Author: Jacques Le Goff
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: middle, ages, religion, economy, life, money
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1990-01-24
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0942299159
ISBN-13: 9780942299151

In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes how, as the structure of economic life inevitably began to include financial loans, the Church refashioned its ideology in order to condemn the usurer not to Hell but merely to Purgatory. Le Goff is in the forefront of a history that studies "the deeply rooted and the slowly changing." As one keenly aware of the inertia of older societies, he

Author: Georges Canguilhem
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: pathological, normal
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1991-10-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0942299590
ISBN-13: 9780942299595

Introduction by Michel Foucault

Authors:Alexander Nagel, Christopher S. Wood,
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: renaissance, anachronic
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2010-04-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 193540802X
ISBN-13: 9781935408024

In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history’s disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and m

Authors:Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park,
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: nature, order, wonders
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0942299914
ISBN-13: 9780942299915

Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions--these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power,

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: greece, ancient, society, myth
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-08-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0942299175
ISBN-13: 9780942299175

Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. In his provocative discussions of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and the city state, Vernant unveils a complex and previously unexplored intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. He concludes with a genealogy of the study of myth from antiq

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: profanations
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 189095182X
ISBN-13: 9781890951825

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation among genius, ego, and theo

Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: counterpublics, publics
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1890951285
ISBN-13: 9781890951283

Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public? According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involve