Zone books cambridge (8 risultati)

Doumani, Beshara, 1957-, ed. Academic freedom after September 11. New York : Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books, 2006, 327pp., sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good, probably unused, blue remainder stripe on bottom foredge. Papers presented at the conference, "Academic freedom after September 11," held on Feb. 27, 2004, at the University of California at Berkeley. - CONTENTS: Between coercion and privatization : academic freedom in the twenty-first century / Beshara Doumani -- The structure of academic freedom / Robert Post -- Academic norms, contemporary challenges : a reply to Robert Post on academic freedom / Judith Butler -- Why academic freedom? : theoretical and constitutional context / Philippa Strum -- Trust to the public : academic freedom in the multiversity / Kathleen J. Frydl -- The unraveling of the devil's bargain : the history and politics of language acquisition / Amy Newhall -- The new McCarthyism : policing thought about the Middle East / Joel Beinin -- Appendix [1]. 1940 statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure (with 1970 interpretive comments) / American Association of University Professors --Appendix [2]. Restoring scientific integrity in policy making / Union of Concerned Scientists --Appendix [3]. HR 3077 : The International STudies in Higher Education Act -- Appendix [4]. Letter to Columbia University president Lee Bollinger in defense of academic freedom / New York Civil Liberties Union -- Appendix [5]. Ford Foundation memorandum on grant language. 9781890951610 ISBN 1890951617. …

very good black cloth. SAHLINS, PETER. 1668: the year of the animal in France. New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Zone Books, Distributed by the MIT Press, 2017, 491pp., . Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied "animal moment" in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France -- what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism toward more modern expressions of classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes's animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 in which his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668 explores and reproduces the king's animal collections -- in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. ISBN 9781935408994.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. An as-new copy in an as-new jacket (but for 1.5-cm closed tear to head of jacket spine). Clean and in beautiful condition.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Edges of covers are lightly rubbed, and there are two faint creases to front endpaper. ; English and French Edition; 9.30 X 7.30 X 0.60 inches; 258 pages.

Hard cover. Condizione: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Zone Books. Audience: General/trade.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Zone Books. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Azoulay, Ariella. The civil contract of photography. Translated by Rela Mazali and Ruvik Danieli. New York : Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books, 2008, 585pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, a few flecks on top foredge. This is an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings, with special attention to photographs of Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies., "Azoulay argues that photography is a particular set of relations between individuals to the power that governs them, and, at the same time, a form of relations among equal individuals that constrains this power. Her book shows how anyone, even a stateless person, who addresses others through photographs or occupies the position of a photograph's addressee, is or can become a citizen in the citizenry of photography. The civil contract of photography enables him or her to share with others the claim made or addressed by the photograph. But the crucial arguments of the book concern two groups whose vulnerability and flawed citizenship have been rendered invisible due to their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. What they share is an exposure to injuries of various kinds and the impossibility of photographic statements of their plight from ever becoming claims of emergency and calls for protection. Thus one of her leading questions is the following: Under what legal, political or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those flawed citizens in states of exception? The book brilliantly examines key texts in the history of modern citizenship, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, together with relevant works by Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Olympe de Gouges, and Jean-Franç ois Lyotard; it rigorously analyzes Israeli photographs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories--work by Miki Kratsman, Michal Heiman, and Aïm Deüelle Lüski--and it interpretively engages photographs of women from those of Muybridge to recent images from Abu Ghraib prison. At the same time Azoulay provides new critical perspectives on well-known texts such as Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida." -- CONTENTS: Citizens of disaster -- The civil contract of photography -- The spectator is called to take part -- Emergency claims -- Has anyone ever seen a photograph of rape? -- Photographing the verge of catastrophe -- Whose gaze? -- The public edge of photography -- The woman collaborator does not exist. 9781890951887 ISBN 1890951889.…

orig. cloth. Condizione: Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper. 23x16cm, 176 pp. Contents: Feeding the body/feeding the soul: the symbolic divide -- Preserving the freedom to change -- To feed one's life/to force one's life;or, how the attachment to life turns against life -- Vacations: finding heaven in ourselves -- Without "soul" -- Do we have a "body"? -- Feeding your breath-energy -- Procedures of vital nourishment -- Exempt from happiness -- On hygiene; or, the desperate desire to endure -- Anti-stress:cool, Zen, and so on -- Condemned to the eternal silence of processes. [" The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning, Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends Francois Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten simply to experience life in vital Nourishment, Jullien slows down and begins to think about life from a point outside of Western inquiry, using the third- and fourth-century B.C.E. Chinese thinker Zhuanghi as a foil in this installment of his continuing project of plumbing the philosophical divide between Eastern and Western thought" -from dustwrapper].…