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A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America.

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more - to be infinitely more. This book focuses on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation.

Taking the cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's "Annals of Europe and America", which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, this work charts the advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel.

In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote an appeal decrying the savage and unchristian treatment of blacks in the USA. This new edition of the work provides an introduction, annotations that incorporate research on Walker, and an appendix of documents.

Examines the aristocratic experience in early modern France through a close examination of the history of the Rohan, a noble family in the Parisian court who were involved in notable political and religious events from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

A translation of letters written by settlers in the Rio de la Plata region of South America during the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century.

An English translation of The Book of Peace, written between 1412 and 1414 by Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors. Translated material is side by side with the original French text.

Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy, film studies, and cultural studies.

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life.

Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. This title gives an account of the CIA's powerful influence on the film.

Medieval Europe, with its crusading fervour, is not generally thought of as a place of tolerance; divergence from the norm, whether social, political or religious, was not acceptable.

A philosophical analysis of the puzzles arising from experiencing emotions about fictional characters, this book also considers other paradoxes arising from response to fiction: how we feel suspense over what comes next, and how we take pleasure in narratives that excite unpleasant emotions.

In arguing for a recognition of human rights as ontologically grounded in shared vulnerability, the author pays attention to the complex relationships among the state, the social rights of citizens that the state creates, and the human rights of persons as individuals.

This case study reveals the role of religion in the lives of Chinese Christians in the US. Christianity is the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America; this book explores the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese people construct and reconstruct their identities.

Julian of Norwich is recognized as one of the great speculative theologians of the Middle Ages, whose thinking about God as love made a permanent contribution to the tradition of Christian belief. This book presents Julian's writings in Middle English, for students and scholars and those with little or no previous experience with the language.

This text provides a key to understanding the role of covering laws in historical explanation by distinguishing between their use at the macro- and micro-levels. It illustrates that "covering laws" are indispensable in connecting the steps in an explanatory narrative.

Documents an exhibition about how "couples" discourse - about the ways in which artists cope with the social connections and practicalities of being artists in a couple. This catalogue is about the commonalities as well as the differences, the intimacies as well as the public articulations.

Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. The essays presented here attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory.

The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people - including Louis XIV's official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court - for sensational crimes. This book aims to bring this bizarre story to life.

In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret's revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based.

Examines the meaning and function of culture in contemporary society. This book argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. It defines culture, gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism.

Everywhere you look, people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. This book is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future.

This text tells the story of how Peruvian men and women experienced their lives and especially their marriages in a patriarchal society and how, through the struggles involved in divorce, women tried to defend their rights, and in the process helped bring about change in society more broadly.

Because of his misogyny and disdain for the body, Kant has been a target of much feminist criticism. Moreover, as the epitome of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy, his thought has been a focal point for feminist debate over the Enlightenment legacy--whether its conceptions of reason and progress offer tools for women's emancipation and empowerment or, rather, have contributed to the historical subordination of women in Western society.This volume presents radically divergent interpretations of Kant from feminist perspectives. Some essays see Kant as having contributed significantly to theories of rationality and autonomy in ways that can further feminist projects. Other essays argue that Kant is a preeminent exponent of patriarchal views and that gender hierarchies are inscribed in the very structure of his theories of morality and aesthetic judgment. But both critics and sympathizers challenge the accepted topography of Kantian philosophy by which central philosophical concerns are defined as those that are abstract, univeral, and transcendental. Instead, these feminist writers resituate Kantian questions in the politics of everyday life and emphasize the embodied nature of knowledge, morality, and aesthetics. They analyze dilemmas that face concrete subjects, involving issues of friendship, collective responsibility, xenophobia, and colonialism, among others.Contributors are Annette C. Baier, Marcia Baron, Monique David-Ménard, Kim Hall, Cornelia Klinger, Jane Kneller, Sarah Kofman, Marcia Moen, Herta Nagl-Docekal, Adrian M. S. Piper, Jean P. Rumsey, Robin May Schott, Hannelore Schröder, Sally Sedgwick, and Holly L. Wilson.

This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation of the phenomenon of terrorism in its political, social and economic context as it has occurred throughout the world from the 19th century to the present.

A revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period from 1260 to 1370, this work discusses Vasari's account of the "first age" of the Renaissance and the character of the historiographical tradition that arose from that account. The origins of many modern views are considered.

This volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion.

This is an analysis of the form and structure of the 13th-century tomb of St Dominic and an exploration of its meaning to Pisano's contemporaries, as well as its influence on the development of Italian sepulchral art. There is also a brief discussion of the history of the Dominican order.