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Review Of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors In Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour And The Birth Of The American Empire, Andrew Morris
Review Of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors In Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour And The Birth Of The American Empire, Andrew Morris
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"Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me": Subtextual And Textual Representations Of Erotic Power In The Buffyverse, Lewis Call
"Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me": Subtextual And Textual Representations Of Erotic Power In The Buffyverse, Lewis Call
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"The Wondrous Death": Erotic Power In The Science Fiction Of James Tiptree, Jr., Lewis Call
"The Wondrous Death": Erotic Power In The Science Fiction Of James Tiptree, Jr., Lewis Call
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James Tiptree, Jr., is surely one of the most controversial figures in the sf field, a field that is rife with controversy. The controversy surrounding Tiptree begins with the very question of his identity. In his introductions to Tiptree's 1975 short-story collection Warm Worlds and Otherwise, sf author and critic Robert Silverberg asked the questions that were on the minds of many in the sf community: "Who is Tiptree? What Is He?" Silverberg infamously concluded that "there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing" (xii). But during the winter of 1976-77, the sf world learned that "James …
A Brief History Of Anarchist Studies (So Far), Lewis Call
A Brief History Of Anarchist Studies (So Far), Lewis Call
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For the past fifteen years, AS has been many things: innovative, insightful, provocative, occasionally outrageous - but never boring! AK Press has called Anarchist Studies 'the premier scholarly journal on anarchism ... erudite, and informed.'l AS provokes strong feelings, pro and con - surely a sign of success for any anarchist publication Reviewing the AS archive, one is struck by the remarkable consistency of what we may perhaps call the Anarchist Studies project. Since its inception, the journal has consistently attempted to broaden the scope of anarchist discourse by introducing themes, topics, perspectives and methodologies which have not traditionally …
Illuminating Evil: Hannah Arendt And Moral History, George Cotkin
Illuminating Evil: Hannah Arendt And Moral History, George Cotkin
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Hannah Arendt’s well-known examinations of the problem of evil are not contradictory and they are central to her corpus. Evil can be banal in some cases (Adolf Eichmann) and radical (the phenomenon of totalitarianism) in others. But behind all expressions of evil, in Arendt’s formulations, is the imperative that it be confronted by thinking subjects and thoroughly historicized. This led her away from a view of evil as radical to one of evil as banal. Arendt’s ruminations on evil are illuminated, in part, by concerns that she shared with her fellow New York intellectuals about the withering effects of mass …