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By giving shape to Imamura Shohei's career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.

Covering more than forty films made since 2001 including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.

Brings together articles focusing on science, technology and culture in France, all of which intersect in various ways with the research interests of Professor Chris JohnsonThe articles engage with the rich French-language tradition of philosophical speculation on science, scientific practice, and the relationship between the human and technology. The collection engages with a wide conceptual field, including the following: embodiment, the pre- and post-human, language, cybernetics, biological and technological evolution, and genetics. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology and science writing, the articles explore from different perspectives the way in which French thinkers have consistently questioned commonly held assumptions about the relationship between the human and the technological, and also between science, machines and the natural world. These were core preoccupations of Chris Johnson's work and of those colleagues - several of whom have contributed to this collection - who were fortunate to collaborate with him and share his passionate engagement with these issues. Key Features. Includes discussion of a number of key areas of science and technology studies including cybernetics and the posthuman. . Includes extensive consideration of the distinctive French contribution to the philosophy of technology and evolution.. Includes previously unpublished work by Professor Chris Johnson and by a number of his collaborators in the University of Nottingham's Science, Technology and Culture research group.

This book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of revolutionary change, 1832 1860.

Bringing together an international range of contributors, this book explores face-to-face uses of English in a range of grassroots multilingual contexts.

'Writing Black Scotland is a most needed intervention into twenty-first century understanding of Scottish literature through time, raising questions about 'otherness' and 'othering' as well as purposive colonialism, subjugation and exploitation. The book is lucid, compassionate, discriminating and admirably sensitive to discrete historical moments, illuminating and engaged at every level.'Alan Riach, University of GlasgowA critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined by post-imperial adjustment. Critiquing a unifying Britishness at work in black British criticism, Jackson argues for the importance of black politics in Scottish writing, and for a literary registration of race and racism which signals a necessary negotiation for national Scotland both before and after 1997.Joseph H. Jackson is Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. Cover image: © Estate of Maud Sulter. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2020. Image courtesy of Street Level Photoworks, GlasgowCover design:[EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-6144-3Barcode

Advances the conversation about Kant's cosmopolitan concerns for global co-habitability and ideas for publicising a universal condition of public rightThis book provides a new and important set of examinations of Kant's cosmopolitanism and its implications for Kantian inspired cosmopolitics. Written by a group of international scholars, the essays in this collection investigate issues related to the interplay among the state and global governance, peace and human rights enforcement, migrant crisis management, European federalisation, global educational reforms, and Kantian based ideas for fostering what some might call a cosmopolitan culture. As a result, this book provides a definitive source and specification of key areas in the field of Kantian cosmopolitanism and its relationship to current debates in political theory, philosophy and the study of international relations.Garrett Wallace Brown is Professor of Political Theory and Global Health Policy at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.Áron Telegdi-Csetri is an independent researcher based in Cluj-Napoca, an alumnus of the New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.

The book shows how Agamben's political concerns emerged and evolved as Agamben responded to contemporary events and new intellectual influences while striving to remain true to his deepest intuitions. Kotsko reveals the trajectory of Agambena (TM)s work and shows us what it means to practice philosophy as a living, responsive discipline.

In 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or how fast-paced and shocking images exacerbate this affective response. Conceptually extending film spectatorship, The Pulse in Cinema contends that cinema is an energetic arrangement of affective and intense forces, where the image and the spectator are specific components. Analysing body horror films such as The Tingler (1959), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and The Beyond (1981), this book builds on Lyotard's concept of the dispositif, Deleuze's work on sensation and Bataille's economic theory to conceptualise a pulse in cinema, arguing for its importance in film spectatorship theory.Sharon Jane Mee is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces.With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomí (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London. Niamh Thornton is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool.

Assesses the impact of political, non-violent resolution efforts in the Northern Irish and Turkish-Kurdish peace processesThis book challenges the notion of 'conflict resolution' in the Northern Irish and Turkish-Kurdish peace processes, both far-reaching ethno-nationalist conflicts in the post-Cold War era. Incorporating fieldwork carried out until 2015, I. Aytaç Kadioglu compares these conflicts during major peace attempts, from early secret talks and semi-official peace initiatives, to multilateral and internationalised conflict-resolution processes through not only main armed protagonists, but also independent third parties.As Brexit re-ignites discussion around the border of Northern Ireland, and as the repercussions of the Syrian civil war on the dynamics of the Kurdish conflict continue to unfold, these two cases are particularly important to the study of conflict resolution. In critically assessing existing literature, this book presents an innovative framework for conflict-resolution processes, suggesting that ethno-nationalist conflicts are too complex to be resolved solely through official negotiations.Key Features. Offers an important contribution to conflict-resolution research, theorising the various stages involved in the attempted resolution of asymmetric conflicts. Relies on primary sources, including interviews and recently declassified archival papers to reveal the insights of both peace processes. Presents an innovative framework for conflict resolution, a starting-point for further research on managing peace processes and ethno-nationalist conflictsI. Aytaç Kadioglu is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Adiyaman University.

A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for othersEstelle 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, this book stages a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the ethics of care. In doing so, it is able to approach old questions in a new light in a bid to give dignity to the singular, to make heard its specific claims and its moral pertinence.Estelle Ferrarese is Full-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.

Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture' assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.

This book reinserts Marianne Moore into the cultural history of modernism by examining her role as editor of The Dial between 1925 and 1929, the magazine most closely associated with the rise of modernism to cultural legitimacy

Covering all the major legislation, Scottish Family Law is designed for new students of the subject. It gives you a framework for understanding how family law operates and will help you to prepare for your exams. Each chapter includes lists of essential facts and cases to illustrate how the rules described are applied in practice.

Zbigniew Kotowicz gives us the first English language, in-depth presentation of the entire spectrum of Bachelard's work: epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality. And he explores an old philosophical tradition that Bachelard's thought opens up atomism a doctrine that has been almost forgotten and is much misunderstood.

Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art.

Jean Bottero and his colleagues take the reader on a voyage of discovery into the public and private realms of the lives of our first civilized ancestors, looking at everyday life in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Both comical and horrific, 'The Three Perils of Woman' is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution and venereal disease.

James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg.