the university of chicago press apr 2025 (36 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A global, useable history of feminism that incorporates alternative starting points and new thinkers, challenging the presumed priority of European feminism and offering a reinterpretation of the historical record.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a guide on how to positively engage suffering, Todd May ultimately lays out a new way of thinking about how we exist in the world, one that reassures us that our suffering, rather than a failure of physical or psychological resilience, is a powerful and essential part of life itself It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity-and teaching us how to do the same. After all, isn't a life free from suffering the ideal Isn't it what so many of us seek Absolutely not, argues Todd May in this provocative but compassionate book. In a moving examination of life and the trials that beset it, he shows that our fragility, our ability to suffer, is actually one of the most important aspects of our humanity. May starts with a simple but hard truth: suffering is inevitable. At the most basic level, we suffer physically-a sprained ankle or a bad back. But we also suffer insults and indifference. We suffer from overburdened schedules and unforeseen circumstances, from moral dilemmas and emotional heartaches. Even just thinking about our own mortality-the fact that we only live one life-can lead us to tremendous suffering. No wonder philosophies such as Buddhism, Taosim, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism-all of which counsel us to rise above these plights-have had appeal over the centuries. May highlights the tremendous value of these philosophies and the ways they can guide us toward better lives, but he also exposes a major drawback to their tenets: such invulnerability is too emotionally disengaged from the world, leading us to place too great a distance between ourselves and our experience. Rather than seeking absolute immunity, he argues most of us just want to hurt less and learn how to embrace and accept what suffering we do endure in a meaningful way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What economists know that we should know, translated for all of us. Should I buy or rent Do I ask for a promotion Should I tell people I'm pregnant What salary do I deserve Should I just quit this job Common anxieties about life are often grounded in economics. In an increasingly win-lose society, these economic decisions-where to work, where to live, even how to live-have a way of feeling fixed and mistakes terminal. Daryl Fairweather is no stranger to these dynamics. As the first Black woman to receive an economics PhD from the famed University of Chicago, she saw firsthand how concepts of behavioral economics and game theory were deployed in the real world-and in her own life-to great effect. Hate the Game combines Fairweather's elite knowledge of these principles with her singular voice in describing how they can be harnessed. Her great talent, unique among economists, is her ability to articulate economic trends in a way that is not just informative, but also accounts for life's other anxieties. In Hate the Game, Fairweather fixes her expertise and service on navigating the earliest economic inflection points of adult life: whether to go to college and for how long; partnering, having kids, both, or neither; getting, keeping, and changing jobs; and where to live and how to pay for it. She speaks in actionable terms about what the economy means for individual people, especially those who have the sneaking suspicion they're losing out. Set against her own experiences and enriched with lessons from history, science, and pop culture, Fairweather instructs readers on how to use game theory and behavioral science to map out options and choose directions while offering readers a sense of control and agency in an economy where those things are increasingly rare'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The definitive analysis of how the presence of women politicians affects young people. From Kamala Harris to Nikki Haley, women in public life are widely expected to inspire young people, especially girls, to follow in their footsteps. See Jane Run provides the definitive analysis of women politicians as role models. With wide-ranging data and attention to gender, race, and party, David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht find that women in politics help convince young people, regardless of gender, that women are capable of political leadership. For young women, women role models enhance faith in democracy and inspire political engagement, including running for office themselves. As role models, women politicians help ensure a more inclusive democracy'.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A multi-sensory urban history of Europe's bustling streets. Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities-London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna-Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today's world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What if everything we knew about gun violence was wrong In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago in the hope of answering a big question: why do US cities have so much gun violence, and is there anything to be done about it Almost two decades later, his answers are nothing he ever expected. UNFORGIVING PLACES is the sweeping account of a multi-decade mission to identify the real drivers of violent crime in the American City. Ludwig's data show that America's stock explanations for its violent-crime problem-factors like guns, gangs, race, poverty, the economy, and premeditated malice-fall dramatically short in explaining the actual incidence and scale of the country's violent crime. Instead, Ludwig shows that the incidence of violent crime can be traced to something far more innocuous: to momentary disagreements that escalate differently based on the very different environments that characterize contemporary American society today. By framing American gun violence as a situational response to different kinds of stress in different kinds of places, Ludwig presents this longstanding problem in starkly solvable terms. Progress on gun violence needn't require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene on the ten-minute windows when behaviors predictably go haywire. Blending the original work of a renowned social scientist with first-person dispatches from a largely caricaturized place, UNFORGIVING PLACES is a book of uncharacteristic rigor and humanity. Ludwig expands our understanding of what economics can teach us-and in the process, redefines this quintessentially American challenge'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '99-year-old Ella Jenkins was a pioneer in American children's music and an early practitioner of what became known as multiculturalism. Here Gayle Wald, with unparalleled access to Jenkins's papers, documents not just Jenkins's life but the influence of her music among musicians and also educational institutions, including Chicago's South Parkway YMCA, where Jenkins taught music and dance. She became a fixture and touchstone of the folk music scene, putting out dozens of albums and performing worldwide. Her story illuminates the cultural history of Chicago and of postwar America, tying together musical history, gay and lesbian studies, racial and musical lineages, and more'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Student loan horror stories are seemingly endless. And yet, since research continually shows that the clearest road to financial stability is a college degree, Americans continue to make the optimistic choice to attend college. Whether they attend state schools or elite privates, community colleges or for-profit behemoths, they will almost certainly need loans to make it to college. If and when those students receive their diplomas, however, student loan payments quickly follow. With rising housing and childcare costs, even those with secure, full-time employment can find it difficult to make ends meet. Many Americans would insist that they chose to enter into debt and should be responsible for those choices. In this book, journalist Jillian Berman shows that focus on personal choice misses the forest for the trees. Through the stories of a diverse group of American college students, history, and policy analysis, Berman demonstrates that the college loan system is built to generate debt. First, federal loans-initiatives designed to support education-are surprisingly difficult to pay down. Second, there is no truly public option for college, making debt all but inevitable. Both of these issues initiated in and were exacerbated by years of policy decisions influenced by corporate lobbyists. The way the student loan system is set up-with guaranteed payback to institutions from the federal government-encourages abuses from all players. The government simply provides too much incentive for schools to list high tuitions and recoup all those funds through government reimbursement. While President Joe Biden's aggressive plan to cancel student debt was overturned by the Supreme Court, his administration has been chipping away at the debt crisis through piecemeal legislation. Berman shows how these measures have helped borrowers, but ultimately argues that these small fixes won't get at the structural problems she identifies. If college continues to get more and more expensive (and for-profit), we'll keep throwing good money after bad'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Although many phrases are invoked to describe the precarity of democracy today, perhaps none resonates more than 'post-truth.' The rapid rise of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the loss of confidence in the possibility of impartial evidence has led to a situation in which highly partisan opinions threaten to devolve into a state where no one believes anything anymore. In the face of this danger, it seems imperative to affirm the existence of objective Truth. However, falling prey to the ideal of Truth is as dangerous for democracy as being truth denialists. In this book, political theorist Linda M. G. Zerilli considers what happens when we take seriously the Socratic idea that there is truth in opinion. Drawing on the work of Arendt, Foucault, and Wittgenstein, A Democratic Theory of Truth critically interrogates the concept of truth presupposed in the 'post-truth' debate. Whatever their disagreements, the critical literature on post-truth sees in the ongoing hemorrhaging of objective facts to subjective opinion a genuinely new threat to democracy. In Zerilli's reading, the part played by citizen subjects in determining the existence or value of truth is given in the structure of truth itself. This book restores the rightful place of plurality, dissent, and citizen opinion in the democratic debate about truth and truthfulness today'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting's longstanding associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or failure of memory has often functioned as a generative creative principle. Exploring forgetting not as the mere rejection of a literary past or a form of negative poetics, Soong puts to the test its very aesthetic meaning. What new structures, forms of desires, styles, and long and short feelings do lapses in time allow What is oblivion's relationship to composition And how does the twentieth-century poet come to figure as the quintessential embodiment of such questions Soong uncovers forgetting's influence on Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Tan Lin, Harryette Mullen, Lissa Wolsak, and New York School poets John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Bernadette Mayer, and Ted Berrigan, among others. She reveals that forgetting's shapeshifting produces differences in poetic genre, interest, and degrees of intentionality-and that such malleability is part of forgetting's nature. Most provocatively, Soong shows how losing track of things, leaving them behind, or finding them already gone resists overdetermination and causality in the name of surprise, as poets leverage forgetting in order to replace identity with style. Slips of the Mind is the kind of literary criticism that will reward all readers of modern and contemporary poetry'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Michael Taussig's new book, Corpse Magic, is animated by the ubiquity of violence across the world. Focusing on state-sanctioned violence in Colombia in the context of gangs, guerrilla warfare, and police action, and in the US, in the form of mass shootings and the killing of Black Americans by the police, Taussig examines the effects of violence not just on its victims, but also and especially on those who inflict it, as well as those who witness and relive it through footage circulating in the media. Taussig analyzes the haunting idea that the act of killing 'infects' the killer and spreads outward, and he connects this to a belief he encountered in Colombia, namely that the souls of the slain possess those of their slayers, and that magic must be used on corpses to circumvent this process. Drawing from literature, religion, and philosophy as well as anthropology, Taussig analyzes violence as contagion, one through which the killer and the killed are mutually defined. What kind of power do the dead continue to have What kind of magic can enact vengeance What kind, if any, can stop apparently endless cycles of violence These are only some of the provocative questions raised in this powerful, creative work'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning. Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government. With this book, Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Aristotle's time and in ours, democrats want inclusiveness; they want above all to include everyone as a part of a whole. But what makes a whole This is a question for both politics and philosophy, and Winthrop shows that Aristotle pursues the answer in the Politics. She uncovers in his political science the insights philosophy brings to politics and, especially, the insights politics brings to philosophy. Through her appreciation of this dual purpose and her skilled execution of her argument, Winthrop makes profound discoveries. Central to politics, she maintains, is the quality of assertiveness-the kind of speech that demands to be heard. Aristotle, she shows for the first time, carries assertive speech into philosophy, where human reason claims its due as a contribution to the universe. Political science has the high role of teaching ordinary folk about democracy and what sustains it. This posthumous publication is more than an honor to Delba Winthrop's memory. It is a gift to partisans of democracy, advocates of justice, and students of Aristotle.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize inclusive trade unions like those formed by their counterparts in the United Kingdom Comparing American and British capitalism in the port cities of Baltimore and Liverpool and the steel cities of Pittsburgh and Sheffield, Rudi Batzell reveals that the answer lies in the legacies of slavery and entrenched structures of racial inequality. Strikebreaking succeeded more often in the United States because landless Black Americans were, out of economic desperation, more likely to become scabs and fracture the class solidarity of any union movement. Batzell shows, in short, how racism was and is deeply connected to class, migration, and capitalism in a global economy marked by slavery and empire. In emphasizing the geography of economic inequality, this book offers new clarity on the late-nineteenth-century successes and failures of working-class formation. More broadly, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery makes it clear that the pursuit of justice today will require sustained economic reparations for slavery and colonialism'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A new history of the New Deal's economic recovery efforts-and why they failed to delivery on their promises. FDR's New Deal policies have long enjoyed a special place in the history of American policy and society-not just because many of them lastingly redefined the Federal government's fundamental responsibilities, but because New Dealer's willingness to engage in what Roosevelt called 'bold experimentation' represented a type of policymaking that many observers would like to see more of. In False Dawn, economist George Selgin offers a counterweight to such laudatory thinking about the New Deal. Famously, Roosevelt's goals for his administration were relief, recovery, and reform. Selgin weaves decades of economic research to show that, although the New Deal helped set the stage for a speedy recovery, crucial parts of its rescue program failed to live up to their promise. Until World War II intervened, over fifteen percent of American workers were still either unemployed or on work relief, and much of the recovery that took place until then occurred despite rather than because of New Deal policies. 'The thing about bold experiments,' Selgin observes, 'is that they often fail.' Selgin's goal isn't to blow up a favorite chapter in progressive history, but to sort out the New Deal's successes from its failures, with the aim of making sure the right lessons are drawn from the Great Depression experience for dealing with future recessions. It is, Selgin says, only by carefully considering each New Deal recovery experiment, together with other developments that either aided or interfered with economic recovery, that we can know 'which [New Deal] programs.to ever consider reviving-and which ones to avoid like the plague.''