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More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of building a working relationship between hermeneutics and deconstruction. Caputo claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine or other omnipotent supernatural force. We have not been chosen as earthly instruments, and there is no supreme Secret to which some have been given privileged access; we make our way through the world hoping to find meaning and structure in our "factical" lives. But this is not all bad news. According to Caputo, the necessity of interpretation, which arises from lack of access to the Secret, radicalizes hermeneutics, opens interpretations and perspectives, and prevents the dominance of any one point of view. This animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophers shakes the foundations of religion and philosophy even as it gives them new life.
Waiting Trapped by a culture in which adultery can ruin lives and careers, Lin Kong has been waiting to end his marriage for eighteen years. This year, he promises, will be different. “Waiting provides…a crash course in Chinese society during and since the Cultural Revolution, and a more leisurely but nonetheless compelling exploration of the less exotic terrain that is the human heart.” -The New York Times Book Review
Moon Deluxe Frederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have given us a stunning, cautionary, funny, sometimes bleak, and often transcendent portrait of contemporary life in the sprawl of suburban America. Barthelme made his remarkable debut with these tender and affectionate stories, most of which were originally published in the New Yorker. Moon Deluxe received the high praise of such writers as John Barth, Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, and Margaret Atwood, and earned Barthelme a permanent place in the pantheon of contemporary American writers. In these stories he delicately probes the peculiar corners of contemporary culture, capturing the fast and often touching ways we relate to each other and to the time in which we live.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is a s fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as "conspicuous consumption" and "pecuniary emulation," Veblen's most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. As sociologist Alan Wolfe writes in his Introduction, Veblen "skillfully…wrote a book that will be read so long as the rich are different from the rest of us; which, if the future is anything like the past, they always will be."
Introducing Keynesian Economics John Maynard Keynes was the most brilliant and influential economisto f the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, overturned the conventional free market wisdom of the time and proposed that a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors and governments. Frightened by mass unemployment, governments throughout the capitalist world pursued Keynesian policies until the late 1970s, when a new economic theory, Monetarism, became fashionable. However, Monetarism was not as successful as its advocates had predicted, and a Keynesian approach returned to favor. Keynes remains the most influential economist of the 20th century. Introducing Keynesian Economics lucidly explains the Keynesian revolution and paints a vivid picture of Keynes the man, a brilliant scholar, a colorful member of the Apostles and the Bloomsbury Grooup, and an open homosexual who later married a ballerina. This book is the ideal introduction to Keynes, for both students and general readers.
A History of Britain, 1885-1939 The period between 1885 and 1939 was a pivotal half-century in British history in which the Victorian political system yielded to a system far more recognisably modern in response to popular pressure for social reform and the implications of global superpower status. The political world of William Gladstone, dominated by religious disputes and the 'Irish Question,' evolved into the world of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain, preoccupied with mass unemployment and the threat of war. Labour and the women's movement, politically insignificant in the 1880s, emerge as significant players. Victorian liberal values were superseded by a conservative creed emphasizing nationalism, empire and protectionism, but this conservative state was itself to be destroyed, as appeasement diplomacy failed to prevent a second world war. Britain achieved full democracy as it experienced relative economic decline, and the conjunction of these trends had far-reaching effects Drawing extensively upon the new historical scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s, John Davis presents an original analysis of political change in a crucial period of Britain's recent past. |
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Raising the Tone of Philosophy In Raising the Tone of Philosophy, Peter Fenves expands the context of Jacques Derrida's work on voice and tonality by presenting the first English translations of two of Kant's important late essays, "On a Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy" and "Announcement of a Near Conclusion of a Treaty for Eternal Peace in Philosophy." The book also includes a revised translation, by John Leavey, of Derrida's "On a Newly Arisen Apocalyptic Tone in Philosophy," which rewrites and reorients Kant's essays. After having shown how Kant and Derrida concur on at least one point, the voice of reason guards a secret, Fenves proposes that these essays reveal the ineluctable tonality of all philosophical texts, especially those that wish to announce an end to philosophy.
Killing Time The year is 2023, a time that bestselling author Caleb Carr paints in fascinating and believable detail. Much of the world enjoys the great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology, but horrifying poverty grips many countries, bitter wars rage over natural resources, and the failure of international regulatory agencies has resulted in an expanding black market in all forms of weapons, including nuclear devices. The staphylococcus plague of 2006 wiped out forty million people, the crash of '07 ruined many national economies, and in America the assassination of President Emily Forrester in 2018 traumatized the nation. The Internet remains the main source of information, bombarding people everywhere with news, rumors, and allegations twenty-four hours a day; and creating enormous possibilities for the manipulation of mankind. Relentlessly suspenseful and packed with brilliantly realized characters and settings, Killing Time reveals a new side of a master novelist.
Letters of the Century In 1955, the day after Jonas Salk announced that he had found a vaccine for polio, an expectant mother in Nyack, New York, sat down to write him a letter. The gratitude she expressed in this letter still mingles, on its pages, with a note of relief and longing, and an echo of recent pain. The difference between knowing that Americans were grateful to Jonas Salk and reading this letter to him is like the difference between knowing the words of a song and hearing it sung. Letters give history a voice. This book celebrates that voice, as it has changed and deepened, whispered and shouted, wept and teased, laughed and pleaded, throughout the letters written during the last hundred years in America. Yet this is not a book about letters. It is a book about the twentieth century, as told in letters. The 412 letters printed in this volume are arranged chronologically; with the hope that as you read them, you will feel as if you are hearing successive verses in a national ballad.
In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time "For a quarter of a century the identity of Deep Throat has been a durable source of wonder. People have sensed that somewhere out there is a living, breathing answer to this puzzle and that if we find him, we will experience the very particular sort of satisfaction we feel when we have tied up one of the loose ends of the universe. I think I have solved this particular puzzle." Leonard Garment After graduating from Brooklyn Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Brooklyn Law Review, Garment began his law career in 1949 with the firm that later became Nixon Mudge. He was chief of the firm's trial department and helped tutor Richard Nixon in appellate argument, eventually helping to organize Nixon's 1968 comeback campaign. As a reward, he was installed as special consultant to the president on domestic policy from 1969 to 1974. In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Garment filled the role of Counsel to the President left vacant by the resignation of John Dean.
Time Out Film Guide 2002 Edition The annual Time Out Film Guide covers every area of world cinema: classic silents and 1930s comedies, documentaries and the avant garde, French or Japanese, the Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors. This most recent addition includes more than 14,000 films reviewed over the last 33 years by Time Out critics, cast lists and other key creative personnel, more than 100 obituary notes from 2000/2001, the cinema centenary and readers' Top One Hundred polls, indexes covering film by country, genre, subject, director and actor.
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism This is probably the most accessible book Mary Daly has written in the 30+ years she has been exploring & indicting patriarchal institutions & "morals". Unlike "Pure Lust", which was difficult to understand w/o a background in philosophy & theology, "Gyn/Ecology" explores the methods that have been used to keep women bound, showing a relationship between such seemingly disparate phenomena as Nazism & gynecology, witch-burnings & Chinese foot-binding. The historical facts are well-researched & supported through direct quotations from men who have perpetrated & defended the torture & killing of women in the name of "culture". Daly strongly refutes the argument that one society cannot judge the practices of another, proclaiming that the lives of women take precedence over such constructs as culture. |
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