts Gregory Schopen 7. A Funeral to Part with the Living: A Tamil Countersorcery Ritual Isabelle Nabokov 8. Dead Healers and Living Identities: Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village Peter Gottschalk List of Contributors Index

The Living and the Dead
2h49min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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226 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and historical study of religion, the contributors also record the voices and actions of marginalized groups-such as tribal peoples, women, and members of lower castes-who are often underrepresented in studies of South Asian deathways, which typically focus on the writings and practices of elite groups. For many religious people, death entails a journey leading to some new condition or place. As the ultimate experience of passage, it is highly ceremonial and ritualized, and those beliefs and practices associated with the moment of death itself-death-bed ceremonies, funerary rites, and rituals of mourning and of remembering-are examined here. The Living and the Dead offers historical depth, ethnographic detail, and conceptual clarity on a subject that is of immense importance in South Asian religious traditions.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Transcription Introduction: Passing On: The Social Life of Death in South Asian Religions Liz Wilson 1. Ashes to Nectar: Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nath Siddhas David Gordon White 2. Human Torches of Enlightenment: Autocremation and Spontaneous Combustion as Marks of Sanctity in South Asian Buddhism Liz Wilson 3. When a Wife Dies First: The Musivayanam and a Female Brahman Ritualist in Coastal Andhra David M. Knipe 4. Return to Tears: Musical Mourning, Emotion, and Religious Reform in Two South Asian Minority Communities Richard K. Wolf 5. Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri Lanka Jonathan S. Walters 6. The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts Gregory Schopen 7. A Funeral to Part with the Living: A Tamil Countersorcery Ritual Isabelle Nabokov 8. Dead Healers and Living Identities: Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village Peter Gottschalk List of Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms — Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms
Benjamin Gregg
2h46min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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222 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h46min.
Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice possible within a liberal political order, even if norms are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished by both its complexity and the absence of a single theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than universal, social integration and democratic politics are still attainable goals. Benjamin Gregg fashions a theory that combines proceduralism with pragmatism-an "enlightened localism"-that adjudicates among competing normative commitments and interpretations using local criteria in the absence of universal standards. The theory is applied to three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and law and morality.Acknowledgments Introduction I: THE PROBLEM: INDETERMINATE NORMS 1. Indeterminacy in Social and Political Norms II: THE SOLUTION: BASIC COMPONENTS 2. Coping with Indeterminacy through Proceduralism 3. Coping with Indeterminacy through Pragmatism III: THE SOLUTION: LOCALISM WITHOUT PAROCHIALISM 4. Enlightened Localism in Social Critique 5. Enlightened Localism in Public Policy 6. Enlightened Localism in Law and Morality Coda: Social Cooperation in the Absence of Political Unity Notes Bibliography Index

Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms
Benjamin Gregg
2h46min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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222 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h46min.
Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice possible within a liberal political order, even if norms are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished by both its complexity and the absence of a single theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than universal, social integration and democratic politics are still attainable goals. Benjamin Gregg fashions a theory that combines proceduralism with pragmatism-an "enlightened localism"-that adjudicates among competing normative commitments and interpretations using local criteria in the absence of universal standards. The theory is applied to three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and law and morality.Acknowledgments Introduction I: THE PROBLEM: INDETERMINATE NORMS 1. Indeterminacy in Social and Political Norms II: THE SOLUTION: BASIC COMPONENTS 2. Coping with Indeterminacy through Proceduralism 3. Coping with Indeterminacy through Pragmatism III: THE SOLUTION: LOCALISM WITHOUT PAROCHIALISM 4. Enlightened Localism in Social Critique 5. Enlightened Localism in Public Policy 6. Enlightened Localism in Law and Morality Coda: Social Cooperation in the Absence of Political Unity Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Materializing Queer Desire — Materializing Queer Desire
Elisa Glick
2h57min45
Etudes littéraires
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237 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h58min.
Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes of modern life. Elisa Glick argues that the gay subject emerged out of the specifically modern, capitalist contradiction between the public world of production and industry and the private world of consumption and pleasure. Boldly bringing modernism into dialogue with Marxist and queer theory, Glick offers an innovative, materialist account of modern queer consciousness that challenges tendencies to oppose "private" eroticism and the systems of value that govern "public" interests. In the process she illuminates the connections between aesthetic, sexual, and social formations in modern life-between modernity's disruptive, "queer" desires and their unfolding in an increasingly rationalized society.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Dialectics of Dandyism 2. The Seductions of Sapphic Decadence 3. Radclyffe Hall and the Lesbian Dandy 4. Harlem's Queer Dandy and the Artifice of Blackness 5. Gutter Dandyism: The Queer Junkie in Cold War America 6. The Dandy Goes Pop:Andy Warhol's Queer Commodity Aesthetics Afterword: The New Dandyism? Notes Bibliography Index

Materializing Queer Desire
Elisa Glick
2h57min45
Etudes littéraires
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237 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h58min.
Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes of modern life. Elisa Glick argues that the gay subject emerged out of the specifically modern, capitalist contradiction between the public world of production and industry and the private world of consumption and pleasure. Boldly bringing modernism into dialogue with Marxist and queer theory, Glick offers an innovative, materialist account of modern queer consciousness that challenges tendencies to oppose "private" eroticism and the systems of value that govern "public" interests. In the process she illuminates the connections between aesthetic, sexual, and social formations in modern life-between modernity's disruptive, "queer" desires and their unfolding in an increasingly rationalized society.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Dialectics of Dandyism 2. The Seductions of Sapphic Decadence 3. Radclyffe Hall and the Lesbian Dandy 4. Harlem's Queer Dandy and the Artifice of Blackness 5. Gutter Dandyism: The Queer Junkie in Cold War America 6. The Dandy Goes Pop:Andy Warhol's Queer Commodity Aesthetics Afterword: The New Dandyism? Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Revolt, Affect, Collectivity — Revolt, Affect, Collectivity
2h49min30
Philosophie
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226 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
Explores how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Kristeva's body of work.Explores how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Kristeva's body of work.These original essays explore how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Julia Kristeva's body of work by tracing its trajectory from her early engagement with the Tel Quel group, through her preoccupation in the 1980s with abjection, melancholia, and love, to her latest work. Some of the leading voices in Kristeva scholarship examine her reevaluation of the concept of revolt in the context of the changing cultural and political conditions in the West; the questions of the stranger, race, and nation; her reflections on narrative, public spaces, and collectivity in the context of her engagement with Hannah Arendt's work; her development and refinement of the notions of abjection, melancholia, and narcissism in her ongoing interrogation of aesthetics; as well as her contribution to film theory. Focused primarily on Kristeva's newest work-much of it only recently translated into English-this book breaks new ground in Kristeva scholarship.INTRODUCTION: Tina Chanter and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek I. FEMININITY, RACE, AND REVOLT 1. Julia Kristeva and the Revolutionary Politics of Tel Quel Joan Brandt 2. From Revolution to Revolt Culture Sara Beardsworth 3. Kristeva and Fanon: Revolutionary Violence and Ironic Articulation Ewa Płonowska Ziarek 4. Revolt and Forgiveness Kelly Oliver II. AFFECT, COMMUNITY, POLITICS 5. The Skin of the Community: Affect and Boundary Formation Sara Ahmed 6. Bearing Witness in the Polis: Kristeva, Arendt, and the Space of Appearance Noëlle McAfee 7. Political Affections: Kristeva and Arendt on Violence and Gratitude Peg Birmingham III. ABJECTION, FILM, AND MELANCHOLIA 8. The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject Objections Tina Chanter 9. On the Border between Abjection and the Third: The (Re)Birth of Narcissus in the Works of Julia Kristeva Pleshette DeArmitt 10. Black and Blue: Kieslowski's Melancholia Frances L. Restuccia Contributors Index

Revolt, Affect, Collectivity
2h49min30
Philosophie
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226 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
Explores how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Kristeva's body of work.Explores how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Kristeva's body of work.These original essays explore how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Julia Kristeva's body of work by tracing its trajectory from her early engagement with the Tel Quel group, through her preoccupation in the 1980s with abjection, melancholia, and love, to her latest work. Some of the leading voices in Kristeva scholarship examine her reevaluation of the concept of revolt in the context of the changing cultural and political conditions in the West; the questions of the stranger, race, and nation; her reflections on narrative, public spaces, and collectivity in the context of her engagement with Hannah Arendt's work; her development and refinement of the notions of abjection, melancholia, and narcissism in her ongoing interrogation of aesthetics; as well as her contribution to film theory. Focused primarily on Kristeva's newest work-much of it only recently translated into English-this book breaks new ground in Kristeva scholarship.INTRODUCTION: Tina Chanter and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek I. FEMININITY, RACE, AND REVOLT 1. Julia Kristeva and the Revolutionary Politics of Tel Quel Joan Brandt 2. From Revolution to Revolt Culture Sara Beardsworth 3. Kristeva and Fanon: Revolutionary Violence and Ironic Articulation Ewa Płonowska Ziarek 4. Revolt and Forgiveness Kelly Oliver II. AFFECT, COMMUNITY, POLITICS 5. The Skin of the Community: Affect and Boundary Formation Sara Ahmed 6. Bearing Witness in the Polis: Kristeva, Arendt, and the Space of Appearance Noëlle McAfee 7. Political Affections: Kristeva and Arendt on Violence and Gratitude Peg Birmingham III. ABJECTION, FILM, AND MELANCHOLIA 8. The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject Objections Tina Chanter 9. On the Border between Abjection and the Third: The (Re)Birth of Narcissus in the Works of Julia Kristeva Pleshette DeArmitt 10. Black and Blue: Kieslowski's Melancholia Frances L. Restuccia Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Jazz After Dinner — Jazz After Dinner
Leonard A. Slade Jr.
1h19min30
Poésie
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106 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h19min.
Poems of celebration and endurance.Poems of celebration and endurance.From "I Am a Black Man"I am a Black manmy history written with bloodsome sweet songs of sorroware composed for my souland Ican be seen plowing in the fieldsCan be heardhummingin the nightIn these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses the human need to be connected not only to the physical "now," but also to the other lives and other music we pass through during our lives. Slade's unique voice exposes the sweetness, the sorrow, and the humor of life's celebrations and struggles, but above all is the importance of love and the reliance on God and in faith for transcendence. These are poems to help us to endure, to grow, and to triumph.Acknowledgments Jazz after Dinner Jazz After Dinner For Our Mothers Drinking We Must Remember His Professor My Friend, My Survivor Overcharged Thanksgiving Celebration In Praise of Summer Sounds This My Father Queen for Patrons Freedom He Citizens in Heaven How Beautiful, O God And When I Die I Am a Black Man Be Grateful New Year Advice I Wish I Had Taken Earlier in Life Never Forget The Sad Adult Be Like the Flower Conversation Black Philosophy Reasons for Celebration Classic Shed Brown Portrait Reasons for Celebration The Great Mother As a Friend New York City Life and Death Golden Years Family-Glorious How Great You Are When I Heard from the Tax Man Lilacs in Spring Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College On March 22, 1997 What is a Father? The Black Madonna A Child’s Play For My Forefathers Black and Beautiful Black Woman For My Forefathers Family Before the Death of Dad And Want No More Growing with Grace A Plea for Peace Love Should Grow, Not Wither The Street Man Acquaintances Rain Embden Pond Cat Pure Light The Country Preacher’s Folk Prayer The Anniversary Morning After Morning The Countryside of Northampton Elegy for Therman B. O’Daniel Forgiveness

Jazz After Dinner
Leonard A. Slade Jr.
1h19min30
Poésie
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106 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h19min.
Poems of celebration and endurance.Poems of celebration and endurance.From "I Am a Black Man"I am a Black manmy history written with bloodsome sweet songs of sorroware composed for my souland Ican be seen plowing in the fieldsCan be heardhummingin the nightIn these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses the human need to be connected not only to the physical "now," but also to the other lives and other music we pass through during our lives. Slade's unique voice exposes the sweetness, the sorrow, and the humor of life's celebrations and struggles, but above all is the importance of love and the reliance on God and in faith for transcendence. These are poems to help us to endure, to grow, and to triumph.Acknowledgments Jazz after Dinner Jazz After Dinner For Our Mothers Drinking We Must Remember His Professor My Friend, My Survivor Overcharged Thanksgiving Celebration In Praise of Summer Sounds This My Father Queen for Patrons Freedom He Citizens in Heaven How Beautiful, O God And When I Die I Am a Black Man Be Grateful New Year Advice I Wish I Had Taken Earlier in Life Never Forget The Sad Adult Be Like the Flower Conversation Black Philosophy Reasons for Celebration Classic Shed Brown Portrait Reasons for Celebration The Great Mother As a Friend New York City Life and Death Golden Years Family-Glorious How Great You Are When I Heard from the Tax Man Lilacs in Spring Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College On March 22, 1997 What is a Father? The Black Madonna A Child’s Play For My Forefathers Black and Beautiful Black Woman For My Forefathers Family Before the Death of Dad And Want No More Growing with Grace A Plea for Peace Love Should Grow, Not Wither The Street Man Acquaintances Rain Embden Pond Cat Pure Light The Country Preacher’s Folk Prayer The Anniversary Morning After Morning The Countryside of Northampton Elegy for Therman B. O’Daniel Forgiveness

