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The Virtues of Abandon explores how eighteenth-century debates over the self's relationship to property gave rise to a previously unexamined anti-individualist tradition of thought and action that informed the work of mystics, materialists, and radical political thinkers during the French Enlightenment and the Revolution.
Contrary to accounts that interpret terror in opposition to reason, this book shows how three authors famous for their works and theories of terror-Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville-developed a terror that incorporates, theorizes, and extends the Enlightenment claims of reason as feeling.
This book traces the evolution of U.S. federal entitlement programs from the Revolutionary War to modern times to identify and understand the common economic and political forces that have caused their nearly continuous growth.
Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economaia en el mundo popular.
This book traces how ideas of regional integration have traveled from Europe to Indonesia, and how Indonesian foreign policy stakeholders have reinterpreted these ideas.
This book explores how presidential approval, contextualized within the American state, shapes incentives and opportunities for presidents as they take action in American politics.
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida.
This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas, arguing that primitivism was an aesthetic project specific to European imperialism at its height, and that the most intensively primitivist works were produced by the colonized subjects of the imperial periphery.
WTF?! is an interactive tour of the world's weirdest social practices that uses economic thinking to reveal the solid logic behind their seeming senselessness.
Now in its third edition, this book uses the basic tools of economic theory to depict law as a social institution, aimed at inducing socially desirable behavior. Up-to-date with discussions of recent cases and the latest research, The Economic Approach to Law is optimally organized for courses in Law and Economics.
More than mere whistleblowers, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are exemplary figures who are inventing new political practices and calling old conceptions of the state and citizenship into question.
This book explores the significance of contemporary "animal studies" for the interpretation of animals and animal symbolism in the Hebrew Bible.
This book argues against the widely celebrated utopia of "transparency" by showing, across a panorama of postwar French thought, how attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted.
Engine of Impact provides actionable guidance for increasing impact in the social sector-a must-read for all donors, nonprofit board members, executives and staff who seek to achieve extraordinary results for their organization.
Stross investigates the real-world experiences of graduates with humanities majors, the majors that would seem the least employable in Silicon Valley's engineering-centric workplaces and provides heartening demonstrations of how multi-capable liberal arts graduates are. 6 x 9.
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