In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing (Cultural Memory in the Present) Isabel Hoving Stanford University Press, 2002 Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women’s texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence. The ...             The Reality of the Mass Media (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Niklas Luhmann Stanford University Press, 2000 Constructing reality - Mass media in Niklas Luhmann's perspective No doubt of that, the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann is one the most intriguing thinker of the 20th century, admired by many and misunderstood by other many. To build his theory of society he departed from the observation of the hypercomplexity of modern society. He sets aside what he called the ...             Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Cultural Memory in the Present)2 reviews Didier Maleuvre Stanford University Press, 1999 Congratulations + a text about museums in the 19th c. To be honest: several times I felt envy reading this book. Maleuvre analysis the beginning of a museum-culture in the 18th and 19th century and does this with an extraordinary knowledge of philosophy, art and literature, especially French literature. His question of departure is: In what social ...             The Confession of Augustine (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Jean-FranCois Lyotard Stanford University Press, 2000 Oh Lord thou didst show him This is an essential reading for those interested in the confessions. Wonderful.             Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Cultural Memory in the Present) J. Miller, Manuel Asensi Stanford University Press, 1999 This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem—Miller’s text on the right, Asensi’s on the left. It makes a long trajectory, moving back and forth as an ox plows a field, boustrophedonically, to borrow the figure in Manuel Asensi’s title. Black Holes , by J. Hillis Miller, analyzes changes in the ...             Futures: Of Jacques Derrida (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University Press, 2002 Seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction, address the millennial issue of our “futures,” “promises,” “prophecies,” “projects,” and “possibilities”—including the possibility that there may be no “future” at all. Speculative in every sense, these essays are marked by a common concern for the act ...             The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University Press, 1999 This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being more specific than either. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of the critic’s situatedness in the present—the social and cultural present from which we look, and look back, at ...             Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Miryam Sas Stanford University Press, 2002 Groundbreaking study of Japanese Surrealist poetics Possibly one of the most significant developments in scholarship in recent years is the willingness to view historical and cultural change in non-western countries on their own terms...Most often in anthologies and biographical sketches the critical and theoretical writings of modern Japanese ...             Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (Cultural Memory in the Present)2 reviews Niklas Luhmann Stanford University Press, 1998 The code of love Born in 1927, Niklas Luhmann died in 1998 leaving one of the most comprehensive works on sociology. Professor in Bielefeld, but graduated in law, he was a phenomenon: Ph.D. "honoris causa" by his writings, he developed the basis for new aproach in social theory. This work, as the tittle says, is ...             Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning (Cultural Memory in the Present) Peter Schwenger Stanford University Press, 1999 Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination—all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements involved in the experience of reading fiction, or of writing it. Soon after the birth of the novel, doctors expressed concern that readers might be possessed by what they were reading, haunted ...             The Legend of Freud: Expanded Edition (Cultural Memory in the Present) Samuel Weber Stanford University Press, 2000 “Psychoanalysis is dead!” Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. The Legend of Freud shows why psychoanalysis has remained uncanny, not just for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners as ...             Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle Stanford University Press, 2000 Close Reading without all the New Criticism Baggage If you're looking for nihilism, denials of metaphysics, or other such silliness, this book has none of them. If you're looking for insightful close-readings of some Platonic dialogues and their ethical implications, this book does that quite well. Derrida's two essays deal with the foreigner ...             World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present)1 review Kaja Silverman Stanford University Press, 2000 dreams, desire and conversations of philosophical ideas Breathe life into your unabridged dictionary, and let it breathe life into you too. Help ensure a future in which dictionaries are of value. For the right person, this is an absorbing, rewarding book. World Spectators is a serious project. If there was anything funny in the book it ...             The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Holderlin (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University Press, 2000 Written in the context of a rejuvenated interest in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), the essays gathered in The Solid Letter offer the first consolidated attempt in English to set out the many facets of his oeuvre. Addressed not only to specialists in German studies but also to readers interested in modern poetry, philosophy, and aesthetics, the volume is wide in scope but succinct ...             Political Representation (Cultural Memory in the Present) F. Ankersmit Stanford University Press, 2002 This ambitious work aims to reintroduce history into political theory. Contemporary political philosophy—liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism—disregards history because it is irrelevant to the nature of politics and to what constitutes a political problem. The author argues that this view reduces politics and political philosophy to a vapid academic game that is insensitive ...             Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation (Cultural Memory in the Present) William Rasch Stanford University Press, 2000 This book is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany’s leading social theorist of the late twentieth century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but rather the pre-condition of all our deliberations, the structure within which our semantics makes sense, even as we think we celebrate ...             `Our Place in al-Andalus': Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Cultural Memory in the ... Gil Anidjar Stanford University Press, 2002 The year 1492 is only the last in a series of “ends” that inform the representation of medieval Spain in modern Jewish historical and literary discourses. These ends simultaneously mirror the traumas of history and shed light on the discursive process by which hermetic boundaries are set between periods, communities, and texts. This book addresses the representation of the twelfth and ...             Skyline: The Narcissistic City (Cultural Memory in the Present) Hubert Damisch Stanford University Press, 2002 One of today’s foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch—whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps, ...             The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond ... Jeffrey Librett Stanford University Press, 2000 In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. The theoretical underpinning of the ...             Religion (Cultural Memory in the Present)5 reviews Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo Stanford University Press, 1998 A Neccessary Conversation + Reflections on Religion on the Island of Capri + not nothing + SUPERB