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Affiche du document The Gift of the Other — The Gift of the Other
Lisa Guenther
2h31min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyA philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyWinner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.Acknowledgments Introduction: The Gift of the Other A Feminist Approach to Levinas A Levinasian Approach to Feminism Birth, Time, Ethics 1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction Take 1: Birth as a Project Take 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction Vita Activa: Labor, Work, Action The Temporality of Action: Promise and Forgiveness Thinking Through Natality Reproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt 3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other Derrida and the Gift of the Impossible Cixous and the Gift of the Feminine Levinas and the Gift of Hospitality I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos You are welcome: From oikos to ethos 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity Paternity as Infinite Discontinuity Otherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading Levinas From Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 49 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations Time and the Maternal Body Ethics and Herethics Moses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:12 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla Cornell Levinas Between Ethics and Politics Ethics, Politics, and the Prospect of "Unborn Mothers" Altered Maternities Notes Bibliography Index

The Gift of the Other
Lisa Guenther
2h31min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyA philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyWinner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.Acknowledgments Introduction: The Gift of the Other A Feminist Approach to Levinas A Levinasian Approach to Feminism Birth, Time, Ethics 1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction Take 1: Birth as a Project Take 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction Vita Activa: Labor, Work, Action The Temporality of Action: Promise and Forgiveness Thinking Through Natality Reproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt 3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other Derrida and the Gift of the Impossible Cixous and the Gift of the Feminine Levinas and the Gift of Hospitality I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos You are welcome: From oikos to ethos 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity Paternity as Infinite Discontinuity Otherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading Levinas From Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 49 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations Time and the Maternal Body Ethics and Herethics Moses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:12 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla Cornell Levinas Between Ethics and Politics Ethics, Politics, and the Prospect of "Unborn Mothers" Altered Maternities Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Letters of Louis D. Brandeis — Letters of Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
8h28min30
Politique
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With the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Louis D. Brandeis emerged as the undisputed intellectual leader of those reformers who were trying to recreate a democratic society free from the economic and political depradations of monopolistic enterprise. But now these reformers had a champion in the White House, and direct access to him through one of his most trusted advisers. In this volume we see what was probably the high point of progressive reform-the first three years of the Wilson Administration. During these years Brandeis was considered for a Cabinet position, consulted frequently on matters of patronage, and called in at key junctures to determine policy.But he still kept up his many obligations to different reform groups: arguing cases before the Supreme Court, acting as public counsel in rate hearings, writing Other People's Money, one of the key exposés of the era, as well as advising his good friend Robert M. LaFollette and other reform leaders.Yet at the height of his career as a reformer, Brandeis suddenly took on another heavy obligation, the leadership of the American Zionist movement, and helped marshal Jews in this country to aid their brethren in war-ravaged Europe and Palestine. Carrying over his democratic ideals, he challenged the established American Jewish aristocracy in the Congress movement, in order to broaden the base of Jewish participation in important issues. At the end of 1915, Brandeis was an important figure not only in domestic reform and Jewish affairs, but on the international scene as well. And although no one knew it at the time, he stood at the brink of nomination to the nation's highest court.As in the earlier volumes, these letters indicate the inner workings of American reform, and they also show how American Zionism, under the leadership of Brandeis and his lieutenants, assumed those characteristics that would make it a unique and powerful instrument in world politics.Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Volume III Chronology, 1913-1915 Key to Letter Source Citations Editorial Markings Letters of Louis D. Brandeis, 1913-1915 Index

Letters of Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
8h28min30
Politique
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With the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Louis D. Brandeis emerged as the undisputed intellectual leader of those reformers who were trying to recreate a democratic society free from the economic and political depradations of monopolistic enterprise. But now these reformers had a champion in the White House, and direct access to him through one of his most trusted advisers. In this volume we see what was probably the high point of progressive reform-the first three years of the Wilson Administration. During these years Brandeis was considered for a Cabinet position, consulted frequently on matters of patronage, and called in at key junctures to determine policy.But he still kept up his many obligations to different reform groups: arguing cases before the Supreme Court, acting as public counsel in rate hearings, writing Other People's Money, one of the key exposés of the era, as well as advising his good friend Robert M. LaFollette and other reform leaders.Yet at the height of his career as a reformer, Brandeis suddenly took on another heavy obligation, the leadership of the American Zionist movement, and helped marshal Jews in this country to aid their brethren in war-ravaged Europe and Palestine. Carrying over his democratic ideals, he challenged the established American Jewish aristocracy in the Congress movement, in order to broaden the base of Jewish participation in important issues. At the end of 1915, Brandeis was an important figure not only in domestic reform and Jewish affairs, but on the international scene as well. And although no one knew it at the time, he stood at the brink of nomination to the nation's highest court.As in the earlier volumes, these letters indicate the inner workings of American reform, and they also show how American Zionism, under the leadership of Brandeis and his lieutenants, assumed those characteristics that would make it a unique and powerful instrument in world politics.Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Volume III Chronology, 1913-1915 Key to Letter Source Citations Editorial Markings Letters of Louis D. Brandeis, 1913-1915 Index

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Affiche du document Hybridity — Hybridity
Anjali Prabhu
2h34min30
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Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of Mauritius and La Réunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized.Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction. Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: Examining Agency 2. Hybridity in La Réunion: Monique Boyer’s Métisse and the Nation as Necessity 3. Theorizing Hybridity: Colonial and Postcolonial La Réunion 4. On the Difficulty of Articulating Hybridity: Africanness in Mauritius 5. Ethnicity and the Fate of the Nation: Reading Mauritius 6. Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality Through Edouard Glissant’s Poétique de la Relation 7. Narration in Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations for Hybridity Afterword: Why Hybridity Now? Notes Works Cited Index

Hybridity
Anjali Prabhu
2h34min30
Etudes littéraires
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Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of Mauritius and La Réunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized.Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction. Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: Examining Agency 2. Hybridity in La Réunion: Monique Boyer’s Métisse and the Nation as Necessity 3. Theorizing Hybridity: Colonial and Postcolonial La Réunion 4. On the Difficulty of Articulating Hybridity: Africanness in Mauritius 5. Ethnicity and the Fate of the Nation: Reading Mauritius 6. Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality Through Edouard Glissant’s Poétique de la Relation 7. Narration in Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations for Hybridity Afterword: Why Hybridity Now? Notes Works Cited Index

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Affiche du document American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization — American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization
William V. Spanos
4h18min00
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Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers-Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien-whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to America's war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. To support this argument, Spanos undertakes close readings of Greene's The Quiet American, Caputo's A Rumor of War, and O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, all of which bear witness to the self-destruction of American exceptionalism. Spanos retrieves the spectral witness that has been suppressed since the war, but that now, in the wake of the quagmire in Iraq, has returned to haunt America's post-9/11 "project for the new American century."Preface Acknowledgments 1. History and Its Specter: Rethinking Thinking in the Post-Cold War Age 2. Althusser’s "Problematic": Vision and the Vietnam War 3. Who Killed Alden Pyle?: The Oversight of Oversight in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American 4. Retrieving the Thisness of the Vietnam War: A Symptomatic Reading of Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War 5. "The Land Is Your Enemy": Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato 6. American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier, Before and After 9/11: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con Men 7. Conclusion: The Vietnam War, 9/11, and Its Aftermath Notes Index

American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization
William V. Spanos
4h18min00
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Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers-Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien-whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to America's war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. To support this argument, Spanos undertakes close readings of Greene's The Quiet American, Caputo's A Rumor of War, and O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, all of which bear witness to the self-destruction of American exceptionalism. Spanos retrieves the spectral witness that has been suppressed since the war, but that now, in the wake of the quagmire in Iraq, has returned to haunt America's post-9/11 "project for the new American century."Preface Acknowledgments 1. History and Its Specter: Rethinking Thinking in the Post-Cold War Age 2. Althusser’s "Problematic": Vision and the Vietnam War 3. Who Killed Alden Pyle?: The Oversight of Oversight in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American 4. Retrieving the Thisness of the Vietnam War: A Symptomatic Reading of Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War 5. "The Land Is Your Enemy": Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato 6. American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier, Before and After 9/11: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con Men 7. Conclusion: The Vietnam War, 9/11, and Its Aftermath Notes Index

