An ethics of omprovisation

aesthetic possibilities for a political future

An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an ...

Turkey and the European Union

the question of european identity

European identity has always been in a state of construction. With the creation of the European Union, however, this construction now takes place within an institutional framework, introducing a number of new variables. Selcen Öner's Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European ...

Toward the visualization of history

the past as image

This book discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history by examining visual culture and the future of print, providing an analysis of photography, film, television, and computer culture. The author shows how the visualization of history can become a driving social and ...

Nicolò Machiavelli

the laughing lion and the strutting fox

History and future

using historical thinking to imagine the future

Confronting Hitler

german social democrats in defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933

War images

fabricating reality

In this book, the authors explore images of war and their effect on society. The authors keep in mind that the experience of being at war is much different from the experience of viewing a war image. Thus it is our responsibility to engage war ...

The lives of Hans Luther, 1879-1962

german Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador

C. Edmund Clingan chronicles the life of this controversial German politician, diplomat, and banker. Luther served as mayor of Essen during the Revolution of 1918, the Kapp Putsch, and the occupation of the Ruhr Valley by the French. Rising rapidly in the political ranks, he ...

The pious sex

essays on women and religion in the history of political thought

Ed. Andrea Radasanu. The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over ...

The vital roots of European Enlightenment

Ibn Tufayl's influence on Modern Western thought

The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays dealing with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. Had Edward Said known about the impact of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan on Europe throughout the 17th and ...

Augustine and Philosophy

Eds. Phillip Cary, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth.

Uneasy neighbors

Israel and the European Union

CONTENTS: List of Tables and Figures Introduction Uneasy Neighbors Ch. 1 Israel, Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: From Divergence to Convergence Ch. 2 Israeli-European Union Relations in a Multilateral Context Ch. 3 The Bilateral Nature of Israeli-European Union Relations Ch. 4 Israeli (Mis)Perceptions ...

Feminist time against nation time

gender, politics, and the nation-state in an age of permanent war

Eds. Victoria Hesford, Lisa Diedrich. Feminist Time Against Nation Time offers a series of essays that explore the complex and oftentimes contradictory relationship between feminism and nationalism through a problematization of contemporality. The collection pursues the following questions: how do the specific temporalities of nationalism ...

The christian heritage

problems and prospects

The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects delves into the history of the Western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and the Western classics, have been stimulated by the very success of the way of life that is promoted ...

Pharmakon

Plato, drug culture, and identity in Ancient Athens

"Beginning from the most thorough review of classical intoxicants, Michael A. Rinella applies his findings in detail to many Platonic texts. His results certainly have great significance for students of Plato, but also for the history of medicine and of classical civilization generally. It is ...

Narrative identity and personal responsibility

Narrative Identity and Personal Responsibility is about why and how identifying ourselves by means of narrative makes it possible for us to be responsible, morally and otherwise. The book begins as an investigation into how it is that we can hold people responsible for who ...

Ethics embodied

rethinking selfhood through continental, japanese, and feminist philosophies

While the body has been largely neglected in much of traditional Western philosophy, there is a rich tradition of Japanese philosophy in which this is not the case. Ethics Embodied explains how Japanese philosophy includes the body as an integral part of selfhood and ethics ...

The evolution of the Ancient City

urban theory and the archaeology of the fertile crescent

The Evolution of the Ancient City is an interdisciplinary look at how cities developed from Hunter-Gatherer societies to centers of vast empires in the Fertile Crescent between 21,500 BCE and 1,200 BCE. The reader is guided through each stage of social evolution and ...

Light and darkness in Ancient Greek myth and religion

Eds. Menelaos Christipoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk. Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual ...

Europe and its boundaries

words and worlds, within and beyond

Edited by Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi. In crating a forum for a deeply hermeneutical consideration of the project of provincializing Europe, this book articulates an alternative grammar of global political thought. It shows that forms of global political thought are capable of residing simultaneously ...