Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
The Wisdom to Doubt
A Justification of Religious Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as...
by Suzy Anger
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fields such as legal theory, psychology, history, and the natural sciences in order to establish the...
Nobody's Business
Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial...
Legal Naturalism
A Marxist Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a forceful contribution to current debates on the foundations of law.
Olufemi Taiwo argues that embedded...
For God and Globe
Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
For God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the...
by Rebecca Krug
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and...
History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the ‘legal’ as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who...
Holy Legionary Youth
Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Founded in 1927, Romania’s Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe’s largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most...
Invisible Weapons
Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1098, three years into the First Crusade and after a brutal eight-month siege, the Franks captured the city of Antioch. Two days later, Muslim forces arrived with a relief army, and the victors became the besieged. Exhausted and ravaged by illness and hunger, the Franks were exhorted by their religious...
The Self and Its Pleasures
Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of ‘man’ as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the...
The Life Informatic
Newsmaking in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first anthropological...
The Rational Believer
Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of Islamabad’s Red Mosque and its madrasa complex, whose imam and students staged...
Broken Harmony
Shakespeare and the Politics of Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Music was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in a meaningful way clashed regularly with evidence that music was in fact profoundly promiscuous in its application and effects. Subsequently, much writing in the period reflects a desire...
Light without Heat
The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual...