Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions
From Greco-Roman Antiquity, philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. These essays explore how the three Abrahamic religions interacted on the common ground of Greek philosophy, creating similar patterns of thought on crucial concepts.
Is Charity a Choice?
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America’s poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals’ role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
Economy in Society
This book analyzes classic sociology and economics, exposing their flaws. It then presents a constructive programme, socio-economic structuralism, which offers theoretical innovations that draw on, but move beyond, the achievements of past thinkers.
This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
The Déjà-vu and the Authentic
Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.
Turkey–EU Relations
This book tells the untold story of the positive aspects of EU–Turkey relations. Because this complex relationship is often misunderstood, and public perceptions are shaped by political leaders, mutual benefits are underestimated. This book fills those gaps.
This book defines EU development policy in Africa since the Cold War. It argues the EU fell short of its efforts to export its ‘paradise’ to Africa, limited by its inability to stand as a distinct and leading actor in international development.
Political Violence in Latin America
Political Violence in Latin America offers an exceptional analysis of social revolutionary conflicts. In a comparison of three case studies—the Argentinean Montoneros, Colombian M-19, and Nicaraguan FSLN—the book brings new details of the conflicts to light.
Shadowlines
Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.
The Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
This volume introduces “conceptual socialization,” a new framework for analyzing how L2 learners blend their native culture with a new one. It explores the untold trajectories of long-term international graduate students’ linguistic and social development.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
In and Out of Africa
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
This volume reveals the important role of cultural stereotypes in how societies adapt to and cope with crises. Through detailed analysis of global case studies, it redefines disasters as any deviation from “normality” in a particular culture.
Culture, Power, and Security
A diverse group of historians grapples with the notion of “security” across time and geography. Drawing on new sources, these engaging essays offer fresh perspectives on military, political, intelligence, and foreign relations history.
Kierkegaard’s focus on individuality seems irrelevant to the political sphere. This book argues the opposite, revealing how his ideas on self-choice, passion, and love are not only relevant, but highly significant for political thought and commitment.
Titus out of Joint
Critics often see Titus Andronicus as a way station to better plays. This collection—the first in a decade—argues it deserves more, approaching the play as inherently dissonant through a wide variety of modern theoretical and critical perspectives.
Ruptures in the Western Empire
This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped “other”.
Cesare Pugni
Based on a popular Russian fairy-tale, The Little Humpbacked Horse tells of the spectacular deeds of Ivanushka with the help of a magical horse. Created by Arthur Saint-Léon with music by Cesare Pugni, it was the first ballet based on Russian folklore.
The Ballets of Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was a master of classical ballet. Sharing Tchaikovsky’s passion for melody, his scores for Raymonda and The Seasons are inventive and beautifully orchestrated, reflecting a glamorous, glittering world.
Neighbors and Neighborhoods
This collection of essays addresses questions of community in the modern German-speaking world, a neighborhood no longer defined by territory. How is neighborliness possible in an age of mass migration, globalization, and fluid modern identity?
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