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Cortez, Marc. Embodied souls, ensouled bodies: An exercise in Christological anthropology and its significance for the mind/body debate. T & T Clark, 2008.

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Bishop, Tom, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds. Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723251.

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This collection of essays brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to roleplaying to videogames—to uncover their fascinating ramifications for the stage in Shakespeare’s era and our own. Foregrounding ludic elements challenges the traditional view of drama as principally mimesis, or imitation, revealing stageplays to be improvisat

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Pashencev, Dmitriy, Aleksandra Dorskaya, and Maksim Zaloilo. The concept of a digital state and a digital legal environment. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1288140.

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The development of digital technologies, large-scale digitalization that has covered all advanced countries, the entry of states into the era of the sixth technological order lead to significant changes in the state itself, its structure and functions. The monograph reveals the fundamental transformations of the modern state under the influence of the digital and technological vector of its development. Special attention is paid to qualitative technological changes in the main areas of state activity, the processes of creating legal norms (law-making) and their practical implementation (

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Embodied souls, ensouled bodies: An exercise in Christological anthropology and its significance for the mind/body debate. T & T Clark, 2008.

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Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies: An Exercise in Christological Anthropology and Its Significance for the Mind/Body Debate. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2011.

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Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies: An Exercise in Christological Anthropology and Its Significance for the Mind/Body Debate. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008.

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Cortez, Marc. Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies: An Exercise in Christological Anthropology and Its Significance for the Mind/Body Debate. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2011.

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Schmitz, Hans Peter. Transnational Human Rights Networks: Significance and Challenges. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.354.

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Transnational human rights networks refer to a form of cross-border collective action that seeks to promote compliance with universally accepted norms. Principled transnational activism began to draw sustained scholarly attention after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the creation of a new type of information-driven and impartial transnational activism, embodied in organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Scholarship on transnational human rights networks emerged during the 1990s within the subfield of International Relations and

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Cappuccio, Massimiliano L., ed. Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology. The MIT Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10764.001.0001.

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The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists that considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. With twenty-six chapters by leading researchers, the book connects and integrates findings from fields that range from philosophy of mind to sociology of sports. The chapters show not only that sports

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Sandberg, Julianne. Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350452923.

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Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th century England had very material and embodied consequences. To apprehend the nature of Christ’s body—its nature, presence, closeness, and efficacy—for these writers, was also to understand one’s own. And conversely, to know one’s own body was to know something particular about Christ’s. Sandberg provides new insights into how Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer

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Kuepers, Wendelin. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, and Robin Holt. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669356.013.0026.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology highlights the bodily, embodied dimensions and forms of non- or post-representational knowing for understanding organizational phenomena and realties as processes. In addition, it focuses on a re-embodied organization and a corresponding sense-based organizational practice. This chapter first considers Merleau-Ponty’s biography and intellectual life before discussing the significance of his ideas for process philosophy as well as organizational theory and practice. In particular, it examines some key concepts such as the living body and dynamic embodiment

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Page, Tara. Placemaking. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428774.001.0001.

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‘Where are you from?’ This question often refers to someone’s birthplace, childhood home or a place that holds significance. The location that is offered in response to this question is more than a means of orientation; it is a lived place that has complex meanings that identify and are learned. The significance of place and belonging to our lives is often overlooked, yet it is key to understanding who we are, both individually and collectively. Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page enables us to learn and understand how our wa

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Dolezal, Luna. Body and Shame. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978732018.

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The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others within a rule and norm governed milieu. As such, it bridges our personal, individual and embodied experience with the social, cultural and political world that contains us. Luna Dolezal argues that understanding body shame can shed light on how the social is embodied, that is, how the body—experienc

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Hu, Ming. Embodied Carbon. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198944461.001.0001.

