Authors:Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, enlightenment, dialectic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0804736324
ISBN-13: 9780804736329

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself ou

Author: Avery Goldstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: security, studies, asian, international, strategy, challenge, china, grand, rising
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-04-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804752184
ISBN-13: 9780804752183

China’s increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the world, especially the United States, respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires not only figuring out the speed and extent of China’s rise, but also answering a question that has received much less attention: What is China’s grand strategy?This book describes and explains the grand strategy China’s leaders have adopted to pursue their country’s interests in the international system of the 21st century. The author argues tha

Author: Jeffrey Needell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: brazilian, monarchy, slavery, state, order, conservatives, party
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-11
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0804753695
ISBN-13: 9780804753692

This study analyzes Brazil’s monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionally based on African slavery. It focuses upon the Conservatives, who represented the sugar and coffee elites in reconstructing the new nation’s state as a strong, representative, constitutional monarchy in troubled times. After the monarch himself assumed power, however, his views undercut parliamentary and party government, which were also sapped by regional differences and the pressure for state patronage. Increasingly, the emperor and his cabinet

Author: Gary A. Polis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: scorpions, biology
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 1990-05
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0804712492
ISBN-13: 9780804712491

An up-to-date synthesis of all that is known about scorpions. The introduction and 11 papers cover anatomy and morphology; systematics, biogeography, and palaeontology; life history; behavioural responses and activity patterns; ecology; predators, prey, and parasites; environmental physiology.

Authors:Sergei Goncharov, John Lewis, Litai Xue,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: studies, international, security, war, korean, partners, stalin, mao, uncertain
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0804725217
ISBN-13: 9780804725217

The authors use major new documentary sources, including cables and letters between Mao Zedong and Stalin, to tell for the first time the inside story of the creation of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.

Authors:Joshua Landy, Michael Saler,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: rational, magic, secular, world, enchantment
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-01-21
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804752990
ISBN-13: 9780804752992

The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for r

Author: Krzysztof Ziarek
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, art, force
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-11-05
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804750114
ISBN-13: 9780804750110

This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek sees art’s significance in its critique of power and the increasing technologization of social relations. Re-examining avant-garde art and literature, from Italian and Russian Futurism and Dadaism, to Language poetry, video and projection art, as well as transgenic and Internet art, this book argues that art’s importance today cannot be explained simply in aesthetic or cultural terms bu