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In Search of Community

Essays in Memory of Werner Stark, 1905-85

Eileen B. Leonard and Herman Strasser

In Search of Community is a collection of thirteen essays by former students of Dr. Werner Stark, influential historian of social thought. The work opens with an introduction succinctly relating an...

ISBN: 9780823213528

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In Defense of Secrets

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by Lindsay Turner

In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of the Secret champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity.Psychoanalyst and...

ISBN: 9780823289233

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American Parishes

Remaking Local Catholicism

Edited by Gary J. Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks

Contributor(s): Gary J. Adler, Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt and Brian Starks

Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.

ISBN: 9780823284344

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Levels of Organic Life and the Human

An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

Helmuth Plessner

Translated by Millay Hyatt

A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first time. With reference simultaneously to science, social theory, and philosophy, Plessner shows how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries. Plessner’s account of how the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman will invigorate a range of current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.

ISBN: 9780823283989

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Being Brains

Making the Cerebral Subject

Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega

Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

ISBN: 9780823283682

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Counter Institution

Activist Estates of the Lower East Side

Nandini Bagchee

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

ISBN: 9780823279265

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Paul Hanly Furfey

Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

ISBN: 9780823276776

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The Common Growl

Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community

Thomas Claviez

An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.

ISBN: 9780823270927

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The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Essential Early Essays

W. E. B. Du Bois

Edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays assembles essential essays by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – thinker, writer, scholar, activist, leader – from half a dozen years on each side, respectively, of the turning of the twentieth century, from 1894 to early 1906. In this essays are the first formulations of some of Du Bois’s most famous ideas, namely, “the veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the “problem of the color line.” Clustered around the turn of the century, they comprise a kind of essential companion to The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.

ISBN: 9780823254552

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At Freedom's Limit

Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

Sadia Abbas

At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament is a critique of how the current anthropology and sociology of Islam has used Muslims as a discursive site on which contemporary aporias of modernity are worked out. The book shows that some of the most intricate critiques of Islamism and of state theocracy are being produced by theologically adept Muslim writers.

ISBN: 9780823257867

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X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of the African American as an object of discourse, knowledge, and general social practice, conceiving the focus of such a concern -- with W. E. B. Du Bois -- as forms of social and historical problems on an epochal scale, above all the global-level “problem of the color line,” as the mark of both historical limit and possibility.

ISBN: 9780823254071

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Theopoetic Folds

Philosophizing Multifariousness

Edited by Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal

This book explores a “theopoetics” of multiplicity, how it contributes to scholarship on the edge of theology, philosophy, literature, and sociology, how it questions the establishment of the difference between philosophy and theology and resides in the dangerous realm of relativism, but might also heal the desperateness of orthodox persecution.

ISBN: 9780823251568

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Living Together

Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace

Edited by Elisabeth Weber

For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of “community,” “living,” “together” never ceased to harbor radical, even infinite interrogations. Gathered around an unpublished essay by Derrida, the contributions to this volume explore the struggles and chances of living together in the post-9/11 era and in regions of intense political conflict.

ISBN: 9780823249930

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Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

Franco Cassano

Translated and Edited by Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme

In 1996, with the publication of Southern Thought, Italian writer Franco Cassano became widely recognized as one of the most important voices in the contemporary Italian and European intellectual...

ISBN: 9780823233656

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Pragmatism in the Americas

Edited by Gregory Fernando Pappas

In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey)...

ISBN: 9780823233687

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Powers

Religion as a Social and Spiritual Force

Edited by Meerten B. ter Borg and Jan Willem van Henten

This book, the first themed volume in the series The Future of the Religious Past, elaborates the manifold and fascinating interconnections between power and religion. It carries forward the work...

ISBN: 9780823231577

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The Opinion System

Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas

Kirk Wetters

This book revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. Indispensable to ideas like "public opinion" and "freedom of opinion," opinion-though...

ISBN: 9780823229888

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Religion and the Family

Edited by Ronald A. Simkins and Gail S. Risch

In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family...

ISBN: 9781881871491

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Learning from Bosnia

Approaching Tradition

Rusmir Mahmutcehajic

This book, at the intersections of political sociology,political philosophy, and theology, reads the legacyof Bosnia as both a paradigm and an antiparadigm forthe human condition....

ISBN: 9780823224531

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In Search of Community

In Defense of Secrets

American Parishes

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Being Brains

Counter Institution

Paul Hanly Furfey

The Common Growl

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

At Freedom's Limit

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

Theopoetic Folds

Living Together

Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

Pragmatism in the Americas

Powers

The Opinion System

Religion and the Family

Learning from Bosnia

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