This book investigates the complex and evolving relationship between Islam and the West, tracing its origins from the Prophet Muhammad’s time to the present day.
Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences explores how transnational feminist pedagogies are practiced, challenged, and reimagined in contemporary classrooms.
This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women's roles in society.
Despite decades of attempts and the best intentions of its members, the United States Supreme Court has failed to develop a coherent jurisprudence regarding the state's proper relationship to the individual.
Presiding in the White House longer than any other first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt championed the downtrodden as she traveled the globe, yet she was a maze of contradictionsan idealist who carried on a moneymaking career that depended on her position and a conventional-appearing wife and mother who found emotional succor from intense relationships outside her family.
Schlafwandeln fasziniert Menschen damals wie heute als Grenzphanomen zwischen Schlafen und Wachsein, Traum und Realitat, Genialitat und gefahrlichem Wahnsinn.
Este libro analiza la cultura negada que se expresa en nuestro relato de sostenimiento del sistema hegemonico que vivimos y que punza con su fuerza constante en lo cotidiano.
La lectura de la critica de la economia politica de Marx propuesta por Moishe Postone en Tiempo, trabajo y dominacion social, parte de las nuevas reinterpretaciones de la obra de Marx inspiradas en la tradicion de la Escuela de Frankfurt, se ha constituido como uno de los aportes a la teoria critica de la sociedad mas originales e importantes de la actualidad.
En el arte no hay moral ni etica; primero, porque son categorias y modos de actuar del ser humano como humano y, segundo, porque debemos ubicar el arte mas alla de lo humano.
Benedetto Neola explores how late antique Neoplatonists, from Iamblichus in the third-fourth century to Damascius in the fifth-sixth, reimagined what it meant to be a true philosopher.