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Shows how John Dewey's visit to China from 1919 to 1921 influenced his social and political thought.Combining biography with philosophy, this book explores John Dewey's two-year trip to China (1919-1921) and its legacy for him as a teacher and a learner. Jessica Ching-Sze Wang...

An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose-and indeed everything to gain-by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to...

State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 1The Politics of State Constitutional ReformState Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 2Drafting State Constitutions, Revisions, and AmendmentsState Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 3The Agenda of State Constitutional ReformAuthor: G. Alan TarrISBN-10: 0791470024ISBN-13: 9780791470022Publisher: State University...

Defends political philosophy and social science against the rival claims of literature and literary criticism.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title What is the proper role for literature in political thought and analysis? Can reading novels make us better citizens of a liberal democratic society? What...

Contributors draw on Hegel's account of identity and difference to challenge conventional theories of identity.Identity and difference (or sameness and otherness) are contrasting but interrelated terms that have played an explicit role in the development of Western philosophy at least since Plato wrote the...

Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry by southern conservatives, "new federalism" has shifted power from Washington...

Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.The citrus industry of Palestine has often been associated with the myths and ideals of the Labor Movement and its Zionist-Socialist ideology. The Jaffa orange, like the young pioneer and the collective kibbutz,...

Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.In this pioneering effort, noted Jewish philosopher Eugene B. Borowitz opens up the rules by which the language-game of aggadic discourse is carried on in the Talmud, the foundational document of rabbinic and all...

Case studies that assess the value of new approaches to environmental policymaking in the United States and abroad.The methods employed in the pursuit of environmental protection are often highly contested, leading to alternative policy approaches. This book details the frequently neglected topic of these...

There is little doubt that Alain Badiou is one of the most challenging and controversial figures in contemporary philosophy. This volume of essays brings together leading commentators from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an introduction to Badiou's work through critical studies of...

Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower than those based on...

Summarizes findings of a long-term study of math and science education reforms in Chicago, El Paso, Memphis, and Miami.Based on a three-year study of the National Science Foundation's Urban Systemic Initiative, Meaningful Urban Education Reform is an overview of recent attempts to change teaching...

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.These provocative new essays redefine the goals, methods, and assumptions of qualitative and ethnographic research in composition studies, making evident not only the crucial importance of ethnographic research, but also its resilience. As Ethnography Unbound...

Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy.Using a unified vision of geology, consisting of equal parts geo-poetry, geo-politics, geo-theology, and geo-science, Geo-Logic redraws the boundaries between philosophy and the earth sciences. Although each discipline makes crucial contributions to...

Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.Moments of Meeting tells the story of a uniquely important event in twentieth-century intellectual history, the 1957 public dialogue of philosopher Martin...

Explores the contributions that psychoanalysis can make to the study of ethics, and vice versa.Addressing the common ground between ethics and psychoanalysis, W. W. Meissner asks "Does psychoanalysis have anything to contribute to ethical understanding and reflection?" and conversely, "Does ethics have anything to...

Articles linking ecological sustainability and social justice.Eco-Justice-The Unfinished Journey links ecological sustainability and social justice from an ethical and often theological perspective. Eco-justice, defined as the well-being of all humankind on a thriving earth, began as a movement during the 1970s, responding to massive,...

The first extended treatment of Hegel's theory of the unconscious and his anticipation of Freud.Offering the first comprehensive examination of Hegel's theory of the unconscious abyss, Jon Mills rectifies a much neglected area of Hegel scholarship. Mills shows that the unconscious is the foundation...

Traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in medieval Jewish philosophy.Despite the importance of time and cosmology to Western thought, surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues in histories of Jewish philosophy. Focusing on how medieval philosophers constructed...

Underscores the limitations of traditional psychology to envision a more healthy ecological and psychological future.Nature and Psyche argues that psychological and environmental writing and action are all too often colonized by the same assumptions that inhibit ecological and cultural diversity. Industrialized monocultures conceal the...

A leading theorist addresses a wide spectrum of topics central to the field of environmental philosophy.CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic TitleA sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the...

Employs philosophy to help illuminate the nature of nursing and provide a holistic view of both nursing and persons.Using the philosophical lens of universality and singularity in combination with nursing practice, Janice M. Brencick and Glenn A. Webster explore the complex relationship between science...

Examines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.Through close reading and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to come to terms with the undoing of the Hegelian system...

The last work of the eminent philosopher Bimal Krishna Matilal, this book traces the origins of logical theory in India.The Character of Logic in India is the last work of the eminent philosopher Bimal Krishna Matilal. It traces the origins of logical theory in...

Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.Proposing social constructivism as a novel philosophy of mathematics, this book is inspired by current...

