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A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for others Estelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions his social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from theories of care. She thinks through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gestures it enjoins, as well as its political stakes. Ferrarese shows that the capitalist form of life, strained by a generalised indifference, produces a compartmentalised attention to others, one limited to very particular tasks and domains and attributed to women. Offering a systematic study of the idea of 'coldness' in Adorno's philosophy, she stages a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the ethics of care. In doing so, Ferrarese approaches old questions in a new light in a bid to give dignity to the singular, to make its specific claims and its moral pertinence heard. Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. Steven Corcoran has translated numerous works by French and German philosophers, including Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, and is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, inspired by the work of Christopher Berry The Scottish Enlightenment has been one of the growth fields in scholarship on eighteenth-century intellectual history. The era is renowned for its seminal and interrelated contributions to understanding the emergence of the human sciences, the framing of modern political economy and for its pioneering study of commercial society. This collection of specially commissioned essays, examines the texts and central achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses on the transformative contribution of the Scottish literati to modernity by examining three central themes: the Scots' pioneering conception of commercial society, the equally pioneering development of the Scots 'science of human nature, ' and the emergence of the modern political economy. An international group of Scottish Enlightenment scholars from a variety of disciplines provide explorations for these achievements, with a special focus on the work of Adam Smith and David Hume. They take their launching point from themes in the work of Professor Christopher J. Berry who is internationally known and respected for the work he has done to establish the coherence and significance of the Scottish Enlightenment. R. J. W. Mills, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in History, Queen Mary, University of London. Craig Smith is Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political sciences at the University of Glasgow.

In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time.

Offers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon.

Giorgio Agamben's form-of-life discloses the possibility of a new understanding of political and legal life. This book places 'form-of-life' in the context of contemporary philosophy, re-imagining some of the basic categories of human socialities- such as work, rights, obligation, property and use.

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas.

This book tells the gripping story of R?fiq Taq?, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a blasphemous news article in 2006. Mohsen Kadivar debates the case with Muhammad Jawad Fazel, the son of Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankar?n? who issued the fatwa pronouncing death penalty on Taq?.

How architecture constructs communal identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem Examining a fascinating and critical epoch in the architectural history of Jerusalem, this book presents a fresh and analytical discussion of British Mandate-era architecture through an exploration of 4 buildings that have had a lasting impact on the city's built environment. The author reveals how these building projects evolved as an outcome of cross-cultural influences and relations between the British, American, Jewish-Zionist and Muslim-Palestinian communities. And she shows how the building and design processes behind these structures give new perspectives on the adaptation of modern architecture in the Middle East and the negotiation of historicism and vernacular architecture during the first half of the 20th century. Key Features  Focuses on 4 case studies: the Muslim Palestinian Palace Hotel; the Jewish-Zionist Zionist Executive Buildings; the British Palestine Archaeological Museum (the Rockefeller Museum); and the American Jerusalem YMCA Building  Shows the major role that architecture and architectural culture had in constructing communal and national identities in Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine  Increases our understanding of the interaction between cultural forces in the Middle East and the emergence of 20th-century architectural culture in Israel/Palestine  Includes 50 colour and 74 black-and-white illustrations Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler is a Senior Lecturer of Architecture and Visual Culture at Sapir Academic College, and an adjunct lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She is co-editor of Israel As a Modern Architectural Laboratory, 1948-1978 (2019).

Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.

Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature

Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.

Sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critique While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, this study draws on Italian Theory to provide an alternative critical method in literary studies, including the ethical underpinnings of critique. It proposes that critique is an attitude and stance towards others and a set of dispositions toward the object of study, such as indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder. It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and it elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to open up affirmative resources in language. Drawing on archival materials, the book includes sustained readings of Benjamin, Butler, Foucault, Jameson, Dimock, Esposito, Saussure, Virno, Hélène Cixous, Lacan, as well as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Clarice Lispector, the Digital Book Project by Airan Kang and the photography of George Platt Lynes. Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is the author of Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005) and In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016).

This new edition includes a historically and theoretically informed critical introduction that situates the novel within American social and literary history, also featuring a bibliography for further research and appendices detailing the significant differences between the two nineteenth-century editions.

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture.

Examines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract

This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.

This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In this age of environmental crisis, Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature reveals a heritage of ecological thought which should be recognised as of vital relevance both to Scottish literary culture and to the wider field of green studies. Key Features *Considers both 'canonical' and less well known Scottish writers, including Gaelic poets and mountaineering literature, Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, and contemporary authors Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside *The first book to consider Scottish literature in the light of ecological and green thought *Engages with a major topical issue and sets the study of Scottish writing within the broader context of international green approaches to literary studies *Encourages reflection on the links between literary studies and perspectives drawn from the disciplines of environmental history, anthropology, philosophy and cultural geography Louisa Gairn holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and is a contributor to The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). She lives and works in Edinburgh.

