Wordtrade.com/ 11312 US 15-501 North, Suite 107/ #226/ Chapel Hill NC 27517/ USA SPOTLIGHT ph 9195425719/ fx 9198691643/ www.wordtrade.com 084 Wordtrade Reviews: Fasting, Image, Earth Contents Wordtrade Reviews: Fasting, Image, Earth .................................................................................................................. 1 Editorial Appraisals: .................................................................................................................................................. 4 HOLY MEN AND HUNGER ARTISTS: FASTING AND ASCETICISM IN RABBINIC CULTURE by Eliezer Diamond [Oxford University Press, 9780195137507] ............................................................................... 5 Review ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 A HISTORY OF KABBALAH: FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY by Jonathan Garb [Cambridge University Press, 9781107153134] ........................................................................... 21 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Premodern and Modern Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities ....................................................................... 25 Kabbalah in Transition to Modernity ................................................................................................................. 26 NATURE AND NORM: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE THEOPOLITICAL PROBLEM by by Randi Rashkover [New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism, Academic Studies Press, 9781644695098] .............................................................................................................................................................. 27 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 27 IN THE PRESENCE OF SCHOPENHAUER by Michel Houellebecq, preface by Agathe Novak- Lechevalier, translated by Andrew Brown [Polity, 9781509543250].................................................................. 36 The history of a revolution ....................................................................................................................................... 37 SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD: WHAT THE LEAST RELIGIOUS NATIONS CAN TELL US ABOUT CONTENTMENT (SECOND EDITION) by Phil Zuckerman [New York University Press, 9781479878086] .............................................................................................................................................................. 40 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 41 HOW GOD BECOMES REAL: KINDLING THE PRESENCE OF INVISIBLE OTHERS by Tanya Marie Luhrmann [Princeton University Press, 9780691164465] ......................................................................... 47 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 48 APPERCEPTION AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN KANT AND GERMAN IDEALISM by Dennis Schulting [Bloomsbury Academic, 9781350151390] ............................................................................................... 54 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 54 Ineliminable Reflexive Human Experience ........................................................................................................ 55 EMOTION AND VIRTUE by Gopal Sreenivasan [Princeton University Press, 978-0691134550 ............. 64 Review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 64 ON BEING AND BECOMING: AN EXISTENTIALIST APPROACH TO LIFE by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei [Oxford University Press, 9780190913656] ............................................................................. 69 Reviews ..................................................................................................................................................................... 70 Part I Encountering Existentialism ........................................................................................................................... 71 Prologue .................................................................................................................................................................... 71 Existentialism in Style and Substance ................................................................................................................. 72 Part II The Rise of Existentialism: Antiquity to Modernity ................................................................................ 72 A Philosophy for Human Existence .................................................................................................................... 72 Historical Roots of Existentialism ....................................................................................................................... 72 Romantic Upheavals, Modern Movements ....................................................................................................... 73 Existentialism as Literature: The Twentieth Century .................................................................................... 73 Part III Existentialism in Living Dimensions ........................................................................................................... 73 The Self ..................................................................................................................................................................... 73 Others ....................................................................................................................................................................... 73 World ........................................................................................................................................................................ 74 Earth .......................................................................................................................................................................... 74 Being .......................................................................................................................................................................... 74 Part IV Existentialism in the Practice of Life ......................................................................................................... 74 On Imitation, Inspiration, and Authenticity ...................................................................................................... 74 On Seeking and Taking (and Giving) Advice .................................................................................................... 75 Being in the Crowd: Anonymity, Conformity, and Individuality in Modern Life ..................................... 75 Into One’s Own, or on “Finding” Oneself ....................................................................................................... 75 I Selfie, Therefore I Am: On Self-Imaging Culture .......................................................................................... 75 On Being and Waiting (Tables), or, The Roles We Play ............................................................................... 75 Seizing the Day: The Present and Presence ..................................................................................................... 76 Love in the Time of Existentialism ..................................................................................................................... 76 Existential Suffering, Happiness, and Hope ....................................................................................................... 76 Life as a Work of Art: The Existential Need for Creativity ......................................................................... 77 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF BODY AND EMBODIMENT edited by Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason [Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press. 9780190842475] .. 80 THE AESTHETIC LABOR OF ETHNOGRAPHERS by Kjerstin Gruys and David J. Hutson .................. 82 2 | Page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com Embodiment, Aesthetic Labor, and Inequality ................................................................................................. 83 Aesthetics and Ethnography ................................................................................................................................. 84 Methods .................................................................................................................................................................... 85 Ethnography in the Gym ....................................................................................................................................... 85 Ethnography in a Clothing Store ......................................................................................................................... 86 Data Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................................