Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
The Truth of the Technological World
Essays on the Genealogy of Presence
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate...
Being with the Dead
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques...
by Paul J. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A sustained and systematic theological reflection on the idea that being a Christian is, first and last, a matter of the flesh, Christian Flesh shows us what being a Christian means for fleshly existence. Depicting and analyzing what the Christian tradition has to say about the flesh of Christians...
by Jan Mieszkowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle...
Managing Multiculturalism
Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short of extraordinary. In Managing Multiculturalism, Jean E. Jackson examines...
Freedom from Work
Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal...
Dangerous Leaders
How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. When we look closer at one profession from which we often...
Scythe and the City
A Social History of Death in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own...
Contraceptive Diplomacy
Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond...
Forgotten Disease
Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...
Chinese Hegemony
Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History joins a rapidly growing body of important literature that combines history and International Relations theory to create new perspectives on East Asian political and strategic behavior. The book explores the strategic...
by Ken Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies...
A Thrice-Told Tale
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological...
Asia's Regional Architecture
Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions...