Postmodernism and poststructuralism recognize no vantage points outside of the practice of art and politics, no transcendental signifiers to structure the experience of reality. That stance creates great problems for the old equations of the good and the beautiful, and it makes discussions of art deeply political in the sense all art embodies some particular social construction and economy of power. It also makes discussions of the political fully artistic in the sense of the imaginary transformations of the world.

Ethics/Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert Merrill

Philosophy

Maisonneuve Press

Martin begins with predictions that western civilization underwent a paradigm shift in the 20th century. Older forms of rationality are patriarchal; artistic forms are closed conventions and fulfill norms of logic and causality. The emerging forms of thought are feminine, open, and incompleterequiring nurture and creative participation of the reader for meaning to exist.

Open Form and the Feminine Imagination: The Politics of Reading in Twentieth Century Innovative Writing

Literature & Fiction

Stephen-Paul. Martin

History & Criticism

In this collection, architects, city planners, and social theorists apply the poststructuralism of Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, de Man, Barthes, and Frankfurt School theory to the problems of cities. These insights challenge urban scholars to produce new ways of thinking about urbanism and making cities readable.

Philosophical Streets: New Approaches to Urbanism (Urbs Et Orbi, Vol 1)

Dennis Crow

Social Sciences

Women's Voices on the Pacific: The International Pacific Policy Congress

Women for Mutual Security, Pacific Islands, et al

Lenora Foerstel

Women's Studies

Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film (Postmodern Positions)

Humor & Entertainment

Christopher Sharrett

Movies

Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Cinema (Postmodern Position)

The Myth of the Other: Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault, Bataille (Postmodern Positions)

Myth of the Other, The: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille (Postmodern Positions)

Franco Rella

History

This volume captures reflections of twelve years of visiting and thinking about Japan by a scholar from Canada who describes himself as fascinated latecomer and bricoleur. Japan gives the western writer the indispensable distance for see himself. But this is a book about Japan looked at from both the outside and the inside. The experience produces discoveries about both the west and the east.  Published in cooperation with the Inter-University Centre for Discourse Analysis and Sociocriticism of Texts, Montreal, Canada.

Lessons of Japan: Assayings of Some Intercultural Stances (PostModernPositions series)

Darko Suvin

"Church Clothes" provides a close look at the last days of official apartheid in South Africa and its transition to democracy and equal rights among the races. The narrative ends with the election of Nelson Mandela to the presidency of South Africa. But unlike other histories of this monumental period, Thomas Wilkinson's "Church Clothes" sets the historical events into a complex and fascinating sociological model derived from Christian missionary work and the relations of colonizing communities to land, especially the land-relations that were current in Europe at the time of the original Dutch migrants to South Africa. This model leads him to a much deeper understanding of the apartheid period and racism, itself, than is usually found.

Church Clothes: Or, Land, Mission, and the End of Apartheid in South Africa

Thomas Patrick Wilkinson

Africa

The real questions raised by George W. Bush s Operation Enduring Freedom is freedom for whom? And freedom at what costs? These costs have to include both material and human or cultural costs. This study shows that many peoples and nations of the world will have to endure war while Americans pursue freedom of markets and freedom to exploit natural resources. In what Attorney General John Ashcroft calls fantasies of lost liberties, the war on terror has eroded constitutional principles and democratic rights Americans once took for granted. 
 This book includes firsthand reporting from the front lines and refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It connects the war on terrorism to neoliberal globalism in a way that shows that the only enduring freedom likely to emerge from this war is a greater freedom for western corporations to exploit the people and natural resources of the developing world. It places the current war in the context of long-standing U.S. military and foreign policies that are now being directed at Central Asia and the natural resources (oil) located there. Finally, this book presents an analysis of so-called Islamic fundamentalism that is based on statements by Muslims themselves and not the self-interested scare stories of books and journalism written by propagandists for the Bush regime. 
 The Appendix includes an indispensable collection of important Bush Administration policy statement and speeches along with their precedents in the neo-con movement. Included are excerpts from the 1993 Defense Strategy for the 1990s written by then Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney and his assistant, Paul Wolfowitz. And Bush s 2002 National Security Strategy of the US. These are essential for anyone seeking to understand this war, which we are told, will last for several generations.

Enduring Freedom Or Enduring War?: Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century

Carl Mirra

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