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Leo Strauss, Philosopher
(June 2016)
European Vistas
Antonio Lastra - Editor
Josep Monserrat-Molas - Editor
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European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.
This volume presents, for the first time in English, the approaches to Leo Strauss being pursued by European scholars in Spain, Italy, and Germany. Whereas the traditions of Strauss interpretation have, until recently, focused on issues of interest to political science and, to a lesser extent, religious studies, this collection...(Read More) |
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Out of Control
(June 2016)
Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
Richard A. Cohen - Author
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Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.
After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza’s answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas’s is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontat...(Read More) |
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Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality
(May 2016)
Marla Brettschneider - Author
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Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.
Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality explores a range of opportunities to apply and build intersectionality studies from within the life and work of Jewish feminism in the United States today. Marla Brettschneider builds on the best of what has been done in the field a...(Read More) |
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The Death of Fred Astaire
(May 2016)
And Other Essays from a Life outside the Lines
Leslie Lawrence - Author
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FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir category
When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.
As a child of the sixties, Leslie Lawrence knew she didn’t want to dupli...(Read More) |
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Tongue of Fire
(April 2016)
Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question
Donna M. Kowal - Author
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2017 Everett Lee Hunt Award, presented by the Eastern Communication Association
Silver Medalist 2017 - Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women’s Issues Category
FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Women’s Studies category
Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and g...(Read More) |
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Forgetting Fathers
(December 2015)
Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past
David Marshall - Author
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An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.
In Forgetting Fathers, David Marshall weaves together the stories of his grandfather and great-grandfather with his own quest to solve the mystery of his family’s past. Beginning as a search for his lost family name, Marshall attempts to understand the origins of his grandfather, ...(Read More) |
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Sharing the Burden
(September 2015)
Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Geoffrey D. Claussen - Author
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Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.
Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that movement’s leading moral theorist, Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), the founder of the first Musar mov...(Read More) |
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Reality Crumbs
(September 2015)
Selected Poems
Raquel Chalfi - Author
Tsipi Keller - Translator
Dan Miron - Afterword
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First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.
Reality Crumbs is the first book-length collection in English of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet, playwright, and filmmaker Raquel Chalfi. Versatile and unpredictable, Chalfi’s often visionary and dramatic poetry has been acclaimed for its independence and daring by leading Israeli critics. In the words of poet and cri...(Read More) |
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Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History
(June 2015)
Jeffrey A. Bernstein - Author
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Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.
In Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, Jeffrey A. Bernstein explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history. For Bernstein, Strauss shows that a close study of the ...(Read More) |
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Divine Scapegoats
(May 2015)
Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism
Andrei A. Orlov - Author
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Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.
Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the dem...(Read More) |
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