Embodying Ambiguity

Embodying Ambiguity
Author: Catriona MacLeod
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814325391

Embodying Ambiguity traces the shifts in the representation of the androgyny myth in the literature and aesthetics of the late eighteenth century and nineteenth century. Catriona MacLeod examines important pedagogic implications of the androgyny ideal for Classical, Romantic, and Realist texts, beginning with Aristophane's narrative of the origin of human sexuality in Plato's Symposium and including the hermaphroditic androgyny proposed by Winckelmann and the heterosexual complementary model found in Schiller and Schlegel.

Listening to the Sirens

Listening to the Sirens
Author: Judith Peraino
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520215877

Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners.

Ingres and the Studio

Ingres and the Studio
Author: Sarah E. Betzer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780271048758

An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

Uncertainty in Economic Theory

Uncertainty in Economic Theory
Author: Itzhak Gilboa
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134344163

This volume brings together important papers, coupled with new introductions, in the massively influential area of uncertainty in economic theory. Seminal papers are available together for the first time in book format, with new introductions and under the steely editorship of Itzhak Gilboa - this book is a useful reference tool for economists all over the globe.

Bauhaus Bodies

Bauhaus Bodies
Author: Elizabeth Otto
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501344803

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular. In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond.

Pregnancy Without Birth

Pregnancy Without Birth
Author: Victoria Browne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350279706

Pregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time – indeed, as not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book, Victoria Browne argues that reflection on miscarriage actually deepens and expands our understanding of pregnancy, forcing us to consider what pregnancy can amount to besides the production of a child. By exploring common themes within personal accounts of miscarriage-including feelings of failure, self-blame and being 'stuck in limbo'-Pregnancy Without Birth critically interrogates teleological discourses and disciplinary ideologies that elevate birth as pregnancy's 'natural' and 'normal' endpoint. As well as politicizing miscarriage as a feminist issue, the book articulates an alternative intercorporeal philosophy of pregnancy which embraces variation, invites us to sit with ambiguity, contingency and suspension, and enables us to see subjective agency in all pregnancies, even as they are shaped by biological, political and social forces beyond our personal control. What emerges is a relational feminist politics of full-spectrum solidarity, social justice and care (rather than individualized choice and responsibility), which breaks down presumed oppositions between pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and live birth, and liberates pregnancy from reproductive futurism.

Figuring it Out

Figuring it Out
Author: Ann B. Shteir
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781584656036

A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.

Mignon's Afterlives

Mignon's Afterlives
Author: Terence Cave
Publisher: OUP UK
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199604800

Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.

Tales of the Mighty Dead

Tales of the Mighty Dead
Author: Robert Brandom
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674009035

A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present. Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory strategies. Variously functionalist, inferentialist, holist, normative, and social pragmatist in character, the explanations of intentionality offered by these philosophers, taken together, form a distinctive tradition. The fresh perspective afforded by this tradition enriches our understanding of the philosophical topics being addressed, provides a new conceptual vantage point for viewing our philosophical ancestors, and highlights central features of the sort of rationality that consists in discerning a philosophical tradition--and it does so by elaborating a novel, concrete instance of just such an enterprise.

Future Theory

Future Theory
Author: Marc Botha
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472567366

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition. It demonstrates how entangled the highly politicized spheres of cultural production, scientific invention, and intellectual discourse are in the contemporary world and how new concepts and forms of thinking are crucial to embarking upon change. Future Theory is built around five key concepts – boundaries, organization, rupture, novelty, futurity – examined by leading international thinkers to build a vision of how theory can be applied to a constantly shifting world.