.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Delves into the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and the skin disease known as cutaneous leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is transmitted through the bite of female sandflies. The most common manifestation, cutaneous leishmaniasis, is neither deadly nor contagious: it affects the skin by producing lesions of varying size and shape. In Colombia, the insect vector of the disease is native to the same forested environments that have served as the main stage for one of the longest and most violent civil wars in Latin American history. As a result, the populations most affected by leishmaniasis in Colombia are members of the state army and non-state armed groups. Lina Pinto-Garcâia explores how leishmaniasis and the armed conflict are inextricably connected and mutually reinforcing. Her title, Maraäna, means 'tangle' in Spanish but is also commonly used in Colombia to name the entangled greenery, braided lianas, and dense foliage that characterize the tropical forests where leishmaniasis typically occurs. Pinto-Garcâia argues that leishmaniasis and the war are not merely linked, but enmaraänadas to each other through narratives, technologies, and practices produced by the state, medicine, biomedical research, and the armed conflict itself. She also uses the concept of desenmaraänados (disentangled) to discuss how other attachments between leishmaniasis and society could be formed through different scientific programs, technological designs, healthcare practices, regulations, and social and cultural processes capable of challenging violence, suffering, and inequality. All told, Maraäna is a passionate study of how war has shaped the production of scientific knowledge about leishmaniasis and access to its treatments in Colombia'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'John Kinder proposes nothing less than a new history of World War II, told through the lens of zoos. On the most basic level, some wartime zoo animals were cherished; some were abandoned; and some were eaten by desperate people. Yet zoos also provide a vital, raw, and kaleidoscopic window onto human nature in wartime. They shed light on the evolution of the zoo as an institution, too, particularly after the war, and show how people's relationships with zoos has changed, and continues to change, with time. Zoos, after all, remain omnipresent, as do wars'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward more legally inflected, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. Although pestilence and disease are generally considered the domain of the biological sciences and medicine, social arrangements-and law in particular- also play a crucial role in shaping outcomes. Drawing on years of research in HIV clinics in the United States, Thailand, South Africa, and Uganda, Governing the Global Clinic examines how growing norms of legalized accountably have altered the work of healthcare and how the effects of legalization vary across different national and local contexts. A key feature of legalism is the use of universalistic language, but, in practice, rules are usually imported from rich countries (and especially the United States) to poor ones with vastly different available infrastructures and resources with which to implement them. Inequalities between countries are deeply consequential both because of the difficulties associated with adapting the laws of resource-rich countries to poorer ones and because of the distrust of poor countries by those who are monitoring compliance. Challenging readers to reconsider the impulse to use law (in both its 'hard' and 'soft' forms) to organize and govern social life, Governing the Global Clinic asks many hard questions. These include: When do rules solve problems, and when do rules instead create new problems When do rules get decoupled from ethics, and when, in contrast, does the use of rules lead to deeper moral commitments When do rules reduce inequality And when do they reflect, reproduce, and even amplify inequality '.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the full social canvas of American cities since at least the early twentieth century. Traversing cities like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this collection of essays brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history. Organized at different scales-including city, suburb, neighborhood, and hemisphere-this impressive body of work disrupts long-standing narratives about metropolitan America. The contributors-Llana Barber, Mauricio Castro, Eduardo Contreras, Sandra I. Enrâiquez, Monika Gosin, Cecilia Sâanchez Hill, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael Innis-Jimâenez, Max Krochmal, Becky M. Nicolaides, Pedro A. Regalado, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, and Thomas J. Sugrue-engage a diverse range of subjects, such as urban rebellions, the suburbanization of Latinos, affordable housing, labor, the built environment, transnationalism, place-making, and religious life. The scholars also explore race within Latino communities, as well as the role that political and economic dynamics have played in creating Latino urban spaces. After reading this book, you will never see American cities the same way again'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide--and beyond.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media history and theory. His 1986 essay 'The Cinema of Attractions' is among the most cited essays on film ever published. Gunning's writings articulate a distinctive and powerful model for thinking about cinema's history and likely future, addressing the full range of moving-image media, from film to still photography to digital media. His discussions draw on stage melodrama and magic lantern shows, as well as criminology, world's fairs, and Spiritualism, surveying the medium as a cultural phenomenon informed by the industrial and information ages, psychiatry, urban experience, discourses on art and aesthetics, and more. This collection brings together twenty-six essays that showcase the depth and range of Gunning's scholarship, including four that have never before been published. Together, they solidify Gunning's place as a scholar who has transformed the way generations of scholars, archivists, critics, and artists think about cinema'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published a companion translation of the best-known epic in the Western canon, The Odyssey-until now. With his new Odyssey, celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn has created a rendering worthy of Chicago's unparalleled reputation in classical literature. Widely known for his essays bringing classical literature and culture to mainstream audiences in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn eschews the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, focusing instead on the epic's formal qualities-meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance-in order to bring it to life in all its archaic grandeur. In this line-for-line rendering, the long, six-beat line he uses, closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each Greek line without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. The result is a magnificent feat of translation, one that conveys the poetics of the original while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight, and powerful themes that make Homer's work continue to resonate today. Supported by an extensive introduction, notes, and commentary, Mendelsohn's Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The edited volume Territorial Imaginings contends that conventional mapping practices are inadequate to illustrate the complex and multi-faceted reality of territory and political sovereignty both past and present. What we understand to be modern mapping, the volume argues, developed to represent a Westphalian order of sovereign states that never was and still is not sufficient to capture the many varieties of territorial and political arrangements globally. Volume editor Kèaren Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of contributors who speak to this overarching contention through a variety of scholarly approaches and case studies, covering many geographical regions and time periods. The essays encompass three main themes: mapping practices before the nation state, ways to rethink or critique mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Like Wigen's last volume, Time in Maps, this book features a striking array of maps and other images, and will be printed with color throughout'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In this book, Robert L. Kendrick examines the way in which stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, this largely Catholic musico-dramatic genre was popular in Italy, Austria, and southern Germany. Biblical Families in Music reveals how difficult stories of fratricide, child sacrifice, death, and forbidden love performed a didactic function in oratorios, teaching early modern audiences about piety and the rules of proper family life. In the century after 1670, the heavily adapted tales of Abraham and Isaac, Cain and Abel, or the Egyptian slave Hagar and her son Ishmael, were put to music by figures such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Sacchini and performed during Lent in churches and other sacred spaces for an audience of court nobility, clergy, and the urban patriciate. By looking at the resonance of Catholic oratorios within predominantly upper-class social realities, the book broadens our cultural understanding of the early modern European family and underscores the centrality of family and familial relation to social position, devotional taste, and identity'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Painting as a Way of Life offers a fresh look at a brief yet transformative moment in French art. At the beginning of this period, France's painting industry was still underdeveloped compared to those in Holland, Flanders, or Italy; by the end, it was on its way to European dominance. This study considers both the 'classicists' and the 'realists': Nicolas Poussin, renowned for marrying ancient philosophy and visual art; Louise Moillon, who pioneered French still life in the 1630s; Georges de La Tour, a painter of nocturnes based in Lorrain; and the Brothers Le Nain, specialists in genre and portraiture. Emphasizing the day-to-day activity of artistic practice, both artisanal and ethical, Richard Neer demonstrates how French painters of the early to mid-seventeenth century devised novel approaches to pictorial meaning, pushing their art beyond the traditional task of representing external objects or events and into uncharted realms of expressivity, philosophical inquiry, and spiritual exercise. Examining a range of French painters and printmakers active in France and Italy, including Jacques Callot, Abraham Bosse, Simon Vouet, Valentine de Boulogne, and Nicolas Râegnier, this fascinating book reveals how Poussin and his contemporaries offered painting as a tool for self-transformation-a way of being in the world'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How architectural monuments survived and historical preservation was reinvented during the destructions of the twentieth century. The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect architectural monuments in large numbers, and regardless of style, hoping not only to keep them safe from future conflicts but also to make them worthy of protection from more quotidian forms of destruction. An evolving group-including architects, intellectuals, art historians, archaeologists, curators, and lawyers-grew out of the new diplomacy of the League of Nations. During and after World War II, it became affiliated with the Allied Military Government and was eventually absorbed by the UN as UNESCO. By the 1970s, this organization had begun granting World Heritage status to a global register of significant sites-from buildings to bridges, shrines to city centers, ruins to colossi. Examining key episodes in the history of this preservation effort-including projects for the Parthenon, the Cathedral of St-Lô, the temples of Abu Simbel, and the Bamyian Buddahs -Lucia Allais demonstrates how the group deployed the notion of culture to shape architectural sites, and how architecture in turn shaped the very idea of global culture. Designs of Destruction emphasizes how the technical project of ensuring various buildings' longevity jolted preservation into establishing a transnational set of codes, values, and practices. At the same time, this paradoxically helped integrate technologies of destruction-from bombs to bulldozers-into cultural governance. Designs of Destruction not only offers a fascinating narrative of cultural diplomacy, based on extensive archival findings; it also contributes an important new chapter in the intellectual history of modernity by showing the manifold ways architectural form is charged with concretizing abstract ideas and ideals, even in its destruction.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Although many phrases are invoked to describe the precarity of democracy today, perhaps none resonates more than 'post-truth.' The rapid rise of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the loss of confidence in the possibility of impartial evidence has led to a situation in which highly partisan opinions threaten to devolve into a state where no one believes anything anymore. In the face of this danger, it seems imperative to affirm the existence of objective Truth. However, falling prey to the ideal of Truth is as dangerous for democracy as being truth denialists. In this book, political theorist Linda M. G. Zerilli considers what happens when we take seriously the Socratic idea that there is truth in opinion. Drawing on the work of Arendt, Foucault, and Wittgenstein, A Democratic Theory of Truth critically interrogates the concept of truth presupposed in the 'post-truth' debate. Whatever their disagreements, the critical literature on post-truth sees in the ongoing hemorrhaging of objective facts to subjective opinion a genuinely new threat to democracy. In Zerilli's reading, the part played by citizen subjects in determining the existence or value of truth is given in the structure of truth itself. This book restores the rightful place of plurality, dissent, and citizen opinion in the democratic debate about truth and truthfulness today'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the full social canvas of American cities since at least the early twentieth century. Traversing cities like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this collection of essays brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history. Organized at different scales-including city, suburb, neighborhood, and hemisphere-this impressive body of work disrupts long-standing narratives about metropolitan America. The contributors-Llana Barber, Mauricio Castro, Eduardo Contreras, Sandra I. Enrâiquez, Monika Gosin, Cecilia Sâanchez Hill, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael Innis-Jimâenez, Max Krochmal, Becky M. Nicolaides, Pedro A. Regalado, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, and Thomas J. Sugrue-engage a diverse range of subjects, such as urban rebellions, the suburbanization of Latinos, affordable housing, labor, the built environment, transnationalism, place-making, and religious life. The scholars also explore race within Latino communities, as well as the role that political and economic dynamics have played in creating Latino urban spaces. After reading this book, you will never see American cities the same way again'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward more legally inflected, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. Although pestilence and disease are generally considered the domain of the biological sciences and medicine, social arrangements-and law in particular- also play a crucial role in shaping outcomes. Drawing on years of research in HIV clinics in the United States, Thailand, South Africa, and Uganda, Governing the Global Clinic examines how growing norms of legalized accountably have altered the work of healthcare and how the effects of legalization vary across different national and local contexts. A key feature of legalism is the use of universalistic language, but, in practice, rules are usually imported from rich countries (and especially the United States) to poor ones with vastly different available infrastructures and resources with which to implement them. Inequalities between countries are deeply consequential both because of the difficulties associated with adapting the laws of resource-rich countries to poorer ones and because of the distrust of poor countries by those who are monitoring compliance. Challenging readers to reconsider the impulse to use law (in both its 'hard' and 'soft' forms) to organize and govern social life, Governing the Global Clinic asks many hard questions. These include: When do rules solve problems, and when do rules instead create new problems When do rules get decoupled from ethics, and when, in contrast, does the use of rules lead to deeper moral commitments When do rules reduce inequality And when do they reflect, reproduce, and even amplify inequality '.