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Affiche du document The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking — The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking
Steven Burik
3h00min45
Philosophie
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A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.How do differences in language influence comparative philosophy? Although the Orientalism famously described by Edward Said is rare today, Steven Burik maintains that comparative philosophy often subtly privileges one tradition over another since certain conceptual schemes are so embedded in Western languages that it is difficult not to revert to them. Arguing for a new approach that acknowledges how theory and practice cannot be separated in comparative philosophical endeavors, Burik provides nonmetaphysical, deconstructionist readings of Heidegger and Derrida and uses these to give a new reading of classical Daoism. The ideas of language advanced therein can aid the project of comparative philosophy specifically, and philosophies generally, in trying to overcome ways of thinking that have dominated Western philosophy for twenty-five hundred years and still frustrate intercultural encounters.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Heidegger and the Other Commencement Heidegger’s Greek Connection anaximander parmenides heraclitus Heidegger and the Poets poetry and thinking poetry and language hölderlin, the foreign, and translation Heidegger and the "East" early heidegger and comparative philosophy later heidegger and comparative philosophy Concluding Heidegger 2. Derrida: Otherness, Context, and Openness Deconstructing the Ideas Behind Metaphysics misreading derrida beyond heidegger? Language, Text, and Translation in Derrida Derrida in Comparative Philosophy identity and openness derrida’s hints at different cultures "the other is already there, irreducibly." Concluding Derrida 3. Rereading Daoism; The Other Way Metaphysical Readings of Daoist Philosophy The Metaphysical Tradition and Comparison The Possibility of Difference interpretations of classical chinese language Inconstancy of Dao 道: No Transcendence Necessary inside & outside: the gateway (men 門) Concluding Daoism 4. Thinking, Philosophy, and Language: Comparing Heidegger, Derrida, and Classical Daoism Metaphysics, Difference, and Comparisons difference and comparison metaphysics and comparison Thinking and Philosophy Heidegger and Daoism derrida and daoism Language in Comparison "Beyond" The Inversion of Opposites Ethical and Political Implications Concluding the Comparison Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking
Steven Burik
3h00min45
Philosophie
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A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.How do differences in language influence comparative philosophy? Although the Orientalism famously described by Edward Said is rare today, Steven Burik maintains that comparative philosophy often subtly privileges one tradition over another since certain conceptual schemes are so embedded in Western languages that it is difficult not to revert to them. Arguing for a new approach that acknowledges how theory and practice cannot be separated in comparative philosophical endeavors, Burik provides nonmetaphysical, deconstructionist readings of Heidegger and Derrida and uses these to give a new reading of classical Daoism. The ideas of language advanced therein can aid the project of comparative philosophy specifically, and philosophies generally, in trying to overcome ways of thinking that have dominated Western philosophy for twenty-five hundred years and still frustrate intercultural encounters.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Heidegger and the Other Commencement Heidegger’s Greek Connection anaximander parmenides heraclitus Heidegger and the Poets poetry and thinking poetry and language hölderlin, the foreign, and translation Heidegger and the "East" early heidegger and comparative philosophy later heidegger and comparative philosophy Concluding Heidegger 2. Derrida: Otherness, Context, and Openness Deconstructing the Ideas Behind Metaphysics misreading derrida beyond heidegger? Language, Text, and Translation in Derrida Derrida in Comparative Philosophy identity and openness derrida’s hints at different cultures "the other is already there, irreducibly." Concluding Derrida 3. Rereading Daoism; The Other Way Metaphysical Readings of Daoist Philosophy The Metaphysical Tradition and Comparison The Possibility of Difference interpretations of classical chinese language Inconstancy of Dao 道: No Transcendence Necessary inside & outside: the gateway (men 門) Concluding Daoism 4. Thinking, Philosophy, and Language: Comparing Heidegger, Derrida, and Classical Daoism Metaphysics, Difference, and Comparisons difference and comparison metaphysics and comparison Thinking and Philosophy Heidegger and Daoism derrida and daoism Language in Comparison "Beyond" The Inversion of Opposites Ethical and Political Implications Concluding the Comparison Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa — Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa
Patrick Lynn Rivers
2h24min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.In this book, Patrick Lynn Rivers asserts that states govern racist hate by governing racial constructs. Rivers maintains that state practices used to govern hate and race in both the United States and South Africa do not make citizens safer, even as the United States markets itself as a "melting pot" of cultures and South Africa touts its status as the new multicultural "city on a hill." In effect, the regulatory practices of the neoliberal state aid in the redirection of responsibility for the eradication of racist hate away from the nation and toward the hated, leaving unaddressed the systemic causes of hate. In line with emerging scholarship on hate, but also taking advantage of the perspective that comparative analysis makes possible, Rivers advocates a particular brand of progressive activism for a socially engaged state and citizenry where race is central and racism is not anomalous.Preface Acknowledgments 1. States of Racial Mind 2. Is Racism Burning? 3. Tortious Race, Race Torts 4. After 9/11 5. Complicating Identity, Naturalizing Equality 6. Can Racism Burn? Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa
Patrick Lynn Rivers
2h24min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.In this book, Patrick Lynn Rivers asserts that states govern racist hate by governing racial constructs. Rivers maintains that state practices used to govern hate and race in both the United States and South Africa do not make citizens safer, even as the United States markets itself as a "melting pot" of cultures and South Africa touts its status as the new multicultural "city on a hill." In effect, the regulatory practices of the neoliberal state aid in the redirection of responsibility for the eradication of racist hate away from the nation and toward the hated, leaving unaddressed the systemic causes of hate. In line with emerging scholarship on hate, but also taking advantage of the perspective that comparative analysis makes possible, Rivers advocates a particular brand of progressive activism for a socially engaged state and citizenry where race is central and racism is not anomalous.Preface Acknowledgments 1. States of Racial Mind 2. Is Racism Burning? 3. Tortious Race, Race Torts 4. After 9/11 5. Complicating Identity, Naturalizing Equality 6. Can Racism Burn? Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Family Feuds — Family Feuds
Eileen Hunt Botting
3h21min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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268 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h21min.
Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Wollstonecraft recognized both Rousseau's and Burke's influential stature in late eighteenth-century debates about the family. Wollstonecraft critically identified them as philosophical and political partners in the defense of the patriarchal structure of the family, yet she used Rousseau's conceptions of childhood education and maternal empowerment and Burke's understanding of the family as the affective basis for political socialization as a theoretical foundation for her own egalitarian vision of the family. It is this ideal of the egalitarian family, Botting contends, that is one of the most important yet least appreciated legacies of Enlightenment political thought.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rousseau: Champion and Critic of the Transformation of the Family 2. Burke’s Fear of the Destruction of the Hierarchical Family 3. Burke’s Philosophical Defense of the Hierarchical Family 4. The Family as Cave, Platoon, and Prison: The Three Stages of Wollstonecraft’s Philosophy of the Family 5. Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Family: Friends and Foes Notes Bibliography Index

Family Feuds
Eileen Hunt Botting
3h21min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Wollstonecraft recognized both Rousseau's and Burke's influential stature in late eighteenth-century debates about the family. Wollstonecraft critically identified them as philosophical and political partners in the defense of the patriarchal structure of the family, yet she used Rousseau's conceptions of childhood education and maternal empowerment and Burke's understanding of the family as the affective basis for political socialization as a theoretical foundation for her own egalitarian vision of the family. It is this ideal of the egalitarian family, Botting contends, that is one of the most important yet least appreciated legacies of Enlightenment political thought.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rousseau: Champion and Critic of the Transformation of the Family 2. Burke’s Fear of the Destruction of the Hierarchical Family 3. Burke’s Philosophical Defense of the Hierarchical Family 4. The Family as Cave, Platoon, and Prison: The Three Stages of Wollstonecraft’s Philosophy of the Family 5. Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Family: Friends and Foes Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States — Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States
3h38min15
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Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.The Canadian constitutional reforms of 1982, which included a Charter of Rights and Freedoms analogous to the American Bill of Rights, brought about a convergence with American constitutional law. As in the U.S., Canadian courts have shown themselves highly protective of individual rights, and they have not been shy about assuming a leading and sometimes controversial political role in striking down legislation. In clear and easy-to-understand language, the contributors not only chart, but also explore, the reasons for areas of similarity and difference in the constitutional politics of Canada and the United States.Acknowledgments Introduction Stephen L. Newman 1. Can the Canadians be a Sovereign People? The Question Re-visited Peter H. Russell 2. Constitutional Interpretation from Two Perspectives: Canada and the United States Sheldon D. Pollack 3. Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence in Canada and the United States: Significant Convergence or Enduring Divergence? Ran Hirschl 4. The Civil Rights Movement Comes to Winnipeg: American Influence on "Rights Talk" in Canada, 1968-71 Rob Vipond 5. The Politics of Comparative Constitutional Law: Implications for Theories of Justice Ronalda Murphy 6. "I Know It When I See It": Pornography and Constitutional Vision in Canada and the United States Samuel V. LaSelva 7. American and Canadian Perspectives on Hate Speech and the Limits of Free Expression Stephen L. Newman 8. Affirmative Action as a Way to Overcome Disadvantage: Inspiration from Canadian Law Sandra Clancy 9. Do the "Haves" Still Come Out Ahead in Canada? Ian Brodie and F. L. Morton 10. For the Love of Justice? Judicial Review in Canada and the United States Raymond Bazowski 11. Constitutional Amendment in Canada and the United States Ian Greene Contributors Index

Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States
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Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.The Canadian constitutional reforms of 1982, which included a Charter of Rights and Freedoms analogous to the American Bill of Rights, brought about a convergence with American constitutional law. As in the U.S., Canadian courts have shown themselves highly protective of individual rights, and they have not been shy about assuming a leading and sometimes controversial political role in striking down legislation. In clear and easy-to-understand language, the contributors not only chart, but also explore, the reasons for areas of similarity and difference in the constitutional politics of Canada and the United States.Acknowledgments Introduction Stephen L. Newman 1. Can the Canadians be a Sovereign People? The Question Re-visited Peter H. Russell 2. Constitutional Interpretation from Two Perspectives: Canada and the United States Sheldon D. Pollack 3. Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence in Canada and the United States: Significant Convergence or Enduring Divergence? Ran Hirschl 4. The Civil Rights Movement Comes to Winnipeg: American Influence on "Rights Talk" in Canada, 1968-71 Rob Vipond 5. The Politics of Comparative Constitutional Law: Implications for Theories of Justice Ronalda Murphy 6. "I Know It When I See It": Pornography and Constitutional Vision in Canada and the United States Samuel V. LaSelva 7. American and Canadian Perspectives on Hate Speech and the Limits of Free Expression Stephen L. Newman 8. Affirmative Action as a Way to Overcome Disadvantage: Inspiration from Canadian Law Sandra Clancy 9. Do the "Haves" Still Come Out Ahead in Canada? Ian Brodie and F. L. Morton 10. For the Love of Justice? Judicial Review in Canada and the United States Raymond Bazowski 11. Constitutional Amendment in Canada and the United States Ian Greene Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Risking Difference — Risking Difference
Jean Wyatt
3h42min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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297 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h43min.
Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Risking Difference revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not only that individual psychic processes of identification influence social dynamics, but also that social discourses of race, class, and culture shape individual identifications. In addition to examining fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt also looks at nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Acknowledgments Introduction: I Want to Be You Part I. Totalizing Identifications 1. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride 2. I Want You To Be Me: Parent-Child Identification in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman 3. Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved Part II. Structures of Identification in the Visual Field 4. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies 5. Luring the Gaze: Desire and Interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden 6. Disidentification and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek Part III. Heteropathic Identifications 7. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community Appendix: The Challenge of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification Notes Works Cited Index

Risking Difference
Jean Wyatt
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Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Risking Difference revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not only that individual psychic processes of identification influence social dynamics, but also that social discourses of race, class, and culture shape individual identifications. In addition to examining fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt also looks at nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Acknowledgments Introduction: I Want to Be You Part I. Totalizing Identifications 1. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride 2. I Want You To Be Me: Parent-Child Identification in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman 3. Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved Part II. Structures of Identification in the Visual Field 4. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies 5. Luring the Gaze: Desire and Interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden 6. Disidentification and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek Part III. Heteropathic Identifications 7. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community Appendix: The Challenge of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification Notes Works Cited Index

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Affiche du document The Failure of Civil Society? — The Failure of Civil Society?
Akihiro Ogawa
3h36min45
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289 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h37min.
A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award The global discourse on civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan's volunteers, known as the third sector. In the wake of the Japanese government's failed response to the 1995 earthquake, volunteers took the lead in providing aid to victims. This recent sea change in Japanese society was quickly followed by the 1998 NPO Law (nonprofit organization law) that encourages third sector activities. Drawing on his fieldwork at one of the new NPOs, Akihiro Ogawa explores in detail the social and historical particularities of Japanese "civil society" or shimin shakai, revisiting how the concept is interpreted and practiced by the volunteers themselves. Civil society, Ogawa argues, can best be understood as an active, dynamic process rather than as a static, abstract model.Illustrations Table Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Key Questions Anthropology of Civil Society Fieldwork Action Research Overview of Chapters 2. Kawazoe Landscape Associational Life in Kawazoe SLG’s Entry into the Associational Landscape Social Capital Argument 3. NPO: A New Third Sector SLG: An NPO Promoting Lifelong Learning Activities Organized by Volunteers Historical Background "NPO-ization" Led by the Government Response to the Government Proposal On the Transition Proper NPOs? 4. Invited by the State You Can Volunteer with a Single Finger! Discourses of "Borantia" Volunteers Invited by the State Volunteering as Potential for Individualization? Reproduction of Volunteer Subjectivity through Education The Colonization of the Volunteering World 5. Power and Contested Rationalities Kyōdō: Policy Collaboration A New Political Technique Talks toward Kyōdō: A Japanese Case Inside Discussion: Challenging the Defined Benefits Distrust Accelerating between the Sides Pushing Cost-Cutting Policy Contested Rationalities: A Reality Kyōdō: A Failed Attempt 6. Shimin in Japanese Society Shimin—A Genealogy an class Shimin in the Early Postwar Era Shimin under the NPO Volunteer Subjectivity Revisited NPO as an Agency in Neoliberalism Shimin as Cultural Product in Neoliberalism 7. Epilogue: Initiating Change Research for Social Change Establishing the Field Site Knowing My Field Sites Initiating Collaborative Inquiry Taking Action My Positionality Appendices Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Notes Bibliography Japanese Glossary Index

The Failure of Civil Society?
Akihiro Ogawa
3h36min45
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A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award The global discourse on civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan's volunteers, known as the third sector. In the wake of the Japanese government's failed response to the 1995 earthquake, volunteers took the lead in providing aid to victims. This recent sea change in Japanese society was quickly followed by the 1998 NPO Law (nonprofit organization law) that encourages third sector activities. Drawing on his fieldwork at one of the new NPOs, Akihiro Ogawa explores in detail the social and historical particularities of Japanese "civil society" or shimin shakai, revisiting how the concept is interpreted and practiced by the volunteers themselves. Civil society, Ogawa argues, can best be understood as an active, dynamic process rather than as a static, abstract model.Illustrations Table Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Key Questions Anthropology of Civil Society Fieldwork Action Research Overview of Chapters 2. Kawazoe Landscape Associational Life in Kawazoe SLG’s Entry into the Associational Landscape Social Capital Argument 3. NPO: A New Third Sector SLG: An NPO Promoting Lifelong Learning Activities Organized by Volunteers Historical Background "NPO-ization" Led by the Government Response to the Government Proposal On the Transition Proper NPOs? 4. Invited by the State You Can Volunteer with a Single Finger! Discourses of "Borantia" Volunteers Invited by the State Volunteering as Potential for Individualization? Reproduction of Volunteer Subjectivity through Education The Colonization of the Volunteering World 5. Power and Contested Rationalities Kyōdō: Policy Collaboration A New Political Technique Talks toward Kyōdō: A Japanese Case Inside Discussion: Challenging the Defined Benefits Distrust Accelerating between the Sides Pushing Cost-Cutting Policy Contested Rationalities: A Reality Kyōdō: A Failed Attempt 6. Shimin in Japanese Society Shimin—A Genealogy an class Shimin in the Early Postwar Era Shimin under the NPO Volunteer Subjectivity Revisited NPO as an Agency in Neoliberalism Shimin as Cultural Product in Neoliberalism 7. Epilogue: Initiating Change Research for Social Change Establishing the Field Site Knowing My Field Sites Initiating Collaborative Inquiry Taking Action My Positionality Appendices Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Notes Bibliography Japanese Glossary Index

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Affiche du document African American Criminological Thought — African American Criminological Thought
Shaun L. Gabbidon
2h39min45
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213 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h40min.
Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.This landmark book presents the contributions of African Americans past and present to understanding crime, criminological theory, and the administration of justice. The authors devote individual chapters to African American pioneers Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. Franklin Frazier, and Monroe N. Work, and contemporary scholars Lee P. Brown, Daniel Georges-Abeyie, Darnell F. Hawkins, Coramae Richey Mann, William Julius Wilson, and Vernetta D. Young. Included for each individual are a biography, information on their contributions to criminological thought, and a list of selected references. A wide range of issues are covered such as lynching, the convict lease system, homicide, female crime and delinquency, terrorism, community policing, the black ethnic monolith paradigm, and explanations of criminality.List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Historical Scholars Overview 1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett 2. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 3. Monroe Nathan Work 4. E. Franklin Frazier Part II. Contemporary Scholars Overview 5. Coramae Richey Mann 6. William Julius Wilson 7. Lee Patrick Brown 8. Darnell Felix Hawkins 9. Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie 10. Vernetta Denise Young Conclusion About the Authors Name Index Subject Index

African American Criminological Thought
Shaun L. Gabbidon
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Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.This landmark book presents the contributions of African Americans past and present to understanding crime, criminological theory, and the administration of justice. The authors devote individual chapters to African American pioneers Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. Franklin Frazier, and Monroe N. Work, and contemporary scholars Lee P. Brown, Daniel Georges-Abeyie, Darnell F. Hawkins, Coramae Richey Mann, William Julius Wilson, and Vernetta D. Young. Included for each individual are a biography, information on their contributions to criminological thought, and a list of selected references. A wide range of issues are covered such as lynching, the convict lease system, homicide, female crime and delinquency, terrorism, community policing, the black ethnic monolith paradigm, and explanations of criminality.List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Historical Scholars Overview 1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett 2. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 3. Monroe Nathan Work 4. E. Franklin Frazier Part II. Contemporary Scholars Overview 5. Coramae Richey Mann 6. William Julius Wilson 7. Lee Patrick Brown 8. Darnell Felix Hawkins 9. Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie 10. Vernetta Denise Young Conclusion About the Authors Name Index Subject Index

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Affiche du document Landscapes of Abandonment — Landscapes of Abandonment
Roger A. Salerno
3h31min30
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Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.Using social theory and cultural analysis, Roger A. Salerno explores the relationship of abandonment to the construction of contemporary capitalistic cultures. Beginning with an array of narratives on the emergence of capitalism in the West and its undermining of traditional social institutions and structures, he provides an overview of both the definition of and reactions to abandonment, analyzing its historical, social, and psychological dimensions. The author contends that abandonment anxiety and feelings of estrangement not only have deep psychological roots, but also important social causes and cultural manifestations such as a quest for security or a hunger for commodities. Salerno surveys important contributions of writers, artists, philosophers, and social scientists and how their work expresses this sense of modern abandonment. He also examines how and why this phenomenon has become a central motif in renderings of community, the environment, and the process of globalization and presents a richer understanding of our modern social condition.Acknowledgments Introduction: The Landscape of Abandonment 1. Capitalism, Abandonment, and Modernity 2. Abandonment and Social Theory 3. Psychology of Separation and Loss 4. Fragmentation and Abandonment of Conscience 5. Abandonment of Community 6. Abandonment of Nature 7. Dark Utopia: Globilization and Abandonment Notes Index

Landscapes of Abandonment
Roger A. Salerno
3h31min30
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Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.Using social theory and cultural analysis, Roger A. Salerno explores the relationship of abandonment to the construction of contemporary capitalistic cultures. Beginning with an array of narratives on the emergence of capitalism in the West and its undermining of traditional social institutions and structures, he provides an overview of both the definition of and reactions to abandonment, analyzing its historical, social, and psychological dimensions. The author contends that abandonment anxiety and feelings of estrangement not only have deep psychological roots, but also important social causes and cultural manifestations such as a quest for security or a hunger for commodities. Salerno surveys important contributions of writers, artists, philosophers, and social scientists and how their work expresses this sense of modern abandonment. He also examines how and why this phenomenon has become a central motif in renderings of community, the environment, and the process of globalization and presents a richer understanding of our modern social condition.Acknowledgments Introduction: The Landscape of Abandonment 1. Capitalism, Abandonment, and Modernity 2. Abandonment and Social Theory 3. Psychology of Separation and Loss 4. Fragmentation and Abandonment of Conscience 5. Abandonment of Community 6. Abandonment of Nature 7. Dark Utopia: Globilization and Abandonment Notes Index

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Affiche du document Black Power in the Suburbs — Black Power in the Suburbs
Valerie C. Johnson
3h00min00
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240 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h00min.
The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.The country's largest concentration of African American suburban affluence represents a unique laboratory to study the internal factors associated with African American political ascendancy and the convergence of race and class. Black Power in the Suburbs chronicles Prince George's County, Maryland, and the twenty-three year quest by African Americans to influence educational policy and become equal partners in the county's governing coalition. Johnson challenges conventional notions of a monolithic community by addressing the manner in which class cleavages among African Americans affect their representation and policy interests in suburbia. She also documents white resistance to power sharing and the impact of school desegregation on white population trends.List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. African-American Suburban Political Incorporation 2. Prince George's County: Politics and the African-American Migration 3. Social and Economic Characteristics of Prince George's County, Maryland 4. The Quest for African-American Political Representation in Prince George's County, Maryland 5. African-American Prince Georgians: Mobilization for Key Appointments 6. African-American Prince Georgians: Policy Influence in the Education Arena 7. The Myth or Reality of African-American Suburban Political Incorporation 8. A Tale of Two Counties—Present and Past, Affluent and Poor Appendix A: Questionnaire for African-American Community Leaders Appendix B: Questionnaire for African-American Elected Officials Notes Bibliography Index

Black Power in the Suburbs
Valerie C. Johnson
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The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.The country's largest concentration of African American suburban affluence represents a unique laboratory to study the internal factors associated with African American political ascendancy and the convergence of race and class. Black Power in the Suburbs chronicles Prince George's County, Maryland, and the twenty-three year quest by African Americans to influence educational policy and become equal partners in the county's governing coalition. Johnson challenges conventional notions of a monolithic community by addressing the manner in which class cleavages among African Americans affect their representation and policy interests in suburbia. She also documents white resistance to power sharing and the impact of school desegregation on white population trends.List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. African-American Suburban Political Incorporation 2. Prince George's County: Politics and the African-American Migration 3. Social and Economic Characteristics of Prince George's County, Maryland 4. The Quest for African-American Political Representation in Prince George's County, Maryland 5. African-American Prince Georgians: Mobilization for Key Appointments 6. African-American Prince Georgians: Policy Influence in the Education Arena 7. The Myth or Reality of African-American Suburban Political Incorporation 8. A Tale of Two Counties—Present and Past, Affluent and Poor Appendix A: Questionnaire for African-American Community Leaders Appendix B: Questionnaire for African-American Elected Officials Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document When Play Was Play — When Play Was Play
Ronald Bishop
2h42min45
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A celebration of childhood pick-up games.A celebration of childhood pick-up games.When Play Was Play offers a fascinating look at the disappearing world of childhood pick-up games. Drawing on his own experiences as well as a wealth of interviews and surveys, Ronald Bishop tells why these loosely structured games mattered-camaraderie, opportunities to develop social skills, and independence from the world of adults. Bishop contrasts his and others' childhoods with the experiences of today's overscheduled and overcommitted youth who find much of their time taken up by organized sports and other highly supervised activities. When Play Was Play celebrates memories of a past era, when kids were free to explore their neighborhoods, had time to throw together an afternoon game of stickball, and spent much of their lives playing outside just for the sake of playing.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. LESS TIME SPENT SCHMOOZING 2. DOES ANYBODY PLAY ANYMORE? 3. THE CONSECRATED SPOTS 4. NO PURPOSE IN MIND 5. OUT OF NECESSITY 6. SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD 7. IT DIDN’T TAKE MUCH 8. LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE 9. THEY CALL IT "TENNOCKEY" Appendix References Index

When Play Was Play
Ronald Bishop
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A celebration of childhood pick-up games.A celebration of childhood pick-up games.When Play Was Play offers a fascinating look at the disappearing world of childhood pick-up games. Drawing on his own experiences as well as a wealth of interviews and surveys, Ronald Bishop tells why these loosely structured games mattered-camaraderie, opportunities to develop social skills, and independence from the world of adults. Bishop contrasts his and others' childhoods with the experiences of today's overscheduled and overcommitted youth who find much of their time taken up by organized sports and other highly supervised activities. When Play Was Play celebrates memories of a past era, when kids were free to explore their neighborhoods, had time to throw together an afternoon game of stickball, and spent much of their lives playing outside just for the sake of playing.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. LESS TIME SPENT SCHMOOZING 2. DOES ANYBODY PLAY ANYMORE? 3. THE CONSECRATED SPOTS 4. NO PURPOSE IN MIND 5. OUT OF NECESSITY 6. SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD 7. IT DIDN’T TAKE MUCH 8. LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE 9. THEY CALL IT "TENNOCKEY" Appendix References Index

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Affiche du document Toward a Credible Pacifism — Toward a Credible Pacifism
Dustin Ells Howes
3h30min45
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281 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h31min.
Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.Advocates of pacifism usually stake their position on the moral superiority of nonviolence and have generally been reluctant or unwilling to concede that violence can be an effective means of conducting politics. In this compelling new work, which draws its examples from both everyday experience and the history of Western political thought, author Dustin Ells Howes presents a challenging argument that violence can be an effective and even just form of power in politics. Contrary to its proponents, however, Howes argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of exercising power. Because of this there is almost always a more responsible alternative. He distinguishes between violent and nonviolent power and demonstrates how the latter can confront physical violence and counter its claims. This brand of pacifism gives up claims to moral superiority but recuperates a political ethic that encourages thoughtfulness about suffering and taking responsibility for our actions.PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: The Problem with Violence PART I. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE 1. The Fragility and Ability of Bodies 2. The Utility of Bodies PART II. INTERSUBJECTIVE VIOLENCE 3. The Problems of Recognition and Freedom 4. The Experience of Discordant Dispositions PART III. THE POSSIBILITIES OF POLITICS 5. Self-Sufficient Power 6. Equivalent Action 7. Demanding Thoughtfulness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Toward a Credible Pacifism
Dustin Ells Howes
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Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.Advocates of pacifism usually stake their position on the moral superiority of nonviolence and have generally been reluctant or unwilling to concede that violence can be an effective means of conducting politics. In this compelling new work, which draws its examples from both everyday experience and the history of Western political thought, author Dustin Ells Howes presents a challenging argument that violence can be an effective and even just form of power in politics. Contrary to its proponents, however, Howes argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of exercising power. Because of this there is almost always a more responsible alternative. He distinguishes between violent and nonviolent power and demonstrates how the latter can confront physical violence and counter its claims. This brand of pacifism gives up claims to moral superiority but recuperates a political ethic that encourages thoughtfulness about suffering and taking responsibility for our actions.PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: The Problem with Violence PART I. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE 1. The Fragility and Ability of Bodies 2. The Utility of Bodies PART II. INTERSUBJECTIVE VIOLENCE 3. The Problems of Recognition and Freedom 4. The Experience of Discordant Dispositions PART III. THE POSSIBILITIES OF POLITICS 5. Self-Sufficient Power 6. Equivalent Action 7. Demanding Thoughtfulness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century — The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century
John W. Frazier
4h50min15
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387 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h50min.
Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.Drawing on the work of social scientists from geographic, historical, sociological, and political science perspectives, this volume offers new perspectives on the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada. It has been approximately four centuries since the first Africans set foot in North America, and although it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African Diaspora experience. In addition to comparing and contrasting the experiences and geographic patterns of the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada, the book also explores important distinctions between the experiences of African Americans and those of more recent African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants.Acknowledgments SECTION 1: An Introduction 1. An Introduction to the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century N. F. Henry, J. T. Darden, and J. W. Frazier SECTION 2: Perspectives on the African Diaspora in Canada 2. The African Diaspora in Canada J. T. Darden and C. Teixeira 3. The African Diaspora in Montréal and Halifax: A Comparative Overview of "the Entangled Burdens of Race, Class, and Space" J. Mensah and D. Firang 4. The African Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Immigration and Employment Practices in Toronto J. T. Darden 5. Housing Experiences of New African Immigrants and Refugees in Toronto C. Teixeira 6 Race, Place, and Social Mobility of Jamaicans in Toronto T. A. Jones SECTION 3: Perspectives on the U.S. African Diaspora 7. A Perspective of the African Diaspora in the United States N. Blyden and F. A. Akiwumi Theme 1: Persistence of Inequalities 8. Austin: A City Divided E. Skop 9. The African Diaspora in a Changing Metropolitan Region: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia R. D. Bullard 10. Geographic Racial Equality in America’s Most Segregated Metropolitan Area—Detroit J. T. Darden 11. Place, Race and Displacement Following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans L. R. Rawlings 12. Black New York City Out-Migrants, 1995–2000: Opportunity and Destination Choice J. W. Frazier and M. E. Harvey Theme 2: Perspectives on Recent Black Immigrants 13. Deconstructing the Black Populations of New York City and Miami-Dade County T. D. Boswell and I. M. Sheskin 14. Jamaicans in Broward County, Florida J. W. Frazier 15. Africans in Washington, DC: Ethiopian Ethnic Institutions and Immigrant Adjustment E. Chacko 16. Somalis in Maine F. A. Akiwumi and L. E. Estaville 17. Liberians and African Americans: Settlement and Ethnic Separation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area E. P. Scott 18. Globalization and Ghanian Immigrant Trajectories to Cincinnati: Who Benefits? I. E. A. Yeboah 19. Ethnic Small-Business Relocations: A Case Study in the Bronx, NY, 2007 E. Ofori, J. W. Frazier, and E. L. Tettey-Fio SECTION 4: Summary and Conclusions 20. The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Themes and Concluding Perspectives J. T. Darden, N. F. Henry and J. W. Frazier Works Cite About the Authors

The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century
John W. Frazier
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Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.Drawing on the work of social scientists from geographic, historical, sociological, and political science perspectives, this volume offers new perspectives on the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada. It has been approximately four centuries since the first Africans set foot in North America, and although it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African Diaspora experience. In addition to comparing and contrasting the experiences and geographic patterns of the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada, the book also explores important distinctions between the experiences of African Americans and those of more recent African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants.Acknowledgments SECTION 1: An Introduction 1. An Introduction to the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century N. F. Henry, J. T. Darden, and J. W. Frazier SECTION 2: Perspectives on the African Diaspora in Canada 2. The African Diaspora in Canada J. T. Darden and C. Teixeira 3. The African Diaspora in Montréal and Halifax: A Comparative Overview of "the Entangled Burdens of Race, Class, and Space" J. Mensah and D. Firang 4. The African Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Immigration and Employment Practices in Toronto J. T. Darden 5. Housing Experiences of New African Immigrants and Refugees in Toronto C. Teixeira 6 Race, Place, and Social Mobility of Jamaicans in Toronto T. A. Jones SECTION 3: Perspectives on the U.S. African Diaspora 7. A Perspective of the African Diaspora in the United States N. Blyden and F. A. Akiwumi Theme 1: Persistence of Inequalities 8. Austin: A City Divided E. Skop 9. The African Diaspora in a Changing Metropolitan Region: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia R. D. Bullard 10. Geographic Racial Equality in America’s Most Segregated Metropolitan Area—Detroit J. T. Darden 11. Place, Race and Displacement Following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans L. R. Rawlings 12. Black New York City Out-Migrants, 1995–2000: Opportunity and Destination Choice J. W. Frazier and M. E. Harvey Theme 2: Perspectives on Recent Black Immigrants 13. Deconstructing the Black Populations of New York City and Miami-Dade County T. D. Boswell and I. M. Sheskin 14. Jamaicans in Broward County, Florida J. W. Frazier 15. Africans in Washington, DC: Ethiopian Ethnic Institutions and Immigrant Adjustment E. Chacko 16. Somalis in Maine F. A. Akiwumi and L. E. Estaville 17. Liberians and African Americans: Settlement and Ethnic Separation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area E. P. Scott 18. Globalization and Ghanian Immigrant Trajectories to Cincinnati: Who Benefits? I. E. A. Yeboah 19. Ethnic Small-Business Relocations: A Case Study in the Bronx, NY, 2007 E. Ofori, J. W. Frazier, and E. L. Tettey-Fio SECTION 4: Summary and Conclusions 20. The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Themes and Concluding Perspectives J. T. Darden, N. F. Henry and J. W. Frazier Works Cite About the Authors

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Affiche du document Cuban-American Literature and Art — Cuban-American Literature and Art
Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch - Editors
2h57min45
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Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups-hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts.Acknowledgments Introduction Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch Part One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the Hyphen Gustavo Pérez Firmat 2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Photographs Isabel Alvarez Borland 3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American Fiction Adriana Méndez Rodenas 4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban Diaspora Iraida H. López 5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major Fictions Jorge Febles 6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in Cuba William Luis 7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It Right Eliana Rivero Part Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual Arts Lynette M. F. Bosch 9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist Criticism Mark E. Denaci 10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of Exile Carol Damian 11. Cuban American Identity and Art Jorge J. E. Gracia 12. Cuban Art in the Diaspora Andrea O’Reilly Herrera About the Editors About the Contributors Index

Cuban-American Literature and Art
Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch - Editors
2h57min45
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Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups-hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts.Acknowledgments Introduction Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M. F. Bosch Part One•The Literature 1. The Spell of the Hyphen Gustavo Pérez Firmat 2. Figures of Identity: Ana Menéndez’s and Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Photographs Isabel Alvarez Borland 3. Engendering the Nation: The Mother/Daughter Plot in Cuban American Fiction Adriana Méndez Rodenas 4. Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays of Women from the Cuban Diaspora Iraida H. López 5. Am I your worst nightmare? Reading Roberto G. Fernández’s Major Fictions Jorge Febles 6. Exile, Memories, and Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s Next Year in Cuba William Luis 7. Writing in Cuban, Living as Other: Cuban American Women Writers Getting It Right Eliana Rivero Part Two•The Art 8. From the Vanguardia to the United States: Cuban and Cuban American Identity in the Visual Arts Lynette M. F. Bosch 9. Challenging Orthodoxies: Cuban American Art and Postmodernist Criticism Mark E. Denaci 10. Cuban Artists and the Irony of Exile Carol Damian 11. Cuban American Identity and Art Jorge J. E. Gracia 12. Cuban Art in the Diaspora Andrea O’Reilly Herrera About the Editors About the Contributors Index

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Affiche du document City Comp — City Comp
3h15min45
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261 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h16min.
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions.The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.Foreword Linda Flower Introduction Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing Krista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing Paula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community Susan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility Van E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies Jeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies Richard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University David A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University" Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education Barbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership Ann M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights Era Patrick Bruch List of Contributors Index

City Comp
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An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions.The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.Foreword Linda Flower Introduction Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing Krista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing Paula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community Susan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility Van E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies Jeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies Richard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University David A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University" Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education Barbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership Ann M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights Era Patrick Bruch List of Contributors Index

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Affiche du document The Church of Solitude — The Church of Solitude
Grazia Deledda
2h18min00
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A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.No table of contents available for this publication.

The Church of Solitude
Grazia Deledda
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A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.No table of contents available for this publication.

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Affiche du document Trauma and the Teaching of Writing — Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Shane Borrowman
3h07min30
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Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Introduction Shane Borrowman The World Wide Agora: Negotiating Citizenship and Ownership of Response Online Darin Payne Presence in Absence: Discourses and Teaching (In, On, and About) Trauma Peter N. Goggin and Maureen Daly Goggin Here and Now: Remediating National Tragedy and the Purposes for Teaching Writing Richard Marback Teaching in the Wake of National Tragedy Patricia Murphy, Ryan Muckerheide, and Duane Roen Teaching Writing in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor and 9/11: How to "Make Meaning" and "Heal" Despite National Propaganda Daphne Desser Consumerism and the Coopting of National Trauma Theresa Enos, Joseph Jones, Lonni Pearce, and Kenneth R. Vorndran Discovering the Erased Feminism of the Civil Rights Movement: Beyond the Media, Male Leaders, and the 1960s Assassinations Keith D. Miller and Kathleen Weinkauf Writing Textbooks in/for Times of Trauma Lynn Z. Bloom Loss and Letter Writing Wendy Bishop and Amy L. Hodges How Little We Knew: Spring 1970 at the University of Washington Dana C. Elder "This rhetoric paper almost killed me!": Reflections on My Experiences in Greece During the Revolution of 1974 Richard Leo Enos Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, an Academic? Shane Borrowman and Edward M. White "We have common cause against the night": Voices from the WPA-1, September 11–12, 2001 Contributors Index

Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Shane Borrowman
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Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.Introduction Shane Borrowman The World Wide Agora: Negotiating Citizenship and Ownership of Response Online Darin Payne Presence in Absence: Discourses and Teaching (In, On, and About) Trauma Peter N. Goggin and Maureen Daly Goggin Here and Now: Remediating National Tragedy and the Purposes for Teaching Writing Richard Marback Teaching in the Wake of National Tragedy Patricia Murphy, Ryan Muckerheide, and Duane Roen Teaching Writing in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor and 9/11: How to "Make Meaning" and "Heal" Despite National Propaganda Daphne Desser Consumerism and the Coopting of National Trauma Theresa Enos, Joseph Jones, Lonni Pearce, and Kenneth R. Vorndran Discovering the Erased Feminism of the Civil Rights Movement: Beyond the Media, Male Leaders, and the 1960s Assassinations Keith D. Miller and Kathleen Weinkauf Writing Textbooks in/for Times of Trauma Lynn Z. Bloom Loss and Letter Writing Wendy Bishop and Amy L. Hodges How Little We Knew: Spring 1970 at the University of Washington Dana C. Elder "This rhetoric paper almost killed me!": Reflections on My Experiences in Greece During the Revolution of 1974 Richard Leo Enos Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, an Academic? Shane Borrowman and Edward M. White "We have common cause against the night": Voices from the WPA-1, September 11–12, 2001 Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies — Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies
Tatjana Pavlovic
2h06min00
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Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition. Beginning with an analysis of the period of autarky-Spain's economic, cultural, and ideological isolation under Francisco Franco's regime- Pavlović then explores the tumultuous passage to capitalism in the late 1950s and 1960s. She follows this by revisiting the complex political situation following Franco's death and points out the difficulties in Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Combining a strong theoretical background with a detailed study of marginalized texts (La fiel infantería), genres (the Spanish comedy known as the comedia sexy celtibérica), and film directors (Jesús Franco), Pavlović reveals the construction of Spanish national identity through years of cultural tensions.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. THE DESPOTIC BODY: Raza: Espíritu de Franco (1939–1952) 2. THE TRAUMATIZED BODY: Tormenta de verano (1952–1962) 3. THE AUTHORITARIAN BODY IN AGONY: El extraño viaje (1962–1975) 4. THE PERVERSE BODY: Fuego en las entrañas (1975–1985) Epilogue TRANSGRESSIVE BODIES OF THE OTHER FRANCO Notes Bibliography Index

Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies
Tatjana Pavlovic
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Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition. Beginning with an analysis of the period of autarky-Spain's economic, cultural, and ideological isolation under Francisco Franco's regime- Pavlović then explores the tumultuous passage to capitalism in the late 1950s and 1960s. She follows this by revisiting the complex political situation following Franco's death and points out the difficulties in Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Combining a strong theoretical background with a detailed study of marginalized texts (La fiel infantería), genres (the Spanish comedy known as the comedia sexy celtibérica), and film directors (Jesús Franco), Pavlović reveals the construction of Spanish national identity through years of cultural tensions.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. THE DESPOTIC BODY: Raza: Espíritu de Franco (1939–1952) 2. THE TRAUMATIZED BODY: Tormenta de verano (1952–1962) 3. THE AUTHORITARIAN BODY IN AGONY: El extraño viaje (1962–1975) 4. THE PERVERSE BODY: Fuego en las entrañas (1975–1985) Epilogue TRANSGRESSIVE BODIES OF THE OTHER FRANCO Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document The Science of Knowing — The Science of Knowing
J. G. Fichte
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Philosophie
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The first English translation of Fichte's second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.The first English translation of Fichte's second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.Considered by some to be his most important text, this series of lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) at his home in Berlin in 1804 is widely regarded as the most perspicuous presentation of his fundamental philosophy. Now available in English, this translation provides in striking and original language Fichte's exploration of the transcendental foundations of experience and knowing in ways that go beyond Kant and Reinhold and charts a promising, novel pathway for German Idealism. Through a close examination of this work one can see that Fichte's thought is much more than a way station between Kant and Hegel, thus making the case for Fichte's independent philosophical importance.The text is divided into two parts: a doctrine of truth or reason, and a doctrine of appearance. A central feature of the text is its performative dimension. Philosophy, for Fichte, is something we enact rather than any discursively expressible object of awareness; a philosophical truth is not expressible as a set of propositions but is a spontaneous inwardly occurring realization. Therefore, he always regards the expression of philosophy in words as strategic, aiming to ignite philosophy's essentially inward process and to arouse the event of philosophical insight.The new translation contains a German-English glossary and an extensive introduction and notes by the translator.Acknowledgments Introduction The Lectures Appendix Notes Glossary Index

The Science of Knowing
J. G. Fichte
3h23min15
Philosophie
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The first English translation of Fichte's second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.The first English translation of Fichte's second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.Considered by some to be his most important text, this series of lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) at his home in Berlin in 1804 is widely regarded as the most perspicuous presentation of his fundamental philosophy. Now available in English, this translation provides in striking and original language Fichte's exploration of the transcendental foundations of experience and knowing in ways that go beyond Kant and Reinhold and charts a promising, novel pathway for German Idealism. Through a close examination of this work one can see that Fichte's thought is much more than a way station between Kant and Hegel, thus making the case for Fichte's independent philosophical importance.The text is divided into two parts: a doctrine of truth or reason, and a doctrine of appearance. A central feature of the text is its performative dimension. Philosophy, for Fichte, is something we enact rather than any discursively expressible object of awareness; a philosophical truth is not expressible as a set of propositions but is a spontaneous inwardly occurring realization. Therefore, he always regards the expression of philosophy in words as strategic, aiming to ignite philosophy's essentially inward process and to arouse the event of philosophical insight.The new translation contains a German-English glossary and an extensive introduction and notes by the translator.Acknowledgments Introduction The Lectures Appendix Notes Glossary Index

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Affiche du document College Life through the Eyes of Students — College Life through the Eyes of Students
Mary Grigsby
3h09min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.The struggles and achievements of today's college students are thrown into stark relief in this fascinating account of how such students make meaning of their lives. Author Mary Grigsby uses the voices of students themselves to discuss how they view, adjust to, and participate in the college student culture of a large midwestern university and to explore what they think of their educational experiences. Topics include a look at a typical day on campus, student subcultures and the lifestyles they engender, whether college life conforms to the images and scenarios of popular culture, and student approaches to making it through college. Going to college has become the major coming-of-age experience for many people in the United States, and Mary Grigsby has provided a compelling, readable, and up-to-date account of this formative period.Acknowledgments 1. Introduction College Life through the Eyes of Students 2. Parent Politics The Intersections of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in Student and Parent Relationships 3. Generalized College Student Culture 4. Using the Cultural Tool Kit College Student Cultural Orientations 5. Blueprints of Individualism and Life Trajectories in Late Modernity Appendices Notes References Index

College Life through the Eyes of Students
Mary Grigsby
3h09min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.The struggles and achievements of today's college students are thrown into stark relief in this fascinating account of how such students make meaning of their lives. Author Mary Grigsby uses the voices of students themselves to discuss how they view, adjust to, and participate in the college student culture of a large midwestern university and to explore what they think of their educational experiences. Topics include a look at a typical day on campus, student subcultures and the lifestyles they engender, whether college life conforms to the images and scenarios of popular culture, and student approaches to making it through college. Going to college has become the major coming-of-age experience for many people in the United States, and Mary Grigsby has provided a compelling, readable, and up-to-date account of this formative period.Acknowledgments 1. Introduction College Life through the Eyes of Students 2. Parent Politics The Intersections of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in Student and Parent Relationships 3. Generalized College Student Culture 4. Using the Cultural Tool Kit College Student Cultural Orientations 5. Blueprints of Individualism and Life Trajectories in Late Modernity Appendices Notes References Index

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Affiche du document Victorian Fetishism — Victorian Fetishism
Peter Melville Logan
2h45min45
Histoire
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Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world-thunderstorms, trees, stones-is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Primitive Fetishism from Antiquity to 1860 2. Matthew Arnold’s Culture 3. George Eliot’s Realism 4. Edward Tylor’s Science 5. Sexology’s Perversion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Victorian Fetishism
Peter Melville Logan
2h45min45
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Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world-thunderstorms, trees, stones-is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Primitive Fetishism from Antiquity to 1860 2. Matthew Arnold’s Culture 3. George Eliot’s Realism 4. Edward Tylor’s Science 5. Sexology’s Perversion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems — Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Paul C. Rosenblatt
2h30min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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201 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h31min.
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.The modern family is inundated with information and no family can attend to it all; families must set priorities and remain oblivious to much. Obliviousness is the intriguing subject of Paul C. Rosenblatt's speculative and theoretical work. The hidden undersides of what families are aware of, know, and talk about are vast and complex, maintained at times with great effort, linked to important matters in the family and in society, necessary for family functioning but also, at times, a source of great difficulty. How are areas of obliviousness built up and maintained? How does a family overcome obliviousness that creates difficulty? Drawing on work in family systems, family therapy, whiteness and privilege, and social construction, among other research, this book is enlightening for all who work with, study, and care about the family.Preface Acknowledgments 1. Shared Obliviousness as a Family Systems Phenomenon 2. Family System Mechanisms for Maintaining Shared Obliviousness 3. Family Obliviousness to Context 4. Obliviousness to Matters within the Family 5. Shared Obliviousness and Family Decisions 6. Family System Responses to Threats to Obliviousness 7. Obliviousness and Family Therapy 8. Researching Shared Family Obliviousness 9. Shared Obliviousness Th at Is Not Quite Shared or Oblivious 10. The Future of Shared Family Obliviousness References Index

Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Paul C. Rosenblatt
2h30min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.The modern family is inundated with information and no family can attend to it all; families must set priorities and remain oblivious to much. Obliviousness is the intriguing subject of Paul C. Rosenblatt's speculative and theoretical work. The hidden undersides of what families are aware of, know, and talk about are vast and complex, maintained at times with great effort, linked to important matters in the family and in society, necessary for family functioning but also, at times, a source of great difficulty. How are areas of obliviousness built up and maintained? How does a family overcome obliviousness that creates difficulty? Drawing on work in family systems, family therapy, whiteness and privilege, and social construction, among other research, this book is enlightening for all who work with, study, and care about the family.Preface Acknowledgments 1. Shared Obliviousness as a Family Systems Phenomenon 2. Family System Mechanisms for Maintaining Shared Obliviousness 3. Family Obliviousness to Context 4. Obliviousness to Matters within the Family 5. Shared Obliviousness and Family Decisions 6. Family System Responses to Threats to Obliviousness 7. Obliviousness and Family Therapy 8. Researching Shared Family Obliviousness 9. Shared Obliviousness Th at Is Not Quite Shared or Oblivious 10. The Future of Shared Family Obliviousness References Index

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Affiche du document Now Playing — Now Playing
Paul S. Moore
3h16min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.Winner of the 2009 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize presented by the Canadian Communication Association Using Toronto as a case study, and focusing on a period from the opening of the first theaters showcasing moving pictures in 1906 to the end of World War I, Now Playing locates the origins of our present-day mass audience in the culture of cities. Paul S. Moore examines the emergence of everyday moviegoing and its regulation through neglected details like fire safety, newspaper ads, serial films, and amusement taxes, connecting them to more familiar themes of studio ownership of theaters, censorship, and journalism. In Toronto-a foreign city inside the American mass market-patriotism ultimately comes to the fore as civic forms of showmanship turn the simple act of "going to the movies" into a form of citizenship.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun 1. Rendezvous for Particular People: The Local Roots of Mass Culture 2. Socially Combustible: Panicky People and Flammable Films 3. Showmanship in Formation: Incorporating the Civic Work of Competition 4. Senseless Censors and Startling Deeds: From Police Beat to Bureaucracy 5. Everybody's Going: Introducing the Mass Audience to Itself Conclusion: Wartime Filmgoing as Citizenship Works Cited Index

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Paul S. Moore
3h16min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.Winner of the 2009 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize presented by the Canadian Communication Association Using Toronto as a case study, and focusing on a period from the opening of the first theaters showcasing moving pictures in 1906 to the end of World War I, Now Playing locates the origins of our present-day mass audience in the culture of cities. Paul S. Moore examines the emergence of everyday moviegoing and its regulation through neglected details like fire safety, newspaper ads, serial films, and amusement taxes, connecting them to more familiar themes of studio ownership of theaters, censorship, and journalism. In Toronto-a foreign city inside the American mass market-patriotism ultimately comes to the fore as civic forms of showmanship turn the simple act of "going to the movies" into a form of citizenship.List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun 1. Rendezvous for Particular People: The Local Roots of Mass Culture 2. Socially Combustible: Panicky People and Flammable Films 3. Showmanship in Formation: Incorporating the Civic Work of Competition 4. Senseless Censors and Startling Deeds: From Police Beat to Bureaucracy 5. Everybody's Going: Introducing the Mass Audience to Itself Conclusion: Wartime Filmgoing as Citizenship Works Cited Index

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Affiche du document Practical Government Budgeting — Practical Government Budgeting
Susan L. Riley
1h59min15
Politique
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This book provides descriptions, instructions, and exercises to help readers master government budgeting as it is actually practiced. University courses and training programs serving present and future state and local officials and staff will learn how to do public budgeting in this relevant, practical, and useful workbook. Each chapter presents techniques followed by step-by-step instructions complete with examples to help students learn the material. Self-test exercises conclude each chapter.Exhibits Preface Acknowledgments 1 How to Read a Government Budget Why You Need to Understand Your Government Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives Reading and Understanding the Budget Three types of budgets Three types of funds Elements of a budget document Exercise: Reading the Annual Budget Document Notes 2 Coping With the Budget Process Preparing the Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Budget Process The phases of the budget cycle The formal system Agency needs: Building budgets rationally External impacts on agency budgets Exercise: Mastering the Budget Process Step one: Homework Step two: Role Play Step three: Assessments Options Notes 3 Budgeting for Personal Services Preparing an Agency Personnel Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives Preparing a Budget for Personal Services Importance of personal services Description of position types Pay plans Steps in developing a personal services budget Exercise: Budgeting for Personnel Notes 4 Budgeting for Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay Budgeting Non-Personnel Expenses How this chapter will be useful Objectives Budgeting for Expenses and Equipment Budgeting for operating expenses The incremental method Analytic approaches Unit cost calculations Predetermined charges: internal service funds Standard costs Capital outlay Some special considerations Exercise: Budgeting Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay Notes 5 Defending Budget Proposals Defending Your Agency Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Justification and Analysis of Agency Budgets Strategies versus justification Mandatory, base, and discretionary expenditures Three perspectives of an agency's budget review The central budget office's review The chief executives review The legislature's review Exercise: Defending and Reviewing Budget Requests Notes 6 Preparing Revenue Estimates Revenue Estimation How this chapter will be useful Objectives Estimating Revenues by Funds and Categories Description of funds and major revenue categories Classification of funds Major categories of revenue Revenue estimating considerations Revenue estimation models Procedures for estimating revenues Conclusion Exercise: Revenue Estimations Notes 7 Understanding the Property Tax Working with the Property Tax How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Property Tax Step One—Assessment Step Two—Exemptions and other reductions Step Three—Calculations Step Four—Collection Three perspectives on the property tax Exercise: Property Tax Calculations and Communications 8 The Capital Budget Process Capital Budgets How this chapter will be useful Objectives Preparing Capital Budgets Components of the capital budget Advantages and disadvantages Developing a capital budget Conclusion Exercise: Capital Spending Notes 9 How to Spend Your Budget Wisely Budget Execution How this chapter will be useful Objectives Plans, Management and Control in Budget Execution The stages of budget execution Spending money Expenditure controls Purchasing Cash management Accounting and auditing Exercise: Budget Execution Notes 10 Multi-Year Budgets The Case for a Multi-Year Budget Perspective How this chapter will be useful Objectives Multi-Year Forecasting and Planning The benefits of looking ahead Financial forecasts and gap analysis Impact analysis of budgetary decisions Multi-year planning for cyclical expenditures The politics of multi-year forecasts Conclusion Exercise: Multi-Year Forecasts Notes

