Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this intellectual biography of Colette -- the final volume of Julia Kristeva's trilogy "Female Genius" -- will be considered a major breakthrough in understanding one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century.Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure ...
The significance of religious icons has been a prickly point for theologians and philosophers ever since their high ranking in the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Besancon discusses the varying trends of iconophilia and iconoclasm in this history of the aesthetics and philosophy of the representation of God throughout ...
In the spring of 2003, acclaimed journalist Nivat set off from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Each person she met speaks of hope, sadness, anger, and, above all, the uncertainty that fills their lives.
Translated from the French, this study of the virulent and widespread expressions of anti-Semitism among the French people focuses on the Dreyfus Affair as well as on the campaign against Emile Zola, Dreyfus's great defender.
The famed photographer Brassaļ recalls conversations he had with Pablo Picasso in the 1940s. These reflections reveal an intimate look into the artistic, cultural, and political issues of avant-garde Paris in the midst of World War II.
In a world like this one, it's difficult to devote oneself to art body and soul. To get published, to get exhibited, to get produced often requires ten or twenty years of patient, intense labour. I spent half my life at it! And how do you survive during all that time? Beg? Live off other people until you're successful? What a dog's life! I know ...
In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful - the moving accounts of the lives of Christian saints. Willing to die gruesome deaths or endure constant suffering, saints conveyed a powerful message: God was still present in the world. He continues to manifest His powers and communicate His messages through ...
This is an unflinching and honest portrayal of how numerous artists and their works were used during the German occupation of France. "Art of the Defeat" provides an unflinching an honest look at the art scene in France during the German occupation of World War II. Beginning with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes, it offers a ...
This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay "The Gift", on reciprocity and ...
Josef van Ess is the world's most distinguished scholar of classical kalam, the Muslim theology that was the precursor to, and foundation for, modern Islam. This book makes available, for the first time in English, the fruit of van Ess's 35 years of work in the field. A lucid and authoritative introduction to classical Islam, it opens a window on ...
Nineteenth-century theories of race were meant to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of civilizations. What they produced instead were the modern foundations for prejudice and its politics. In this enlightening book, with a new preface and postscript for the Anglophone audience, Maurice Olender investigates the ...
Paradise haunts the Biblical West. At once the place of origin and exile, utopia and final destination, it has shaped our poetic and religious imagination and informed literary and theological accounts of man's relation with his creator, with language and history. For Kant, Paradise was the inaugural moment for the rise and progress of reason as ...
Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom proved considerably flexible. Between more familiar forms of slavery - those of antiquity and of the ...
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