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Cover art: Reproduction of a watercolor of the proposed design by Captain Williams Lansing of the Connecticut Street Armory, Buffalo, New York, by Hughson Hawley, 1896. Courtesy of New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs. 1133 From Todd/ New York’s Historic Armories, p. 2. The Semitica fonts used to create this work are © 1986–2003 Payne Loving Trust. They are available from Linguist’s Software, Inc., www.linguistsoftware.com, P.O. Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580 USA, tel (425) 775-1130. GENERAL INTEREST

WILLIAM KENNEDY Conversations and Interpretations DONALD W. FAULKNER, EDITOR

Multiple perspectives on the author who has made Albany, New York an unavoidable stop on the route-map of the American literary landscape.

Mixing critical insight with humor and wit, this volume offers multiple perspectives on the life and work of William Kennedy. Through both his novels and his work as the founder of the New York State Writers Institute, Kennedy has made Albany a crossroads of literary culture and an unavoidable stop on the route-map of the American literary landscape. Included here is an extensive interview with Kennedy himself, along with reminiscences and appreciations by such fellow writers as Frank McCourt, E. L. Doctorow, and Douglas Brinkley, and scholarly essays on the novels in the Albany Cycle. Always present as well are the brilliant characters of Kennedy’s work: the haunted Francis Phelan, the larger-than-life Legs Diamond, the enigmatic Katrina Daugherty, the magnifi cently corrupt iconic politicians of Albany’s Democratic machine, and Roscoe Conway, Photograph by Phillip Caruso. a man who knows too much about political gamesmanship. OCTOBER “What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany … His cycle of Albany novels is one 180 pp of the great resurrections of place in our literature.” — James Atlas, Vogue $25.00/T jacketed hc 0-7914-7003-2 “William Kennedy is a writer with something to say, about matters that LITERARY CRITICISM touch us all, and he says it with uncommon artistry.” — Michael M. Thomas, Washington Post Published in cooperation with the New York State Writers Institute From William Kennedy: Conversations and Interpretations

“Kennedy’s one of those lucky writers whose physical home is the home of William Kennedy is Executive his imagination, and certainly what he has done for this place has never Director and Founder of the New been done before and has indeed been a great contribution, and I salute York State Writers Institute at him for it.” — E. L. Doctorow the University at Albany, State University of New York. Born “What I have loved about Kennedy’s work is his passionate interest and raised in Albany, Kennedy in lives outside his own, his fi delity to place, latitude and longitude. is best known for the novels in his What I admire and love about his life is his determination to create the “Albany Cycle,” which include institutions and cultures that would honor this state’s literature and its makers, Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest his coworkers, in all their differences from himself, of genre, language, Game, the Pulitzer Prize–winning idea, and stubbornness.” — Grace Paley Ironweed, and Roscoe. He also wrote the screenplay for Ironweed Donald W. Faulkner is Director of the New York State Writers Institute and cowrote the screenplay at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has edited for The Cotton Club with several books of writings by the eminent literary critic Malcolm Cowley, Francis Ford Coppola, as well as including The Portable Malcolm Cowley; Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey two books of nonfi ction, O Albany! of the 1920s; and New England Writers and Writing. and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car, and the play Grand View.

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NEW YORK’S HISTORIC ARMORIES An Illustrated History NANCY L. TODD FOREWORDS BY GOVERNOR GEORGE E. PATAKI, COMMISSIONER BERNADETTE CASTRO, AND MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH J. TALUTO

Chronicles the evolution of the armory as a specifi c building type in American architectural and military history, and the role these buildings played in the history of America’s volunteer militia.

SEPTEMBER New York’s Army National Guard armories are among the 352 pp most imposing monuments to the role of the citizen soldier in Trim size: 10 3/4 x 8 ½ American military history. In New York’s Historic Armories, 95 color photographs, Nancy L. Todd draws on archival research as well as 222 b/w photographs historic and contemporary photographs and drawings to and line art trace the evolution of the armory as a specifi c building type $50.00/T jacketed hc in American architectural and military history. The result 0-7914-6911-5 of a ten-year collaboration between the New York State HISTORY I ARCHITECTURE Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and NEW YORK STUDIES the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, this illustrated history presents information on all known Funded in part by the U.S. armories in the state as well as the units associated with Department of Defense’s Legacy them, and will serve as a valuable reference for readers Resource Management Program and jointly managed by the interested in general, military, and architectural history. New York State Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Advance Praise for New York’s Historic Armories (OPRHP) and the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs (DMNA). “This attractive and engaging book highlights New York’s large and distinguished group of historic armories—national treasures associated with a revered history of security and peacekeeping … I am confi dent that this book will Nancy L. Todd, an architectural historian, further our understanding and appreciation of the state’s is a Program Analyst at the New York State historic armories and their contribution to safeguarding our Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic communities and citizens.” — Governor George E. Pataki Preservation. She is a past recipient of the Adjutant General’s Award, New York State “Begun in the late eighteenth century, New York’s extensive Division of Military and Naval Affairs, for armory building program had a signifi cant impact on the extraordinary contributions to the historic development of communities across the state … Today, preservation of New York’s armories. many of the historic armories are underused or have become obsolete. Safeguarding this remarkable collection presents both challenges and exciting possibilities.” — Bernadette Castro, Commissioner, New York State Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

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DAVID DINKINS AND NEW YORK CITY POLITICS Race, Images, and the Media WILBUR C. RICH

Studies the role of the media in shaping public perceptions of David Dinkins’ mayoral leadership.

As the fi rst African American elected mayor of New York City, David Dinkins underwent intense scrutiny—fi rst from the black community, then from white liberal supporters, the media, and the city’s electorate. Wilbur C. Rich focuses on the critical role played by the New York City media in the perception of mayoral leadership. Using interviews and words of journalists, Rich examines media coverage as both the architect and challenger of Dinkins’ image. The making and unmaking of David Dinkins not only exposes much about the agency of African American politicians, but also reveals the fragility of electoral coalitions. NOVEMBER Advance Praise for David Dinkins and New York City Politics 224 pp 10 b/w photographs, 3 tables “Wilbur Rich is the nation’s preeminent political scientist on mayors $35.00/T jacketed hc and mayoral leadership. What is unique about this book is that 0-7914-6949-2 Rich examines Dinkins’ mayoralty through the lens of the New York POLITICAL SCIENCE City media. Rich shows how the infl uential New York City media NEW YORK STUDIES deconstructed Dinkins’ ‘preferred self-image’ (a competent, sensitive, skillful public servant) into a ‘prevailing self-image’ of an incompetent politician incapable of leading the world’s most important city.” — Marion Orr, author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986–1998

“Wilbur Rich has done it again—gone where few scholars have gone before. In this book about David Dinkins as mayor of New York, Rich takes on the complex matter of how race, images, and the media are intertwined. He shows us how powerful stereotypes affect both journalists and their audiences. Once more, readers of the work of Wilbur Rich will fi nd themselves thinking in new ways about a big topic.” — Clarence Stone, The George Washington University

Wilbur C. Rich is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He has written many books including Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker and the edited volume (with James Bowers), Governing Middle-Sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership.

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SAVING STERLING FOREST The Epic Struggle to Preserve New York’s Highlands ANN BOTSHON

The story of the twenty-fi ve-year quest to preserve twenty thousand acres of forest in southeastern New York.

This is the inspiring story of the twenty-fi ve-year-long effort to preserve Sterling Forest, a tract of rugged, upland terrain encompassing twenty thousand acres within the New York–New Jersey Highlands. Barely forty miles northwest of New York City, Sterling Forest seemed destined to suffer the same fate that had befallen thousands of acres of land in this rapidly suburbanizing corridor. The fi ght to save Sterling Forest brought together one of the largest coalitions of environmental groups and government entities ever assembled. Despite the loose, sometimes fractious nature of the alliance, the coalition managed to extract support from Congress, NOVEMBER New York State, New Jersey, and private donors, while at the 208 pp same time negotiating a contract to purchase the land from the 1 b/w photograph, Sterling Forest Corporation, a company that vigorously protected 6 maps, 2 tables its fi nancial interests at every turn. Deemed by some to be one $19.95/T pb 0-7914-6940-9 of the more remarkable environmental victories of the 1990s, $59.50/T hc 0-7914-6939-5 the successful outcome of the Sterling Forest struggle—a large ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES state park within easy access of millions of people and a protected PUBLIC POLICY supply of water to New Jersey residents—embodied virtually every NEW YORK STUDIES facet of land-use confl ict. It provides a model for saving other areas where critical wild lands are threatened by development.

“Ann Botshon’s work is an important documentation of one of the most signifi cant open space victories in the nation. It is imperative that the lessons learned in the struggle to save Sterling Forest be imparted to a new generation of advocates who are likely to face even more diffi cult challenges in protecting our access to and relationship with the natural world.” — U.S. Representative Maurice D. Hinchey, 22nd Congressional District of New York

Ann Botshon (1942–2004) was Coordinator of the Wallkill River Task Force and Editor of the Sierra Atlantic, the quarterly magazine published by the Atlantic (New York) Chapter of the Sierra Club.

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STOPPING THE PLANT The St. Lawrence Cement Controversy and the Battle for Quality of Life in the Hudson Valley MIRIAM D. SILVERMAN

Detailed account of the controversy surrounding the building of a coal-fi red cement factory in the Hudson Valley.

When the St. Lawrence Cement Company proposed building a massive coal-powered cement plant near the banks of the Hudson River in the town of Greenport, New York, in 1999, it ignited a controversy that dominated the discussion of community development in the entire Hudson Valley region. Stopping the Plant is a fascinating and detailed chronicle of how the proposal fi red the passions of many local citizens, spawned the creation of numerous activist groups, and over the next several years spread to become a raging dispute throughout the Northeast. Miriam D. Silverman provides a thorough and balanced exploration of the positions of A volume in the SUNY series, both sides of this highly polarized dispute, while at the same time An American Region: places the controversy within a greater historical and regional context. Studies in the Hudson Valley For anyone interested in community organizing, the potentials and Thomas S. Wermuth, editor diffi culties of modern grassroots environmentalism, and, ultimately, the future of the environmental movement, Silverman emphasizes AUGUST the signifi cance of the decision by St. Lawrence Cement to withdraw 160 pp its application in 2005. 12 b/w photographs, 1 table, 3 fi gures “A vivid portrayal of citizens and environmental organizations $14.95 pb 0-7914-6962-X joining together to win the fi rst great fi ght for the Hudson in the $44.50 hc 0-7914-6961-1 twenty-fi rst century, with important lessons for the coming struggle NEW YORK STUDIES to save the ‘landscape that defi ned America.’” — Frederic C. Rich, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Chair, Board of Directors, Scenic Hudson

“This is a well-written account on an environmental confl ict which, against long odds, citizens won. Stopping the Plant deserves wide Miriam D. Silverman is an readership, not least because the federal government is in retreat, independent scholar born and which means that environmental protection will be done at the local raised in New York City. and state levels or not at all. Miriam Silverman has pulled off the very diffi cult task of being evenhanded without losing her own voice. It is hard to fairly present views with which one disagrees, but she does this admirably. The result is a compelling and convincing analysis of how a powerful corporation, promising jobs and prosperity to hard-pressed communities, lost to a broad coalition that put forward a very different vision of what sort of future they wanted.” — Jan E. Dizard, author of Going Wild: Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature celebrating 40 years I 1966–2006 www.sunypress.edu I 5 GENERAL INTEREST

JAZZ AFTER DINNER Selected Poems LEONARD A. SLADE JR.

Poems of celebration and endurance.

In these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses the human need to be connected not only to the physical “now,” but also to the other lives and other music we pass through during our lives. Slade’s unique voice exposes the sweetness, the sorrow, and the humor of life’s celebrations and struggles, but above all is the importance of love and the reliance on God and in faith for transcendence. These are poems to help us to endure, to grow, and to triumph.

“I have read [Slade’s] poetry, and I am the better for it, the wiser for it, and the happier for it.” — Dr. Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University

From “I Am a Black Man” “Jazz After Dinner is a signifi cant volume of poetry. Slade’s poems reek of life, jazz, and the bebop rhythms of a Langston Hughes— I am a Black man celebration and endurance, yes, but with a little toe-dancing as my history written with blood well. What more do we ask of our poets? Slade is a bit of a British some sweet songs of sorrow Romantic, but the American kind, one who also says, ‘Yassir. Look at are composed for my soul me and be healed.’” — Ginny MacKenzie, author of Skipstone and I can be seen plowing in the “Purity of sound, sense, and emotion are the hallmarks of Jazz After fi elds Dinner, distillations of Slade’s decades in the lonely groves of poetry. Can be heard And in the same collection of melodious love poems come powerful humming poems of social protest calling on us to remember captives on slave in the night ships, slave mothers, Montgomery and Memphis, and the dream of Dr. King. In the tradition of Thoreau, the exuberant Slade recreates his world as surely as if he were living at Walden Pond.” JUNE — George Hendrick, coauthor of Why Not Every Man? African 104 pp Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream Trim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½ $18.95/T pb 0-7914-6948-4 Leonard A. Slade Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department $49.50 jacketed hc of Africana Studies, Director of the Doctor of Arts in Humanistic 0-7914-6947-6 Studies Program, and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies POETRY Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has published in many journals and magazines and is the author of fi fteen books, including eleven books of poetry: Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer, The Beauty of Blackness, I Fly Like a Bird, The Whipping Song, Vintage, Fire Burning, Pure Light, Neglecting the Flowers, Lilacs in Spring, Elisabeth and Other Poems, and For the Love of Freedom.

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LANDMARK YIDDISH PLAYS A Critical Anthology EDITED, TRANSLATED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOEL BERKOWITZ AND JEREMY DAUBER

Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama.

Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational confl ict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber place the plays in the context of the development of modern drama and Yiddish drama and examine their treatment of social, political, and religious issues. The many ways in which the plays address these issues make them transcend their own time, exciting a new generation of readers A volume in the and theatergoers. SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature “This is one of the freshest, liveliest works I have seen in contemporary and Culture Yiddish studies. The plays are important, yet little known, adding Sarah Blacher Cohen, editor immeasurably to Jewish literature in translation. The introduction would be valuable as an independent work—it is the fi nest essay on JUNE the Yiddish theater currently available in English.” — Ruth R. Wisse, 336 pp author of The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language $29.95 pb 0-7914-6780-5 and Culture $89.50 hc 0-7914-6779-1 JEWISH STUDIES “This book presents these plays to English-speaking audiences for the fi rst time. Such a translation is well overdue. The translators place the development of Yiddish theater within the context of the Enlightenment from which it emerged and demonstrate the relationship between the changing mores of Jewish society and the theater that refl ected these changes.” — Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage

Joel Berkowitz is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage and the editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches. Jeremy Dauber is Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. He is the author of Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature.

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THE FAMILY FLAMBOYANT Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives MARLA BRETTSCHNEIDER

Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.

The Family Flamboyant is a graceful and lucid account of the many routes to family formation. Weaving together personal experience and political analysis in an examination of how race, gender, sexuality, class, and other hierarchies function in family politics, Marla Brettschneider draws on her own experience in a Jewish, multiracial, adoptive, queer family in order to theorize about the layered realities that characterize families in the United States today. Brettschneider uses critical race politics, feminist insight, class-based analysis, and queer theory to offer a distinct and distinctly Jewish contribution to both the family debates and the larger project of justice politics. A volume in the “The Family Flamboyant is a spirited testimony to the richness and SUNY series in multiplicity of family life, and a model of how refl ections on one’s Feminist Criticism own experience and scholarship can illuminate one another to mutual and Theory advantage. This book is a welcome addition to the bookshelf for Michelle A. Massé, editor anyone interested in the complex ways in which people enter into and sustain family relationships.” — Mary Lyndon Shanley, author of OCTOBER Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age 224 pp of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex $24.95 pb 0-7914-6894-1 and Unwed Parents $74.50 hc 0-7914-6893-3 LESBIAN/GAY STUDIES “The strength of this book is the passionate voice of Brettschneider JEWISH STUDIES and her ability to harness it for a fresh discussion of the place of Jewishness in American multicultural thought. The writing is truly impressive.” — Matti Bunzl, author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna

At the University of New Hampshire, Marla Brettschneider is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, holds a joint appointment in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and is Coordinator of Queer Studies. She is the author of several books, including Democratic Theorizing from the Margins.

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GIRLS IN POWER Gender, Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence LAURA FINGERSON

A consideration of menstruation in the lives of teenage girls—and in the lives of teenage boys.

Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls—and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation and the fi rst to explore how it plays a part in power interactions between boys and girls. Talking openly in single- and mixed-gender settings, individuals and groups of high school–age girls and boys share their interpretations and experiences of menstruation. Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys. She also explores AUGUST how boys deal with their own reduced power. The book extends our 192 pp theoretical and analytical understanding of youth, gender, power, $21.95 pb 0-7914-6900-X and embodiment by providing a more balanced view of adolescent $65.50 hc 0-7914-6899-2 social life. SOCIOLOGY WOMEN’S STUDIES “This work is part of a growing fi eld that gives more attention to children and adolescents in creating their own unique social networks within the broader world constructed by adults. Fingerson’s interviews with girls as well as boys concerning attitudes about menstruation are new and refreshing. How we are taught to socially manage this bodily process deserves more attention, and Fingerson has helped to carve a path that other researchers may follow.” — Sharra Vostral, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Laura Fingerson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

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TWO IN A BED The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing PAUL C. ROSENBLATT

A fascinating look at the social experience of sharing a bed with another person.

Millions of adults sleep with another adult, but what does it mean to share a bed with someone else, and how does it affect a couple’s relationship? What happens when one partner snores? Steals the sheets? Prefers to sleep in the nude? To address these and other questions, Paul C. Rosenblatt asked couples to describe the struggles, challenges, and achievements of their bed-sharing experiences. Two in a Bed includes interviews with more than forty bed-sharing couples as they candidly discuss winding down and waking up, cold feet and tucked sheets, who sleeps near the door and who gets pushed to the edge, snoring, spooning, sleep talking, sleep walking, and the myriad other behaviors we negotiate in falling asleep, JULY staying asleep, and waking up each morning beside a partner. In 224 pp addition to exploring the routines and realities of sharing a bed with $23.95 pb 0-7914-6830-5 another person, these interviews reveal important information about $71.50 hc 0-7914-6829-1 sleep, relationships, and American society. Stressing the intricacy SOCIOLOGY and importance of a previously unremarked activity, Rosenblatt’s Two in a Bed shows that sleep should no longer be viewed solely as an individual phenomenon.

“This is the most fascinating and engaging book in the family arena that I have read in many years. It fi lls a signifi cant and important gap in the social science literature. Every interview is informative and some are even hilarious.” — David M. Klein, coeditor of Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research

Paul C. Rosenblatt is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of many books, including (with Beverly R. Wallace) African American Grief; Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child; Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship; (with Terri A. Karis and Richard D. Powell) Multiracial Couples: Black & White Voices; and Metaphors of Family Systems Theory: Toward New Constructions.

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MODELING LIFE Art Models Speak about Nudity, Sexuality, and the Creative Process SARAH R. PHILLIPS

A fascinating consideration of the work of life models and the models’ own perspectives on their craft.

This is a book about life modeling. Unlike the painter whose name appears beside his fi nished portrait, the life model, posing nude, perhaps for months, goes unacknowledged. Standing at a unique juncture—between nude and naked, between high and low culture, between art and pornography—the life model is admired in a fi nished sculpture, but scorned for her or his posing. Making use of extensive interviews with both male and female models and quoting them frequently, Sarah R. Phillips gives a voice to life models. She explores the meaning that life models give to themselves and to their work and seeks to understand the lived experience of OCTOBER life models as they practice their profession. Throughout history, 144 pp people have romanticized life models in an aura of bohemian 8 b/w photographs eroticism, or condemned them as strippers or sex workers. $14.95 pb 0-7914-6908-5 Modeling Life reveals how life models get into the business, managing $44.50 hc 0-7914-6907-7 sexuality in the studio, what it means to be a “muse,” and why their ART I SOCIOLOGY work is important.

Sarah R. Phillips is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pacifi c University.

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ON BUDDHISM KEIJI NISHITANI TRANSLATED BY SEISAKU YAMAMOTO AND ROBERT E. CARTER INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT E. CARTER FOREWORD BY JAN VAN BRAGT

Six lectures by eminent Buddhist thinker Keiji Nishitani refl ecting on Buddhism for the modern world.

On Buddhism presents the fi rst English-language translation of a series of lectures by Keiji Nishitani (1900–1990), a major Buddhist thinker and a key fi gure in the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. Originally delivered in the early 1970s, these lectures focus on the transformation of culture in the modern age and the subsequent decline in the importance of the family and religion. Nishitani’s JUNE concern is that modernity, with its individualism, materialism, and 192 pp contractual ethics, is an insuffi cient basis for human relationships. $16.95 pb 0-7914-6786-4 With deep insight into both Buddhism and Christianity, he explores $49.50 hc 0-7914-6785-6 such issues as the nature of genuine human existence, the major BUDDHIST STUDIES role of conscience in our advance to authenticity, and the needed EASTERN THOUGHT transformation of religion. Nishitani criticizes contemporary Buddhism for being too esoteric and asks that it “come down from Mt. Hiei” to reestablish itself as a vital source of worthy ideals and to point toward a way of remaining human even in a modern and postmodern world.

“These lectures … develop some themes not usually discussed in Buddhism, while also presenting other themes and ideas that are discussed in Nishitani’s books but which are much more accessible here.” — John C. Maraldo, coeditor of Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism

“Nishitani is one of Buddhism’s wisest modern exponents, and so it’s wonderful to have more of his work available in English, and especially an important yet accessible text like this one.” — Graham Parkes, cotranslator of Keiji Nishitani’s The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism

Seisaku Yamamoto is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Kyoto University, Japan. Robert E. Carter is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. They are cotranslators of Watsuji Tetsuroµ’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, and Carter is the author of Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics, both also published by SUNY Press.

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BUDDHA IN SRI LANKA Remembered Yesterdays SWARNA WICKREMERATNE FOREWORD BY GEORGE D. BOND

Combining memoir, history, and present-day narrative, this book describes how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka.

This book provides both an erudite and intimate look at how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka. While India is known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Sri Lanka is its other home, extending back over twenty-fi ve hundred years on the island and remaining at the center of its spiritual traditions and culture.

Throughout the book, author Swarna Wickremeratne incorporates a personal view, sharing stories of herself, her family, friends, and acquaintances as they “lived Buddhism” both during her Sri Lankan girlhood and during more recent times. This personal view makes SEPTEMBER the traditions come alive as Wickremeratne details Buddhist beliefs, 304 pp customs, rituals and ceremonies, and folklore. She also provides a $27.95 pb 0-7914-6882-8 fascinating discussion of the Sangha, the institutional monkhood, in $83.50 hc 0-7914-6881-X Sri Lanka, including its history, codes of conduct, and evolution and BUDDHIST STUDIES resilience over time. Wickremeratne explores the recent attempts by many monks to reinvent themselves in a society characterized by secularization, globalization, and a tide of aggressive Christian evangelization.

“This book offers a lively portrait of Buddhism as it emerges in daily life in Sri Lanka. Accessible and engaging, it gives readers a great sense of what lived, popular Buddhism is really like.” — Tracy Pintchman, author of Guests at God’s Wedding: Celebrating Kartic among the Women of Benares

Swarna Wickremeratne is a librarian at Oakton Community College and an independent scholar.

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THE EVOLUTION OF DEATH Why We Are Living Longer STANLEY SHOSTAK

Argues that death is not unchanging, but rather has evolved over time.

In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective.

Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artifi cial means A volume in the SUNY series in currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly Philosophy and Biology juvenilized in our adult life, death will become signifi cantly and David Edward Shaner, editor evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and OCTOBER restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. 256 pp If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings 23 fi gures may join the ranks of other animals with indefi nite life spans. $26.95 pb 0-7914-6946-8 $80.50 hc 0-7914-6945-X “Who isn’t fascinated by the topic of death, and who wouldn’t want SCIENCE I PHILOSOPHY to know what scientists can tell us about it? I see Shostak’s book as laying the foundation for an intriguing discussion of the relationship between death and morality, social justice and longevity, and aging and the good life.” — Robert M. Johnson, author of A Logic Book: Fundamentals of Reasoning, Fifth Edition

Stanley Shostak is Associate Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of several books, including Evolution of Sameness and Difference: Perspectives on the Human Genome Project.

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IRON EYES DO÷GEN ON MEDITATION The Life and Teachings AND THINKING of O÷baku Zen Master A Refl ection on Tetsugen Doµkoµ His View of Zen Helen J. Baroni Hee-Jin Kim

Looks at the contributions Looks at Doµgen’s writings of a major fi gure in Buddhism on meditation and thinking. and provides translations of his writings. Thirty years after the publication of his classic work Doµgen Kigen— Iron Eyes focuses on the Japanese Zen Mystical Realist, Hee-Jin Kim reframes master Tetsugen Doµkoµ (1630–1682), and recasts his understanding of the best-known exponent of O÷baku Zen in Japan and the West. Doµgen’s Zen methodology in this new book. Through meticulous O÷baku Zen arose during the seventeenth century and became textual analyses of and critical refl ections on key passages the third major Zen sect in Japan. O÷baku monks encouraged the primarily from Doµgen’s Shoµboµgenzoµ, Kim explicates hitherto laity to deepen their knowledge of and commitment to Buddhism. underappreciated aspects of Doµgen’s religion, such as ambiguity Tetsugen is credited with producing the fi rst complete wood block of delusion and also of enlightenment, intricacies of negotiating edition of the Chinese Buddhist scriptures in Japan. Legend has it the Way, the dynamic functions of emptiness, the realizational that Tetsugen had to raise the money for the project three times: view of language, nonthinking as the essence of meditation, and twice his great compassion led him to give away the money a multifaceted conception of reason. Kim also responds to many he had raised to the starving victims of natural disasters. This recent developments in Zen studies that have arisen in both Asia Zen story is well-known in Japan and has gained popularity and the West, especially Critical Buddhism. He brings Doµgen the among contemporary Buddhists in the West. The fi rst part of this meditator and Doµgen the thinker into relief. Kim’s study clearly book offers an introduction and a series of analytical chapters demonstrates that language, thinking, and reason constitute describing Tetsugen’s life, work, and teachings, as well as the the essence of Doµgen’s proposed Zen praxis, and that such legends related to him. The second part comprises annotated a Zen opens up new possibilities for dialogue between Zen and translations of his major teaching texts, important letters and contemporary thought. This fresh assessment of Doµgen’s Zen other historical documents, a selection of his poetry, and several represents a radical shift in our understanding of its place in the traditional biographies. history of Buddhism.

“Well researched and clearly written, Iron Eyes provides a “Kim has been very successful in providing novel, innovative thorough and insightful examination of Tetsugen Doµkoµ. The author means of interpreting Doµgen’s approach to such seminal issues is the only expert specialist in the subfi eld of the O÷baku school, as meditative thinking, nonduality, illusion, language, logical and she makes a signifi cant contribution to the burgeoning fi elds thinking, and realization. A new generation of readers will be of Tokugawa intellectual history, religious thought, and Buddhist eager to learn from the ‘grand master’ of the fi eld and will benefi t studies.” — Steven Heine, author of Doµgen and the Koµan from his insightful analysis of key passages from Doµgen’s collected Tradition: A Tale of Two Shoµboµgenzoµ Texts works. This book will takes its place among other prominent philosophical studies of Doµgen by Masao Abe, Joan Stambaugh, Helen J. Baroni is Associate Professor of Religion at the and Gereon Kopf.” — Steven Heine, author of Doµgen and the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of O÷baku Zen: Koµan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shoµboµgenzoµ Texts The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism. Hee-Jin Kim is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon and the author of Doµgen Kigen— OCTOBER I 240 pp Mystical Realist. $25.95 pb 0-7914-6892-5 $77.50 hc 0-7914-6891-7 NOVEMBER I 172 pp $21.95 pb 0-7914-6926-3 $65.50 hc 0-7914-6925-5

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ZEN SANCTUARY INTO THE JAWS OF PURPLE ROBES OF YAMA, Japan’s Toµkeiji Convent LORD OF DEATH Since 1285 Buddhism, Bioethics, Sachiko Kaneko Morrell and and Death Robert E. Morrell Karma Lekshe Tsomo

A fascinating look at a Zen A fascinating look at Buddhist, convent throughout its history. especially Tibetan, views of death and their implications Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes for a Buddhist bioethics. examines the affairs of Rinzai Zen’s Toµkeiji Convent, founded in 1285 This book explores the Buddhist by nun Kakusan Shidoµ after the death of her husband, Hoµjoµ view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Tokimune. It traces the convent’s history through seven centuries, Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author including the early nuns’ Zen practice; Abbess Yoµdoµ’s imperial Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human lineage with nuns in purple robes; Hideyori’s seven-year-old consciousness and personal identity and how these fi gure in the daughter—later to become the convent’s twentieth abbess, Buddhist view of death. Beliefs about death and enlightenment Tenshuµ—spared by Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle for Osaka and states between life and death are also discussed. Tsomo goes Castle; Toµkeiji as “divorce temple” during the mid-Edo period and on to examine such hot-button topics as cloning, abortion, assisted a favorite topic of senryuµ satirical verse; the convent’s gradual suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, genetic engineering, decline as functioning nunnery but its continued survival during and stem-cell research within a Buddhist context, introducing the early Meiji persecution of Buddhism; and its current prosperity. new ways of thinking about these highly controversial issues. The work includes translations, charts, illustrations, bibliographies, and indices. Beyond such historical details, the authors emphasize “This is an extremely clear, cogent, compassionate, and well- the convent’s “inclusivist” Rinzai Zen practice in tandem with the written survey of Buddhist philosophical, religious, ethical, and nearby Engakuji Temple. The rationale for this “inclusivism” is the practical perspectives on the question of death and dying. continuing acceptance of the doctrine of “Skillful Means” (hoµben) The author does a marvelous job presenting not only the as expressed in the Lotus Sutra—a notion repudiated or radically range of traditional views, but also some of the contemporary reinterpreted by most of the Kamakura “reformers.” In support conversations and debates being held both in Asia and the West of this contention, the authors include a complete translation of about this timely topic.” — Beata Grant, translator of Daughters the Mirror for Women by Kakusan’s contemporary, Mujuµ Ichien. of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns

“This cultural history of the famous Toµkeiji Convent is rich in detail Karma Lekshe Tsomo is Assistant Professor of Theology and and generous in providing translations of the prose and poetry Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She is the editor speaking to both its Rinzai Zen cult and its popular reputation as of Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and a sanctuary for women escaping from abusive marriages. This is Achievements and Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations, engaged scholarship.” — Edwin Cranston, Harvard University and the author of Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women, all published by SUNY Press. “This long-awaited tome on Toµkeiji through the ages is chock JULY I 288 pp full of witty insights, poetic excerpts, irascible comments, and $27.95 pb 0-7914-6832-1 fascinating information. A delightful read.” — Paul L. Swanson, $83.50 hc 0-7914-6831-3 coeditor of Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions

Sachiko Kaneko Morrell is retired from her position as East Asian Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis. Robert E. Morrell is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature and Buddhism at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishuµ): The Tales of Mujuµ Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism, also published by SUNY Press, and Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report.

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POPULARIZING THE HONGZHOU SCHOOL BUDDHISM OF CHAN BUDDHISM Preaching as Performance IN EIGHTH- THROUGH in Sri Lanka TENTH-CENTURY CHINA Mahinda Deegalle Jinhua Jia

Explores the ritual practice A comprehensive study of Buddhist preaching. of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism, long The fi rst book to focus on the ritual regarded as the Golden Age practice of Buddhist preaching in Asia, of this tradition, using many Popularizing Buddhism examines previously ignored texts, the role of preaching in Buddhist including stele inscriptions. devotional life and its relationship to the vernacular Sinhala literature of late medieval Sri Lanka. Blending ethnography, This book provides a wide-ranging examination of the Hongzhou textual and doctrinal studies, and an analysis of untranslated school of Chan Buddhism—the precursor to Zen Buddhism—under Sinhala vernacular Buddhist texts, Mahinda Deegalle traces Mazu Daoyi (709–788) and his successors in eighth- through the development of Buddhist preaching within the Sri Lankan tenth-century China, which was credited with creating a Golden Theravaµda Buddhist tradition. He explains the preaching Age or classical tradition. Jinhua Jia uses stele inscriptions and ceremony popularly known as ban|a and offers a rich depiction of other previously ignored texts to explore the school’s teachings preaching styles, events, and specifi c preachers. The book delves and history. Defending the school as a full-fl edged, signifi cant into the debates surrounding the preaching ritual’s origin and its lineage, Jia reconstructs Mazu’s biography and resolves potential beginning and continuity within the bhaµn|aka (reciter) controversies about his disciples. In contrast to the many scholars tradition, and explores the interactions between vernacular who either accept or reject the traditional Chan histories and religious traditions of Sri Lanka with cosmopolitan Buddhism. discourse records, she thoroughly examines the Hongzhou Deegalle advances previous research on the transmission literature to differentiate the original, authentic portions from later of Buddhist teachings by constructing a vivid picture of the way layers of modifi cation and recreation. Sri Lankan Buddhist traditions have shaped the nature of Theravaµda Buddhism. The book describes the emergence and maturity of encounter dialogue and analyzes the new doctrines and practices of the “In his research Deegalle has examined the most important school to revise the traditional notion of Mazu and his followers and relevant sources and has demonstrated a sense of priority as iconoclasts. It also depicts the strivings of Mazu’s disciples for in recognizing the most pertinent discussions within them. orthodoxy and how the criticisms of and refl ections on Hongzhou I applaud his sense of historical perspective, his acute sensitivity doctrine led to the schism of this line and the rise of the Shitou to the Sri Lankan Buddhist religious and cultural context, and his line and various houses during the late Tang and Five Dynasties willingness to make critical assessments of previous scholarship periods. Jia refutes the traditional Chan genealogy of two lines when needed. His book fi lls a vacuum.” — John Clifford Holt, and fi ve houses and calls for new frameworks in the study of coeditor of Constituting Communities: Theravaµda Buddhism and Chan history. An annotated translation of datable discourses of the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia Mazu is also included.

Mahinda Deegalle is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions “Jia critically surveys the available scholarship in Japanese, at Bath Spa University in England. He is the editor of Buddhism, English, and Chinese, and puts forth her own conclusions Confl ict, and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka and coeditor (with supported by extensive citations of traditional Chinese sources Frank J. Hoffman) of Paµli Buddhism. that have generally been overlooked.” — Steven Heine, author of Doµgen and the Koµan Tradition: A Tale of Two OCTOBER I 246 pp Shoµboµgenzoµ Texts $65.00 hc 0-7914-6897-6 Jinhua Jia is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the City University of Hong Kong.

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MAGICAL PROGENY, KNOWING THE SPIRIT MODERN TECHNOLOGY Ostad Elahi A Hindu Bioethics of Assisted Translated and with Reproductive Technology an Introduction by Swasti Bhattacharyya James Winston Morris

A Hindu bioethics of A modern spiritual classic reproductive technology that on the perfection of the soul references the Mahaµbhaµrata. by a beloved writer from the Islamic Shiite tradition. Magical Progeny, Modern Technology examines Hindu perspectives on assisted reproductive technology through an exploration of birth narratives in the great Indian epic Ostad Elahi’s Knowing the Spirit is a concise and remarkably the Mahaµbhaµrata. Reproductive technology is at the forefront of illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: contemporary bioethical debates, and in the United States often of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throughout nature centers on ethical issues framed by confl icts among legal, scientifi c, and of its deepening perfection through all the challenges and and religious perspectives. Author Swasti Bhattacharyya weaves lessons of our existence in this world and beyond. This revealing together elements from South Asian studies, religion, literature, book provides a single vision that draws together those symbolic law, and bioethics, as well as experiences from her previous career teachings and spiritual insights familiar to many Western readers as a nurse, to construct a Hindu response to the debate. Through today through the classical Sufi poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Attar. analysis of the mythic stories in the Mahaµbhaµrata, specifi cally the The historical context and language of Knowing the Spirit are birth narratives of the fi ve Paµn|d|ava brothers and their Kaurava marked by the confl uence of classical Islamic philosophy, Sufi cousins, she draws out principles and characteristics of Hindu thought, Shiite esotericism, and their scriptural sources. But Elahi’s thought. She broadens the bioethical discussions by applying thought integrates those infl uences and marks them with the Hindu perspectives to a California court case over the parentage magisterial imprint of his own profound spiritual experience and of a child conceived through reproductive technology and characteristic simplicity, openness, and directness of expression. compares specifi c Hindu and Roman Catholic attitudes toward This translation offers audiences a singular masterpiece of recent assisted reproductive technology. Magical Progeny, Modern Islamic thought and spirituality, opening up fundamental human Technology provides insightful ways to explore ethical issues and perspectives and possibilities too often clouded by the distractions highlights concerns often overlooked in contemporary discussions of current events. In addition, the emphatic universality of both the occurring within the United States. subject and presentation of Knowing the Spirit points the way to unsuspected bridges between different civilizations and religious “Throughout her telling of ancient stories that are magically traditions, to the prospect of an inclusive “science of spirituality” reborn in modern settings, the author combines humanity with based on the common ground of each person’s spiritual life logic to make this seminal work a clear, concise, and necessary and experience. exploration of ethical issues relating to assisted reproductive technology.” — S. Cromwell Crawford, author of Hindu Bioethics Ostad Elahi (1895–1974) was born in Iran and was equally for the Twenty-fi rst Century renowned as a master musician, an accomplished judge, and a remarkable philosopher and spiritual teacher. “This book is a welcome addition to a fi eld where the religious voices of the Judeo-Christian tradition are sometimes the only James Winston Morris is Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies and ones heard. It offers a fair and balanced treatment of the Director of Research and Graduate Studies at the Institute of Arab Hindu tradition and exemplifi es sensitivity to the diversity of and Islamic Studies, The University of Exeter in England. He is the this tradition.” — Anantanand Rambachan, author of The Advaita author of many books including The Refl ective Heart: Discovering Worldview: God, World, and Humanity Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn >Arabi’s Meccan Illuminations and Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation. Swasti Bhattacharyya is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Buena Vista University. SEPTEMBER I 144 pp $19.95 pb 0-7914-6858-5 $59.50 hc 0-7914-6857-7 JUNE I 208 pp $22.95 pb 0-7914-6792-9 $68.50 hc 0-7914-6791-0

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THE ADVAITA ISHMAEL WORLDVIEW ON THE BORDER God, World, and Humanity Rabbinic Portrayals Anantanand Rambachan of the First Arab Carol Bakhos A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the Explores rabbinic views nature of God, the value of Ishmael, the biblical fi gure of the world, and the meaning seen as the fi rst Arab. of liberation. Ishmael on the Border is an in-depth In this book, Anantanand Rambachan study of the rabbinic treatment of offers a fresh and detailed Abraham’s fi rstborn son, Ishmael. perspective on Advaita Vedaµnta, Hinduism’s most infl uential This book examines Ishmael’s confl icted portrayal over and revered religious tradition. Rambachan, who is both a a thousand-year period and traces the shifts and nuances in scholar and an Advaitin, attends closely to the Upanis|ads and his representation within the Jewish tradition before and after authentic commentaries of Såan³kara to challenge the tradition the emergence of Islam. and to reconsider central aspects of its current teachings. His reconstruction and reinterpretation of Advaita focuses in particular In classical rabbinic texts, Ishmael is depicted in a variety of ways. on the nature of brahman, the status of the world in relation to By examining the biblical account of Ishmael’s life, Carol Bakhos brahman, and the meaning and relevance of liberation. points to the tension between his membership in and expulsion from Abraham’s household—on the one hand he is circumcised Rambachan queries contemporary representations of an with Abraham, yet on the other, because of divine favor, his impersonal brahman and the need for popular, hierarchical brother supplants him as primogenitor. The rabbis address his distinctions such as those between a higher (paraµ) and lower (aparaµ) liminal status in a variety of ways. Like Esau, he is often depicted brahman. Such distinctions, Rambachan argues, are inconsistent in antipodal terms. He is Israel’s “Other.” Yet, Bakhos notes, with the non-dual nature of brahman and are unnecessary when the emergence of Islam and the changing ethnic, religious, brahman’s relationship with the world is correctly understood. and political landscape of the Near East in the seventh century Questioning Advaita’s traditional emphasis on renunciation and affected later, medieval rabbinic depictions of Ishmael, whereby world-denial, Rambachan expands the understanding of suffering he becomes the symbol of Islam and the eponymous prototype of (duh|kha) and liberation (moks|a) and addresses socioeconomic Arabs. With this inquiry into the rabbinic portrayal of Ishmael, as well as gender and caste inequalities. Positing that the world the book confronts the interfacing of history and hermeneutics is a celebrative expression of God’s fullness, this book advances and the ways in which the rabbis inhabited a world of intertwined Advaita as a universal and uninhibited path to a liberated life political, social, and theological forces. committed to compassion, equality, and justice. “This book is an excellent, readable, and much-needed “This is a fi ne introduction to, and argument for a reinterpretation resuscitation of the reputation of Ishmael. Bakhos’s masterful of, Advaita Vedaµnta by a scholar who is also an Advaitin. The control of the rabbinic and collateral traditions combined with book is thus constructive in two senses; it is theological and her keen eye for relevant detail make this book an informative largely positive, while still solid scholarship. Such a combination, pleasure to read. It is also an important contribution to presenting especially done well, is rare.” — Andrew O. Fort, author of a more nuanced view of the polemic between Jews and Muslims Jiµvanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita over this major biblical fi gure.” — Gordon D. Newby, author of and Neo-Vedaµnta History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam Anantanand Rambachan is Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College and is the author of several books, including The Limits Carol Bakhos is Professor of Late Antique Judaism at the of Scripture: Vivekananda’s Reinterpretation of the Vedas. University of California at Los Angeles and is the editor of Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context. A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies Harold Coward, editor A volume in the SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion AUGUST I 140 pp Michael Fishbane, Robert Goldenberg, and $18.95 pb 0-7914-6852-6 Elliot Wolfson, editors $56.50 hc 0-7914-6851-8 JULY I 224 pp $60.00 hc 0-7914-6759-7

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THE HEIRS RULES OF THE GAME OF THE PROPHET Quiz Shows Charisma and Religious and American Culture Authority in Shi>ite Islam Olaf Hoerschelmann Liyakat N. Takim Critically examines the quiz Looks at how various show genre in American factions used the tradition that culture from the 1930s scholars were the “heirs of the to the present. Prophet” during the classical period of Islam (570–1258 CE). From The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One to Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, quiz shows have After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, different religious permeated American culture ever since their beginnings in early factions within the Muslim community laid claim to the Prophet’s radio. In Rules of the Game, Olaf Hoerschelmann critically legacy. Drawing on research from Sunni and Shi>ite literature, examines the quiz show genre in American culture, drawing on Liyakat N. Takim explores how these various groups, including a large body of radio and television programs and on archival the caliphs, scholars, Sufi holy men, and the Shi>ite imams and materials relating to the broadcast industry, program sponsors, their disciples, competed to be the Prophetic heirs. The book also advertising agencies, and individual producers. Hoerschelmann illustrates how the tradition of the “heirs of the Prophet” was often relates quiz shows to the larger social and industrial structures a polemical tool used by its bearers to demand obedience and from which they originate and examines the connection of quiz loyalty from the Muslim community by imposing an authoritative shows to the production of knowledge in American society. rendition of texts, beliefs, and religious practices. Those who did He also provides a rethinking of media genre theory, offering not obey were marginalized and demonized. While examining a detailed analysis of the text-audience relationships on quiz the competition for Muhammad’s charismatic authority, shows and their signifi cance for the practice of broadcasting. Takim investigates the Shi>ite self-understanding of authority and argues that this was an important factor in the formation of “As the fi rst in-depth, book-length investigation of quiz shows, a distinct Shi>ite leadership. The Heirs of the Prophet also Rules of the Game stands out through its historic scope, theoretical provides a new understanding of textual authority in Islam by depth, and thorough research. It adds an important new examining authority construction and the struggle for legitimacy perspective by linking the popularity and transformations of the evidenced in Islamic biographical dictionaries. genre over the years to the ever-changing surrounding ideological formations. The book challenges current media scholarship “This book is very well written and demonstrates a vast knowledge and establishes Hoerschelmann as one of the leading experts and intimate familiarity with both primary and secondary sources in this area.” — Elfriede Fürsich, Boston College on the topic of the Shi>ite imams and their deputies. Takim’s exploration of how authority was constructed and made legitimate “With excellent research and intriguing readings of the programs, in early Shi>ite biographies, exegeses, legal theories, kalam, Hoerschelmann examines some very important issues, including a and the like, forges new ground in the fi eld.” — Kathryn Kueny, neglected but major broadcast genre, the differences in audience author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam relations to television from cinema, and the political economy of the genre. More than just a general history of quiz and game Liyakat N. Takim is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at shows, the book raises larger questions within television studies.” the University of Denver. — Sean Griffi n, coauthor of Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America JULY I 272 pp $65.00 hc 0-7914-6737-6 Olaf Hoerschelmann is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Criticism at Eastern Illinois University.

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ETIQUETTE THE MELANCHOLY Refl ections on Contemporary ANDROID Comportment On the Psychology Ron Scapp and of Sacred Machines Brian Seitz, editors Eric G. Wilson

Brings etiquette into dialogue Explores the cultural with ethics. signifi cance of androids.

Etiquette, the fi eld of multifarious prescriptions governing comportment The Melancholy Android is a in life’s interactions, has generally psychological study of the impulses been neglected by philosophers, behind the creation of androids. who may be inclined to dismiss CONTRIBUTORS Exploring three imaginative fi gures—the mummy, the golem, and the automaton—and their it as trivial, most specifi cally in Hazel E. Barnes contrast to ethics. Philosophy tends U. of CO appearances in myth, religion, literature, and fi lm, Eric G. Wilson to grant absolute privilege to ethics Alison Leigh Brown tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure Northern AZ U. of artifi cial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing over etiquette, placing the former Tina Chanter alongside all of the traditional values DePaul U. from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; favored by metaphysics (order, truth, Michael D. Colberg writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as NY, NY Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers rationality, mind, masculinity, depth, Robin Truth Goodman reality), while consigning the latter FSU a range of sites from which to anaylze the relationship between mind to metaphysics’ familiar, divisive list Trent H. Hamann and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical St. John’s U. dilemma—loving machines we want to hate. of hazards and rejects (arbitrariness, Hildegard Hoeller mere opinion, irrationality, the body, Staten Island Coll., CUNY femininity, surface, appearance). bell hooks “What makes Pinocchio sad? Eric Wilson’s twenty-fi rst century Berea Coll. anatomy of melancholy fi nds a rich psychological and Addressing a broad range of Don Hanlon Johnson subjects, from sexuality, clothes, CA Inst.of Integral Studies philosophical nexus in imaginary androids, automata, golems, and cell phones to hip-hop culture, Lynne d Johnson and mummies drawn from the annals of Western culture. In this Metropolitan Coll. of NY provocative and wide-ranging meditation, the manufactured bodybuilding, and imperialism, the David Farrell Krell contributors to Etiquette challenge DePaul U. human becomes our understudy, enacting the age-old human these traditional values—not in order Alphonso Lingis tragicomedy of forever seeking—and failing—to connect with Penn. State U. our mortal and immortal natures.” — Victoria Nelson, author of to favor etiquette over ethics, but to Kevin MacDonald explore the various ways in which FIT The Secret Life of Puppets practice subtends theory, in which Karmen McKendrick LeMoyne Coll. “This book asks questions central for ethicists, scientists, manners are morals, and in which Nickolas Pappas ethics, the practice of living a good The Graduate Ctr., CUNY psychologists, technologists, literary critics, and philosophers. life, has always depended upon the Mark S. Roberts It will force us to better defi ne our relationship to machines and SUNY Stony Brook nature and to consider the scope of our human boundaries.” graceful relations for which etiquette Kenneth Saltman provides the armature. DePaul U. — Glen A. Mazis, author of Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Ron Scapp Planetary Senses Ron Scapp is Professor of Mount St. Vincent Coll. Brian Schroeder Humanities and Teacher Education at RIT Eric G. Wilson is Associate Professor of English at Wake the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Brian Seitz Forest University and the author of Coleridge’s Melancholia: He is the author of Teaching Values: Babson Coll. An Anatomy of Limbo and The Spiritual History of Ice: Thomas Thorp Critical Perspectives on Education, St. Xavier U. Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination. Politics, and Culture. Brian Seitz is Jeff Weinstein Philadelphia, PA AUGUST I 192 pp Associate Professor of Philosophy at Shannon Winnubst $19.95 pb 0-7914-6846-1 Babson College. He is the author of Southwestern U. $71.50 hc 0-7914-6845-3 The Trace of Political Representation, also published by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series, Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, editors

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DETECTING MEN THE DEATH Masculinity and the OF CLASSICAL CINEMA Hollywood Detective Film Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli Philippa Gates Joe McElhaney

Looks at how detective fi lms A study of three classical have refl ected and shaped fi lmmakers and the fi lms our ideas about masculinity, they made at the cusp of the heroism, law and order, modernist movement in cinema. and national identity. The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insuffi ciently explored dialogue Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work genre and the ways that detective fi lms have negotiated changing of three classical fi lmmakers—Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, social attitudes toward masculinity, heroism, law enforcement, and Vincente Minnelli—and the fi lms they made during the and justice. Genre fi lm can be a site for the expression and decline of the traditional Hollywood studio system. Faced with resolution of problematic social issues, but while there have been the signifi cant challenges posed by alternative art cinema and many studies of such other male genres as war fi lms, gangster modernist fi lmmaking practices in the early 1960s, these directors fi lms, and Westerns, relatively little attention has been paid to responded with fi lms that were self-conscious attempts at keeping detective fi lms beyond fi lm noir. In this volume, Philippa Gates pace with the developments in fi lm modernism. These fi lms— examines classical fi lms of the thirties and forties as well as recent Lang’s The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Hitchcock’s Marnie, and examples of the genre, including Die Hard, the Lethal Weapon Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town—were widely regarded fi lms, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Devil in a Blue Dress, and as failures at the time and bolstered critics’ claims concerning Murder by Numbers, in order to explore social anxieties about the irrelevance of their directors in relation to contemporary masculinity and crime and Hollywood’s conceptions of gender. fi lmmaking. However, author Joe McElhaney sheds new light Up until the early 1990s, Gates argues, the primary focus of the on these fi lms by situating them in relation to such acclaimed detective genre was the masculinity of the hero. However, from modernist works of the period as Godard’s Contempt, Fellini’s the mid-1990s onward, the genre has shifted to more technical La dolce vita, Antonioni’s Red Desert, and Resnais’s Last Year at portrayals of crime scene investigation, forensic science, and Marienbad. He fi nds that these modernist fi lms, rather than being criminal profi ling, offering a reassuring image of law enforcement diametrically opposed in form to the work of Hitchcock, Lang, in the face of violent crime. By investigating the evolution of the and Minnelli, are in fact profoundly linked to them. detective fi lm, Gates suggests, perhaps we can detect the male. “This is a brilliant work that restores my faith in fi lm studies. “This topic is timely and in many ways overdue. This is the fi rst McElhaney’s sweeping command of fi lm history and theory, his book to really put all the pieces together, and in the process nuanced formal analyses, and his stately and sustained argument of constructing this historical overview, Gates discovers result in a book that I already fi nd indispensable in my own profound connections and shifts that others have missed.” teaching.” — Scott Bukatman, author of Matters of Gravity: — Peter Lehman, author of Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century Alternative Rock Masculinity “A sharp, erudite, and sensitive mind, wholly committed to the Philippa Gates is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid cinema, is here at work. At a time when the idea of the fi lm director Laurier University, Ontario, and is the coeditor (with Stacy Gillis) as ‘auteur’ is making a comeback, McElhaney’s perspective will of The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. no doubt emerge as crucial for the necessary critical realignment between the performativity of Hollywood as a studio system and A volume in the SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video the achievements of its outstanding masters.” — Thomas Elsaesser, Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor author of European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood

JULY I 336 pp Joe McElhaney is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at 26 b/w photographs Hunter College, The City University of New York. $29.95 pb 0-7914-6814-3 $89.50 hc 0-7914-6813-5 A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons in Cinema Murray Pomerance, editor

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BATTERED BLACK BLACK FEMINIST VOICES WOMEN AND IN POLITICS WELFARE REFORM Evelyn M. Simien Between a Rock and a Hard Place Studies black feminist Dána-Ain Davis approaches to political science and African American women as political actors. Examines the consequences of welfare reform for In Black Feminist Voices in Politics, Black women fl eeing Evelyn M. Simien charts a course domestic violence. for black women’s studies in political science. Examining the simultaneous This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of effects of race and gender on political welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. behavior, Simien uses a national telephone survey sample of Dána-Ain Davis profi les twenty-two women, thirteen of whom the adult African American population to discover the extent to are Black, living in a battered women’s shelter in a small city which black women and men support black feminist tenets. At the in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between heart of this book are answers to such questions as: How does welfare reform’s supposed success in moving women off of the absence of black feminist voices impair our understanding public assistance and toward economic self-suffi ciency and the of group consciousness? What factors make individuals more or consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black less likely to adopt black feminist views? Are men just as likely women fl eeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection as women to support black feminist tenets? Simien analyzes of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential the survey data, responds to limitations of existing research, treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements and addresses critical questions that many black academics, with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to intellectuals, and activists have devoted signifi cant energy to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social debating without much empirical evidence. policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers. “With this work, Evelyn Simien strengthens the foundation for a deeper understanding of the complexity of U.S. political culture, “For anyone who imagines that welfare policy promotes improved and the often marginalized participants who expand democratic economic well-being and security, opportunity, self-suffi ciency, power.” — Joy James, editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave and hope for poor women and their families, this book is a wake- Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings up call.” — from the Foreword by Sandra Morgen Evelyn M. Simien is Assistant Professor of Political Science at “At once an ethnographic community study and a review the University of Connecticut. of the national data, there are very few books that offer such JUNE I 192 pp a rich and contextualized analysis of the nexus between violence 21 tables and poverty.” — Beth E. Richie, author of Compelled to Crime: $23.95 pb 0-7914-6790-2 The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women $71.50 hc 0-7914-6789-9

“There are not many social scientists or journalists who have embedded themselves so deeply in a particular setting like Angel House as Davis has, or who have been able to witness fi rsthand so many of the ‘rituals of degradation’ to which these women are routinely subjected. I found these parts of the book to be completely compelling and disturbing.” — Susan Brin Hyatt, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis

Dána-Ain Davis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York.

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CONFUCIAN CULTURES HONG MAI’S OF AUTHORITY RECORD OF THE LISTENER Peter D. Hershock and AND ITS SONG Roger T. Ames, editors DYNASTY CONTEXT Alister D. Inglis Explores a wide range of Confucian-based cultures The fi rst book-length consider- of authority in China. ation of Hong Mai’s Record of the Listener, the Song dynasty This volume examines the values text that has been an ongoing that have historically guided the source of literary and social negotiation of identity, both practical history. CONTRIBUTORS and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values Song dynasty historian Hong Mai (1123–1202) spent a lifetime Roberta E. Adams play into the conception and exercise on a collection of supernatural accounts, contemporary incidents, Fitchburg State Coll. of authority, and assesses their Roger T. Ames poems, and riddles, among other genres, which he entitled U. of HI, Manoa contemporary relevance in a rapidly Record of the Listener (Yijian zhi). His informants included a wide Peter D. Hershock globalizing world. Included are range of his contemporaries, from scholar-offi cials to concubines, East-West Ctr., Honolulu essays that explore the rule of ritual in Buddhist monks, and soldiers, who helped Hong Mai leave Wenshan Jia classical Confucian political discourse; Chapman U. one of the most vivid portraits of life and the different classes in Tao Jiang parental authority in early medieval China during this period. Originally comprising a massive 420 Rutgers U. tales; authority in writings on women; chapters, only a fraction survived the Mongol ravaging of China Keith N. Knapp authority in the great and long- in the thirteenth century. The Citadel beloved folk novel of China Journey to Steven B. Miles the West; and the anti-Confucianism WA U., St. Louis The present volume is the fi rst book-length consideration of this of Lu Xun, the twentieth-century writer Henry Rosemont Jr. important text, which has been an ongoing source of literary and Brown U. and reformer. By examining authority social history. Alister D. Inglis explores fundamental questions Virginia Suddath in cultural context, these essays shed East-West Ctr., Honolulu surrounding the work and its making, such as theme, genre, considerable light on the continuities Lawrence R. Sullivan authorial intent, the veracity of the accounts, and their circulation and contentions underlying the Adelphi U. in both oral and written form. In addition to a brief outline of Robin R. Wang vibrancy of Chinese culture. Loyola Marymount U. Hong Mai’s life that incorporates Hong’s autobiographical anecdotes, the book includes many intriguing stories translated While of interest to individual into English for the fi rst time, including Hong’s legendary thirty- scholars and students, the book also one prefaces. Record of the Listener fi lls the gaps left by offi cial exemplifi es the merits of a thematic (rather than geographic or Chinese historians who, unlike Hong Mai, did not comment on area studies) approach to incorporating Asian content throughout women’s affairs, ghosts and the paranormal, local crime, human the curriculum. This approach provides increased opportunities sacrifi ce, little-known locales, and unoffi cial biographies. for cross-cultural comparison and a forum for encouraging values- centered conversation in the classroom. “This is a painstaking inquiry into the process by which a major collection of zhiguai accounts came to be formed, as well as Peter D. Hershock is Coordinator of the Asian Studies of how it was intended by its author-compiler and how it was Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. His received by readers from the time of its compilation to the books include Chan Buddhism. Roger T. Ames is Professor of twentieth century. The author’s fundamental point that Hong Mai Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and editor of understood himself to be compiling a sort of history of events as Philosophy East & West. His many books include the translation told by contemporary narrators, and that most of his readers also (with D. C. Lau) of the classic Chinese work Sun Bin: The Art understood him to be engaged in this task, is of great intellectual of Warfare, also published by SUNY Press. importance.” — Robert Ford Campany, author of Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China A volume in the SUNY series in Asian Studies Development Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock, editors Alister D. Inglis is Freeman Professor of Chinese Language JUNE I 288 pp and Literature at Simmons College. $27.95 pb 0-7914-6798-8 $81.50 hc 0-7914-6797-X A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Roger T. Ames, editor

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GENDER AND STORY CHINESE THEORIES IN SOUTH INDIA OF FICTION Leela Prasad, A Non-Western Ruth B. Bottigheimer, and Narrative System Lalita Handoo, editors Ming Dong Gu

Indian women scholars An ambitious, innovative present and discuss tales work that proposes a distinctly about women, bringing new Chinese theory of fi ction. insights about gender and the moral universe of the In this innovative work, Ming folk narrative. Dong Gu examines Chinese CONTRIBUTORS literature and traditional Gender and Story in South India Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese presents exciting ethnographic Ruth B. Bottigheimer theory of fi ction and places it within the context of international SUNY Stony Brook research by Indian women scholars P. S. Kanaka Durga fi ction theory. He argues that because Chinese fi ction, or on Hindu and Muslim women-centered Central U. of Hyderabad, xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of oral narratives. The book is unique for India the West, it has formed a system of fi ction theory that cannot be its geographic and linguistic focus on Lalita Handoo adequately accounted for by Western fi ction theory grounded in U. of Mysore, India South India, for its inclusion of urban K.V.S.L. Narasamamba mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of and rural locales of narration, and for U. of BC Chinese fi ction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data its exploration of shared Hindu and Leela Prasad in fi ction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores Muslim female space. Drawing on Duke U. the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fi ction in Saraswathi Venugopal the worldviews of South Indian female Madurai Kamaraj U., India relation to European and world fi ction. In the process, Gu narrators in both everyday and critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fi ction performative settings, the contributors and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fi ction lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions study in general and Chinese fi ction in particular. Such about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in a Golden Vase) poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women’s and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed material and spiritual lives. at length to advance his notion of fi ction and fi ction theory.

“Women’s expressive traditions remain understudied even “The author’s efforts to theorize and to place Chinese fi ction in the after decades of feminist infl uence; this is partly because of the ‘transnational’ context are refreshing and should be applauded. greater diffi culties of research and translation they may pose. Many of his arguments are provocative or thought-provoking, This book, with its offerings from South Asian female folklorists, compelling us to rethink many important issues in the study makes a particular and signifi cant contribution in this area.” of Chinese literature and particularly Chinese fi ction and to — Ann Grodzins Gold, coauthor of Listen to the Heron’s Words: confront some thorny questions, such as that of the generic nature Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India of Chinese fi ction.” — Martin W. Huang, author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China Leela Prasad is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Indian Religions at Duke University. Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches Ming Dong Gu is Associate Professor of Modern Languages Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, State University at Rhodes College and author of Chinese Theories of Reading of New York, and is the author of several books, including and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics, Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition. also published by SUNY Press. Lalita Handoo is Associate Professor of Lexicography and Folklore at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, A volume in the SUNY series in India, and is the author of several books, including Structural Chinese Philosophy and Culture Analysis of Kashmiri Folktales. Roger T. Ames, editor

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PHILOSOPHICAL UNQUIET INVESTIGATIONS UNDERSTANDING INTO THE ESSENCE Gadamer’s Philosophical OF HUMAN FREEDOM Hermeneutics F. W. J. Schelling Nicholas Davey Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Argues that Gadamer’s Jeff Love and philosophical hermeneutics Johannes Schmidt merits a radical reappraisal.

“This is the most enlightening introduction available to Gadamer’s Schelling’s masterpiece investigating evil and freedom. philosophical hermeneutics. It redefi nes transcendence and translation in hermeneutical terms, but it goes substantially beyond Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of this to offer an introduction to many other topics in philosophical Schelling’s enigmatic and infl uential masterpiece, widely hermeneutics.” — Richard E. Palmer, coeditor of Dialogue and recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter The text is an embarrassment of riches—at once wildly adventurous and at the same time somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger In Unquiet Understanding, Nicholas Davey reappropriates the claimed that it was “one of the deepest works of German and radical content of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to thus also of Western philosophy” and that it utterly undermined reveal that it offers a powerful critique of Nietzsche’s philosophy Hegel’s monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even of language, nihilism, and post-structuralist deconstructions of appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem meaning. By critically engaging with the practical and ethical of evil by building on Kant’s notion of radical evil, while also implications of philosophical hermeneutics, Davey asserts that the developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and importance of philosophical hermeneutics resides in a formidable personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) infl uence double claim that strikes at the heart of both traditional philosophy on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and deconstruction. He shows that to seek control over the fl uid and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary nature of linguistic meaning with rigid conceptual regimes or theorists like Slavoj Zðizûek. to despair of such fl uidity because it frustrates hope for stable meaning is to succumb to nihilism. Both are indicative of a This translation of Schelling’s notoriously diffi cult and densely failure to appreciate that understanding depends upon the vital allusive work provides extensive annotations and translations of a instability of the “word.” This innovative book demonstrates that series of texts (by Boehme, Baader, Lessing, Jacobi, and Herder), Gadamer’s thought merits a radical reappraisal and that it is hard to fi nd or previously unavailable in English, whose presence more provocative than commonly supposed. in the Philosophical Investigations is unmistakable and highly signifi cant. This handy study edition of Schelling’s masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike. “Elegantly written, this book provides an engaging, original, and challenging reading of Gadamer’s hermeneutics. “The unique combination of the most stringent power of Davey offers an insightful clarifi cation of the nature and specifi c conceptual thinking and of shattering references to our most contribution of hermeneutics as well as a revealing description of intimate experiences account for the Philosophical Investigations’ the wantonness of understanding.” — Jean Grondin, author of almost hypnotic power. It is quite simply, together with Hegel’s Sources of Hermeneutics Phenomenology of Spirit and two or three other works, one of the candidates for the greatest philosophical book ever written.” Nicholas Davey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of — Slavoj Zðizûek Dundee, Scotland.

At Clemson University, Jeff Love is Assistant Professor of German A volume in the SUNY series in and Russian and Johannes Schmidt is Assistant Professor Contemporary Continental Philosophy of German. Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

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THE PHILOSOPHER’S “I” DARWIN AND THE NATURE OF SPECIES Autobiography and the Search David N. Stamos for the Self J. Lenore Wright Examines Darwin’s concept of species in a philosophical context. Using works written over Since the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the the course of 1,500 years, concept of “species” in biology has been widely debated, with its considers philosophers’ precise defi nition far from settled. And yet, amazingly, there have autobiographies as a genre been no books devoted to Charles Darwin’s thinking on the term of philosophical writing. until now. David N. Stamos gives us a groundbreaking, historical reconstruction of Darwin’s detailed, yet often misinterpreted, This book examines philosophers’ autobiographies as a genre of thoughts on this complex concept. philosophical writing. Author J. Lenore Wright focuses her attention on fi ve philosophical autobiographies: Augustine’s Confessions, Stamos provides a thorough and detailed analysis of Darwin’s Descartes’ Meditations, Rousseau’s The Confessions, Nietzsche’s extensive writings, both published and unpublished, in order Ecce Homo, and Hazel Barnes’s The Story I Tell Myself. In the to reveal Darwin’s actual species concept. Stamos argues that context of fi rst-person narration, she shows how the philosophers Darwin had a unique evolutionary species concept in mind, one in question turn their attention inward and unleash their analytical that was not at all a product of his time. Challenging currently rigor on themselves. accepted views that believe Darwin was merely following the species ascriptions of his fellow naturalists, Stamos works to Wright argues that philosophical autobiography makes prove that this prevailing, nominalistic view should be overturned. philosophical analysis necessary and that one cannot unfold This book also addresses three issues pertinent to the philosophy without the other. Her distinction between the ontological and of science: the modern species problem, the nature of concept rhetorical dimensions of the self creates a rich middle ground in change in scientifi c revolutions, and the contextualist trend in which questions of essence and identity bear upon existence. professional history of science.

“Wright’s book is a thorough, sophisticated, and illuminating “Even if the author’s opponents remain unconverted by this book, exploration. She draws on substantial contemporary philosophical they will heartily appreciate its deep scholarship and careful and literary sources in developing her own distinctive and creative reasoning. While it is unlikely that anyone will ever deliver the dialectical interpretation centered in the polarities of ontological/ fi nal word on Darwin’s philosophy of biology, this book will force rhetorical, inner/outer self, and author-subject/writer-self.” those who fi nd in Darwin an ally for nominalism to reconsider — James Woelfel, University of Kansas and soften their claims.” — Loyal Rue, author of Everybody’s Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution J. Lenore Wright is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. “This book is a fi ne contribution to the ongoing debate on the Darwinian revolution.” — Michael T. Ghiselin, author of OCTOBER I 224 pp $24.95 pb 0-7914-6914-X Metaphysics and the Origin of Species $74.50 hc 0-7914-6913-1 David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University, Toronto and is the author of The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology.

A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology David Edward Shaner, editor

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THE PRAGMATIC THE GIFT OF THE OTHER CENTURY Levinas and the Politics Conversations with of Reproduction Richard J. Bernstein Lisa Guenther Sheila Greeve Davaney and Warren G. Frisina, editors A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and Critically engages the work reproduction. of American philosopher Richard J. Bernstein. The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis The Pragmatic Century critically of time, embodiment, and ethical CONTRIBUTORS assesses the signifi cance of American responsibility with a feminist critique of philosopher Richard J. Bernstein’s the way women’s reproductive capacity has been theorized and Richard J. Bernstein intellectual contributions. Written by represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops New School U. the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as Rebecca S. Chopp scholars who share with Bernstein a Colgate U. combined interest in the American the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and Vincent Colapietro pragmatic tradition and contemporary already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility PA State U. religious thought, the essays explore for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Sheila Greeve Davaney Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an Iliff School of Theology such diverse topics as Bernstein’s place Mary Doak as an interpreter of both American ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a U. of Notre Dame and continental thought, the possibility feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of Nancy K. Frankenberry of system building and analysis in an maternal generosity. Dartmouth Coll. Warren G. Frisina antimetaphysical age, the potential for Hofstra U. theological and ethical reinterpretation “Guenther presents an original, compelling, and lucid analysis of William D. Hart in contemporary society, and much birth as a gift that, if given rather than forced, grounds subjectivity, U. of NC more. Included are not only responses plurality, and ethical sociality. This is a groundbreaking work that Henry Samuel Levinson revises Levinas’s ethics for feminist reproductive politics, and U. of NC by Bernstein to each essay, but also Robert Cummings Neville two new essays by Bernstein himself it will have a signifi cant impact on key debates in existential Boston U. that orient readers to the central role phenomenology, feminist theory, bioethics, and biopolitics.” Gilya Gerda Schmidt pragmatism has played throughout — Rosalyn Diprose, author of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving U. of TN the last century and also provide an with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas encomium to the continuing value of democratic ideals at a time when those ideals are threatened on Lisa Guenther is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at many different fronts. The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

“The deepest desire of any writer—at least this one—is to be A volume in the SUNY series in Gender Theory Tina Chanter, editor understood, even when objections are raised. This collection of articles eminently succeeds in that task.” — Richard J. Bernstein AUGUST I 240 pp $24.95 pb 0-7914-6848-8 “The Pragmatic Century is a very useful collection. The range of $74.50 hc 0-7914-6847-X essays included helps one appreciate the scope, as well as the importance, of Richard Bernstein’s work. Bernstein’s replies to his critics and commentators help clarify his philosophical position.” — Richard Rorty

Sheila Greeve Davaney is Professor of Theology at Iliff School of Theology and the author of Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-fi rst Century, also published by SUNY Press. Warren G. Frisina is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hofstra University and the author of The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge, also published by SUNY Press.

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RETURNING CRITICAL AFFINITIES TO IRIGARAY Nietzsche and Feminist Philosophy, Politics, African American Thought and the Question of Unity Jacqueline Scott and Elaine P. Miller and A. Todd Franklin, editors Maria Cimitile, editors Foreword by Robert Gooding-Williams Leading scholars examine the relation between Irigaray’s Explores convergences early writings and her later, between the ideas of more political work. Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought. Luce Irigaray is one of the most CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS infl uential philosophers and theorists Critical Affi nities is the fi rst book to in the fi eld of feminist thought, and her Debra Bergoffen explore the multifaceted relationship Daniel W. Conway George Mason U. PA State U. work is considered both revolutionary Maria Cimitile between the philosophy of Friedrich Christa Davis Acampora and controversial. This volume Grand Valley State U. Nietzsche and various dimensions Hunter Coll., CUNY offers the fi rst critical assessment Penelope Deutscher of African American thought. A. Todd Franklin of the relation between her early Northwestern U. Exploring the connections between Hamilton Coll. Sara Heinämaa Robert Gooding-Williams poetic writings to her later political U. of Helsinki these two unlikely interlocutors, the Northwestern U. applied philosophy. Contributors Sara McNamara contributors focus on unmasking and Lewis Gordon examine how the question of sexual SUNY Stony Brook understanding the root causes and Temple U. difference has unfolded in a wealth Elaine P. Miller racially infl ected symptoms of various Kathleen Higgins Miami U. of Ohio U. of TX, Austin of different directions in Irigaray’s Ann Murphy manifestations of cultural malaise. They John Pittman later work, focusing on the areas of U. of New South Wales, contemplate the operative warrant for John Jay Coll. of Criminal nature and technology, social and Sydney, Australia reconstituted conceptions of racial Justice, CUNY political theory and praxis, ethics, Kelly Oliver identity and recognize the existential Jacqueline Scott Vanderbilt U. Loyola U., Chicago psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. Catherine Peebles and social recuperative potential of Paul C.Taylor They also address whether there has U. of NH the will to power. In so doing, they Temple U. been a radical conceptual “turn” in Gail Schwab simultaneously foster and exemplify a Cynthia Willett Irigaray’s thought by exploring the Hofstra U. nuanced understanding of what both Emory U. Margaret Whitford James J. Winchester idea of a “turn” as a return to themes U. of London traditions regard as “the art of the GA Coll. and State U. that have concerned her all along. Emily Zakin cultural physician.” The contributors By considering each of her views in Miami U. of Ohio connote daring scholarly attempts relation to the entirety of her work, Krzysztof Ziarek to explicate the ways in which clarifying the critical affi nities SUNY Buffalo readers will come to appreciate the between Nietzsche and various expressions of African American richness of her thought. thought not only enriches our understanding of each, but also enhances our ability to realize the broader ends of advancing the “This is an extremely important book for furthering discussion prospects for social and psychological fl ourishing. about the relationship between Irigaray’s early and later work. It also addresses a question central to feminist philosophy: “These essays complicate and … disrupt common notions of the do identity politics work?” — Danielle Poe, University of Dayton discursive options available to black studies. Rather than promote an afrocentric, diasporic, queered, or feminist black studies, they Elaine P. Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at tacitly envision a black studies charmed and unsettled by a seducer, Miami University of Ohio and author of The Vegetative Soul: by Nietzsche—a black studies richer in itself, newer to itself than From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine, also published by SUNY Press. Maria Cimitile is Associate before, full of new will and currents, full of new dissatisfactions.” Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University. — from the Foreword by Robert Gooding-Williams

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POSTPHENOMENOLOGY THE THINGS A Critical Companion to Ihde THEMSELVES Evan Selinger, editor Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday Critically engages the work H. Peter Steeves of the philosopher Don Ihde. Essays on phenomenological Postphenomenology is the fi rst encounters with the world. book devoted exclusively to the interpretation and advancement Taking Edmund Husserl’s dictum to of prominent phenomenologist heart yet fi nding in it a new direction, Don Ihde’s landmark contributions to The Things Themselves is an attempt CONTRIBUTORS history, philosophy, sociology, science, to return philosophy to the world and, sound studies, and technology studies. in so doing, know ourselves and our place in that world anew. The Albert Borgmann Ihde has made a direct and lasting book deals with the myriad ways in which a phenomenological U. of MT impact on the study of technological approach to philosophy can inform commonplace experiences Richard Cohen UNC experience across the disciplines and understanding. From a trip to Disneyland to a morning Robert Crease and acquired an international spent watching television exercise shows, from the commitment SUNY Stony Brook following of diverse scholars along to become a vegetarian to the choice to become a political Andrew Feenberg the way, many of whom contribute to revolutionary, this book breaks down the barrier between theory Simon Fraser U. Peter Galison Postphenomenology, including Albert and praxis, demanding that we both investigate and hold Harvard U. Borgmann, who characterizes Ihde as ourselves accountable to this world. Written in an accessible yet Donna J. Haraway being “among the most interesting and philosophically rigorous style, H. Peter Steeves not only attempts U. of CA, Santa Cruz provocative contemporary American to return philosophy to the world but also to return philosophy to Don Ihde SUNY Stony Brook philosophers.” The contributors the nonspecialist, to those simply interested in the simplest things, Lenore Langsdorf situate, assess, and apply Ihde’s the things themselves that fi ll our lives but inevitably, and most Southern IL U. philosophy with respect to the primary wondrously, prove anything but simple. Hans Lenk themes that his oeuvre emphasizes. Karlsruhe U., Germany Judy Lochhead They not only clarify Ihde’s work, “H. Peter Steeves is a phenomenologically oriented hybrid of SUNY Stony Brook but also make signifi cant contributions Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, and not only is he quite as Carl Mitcham to the philosophy of technology, good as they are, his writing also offers a strong argument for CO School of Mines phenomenology, hermeneutics, Finn Olesen why we need to expand the reach of phenomenology rather than U. of Aarhus, Denmark and the philosophy of science. set it aside. Steeves has an extraordinary eye for the revealing Andrew Pickering A comprehensive response from Ihde empirical detail. His essays on Disneyland and Las Vegas are U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign concludes the volume. masterpieces in the hermeneutics of irreality. His powers of Trevor Pinch Cornell U. observation are those of a writer or a painter, and his essay on Robert C. Scharff “Ihde’s response to his critics … pushes Cézanne is quite as revealing as Merleau-Ponty’s classic. This U. of NH him to critically assess the long-term is a highly original book, full of ideas, and it brilliantly applies Evan Selinger development of his research program, phenomenology to our real (and unreal) experience. It will have RIT and to clarify and explain his vision Vivian Sobchack a major impact on the fi eld.” — David Wood, author of The Step UCLA of both his work and fi elds of study.” Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction Paul B. Thompson — Trish Glazebrook, author of MI State U. Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science “H. Peter Steeves’ extraordinary book is phenomenology at its Peter-Paul Verbeek U. of Twente, Enschede, very best.” — David Farrell Krell, DePaul University The Netherlands Evan Selinger is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute Donn Welton H. Peter Steeves is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook of Technology and the coeditor (with DePaul University. He is the author of Animal Others: On Ethics, Don Ihde) of Chasing Technoscience: Ontology, and Animal Life, also published by SUNY Press, and Matrix for Materiality. Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry.

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DEMOCRATIZING WORDS IN BLOOD, TECHNOLOGY LIKE FLOWERS Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy and Poetry, Critical Theory of Technology Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Tyler J. Veak, editor Nietzsche, and Heidegger Babette E. Babich The fi rst volume to critically engage the work of A philosophical exploration of Andrew Feenberg. the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us. Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has Why did Nietzsche claim to become the buzzword of our culture. CONTRIBUTORS have “written in blood”? Why But what is it, and how does it affect Albert Borgmann did Heidegger remain silent after World War II about his our lives? More importantly, can we U. of MT participation in the Nazi Party? How did Hölderlin’s voice Simon Cooper control and shape it, or does it control Monash U., Gippsland, and the voices of other, more ancient poets come to echo us? In short, can we make technology Australia in philosophy? Words in Blood, Like Flowers is a classical more democratic? Using the work of Gerald Doppelt UC, San Diego expression of continental philosophy that critically engages the Andrew Feenberg, one of the most Andrew Feenberg intersection of poetry, art, music, politics, and the erotic in an important and original fi gures in the Simon Fraser U., Vancouver exploration of the power they have over us. While focusing Trish Glazebrook fi eld of philosophy of technology, Dalhousie U., Halifax on three key fi gures—Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger— as a foundation, the contributors to Larry A. Hickman this volume covers a wide range of material, from the Southern IL U., Carbondale this volume explore these important Andrew Light Ancient Greeks to the vicissitudes of the politics of our times, questions and Feenberg responds. NYU and approaches these and other questions within their David J. Stump U. of San Francisco hermeneutic and historical contexts. In the 1990s, Feenberg authored Paul B. Thompson MI State U. three books that established him Iain Thomson Working from primary texts and a wide range of scholarly as one of the leading scholars in a U. of NM sources in French, German, and English, this book is an important rapidly developing fi eld, and he is Tyler J. Veak Savannah, GA contribution to philosophy’s most ancient quarrels not only with one of the few to delineate a theory Edward J. Woodhouse poetry, but also with music and erotic love. for democratizing technological Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. design. He has demonstrated the “Babich’s scholarship is exceptionally wide-ranging; she is among shortcomings of traditional theories of technology and argued for the foremost Nietzsche scholars; her arguments are provocative; what he calls “democratic rationalization” where actors intervene and her style is fl uent and elegant.” — Véronique M. Fóti, in the technological design process to shape it toward their author of Epochal Discordance: Hölderlin’s Philosophy of Tragedy own ends. In this book, the contributors analyze foundational issues in Feenberg’s work, including questions of human nature, “This is a work of great scholarship and philosophical sensitivity biotechnology, gender, and his readings of Heidegger, and that draws impressively on German literature and thought. This is they also examine practical issues, including democratizing by no means an antiquarian book, but one that is fully engaged technology, moral evaluation, and environmentalism. with contemporary issues in which these fi gures are important, issues ranging from philosophical complicity in tyranny to the “The subject of this volume is very important. Feenberg’s work hermeneutics of architecture to the notion of the real in Nietzsche deserves attention, as does the question about democratization and Lacan.” — Gary Shapiro, author of Alcyone: Nietzsche on of technology. The contributors not only reveal hidden dimensions Gifts, Noise, and Women in Feenberg’s work, but also make interesting contributions to broader discussions in philosophy of technology and Babette E. Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham critical theory. I particularly liked the response by Feenberg.” University and is the editor of Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical — David M. Kaplan, editor of Readings in the Philosophy Theory and the author of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: of Technology Refl ecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life, also published by SUNY Press. Tyler J. Veak is an independent scholar who received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech and has A volume in the SUNY series in taught at St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Contemporary Continental Philosophy Dennis J. Schmidt, editor OCTOBER I 256 pp $27.95 pb 0-7914-6918-2 AUGUST I 400 pp $83.50 hc 0-7914-6917-4 8 b/w photographs $85.00 jacketed hc 0-7914-6835-6 celebrating 40 years I 1966–2006 www.sunypress.edu I 31 PHILOSOPHY

NIETZSCHE EPOCHAL DISCORDANCE AND PARADOX Hölderlin’s Philosophy RogeŒrio Miranda de Almeida of Tragedy Translated by Véronique M. Fóti Mark S. Roberts Examines the German poet Translated from the French, Hölderlin’s philosophical this book analyzes the insights into tragedy. paradoxes that fundamen- tally characterize Nietzsche’s Friedrich Hölderlin must be considered philosophy and texts. not only a signifi cant poet but also a philosophically important thinker within German Idealism. In both Newly translated into English, this book analyzes the paradoxical capacities, he was crucially preoccupied with the question of discourse that fl ows through and fundamentally characterizes tragedy, yet, surprisingly, this book is the fi rst in English to explore Nietzsche’s writings. Examining Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy; fully his philosophy of tragedy. Focusing on the thought of Hegel, Human, All Too Human; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Reiner Schürmann, Véronique M. Fóti Genealogy of Morals; and The Antichrist; RogeŒrio Miranda de discusses the tragic turning in German philosophy that began at Almeida patiently opens these texts to the multiplicity of truths the close of the eighteenth century to provide a historical and that unfold through the process of continuous reinterpretation and philosophical context for an engagement with Hölderlin. She goes reevaluation. Never formally defi ning the contradictions within on to examine the three fragmentary versions of Hölderlin’s own Nietzsche’s conception of metaphysics, religion, art, science, and tragedy, The Death of Empedocles, together with related essays, philosophy, Miranda de Almeida acknowledges instead that the and his interpretation of Sophoclean tragedy. Fóti also addresses history of thought, and the development of Nietzsche’s writings the relationship of his character Empedocles to the pre-Socratic in particular, is an interplay of forces and drives, encroachment philosopher and concludes by examining Heidegger’s dialogue and surrender, construction and destruction, overcoming and with Hölderlin concerning tragedy and the tragic. transformation, lack and fulfi lment, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, pleasure and displeasure, pain and delight. This book reveals “Original, interesting, and carefully argued, this book makes an the endless perspectives and truths that Nietzsche creates important contribution by demonstrating that Hölderlin must be and transforms. taken seriously for his work in philosophy. Among its numerous strengths, Fóti’s study contextualizes Hölderlin’s philosophy “Drawing on the broad tradition of the ‘French Nietzsche,’ this of tragedy within larger currents of post-Kantian continental book offers a rich tapestry of refl ections on the multiplicities still philosophy, recognizes that Hölderlin’s overall approach to to be mined in Nietzsche’s thought, including the aesthetics tragedy appears not as a rigid position, but rather emerges of art and appearance, on woman and dissimulation, through a number of transformations in the course of his productive as well as morality, religion, and, of course, paradox.” life, and sheds new light on several celebrated texts by Hölderlin, — Babette E. Babich, author of Words in Blood, such as his ‘Remarks on Oedipus’ and ‘Remarks on Antigone.’” Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros — Theodore D. George, author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology

RogeŒrio Miranda de Almeida is Professor of Philosophy at Véronique M. Fóti is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Anselmo College and Visiting Professor of Theology at the Penn State at University Park and the author of Vision’s Invisibles: Gregorian University and of Philosophy at Beda College, all in Philosophical Explorations, also published by SUNY Press, and Rome, Italy. He is the author of Nietzsche e Freud: Eterno Retorno Heidegger and the Poets: Poieµsis/Sophia/Techneµ. e CompulsaÅo à RepeticçaÅo. Mark S. Roberts has translated and coedited several books, including (with Anna Alexander) A volume in the SUNY series in High Culture: Refl ections on Addiction and Modernity, Contemporary Continental Philosophy also published by SUNY Press. Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

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NIETZSCHE, HEIDEGGER, TRAGEDIES OF SPIRIT AND DAOIST THOUGHT Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Crossing Paths In-Between Phenomenology Katrin Froese Theodore D. George

This work of comparative Examines tragedy in Hegel’s philosophy envisions Phenomenology of Spirit. a cosmological whole that celebrates difference. In Tragedies of Spirit, Theodore D. George engages Hegel’s In this book, Katrin Froese Phenomenology of Spirit to explore juxtaposes the Daoist texts of the philosophical signifi cance of Laozi and Zhuangzi with the tragedy in post-Kantian continental thought of Nietzsche and Heidegger to argue that there is thought. George follows lines of inquiry originally developed a need for rethinking the idea of a cosmological whole. by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida, and takes By moving away from the quest for certainty, Froese suggests as his point of departure the concern that Hegel’s speculative a way of philosophizing that does not seek to capture the whole, philosophy forms a summit of modernity that the present historical but rather becomes a means of affi rming a connection to it, time is called to interrogate. Yet, George argues that Hegel’s one that celebrates difference rather than eradicating it. larger speculative ambitions in the Phenomenology compel him to turn to the resource of tragedy in order to give voice to issues Human beings have a vague awareness of the infi nite, but they of incommensurability, discontinuity, otherness, strife, and crisis. are nevertheless fi nite beings. Froese maintains that rather than From this standpoint, Hegel’s interest in the tragic proves to be bemoaning the murkiness of knowledge, the thinkers considered more pervasive and to run deeper than has previously been here celebrate the creativity and tendency to wander through recognized. The author shows that Hegel’s reliance upon the that space of not knowing, or “in-between-ness.” However, for tragic not only stretches and tests assumptions of speculative Neitzsche and the early Heidegger, this in-between-ness can philosophy, but also illuminates original insights into human often produce a sense of meaninglessness that sends individuals fi nitude. While situating Hegel’s approach to tragedy as part of on a frenetic quest to mark out space that is uniquely their own. a broader response to Kant, George also contextualizes Hegel’s Laozi and Zhuangzi, on the other hand, paint a portrait of the interest in tragedy with reference to fi gures in German Idealism self that provides openings for others rather than deliberately and Romanticism, such as Schelling, Hölderlin, and Schlegel. forging an identity that it can claim as its own. In this way, human beings can become joyful wanderers that revel in the movements of the Dao and are comfortable with their own fi nitude. Froese “This is an important contribution to the current reception of also suggests that Nietzsche and Heidegger are philosophers at Hegel. Lucid and concise, it displays an admirable command a crossroads, for they both exemplify the modern emphasis of both the continental and the Anglo-American scholarship of on self-creation and at the same time share the Daoist insight into Hegel. Even more importantly, it is both faithful to Hegel’s project, the perils of excessive egoism that can lead to misguided attempts yet keenly aware of the subterranean possibilities that Hegel’s to master the world. insistence on the triumph of speculative unity excludes. George clearly indicates Hegel’s contribution to our understanding of the “This is an excellent book, knowledgeable, clear, and well written. German retrieval of Greek tragedy as well as tragic elements that It brings forth important issues that are of contemporary concern elude Hegel’s speculative interests. Overall, it is both a fi ne work and will no doubt pave the way for future comparative studies of scholarship, addressing a largely neglected theme, and a fi ne in the traditions being discussed.” — Joanne D. Birdwhistell, piece of philosophizing in its own right.” — Jason M. Wirth, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey author of The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time Katrin Froese is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Calgary and the author of Theodore D. George is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality. Texas A&M University.

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE OPPENHEIMER’S CHOICE ON THE PHILOSOPHY Refl ections from OF RIGHT AND Moral Philosophy THE STATE Richard Mason Nikos Kazantzakis Translated and with an Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Introduction, Notes, choice to accept leadership and Additional Comments of the Manhattan Project. by Odysseus Makridis In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the First English translation of Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1909 Laboratory, which produced the fi rst doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche. atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer’s choice to take that job and our judgment of This book represents the fi rst English translation of Nikos his acceptance, leading to the larger question of the meaning Kazantzakis’s 1909 dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche’s political of moral judgment itself. Through an analysis of Oppenheimer’s and legal philosophy. Before Kazantzakis became one of the best- choice, Richard Mason explores questions of responsibility, the known modern Greek writers, he was an avid student of Nietzsche’s justifi cation for the pursuit of scientifi c curiosity, the purity of thought, discovering Nietzsche while studying law in Paris from research, and many other topics of interest in scientifi c ethics. 1907 to 1909. This powerful assessment of Nietzsche’s radical This unique look at one man’s choice brings out the necessary political thought is translated here from a restored and authentic step from personal detail to abstract refl ection—it may be easy to recent edition of the original. Its deep insights are unencumbered praise or condemn Oppenheimer’s choice, but less easy to justify by the encrustations that generations of Nietzsche’s admirers and our praise or condemnation. Oppenheimer’s Choice establishes detractors have deposed on the original Nietzschean corpus. the possibility of this kind of moral philosophy—neither “applied” The book also offers a revealing glimpse into the formative stage nor “practical” ethics, but instead a sustained concentration of Kazantzakis’s thought. on a single choice, and what it means.

