Author: Lisa Mitchell
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: tongue, contemporary, indian, studies, mother, making, emotion, politics, south, india, language
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-02-25
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0253353017
ISBN-13: 9780253353016

What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence.

Author: Martin A. Colema
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: american, philosophy, writings, selected, santayana, essential
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2009-03-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253353483
ISBN-13: 9780253353481

Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863--1952) became a uniquely American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. Along with his Harvard colleagues William James and Josiah Royce, he is best known as one of the founders of American pragmatism and recognized for his insights into the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. The Essential Santayana presents a selection of Santayana’s most important and influential literary and philosophical work. Martin A. Coleman’s critical introduction sets Santayana into the American philosophical traditi

Authors:Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmer
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: intellectual, history, project, series, nations, united, struggle, development, social, justice, voices
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2005-05-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253346428
ISBN-13: 9780253346421

UN Voices presents the human and moving stories of an extraordinary group of individuals who contributed to the economic and social record of the UN?s life and activities. Drawing from extensive interviews, the book presents in their own words the experiences of 73 individuals from around the globe who have spent much of their professional lives engaged in United Nations affairs. We hear from secretaries-general and presidents, ministers and professors, social workers and field workers, as well as diplomats and executive heads of UN agencies. Among those interviewed are noted figures such as K

Author: Bill Nichol
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: documentary, introduction
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0253214696
ISBN-13: 9780253214690

" . . . this engaging, thoughtful, accessible, and comprehensive work will stimulate many." -- Choice Noted film scholar Bill Nichols provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to anthropology, and from history to journalism, this book spells out the issues and concepts that characterize documentary film and video production and provides the foundational key to further explorations in this exceptionally vital area of f

Author: Kaja Silverma
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: theories, representation, difference, cinema, psychoanalysis, mirror, female, voice, acoustic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0253204747
ISBN-13: 9780253204745

"... a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential." -- Stephen Heath"An original work likely to have significant impact on all those with an interest in the vibrant intersection of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis... " -- Naomi Schor"... powerfully argued study... impressive... " -- Choice"... important because of its innovative work on Hollywood’s ideologically-charged construction of subjectivity.... what is exciting about The Acoustic Mirror is that it

Author: Charles S. Peirce
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: writings, peirce, charles, volume, chronological
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 1989-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253372046
ISBN-13: 9780253372048

"The volumes are handsomely produced and carefully edited,... For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years... " -- The Times Literary Supplement"... an extremely handsome and impressive book; it is an equally impressive piece of scholarship and editing." -- Man and World

Author: John Salli
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: continental, thought, studies, elemental, imagination, sense, force
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253337720
ISBN-13: 9780253337726

" . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call ’ecology’ but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking at this historical moment." --Edward S. Casey In this major original work, John Sallis probes the very nature of imagination and reveals how the force of imagination extends into all spheres of human life.