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Abstract This book provides a thorough exploration of embodied carbon issues, focusing on the inequities between the Global North and South. It argues that the greatest obstacles to effective global cooperation on embodied carbon policies are persistent global inequality, ongoing development needs in the South, and imbalanced responsibility for carbon emissions. The book challenges the conventional emphasis on operational carbon, highlighting the significant impact of embodied carbon—greenhouse gas emissions from the production, transportation, and assembly of building materials. Part I traces

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Furtak, Rick Anthony. What the Empirical Evidence Suggests. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492045.003.0002.

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Now that the study of emotions has emerged as a thriving field of interdisciplinary research, social psychology and neuroscience have been sources of evidence informing theoretical accounts. One issue is whether emotion and cognition are discrete and emotions thus noncognitive responses. Many philosophers have argued that emotions are independent of “higher” cognition, based upon some neuroscientific findings. Yet they have been too hasty in appropriating indefinite evidence to justify sweeping conclusions: a closer look shows that empirical research does not justify their views. Social psycho

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Furtak, Rick Anthony. Emotions as Felt Recognitions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492045.003.0004.

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Through our emotions we discern what has meaning or significance for us, and our capacity for affective apprehension is embodied in specific ways. To become passionately agitated, in one way or another, is to have one’s attention drawn to something that is experienced as axiologically prominent, and to be moved to respond accordingly. Moreover, the phenomenal character of emotion is intimately linked with what it reveals: to be frightened is thus to have an experience in which an apparent danger is recognized in a compelling manner. Likewise, it is by way of the visceral feelings of being agit

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Simecek, Karen. Philosophy of Lyric Voice. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350240551.

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Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen Simecek argues that it is only by considering them side by side that the unique cognitive value of each can be realised. Focusing on spoken word poetry reveals the importance of voice and embodied words to the differing epistemic rewards of engaging with contemporary works of poetry in both private reading and live performance. This concept of embodied voice progresses a new line of thinking in the cognitivism debate and unlocks the philosophical value of engaging with poetry. Simec

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Belser, Julia Watts. Sex in the Shadow of Rome. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the theological significance of sexual violence in the aftermath of Roman conquest. Rabbinic accounts of sexual violence, enslavement, and forced prostitution intertwine theological lament with the brutal body costs of Roman domination. Talmudic narratives mimic pervasive Roman symbolism of imperial dominance as a form of “sexual conquest,” using that symbolism to express rabbinic lament to articulate rabbinic resistance to imperial violence. In contrast to the biblical motif of women’s whoredom as provoking divine punishment, the rabbinic narratives instead position God

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Arrien, Sophie-Jan, and Beatriz Contreras Tasso, eds. From Vulnerability to Promise. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748675.

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From the outset, Paul Ricœur’s work gives centrality to man's bodily and sensitive nature—his primordial affectivity and fragility—as sources of free action. From Vulnerability to Promise: Perspectives on Ricœur from Women Philosophers explores this dimension and its ethical, political, and conceptual implications, focusing on the embodied dimension of existence, its vulnerability, and its possibilities of attestation and recognition. Edited by Sophie-Jan Arrien and Beatriz Contreras, this book examines the relationships—passivity and activity, mind and body, singularity and sociality, finitud

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Byers, Mark. Maximus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813255.003.0008.

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This concluding chapter charts the continuing significance of the early postwar moment in Olson’s later work, particularly The Maximus Poems. The philosophical and political concerns of the American avant-garde between 1946 and 1951 play out across The Maximus Poems just as they inform later American art practices. The search of the early postwar American independent left for a source of political action rooted in the embodied individual is seen, on the one hand, to have been personified in the figure of Maximus. At the same time, Maximus’s radical ‘practice of the self’ charts a sophisticated

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Bishop, Tom, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds. Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9789048553525.

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This collection of essays brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team of distinguished scholars examines a wide range of games—from dicing to bowling to roleplaying to videogames—to uncover their fascinating ramifications for the stage in Shakespeare's era and our own. Foregrounding ludic elements challenges the traditional view of drama as principally mimesis, or imitation, revealing stageplays to be improvisat

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Guild, Elizabeth. Montaigne on Love. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.36.

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Montaigne is often celebrated as an analyst of embodied selves and their uncivilized and civilizing ways; this article focuses on the significance of emotion, specifically love, as much as embodiment, in the distinctive relationships in Montaigne’s writing between knowledge and understanding and between ethics and epistemology. He gives more weight to ancient sources, such as Plato and Aristotle, than to influential Renaissance discourses, such as Neoplatonism; but his understanding of the connections between loving, being loved, knowledge, self-knowledge, and living well seems to have been de

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Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0031.

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Of all the Atlantic revolutions, the fifteen-year struggle that transformed French Saint-Domingue into independent Haiti produced the greatest degree of social and economic change, and most fully embodied the contemporary pursuit of freedom, equality, and independence. Between 1789 and 1804, the Haitian Revolution unfolded as a succession of major precedents: the winning of colonial representation in a metropolitan assembly, the ending of racial discrimination, the first abolition of slavery in an important slave society, and the creation of Latin America's first independent state. Beginning a

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Barzel, Tamar. “We Began from Silence”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842741.003.0010.

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In the late 1970s, the Mexican ensemble Atrás del Cosmos, a pioneering free improvisation collective (1975–1983), held an eight-month residency at El Galeón, a city theater. Jazz and experimental theater were twin touchstones for the ensemble, which adapted ideas borrowed from Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean expatriate known for his radical influence on the city’s 1960s theater scene, including the notion that theatrical performance should shatter social decorum and elicit liberating ways of being-in-the-world. For Atrás del Cosmos, art’s transformative potential also lay in articulating a per

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Esposito, Matthew D., and James A. Garza, eds. New Directions in Transnational Mexican History. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978723214.

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New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage is the first collection by historians to examine foreign immigration to Mexico as a way to interpret the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. The contributors analyze Mexico as a recipient nation, broadening the application of transnationalism to encompass not only foreign migrants but Mexican figures like Francisco Madero who were deeply influenced by transnational experiences. This book explore the roles of Spanish entrepreneurs, U.S. consuls, American and Mexican medical professionals, trans

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LaBelle, Brandon. Lexicon of the Mouth. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501382802.

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Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper speech." Lexicon of the Mouth aims for a viscous, poetic and resonant discourse of subjectivity, detailed through the "micro-oralities" of laughing and whispering, stuttering and reciting, eating and kissing, among others.

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Inkpin, Andrew. Disclosing the World. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262033916.001.0001.

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This book examines the disclosive function of language—what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. It takes a phenomenological approach to this question, defined by the need to accord with the various experiences speakers can have of language. Based on this commitment, it develops a phenomenological conception of language with important implications for both the philosophy of language and recent work in the embodied-embedded-enactive-extended (4e) tradition of cognitive science. The book draws extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Ludwig Wittgenst

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Brummitt, Jamie L. Protestant Relics in Early America. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197669716.001.0001.

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Abstract Protestant Relics in Early America upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. It chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered on collecting the supernatural memory objects of their dead Christian leaders, family members, and friends from the 1740s to 1860s. These objects materialized the real physical presences God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and souls of the dead on earth. American Protestants of nearly all denominations and all walks of life—including members of Congress, college presidents, ministers,

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Farah, Leila Marie, and Samantha L. Martin, eds. Mobs and Microbes. Leuven University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664952.

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Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the public health concerns they faced, as well as the social commotion, mobilization and, at times, unrest they hosted. This edited volume reappraises the market hall, examining both its architectural and its social and political significance. Focusing on how these buildings embodied transformations in architecture and urbanism from the mid-nineteenth century until the age of COVID-19, Mobs and Microbes situates market halls at the intersection

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Smalls, Krystal A. Telling Blackness. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197697573.001.0001.

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Abstract Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it. With this introduction of raciosemiotics, the author remaps the field of semiotic anthropology around the specificities of race and the body and remaps contemporary Black Diaspora through the embodied significations of a group of young Liberian women in the United States. This transdisciplinary ethnographic accoun

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Marušić, Berislav. On the Temporality of Emotions. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851165.001.0001.

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Abstract Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates, even though the injustice to which it responds remains undiminished. Nonetheless, such accommodation seems somehow all right: It would be a mistake to be persistently grieving or to be relentlessly angry. But how could it be all right, if the reasons for grief and anger remain significant? However, matters are different with love. Unlik

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Eikelboom, Lexi. Rhythm. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828839.001.0001.

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This book argues that, as a pervasive dimension of human existence with theological implications, rhythm ought to be considered a category of theological significance. Philosophers and theologians have drawn on rhythm—patterned movements of repetition and variation—to describe reality, however, the ways in which rhythm is used and understood differ based on a variety of metaphysical commitments with varying theological implications. This book brings those implications into the open, using resources from phenomenology, prosody, and the social sciences to analyse and evaluate uses of rhythm in m

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rosenshield, Gary. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978723238.

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Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 18

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Fox, Richard. More Than Words. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501725340.001.0001.

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Grounded in extensive ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery and self-defence, this book explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with

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Covington-Ward, Yolanda, and Jeanette S. Jouili, eds. Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013112.

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The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the dynamics of religious and racial identity among Brazilian Neo-Pentecostals; the significance of cloth coverings in Islamic practice in northern Nigeria; the ethics of socially engaged hip-hop lyrics by Black Muslim artists in Britain; ritual dance performances among Mama Tchamba devotees in Togo; and how I

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McLachlan KC, Campbell. The Principle of Systemic Integration in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192893741.001.0001.

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Abstract International law has greatly expanded in reach and density over the past few decades, and its fragmented and decentralized nature is causing anxiety among those who need to resolve legal dilemmas in a system that lacks vertical hierarchy. Although the principle of systemic integration is embodied in Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention 1969, its operation and significance has not been fully assessed. This book fills the research gap by analysing the manner in which the principle has been applied in the judicial decisions of international courts and tribunals, together with the p

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Davidson, Scott, ed. Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982480.

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Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating them in relation to Ricoeur’s early influences, including Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Rava

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Goff, Samuel. Soviet Spectatorship. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350411197.

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What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorshipanswers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ‘structures of looking’ — surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship — that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Close readings of understudied films such asHappy Finish(1934),The Laurels of Miss Ellen

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Zamir, Tzachi, ed. Shakespeare's Hamlet. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698515.001.0001.

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Hamlet has long been recognized as concerned with fundamental philosophical issues about identity, responsibility, intimacy, mourning, and agency. How is the play’s address to these issues structured by its distinctively powerful literary-dramatic form and language? What might philosophy have to learn from its mode of address? Is such learning affected by Hamlet being not merely literature, but literature designed to be embodied and voiced on a stage? And what light, in turn, might attention to philosophical themes cast on the play’s development and interest, in other words, does literary crit

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Deeg, Richard. Capitalisms: A Global System. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.377.

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The global political economy is a multilevel system of economic activities and regulation in which the domestic level continues to predominate—in other words, it is a global system comprising national capitalist economies. Nations differ in terms of the regulations and institutions that govern economic activity, an observation that is embodied in the so-called “varieties of capitalism” (VoC) literature. Contemporary VoC approaches highlight the significance of social and political institutions in shaping national economies, in stark contrast to neoclassical economics which generally ignores in

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Bolens, Guillemette. Kinesic Humor. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190930066.001.0001.

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Literature is one of the richest sources of information concerning the ways in which human beings are able to play with cognition. According to the theory of embodied cognition, human cognition is grounded in sensorimotricity, i.e., the ability to feel, perceive, and move. The pervading cognitive process called perceptual simulation, which is activated when we cognitively process a gesture in a real-life situation, is also recruited when we read about actions, movements, and gestures in texts. Kinesic Humor examines literary works written by major authors—including Chrétien de Troyes, Cervante

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Claxton, Susanne. Heidegger's Gods. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881812355.

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This highly original new book highlights the importance and significance of Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, the ways in which his views are commensurate with ecofeminism, and the insights that a study of that intersection provides for both the diagnoses of our world’s ills and possible curative prescriptions. Susanne Claxton defends the thesis that a proper return to myth and art as a means by which the transcendental realities that constitute the phenomenology of our embodied existence may be better understood is also the means by which we may come to truly dwell in the Heideggerian s

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Boggs, Colleen Glenney. Patriotism by Proxy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863670.001.0001.

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Patriotism by Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on a historic moment when the military transformed both. At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Paired with the Emancipation Proclamation, the draft inaugurated new relationships between the nation and its citizens. A massive bureaucratic undertaking, the draft redefined the American people as a population. Equitable as the system was in theory, the draft laid bare social divisions, as wealthy draftees could hire substi

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Duncan, Randy, and Matthew Smith, eds. Icons of the American Comic Book. Greenwood, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400668043.

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This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books—and the creators of these icons of our culture—reflect the American experience out of which they sprang, and how they have achieved relevance by adapting to, and perhaps influencing, the evolving American character. Multiple generations have thrilled to the exploits of the heroes and villains of American comic books. These imaginary characters permeate our culture—even Americans who have never read a comic book grasp what the most well-known examples represent. But these comic book characters, and their creators, do more tha

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Huei, Pang Yang. Strait Rituals. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888208302.001.0001.

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In Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States and in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958, this book argues that the Taiwan Strait Crises could be understood as an evolution towards tacit accommodation. Exploiting new materials from mainland China, Taiwan and the United States, a reevaluation of the international relations of all three parties via a simultaneous presentation of their disparate perspectives is made. At the heart of its argument, this book proposes that conflict resolution had become ritualized progressively as the protagonists implicitly constructed a framework of unde

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Gough, Kathleen M. Theatre and the Threshold of Death. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350385559.

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On the eve of a global pandemic, a theatre professor becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a “first” in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer, Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world, Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist and mystic, who Albert Camus called “the only great spirit of our time,” Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), “the grandmother of performance art,” and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first known (and belatedly acknowledged) abstract painter. Each time Gough crosses a thresho

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Salonia, Matteo. Genoa's Freedom. Published by Lexington Books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993288.

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This book investigates the economic, intellectual and political history of late medieval and early modern Genoa and the historical origins of the Genoese presence in the Spanish Atlantic. Salonia describes Genoa’s late medieval economic expansion and commercial networks through several case studies, from the Black Sea to southern England, and briefly compares it to the state-run military expansion of Venice’s empire. The author links the adaptability and entrepreneurial skills of Genoese merchants and businessmen to the constitutional history of the Genoese commune and to the specific idea of

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Dicecco, Nico. The Aura of Againness. Edited by Thomas Leitch. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.013.35.

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By examining the complexities of aura, authenticity, materiality, and reception in the context of adaptation studies, Chapter 35 argues against the idea that adaptations are a specific kind of text and in favor of the idea that adaptations are actively constituted as such through performance: through live and embodied acts of identification that have significant material consequences. Drawing on several foundational concepts in adaptation studies and performance theory, Chapter 35 articulates a reception model of adaptation that is relevant not only to theatrical adaptations but across media a

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Shepard, Ronnie Anthony, and Shir Lerman Ginzburg, eds. Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666992465.

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Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean takes a multilayered approach to the contemporary peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora. Central to this edited collection, and critical to its creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of gendered health, the embodiment of identity, societal structures, and social inequality, and the ways in which gender, health, and society intersect daily. By emphasizing the complex ways in which gender and health intersect in Latin America, the contributors t

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Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie. Between Fitness and Death. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043192.001.0001.

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This is the first book-length study of Caribbean slavery to make disability its primary focus. The book sets out to answer the following questions: How does colonialism—specifically slavery—challenge the way we think about histories of disability, race, and labor? In what ways might slavery and the expansion of the slave trade have transformed English understandings of supposedly defective bodies and minds in the metropole and colonies? How did disability, disfigurement, and deformity among the enslaved—whether transient, permanent, natural, or inflicted—influence English understandings of rac

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