“Thanks to the efforts of the translator, Kazantzakis’s bold, “This book presents a telling case, one that is undeniably diffi cult appreciative interpretation of Nietzsche is now available to to ‘place’ from the standpoint of moral judgment or moral Anglophone readers. While other fi gures from the period offered theory. There are many books on Oppenheimer and many, their thoughts on Nietzsche, none approaches the stature and of course, on moral philosophy, but none I know that bring genius of Kazantzakis. This book opens a unique window onto them together. This makes the book unique.” — Ramsey Eric Ramsey, the European intellectual scene at the beginning of the twentieth coauthor of Leaving Us to Wonder: An Essay on the Questions century.” — Daniel W. Conway, author of Nietzsche and the Science Can’t Ask Political Richard Mason is a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) is the author of Zorba of Cambridge. He is the author of Understanding Understanding the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, and the modern Greek and Before Logic, both published by SUNY Press, and The God epic Odyssey. Odysseus Makridis is Assistant Professor in of Spinoza. Philosophy and the Humanities at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the translator of Letters and Sayings of Epicurus. A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy George R. Lucas Jr., editor JULY I 124 pp $50.00 hc 0-7914-6731-7 JULY I 192 pp $55.00 hc 0-7914-6781-3

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THE TIME OF LIFE SPEAKING Heidegger and E÷thos FROM ELSEWHERE William McNeill A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Explores the notion of eµthos Identity, and Discursive Agency in Heidegger’s thought. JoseŒ Medina

The Time of Life explores Heidegger’s Develops a contextualist rethinking of ethics and of the ethical view of identity, agency, in terms of an understanding of the and discursive practices. original Greek notion of eµthos. Engaging the ethical in Heidegger’s In Speaking from Elsewhere, author thought in relation to Aristotle, Michel JoseŒ Medina argues for the critical Foucault, and Friedrich Hölderlin, William McNeill examines and transformative power of speech from marginalized locations the way in which Heidegger’s thought shifts our understanding by articulating a contextualist view of meaning, identity, and of ethics away from a set of theoretically constructed norms, agency. This contextualism draws from different philosophical principles, or rules governing practice toward an understanding traditions (Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and feminist theory) and of the ethical as our concrete way of Being in the world. crosses disciplinary boundaries (philosophy, cultural studies, women’s studies, and sociology) to underscore both the diversity Central to this study is the consideration of the ethical in relation of voices and viewpoints and the openness of discursive to time: the time of biological life, the time of human life contexts and practices. Expressing a robust notion of discursive as biographical and historical, the temporality of human action, responsibility, Medina contends that, as speakers and members of and the historicality of human thought. In addition, this book linguistic communities, we cannot elude the obligation to open up critically examines the predicament of ethical responsibility in discursive spaces for new voices and to facilitate new dialogues a scientifi c-technological era, considering how the world of that break silences and empower marginalized voices. modern science and technology call upon us to rethink the nature of ethical responsibilities. “This is a groundbreaking and genuinely novel contribution to an emerging school of Wittgenstein interpretation. It combines “McNeill’s scholarship on Heidegger is excellent, and he careful attention to the texts with deep and broad connections writes clearly and with great lucidity and insight on thoughts to issues of general interest as well as of much theoretical and questions that are quite difficult to articulate.” concern.” — Naomi Scheman, coeditor of Feminist Interpretations — Daniela Vallega-Neu, author of The Bodily Dimension of Ludwig Wittgenstein in Thinking “Medina’s book defends an original thesis, is extremely readable, “McNeill’s knack for explicating the kernel of Heidegger’s and manages to interweave analytic philosophy of language, often-thorny argumentation is on full display throughout the book, continental thought, postmodernism, and feminist philosophy with and his ability to render the diffi culty posed by Heidegger’s dense ease and elegance.” — Barbara Fultner, translator of Truth and thinking into the most cogent expression is most remarkable.” Justifi cation by Jürgen Habermas — Jeffrey L. Powell, Marshall University JoseŒ Medina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt William McNeill is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University University and the author of The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy: and is the author of The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity, also published by and the Ends of Theory, also published by SUNY Press. SUNY Press, and Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy, and the coeditor (with David Wood) of Truth: Engagements Across A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Philosophical Traditions. Dennis J. Schmidt, editor OCTOBER I 272 pp JUNE I 254 pp $70.00 hc 0-7914-6915-8 $70.00 jacketed hc 0-7914-6783-X

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THE INCARNALITY HEGEL AND LANGUAGE OF BEING Jere O’Neill Surber, editor The Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger’s Thought The fi rst anthology exclusively Frank Schalow devoted to Hegel’s linguistic thought.

A groundbreaking The fi rst anthology explicitly dedicat- exploration of Heidegger ed to Hegel’s linguistic thought, Hegel and embodiment, from which and Language presents various facets a radical ethical perspective of a new wave of Hegel scholarship. emerges. The chapters are organized around themes that include the possibility CONTRIBUTORS of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel’s The Incarnality of Being addresses Martin Heidegger’s tendency Will Dudley Williams Coll. thought to analytic and postmodern to neglect the problem of the body, an omission that is further Katharina Dulckeit approaches to language. While there refl ected in the fi eld of Heidegger scholarship. By addressing the Butler U. is considerable diversity among the corporeal dimension of human existence, author Frank Schalow Catherine Kellogg U. of Alberta various approaches to and assess- uncovers Heidegger’s concern for the materiality of the world. David Kolb ments of Hegel’s linguistic thought, This allows for the ecological implications of Heidegger’s thought Bates Coll. the volume as a whole demonstrates to emerge, specifi cally, the kinship between humans and animals Chong-Fuk Lau Darmstadt U. of Tech., that not only was language central and the mutual interest each has for preserving the environment Germany for Hegel, but also that his linguistic and the earth. By advancing the theme of the “incarnality of Claire May thought still has much to offer con- being,” Schalow brings Heidegger’s thinking to bear on various Art Inst. of Atlanta John McCumber temporary philosophy. The book also provocative questions concerning contemporary philosophy: UCLA includes an extensive introductory sexuality, the intersection of human and animal life, the precarious Angelica Nuzzo survey of the linguistic thought of the future of the earth we inhabit, and the signifi cance that reclaiming Brooklyn Coll., CUNY Katrin Pahl entire German Idealist movement and our embodiment has upon ethics and politics. USC the contemporary issues that emerged Jeffrey Reid from it. “This is an intellectually informed, well-researched, and rigorously U. of Ottawa Jere O’Neill Surber argued study. The issue of the body and embodiment in Heidegger U. of Denver “By presenting a panorama of has been especially underexamined and/or misunderstood and Kevin Thompson competent scholarship on the theme this book promises to radically correct that. While faithfully DePaul U. Jim Vernon of Hegel and language, this collection articulating Heidegger’s thought, Schalow also critically examines York U., Atkinson opens up a number of perspectives on his arguments and suggests valuable alternative strategies how to read Hegel and his thought. and possibilities, for example, to Heidegger’s own later It is exciting, and the material is reading of Being and Time itself. This is a valuable work.” well organized and covers a number of critical themes.” — Eric Sean Nelson, coeditor of Addressing Levinas — John W. Burbidge, author of Hegel on Logic and Religion: The Reasonableness of Christianity Frank Schalow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of many books, “This book contains a range of distinct considerations brought including The Renewal of the Heidegger-Kant Dialogue: to bear on Hegel’s views and uses of language. The essays are Action, Thought, and Responsibility, also published by not mere expositions of Hegel’s views but are serious attempts at SUNY Press, and Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred: interpretation of the signifi cance of Hegel’s views, evaluation of From Thought to the Sanctuary of Faith. the cogency and intelligibility of his position, and suggestions as to how these views relate to Hegel’s philosophical predecessors A volume in the SUNY series in and to later philosophy of language.” — David A. Duquette, Environmental Philosophy and Ethics editor of Hegel’s History of Philosophy: New Interpretations J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors

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THE CAGE KANT’S PRAGMATIC Must, Should, and ANTHROPOLOGY Ought from Is Its Origin, Meaning, David Weissman and Critical Signifi cance Holly L. Wilson Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity The fi rst comprehensive and freedom. examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from Hume argued that is does not a Pragmatic Point of View. entail ought; that we cannot infer necessity or obligation from any This book offers the fi rst account description of actual states of in English of the origin, meaning, affairs. His philosophical heirs continue to argue that nothing and critical signifi cance of Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology from outside ourselves constrains us. The Cage maintains, contrary a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant’s book is not empirical psychology, to Humean tradition, that reality is a set of nested contexts, but rather a type of cosmopolitan philosophy meant to teach each distinguished by intrinsic norms. Author David Weissman students to think for themselves and thus be free to actualize offers an innovative exploration of these norms intrinsic to their full human destiny. Author Holly L. Wilson innovatively human life, including practical affairs, morals, aesthetics, and explores how the “philosophical anthropology” exhibited in culture. In this critical examination of character formation and Kant’s Anthropology challenges contemporary theories of the conditions for freedom, Weissman suggests that eliminating human nature, including behaviorism and evolutionary theory. context (because of regarding it as an impediment to freedom) She also details how Kant based his work on the critically impoverishes character and reduces freedom. He concludes grounded faculty of teleological judgment and how this type that positive freedom—the freedom to choose and to act— of philosophy of experience is consistent with Kant’s overall has no leverage apart from the contexts where character forms critical theory. The portrait of Kant that emerges is one of and circumstances provide opportunities to express one’s a humane teacher who cared about his students and their thoughts, tastes, or talents. acquisition of prudence and wisdom.

“The great strength of The Cage is that Weissman develops “Wilson persuasively argues that the Anthropology should a metaphysical theory of communitarianism that is itself be read in light of Kant’s principle of teleological judgment. communitarian. Rigorously coherent without falling into the She undertakes the important task of demonstrating how Kant’s trap of holism, and respecting the freedom and integrity of view of the predispositions, as articulated in the Anthropology, particular entities and persons without falling into the trap of is an important part of the overall systematic-critical philosophy.” atomism, Weissman shows us how the values that both constrain — Sharon Anderson-Gold, author of Unnecessary Evil: and liberate us are objective features of the natural world.” History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant — George Allan, author of The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form Holly L. Wilson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. “I do not know of any philosopher who writes so engagingly and insightfully about such controversial and complex topics A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy George R. Lucas Jr., editor as David Weissman. What is truly remarkable is that he never purchases clarity at the price of simplifi cation: he takes up AUGUST I 208 pp inherently diffi cult matters in a consistently clear and engaging $60.00 hc 0-7914-6849-6 manner.” — Vincent M. Colapietro, author of Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity

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THE FUTURE BEYOND LACAN OF PSYCHOANALYSIS James M. Mellard Richard D. Chessick Traces the development Addresses the problem of Lacanian theory, of multiple theories of and its possible future. psychoanalysis, arguing for a return to Freud. In Beyond Lacan, James M. Mellard traces psychoanalytic literary theory The Future of Psychoanalysis explores and practice from Freud to Lacan the contemporary problem of multiple to Zðizûek. While Freud effectively theories of psychoanalysis and presupposes an unconscious that is argues for a return to a more classical textual, it is Lacan whose theory all position based on Freud’s work. Using his training in psychiatry, but articulates a textual unconscious as he offers the epoch a psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Richard D. Chessick examines cutting-edge psychoanalytic ideology. Mellard considers this and the special combination of hermeneutics and natural science that then asks, “Which Lacan? Is there one or many? Early or late?” characterizes Freud’s psychoanalysis, and investigates what goes As Zðizûek counters the notion of a single, unitary Lacan, Lacanians on in the mind of the psychoanalyst during the psychoanalytic are asked to choose. Through Lacanian readings of various process. He maintains that while relativistic and intersubjective texts, from novels like Ellison’s Invisible Man and O’Connor’s theories of psychoanalysis have value, they have gone too Wise Blood to short stories by Glaspell and Fitzgerald, Mellard far and generated a plurality of theories removed from Freud, shows that in critical practice Lacanians produce a middle Lacan, which has led to chaos in the fi eld. The Future of Pyschoanalysis between early and late. challenges these trends and places this debate in the context of current mind/brain controversies and unresolved questions about Mellard concludes by examining why Zðizûek has perhaps human nature. transcended Lacan. More than any other, it is Zðizûek who has constructed early and late Lacan, making possible that middle “Offering a cogent plea for a return to Freud, Chessick envisions Lacan of praxis, but in the process he has also claimed an ð û the future of psychoanalysis as resting on the consilience between independent authority. Ultimately, Mellard explains how Zizek psychoanalysis as a behavioral science and as a philosophical offers a post-Lacanian critique—one built on a pervasive inquiry into the ethical, aesthetic, and humanistic commitments philosophy of paradox—that opens new avenues of analysis of that defi ne culture and psychological life. This is an evocative contested cultural and literary issues such as subjectivity, political anticipation of how psychology and philosophy share an economy, multiculturalism, and religious belief. intimate concern for the future of humanity.” — Jon Mills, editor of Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy “Mellard is courageous in applying French and Freudian concepts to a literature that openly disavows the psychoanalytical, making his approach the kind of eye-opening exercise that makes Richard D. Chessick is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral teaching criticism so important and worthwhile. As Mellard Sciences at Northwestern University, Training and Supervising integrates advances in criticism with specifi c readings of the texts Psychoanalyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, he treats, we must recognize that this is no small task, and others and Senior Attending Psychiatrist Emeritus at Evanston Hospital have found it more than daunting and done it less thoroughly.” in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of many books, including — Juliet Flower MacCannell, author of Figuring Lacan: Freud Teaches Psychotherapy and Emotional Illness and Creativity: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious A Psychoanalytic and Phenomenologic Study.

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SEX, PARANOIA, AND THE WORLD MODERN MASCULINITY OF PERVERSION Kenneth Paradis Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire How modern conceptions of James Penney paranoia became associated with excessive or unregulated An original critique of queer masculinity. theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth- In The World of Perversion, James century conceptions of paranoia Penney argues that antihomophobic became associated with the excessive criticism has nothing to lose—and or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. indeed everything to gain—by reclaiming the psychoanalytic Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to perversion especially connected to the fi gure of the male body under threat and those inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, Penney of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also explores how different assumptions about sexuality have considers how both midcentury detective fi ction (especially determined the development of contemporary queer theory, the work of Raymond Chandler) and contemporaneous and how the universalizing approach to homosexuality in autobiographies of male-to-female transsexuals negotiate the psychoanalysis actually leads to more useful political strategies terms of this gendered understanding of psychopathology, thus for nonheterosexual subjects. Having established this theoretical articulating their own notions of moral value, individual autonomy, context, Penney focuses on works by Georges Bataille, Blaise and effective agency. Pascal, Denis Diderot, and Jacques Lacan, tracing the implications of various sexual and moral understandings of the term perversion, “I like very much how this book explores the deeper roots of and illustrating how a psychoanalytic approach to the question of paranoia and how those deeper roots are shown to be complicit perversion enables politicized readings that are foreclosed by a in the building of narratives in the modern age—narratives with Foucauldian methodology. not only psychological and sexual implications but gendered implications as well. Paradis’s insightful exploration of sexuality “The World of Perversion promises to be an extraordinarily and paranoia says much about our own condition in the important book, a major intervention in the worlds of queer theory, present moment.” — Todd F. Davis, author of Kurt Vonnegut’s psychoanalysis, and French philosophy. Moving far beyond a Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind psychoanalytic critique of queer theory, Penney persuasively of Humanism and compellingly shows how a psychoanalytic understanding of perversion inheres in late medieval, early modern, and “This book demonstrates the interrelatedness of several genres modern French philosophical and juridical thought. Penney also and styles of paranoid discourse: detective fi ction, autobiography, offers a refreshingly new and subtle understanding of the old memoir, case study, fi lm, and novel. The author weaves these knotting of power-knowledge-sex, one that effectively displaces sometimes disparate genres into a multifaceted set of readings paradigms set by critics like Jonathan Dollimore, Eve Sedgwick, that offer an intelligent analysis of paranoid narratives.” and Judith Butler. The result is a fascinating and persuasive book — Mark S. Roberts, coeditor of High Culture: Refl ections on that transforms how we can conceive philosophy, the history Addiction and Modernity of sexuality, and gay politics.” — Graham L. Hammill, author of Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon Kenneth Paradis is Assistant Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. James Penney is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at Trent University. A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor NOVEMBER I 256 pp $65.00 hc 0-7914-6933-6 JULY I 288 pp $65.00 hc 0-7914-6769-4

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CRITICAL POWER TOOLS SINS AGAINST SCIENCE Technical Communication The Scientifi c Media Hoaxes and Cultural Studies of Poe, Twain, and Others J. Blake Scott, Lynda Walsh Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V. Wills, editors Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientifi c and The fi rst sourcebook technological discoveries, for rethinking technical and the effect these hoaxes communication theory, had on readers and their practice, pedagogy, and trust in science. research through a cultural CONTRIBUTORS studies lens. Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history— Elizabeth C. Britt The fi rst book to focus on the intersection Northeastern U. the proliferation of fake news stories about scientifi c and Bradley Dilger of cultural studies and technical technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, Western IL U. communication, Critical Power Tools which fooled thousands of readers, offer a fi rst-hand look at an Diana George draws on various traditions of cultural intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and MI Technological U. studies to develop new or expanded Jeffrey T. Grabill sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams MI State U. theoretical, methodological, and Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the Jim Henry pedagogical approaches to technical author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, U. of HI, Manoa communication. Offered as a and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: Steven B. Katz sourcebook for the fi eld, the book is NC State U. How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to Bernadette Longo organized into three parts. The fi rst accomplish? And—what is a hoax? U. of MN section, emphasizing theory building, Myra G. Moses reconceptualizes key concepts or “I found the book to be quite informative, not only as a technical NC State U. practices, such as usability, through Alan Nadel exploration concerned with how readers interact with texts that Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. a cultural studies lens. The second promulgate hoaxes, but also as a work providing helpful glimpses Michael J. Salvo section illustrates alternative research of the emerging roles of science and media in this period.” Purdue U. methods through several case studies. — Thomas M. Lessl, The University of Georgia Beverly Sauer The third section offers critical and Johns Hopkins U. J. Blake Scott productive pedagogical approaches, “As Walsh points out, there is no extended analysis of hoaxes U. of Central FL including specifi c assignments, in the rhetoric of science, and her book shows how important Jennifer Daryl Slack applicable to both undergraduate hoaxes are in understanding the history of professionalized MI Technological U. and graduate courses. Katherine V. Wills science as it emerged in the United States. The relationship IN U.–Purdue U., Columbus of science and the public is of utmost importance in science “This book is unique in that no other studies, and the author has identifi ed a key source of historical text addresses the issue of cultural information about this relationship.” — Ellen Barton, coeditor of studies in technical communication. The contributors provide Discourse Studies in Composition thoughtful, smart essays that initiate a useful discussion for the fi eld.” — Stuart C. Brown, coeditor of The Writing Program Lynda Walsh is Assistant Professor of English at the New Mexico Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Refl ective Institutional Practice Institute of Mining and Technology.

J. Blake Scott is Associate Professor of English at the University A volume in the SUNY series, of Central Florida. Bernadette Longo is Assistant Professor of Studies in Scientifi c and Technical Communication Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota. Katherine V. Wills James P. Zappen, editor is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University–Purdue SEPTEMBER I 320 pp University at Columbus. 7 b/w photographs, 29 tables, 2 fi gures $80.00 hc 0-7914-6877-1 A volume in the SUNY series, Studies in Scientifi c and Technical Communication James P. Zappen, editor

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MEXICO’S RUINS THE OTHER DAUGHTERS Juan García Ponce and the OF THE REVOLUTION Writing of Modernity The Narrative of K. White Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández (1809) and the Memoirs of Elizabeth Fisher (1810) Explores the trope of modernity Edited and with an in García Ponce’s writings. Introduction by Sharon Halevi At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social Presents two of the earliest and historical traffi c headed down autobiographies of American a utopian one-way street named women. “progress.” Mexico’s Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded Early in the nineteenth century, New York residents K. White notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern and Elizabeth Fisher wrote and published two of the earliest Mexico’s national projects and their reception by the nation’s autobiographies written by American women. Their lives ran along citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author parallel courses: both were daughters of Loyalists who chose to Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by remain in the United States; both found themselves entangled in the etymology of “ruins”: a simultaneous falling down and rising unhappy marriages, abandoned for extend periods, and forced up, a confl uence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the to take on the role of sole provider; and both became involved metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the in property disputes with their male kin, which eventually landed generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions them in prison, where they wrote their narratives. White’s tale is both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. a highly crafted text, almost an embryonic novel, incorporating The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico several subgenres and interweaving poetry and prose. Fisher’s are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book. story, while less sophisticated in terms of rhetoric and style, is nevertheless a compelling account of a woman’s life and struggles “Rodríguez-Hernández accomplishes what he describes in during the Revolution and the early years of the republic. García Ponce’s fi ction: he opens readers to new connections, moving them beyond a Manichaean choice of modernity versus Their narratives, read together, highlight many literary and ruin, toward a fl exible reading of the mobility and inter-referential historical issues. They present an unruly, disobedient, and nature of both. Rodríguez-Hernández teaches his readers the assertive female subject and illuminate popular attitudes regarding pleasure and necessity of reading ruins, whether archeological, women and marriage. By articulating a consistent and growing cultural, political, or literary. The debris of the past is ever-present.” unease concerning the institution of marriage and the unlimited — Carol Clark D’Lugo, The Fragmented Novel in Mexico: power husbands had over their wives, these narratives lay the The Politics of Form groundwork for a political critique of marriage and the status of women within it. Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester. “I fi nd this a powerfully engaging and beautifully executed book. Sharon Halevi’s introduction offers a provocative thesis that it was pamphlet memoirs such as these, rather than fi ction, A volume in the SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture that offered the fi rst feminist critiques of domestic ideology in Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors the early republic by giving voice to unruly female subjects.” — Phyllis Cole, author of Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins NOVEMBER I 240 pp of Transcendentalism: A Family History 2 b/w photographs $65.00 hc 0-7914-6943-3 “Taken together, these texts contribute to the contemporary reframing of an earlier feminist paradigm of separate spheres and propose one way to approach thorny issues of arguing from texts to lived experience.” — Sidonie Smith, coauthor of Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

Sharon Halevi is Lecturer in the Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies at the University of Haifa.

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ALTERED STATES FEATURED TITLE Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation THE SOCIAL in Victorian Spiritualism CONSTRUCTION Marlene Tromp OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Considers the role Interpretive of Spiritualism in and Critical Perspectives Victorian culture. Jong S. Jun Foreword by Altered States examines the rise of Frank P. Sherwood Spiritualism—the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters—in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both Challenges the limitations of modern public traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on administration theories. a particular kind of séance event—the full-form materialization— and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed In this conceptual guided tour of contemporary public it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance administration, Jong S. Jun challenges the limitations of the new ways of understanding identity and relationships became discipline which, he argues, make it inadequate for understanding possible. This not only demonstrably shaped the thinking of the today’s complex human phenomena. Drawing on examples and Spiritualists, but also the popular consciousness of the period. case studies from both Eastern and Western countries, he empha- In diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, scientifi c reports, and sizes critical and interpretive perspectives as a counterforce to the popular fi ction, Tromp uncovers evidence that the radical views instrumental-technical rationality that reduces the fi eld to structur- presented in the faith permeated and infl uenced mainstream al and functionalist views of management. He also emphasizes Victorian thought. the idea of democratic social construction to transcend the fi eld’s reliance on conventional pluralist politics. Jun stresses that public “Tromp makes a good case for the wide-ranging import of administrators and institutions must create opportunities for Victorian Spiritualism; as she sees Spiritualism, it provides a sharing and learning among organizational members and must fulcrum for fraught Victorian ideologies of sexuality, imperialism, facilitate interactive processes between public administrators intoxicants, and gender roles. Like our own ghosts, those of the and citizens so that the latter can voice their problems Victorians nestle at the heart of their culture’s phobias and hopes, and opinions. The future role of public administrators will and Tromp’s enlightening study unveils their devious power.” be to transcend the limitations of the management and — Nina Auerbach, author of Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress governing of modern public administration and to explore ways of constructing socially meaningful alternatives through “Tromp asks why Spiritualism mattered and what effects it communicative action and the participation of citizens. produced, and she answers these questions on the basis of primary research and careful attention to the Victorian cultural “This well-written and comprehensive book tackles the scope of the web. She showcases what in so many places are very exciting, fi eld of public administration within the context of globalization very well articulated, and very new ideas with signifi cant and of new governance. It provides a fully developed bearing on Victorian cultural studies as a whole.” alternative concept of public administration from an interpretive — Martha Stoddard Holmes, author of Fictions of Affl iction: and critical perspective.” — Guy B. Adams, coauthor of Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Unmasking Administrative Evil

Marlene Tromp is Associate Professor of English at Denison Jong S. Jun is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at University. She is the coeditor (with Pamela K. Gilbert and Aeron California State University at East Bay. He has published many Haynie) of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, books, including Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Private Rod: of the New Century. Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain. A volume in the SUNY series in Public Administration Peter W. Colby, editor A volume in the SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century JULY I 320 pp Pamela K. Gilbert, editor 7 tables $75.00 hc 0-7914-6725-2 JULY I 234 pp 14 b/w photographs $65.00 hc 0-7914-6739-2

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FEATURED TITLE SOLVING THE HEALTH CARE PROBLEM INTERSTATE DISPUTES How Other Nations The Supreme Court’s Succeeded and Why Original Jurisdiction the United States Has Not Joseph F. Zimmerman Pamela Behan

Examines the role of the Examines Australia and U.S. Supreme Court in settling Canada to help explain why disputes between states. the United States provides less health care protection than With respect to “controversies other democratic nations. between two or more states,” the U.S. Constitution grants original jurisdiction to the The United States is the only industrialized democracy that allows U.S. Supreme Court, and in 1789 Congress made its citizens to go entirely without health care for lack of funds exclusive the Court’s jurisdiction over interstate disputes. or to be bankrupted by medical bills. Author Pamela Behan In this book, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines the role of the was confronted by the effects of this policy failure during her Supreme Court in settling disputes between states, the criteria previous career as a nurse, and with Solving the Health Care developed by the Court to determine whether its original Problem, she examines how it can be corrected. Behan explores jurisdiction should be invoked, and the function of special American health care policy failure by looking at how two other, masters, who, as adjuncts to the Court, facilitate negotiated similar nations—Canada and Australia—managed to adopt settlements or provide the factual information needed by the health care protections, and compares their stories with events Court to render sound decisions. Zimmerman analyzes a wide in the United States. Behan’s systematic comparison of all three range of specifi c disputes, from boundary lines to fi nancial nations shows that the factors responsible for these different matters to water allocation, diversion, and pollution. To alleviate results center on the responsiveness of each nation’s political the Court’s exceptionally heavy and critically important appellate institutions to its voters. In particular, Australia’s parliamentary workload, the author proposes alternative mechanisms for system and labor party and Canada’s constitutional fl exibility resolving controversies between sister states, including interstate and national-provincial dynamics proved central to each nation’s boundary compacts, interstate regulatory compacts, and several adoption of national health insurance. In contrast, similar efforts congressional initiatives. in the United States became less frequent and less ambitious after they were repeatedly blocked without even coming to a vote. “Zimmerman has done a masterful job of identifying and These dissimilarities reveal the institutional and class issues that elaborating upon those interstate disputes that have been most must be addressed for the United States to successfully confront commonly adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court, and he also the health care problem. takes note of the rather unique interstate disputes that have been settled by the Court, including matters involving the bonds of one “This is an interesting, well-written, and thoughtful account state held by another state, the pre-Civil War debt of Virginia, of health care policy and American exceptionalism from a sale of convict-made articles, state quarantines, and the electoral comparative perspective. Behan brings together a wealth of college voting system. He presents a convincing case for the information to make a valuable contribution to the social policy/ states to make a stronger effort to negotiate their differences political sociology literature.” — Gregg M. Olsen, author of and resolve their disputes by entering into interstate compacts. The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden, and the The book fi lls a serious void in the literature on interstate relations.” United States — Nelson Wikstrom, coauthor of American Intergovernmental Relations: A Fragmented Federal Polity Pamela Behan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston–Downtown. Joseph F. Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is AUGUST I 208 pp the author of many books, including Congressional Preemption: 11 tables $60.00 hc 0-7914-6837-2 Regulatory Federalism and Interstate Economic Relations, both also published by SUNY Press.

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THE FAILURES RESCUING REGULATION OF AMERICAN Reza R. Dibadj AND EUROPEAN CLIMATE POLICY Fashions a new way of International Norms, defending the importance Domestic Politics, of economic regulation. and Unachievable The traditional debate on governmen- Commitments tal regulation has run its course, with Loren R. Cass economically minded analysts point- ing to regulation’s ineffi ciency while Examines why some nations, those focused on justice purpose- but not others, have met their fully avoid the economic paradigm to commitments to international climate treaties. defend regulation’s role in protecting consumers, workers, and society’s disadvantaged. In Rescuing Regulation, Reza R. Dibadj In this timely work, Loren R. Cass argues that international norms challenges both camps. He squarely addresses the shortcomings and normative debates provide the keys to understanding the of the conventional economic critique that portrays regulation as evolution of both domestic and international responses to the threat a waste, and also confronts those focused on justice to marshal of global climate change. Ranging from the early identifi cation economic arguments for public intervention against social inequi- and framing of this problem in the mid 1980s through the Kyoto ties and abusive market behavior. Providing novel answers to the Protocol’s entry into force in 2005, Cass focuses on two normative questions of why and how to regulate, Dibadj contends that the debates that were critical to the development of climate policy— law and economics paradigm must not remain an apologist for who should bear primary responsibility for reducing global laissez-faire public policy. He also demonstrates how incorpo- greenhouse gas emissions and what principles would guide these rating the latest economics and revamping institutions can help reductions. He examines why some nations, but not others, have improve our public agencies. Rescuing Regulation not only met their commitments, and concludes that while many states suggests ways to develop public institutions refl ective of affi rmed the international norms, most did not fully translate a democracy, but also broadly outlines how social science them into domestic policy. Cass offers an index to measure the can inform normative legal discourse. domestic salience of international norms and compare the level of salience across states and within states over time, and uses it “A truly original and even courageous book. It shows, to assess the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, with great power and effect, that the rational school is and the United States. empirically unsupported, conceptually fl awed, and normatively wrongheaded. But Dibadj does better: he points at alternative “How to conceptualize and measure norm compliance and conceptions. The more people read him and heed him, adoption is a central issue in the fi eld of international relations the better we all shall be.” — Amitai Etzioni, The Moral Dimension: today. Readers will fi nd a large amount of rich material in this Toward a New Economics book, including extensive and well-researched case studies.” — Mary Pettenger, Western Oregon University “A compelling defense of economic regulation and antitrust against the criticisms by the twentieth-century exponents of Loren R. Cass is Assistant Professor of Political Science at eighteenth-century economics—in which the distribution of income College of the Holy Cross. and of political and economic power are taken as ‘given’—and a correspondingly ambitious project for their reconstruction in A volume in the SUNY series in Global Environmental Policy the twenty-fi rst century. I fi nd the defense totally persuasive, and Uday Desai, editor the proposed reconstruction thought-provoking and convincing.” — Alfred E. Kahn, The Economics of Regulation: Principles SEPTEMBER I 288 pp and Institutions $70.00 hc 0-7914-6855-0

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JUSTICE AS INTEGRITY COMPLEXITY Tolerance and the IN WORLD POLITICS Moral Momentum of Law Concepts and Methods David Fagelson of a New Paradigm Neil E. Harrison, editor Strives to show why morality and, in particular, tolerance Demonstrates that world are each part of the idea of politics is more complex law. than conventional models can account for. Do any moral values underlie the foun- dations of law and society in America? Despite one hundred years of In Justice as Integrity, David Fagelson theorizing, scholars and practitioners CONTRIBUTORS argues that morality is indeed a part of the idea of law. Examining alike are constantly surprised by controversies of speech and privacy, he does not ignore the international and global political Robert Axlerod U. of MI conservative communitarian streak in America, but argues events. The collapse of communism that liberal tolerance best fi ts the social meanings of American Ravi Bhavnani in Europe, the 1997 Asian fi nancial MI State U. political morality. While tolerance plays a critical role, crisis, and 9/11 have demonstrated Walter C. Clemens, Jr. different social practices yield different conceptions of tolerance. the inadequacy of current models Boston U. David C. Earnest Judges must interpret any public text to develop coherent that depict world politics as a simple, narratives that best explain the use of force in their jurisdiction. Old Dominion U. mechanical system. Complexity in Neil E Harrison In America, Fagelson argues, liberal tolerance is the World Politics shows how conventional Sustainable sovereign principle that the Supreme Court uses as a prism when theories oversimplify reality and Development Inst. Matthew J. Hoffman interpreting social institutions like marriage, speech, and even illustrates how concepts drawn from death, to make them more consistent with personal autonomy. U. of DE complexity science can be adapted James N. Rosenau to increase our understanding of George Washington U. “Fagelson’s thesis about tolerance as a basis for law is as world politics and improve policy. In Dennis J. Sandole George Mason U. original as it is provocative. It is sure to excite and confound legal language free of jargon, the book’s scholars and political theorists. This book will surely be criticized Desmond Saunders-Newton distinguished contributors explain USC and challenged, but that is true of all important works.” and illustrate a complexity paradigm J. Davis Singer — Philip A. Klinkner, coauthor of The Unsteady March: The Rise of world politics and defi ne its central U. of MI and Decline of Racial Equality in America concepts. They show how these concepts can improve conventional David Fagelson is Associate Professor of Law and Society at models as well as generate new ideas, hypotheses, and empirical American University. approaches, and conclude by outlining an agenda of theoretical development and empirical research to create and test complex A volume in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism Robert J. Spitzer, editor systems theories of issue-areas of world politics.

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TECHNOLOGY IMPERIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSFORMATION Colonial Discourses The Railroad, the Atom Bomb, of Rights and Liberties and the Politics of in African History Technological Change Bonny Ibhawoh Geoffrey L. Herrera Looks at the language Examines the interrelation of rights used by diverse between technology interest groups in and international politics British-colonized Nigeria. since the nineteenth century.

During an era in which the pace of technological change In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links is unrelenting, understanding how international politics both between European imperialism and human rights discourses in shapes and is shaped by technology is crucial. Drawing on African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, international relations theory, historical sociology, and the he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society history of technology, Geoffrey L. Herrera offers an ambitious, deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied theoretically sophisticated, and historically rich examination socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear of the interrelation between technology and international politics. progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing He explores the development of the railroad in the nineteenth that in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not century and the atomic bomb in the twentieth century to show that simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both technologies do not stand apart from, but are intimately related to, to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated even defi ned by, international politics. transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of “This book provides a nuanced and theoretically rigorous “civilization” and “modernity,” became an important part of the treatment of the role of technology in international systems change. discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire. Many international relations theories rely on technology as the ‘uncaused cause’ and leave it undertheorized. Herrera makes “It is generally assumed that the present day human rights a compelling case that all technologies are not the same so we revolution began in 1948 with the Universal Declaration of must theorize about them in different ways.” — Emily Goldman, Human Rights. While not taking direct issue with the importance coeditor of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia of the UDHR, Ibhawoh very effectively shows how the language of rights had already been used (and misused) in British colonial “Herrera fi lls important gaps in the international relations literature. practices in Nigeria. Fascinating and thought-provoking, this His book addresses the general and important question of systems book has a great deal of relevance to the major human rights change for which neither structural realists nor constructivists have debates that are going on right now.” — Mark Gibney, author of formulated adequate explanations. For the former, continuity in Five Uneasy Pieces: American Ethics in a Globalized World the essence of international politics has become dogma. For the latter, the possibilities for change inherent in a non-materialist “Using court documents from the time, Ibhawoh investigates conception of structure have not produced persuasive theories of property rights in land, civil and political rights, and rights in agency. Placing technology in a social framework, Herrera shows marriage and the family. Ibhawoh bridges the gap between how agents and artifacts often give rise to novel practices with theoretical analysis of human rights, and analysis of human wide-ranging systems-level effects. A major advance in relating rights as negotiated terrain, rooted in local struggles.” technology and technological change to fundamental questions — Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair in of international relations theory.” — James W. Davis, author of International Human Rights, Wilfrid Laurier University Terms of Inquiry: On the Theory and Practice of Political Science Bonny Ibhawoh is Assistant Professor of History at Brock Geoffrey L. Herrera is Assistant Professor of Political Science University, Ontario. at Temple University. A volume in the SUNY series in Human Rights A volume in the SUNY series in Global Politics Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, editor James N. Rosenau, editor NOVEMBER I 208 pp SEPTEMBER I 256 pp 2 maps, 3 fi gures 2 tables, 6 fi gures $60.00 hc 0-7914-6923-9 $65.00 hc 0-7914-6867-4

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EXECUTING NORTH KOREA UNDER THE CONSTITUTION KIM JONG IL Putting the President Back From Consolidation into the Constitution to Systemic Dissonance Christopher S. Kelley, editor Sung Chull Kim

Draws attention to how Examines internal changes American presidents have in North Korea under the creatively interpreted the expanding rule of Kim Jong Il. Constitution to expand the power of the executive branch. North Korea has long been a country of mystique, both Over the last thirty years, a great CONTRIBUTORS provoking two nuclear crises deal of attention has been paid to and receiving aid from the international community and executive branch interpretation of the Ryan J. Barilleaux South Korea in more recent times. North Korea under Constitution. Executing the Constitution Miami U. Michael Cairo Kim Jong Il examines how internal changes in North Korea since focuses on the creative interpretation of Georgetown Coll. the early 1970s have structured that nation’s apparently constitutional powers to either expand Graham G. Dodds provocative nuclear diplomacy and recent economic reform executive branch policymaking or to Concordia U. Patrick J. Haney measures. To understand these changes, author Sung Chull Kim shield its prerogatives. In analyzing Miami U. uncovers relatively unknown internal aspects of the country under and explaining the bold unilateral Maureen P. Haney Kim Jong Il’s leadership. His account, based on a thorough decisions presidents have made during Frost Brown Todd LLC, OH Christopher S. Kelley examination of primary sources, traces the origins, consolidation, and since the Vietnam War, this book Miami U. and dissonance of North Korea’s systemic identity. He reveals draws attention to some dramatic Kevin J. McMahon how offi cial and unoffi cial developments in the domains of changes in the executive branch that Trinity Coll. Richard M. Pious North Korea’s politics, ideology, economics, and intellectual- explain the development and use of Barnard Coll. cultural affairs have brought about system-wide duality, particularly such concepts as presidential signing Mark Rozell between socialist principles embedded in the offi cial ideology statements, administrative clearance, Mason U. Robert J. Spitzer and economic institutions. unilateral foreign policy declarations, SUNY Cortland and executive privilege. George Thomas Williams Coll. “This book focuses not only upon regime change within Walt Vanderbush North Korea, but also on the personal qualities of Kim Jong Il “This book hits the nail on the Miami U. and his father. It goes beyond the usual sort of political head in insisting that a public Kevan M. Yenerall analysis to use systems principles. The result is the most law approach to the study of the Clarion U. comprehensive and valuable book on North Korea to date.” presidency is central. It is a fi ne book — Kenneth D. Bailey, author of Sociology and the New Systems on an important and challenging aspect of the presidency.” Theory: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis — Michael A. Genovese, author of Encyclopedia of the American Presidency Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor of Northeast Asian “This work makes a needed and valuable contribution to the Studies at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan. scholarship on several important and timely changes occurring NOVEMBER I 288 pp in the presidential relationship to and use of the Constitution. 4 tables, 2 fi gures All presidential scholars will want to add this to their libraries.” $75.00 hc 0-7914-6927-1 — Robert P. Watson, editor of Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President’s House

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DEVOLUTION AND BLACK DEEP HISTORY STATE LEGISLATORS A Study in Social Evolution Challenges and Choices and Human Potential in the Twenty-fi rst Century David Laibman Tyson King-Meadows and Thomas F. Schaller Blends insights from several disciplines to offer a general Comprehensive study of the theory of social evolution. state of black state legislative politics. Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether cultures? Seeking to answer these questions, Deep History offers black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the a fresh theory of social evolution while thinking grandly about substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry the human condition. With his theory based in the Marxian and by southern conservatives, “new federalism” has shifted power historical materialist tradition, David Laibman starts from scratch from Washington to the respective state governments and, and utilizes some of the best insights in economics and economic ironically, has done so as black state legislators grow in number. history, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and Tyson King-Meadows and Thomas F. Schaller look at the debates philosophy to construct a new framework for understanding the surrounding black political incorporation, the tradeoffs between most general aspects of social evolution. He then applies this substantive and descriptive representation, racial redistricting, framework to modern era capitalist societies and, projecting it on and the impact of black legislators on state budgetary politics. a postcapitalist or socialist future, captures an understanding of They situate contemporary constraints on black state elites as the core momentum that has characterized our lived experience, the union of macro- and micro-level forces, which allows for a a momentum considerate of diversity, contingency, and the role reconsideration of how the idiosyncrasies of political, economic, of human consciousness over time. and geographic culture converge with the internal dynamics of state legislative processes to produce particular environments. “This book contains the best overview of the key variables Interviews with black legislators provide valuable insights into determining capitalist development I’ve read. It makes just about how such idiosyncrasies may deprive institutional advancement— all earlier work in crisis theory look one-sided and inadequate.” committee assignments, chairmanships, and party leadership — Tony Smith, author of Technology and Capital in the Age of positions—of the infl uence it once afforded. Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy”

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THE PERILS AND PROMISE MUSICAL DEMOCRACY OF GLOBAL Nancy S. Love TRANSPARENCY Why the Information How music functions as Revolution May Not Lead a metaphor and model to Security, Democracy, for democracy. or Peace Kristin M. Lord Musical metaphors abound in political theory and music often accompanies political movements, yet Argues that increasing levels music is seldom regarded as political of transparency do not always communication. In this groundbreaking change international politics book, Nancy S. Love explores how for the better. music functions as metaphor and model for democracy in the work of political theorists and activist musicians. She examines While the trend toward greater transparency will bring many deliberative democratic theorists—Jürgen Habermas and John benefi ts, Kristin M. Lord argues that predictions that it will lead Rawls—who employ musical metaphors to express the sense of inevitably to peace, understanding, and democracy are wrong. justice that animates their discourse ideals. These metaphors also The conventional view is of authoritarian governments losing invoke embodied voices that enter their public discourse only in control over information thanks to technology, the media, and translation, as rational arguments for legal rights. Love posits that international organizations, but there is a darker side, one in the music of activists from the feminist and civil rights movements— which some of the same forces spread hatred, confl ict, and lies. Holly Near and Bernice Johnson Reagon—engages deeper, In this book, Lord discusses the complex implications of growing more fl uid energies of civil society by modeling a democratic transparency, paying particular attention to the circumstances conversation toward which deliberative democrats’ metaphors under which transparency’s effects are negative. Case studies of merely suggest. To omit movement music from politics is, Love the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the government of Singapore’s argues, to refuse the challenges it poses to modern, rational, successful control of information are included. secular, Western democracy. In conclusion, Musical Democracy proposes that a more radical—and more musical—democracy “The topic is very signifi cant, and while there is considerable would embrace the spirit of humanity which moves a politics literature on the subject, the author has found something new to dedicated to the pursuit of justice. say about it. She takes on the conventional wisdom, challenging it with a very sophisticated argument, numerous examples, and “This book advances the integration of politics and aesthetics interesting, detailed case studies. It will be diffi cult for serious while creatively engaging issues and debates at the center of scholars to repeat the conventional wisdom in the future without contemporary political theory. There are few topics as important referring to the caveats in this book.” — Joseph S. Nye Jr., as the relationship between communication and democratic Harvard University, author of Soft Power: The Means to Success association, and by amending our concept of communication in World Politics to include music, Nancy Love moves our ideas of democratic association forward.” — Morton Schoolman, author of Reason and “This book provides a good survey of an important subject and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality a critical perspective that is very much needed in a climate where transparency is seen as an obvious good with immediate Nancy S. Love is Associate Professor of Political Science and consequences.” — Monroe E. Price, coauthor of Self-Regulation Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State at University and the Internet Park. She is the author of Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity and Understanding Dogmas and Dreams: A Text, Second Edition, and Kristin M. Lord is Assistant Professor of Political Science the editor of Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political and International Affairs at The George Washington University’s Ideologies, Third Edition. Elliott School of International Affairs. She is the coeditor (with Bernard I. Finel) of Power and Confl ict in the Age SEPTEMBER I 160 pp $50.00 hc 0-7914-6869-0 of Transparency.

