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Being Given - Toward A Phenomenology Of Givenness

by Jean-Luc Marion

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 This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the "gift," which lie on the frontier of literature, anthropology, and economics, notably in the work of Jacques Derrida, and offers a detailed critique of the basis on which those discussions have proceeded.
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Burying The Beloved - Marriage, Realism, And Reform In Modern Iran

by Amy Motlagh

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 This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them.
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Historic Spots In California - Fifth Edition

by Ethel Grace Rensch, Hero Eugene Rensch, Mildred Brooke Hoover e William Abeloe

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 The only complete guide to the historical landmarks of California, this edition is enriched by 225 photographs and a historical overview.
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I Am Albert Einstein

by Brad Meltzer; Illustration: Christopher Eliopoulos

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 The author is on a mission to give kids the right role models. In this title, he shares the stories of heroes in a way that can inspire the reader to strive for greatness. It includes the tale of Albert Einstein, who struggled in school and was called a foolish dreamer by one of his teachers, but whose dreaming led to a theory of relativity.
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Present Pasts - Urban Palimpsests And The Politics Of Memory

by Andreas Huyssen

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 This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumasâ€"Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
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Politics From Anarchy To Democracy - Rational Choice In Political Science

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 This volume illustrates the promise of rational choice theory and demonstrates how theory can help us develop conclusions about the fundamental processes of politics. Each set of essays begins with a pedagogical overview that is accessible to those with little knowledge of rational choice theory.
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Heidegger'S Volk - Between National Socialism And Poetry

by James Phillips

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 In 1933 Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. An exposition of Heidegger's conception of Volk can and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a response to the impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the dilemma between liberalism and authoritarianism.
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The Collected Works Of John Dewey - The Later Works, 1925-1953

by John Dewey

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The Collected Works Of John Dewey - The Later Works, 1925-1953

by John Dewey

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The Collected Works Of John Dewey - The Later Works, 1925-1953

by John Dewey

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 "Essays, reviews, and miscellany"--Jacket.
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Why The French Love Jerry Lewis - From Cabaret To Early Cinema

by Rae Beth Gordon

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 Bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?
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On Touchingâ€”Jean-Luc Nancy

by Jacques Derrida

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 This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical tradition.
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Racing For Innocence - Whiteness, Gender, And The Backlash Against Affirmative Action

by Jennifer Pierce

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 Investigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies.
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The Costs Of Coalition

by Carol Mershon

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 This book aims to understand and explain who governs, and for how long, under the institution of parliamentary democracy. In the process, it investigates the nature of political scientists' knowledge of coalitional behavior and how to advance it.
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Dead Time - Temporal Disorders In The Wake Of Modernity (Baudelaire And Flaubert)

by Elissa Marder

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 This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture.
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Nietzsche And The Philology Of The Future

by James I. Porter

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 Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking.
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In Praise Of New Travelers - Reading Caribbean Migrant Women'S Writing

by Isabel Hoving

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 Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field.
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The Rhetoric Of Romantic Prophecy

by Ian Balfour

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 The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing, arising from a new-found freedom of biblical interpretation. This text surveys developments in 18th-century biblical hermeneutics, culminating in close readings of works by Blake, Holderlin and Coleridge.
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Controlling Immigration - A Global Perspective, Second Edition

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 In the last decade of the twentieth century, immigration became a central issue of politics and public policy in the advanced industrial democracies. This book is a comparative, multidisciplinary study of immigration problems in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Japan.
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Magic And Modernity - Interfaces Of Revelation And Concealment

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 This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity.
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The Ends Of Literature - The Latin American Boom In The Neoliberal Marketplace

by Brett Levinson

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 An analysis of the part played by literature in Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. It includes readings of the prose of Cortazar, Paz, Piglia and others; of the relationship of the "boom" movement and its aftermath; of testimonial narrative; and more.
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The End Of Art - Readings In A Rumor After Hegel

by Eva Geulen

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 Readings of Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger trace the role that the discourse on the end of art has played in post-Hegelian philosophical aesthetics.
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Taking On The Tradition - Jacques Derrida And The Legacies Of Deconstruction

by Michael Naas

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 Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition.
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Religion And Media

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 The twenty-five contributors to this volume who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media.
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