Anti- and non-fascist ethics are situated in the framework of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and of the scholarship that followed The philosophy that Deleuze and Guattari propose is engaged and situated and requires us to map urgent issues, not by opposing ourselves to it, but by mapping how it is part of the everyday, and of ourselves. The global rise of fascism today demands careful analysis. The concepts and themes that Deleuze and Guattari gave us, within the scope of their work, is immensely helpful in capturing its micropolitics and macropolitics. The range of international contributors to this volume have a keen eye on the practices of fascism today and, in line with Deleuze's thinking, they show us how fascism works. Organised into three parts: the first part - 21st century fascisms - focuses on the global threats of technologies and algorithmic realities; the second part - situated fascisms - analyses fascisms at work in different parts of the contemporary world; the third part deals with patriarchal fascism and offers concrete case-studies of sexualized and genderized modes of oppression. Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. Rick Dolphijn is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University.

Reflects the extraordinary scope and topicality of Lukács and Frankfurt School thought This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience. Starting from Lukács's reflections on art, utopia, and historical action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism, postsocialism and organised deceit in show trials - topics for which the legacy of Lukács and Frankfurt School critical theory continue to be relevant today. Tyrus Miller is Professor of Art History and English at University of California, Irvine. His publications include Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (1999).

Critically examines the work of Qu b cois filmmakers Denis Villeneuve

Presents a new perspective on Hannah Arendt as a political thinker and actor This book uncovers the deeply practical aspect of Arendt's thinking and introduces her works as exercises in political thinking. Treated in this way, Arendt becomes the reader's dialogue partner, whose judgements and opinions remain open for reflection and discussion. The book provides insights into not only her theory and its current relevance, but also her practice of reflective judgement. Maria Robaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Paderborn, Germany. Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin.

Explores changing attitudes to the holy through a study of 5 centuries of Bosnian Hajj literature Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy focuses on conceptualisations, images and descriptions of Hajj and Islamic geography by Bosnian Muslim authors in different writing genres from the 16th to the 21st centuries. It shows how meanings of Hajj differed across time, while its significance for the believers remained unchanged. The analysis of conceptualisations includes looking into meanings that are ascribed to rites, narratives used to explain the ritual, emotional expressions that are connected to the pilgrimage, and social meanings attached to the gathering. On another level, because Hajj entails a journey as well, the book observes changes in the perception of travel - including mechanisms of narrative and descriptive inclusion and exclusion, the image of Others (generally non-Muslims, but occasionally Muslim women), the role of transportation, food and lodging. Finally, the book shows what Bosnia meant for pilgrims in the creation of the sacred Islamic geography. This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature as a medium. Covering a period of several centuries and encompassing literature written in several languages, it redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. Dzenita Karic is a senior researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001), which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums. Angelidi's work has become synonymous with Greek Experimental Cinema, while her films and her theoretical writings have been the subject of numerous film courses, critical essays and retrospectives. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, comprise her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements which characterize her work are examined in depth in this edited collection dedicated to Antoinetta Angelidi's oeuvre. Penny Bouska is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Sotiris Petridis is a Postdoc Researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms. Laura Seymour is a Stipendiary Lecturer in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Examines early Muslim discourses of religious inclusion and exclusion What was the status of Zoroastrians after Muslims conquered Iran in the 7th century? Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History addresses this and other issues of intercommunal contact in the early caliphates. It argues that caliphal administrators, following an imperial logic of accommodation, accepted tax from Zoroastrians without recognising them as People of the Book. Later Muslim jurists, uncomfortable with that decision, sought to circumscribe social interaction with Zoroastrians. Local Persian historians remembered the Muslim-Zoroastrian encounter differently. They promoted triumphal tales of violence and temple desecration. Meanwhile, Arab Muslim authors used the term 'Zoroastrians' to describe pagans, heretics and other perceived deviants. This book juxtaposes these competing memories in order to explore the ambivalence that some Muslims felt about accommodation. Drawing on sources in Arabic and Persian from the Middle East and South Asia, it challenges readers to reconsider assumptions about the nature of interfaith relations in medieval Iran. Andrew D. Magnusson is Associate Professor in the Department of History & Geography at the University of Central Oklahoma.