edinburgh university press jan 2009 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the last three decades, Deleuze's consideration of sexual difference beyond the paradigm of the Oedipal family and Western humanism has revolutionized feminist, gender, and queer theory. These critical theorists extend Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference, and gender politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language to reflect the full range of approaches and modes of thought. Each entry includes a brief description of the idea, an account of its development, and its impact on the field of language study. The book is written in an accessible style with clear descriptions of technical terms, guides to further reading, and extensive cross-referencing between entries. A useful additional feature of this book is that it is cross-referenced throughout with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh, 2005), revealing significant connections and continuities in the two related disciplines. Ideas covered range from Sense Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic, through Generative Semantics, Cognitivism, and Conversation Analysis, to Political Correctness, Deconstruction, and Corpora.Features:\* The only single-volume reference book to focus specifically on ideas from both linguistics and the philosophy of language\* Accessibly written for use at all levels, including undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, and other general readers in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language\* Extensively cross-referenced both within itself and with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language to provide a unique reference resource.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD.This book is the first detailed political history to treat these centuries as a single period, with due regard for Scotland's position in the bigger story of late Antique transition. From Caledonia to Pictland charts the complex and shadowy processes which saw the familiar Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country, the achievements of their foremost political figures, and their ongoing links with the world around them. It is a story that has become much revised through changing trends in scholarly approaches to the challenging evidence, and that transformation too is explained for the benefit of students and general readers.Key Features:\*The only detailed political history to treat the first eight centuries AD as a single period of Scottish history.\*Redresses the imbalance created by an existing literature dominated by archaeologists. From Caledonia to Pictland provides a narrative history of the period.\*Bridges a traditional disciplinary divide between the Roman and early medieval periods.\*Locates this phase of Scotland's history within a European context, emphasising what is unique and what is not.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to a deep suspicion about invoking a political discourse that is accused of being either eurocentric, androcentric or both. In this book Monica Mookherjee draws on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality' in order to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. She contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims. The argument is worked through in the context of a set of difficult dilemmas in modern liberal democracies: \*the resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati) \*gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in India \*forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK \*the rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education \*the recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France This valuable and innovative perspective on an important contemporary issue aims to stimulate debate about a set of important concepts central to discourses of feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights and capabilities, toleration, citizenship practices, cultural rights, the ethic of care, communitarianism and the politics of recognition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality, 'Deleuze and Queer Theory' marks a shift away from discourse on identity and signification and a move toward a radical new conception of bodily materialism. For too long queer theory has been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and a focus on performativity. In these essays, a critical engagement with the work of Deleuze and Guattari shape a new queer theory, one that revisits the very term of 'queer,' rethinks the sex-gender distinction as implied in queer theor, explores queer temporalities, and considers the non/rereading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze Guattari philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920s, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences for his role as the protagonist of the avant-garde film classic Un chien andalou. Unlike other stars, he was linked to intellectual circles, especially the Surrealists. The book places Batcheff in the context of 1920s popular cinema, with specific reference to male stars of the period. It analyses the tensions he exemplifies between the 'popular' and the 'intellectual' during the 1920s, as cinema - the subject of intense intellectual interest across Europe - was racked between commercialism and 'art'. A number of the major films are studied in detail: Le Double amour (Epstein, 1925), Feu Mathias Pascal (L'Herbier, 1925), Éducation de prince (Diamant-Berger, 1927), Le Joueur d'échecs (Bernard, 1927), La Sirène des tropiques (Etiévant and Nalpas, 1927), Les Deux timides (Clair, 1928), Un chien andalou (Buñuel, 1929), Monte-Cristo (Fescourt, 1929), and Baroud (Ingram, 1932). Key features: \* The first major study of a French silent cinema star. \* Provides an in-depth analysis of star performance. \* Includes extensive appendices of documents from popular cinema magazines of the period. Phil Powrie is Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely in French cinema studies, including French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity, Contemporary French Cinema: Continuity and Difference, Jean-Jacques Beineix, French Cinema: An Introduction and 24 Frames: French Cinema. Éric Rebillard is a member of the Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma.