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  • Staging Sovereignty

    Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the very beginning.This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, ... Read more

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  • Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book provides a significant and insightful exploration of the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. The philosopher Jacques Derrida speaks of a deeply ambiguous desire to 'save the name' of God in his work on negative theology, and this desire resonates in different ways in the work of his contemporaries. This turn to religion within the work of a group of thinkers who ... Read more

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  • Ethnic Dress in the United States

    A Cultural Encyclopedia

    The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion ... Read more

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  • Unbearable Life

    A Genealogy of Political Erasure

    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen’s existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to ... Read more

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  • Unbearable Life

    A Genealogy of Political Erasure

    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen’s existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to ... Read more

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  • Romantic Biography

    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called 'death of the author', popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romantic biographers and critics to consider some of the key questions surrounding this publishing phenomenon. What precisely is Romantic biography? What is the relationship between it and Romantic writings ... Read more

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  • How to Start a Hobby in Designing and building electronic circuits

    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Hobby in Designing and building electronic circuits ... Read more

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  • A Language of Emotion

    What Music Does and How It Works

    These lively, informative essays, all related to music, are as accessible as a chatty bedside reader.A central theme is listener response, and the techniques and structures that mold it.The story starts with sound waves, the ear, and the brain.Did song come before speech?Was it a factor in evolution?Some think singing helps complete the wiring of that organic work-in-progress, the infant brain ... Read more

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  • The Messianic Now

    Philosophy, Religion, Culture

    Edited by Arthur Bradley, Paul Fletcher ...
    This collection explores the phenomenon of the messianic in contemporary philosophy, religion and culture. From the later Derrida’s work on Marx and Benjamin to Agamben and Badiou’s recent texts on St Paul, it is becoming possible to detect a marked ‘messianic turn’ in contemporary continental thought. However, despite the plethora of work in the field there has not been any sustained attempt to ... Read more

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    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Adopting the role of tour guide, award-winning writer Kevin Hart leads the reader through the pitfalls, conundrums and complexities that characterize postmodernism, while providing an overview of the many different approaches (philosophical, cultural, literary…) to the subject. All the major thinkers are introduced – from Derrida to Blanchot, Irigaray to Foucault, and more besides – while the book ... Read more

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  • Religion and European Philosophy

    Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek

    Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek draws together a diverse group of scholars in theology, religious studies, and philosophy to discuss the role that religion plays among key figures in the European philosophical tradition. Designed for accessibility, each of the thirty-four chapters includes background information on the key thinker, an overview of the main themes, ... Read more

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  • For René Girard

    Essays in Friendship and in Truth

    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    In his explorations of the relations between the sacred and violence, René Girard has hit upon the origin of culture—the way culture began, the way it continues to organize itself. The way communities of human beings structure themselves in a manner that is different from that of other species on the planet.Like Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, Martin Buber, or others who have ... Read more

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