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The most radical philosophy of law of our time Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever been produced. Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the first time in a real system: the result is the most devastating critique of the very idea of law. But it is also the most surprising, praising the actual practice of jurisprudence. This is not simply a practice of judgment, but a practice of radical creation and leads to an intriguing question: what if lawyers were the only true revolutionaries of our time? Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia and After Law. Nils F. Schott is Lecturer at the Collège universitaire de SciencesPo. He has edited or translated some twenty volumes in philosophy and related fields.

'An engaging and masterful interpretation of the history of Western philosophy, The Ordering of Time is much more than that. Profoundly ethical, this is a book for our times, troubled as they are by doomful threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic depression, and climate change. George Lucas shows how to care about the past - its injustice as well as its grandeur and everyday facticity - so that we recover and respect insights that make life worth living and presenting to those who follow after us.' John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College 'George Lucas has provided the reader with an engaging invitation to consider the importance of the history of philosophy at a time when philosophers have turned away from the study of the great ideas it contains. This work is fundamental for anyone who wishes to think through what philosophy is.' Donald Phillip Verene, Emory University Thinking with, rather than thinking about the history of philosophy What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight? George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues. George Lucas is Distinguished Chair in Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the US Naval Academy. Cover image: courtesy of morhamedufmg/Pixabay Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7855-7 Barcode

Dundee Worthies, a collection of tales of colourful Dundonians, was first published in 1934, compiled by George M Martin. Reminicences of the city, old time games, period advertisments and poems sit alongside tales of the folk that populated the city - Blind Hughie, Tea Pot Tam, Pie Jock. Delve into Dundee's past with this funny, entertaining and historic account of the Worthies of Dundee.

This new paperback edition brings together the latest thoughts on the development of the medieval Scottish kingdom.

A comparative study of women's political participation and representation in contemporary Iran and Turkey The conservative gender ideology espoused by the ruling elites in contemporary Iran and Turkey delegates women mostly to the domestic sphere, and prioritizes their roles as mothers and wives. Despite this conservatism, women in both countries have been demanding greater access to the political field, and have even had notable achievements in recent years. Placing women's rights activism at the centre of its analysis, this book explores how women in Iran and Turkey manoeuvre the institutional structures and ideological barriers in their respective contexts to demand a seat at the political decision-making table. It argues that the recent increases in women's political representation are best understood in terms of the strategic interactions that take place between women's rights groups and political elites, both of which depend on the support of the electorate. Key Features - Provides an institutionalist analysis of women's political underrepresentation in Iran and Turkey through an examination of each country's electoral system, political party structure, government framework and state gender ideology - Based on over 140 in-depth interviews with past and present women politicians and candidates, party elites and women's rights activists in Iran and Turkey between 2009 and 2019 - Gives voice to the experiences and approaches of women's activist groups and political parties across the ideological spectrum - from the Justice and Development Party and Association for the Support of Women Candidates (KADER) to the Zeinab Society and Islamic Women's Coalition in Iran

Examines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran At a time of growing state control, censorship and wholesale crackdown on opposition in post-1953 Iran, intellectuals and artists began to produce works that defied the Shah's dictatorship and the regime's 'Great Civilisation' propaganda. With the emergence of urban guerrilla warfare in 1971 - spearheaded by the Marxist People's Fadai Guerrillas (PFG) - dissident artists created symbolic works that popularised the militants' ideas through artistic depictions and tropes, while portraying the militants as immortal freedom-fighters. The arts of defiance thus swayed young educated Iranians, as well as certain layers of the public, to perceive the state through the eyes of its most radical critiques: militant dissidents. By closely examining and interpreting the poetry, fiction, songs and films of the 1960s and 1970s, this book uncovers how militant action was translated into artistic expressions and vice versa. It also explores how the PFG militants - who were few in number - were able to acquire a 'heroic' dimension in the eyes of the public, portraying a symbolic image of defiance far beyond their actual militant existence. Key Features  The first comprehensive study of the relationship between the arts and revolutionary action of Iranian dissidents of the 1970s  Examines popular poets (Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Khosrow Golesorkhi), writers (Sadeq Chubak, Samad Behrangi, Gholam Hossein Sa'edi), filmmakers (Massoud Kimiai, Amir Naderi, Ebrahim Golestan), lyricists (Shahyar Ghanbari and Iraj Janantie-Atai) and singers (Farhad Mehrad and Dariush Eghbali)  Provides an analytical approach that reveals how arts and action are braided and inseparable through symbols and semiosis Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria. He is the author of many books, including A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Discourse of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 (2010) and A Rebel's Journey: Mostafa Sho'aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran (2019).

Examines how centralised authoritarian regimes upgrade their system of local governance The authoritarian upgrading process in Egypt has enabled the regime to have a more effective dominance in local politics and to enhance its political control. However, its strategies failed to overcome the weakness of system mobilisation functions, which reflected the authoritarian dilemma of bridging the national and the local. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Hani Awad explores the formal and informal decentralisation strategies employed under three regimes (Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak) to upgrade the Egyptian system of local governance without giving up power or democratising local governments. He traces the rise and increasing influence of Islamist challenges to loyalist networks and explains how the efficacy of Islamist mobilisation over the past two decades influenced the region's response to the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. Key features  Offers a comprehensive understanding of the way that the Egyptian authoritarian regime has upgraded its system of local governance since Nasser  Maps out the motivations for the process of authoritarian upgrading of local governance, as well as its benefits for authoritarianism  Analyses of the role of the state ruling party, focusing on the changing relationships between the local state and the Arab Socialist Union (1962-78) and the former National Democratic Party (1978-2011)  Includes a microanalysis based on extensive fieldwork in the Greater Cairo peri-urban fringe Hani Awad is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute.

Describes and analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman Empire Although it was at times valuable to Britain to support the Ottoman Empire against Russian encroachment, by the end of the 19th century successive British governments had begun to sponsor the dismemberment of the Empire. British public opinion and political pressure groups portrayed the Ottomans in universally defamatory terms, affecting the diplomatic actions of politicians. Some politicians themselves harboured deep prejudices against the Turks and Islam. The result, through numerous incidents, was British pressure to dismember the Ottoman Empire. Justin McCarthy shows how - from ignoring provisions guaranteeing Ottoman territorial integrity to refusing to publish consular reports that described the oppression of Muslims - the British were anything but friends to the Ottomans. Key Features  An in-depth study of British relations with the Ottoman Empire and the Turks  Considers British plans for the Ottoman Empire in the most important crises of the late 19th and early 20th centuries  Draws extensively on British diplomatic records and records of other European Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey  Examines the role of diplomats, media, the church and politicians in fostering negative views about the Ottoman Turks and Muslims  Helps us understand the historical origins of many of the conflicts in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East and even in the Caucasus Justin McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Louisville. His recent books include The Armenian Rebellion at Van (2006), The Turk in America (2010) and Sasun (2014).

Pluralist in approach and ranging across Keats's poetry and letters, this volume brings together ground-breaking historical research on the writer's schooling in Enfield, the sources of 'The Eve of St Mark', as well as an innovative discussion of Keats's writings about America.

For all its familiarity as a widely used term, "Kafkaesque cinema" remains an often-baffling concept. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges' point that Kafka has modified our conception of past and future artists, and André Bazin's suggestion that literary concepts and styles can exceed authors and "novels from which they emanate", this book proposes a comprehensive examination of Kafkaesque cinema in order to understand it as part of a transnational cinematic tradition rooted in Kafka's critique of modernity, which extends beyond the Kafka's work and his historical experiences. Drawing on a range of disciplines in the humanities including film, literary, and theatre studies, critical theory, and history, the book's central methodological claim is that Kafkaesque Cinema responds formally and thematically to the crisis of liberalism as experienced from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is the first full-length study of the subject and will be a useful resource for scholars and students interested in film theory, world cinema, world literature, and politics and representation. Angelos Koutsourakis is an Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds.

[headline]A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless 'war on terror', state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations. [bio]Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His research interests include the literary and cultural representation of terrorism, crisis, neoliberalism and systemic violence. He is co-editor of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and is the author of Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019). His writing appears in journals such as Critique, Journal of American Studies, Post45, Parallax, Punk and Post-Punk, and TLS.

The first book to comprehensively address W.B. Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker

Interrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration law

A fresh theoretical approach to help our understanding and analysis of electoral integrity in Turkey

The first comparative analysis of royalist and Covenanter political thought within a cross-confessional European context During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits on King Charles I's authority. However, they also engaged with the political, legal and ecclesiological ideas of 16th - and 17th-century Protestant and Catholic authors beyond the British Isles. This book explores the under-examined European context for Scottish political thought, analysing how royalists and Covenanters adapted Lutheran, Calvinist and Catholic ideas to their own debates about church and state. By focusing on Covenanted Scotland (a location often overlooked in histories of early modern political thought), this book provides a critical new perspective on how ecclesiological concerns informed the advancement of political ideas commonly associated with secularisation and the modern state. In doing so, it also demonstrates the diversity of intellectual traditions underlying the religious and political transformations of this revolutionary period in Scottish history. Key Features - Provides a comprehensive examination of the intellectual traditions underlying the Scottish Revolution. - Highlights the diversity of early modern Scottish intellectual culture by comparing royalist and Covenanter ideas about church and state. - Situates Scottish political thought in a cross-confessional and transnational European context (rather than an exclusively British, Scottish or Reformed one). - Challenges secularisation narratives by examining intrinsic connections between ecclesiology and political thought. - Demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement with political thought, theology and philosophy. Karie Schultz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews.

