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The Polish Experience through World War II
A Better Day Has Not Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee...
Moldova
Arena of International Influences
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Moldova: Arena of International Influences brings international perspective to Moldova’s foreign relations since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Eighteen chapters analyze the policy toward Moldova of selected international actors: Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic and...
by Kathleen Marie Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation. It argues that the fictional format is essential to Nietzsche's philosophical message in his...
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
On Brokeback Mountain
Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from...
Rewriting the Return to Africa
Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Gertrude Bell was one of a select group of Western Arabists who helped create the modern Middle East. She was arguably the single most influential individual in Iraq when the British attempted in the aftermath of World War I to create a nation out of regions that had long been different provinces...
Homofiles
Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationshipsbetween sexuality and scholarship within their respective...
Berkeley
Ideas, Immateralism, and Objective Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to focus on Berkeley's use...
Autonomy and the Situated Self
A Challenge to Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Autonomy and the Situated Self offers a critique of contemporary mainstream bioethics and proposes an alternative framework for the exploration of bioethical issues. It also contrasts two conceptions of autonomy, one based on a liberal model but detached from its political foundation and one that...
Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect
Monism and Dualism Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect (nou:V) to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt argues that Aristotle transforms the Platonic doctrine of Ideal Numbers into an astronomical account of the unmoved movers, which function as...
Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time
A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845-1885
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience as a massive philosophical and religious project rather than a crisis-laden tragedy. Inessa Medzhibovskaya explains the evolution of Tolstoy's religious outlook based...
The Most Dangerous Art
Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional...
by Claudia Moscovici
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation,...