Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both…

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme…

An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature –

Institution and Interpretation investigates the operative forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber argues that the boundary of a field is therefore established through a conflictual process of interpretation…

Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Werner Hamacher, Samuel Weber, and others rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities-individual, collective, political…

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

Weber provides a comprehensive account of the charity school movement in Pennsylvania during the colonial period, examining the motivations and methods behind these institutions. He traces the development of charity…

The first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during the period between 1770 and 1830. The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the…