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THE TRANSFORMATION FEATURED TITLE OF PLANTATION POLITICS Black Politics, Concentrated EARNINGS Poverty, and Social Capital FROM LEARNING in the Mississippi Delta The Rise of Sharon D. Wright Austin For-Profi t Universities David W. Breneman, Examines the political Brian Pusser, and and economic changes Sarah E. Turner, editors of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta. Documents the rise of for-profi t education as a dynamic CONTRIBUTORS and powerful force The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of in higher education. David W. Breneman black political exclusion, the sharecropping system, and white U. of VA resistance on the Mississippi Delta’s current economic and Dudley J. Doane Earnings from Learning examines the political situation. Sharon D. Wright Austin’s extensive interviews U. of VA historical and contemporary factors that with residents of the region shed light on the transformations Saul Fisher have fueled the rise of postsecondary ACLS, NY, NY and legacies of the Delta’s political and economic institutions. Andreas Ortmann for-profi t, degree-granting institutions While African Americans now hold most of the major political CERGE-EI, Czech Republic as a dynamic and powerful force in offi ces in the region and are no longer formally excluded from Brian Pusser education. The contributors focus on political participation, educational opportunities, or lucrative U. of VA such institutions as the University of Sarah E. Turner jobs, Wright Austin shows that white wealth and black poverty U. of VA Phoenix, DeVry, and Strayer to present continue to be the norm partly because of the deeply entrenched David A. Wolcott theoretically grounded and data-driven legacies of the Delta’s history. Contributing to a greater theoretical U. of VA research from a variety of disciplinary understanding of black political efforts, this book demonstrates perspectives. They document a need for a strong level of black social capital, intergroup unprecedented shifts in the postsecondary political economy and capital, fi nancial capital, political capital, and a human capital landscape and evaluate the implications for nonprofi t institutions, of educated and skilled workers. including understanding the public and private benefi ts of higher education, postsecondary access and success, institutional “This book not only addresses the social and economic resource allocation, competition, governance, and technology. disparities in one of America’s poorest regions, but also explains why traditional methods of overcoming these disparities are “This book provides analytical studies on a subject that is relatively not necessarily tied to redistributing money. On the contrary, new and not well understood. I like that the book has a point of the author points out vividly that the system will only begin view rather than being inert on what is a controversial subject.” to change when non-elites are empowered and hundreds of years — Henry M. Levin, coauthor of Privatizing Educational Choice: of oppression and institutional racism are removed through Consequences for Parents, Schools, and Public Policy education and reordering the political structure. This book will be the impetus for additional research and may in fact help the At the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, residents and other interested parties facilitate change David W. Breneman is University Professor and Dean, in the region.” — Charles E. Menifi eld, coeditor of Politics in the Brian Pusser is Assistant Professor of Education, and New South: Representation of African Americans in Southern Sarah E. Turner is Associate Professor of Education and Economics. State Legislatures Breneman’s previous books include Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered? and Pusser is the author of Burning Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political Down the House: Politics, Governance, and Affi rmative Action at Science at the University of Florida and the author of Race, Power, the University of California, also published by SUNY Press. and Political Emergence in Memphis. A volume in the SUNY series, Frontiers in Education A volume in the SUNY series in African American Studies Philip G. Altbach, editor John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors AUGUST I 240 pp JULY I 272 pp 10 tables, 16 fi gures 3 maps, 21 tables, 2 fi gures $24.95 pb 0-7914-6840-2 $65.00 hc 0-7914-6801-1 $74.50 hc 0-7914-6839-9

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NEW DIRECTIONS CHICANA/LATINA IN EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION IN IMPLEMENTATION EVERYDAY LIFE Confronting Complexity Feminista Perspectives on Meredith I. Honig, editor Pedagogy and Epistemology Dolores Delgado Bernal, Provides the most up-to-date C. Alejandra Elenes, and comprehensive review of Francisca E. Godinez, and contemporary research in edu- Sofi a Villenas, editors cation policy implementation. This fi rst-of-its-kind volume A companion to Allan R. Odden’s bridges Chicana/Latina Education Policy Implementation, CONTRIBUTORS feminist perspectives with CONTRIBUTORS also published by SUNY Press, this education and offers innovative book presents original work by a new Jean Anyon Jennifer Ayala The Graduate Ctr., CUNY ideas on teaching and learning, St. Peter’s Coll. generation of scholars contributing Cynthia E. Coburn and ways of knowing. L. Esthela Banuelos to education policy implementation U. of CA, Berkeley U. of CA, Santa Cruz Amanda Datnow Courtney C. Bentley research. The contributors defi ne This groundbreaking volume explores education policy implementation as USC Columbia U. Michael Dumas both Chicana/Latina feminist Maria Rebecca Burciaga the product of the interaction among The Graduate Ctr., CUNY defi nitions of teaching and learning, UCLA particular policies, people, and Andrea Evans and ways of knowing in education. Rosario Carillo Northern IL U. U. of MI places. Their analyses of previous The book’s contributors—Chicana/ generations of implementation Louis Gomez Cindy Cruz Northwestern U. Latina feminist scholars—reinterpret Pacifi c Oaks Coll. research reveal that contemporary Heather Hill the fi eld of education as inter- and Elizabeth Cruz Godinez fi ndings not only build directly on U. of MI transdisciplinary and connected Brentwood, CA Meredith Honig Dolores Delgado Bernal lessons learned from the past, but also to ethnic, racial, and womanist seek to deepen past fi ndings. These U. of WA, Seattle U. of UT Susanna Loeb scholarship. They examine mujer- Perlita R. Dicochea contemporary researchers also break Stanford U. (women-) centered defi nitions of La Mesa, CA from the past by seeking a more Patrick McEwan pedagogy and epistemology rooted Iris Dixon Wellesley Coll. Columbia U. nuanced, contingent, and rigorous in Chicana/Latina theories and theory-based explication of how Betty Malen C. Alejandra Elenes U. of MD visions of life, family, community, AZ State U. implementation unfolds. They argue Milbrey McLaughlin and world. Armed with the tools of Ruth Trinidad Galván that researchers and practitioners Stanford U. Chicana/Latina feminist thought, the U. of NM Brian Reiser Francisca E. Godinez can help improve education policy contributors link cultural studies theories implementation by not asking simply Northwestern U. CA State U., Sacramento Mark Smylie to critical/feminist pedagogies by re- Norma González what works, but rather focusing their U. of IL, Chicago envisioning the sites of pedagogy to U. of UT attention on what works, for whom, James P. Spillane include women’s brown bodies and Patricia Herrera where, when, and why. Northwestern U. Coll. of Staten Island Mary Kay Stein their agency. Michelle A. Holling U. of Pittsburg CO State U. “Meredith Honig has provided the Dolores Delgado Bernal is Karleen Pendleton Jiménez education policy community with a York U. Associate Professor of Education and gem.” — Allan R. Odden, editor of Laura Jiménez Chicana/o Studies at the University Education Policy Implementation NY, NY of Utah. C. Alejandra Elenes Michelle G. Knight is Associate Professor of Women’s Columbia U. “All who have a part in shaping education policy should Irene Lara read this book. Complexity is the basic reality, and this book Studies at Arizona State University. San Diego State U. is an excellent primer for understanding its implications.” Francisca E. Godinez teaches Jo Anna Mixpe Ley — Clarence N. Stone, coauthor of Building Civic Capacity: Educational Leadership and Policy Pico Rivera, CA Studies at California State University Nadjwa E. L. Norton The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools Columbia U. at Sacramento. Sofi a Villenas is Ana Tavares Meredith I. Honig is Assistant Professor of Educational Associate Professor of Education Harvard U. Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington and Latina/o Studies at Cornell Sofi a Villenas at Seattle. University. Cornell U.

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WE’RE NOT ROBOTS EXPANDING The Voices of Daycare Providers OPPORTUNITY Enid Elliot IN HIGHER EDUCATION Foreword by Leveraging Promise Janet Gonzalez-Mena Patricia GaŒndara, Gary Orfield, and Raises provocative questions Catherine L. Horn, editors about how we care for infants and toddlers, Reports on the challenges and how to provide facing California and the education and support nation in providing access for their caregivers. to higher education during a CONTRIBUTORS time of demographic change. This fascinating book presents the stories of infant/toddler Estela Mara Bensimon caregivers and their work to illustrate the complexity of USC Leticia Tomas Bustillos The dream of public higher education balancing relationships with babies, families, coworkers, and USC in America is to provide opportunity self, yet remaining emotionally present and mindfully engaged. Jorge Chapa IN U. for many and to offer transformative Enid Elliot explores the inevitable tensions of working within Brian K. Fitzgerald help to American communities and the these various relationships and demonstrates how profi cient Business-Higher Ed. Partnership economy. Expanding Opportunity in caregivers can develop strategies for achieving this delicate Patricia Gándara U. of CA, Davis Higher Education explores the massive balance. In the process, she raises provocative questions about Saul Geiser challenges facing California and the how we care for babies, and how to provide education and U. of CA, Berkeley Bruce Hamlet nation in realizing this goal during support for their caregivers. Sacramento, CA a time of enormous demographic Stephen J. Handel change. The immediate focus on “We’re Not Robots is a wake-up call. Caregivers with the Comm. Coll. Initiatives Lan Hao California is particularly appropriate understanding, knowledge, and skills Elliot describes are the USC given the size of the state—it educates exception at present, not the norm … As a society we need to Margaret Heisel U. of CA, Berkeley one out of every nine students in the be sure that all infants and toddlers who spend their days in Barbara A. Hobltizell country—and its checkered political out-of-home environments have the quality of care that this book U. of CA, Berkeley record with respect to civil rights shows is possible.” — from the Foreword by Janet Gonzalez-Mena Catherine L. Horn U. of Houston and educational inequities. The book Thomas J. Kane “All too often the voices of early childhood caregivers are silenced, UCLA includes essays not only by academics while the voices of ‘experts’ are privileged. This text joins a small, Patricia Marin looking at the state’s educational Harvard U. but growing body of literature that seeks to challenge the Julie A. Mendoza system as a whole, but also by those inequitable ways that caregivers are positioned within relationships U. of CA within the policy system who are Colleen Moore trying to keep it going in diffi cult of power and knowledge.” — Sue Novinger, State University of CA State U., Sacramento New York at Brockport Jeannie Oakes times. The contributors show that the UCLA destiny of California, and the nation, Gary Orfi eld “The author combines interdisciplinary scholarship with years Harvard U. rests on the courage of policymakers, of thoughtful experience in the fi eld to create an engaging Charles Ratliff both within the universities and within CA Ed. Master Plan Alliance, examination of many issues currently challenging and rewarding Sacramento, CA the government, to move aggressively infant/toddler caregivers. Elliot’s interpretations of the caregivers’ Maria Veronica Santelices to reclaim the hope of millions of interview responses are exceptional because she is able to relate U. of CA, Berkeley students who can make enormous David Silver them to her own experiences, current thinking, and past research. U. of CA contributions to this society if only This book is a lovely combination of narrative and theoretical Nancy Shulock given the chance. CA State U., Sacramento research.” — Carla Poole, Bank Street College of Education Patricia GaŒndara is Professor of Education at the University Enid Elliot is an independent scholar who received her Ph.D. of California at Davis. Gary Orfi eld is Professor of Education in Early Childhood Education at the University of Victoria, British and Social Policy at Harvard University. Catherine L. Horn is Columbia. She has extensive experience as a daycare provider Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies in Turkey, the United States, and Canada. at the University of Houston.

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REFORMING SCHOOLS JOHN DEWEY AND OUR Working within EDUCATIONAL PROSPECT a Progressive Tradition A Critical Engagement during Conservative Times with Dewey’s Democracy Jesse Goodman and Education David T. Hansen, editor Portrays the progressive school reform work of the The fi rst book-length study Harmony Education Center of Dewey’s extraordinary text. over a 12-year period. These original essays focus on John In Reforming Schools, Jesse Goodman Dewey’s Democracy and Education, discusses the possibilities, struggles, a book widely regarded as one of CONTRIBUTORS and complexities involved in reforming today’s schools. the greatest works ever written in the Drawing from his own experiences at the Harmony Education history of educational thought. The Gert Biesta U. of Exeter, England Center—a progressive educational center he helped establish contributors address Dewey’s still Sharon Feiman-Nemser in 1990—Goodman offers a vision of how to persevere at a powerful argument that education is Brandeis U. time when many progressive educators are feeling discouraged. not a preparation for life, but rather Gary D. Fenstermacher He focuses on practical ideas for reform, such as establishing constitutes a fundamental aspect of U. of MI David T. Hansen school autonomy; creating democratic structures, rituals, and the very experience of living. They Teachers Coll. values upon which school reform discourse can be generated; examine the central themes of the Larry A. Hickman and by addressing the current conservative agenda, how book, such as communication, the Southern IL U., Carbondale to infl uence what happens in our nation’s public schools. relation between formal and informal Herbert M. Kliebard U. of WI, Madison By situating school reform within a progressive history of Western education, growth, and student agency Elizabeth Minnich society, the author offers valuable insights and ideas that are and the need for educators to respect Assoc. of Amer. Coll. and U. alternatives to both the conservative and the radical left analyses that agency. Linking their analyses of Reba N. Page of schools and society. Dewey’s claims with contemporary U. of CA, Riverside Naoko Saito educational concerns and problems, Kyoto U., Japan “With this book, Goodman’s compelling and long-standing they offer ideas on what the curriculum progressive reform work as part of the Harmony Education for children and youth should be, how Center should receive substantial attention and make a major to organize and implement formal teacher education, what modes impact on the discourse of school reform.” — Thomas E. Kelly, of pedagogy are most sensible given societal and global trends, John Carroll University and how to think about the purposes of school. This fi rst book- length study of Dewey’s extraordinary text attests to not only the “This work is thought provoking and challenging. Since it is continued power in Dewey’s work, but also the diverse audience based on the author’s own lived experiences and draws from of educators to whom he has long appealed. the Harmony School experiences, it is rich enough to prod even the most narrow-minded readers to chance another perspective.” “This book is very good philosophy of education, even though — Louise Anderson Allen, author of A Bluestocking in Charleston: many of the contributors are not philosophers at all—they are just The Life and Career of Laura Bragg good thinkers focused on an amazing text. Most of the work is practically oriented, while the theoretical work is interesting and Jesse Goodman is Professor of Education and American relevant. Many of the essays examine some particular aspect of Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington and the author of this classical work in original ways, so even if you know Dewey Elementary Schooling for Critical Democracy, also published by and his book well, you will fi nd much to think about. A fresh and SUNY Press. timely look at a work of perennial importance, it will also make a very good companion text when teaching Dewey’s masterpiece.” JUNE I 208 pp — Jim Garrison, author of Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire 1 fi gure $22.95 pb 0-7914-6796-1 in the Art of Teaching $68.50 hc 0-7914-6795-3 David T. Hansen is Professor and Director of the Program in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His books include Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher’s Creed.

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CULTURES OF THE WELL OF BEING ARAB SCHOOLING Childhood, Subjectivity, Critical Ethnographies and Education from Egypt David Kennedy Linda Herrera and Carlos Alberto Torres, editors Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and Offers a rare glimpse into approaches to childhood. schools in contemporary Egypt. In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a Little is known regarding the inner philosophically grounded analysis CONTRIBUTORS workings of the educational systems of of the history of childhood, the most Arab countries. Cultures of Arab history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes Iman Farag and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, CEDEJ, Cairo Schooling fi lls this void using critical Linda Herrera social theory to offer a rare glimpse psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the Inst. of Social Studies, into schools in contemporary Egypt. author locates the experience of childhood across all stages The Hague Giving voice to the educators and of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative Fadia Maugith potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to Taha Hussein Assoc., Cairo students through personal testimonies, Kamal Naguib the book sheds new light on issues of child study that raises issues about how adults see children and Alexandria U., Egypt educational quality, the impact of social how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively Ahmed Youssof Saad movements—particularly Islamist—on different system of teacher preparation—a system that views Nat’l. Centre for Ed’l the child as participant rather than object in the structure of R&D, Cairo school cultures, the growing cultures Carlos Alberto Torres of resistance to authoritarianism, and social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of UCLA the gap between offi cial policies and and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what the realities of schooling. In a political schooling should be like. climate that demonstrates increasing change in the Arab world, this critical ethnography of Arab “Filled with rare eloquence and insight, this is a book that education will aid in providing a better understanding of issues warrants considerable attention. Its breadth is impressive, and relating to social justice, participation, and democracy in this I found myself drawn in and engaged by discussions across an part of the world. array of historical periods and intellectual domains bearing on the themes of the book. It is a work from which I have learned much, “This book represents a much-needed addition to the thin qualitative and to which I am sure I will return.” — Paul Farber, coeditor of literature on schooling in Arab countries. Detailed classroom Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture observations, along with interviews with school directors, teachers, and students, present an invaluable portrait of the processes that “A work of impressive historical sweep, psychological depth, and form the culture of schooling. This is a solid ethnographic study great philosophical sensitivity, The Well of Being makes a major of Middle Eastern schools and, as such, should be treasured.” contribution to childhood studies. Its remarkably broad compass — Gregory Starrett, author of Putting Islam to Work: Education, and the author’s creative use of his material make it unique.” Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt — Gareth B. Matthews, author of The Philosophy of Childhood

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A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD THE SOCIAL STUDIES School Finance in the Northeast CURRICULUM Jane Fowler Morse Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities, Third Edition Examines the legal and political details of school E. Wayne Ross, editor funding reform in New York, Vermont, and Ontario. This updated third edition In this timely work, Jane Fowler Morse reviews the history of school contains new chapters on fi nance litigation in the United States and then examines recent important issues—including legal and political struggles to obtain equitable school funding in race, gender, sexuality, and New York, Vermont, and Ontario. These three places have multiculturalism—affecting employed strikingly different strategies to address this issue, social studies education. and Morse analyzes lessons learned at each that will benefi t CONTRIBUTORS both public offi cials and citizens interested in seeking reform The third edition of The Social Studies Margaret Smith Crocco elsewhere. Drawing on writers from Aristotle to Cass Sunstein and Curriculum thoroughly updates the Columbia U. Martin Luther King Jr., she also explores the concepts of social defi nitive overview of the primary Linda Farr Darling justice and equity, highlighting the connections between racism, U. of BC issues teachers face when creating Kristi Fragnoli poverty, and school funding. The result is a passionate plea for learning experiences for students Coll. of St. Rose equitable funding of public education nationwide to instantiate in social studies. By connecting the Kevin Jennings the ideal of “liberty and justice for all.” NY, NY diverse elements of the social studies Joseph Kahne curriculum—history education, civic, Mills Coll. “This interesting and important book covers a critical topic in global, and social issues—the book Curry Malott Brooklyn Coll., CUNY a thorough and well-documented way. Indeed, it provides an offers a unique and critical perspective Perry Marker encyclopedia of school law cases that are relevant not only to that separates it from other texts in the Sonoma State U. school fi nance, but also to school equity. Policy and law scholars, fi eld. This edition includes new work Sandra Mathison U. of BC as well as historians, will fi nd this an important reference, and the on race, gender, sexuality, critical Merry Merryfi eld book can be used in courses in school law, policy studies, and multiculturalism, visual culture, moral OH State U. administration.” — Ellen Brantlinger, author of Dividing Classes: deliberation, digital technologies, Jack L. Nelson Carlsbad, CA How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School teaching democracy, and the future Valerie Ooka Pang Advantage of social studies education. In an San Diego State U. era marked by efforts to standardize Marc Pruyn NM State U. Jane Fowler Morse is Professor of Education at the State curriculum and teaching, this book Frances Rains University of New York at Geneseo. challenges the status quo by arguing Evergreen State Coll. that social studies curriculum and E. Wayne Ross U. of BC NOVEMBER I 336 pp teaching should be about uncovering Binaya Subedi 2 tables elements that are taken for granted OH State U. Brenda Trofanenko $29.95 pb 0-7914-6932-8 in our everyday experiences, and $89.50 hc 0-7914-6931-X U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign making them the target of inquiry. Kevin Vinson U. of AZ Walter Werner “[This book] demystifi es the U. of BC process of social studies curriculum Joel Westheimer U. of Ottawa construction. The authors avoid Michael Whelan educational jargon and a great Montclair State U. strength of the book is its accessibility to readers.” — Alan J. Singer, author of Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, Second Edition

E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has written and edited many books, including (with Jeffrey W. Cornett and Gail McCutcheon) Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum Practice, Theory, and Research, also published by SUNY Press.

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GOVERNANCE ON SPIRITUAL AND THE PUBLIC GOOD STRIVINGS William G. Tierney, editor Transforming an African American Woman’s Grapples with a variety Academic Life of policy issues in order Cynthia B. Dillard to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education Offers both a theoretical in the 21st century. and concrete example of what W. E. B. Dubois The public good is not merely an eco- called “spiritual strivings.” nomic idea of goods and services, but a place where thoughtful debate CONTRIBUTORS and examination of the polis can oc- This engaging book offers a personal look at how centering Jay R. Dee cur. In differentiating the university spirituality in an academic life transforms its very foundations—its U. of MA from corporations and other private Karri Holley epistemology, paradigm, and methods—and becomes the site for sector businesses, Governance and USC spiritual healing and service to the world. Focusing primarily on her David A. Longanecker the Public Good provides a frame- work in Ghana, West Africa, Cynthia B. Dillard presents a unique W. Interstate Comm. for work for discussing the trend toward Higher Ed., Boulder, CO perspective on Africa as a site for transformative possibilities for politicized and privatized postsecond- Craig McInnis African American academics/scholars and explores the deeper U. of Melbourne, Australia ary institutions while acknowledging spiritual meanings of being “African.” Through poetry, personal Kenneth P. Mortimer the parallel demands of accountability Nat’l Ctr.for Higher Ed., narrative, meditations, and journal entries, Dillard shares her and autonomy placed on sites Bellingham, WA experiences as an African American scholar and, in the process, Brian Pusser of higher learning. U. of VA provides a concrete example of what W. E. B. Dubois called Judith A. Ramaley “spiritual strivings.” Winona State U. If one accepts the notion of higher Colleen O’Brien Sathre education as a public good, does this “Dillard’s work is inspiring, fi lled with hope, humor, and humility. U. of HI affect how one thinks about the gov- William G. Tierney Like a skilled weaver, she has brought together the strands ernance of America’s colleges and USC of spirituality, Black feminist theory, and feminist thought Jane V. Wellman universities? Contributors to this book and created a cloth that is bold in color, strong, and enjoyable Inst. for Higher Ed. Policy, explore the role of the contemporary Washington, DC for those daring enough to try it on.” — Khaula Murtadha, university, its relationship to the public Karen M. Whitney Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis Purdue U. good beyond a simple obligation to educate for jobs, and the subsequent “The author offers a clear meaning of spirituality and its application impact on how institutions of higher education are and should to our lives as academics, and she does something that no other be governed. writer has done: she shows how and why transformation is “Although the governance of colleges and universities is of criti- needed in the academy, for the academician. Dillard journeys cal importance, very little scholarship has focused on it. The book between Ghana and the United States, but she settles in a addresses questions central to the study of shared governance, place of peace and clarity that opens its door to all of us. At a and the contributors bring forward creative and signifi cant ideas.” time when academicians across the disciplines are wondering — Neil W. Hamilton, author of Academic Ethics: Problems and what happened to the soul of the academy, we need this book. Materials on Professional Conduct and Shared Governance At a time when feminist scholarship is losing currency, we need this book.” — Gloria Wade Gayles, Spelman College William G. Tierney is Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Cynthia B. Dillard is Associate Professor of Education at The Analysis at the University of Southern California. He is the coeditor Ohio State University. In June 2001 the community of Mpeasem, (with Linda Serra Hagedorn) of Increasing Access to College: Ghana, honored her efforts in building a community center and Extending Possibilities for All Students and (with Zöe B. Corwin preschool there by enstooling her as Queen Mother Nana Mansa II, and Julia E. Colyar) of Preparing for College: Nine Elements of during a traditional African ritual ceremony. Effective Outreach, both also published by SUNY Press. A volume in the SUNY series in Women in Education A volume in the SUNY series, Frontiers in Education Margaret Grogan, editor Philip G. Altbach, editor JULY I 144 pp SEPTEMBER I 208 pp $40.00 hc 0-7914-6811-9 2 tables, 4 fi gures $22.95 pb 0-7914-6876-3 $68.50 hc 0-7914-6875-5

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TRIPLE TAKES THE NEW ON CURRICULAR INSTITUTIONALISM WORLDS IN EDUCATION Mary Aswell Doll, Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Delese Wear, and Brian Rowan, editors Martha L. Whitaker Gives researchers and policy Three women educators analysts conceptual tools from three different academic and empirical assessments disciplines write their “takes” to gauge the possibilities on a range of topics not usually for institutional innovation. found in curriculum studies. The New Institutionalism in Education CONTRIBUTORS Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds is a groundbreaking exploration brings together leading academics of curriculum studies that offers a new understanding of the “selves” to explore the ongoing changes Janice Aurini educators bring to work. Three educators from three different McMaster U. in K–12 and higher education in David P. Baker disciplines write on issues not usually forefronted in curriculum both the United States and abroad. Penn State U. studies: boundaries, disgrace, distance, fear, forgiveness, light, The contributors show that current Andres Bernasconi and mothers. Their gendered voices give new meaning to the educational trends—including the Universidad Andres Bello, idea of curriculum to include that which courses through their Chile increased globalization of education, Charles Bidwell lives in the classroom, in the public sphere, and in their nighttime the growing emphasis on educational Chicago U. personas. Each writer demonstrates to what extent teaching must markets and school choice, the Patricia Burch interact with living in the twenty-fi rst century. rise of accountability systems, and U. of WI, Madison Scott Davies the persistent infl uence of business McMaster U. Writing from the perspectives of medicine, elementary education, groups like textbook manufacturers Daniel C Levy and literature, the authors examine what it is like to live and and test makers on educational SUNY Albany work in a multidisciplined, multilayered world. Their chapters, policy—can best be understood when Heinz-Dieter Meyer born out of their life experiences, critique the serious issues SUNY Albany observed through an institutional lens. Linda Quirke of our time—terrorism, technology, power, and privilege— Because schools and universities are Wilfrid Laurier U. hoping to stimulate readers to think about their own public organizations that are stabilized by Francisco D. Ramirez and private selves. deeply institutionalized rules, they Stanford U. Brian Rowan are subject to the enduring problem U. of MI “The language of these essays is sensuous and poetic, bringing an of substantive educational reform. James P. Spillane elegant rhythm to the book. The use of literature, autobiography, This book gives researchers and Northwestern U. and the emotional nuances of curriculum are woven together to policy analysts conceptual tools and create a deep, heartfelt consideration of teaching and learning.” empirical assessments to gauge the — Rebecca Luce-Kapler, author of Writing With, Through, and possibilities for institutional reform Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language and innovation.

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Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English at Savannah College Heinz-Dieter Meyer is Associate Professor of Education of Art and Design and the author of Like Letters in Running Water: Administration and Policy Studies at the University at Albany, A Mythopoetics of Curriculum. Delese Wear is Professor of State University of New York and has also taught sociology Behavioral Sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College and organizational behavior in Germany and France. He is of Medicine and the editor of Women in Medical Education: the coeditor (with William Lowe Boyd) of Education between An Anthology of Experience, also published by SUNY Press. States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives. Martha L. Whitaker is Associate Professor of Cultural Brian Rowan is Burke A. Hinsdale Collegiate Professor in Foundations of Education at Utah State University. Education at the University of Michigan.

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Aho / Confession and Bookkeeping, p. 63 Guenther / The Gift of the Other, p. 28 Rodríguez-Hernández / Mexico’s Ruins, p. 41 Akkach / Cosmology and…, p. 63 Güven / Madness and Death…, p. 60 Rojcewicz / The Gods and Technology, p. 60 Babich / Words in Blood, Like Flowers, p. 31 Halevi / The Other Daughters of…, p. 41 Rosenblatt / Two in a Bed, p. 10 Bakhos / Ishmael on the Border, p. 19 Han, Heith / In the Public Domain, p. 58 Ross / The Social Studies Curriculum, p. 55 Banks et al. / The Final Arbiter, p. 61 Hansen / John Dewey and Our…, p. 53 Salles, Millán-Zaibert / The Role of…, p. 59 Baroni / Iron Eyes, p. 15 Harrison / Complexity in World Politics, p. 45 Sánchez / The Function of Theory…, p. 58 Beck / Alternative Krishnas, p. 63 Hawes / The Social Circulation of…, p. 58 Sarbacker / Samaµdhi, p. 64 Behan / Solving the Health…, p. 43 Heller / The Absence of Myth, p. 63 Savage / JFK, LBJ, and the…, p. 62 Behling / Hospital Transports, p. 59 Herrera / Technology and…, p. 46 Scapp, Seitz / Etiquette, p. 21 Benton / God of Desire, p. 63 Herrera, Torres / Cultures of Arab…, p. 54 Schalow / The Incarnality of Being, p. 36 Berkowitz, Dauber / Landmark Yiddish…, p. 7 Hershock, Ames / Confucian Cultures…, p. 24 Schelling / Philosophical…, p. 26 Bhattacharyya / Magical Progeny…, p. 18 Heywood, Peoples / Product Market…, p. 58 Schneider / Being Goµral, p. 64 Blount / Fit to Teach, p. 59 Hoerschelmann / Rules of the Game, p. 20 Scott et al. / Critical Power Tools, p. 40 Bosque-Pérez, Colón Morera / Puerto…, p. 61 Hoffman / Building Trust, p. 62 Scott, Franklin / Critical Affi nities, p. 29 Botshon / Saving Sterling Forest, p. 4 Honig / New Directions in Education…, p. 51 Selinger / Postphenomenology, p. 30 Bouson / Jamaica Kincaid, p. 59 Hunter, Smith / Protecting Our…, p. 62 Sharma / Religious Studies and…, p. 64 Breneman et al. / Earnings from…, p. 50 Ibhawoh / Imperialism and Human…, p. 46 Shaughnessy / Rewriting Early Chinese…, p. 58 Brettschneider / The Family Flamboyant, p. 8 Inglis / Hong Mai’s Record of the…, p. 24 Shostak / The Evolution of Death, p. 14 Brogan / Heidegger and Aristotle, p. 60 Jesse, Williams / Identity and Institutions, p. 62 Silverman / Stopping the Plant, p. 5 Brueggemann, Schulman / Rhine…, p. 58 Jia / The Hongzhou School of Chan…, p. 17 Simien / Black Feminist Voices in…, p. 23 Burns / Electoral Politics Is Not Enough, p. 61 Jöttkandt / Acting Beautifully, p. 60 Slade / Jazz After Dinner, p. 6 Carlisle / Kierkegaard’s Philosophy…, p. 60 Jun / The Social Construction of Public…, p. 42 Smith / States of Liberalization, p. 62 Cass / The Failures of American…, p. 44 Kazantzakis / Friedrich Nietzsche…, p. 34 Stamos / Darwin and the Nature of…, p. 27 Chessick / The Future of Psychoanalysis, p. 38 Kelley / Executing the Constitution, p. 47 Steeves / The Things Themselves, p. 30 Civantos / Between Argentines and…, p. 59 Kellough, Nigro / Civil Service Reform…, p. 62 Strathman / Romantic Poetry and…, p. 60 Cortell / Mediating Globalization, p. 61 Kennedy / The Well of Being, p. 54 Stuart / Marxism and National Identity, p. 62 Davaney, Frisina / The Pragmatic…, p. 28 Kim H. / Doµgen on Meditation and…, p. 15 Sucharov / The International Self, p. 62 Davey / Unquiet Understanding, p. 26 Kim S. / North Korea under Kim Jong II, p. 47 Surber / Hegel and Language, p. 36 Davis / Battered Black Women and…, p. 23 King-Meadows, Schaller / Devolution…, p. 48 Takim / The Heirs of the Prophet, p. 20 Deegalle / Popularizing Buddhism, p. 17 Laibman / Deep History, p. 48 Tarr, Williams / State…, Volume 1, p. 63 Delgado Bernal, et al. / Chicana… , p. 51 Lewis / The Construction of Space in…, p. 58 TenHouten / Time and Society, p. 64 Deligiorgi / Kant and the Culture…, p. 60 Lewis / The Flood Myths of Early China, p. 58 Tiedemann, Fingerhut / The Other …, p. 59 Diaconoff / Through the Reading…, p. 59 Lord / The Perils and Promise of…, p. 49 Tierney / Governance and the Public…, p. 56 Dibadj / Rescuing Regulation, p. 44 Love / Musical Democracy, p. 49 Todd / New York’s Historic Armories, p. 2 Dillard / On Spiritual Strivings, p. 56 Lucas / Institutions and the Politics…, p. 62 Tomlinson, Young / National Identity…, p. 64 Discenza / The King’s English, p. 59 Macdonald / Performing Marx, p. 62 Tromp / Altered States, p. 42 Dohm / Become Who You Are, p. 59 Mason / Oppenheimer’s Choice, p. 34 Tsomo / Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord…, p. 16 Doll et al. / Triple Takes on…, p. 57 McElhaney / The Death of Classical…, p. 22 Vallega-Neu / The Bodily Dimension…, p. 61 Drouet / My Beloved Toto, p. 60 McNeill / The Time of Life, p. 35 VanderLippe / The Politics of Turkish…, p. 63 Elahi / Knowing the Spirit, p. 18 Medina / Speaking from Elsewhere, p. 35 Vaught / Access to God in…, p. 61 Elliot / We’re Not Robots, p. 52 Mellard / Beyond Lacan, p. 38 Veak / Democratizing Technology, p. 31 Etter / Between Transcendence…, p. 60 Menifi eld, Shaffer / Politics in the New…, p. 62 Ver Eecke / Denial, Negation, and…, p. 61 Fagelson / Justice as Integrity, p. 45 Meyer, Rowan / The New Institutionalism…, p. 57 Viscusi / Buried Caesars, and…, p. 60 Faulkner / William Kennedy, p. 1 Miller, Cimitile / Returning to Irigaray, p. 29 Walsh / Sins against Science, p. 40 Feracho / Linking the Americas, p. 59 Miranda de Almeida / Nietzsche and…, p. 32 Ward, Castillo / The Judiciary and…, p. 63 Finger et al. / The Multi-Governance …, p. 61 Morrell, Morrell / Zen Sanctuary of…, p. 16 Weiss / The Wind and the Source, p. 61 Fingerson / Girls in Power, p. 9 Morse / A Level Playing Field, p. 55 Weissman / The Cage, p. 37 Fóti / Epochal Discordance, p. 32 Newberg / The Gift of Education, p. 59 Wickremeratne / Buddha in Sri Lanka, p. 13 Fritsch / The Promise of Memory, p. 60 Nishitani / On Buddhism, p. 12 Wilson, T. / Subsidizing Capitalism, p. 64 Froese / Nietzsche, Heidegger…, p. 33 Noy, Cohen / Israeli Backpackers, p. 64 Wilson, E. / The Melancholy Android, p. 21 Fulton / Speaking Power, p. 58 Oesmann / Staging History, p. 60 Wilson, H. / Kant’s Pragmatic…, p. 37 Gándara, et al. / Expanding Opportunity…, p. 52 Ogden / The Language of the Eyes, p. 58 Winkler / In the Name of Terrorism, p. 63 Gates / Detecting Men, p. 22 Paradis / Sex, Paranoia, and…, p. 39 Wood / Troubling Play, p. 61 George / Tragedies of Spirit, p. 33 Penney / The World of Perversion, p. 39 Wright / The Philosopher’s “I”, p. 27 Goodman / Reforming Schools, p. 53 Peterson / International Regimes for…, p. 62 Wright Austin / The Transformation of…, p. 50 Gorny / Converging Alternatives, p. 61 Phillips / Modeling Life, p. 11 Xiong / Emperor Yang of the Sui…, p. 58 Grad, Williams / State…, Volume 2, p. 61 Prasad, et al. / Gender and Story in…, p. 25 Zimmerman / Congressional Preemption, p. 63 Grigg / Gods after God, p. 63 Rambachan / The Advaita Worldview, p. 19 Zimmerman / Interstate Disputes, p. 43 Gross, Kemmann / Heidegger and…, p. 60 Reynolds / The Broken Whole, p. 60 Zürn, Walter / Globalizing Interests, p. 63 Gu / Chinese Theories of Reading…, p. 58 Rhodes / Social Movements and…, p. 62 Gu / Chinese Theories of Fiction, p. 25 Rich / David Dinkins and New York…, p. 3

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Absence of Myth, The / Heller, p. 63 Girls in Power / Fingerson, p. 9 Other Daughters of…, The / Halevi, p. 41 Access to God in… / Vaught, p. 61 Globalizing Interests / Zürn, Walter, p. 63 Other…, The / Tiedemann, Fingerhut, p. 59 Acting Beautifully / Jöttkandt, p. 60 God of Desire / Benton, p. 63 Performing Marx / Macdonald, p. 62 Advaita… / Rambachan, p. 19 Gods after God / Grigg, p. 63 Perils and Promise of…, The / Lord, p. 49 Altered States / Tromp, p. 42 Gods and Technology, The / Rojcewicz, p. 60 Philosopher’s “I”, The / Wright, p. 27 Alternative Krishnas / Beck, p. 63 Governance and the Public… / Tierney, p. 56 Philosophical… / Schelling, p. 26 Battered Black Women… / Davis, p. 23 Hegel and Language / Surber, p. 36 Politics in the… / Menifi eld, Shaffer, p. 62 Become Who You Are / Dohm, p. 59 Heidegger and Aristotle / Brogan, p. 60 Politics of Turkish…, The / VanderLippe, p. 63 Being Goµral / Schneider, p. 64 Heidegger…/ Gross, Kemmann, p. 60 Popularizing Buddhism / Deegalle, p. 17 Between Argentines… / Civantos, p. 59 Heirs of the Prophet, The / Takim, p. 20 Postphenomenology / Selinger, p. 30 Between Transcendence… / Etter, p. 60 Hong Mai’s Record of… / Inglis, p. 24 Pragmatic…, The / Davaney, Frisina, p. 28 Beyond Lacan / Mellard, p. 38 Hongzhou School of…, The / Jia, p. 17 Product Market… / Heywood, Peoples, p. 58 Black Feminist… / Simien, p. 23 Hospital Transports / Behling, p. 59 Promise of Memory, The / Fritsch, p. 60 Bodily Dimension… / Vallega-Neu, p. 61 Identity and… / Jesse, Williams, p. 62 Protecting Our… / Hunter, Smith, p. 62 Broken Whole, The / Reynolds, p. 60 Imperialism and Human… / Ibhawoh, p. 46 Puerto… / Bosque-Pérez, Colón Morera, p. 61 Buddha in… / Wickremeratne, p. 13 In the Name of Terrorism / Winkler, p. 63 Reforming Schools / Goodman, p. 53 Building Trust / Hoffman, p. 62 In the Public Domain / Han, Heith, p. 58 Religious Studies and… / Sharma, p. 64 Buried Caesars, and Other… / Viscusi, p. 60 Incarnality of Being, The / Schalow, p. 36 Rescuing Regulation / Dibadj, p. 44 Cage, The / Weissman, p. 37 Institutions and the Politics… / Lucas, p. 62 Returning to Irigaray / Miller, Cimitile, p. 29 Chicana/Latina… / Delgado Bernal, et al., p. 51 International Regimes for… / Peterson, p. 62 Rewriting Early… / Shaughnessy, p. 58 Chinese Theories of Fiction / Gu, p. 25 International Self, The / Sucharov, p. 62 Rhine… / Brueggemann, Schulman, p. 58 Chinese Theories of Reading… / Gu, p. 58 Interstate Disputes / Zimmerman, p. 43 Role of…, The / Salles, Millán-Zaibert, p. 59 Civil Service… / Kellough, Nigro, p. 62 Into the Jaws of Yama… / Tsomo, p. 16 Romantic Poetry and… / Strathman, p. 60 Complexity in World… / Harrison, p. 45 Iron Eyes / Baroni, p. 15 Rules of the Game / Hoerschelmann, p. 20 Confession and Bookkeeping / Aho, p. 63 Ishmael on the Border / Bakhos, p. 19 Samaµdhi / Sarbacker, p. 64 Confucian Cultures… / Hershock, Ames, p. 24 Israeli Backpackers / Noy, Cohen, p. 64 Saving Sterling Forest / Botshon, p. 4 Congressional Preemption / Zimmerman, p. 63 Jamaica Kincaid / Bouson, p. 59 Sex, Paranoia, and… / Paradis, p. 39 Construction of Space in…, The / Lewis, p. 58 Jazz After Dinner / Slade, p. 6 Sins against Science / Walsh, p. 40 Converging Alternatives / Gorny, p. 61 JFK, LBJ, and the… / Savage, p. 62 Social Circulation of…, The / Hawes, p. 58 Cosmology and Architecture… / Akkach, p. 63 John Dewey and Our… / Hansen, p. 53 Social Construction of…, The / Jun, p. 42 Critical Affi nities / Scott, Franklin, p. 29 Judiciary and…, The / Ward, Castillo, p. 63 Social Movements and… / Rhodes, p. 62 Critical Power Tools / Scott et al., p. 40 Justice as Integrity / Fagelson p. 45 The Social Studies Curriculum, The / Ross, p. 55 Cultures of Arab… / Herrera, Torres, p. 54 Kant and the Culture of… / Deligiorgi, p. 60 Solving the Health Care… / Behan, p. 43 Darwin and the Nature of… / Stamos, p. 27 Kant’s Pragmatic… / Wilson, H., p. 37 Speaking from Elsewhere / Medina, p. 35 David Dinkins and New York… / Rich, p. 3 Kierkegaard’s Philosophy… / Carlisle, p. 60 Speaking Power / Fulton, p. 58 Death of Classical…, The / McElhaney, p. 22 King’s English, The / Discenza, p. 59 Staging History / Oesmann, p. 60 Deep History / Laibman, p. 48 Knowing the Spirit / Elahi, p. 18 State…, Volume 1 / Tarr, Williams, p. 63 Democratizing Technology / Veak, p. 31 Landmark Yiddish… / Berkowitz, Dauber, p. 7 State…, Volume 2 / Grad, Williams, p. 61 Denial, Negation, and… / Ver Eecke, p. 61 Language of the Eyes, The / Ogden, p. 58 States of Liberalization / Smith, p. 62 Detecting Men / Gates, p. 22 Level Playing Field, A / Morse, p. 55 Stopping the Plant / Silverman, p. 5 Devolution… / King-Meadows, Schaller, p. 48 Linking the Americas / Feracho, p. 59 Subsidizing Capitalism / Wilson, T., p. 64 Doµgen on Meditation… / Kim H., p. 15 Madness and Death in… / Güven, p. 60 Technology and… / Herrera, p. 46 Earnings from…/ Breneman et al., p. 50 Magical Progeny… / Bhattacharyya, p. 18 Things Themselves, The / Steeves, p. 30 Electoral Politics Is Not Enough / Burns, p. 61 Marxism and National… / Stuart, p. 62 Through the Reading Glass / Diaconoff, p. 59 Emperor Yang of the Sui… / Xiong, p. 58 Mediating Globalization / Cortell, p. 61 Time and Society / TenHouten, p. 64 Epochal Discordance / Fóti, p. 32 Melancholy Android, The / Wilson, E., p. 21 Time of Life, The / McNeill, p. 35 Etiquette / Scapp, Seitz, p. 21 Mexico’s Ruins / Rodríguez-Hernández, p. 41 Tragedies of Spirit / George, p. 33 Evolution of Death, The / Shostak, p. 14 Modeling Life / Phillips, p. 11 Transformation of…, The / Wright Austin, p. 50 Executing the Constitution / Kelley, p. 47 Multi-Governance…, The / Finger et al., p. 61 Triple Takes on Curricular… / Doll et al., p. 57 Expanding Opportunity… / Gándara, et al., p. 52 Musical Democracy / Love, p. 49 Troubling Play / Wood, p. 61 Failures of American and…, The / Cass, p. 44 My Beloved Toto / Drouet, p. 60 Two in a Bed / Rosenblatt, p. 10 Family Flamboyant, The / Brettschneider, p. 8 National Identity… / Tomlinson, Young, p. 64 Unquiet Understanding / Davey, p. 26 Final Arbiter, The / Banks et al., p. 61 New Directions in… / Honig, p. 51 We’re Not Robots / Elliot, p. 52 Fit to Teach / Blount, p. 59 New Institutionalism…, The / Meyer, Rowan, p. 57 Well of Being, The / Kennedy, p. 54 Flood Myths of Early…, The / Lewis, p. 58 New York’s Historic Armories / Todd, p. 2 William Kennedy / Faulkner, p. 1 Friedrich Nietzsche on… / Kazantzakis, p. 34 Nietzsche… / Miranda de Almeida, p. 32 Wind and the Source, The / Weiss, p. 61 Function of Theory in…, The / Sánchez, p. 58 Nietzsche, Heidegger… / Froese, p. 33 Words in Blood, Like Flowers / Babich, p. 31 Future of Psychoanalysis, The / Chessick, p. 38 North Korea under… / Kim S., p. 47 World of Perversion, The / Penney, p. 39 Gender and Story in… / Prasad, et al., p. 25 On Buddhism / Nishitani, p. 12 Zen Sanctuary of… / Morrell, Morrell, p. 16 Gift of Education, The / Newberg, p. 59 On Spiritual Strivings 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