Practical Government Budgeting
Susan L. Riley
1h59min15
Politique
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159 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h59min.
This book provides descriptions, instructions, and exercises to help readers master government budgeting as it is actually practiced. University courses and training programs serving present and future state and local officials and staff will learn how to do public budgeting in this relevant, practical, and useful workbook. Each chapter presents techniques followed by step-by-step instructions complete with examples to help students learn the material. Self-test exercises conclude each chapter.Exhibits Preface Acknowledgments 1 How to Read a Government Budget Why You Need to Understand Your Government Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives Reading and Understanding the Budget Three types of budgets Three types of funds Elements of a budget document Exercise: Reading the Annual Budget Document Notes 2 Coping With the Budget Process Preparing the Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Budget Process The phases of the budget cycle The formal system Agency needs: Building budgets rationally External impacts on agency budgets Exercise: Mastering the Budget Process Step one: Homework Step two: Role Play Step three: Assessments Options Notes 3 Budgeting for Personal Services Preparing an Agency Personnel Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives Preparing a Budget for Personal Services Importance of personal services Description of position types Pay plans Steps in developing a personal services budget Exercise: Budgeting for Personnel Notes 4 Budgeting for Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay Budgeting Non-Personnel Expenses How this chapter will be useful Objectives Budgeting for Expenses and Equipment Budgeting for operating expenses The incremental method Analytic approaches Unit cost calculations Predetermined charges: internal service funds Standard costs Capital outlay Some special considerations Exercise: Budgeting Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay Notes 5 Defending Budget Proposals Defending Your Agency Budget How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Justification and Analysis of Agency Budgets Strategies versus justification Mandatory, base, and discretionary expenditures Three perspectives of an agency's budget review The central budget office's review The chief executives review The legislature's review Exercise: Defending and Reviewing Budget Requests Notes 6 Preparing Revenue Estimates Revenue Estimation How this chapter will be useful Objectives Estimating Revenues by Funds and Categories Description of funds and major revenue categories Classification of funds Major categories of revenue Revenue estimating considerations Revenue estimation models Procedures for estimating revenues Conclusion Exercise: Revenue Estimations Notes 7 Understanding the Property Tax Working with the Property Tax How this chapter will be useful Objectives The Property Tax Step One—Assessment Step Two—Exemptions and other reductions Step Three—Calculations Step Four—Collection Three perspectives on the property tax Exercise: Property Tax Calculations and Communications 8 The Capital Budget Process Capital Budgets How this chapter will be useful Objectives Preparing Capital Budgets Components of the capital budget Advantages and disadvantages Developing a capital budget Conclusion Exercise: Capital Spending Notes 9 How to Spend Your Budget Wisely Budget Execution How this chapter will be useful Objectives Plans, Management and Control in Budget Execution The stages of budget execution Spending money Expenditure controls Purchasing Cash management Accounting and auditing Exercise: Budget Execution Notes 10 Multi-Year Budgets The Case for a Multi-Year Budget Perspective How this chapter will be useful Objectives Multi-Year Forecasting and Planning The benefits of looking ahead Financial forecasts and gap analysis Impact analysis of budgetary decisions Multi-year planning for cyclical expenditures The politics of multi-year forecasts Conclusion Exercise: Multi-Year Forecasts Notes

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Affiche du document Reading Borges after Benjamin — Reading Borges after Benjamin
Kate Jenckes
2h21min00
Philosophie
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188 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h21min.
Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon-including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays-Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations 1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems Family Trees A Journey of No Return Borges and His (Own) Precursors Sepulchral Rhetoric Life Possessions Melancholic Fervor The Orillas Acts of Life 2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject The Fallible God of the "I" Life and Death The Other American Poet The Paradoxes of Biography Carriego Is (Not) Carriego Violence, Life, and Law "Generous" Duels 3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia Universal de la Infamia "National" Allegory Ideology Two Moments of Allegory Infamy Magical Endings Et Cetera 4. Reading History’s Secrets in Benjamin and Borges Historical Idealism and the Materiality of Writing The Conquests of Time History’s Secrets Possession or the "Weak Force" of Redemption Refuting Time Ego Sum Terrible Infinity Recurrent Imminence Reading, Writing, Mourning History Notes Works Cited Index

Reading Borges after Benjamin
Kate Jenckes
2h21min00
Philosophie
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Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon-including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays-Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations 1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems Family Trees A Journey of No Return Borges and His (Own) Precursors Sepulchral Rhetoric Life Possessions Melancholic Fervor The Orillas Acts of Life 2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject The Fallible God of the "I" Life and Death The Other American Poet The Paradoxes of Biography Carriego Is (Not) Carriego Violence, Life, and Law "Generous" Duels 3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia Universal de la Infamia "National" Allegory Ideology Two Moments of Allegory Infamy Magical Endings Et Cetera 4. Reading History’s Secrets in Benjamin and Borges Historical Idealism and the Materiality of Writing The Conquests of Time History’s Secrets Possession or the "Weak Force" of Redemption Refuting Time Ego Sum Terrible Infinity Recurrent Imminence Reading, Writing, Mourning History Notes Works Cited Index

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Affiche du document Experience as Art — Experience as Art
Joseph H. Kupfer
2h54min00
Philosophie
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Joseph Kupfer removes aesthetics from the exclusive province of museums, concert halls, and the periphery of human interests to reveal the impact of aesthetic experience on daily living. He combines philosophical aesthetics and critical analysis to indicate the status of aesthetic values in ordinary life, showing how aesthetic qualities and relations contribute to social, moral, and personal values. In examining the practical implications of aesthetic values for sports, sexual relationships, violence, and education, Kupfer also looks at the effect of aesthetic deprivation.

Experience as Art
Joseph H. Kupfer
2h54min00
Philosophie
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Joseph Kupfer removes aesthetics from the exclusive province of museums, concert halls, and the periphery of human interests to reveal the impact of aesthetic experience on daily living. He combines philosophical aesthetics and critical analysis to indicate the status of aesthetic values in ordinary life, showing how aesthetic qualities and relations contribute to social, moral, and personal values. In examining the practical implications of aesthetic values for sports, sexual relationships, violence, and education, Kupfer also looks at the effect of aesthetic deprivation.

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Affiche du document The Incarnality of Being — The Incarnality of Being
Frank Schalow
2h48min00
Philosophie
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224 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h48min.
A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.The Incarnality of Being addresses Martin Heidegger's tendency to neglect the problem of the body, an omission that is further reflected in the field of Heidegger scholarship. By addressing the corporeal dimension of human existence, author Frank Schalow uncovers Heidegger's concern for the materiality of the world. This allows for the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought to emerge, specifically, the kinship between humans and animals and the mutual interest each has for preserving the environment and the earth. By advancing the theme of the "incarnality of being," Schalow brings Heidegger's thinking to bear on various provocative questions concerning contemporary philosophy: sexuality, the intersection of human and animal life, the precarious future of the earth we inhabit, and the significance that reclaiming our embodiment has upon ethics and politics.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Materiality of the World Work, Exchange, and Technology Problems Arising from Having a Body–Addiction 2. The Erotic, Sexuality, and Diversity Sexual Differentiation Sexuality and the Other Eros, Imagination, and the Pornographic 3. Ethos, Embodiment, and Future Generations The Incarnatedness of Ethical Action The Ones to Come 4. Of Earth and Animals Of Habitat and Dwelling Who Speaks for the Animals? 5. The Body Politic: Terrestrial or Social? The Polyvalency of Freedom The Political Body 6. The Return to the Earth and the Idiom of the Body Revisiting the Turning Technology and the Illusion of Controlling the Earth and the Body Revisiting the Self Notes Index

The Incarnality of Being
Frank Schalow
2h48min00
Philosophie
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A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.The Incarnality of Being addresses Martin Heidegger's tendency to neglect the problem of the body, an omission that is further reflected in the field of Heidegger scholarship. By addressing the corporeal dimension of human existence, author Frank Schalow uncovers Heidegger's concern for the materiality of the world. This allows for the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought to emerge, specifically, the kinship between humans and animals and the mutual interest each has for preserving the environment and the earth. By advancing the theme of the "incarnality of being," Schalow brings Heidegger's thinking to bear on various provocative questions concerning contemporary philosophy: sexuality, the intersection of human and animal life, the precarious future of the earth we inhabit, and the significance that reclaiming our embodiment has upon ethics and politics.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Materiality of the World Work, Exchange, and Technology Problems Arising from Having a Body–Addiction 2. The Erotic, Sexuality, and Diversity Sexual Differentiation Sexuality and the Other Eros, Imagination, and the Pornographic 3. Ethos, Embodiment, and Future Generations The Incarnatedness of Ethical Action The Ones to Come 4. Of Earth and Animals Of Habitat and Dwelling Who Speaks for the Animals? 5. The Body Politic: Terrestrial or Social? The Polyvalency of Freedom The Political Body 6. The Return to the Earth and the Idiom of the Body Revisiting the Turning Technology and the Illusion of Controlling the Earth and the Body Revisiting the Self Notes Index

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Affiche du document The Politics of Interpretation — The Politics of Interpretation
Jerold C. Frakes
3h47min15
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This study examines the critical ideologies that have shaped the perception, reception, and projection of Old Yiddish during the course of the past century. The first critical, historical survey of the history of scholarship in the field, it confronts the assumptions underlying the research-assumptions of cultural identity and the value of the literature of that culture. It documents the pervasive denial that Yiddish is a language and that Yiddish literature is intrinsically valuable, or the assertion that this literature is German and a product of German culture.Preface 1. Alterity, Ideologies, and Old Yiddish 2. The Names of Old Yiddish 3. Alterity, Accessibility, Audience, Alphabet: On Editing Old Yiddish Texts 4. The New Paradigm(s) Appendix: Notes on Transliteration/Transcription Systems Notes Bibliography Author-Title Index General Index Scholar Index

The Politics of Interpretation
Jerold C. Frakes
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This study examines the critical ideologies that have shaped the perception, reception, and projection of Old Yiddish during the course of the past century. The first critical, historical survey of the history of scholarship in the field, it confronts the assumptions underlying the research-assumptions of cultural identity and the value of the literature of that culture. It documents the pervasive denial that Yiddish is a language and that Yiddish literature is intrinsically valuable, or the assertion that this literature is German and a product of German culture.Preface 1. Alterity, Ideologies, and Old Yiddish 2. The Names of Old Yiddish 3. Alterity, Accessibility, Audience, Alphabet: On Editing Old Yiddish Texts 4. The New Paradigm(s) Appendix: Notes on Transliteration/Transcription Systems Notes Bibliography Author-Title Index General Index Scholar Index

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Affiche du document The Cost of Being Poor — The Cost of Being Poor
Sandra L. Barnes
3h38min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban studies research. The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examining both the noneconomic and the often-overlooked economic costs faced by residents of poor urban neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana. Using census, regional, and local data, and in-depth interviews with the residents of Gary, Sandra L. Barnes argues that many people incur costs resulting from the dual dilemma of being poor and residing in a poor urban area. She explores how factors such as race/ethnicity, neighborhood type, and location influence residents' views, coping strategies, and unconventional approaches toward making ends meet. Well written and accessible, this study of Gary's poor urban neighborhoods offers broad findings that apply to other similarly impoverished Rust Belt cities.List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Structure vs. Agency and the Poor Urban Experience 1. The Economics of the Poor Urban Experience 2. Space Usage and Cost Differentials in Gary, Indiana: Counting the Costs 3. Differential Goods and Services to Feed a Family: Who Pays the Costs? 4. Differential Goods and Services to Clothe a Family: Who Pays the Costs? 5. A Tale of Three Families: Impracticality Costs 6. Sociopsychological Implications of Exposure to Poverty-related Constraints: Coping with the Costs Conclusion: A Thesis on the Poor Urban Experience: Validating Experiences Appendix Notes References Index