An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts.Hair-whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural-marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell. It...

Brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory, showing that deep ecology still has much to learn from such theory.In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology...

Parens argues that Alfarabi, the tenth-century Muslim philosopher, demonstrated that Plato is not the originator of Western metaphysics, and that what appears to be Plato's metaphysics was intended as a rhetorical defense of his politics.The most widely accepted view in the West today, particularly...

A study of the most significant debate in Korean Neo-Confucianism between the two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers, summarizing their philosophies and providing refreshing insights into Confucian language and cultureThis comparative study of Yi T'oegye (1501-1570) and Yi Yulgok (1536-1584), Korea's two most eminent Neo-Confucian...

Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. But why these issues? What is specifically "female" about "Gothic?" This book argues that Gothic...

Traces the development of aesthetic judgment from Kant through German Idealism to modern continental philosophy, offering detailed readings of major thinkers to show how debates about art, truth, and metaphysics continue to shape philosophical thought today.In this sweeping and intellectually rigorous study, Jacques Taminiaux...

Kantorovich analyzes the notion of discovery. He views the process as inference and questions whether there is logic or method to discovery. He provides an alternative perspective on scientific discovery that explains the difficulties in finding a satisfactory method of discovery. Within the framework...

In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which...

The authors of this book share a common assumption about anthropology-that replicable and systematic procedures of data collection and analysis are essential requirements for building useful cultural theory. They view cultural theory as both an aid to understanding sociocultural phenomena, and as an aid...

From the foreword: Evans effectively unmasks the pretention of cognitive psychology to be at once scientific and humanistic that is, to represent both of these strands in modernist thought. Beginning with a consideration of Nietzsche's last man and moving through an examination of performativity,...

How the Reagan administration used bureaucratic control over the Bureau of Land Management to shape public lands policy.When presidents seek to govern through bureaucracy rather than legislation, what really changes in public policy, and at what cost?In The Administrative Presidency Revisited, Robert F. Durant...

This biography of American poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman focuses on his development as both a "Romantic," whose work was influenced by Keats, Emerson, and Tennyson, and as an "anti-Romantic," in the mold of Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. Using previously unexamined letters, family records, and...

Learn, prepare, and practice for CompTIA Pentest+ PT0-001 exam success with this CompTIA Cert Guide from Pearson IT Certification, a leader in IT Certification. Master CompTIA Pentest+ PT0-001 exam topics Assess your knowledge with chapter-ending quizzes Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks Practice...

Author: Jennifer RingISBN-10: 0791407535ISBN-13: 9780791407530Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/1991Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d

This book introduces American readers to a philosophical and spiritual exemplar of dialogue. The author presents a way of thinking about ourselves, the world, and our relationship to God that is neither dualistic nor monistic. The thinkers presented in this book focus on a...

Discover approaches to make customer relationship marketing more effective Profit Maximization Through Customer Relationship Marketing: Measurement, Prediction, and Implementation takes the various elements of customer centric marketing and brings them together using the latest research and case studies from various industries. Respected top researchers...

Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author...

The authors examine implications of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of discourse for the understanding of theological language. Topics include self, desire, post-structuralism, the unconscious, the father's rule, dwelling (in Heidegger's sense), Anselm, ontological argument, alterity, utopia, signifiers/signifieds, God, reason, and text.Author: Edith WyschogrodISBN-10: 0791401111ISBN-13:...

This book investigates the possibility of a contemporary ethics of compassion based upon the experience of human mortality. During an age in which the traditional metaphysical guarantors of order, transcendent sources of meaning, and appeals to human rationality are becoming historical phenomena, it is...

Beginning with "value" and "commodity" at the start of Volume I in Marx's major work, and progressing step-by-step to the end of Volume III, Smith establishes in detail that Capital is a systematic theory of socio-economic categories ordered according to dialectical logic. At each...

In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The...

Understand the dynamics of East-West relationships in business to make better decisions The Eastern expansion of the European Union has increased interest in this geographic region. Market Entry and Operational Decision Making in East-West Business Relationships presents 10 case studies that focus on firms...

This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations.The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several new...

Essential reading for both native New Yorkers and tourists alike, How to Read New York unveils the boundless diversity of Gotham's architectural wonders. Covering every era of New York architecture--from what remains of the colonial days to the latest postmodern skyscraper--this unique guidebook illuminates...

This title is useful for the power user who wants to squeeze every last drop of performance from XP Professional.Author: Stu Sjouwerman,J. Michael StewartISBN-10: 0789728583ISBN-13: 9780789728586Publisher: QueLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2003Pages: 898Format: OtherWeight: 3.17lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.92w x 2.15d