Explores the political aspects of sainthood, martyrdom and relics in late antique Caucasia

[headline]Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court between 1603 and 1613 Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is meant by courtiership in the Jacobean period. With a particular focus on the years between 1609 and 1613, the book brings together many of the letters surrounding the scandal leading to Overbury's murder and provides an examination of epistolarity in the context of humanist and legal learning. Defining key themes of social mobility, homosociality and the legal power of James VI and I, it exposes the mechanisms by which men rose at his court and provides a context for a new reading of contemporary dramatic texts by Shakespeare, Webster and Chapman. The book argues that the changing performance of courtiership at James's court, the wider knowledge of that reflected in contemporary letters and consequently shifting attitudes, all alter the performance of courtiership in the playhouse. [bio]Jackie Watson is an independent scholar, with a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her published work has centred on early modern law and literature, and on literary ideas of the senses in the early modern period. She is co-chair of the Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court project and co-edited The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558-1660 (2015, with Simon Smith and Amy Kenny).

Examines the production, distribution, reception and repair of mina'i ware

At a time when patterns of Christian life and worship appear to be dying out, yet traces of new life are also appearing, this volume maps out the current reality of Christianity in Western and Northern Europe with all its questions and uncertainties.

[headline]Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial nations Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In this fascinating new study, Hallemeier brings together African literary studies, affect studies and US empire studies, to challenge chronologies that chart a growing disillusionment with the postcolonial nation and national development across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Nigerian and South African writings in African Literature and US Empire, while often attuned to the trans- and extra- national, repeatedly scrutinise why visions of national exceptionalism, signified by a 'pan-African' Nigeria and 'new' South Africa, remain stubbornly affecting, despite decades of disillusionment with national governments beholden to a neocolonial global order. In these fictions, optimistic forms of nationalism cannot be reduced to easily critiqued state-sanctioned discourses of renewal and development. They are also circulated through experiences of embodied need, quotidian aspiration and transnational, pan-African relationship. [bio]Katherine Hallemeier is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism (2013). Her research on contemporary Anglophone African fiction has appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and ariel.

Explores the multifaceted relationship between Greeks and Turks

[headline]The most wide-ranging study of the history of children's periodicals to date Since the publication of the first children's periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the range of children's periodicals that exist, they have not been studied to the same extent as children's literature. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals marks the first major history of magazines for young people from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together periodicals from Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand and India, this book explores the roles of gender, race and national identity in the construction of children as readers and writers. It provides new insights both into how child readers shaped the magazines they read and how magazines have encouraged children to view themselves as political and world subjects. [editor bios]Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Beth Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European literature Offers the first full set of comparative readings of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac, arguing that Balzac was a keen and sensitive reader of Hoffmann's works Introduces little-known primary materials by these two canonical authors, including visual material such as a hand-drawn line copied out by both Hoffmann and Balzac from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy Makes the case for a new phenomenological reading of mimesis, emphasizing the role of the senses and the self in representation, by arguing simultaneously for a renewed understanding of the relationship between Romanticism and Realism Brings its focus to the motif of the line in order to open up an interdisciplinary approach to mimesis, understanding writing as a practice that lies alongside, and crosses over with, the act of drawing and other forms of mark-making Since Plato's Republic, mimesis -- the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated relationship between world and fiction. Lines of Mimesis offers a revisionary account of mimesis. Specifically, it proposes a rethinking of the representational attitudes of two literary schools usually understood to be at odds with one another -- Romanticism and Realism -- through close readings of writings and drawings made by two figures usually taken to be proponents of those schools respectively: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Across these readings, Dickson argues that a more capacious understanding of mimesis is achieved when we understand it to pertain not to the reduplication of objects in the world, but to a negotiation of the subject's sensory entwinement with those objects. This new understanding can, in turn, more closely illuminate an artwork's own reflections on its relationship to the world, shedding light on the entanglements and crossovers between Romanticism and Realism.

[headline]Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates Woolf's oeuvre as an important body of work within the literary history of our new planetary period, showing how her fiction and non-fiction engages with questions around climate change, environmental politics, imperial extractivism, eco-philosophy, species difference, natural history and extinction. Bringing together leading and emergent scholars, this collection recognises Woolf as a writer who was profoundly influenced by ecological and environmental questions throughout her life. It brings to light how Woolf responded to the environmental changes of her time and illuminates how her literary innovations continue to offer compelling ways of imagining the nonhuman and the planetary in our present moment. [bio]Peter Adkins is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes (2022) and co-editor of Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace: Aesthetics and Theory (2020). He has written widely on modernism, the environment and posthumanism.

[headline]The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press While today we might associate 'new media' with digital technologies, such innovations have a long history that precedes - and in many ways anticipates - the present moment. This collection reveals how the period between 1820 and 1845 was crucial in the development of the modern press, including experimentation with new publication formats; the reinvention and remediation of older forms; and the definition of new kinds of contributors and audiences for print. It brings to light the contributions of many important but long-forgotten writers, illustrators and editors who created and harnessed the idea of a mass reading public and shows how steam printing, popular education campaigns and new technologies of illustration led to new trends in book and periodical production. [bio]Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019).