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Acts of Meaningby Jerome BrunerISBN 0674003616 (0-674-00361-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Meaning'Book summary:Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor; " has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. [via]
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Actual Minds, Possible Worldsby Jerome BrunerISBN 0674003667 (0-674-00366-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Actual Minds, Possible Worlds'Book summary:In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life--those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind--a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible historical accounts. Bruner calls it the "narrative mode," and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self.
Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind's other side in his justly admired book On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind's narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works.
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Adornoby Martin JayISBN 0674005155 (0-674-00515-5)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinasby Umberto EcoISBN 0674006763 (0-674-00676-3)
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Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Lineby Paul GilroyISBN 0674006690 (0-674-00669-0)
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The Alchemy of Race and Rightsby Patricia J. WilliamsISBN 0674014715 (0-674-01471-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemy of Race and Rights'Book summary:In a personal and profound examination of the United States legal system and its effect on African Americans, Patricia J. Williams uses the term alchemy--the medieval, mysterious practice of turning base metal into gold--as a haunting metaphor for the nearly mystical process by which United States law emboldens and endangers blacks through arcane interpretation, as well as the heroic will of a people to make those laws manifest. "I'm interested in the way in which the legal language flattens and confines in absolutes the complexity of meaning inherent in any given problem," she writes. "I am trying to challenge the usual limits of commercial discourse by using an intentionally double-voiced and relational, rather than a traditionally legal black letter, vocabulary."
With an authorial voice that draws upon Williams's perspective as teacher, lawyer, black American, and woman, The Alchemy of Race and Rights uses a palette of court cases, educational encounters, and personal experiences--including her discovery of her slave ancestor and her interactions with school deans over how to teach law--to create a literary cubist portrait detailing the rhetoric and reality that color the complexion of American justice. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fictionby Mark RoseISBN 0674015665 (0-674-01566-5)
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Aramis or the Love of Technologyby Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterISBN 0674043235 (0-674-04323-5)
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The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic and Christian Traditionsby Jed WyrickISBN 0674016629 (0-674-01662-9)
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Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspaceby James J. O'DonnellISBN 067400194X (0-674-00194-X)
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"Coming to Writing" and Other Essaysby Helene CixousISBN 0674144376 (0-674-14437-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: '"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays'Book summary:Of Helene Cixous's many and diverse writings, few have been translated into English. This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. Cixous is known for her work on sexual difference and its relations to literary text. Here she explores the problematics of a "feminine" mode of writing, basing her method on the premise that differences between the sexes - viewed as a paragdigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. "Tancredi Continues" and "The Last Painting or the Portrait of God" question the enigma of sexual difference and the origins of writing through artistic practices analogous to writing (music and painting). The title essay explores Cixous's decision to become an author and the problems raised by a woman's writing herself into history and into a particular literary and cultural tradition. The remaining essays examine another aspect of her work: her ongoing dialogue with the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "By the light of an Apple" and "Clarice Lispector: The Approach" are celebrations of Cixous's Brazilian contemporary. In "The Author in Truth" Cixous quotes passages from Lispector and discusses them in detail, providing a sense of why Lispector has assumed such importance in her life. This volume aims to be of interest not only to scholars who are engaged in the task of understanding Cixous as writer and theorist but to all readers seeking a unique and exciting voice. [via]
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Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Frameworkby Gabriel A. Almond, Robert J. Mundt, G. Bingham PowellISBN 0673522822 (0-673-52282-2)
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Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Frameworkby Gabriel Abraham Almond, Powell, G. Bingham, Jr., Robert J. MundtISBN 0673524809 (0-673-52480-9)
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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognitionby Michael TomaselloISBN 0674005821 (0-674-00582-1)
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The Culture of Redemptionby Leo BersaniISBN 0674179781 (0-674-17978-1)
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsessionby Greil MarcusISBN 0674194225 (0-674-19422-5)
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Decadence and Catholicismby Ellis HansonISBN 0674194462 (0-674-19446-2)
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Discrete Mathematicsby John A. Dossey, Lawrence E. Spence, Albert D. Otto, Charles Vanden EyndenISBN 0673980391 (0-673-98039-1)
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Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviewsby J. M. Coetzee, David AttwellISBN 0674215184 (0-674-21518-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews'Book summary:Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his "vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance". "Doubling the Point" takes the reader to the center of that vision. These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography. Centrally concerned with the form and content of fiction, "Doubling the Point" provides insight into the significance of certain writers (particularly modernists such as Kafka, Musil, and Beckett), the value of intellectual movements (from structuralism and structural linguistics on through deconstruction), and the issues of political involvement and responsibility - not only for Coetzee's own work, but for fiction writing in general. In interviews prefacing each section of the book, Coetzee reflects on the essays to follow and relates them to his life and work. In these interviews editor David Attwell prompts from Coetzee answers of depth and interest. The result is the story of a fiction writer's intellectual development, and of an intellectual's literary development. It is the story of how one writer has moved through the scholarly and political trends of the last 30 years, carefully assessing their applications and limitations, and through this experience forged for himself a unique and powerful literary voice informed in equal parts by life and learning. [via]
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Engineering: An Endless Frontierby Sunny Y. AuyangISBN 0674019784 (0-674-01978-4)
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The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectivesby Susan Rubin SuleimanISBN 0674298713 (0-674-29871-3)
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The Footnote: A Curious Historyby Anthony GraftonISBN 0674307607 (0-674-30760-7)
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The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poeticsby P.N. Medvedev, Albert J. Wehrle, M.M. BakhtinISBN 0674309219 (0-674-30921-9)
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Foundations of Social Theoryby James S. ColemanISBN 0674312260 (0-674-31226-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Social Theory'Book summary:Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and change in social systems.
This book provides for the first time a sound theoretical foundation for linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior and then to society as a whole. The power of the theory is especially apparent when Coleman analyzes corporate actors, such as large corporations and trade unions. He examines the creation of these institutions, collective decision making, and the processes through which authority is revoked in revolts and revolutions.
Coleman discusses the problems of holding institutions responsible for their actions as well as their incompatibility with the family. He also provides a simple mathematical analysis corresponding to and carrying further the verbal formulations of the theory. Finally, he generates research techniques that will permit quantitative testing of the theory.
From a simple, unified conceptual structure Coleman derives, through elegant chains of reasoning, an encompassing theory of society. It promises to be the most important contribution to social theory since the publication of Talcott Parsons' Structure of Social Action in 1936.
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experienceby Erving GoffmanISBN 0674316568 (0-674-31656-8)
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The Gender of Modernityby Rita FelskiISBN 0674341945 (0-674-34194-5)
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Germans into Nazisby Peter FritzscheISBN 0674350928 (0-674-35092-8)
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A Hacker Manifestoby Mackenzie WarkISBN 0674015436 (0-674-01543-6)
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Haunting of Sylvia Plathby Jacqueline RoseISBN 0674382269 (0-674-38226-9)
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A History of English Literatureby Alastair FowlerISBN 0674396642 (0-674-39664-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of English Literature'Book summary:This delightful introduction to English literature, engaging, readable, and wise, is enlivened by the opinions and pleasures of a fine scholar-critic. Historically, it ranges from the Middle Ages to the present, concentrating on British writing but glancing also at selected American and Commonwealth authors, and lingering over the works of key figures such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Dickens. [via]
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Inside Bureaucracyby Anthony DownsISBN 0673394328 (0-673-39432-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside Bureaucracy'Book summary:Bureaus are among the most important institutions in every part of the world. Not only do they provide employment for a very significant fraction of the world's population, but they also make critical decisions that shape the economic, educational, political, social, moral, and even religious lives of nearly everyone on earth. This book develops a useful theory of bureaucratic decision making. The theory will enable analysts to predict at least some aspects of bureau behavior accurately, and to incorporate bureaus into a more generalized theory of social decision making--particularly one relevant to democracies. It would be impossible to solve all the problems involved in this immense and complex field; however, this book will solve many, and create a framework upon which solutions to still more may be built by other theorists. [via]
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International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issuesby Robert J. Art, Robert JervisISBN 0673521613 (0-673-52161-3)
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International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issuesby Robert Jervis, Robert J. ArtISBN 0673524418 (0-673-52441-8)
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The King of Timeby Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte DouglasISBN 0674505166 (0-674-50516-6)
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Lacanby Malcolm BowieISBN 067450853X (0-674-50853-X)
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Language in Literatureby Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, Krystyna PomoraskaISBN 0674510283 (0-674-51028-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language in Literature'Book summary:"Roman Jakobson was one of the great minds of the modern world," Edward J. Brown has written, "and the effects of his genius have been felt in many fields: linguistics, semiotics, art, structural anthropology, and, of course, literature." At every stage in his odyssey from Moscow to Prague to Denmark and then to the United States, he formed collaborative efforts that changed the very nature of each discipline he touched. This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary.
Jakobson reveals himself as one of the great explorers of literary art in our day--a critic who revealed the avant-garde thrust of even the most worked-over poets, such as Shakespeare and Pushkin, and enabled the reader to see them as the innovators they were. Jakobson takes the reader from literature to grammar and then back again, letting points of structural detail throw a sharp light on the underlying form and linking thereby the most disparate realms into a coherent whole. In his essays we can also learn to appreciate his search for a fully systematic, nonmetaphysical understanding of the workings of literature: Jakobson made possible a deep structural analysis that did not exist before.
Among the essential items in this collection are such classics as "Linguistics and Poetics" and "On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets" and illuminations of Baudelaire, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, and Blake, as well as the famous pieces on Shakespeare and Pushkin. The essays include fundamental theoretical statements, structural analyses of individual poems, explorations of the connections between poetry and experience, and semiotic perspectives on the structure of verbal and nonverbal art. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.
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Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relationby Richard A. PosnerISBN 0674514696 (0-674-51469-6)
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The Law of Peoplesby John RawlsISBN 0674005422 (0-674-00542-2)
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The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"by John RawlsISBN 067400079X (0-674-00079-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"'Book summary:This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls.
"The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine--such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "Justice as Fairness," presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).
The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions.
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Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architectureby Charles JencksISBN 0674518616 (0-674-51861-6)
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Lessons Of The Mastersby George SteinerISBN 0674017676 (0-674-01767-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lessons Of The Masters'Book summary:When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, Lessons of the Masters evokes a host of exemplary figures, including Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and Abelard, Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler, the Baal Shem Tov, Confucian and Buddhist sages, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Knute Rockne.
Pivotal in the unfolding of Western culture are Socrates and Jesus, charismatic masters who left no written teachings, founded no schools. In the efforts of their disciples, in the passion narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our moral, philosophical, and theological idiom. He goes on to consider a diverse array of traditions and disciplines, recurring throughout to three underlying themes: the master's power to exploit his student's dependence and vulnerability; the complementary threat of subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction between master and disciple.
Forcefully written, passionately argued, Lessons of the Masters is itself a masterly testament to the high vocation and perilous risks undertaken by true teacher and learner alike.
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Logicby Immanuel KantISBN 0672612283 (0-672-61228-3)
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Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groupsby Mancur OlsonISBN 0674537513 (0-674-53751-3)
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Ludwig Wittgensteinby David Francis PearsISBN 0674539516 (0-674-53951-6)
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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thoughtby Louis A. SassISBN 0674541375 (0-674-54137-5)
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Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinemaby David BordwellISBN 067454336X (0-674-54336-X)
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The Making of Theatre: From Drama to Performanceby Robert W. CorriganISBN 0673154033 (0-673-15403-3)
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Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Mythby Derek FreemanISBN 0674548302 (0-674-54830-2)
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Mathematical Logicby Willard QuineISBN 0674554515 (0-674-55451-5)
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The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Scienceby Londa SchiebingerISBN 067457625X (0-674-57625-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science'Book summary:As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian Francois Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that "the mind has no sex?" In this rich and comprehensive history of women's contributions to the development of early modem science, Londa Schiebinger examines the shifting fortunes of male and female equality in the sphere of the intellect. Schiebinger counters the "great women" mode of history and calls attention to broader developments in scientific culture that have been obscured by time and changing circumstance. She also elucidates a larger issue: how gender structures knowledge and power.
It is often assumed that women were automatically excluded from participation in the scientific revolution of early modem Europe, but in fact powerful trends encouraged their involvement. Aristocratic women participated in the learned discourse of the Renaissance court and dominated the informal salons that proliferated in seventeenth-century Paris. In Germany, women of the artisan class pursued research in fields such as astronomy and entomology. These and other women fought to renegotiate gender boundaries within the newly established scientific academies in order to secure their place among the men of science.
But for women the promises of the Enlightenment were not to be fulfilled. Scientific and social upheavals not only left women on the sidelines but also brought about what the author calls the "scientific revolution in views of sexual difference?" While many aspects of the scientific revolution are well understood, what has not generally been recognized is that revolution came also from another quarter--the scientific understanding of biological sex and sexual temperament (what we today call gender). Illustrations of female skeletons of the ideal woman--with small skulls and large pelvises--portrayed female nature as a virtue in the private realm of hearth and home, but as a handicap in the world of science. At the same time, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women witnessed the erosion of their own spheres of influence. Midwifery and medical cookery were gradually subsumed into the newly profess ionalized medical sciences. Scientia, the ancient female personification of science, lost ground to a newer image of the male researcher, efficient and solitary--a development that reflected a deeper intellectual shift. By the late eighteenth century, a self-reinforcing system had emerged that rendered invisible the inequalities women suffered.
In reexamining the origins of modem science, Schiebinger unearths a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processesby L.S. VygotskyISBN 0674576292 (0-674-57629-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes'Book summary:The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English. The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotsky's relevance to modem psychological thought. [via]
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processesby Michael Cole, L. S. VygotskiiISBN 0674576284 (0-674-57628-4)
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A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imaginationby Angus FletcherISBN 0674019881 (0-674-01988-1)
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Breaking with the tired habit of treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the fascinating English writer, John Clare; he then centers on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman. With Whitman this book insists that "the whole theory and nature of poetry" needs inspiration from science if it is to achieve a truly democratic vista. Drawing variously on Complexity Theory and on fundamentals of art and grammar, Fletcher argues that our finest poetry is nature-based, environmentally shaped, and descriptive in aim, enabling poets like John Ashbery and other contemporaries to discover a mysterious pragmatism.
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. While centering on American vision, the argument extends our horizon, striking a blow against all economically sanctioned attacks upon the finer, stronger human capacities. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
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On Hashishby Walter Benjamin, Howard EilandISBN 0674022211 (0-674-02221-1)
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On Human Natureby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0674016386 (0-674-01638-6)
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On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfictionby William ZinsserISBN 0673993086 (0-673-99308-6)
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Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musicalby D.A. MillerISBN 0674003888 (0-674-00388-8)
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Power and Interdependenceby Keohane, Robert O., Jr., Joseph S. NyeISBN 0673398919 (0-673-39891-9)
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Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politicsby John MuellerISBN 0673993272 (0-673-99327-2)
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Reflections on Exile and Other Essaysby Edward W. SaidISBN 0674009975 (0-674-00997-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on Exile and Other Essays'Book summary:With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic of our time--and offers further evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and our culture.
As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
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A Short Guide to Writing About Filmby Timothy CorriganISBN 0673522997 (0-673-52299-7)
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A Short History of the Moviesby Gerald MastISBN 0672615215 (0-672-61521-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of the Movies'Book summary:With each chapter updated and containing new photographs, this is the revised edition of Professor Bruce Kawin's revised edition of Gerald Mast's text. This book offers students and fans a panoramic picture of the worldwide development of film - from the early Mack Sennet and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the 1930s and '40s, through the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s to the provocative pictures appearing in today's multiplexes. "A Short History of the Movies" presents a thorough, all-emcompassing examination of the evolution of this "new art" - through its various styles, periods, genres, and works. [via]
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The Social Construction of What?by Ian HackingISBN 0674004124 (0-674-00412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Construction of What?'Book summary:Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.
Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse--very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the "culture wars" in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
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A Theory of Justiceby John RawlsISBN 0674000773 (0-674-00077-3)
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Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.
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A Theory Of Justice: Original Editionby John RawlsISBN 0674000781 (0-674-00078-1)
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This Craft of Verseby Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei MihailescuISBN 0674008200 (0-674-00820-0)
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Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature.
Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history, and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed," Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the twentieth century will be long remembered.
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Walter Benjamin Selected Writings: 1935-1938by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard EilandISBN 0674019814 (0-674-01981-4)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938-1940by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Edmund JephcottISBN 0674022297 (0-674-02229-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938-1940'Book summary:"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin's own faith in the written word.
This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a sociohistorical account of how art adapts in an age of violence and repression.
Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege.
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The World Republic of Lettersby Pascale Casanova, M. B. DebevoiseISBN 067401345X (0-674-01345-X)
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