stanford university press stanford 1997 (145 Ergebnisse)

sewn PAPERBACK, very good. VATTIMO, GIANNI. Beyond interpretation: the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy. Translated by David Webb. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1997, x, 129pp., . This new book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo develops a new interpretation of hermeneutics that dispenses with the traditional bias toward aesthetic experience. His radical interpretation breaks the link between hermeneutics and metaphysical humanism, challenges the traditional opposition of the natural and human sciences, and opens up new perspectives on ethics, art and religion. Beyond Interpretation will be welcomed by students and researchers in philosophy and social theory. - CONTENTS: 1. The Nihilistic Vocation of Hermeneutics -- 2. Science -- 3. Ethics -- 4. Religion -- 5. Art -- Appendix 1. The Truth of Hermeneutics -- Appendix 2. The Reconstruction of Rationality. 9780804729949 ISBN 0804729948.

, Brandt, Joan Elizabeth. Geopoetics : the politics of mimesis in poststructuralist French poetry and theory. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997, xii, 288pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth. 9780804727600 ISBN 0804727600.

23.0 x 15.0cms 234pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover foxing on outer edges This book discusses why & how reenactment of the Holocaust in art & imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting analyzing & working through this apocalyptic moment in history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965-. "Dancing in chains" : narrative and memory in political theory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, xii, 268pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, LAID IN: Publisher's compliments card. Locke - Nietzsche - Hegel. 9780804728188 ISBN 0804728186.

19.0 x 23.0cms (landscape) 206pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper. This book is about the spaces between St Petersburg''s buildings trees and rivers. It analyses the changes of ''spatial conception'' which was linked to the development of Russian poetry prose architecture fashion interior design & painting.

24.0 x 16.0cms 262pp very good+ hardback & dustwrapper These essays focus on the uneven flows of culture multidirectional currents of cultural objects these objects'' relative value & culture''s indeterminate syncretic nature as capital.

, Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 1948-, ed. Streams of cultural capital : transnational cultural studies. Edited by David Palumbo-Liu and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, xiii, 262pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth. Originally published in the Stanford Literature Review in 1993. Here with a new introduction and a new epilogue by Gumbrecht. Deals with problems of cultural objects moving across borders, being changed and adopted. CONTRIBUTORS: David Palumbo-Liu, Arjun Appadurai, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Anne Knudsen, Bruce Kapferer and Judith Kapferer, Mary N. Layoun, Biodun Jeyifo, Irmela Schneider, Xiaomei Chen, Carlos Rincon, Brad Prager and Michael Richardson, Robert Weimann, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. 9780804730365 ISBN 0804730369.

8vo, xviii+ 363pp. Original pictorial wrapper. Very slight wear on corners, otherwise, a near-fine copy.

Zustand: Good. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. xi, 412pp. Original printed paperback. Some wear and some annotation throughout, otherwise near very good.

Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. 221pp. ISBN 0-8047-2997-2.

504 p 23 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Muy bien. : 0,601 kg.

500 p 23 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Bien.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what 'one' is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power.If we take Hegel and Nietzsche seriously, then the 'inner life' of consciousness and, indeed, of conscience, not only is fabricated by power, but becomes one of the ways in which power is anchored in subjectivity. The author considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. Power is no longer understood to be 'internalized' by an existing subject, but the subject is spawned as an ambivalent effect of power, one that is staged through the operation of conscience.To claim that power fabricates the psyche is also to claim that there is a fictional and fabricated quality to the psyche. The figure of a psyche that 'turns against itself' is crucial to this study, and offers an alternative to describing power as 'internalized.' Although most readers of Foucault eschew psychoanalytic theory, and most thinkers of the psyche eschew Foucault, the author seeks to theorize this ambivalent relation between the social and the psychic as one of the most dynamic and difficult effects of power.This work combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, offering a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in such other works of the author as Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' and Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 347pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0804732426.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book by a Nobel laureate in economics begins with a brief exposition of Kenneth J. Arrow's classic paper 'The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing' (1962). It shows how Arrow's idea fits into the modern theory of economic growth, and uses it as a springboard for a critical consideration of spectacular recent developments that have made growth theory a dynamic topic today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Divided Sun is the story of the methods and machinations that have driven Japan's high-tech industrial policies over the last two turbulent decades. It focuses on MITI and Japan's giant electronics firms - their ambitions and conflicts - in the context of the core of MITI's high-tech strategy since the 1970's, the so-called 'cooperative' technology consortia. The author finds that despite widespread claims to the contrary, MITI's industrial policy in high technology has proved to be neither cooperative nor successful. He shows that the policymaking process is torn by conflict and competition: between MITI and other bureaucracies, between MITI and powerful Japanese companies, and between the different companies. As a result, the elaborate structures created to promote cooperation are in many cases a public show masking the underlying reality of fierce competition and conflict.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This sweeping study examines the law of intellectual property in Chinese civilization from imperial days to the present. It uses materials drawn from law, the arts and other fields as well as extensive interviews with Chinese and foreign officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of 'piracy.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a survey of the history of Taoism from approximately the third century B.C. to the fourteenth century A.D. For many years, it was customary to divide Taoism into 'philosophical Taoism' and 'religious Taoism.' The author has long argued that this is a false division and that 'religious' Taoism is simply the practice of 'philosophical' Taoism. She sees Taoism as foremost a religion, and the present work traces the development of Taoism up to the point it reached its mature form (which remains intact today, albeit with modern innovations).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife' s paid employment much less likely to be defined as 'breadwinning' than her husband's This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Written as an act of personal catharsis, Fetter's reflections on her seven years as Stanford's dean of undergraduate admissions is as engrossing as it is informative. . . . The book warrants an audience far wider than admissions professionals and higher education specialists. It has much to say to anyone concerned with equity and excellence in our universities.'--Choice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. It argues that those objects which are presumptively given to thought under the rubrics of 'AIDS' and 'Hiroshima/Nagasaki' pose an essential threat, in their existentiality, to conceptual thought and, ultimately, to rationality altogether. It therefore argues that any serious thinking about AIDS and nuclear terror must think the essential insufficiency of thought to its putative objects-the insufficiency of 'society' to think sociality, the insufficiency of 'history' to think historicity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - E. P. Thompson, one of the preeminent British historians of the second half of the twentieth century, considers the circumstances surrounding the death of his older brother Frank as a British Liaison Officer with the Bulgarian partisans in 1944.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the human senses-to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred-and sense or meaning in general.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective as 'pre-' or 'post-' something or other, rather than in terms of its own characteristics. One such characteristic is the intense interaction with the new technologies then arising in Brazil, the beginning of the professionalization of writers, and a revision of the concept of literature, redefined as technique.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals important social and political investments. By attending to the textual figures of the imagination, the book sheds critical light not only on Romanticism but on the very workings of ideology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a set of readings ranging from early-sixteenth- through late-seventeenth-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in their culture and by their articulation of a variety of desires (including the desire to write) not bound by the usual prescriptions that limited women.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do biologists study when they study 'life' today Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical 'softwares.' Metaphors such as the genetic 'code' made possible a transformation of the very concept of life, a transformation that often casts organisms as information systems.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This richly evocative study of photography emphasizes that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Though the primary focus is on literary questions, attention is also given to the broader concerns of the creative force of culture and, when relevant, to economic, social, and political phenomena. Throughout, it aims to illuminate not only the forms of literary and critical discourse but also their underlying generative principles-their ideologies.