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Crises of the Sentence
There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word, trope, line, or stanza. To understa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Watching War
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 Warexplores the status of warfare as a spect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)
by Barbara Cassin • Jill Lepore • Judith Butler • Kieran Setiya • Fred Turner • Jan Mieszkowski • Jeremy Adelman • Haruo Shirane • Anne E. Fernald • Matthew Engelke • Imani Perry • James Vernon • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Kim Phillips-Fein • Philip Gorski • Frances Negrón-Muntaner • Namwali Serpell • Shannon Mattern • Karen Dunak • John Plotz • Daegan Miller • Christopher Schaberg • Lilly Irani • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Suzy Hansen • Max Holleran • Mark McGurl • Stacey Balkan • Nathan Connolly • Najwa Al-Qattan • Destin Jenkins • Andrew Perrin • Lynn French • Salamishah Tillet • Matthew Clair • Ursula K. Guin • Eli Rosenblatt • Rebecca Falkoff • Karl Ashoka Britto • Marah Gubar • Tess McNulty • Nicholas Dames • John R. McNeillSince 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019