The Cost of Being Poor
Sandra L. Barnes
3h38min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban studies research. The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examining both the noneconomic and the often-overlooked economic costs faced by residents of poor urban neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana. Using census, regional, and local data, and in-depth interviews with the residents of Gary, Sandra L. Barnes argues that many people incur costs resulting from the dual dilemma of being poor and residing in a poor urban area. She explores how factors such as race/ethnicity, neighborhood type, and location influence residents' views, coping strategies, and unconventional approaches toward making ends meet. Well written and accessible, this study of Gary's poor urban neighborhoods offers broad findings that apply to other similarly impoverished Rust Belt cities.List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Structure vs. Agency and the Poor Urban Experience 1. The Economics of the Poor Urban Experience 2. Space Usage and Cost Differentials in Gary, Indiana: Counting the Costs 3. Differential Goods and Services to Feed a Family: Who Pays the Costs? 4. Differential Goods and Services to Clothe a Family: Who Pays the Costs? 5. A Tale of Three Families: Impracticality Costs 6. Sociopsychological Implications of Exposure to Poverty-related Constraints: Coping with the Costs Conclusion: A Thesis on the Poor Urban Experience: Validating Experiences Appendix Notes References Index

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Affiche du document Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform — Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform
Suzanne J. Piotrowski
1h54min00
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152 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h54min.
How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.The consequences of governmental reform are not always intended. In this book, Suzanne J. Piotrowski examines how federal management reforms associated with the National Performance Review have affected, and are still affecting, implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. The intersection of the New Public Management movement and the implementation of the U.S. federal government's transparency policy is, she argues, a clear example of unforeseen outcomes. Particular attention is paid to performance management, customer service, and contracting out initiatives, as well as to unintended consequences and their future implications for public administration scholars, practitioners, and reformers.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant 2. Two Governmental Narratives Juxtaposed 3. The Impact of Performance Management 4. The Impact of Customer Service and Employee Empowerment 5. The Impact of Contracting 6. Analysis Appendix Research Design Notes Works Cited Index

Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform
Suzanne J. Piotrowski
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How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.The consequences of governmental reform are not always intended. In this book, Suzanne J. Piotrowski examines how federal management reforms associated with the National Performance Review have affected, and are still affecting, implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. The intersection of the New Public Management movement and the implementation of the U.S. federal government's transparency policy is, she argues, a clear example of unforeseen outcomes. Particular attention is paid to performance management, customer service, and contracting out initiatives, as well as to unintended consequences and their future implications for public administration scholars, practitioners, and reformers.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant 2. Two Governmental Narratives Juxtaposed 3. The Impact of Performance Management 4. The Impact of Customer Service and Employee Empowerment 5. The Impact of Contracting 6. Analysis Appendix Research Design Notes Works Cited Index

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Affiche du document The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 5 — The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 5
C. E. Bosworth
6h13min30
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This volume of al-Tabari's History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history.This volume of al-Tabari's History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history.This volume of al-Ṭabarī's History has a particularly wide sweep and interest. It provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sāsānids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history. It also gives information on the history of pre-Islamic Arabs of the Mesopotamian desert fringes and eastern Arabia (in al-Hira and the Ghassanid kingdom), and on the quite separate civilization of South Arabia, the Yemen, otherwise known mainly by inscriptions. It furnishes details of the centuries'-long warfare of the two great empires of Western Asia, the Sāsānids and the Byzantine Greeks, a titanic struggle which paved the way for the subsequent rise of the new faith of Islam. The volume is thus of great value for scholars, from Byzantinists to Semitists and Iranists. It provides the first English translation of this key section of al-Ṭabarī's work, one for which non-Arabists have hitherto relied on a partial German translation, meritorious for its time but now 120 years old. This new translation is enriched by a detailed commentary which takes into account up-to-date scholarship.Preface Abbreviations Translator's Foreword Tables 1. The Sasanid Emperors 2. The Roman and Byzantine Emperors, from Constantine the Great to Heraclius 3. The Lakhmid Rulers 4. The Chiefs of Kindah 5. Rulers in South Arabia during the Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries Maps 1. The Sasanid Empire 2. The Roman-Byzantine and Persian Frontierlands 3. The Northeastern Frontier of the Sasanids 4. The Arabian Peninsula: the lands of the Lakhmids, Kindah, etc. 5. Southwestern Arabia [The Kings of the Persians] [Ardashir I] [The History of al-Hirah] Mention of the Holders of Power in the Kingdom of Persia after Ardashir b. Babak [Sabur I, called Sabur al-Junud] [Hurmuz I] [Bahram I] [The History of al-Hirah] [Bahram II] [Bahram III] [Narsi] [Hurmuz II] [Sabur II Dhu al-Aktaf] [The History of al-Hirah] [Ardashir II] [Sabur III] [Bahram IV] [Yazdajird I] [The History of al-Hirah] [Bahram V Jur] [Yazdajird II] [Fayrus I] Mention of Events in the Reigns of Yazdajird (II), Son of Bahram (V), and Fayrus, and the Relations of Their Respective Governors with the Arabs and the People of Yemen [Balash] [Qubadh I] Mention of What Has Been Recorded Concerning the Events Taking Place Among the Arabs in Qubadh's Reign in His Kingdom and Involving His Governors [Kisra I Anusharwan] [The History of al-Hirah] [The History of Yemen] Mention of the Rest of the Story of Tubba` in the Days of Qubadh and the time of Anusharwan and the Persians' Dispatch of an Army to Yemen in Order to Combat the Abyssinians, and the Reason This Last [Resumption of the History of Kisra Anusharwan] Mention of the Birth of the Messenger of God [The Remainder of Kisra Anusharwan's Reign and the Last Sasanid Kings] [Hurmuz] [Kisra II Abarwiz] Mention of Those Who Say That (i.e., those who say that the words of Surat al-Rum refer to Abarwiz's defeat of Hiraql) Mention of the Account Concerning the Events That Happened when God Wished to Take Away from the people of Persia Rule over Persia, and the Arabs' Overrunning It by Means of God's Favoring Them with His Prophet Muhammad, Involving the Prophethood, the Caliphate, the Royal Power, and the Dominion, in the Days of Kisra Abarwiz [The Encounter at Dhi Qar] Mention of Those Vassal Rulers Set over the Desert Frontier of the Arabs at al-Hirah as Appointees of the Monarchs of Persia, after 'Amr b. Hind The Story Returns to the Mention of al-Maruzan, Who Governed Yemen on Behalf of Hurmuz and His Son Abarwiz, and His Successors [Qubadh II Shiruyah] [Ardashir III] [Shahrbaraz] Buran [Jushnas Dih] [Azarmidukht] [Kisra III] [Khurrazadh Khusraw] [Fayruz II] [Farrukhzadh Khusraw] [Yazdajird] [The Chronology of the World] Mention of Those Who Say That (i.e., that there elapsed ten centuries from Adam to Noah, a further ten from Noah to Abraham, and a further ten from Abraham to Moses) Bibliography of Cited Works Index

The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 5
C. E. Bosworth
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This volume of al-Tabari's History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history.This volume of al-Tabari's History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history.This volume of al-Ṭabarī's History has a particularly wide sweep and interest. It provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sāsānids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history. It also gives information on the history of pre-Islamic Arabs of the Mesopotamian desert fringes and eastern Arabia (in al-Hira and the Ghassanid kingdom), and on the quite separate civilization of South Arabia, the Yemen, otherwise known mainly by inscriptions. It furnishes details of the centuries'-long warfare of the two great empires of Western Asia, the Sāsānids and the Byzantine Greeks, a titanic struggle which paved the way for the subsequent rise of the new faith of Islam. The volume is thus of great value for scholars, from Byzantinists to Semitists and Iranists. It provides the first English translation of this key section of al-Ṭabarī's work, one for which non-Arabists have hitherto relied on a partial German translation, meritorious for its time but now 120 years old. This new translation is enriched by a detailed commentary which takes into account up-to-date scholarship.Preface Abbreviations Translator's Foreword Tables 1. The Sasanid Emperors 2. The Roman and Byzantine Emperors, from Constantine the Great to Heraclius 3. The Lakhmid Rulers 4. The Chiefs of Kindah 5. Rulers in South Arabia during the Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries Maps 1. The Sasanid Empire 2. The Roman-Byzantine and Persian Frontierlands 3. The Northeastern Frontier of the Sasanids 4. The Arabian Peninsula: the lands of the Lakhmids, Kindah, etc. 5. Southwestern Arabia [The Kings of the Persians] [Ardashir I] [The History of al-Hirah] Mention of the Holders of Power in the Kingdom of Persia after Ardashir b. Babak [Sabur I, called Sabur al-Junud] [Hurmuz I] [Bahram I] [The History of al-Hirah] [Bahram II] [Bahram III] [Narsi] [Hurmuz II] [Sabur II Dhu al-Aktaf] [The History of al-Hirah] [Ardashir II] [Sabur III] [Bahram IV] [Yazdajird I] [The History of al-Hirah] [Bahram V Jur] [Yazdajird II] [Fayrus I] Mention of Events in the Reigns of Yazdajird (II), Son of Bahram (V), and Fayrus, and the Relations of Their Respective Governors with the Arabs and the People of Yemen [Balash] [Qubadh I] Mention of What Has Been Recorded Concerning the Events Taking Place Among the Arabs in Qubadh's Reign in His Kingdom and Involving His Governors [Kisra I Anusharwan] [The History of al-Hirah] [The History of Yemen] Mention of the Rest of the Story of Tubba` in the Days of Qubadh and the time of Anusharwan and the Persians' Dispatch of an Army to Yemen in Order to Combat the Abyssinians, and the Reason This Last [Resumption of the History of Kisra Anusharwan] Mention of the Birth of the Messenger of God [The Remainder of Kisra Anusharwan's Reign and the Last Sasanid Kings] [Hurmuz] [Kisra II Abarwiz] Mention of Those Who Say That (i.e., those who say that the words of Surat al-Rum refer to Abarwiz's defeat of Hiraql) Mention of the Account Concerning the Events That Happened when God Wished to Take Away from the people of Persia Rule over Persia, and the Arabs' Overrunning It by Means of God's Favoring Them with His Prophet Muhammad, Involving the Prophethood, the Caliphate, the Royal Power, and the Dominion, in the Days of Kisra Abarwiz [The Encounter at Dhi Qar] Mention of Those Vassal Rulers Set over the Desert Frontier of the Arabs at al-Hirah as Appointees of the Monarchs of Persia, after 'Amr b. Hind The Story Returns to the Mention of al-Maruzan, Who Governed Yemen on Behalf of Hurmuz and His Son Abarwiz, and His Successors [Qubadh II Shiruyah] [Ardashir III] [Shahrbaraz] Buran [Jushnas Dih] [Azarmidukht] [Kisra III] [Khurrazadh Khusraw] [Fayruz II] [Farrukhzadh Khusraw] [Yazdajird] [The Chronology of the World] Mention of Those Who Say That (i.e., that there elapsed ten centuries from Adam to Noah, a further ten from Noah to Abraham, and a further ten from Abraham to Moses) Bibliography of Cited Works Index

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Dana-Ain Davis
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Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Three Women 2. Regulating Women’s Lives 3. Oh Sister, Shelter Me 4. Ceremonies of Degradation 5. No Magic in the Market: Mandatory Work and Training Programs 6. The Theater of Maternal and Child-care Politics 7. There’s No Place (Like Home) 8. Strategic Missions 9. Meticulous Rituals of Power and Structural Violence Notes Bibliography Index

Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform
Dana-Ain Davis
2h54min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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232 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h54min.
Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Three Women 2. Regulating Women’s Lives 3. Oh Sister, Shelter Me 4. Ceremonies of Degradation 5. No Magic in the Market: Mandatory Work and Training Programs 6. The Theater of Maternal and Child-care Politics 7. There’s No Place (Like Home) 8. Strategic Missions 9. Meticulous Rituals of Power and Structural Violence Notes Bibliography Index

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