Philosophy

Quo Vadis Korea: The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation

Author: 

Azad, Shirzad

In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of Confucianism, but it is now very hard to even call the country a truly Confucian society. Following this argument, Quo Vadis Korea? explores critically how some five decades of breakneck industrialization and unbridled modernization could ineluctably change the nation so fundamentally that their repercussions now sharply negate many basic principles of Confucianism in one way to another.

Market: 
Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, Korea, South Korea, Korean Studies, International Relations, Political Participation, Modernization, Modernization Theory, Development, Development Economics, Confucianism, Eastern Philosophy
Release Date: 
May 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530315
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
211
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Chivalric Tradition in 21st Century Fantasy Literature: Lacanian and Saidian Other

Author: 

Simpson, Tuğçe Çankaya

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Middle East Technical University

Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary characters, exotic settings, battles between light and darkness, circular plot patterns, and anachronism all highlight a substantial common point between these genres.

Market: 
Western Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Edward Said, Jacques Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Myth, Fantasy, Medieval Studies, Post-Modern Studies, Epics, Romance Studies, Identity Studies, Subjectivity, Subject, Post-Colonial Theory, Sir Percival of Galles, Guy of Warwick, David Eddings
Release Date: 
June 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530322 Hardcover
Price: 
$79,95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
208
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Maxims

Author: 

Risden, Edward

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Purdue University. Author of SHAKESPEARE and The PROBLEM PLAY (2012)

Book Cover"Professor Risden (Saint Norbert's College, author of SHAKESPEARE AND THE PROBLEM PLAY) introduces the idea of and history of maxims, identifies maxims in Shakespeare's plays treating the plays in chronological order, and comments on how the maxims influence the plays in which they appear.

Market: 
English Literature: Shakespeare,life and works, Shakespearean Studies: cultural and political content of maxims, statements of wisdom, existential essence, English Drama 16th-17th century, Shakespearean narration, plot and character development, Staging Shakespeare, Intellectual influences of the Renaissance on Shakespeare and politics , Philosophy in Shakespearean context, Roman Catholic and Anglican elements in dramatic morality and ethics.
Release Date: 
April 23, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-012-4
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Lacan in Literature and Film: A Closer Look at the Formation of Subjectivity in Lacanian Epistemology

Author: 

Birlik, Nurten & Tuğçe Çankaya and Türkan Aydın

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds: Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Market: 
Lacan, Lacanian critiques of Film and Theatre, Epistemology, Subjectivity/Language Theory, Harold Pinter, Plays of Camus and Sartre, French Intellectual History 1945-2000, T.S. Eliot, Prufrockian notionality
Release Date: 
April 15th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-95-0
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
136
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

Assessment for Learning in Waldorf Classrooms: How Waldorf Teachers Measure Student Progress Toward Lifelong Learning Goals

Author: 

Ciborski, Sara and Ireland, Helen-Ann

Credentials: 

Dr. Ciborski: Ph.D SUNY Albany , Ms.Ireland: M.Ed, Antioch/NE Graduate Center

This research work is an account of the assessment methods of Waldorf elementary school teachers. It also offers a full discussion Waldorf programs for teacher education, teacher evaluation systems, and requirements for school accreditation—these are what the Waldorf community submits as assurance that Waldorf teachers’ classroom assessments are valid, fair, and reliable.

Market: 
Waldorf Schools, Elementary teaching assessments, student assessments and the developmental approach, Common Core issues, non-cognitive skill sets, curricula, Accountability
Release Date: 
April 10 2015
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-68053-000-1
Price: 
$39.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Nihilism and Society in the Age of Screen

Author: 

Liddelow , Eden

Credentials: 

PhD (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe) DALF(Paris), Author of AFTER ELECTRA: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction

“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

Market: 
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies/Theory, post-colonialism, popular culture, film history, TV as a phenomena, Philosophy, Anglo-American Literature, French Literature, Australian Literature, Society and Value in the 21st Century, Art
Release Date: 
March 17th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-62-2
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
346
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West: the Ethnography of a Social and Aesthetic Concept

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Chicago, Professor, D/English University of Minnesota. Author of CULTURES OF MEMORY (Bethesda, Academica Press, 2011)

The Life and Death of Privacy in the West consists of four chapters: Privacy and the Private, Public and Private, Invasions of Privacy: Surveillance and Voyeurism, and the Erosion of Privacy. The first chapter tries to locate this entity (“What is privacy and why does it belong to us?

Market: 
Concept of Privacy, Social and Public Theory of interaction, Privacy in Western Literature, Aesthetics of Privacy, Voyeurism, Surveillance, Decartes, Sarte, Lacan, Bourdieu, Habermas, Foucault, Deleuze, Narcissism and Celebrity in popular culture, Hawthorne on voyeurism
Release Date: 
12/15/2012
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-53-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

War and Peace in Africa: Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation

Author: 

Lutz, David W. ,Ph.D (Holy Cross College (USA) and The Catholic University of Eastern Africa) with Paul M. Shimiyu, George Ndemo Osengo and Opiyo A Oguta

Credentials: 

Editors are senior scholars and PhDs and conributors are Ph.Ds and MAs in East African /Central Africain Institutions.

This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa by Africans with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African and the locus of contributors includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. Some of the contributors, as well as the editors, have experienced war first hand and have played honorable roles in rebuilding or re-energizing intellectual communities in Africa that have been affected by atrocities, destruction and inter-tribal hatreds.

Market: 
African Studies, War and Africa, Moral Philosophy, Peace Studies [Africa], Terrorism and Violence in Civil Societies, Peace and Reconciliation, Theology (Catholic), Development Studies, East Africa, Justice and Community Studies, De-colonization and its aftermath
Release Date: 
February 15th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-09-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

Bakhtin and Interactivity: A Conceptual Investigation of Advertising Communication

Author: 

Karimova, Gulnara Z.

Credentials: 

Ph.D D/Communication, Eastern Mediterranean University; Lecturer, Malaysian Univerity of Science and Technology

Dr. Karimova addresses current issues within the theory of interactivity. Such problems as defining interactivity and measuring level of interactivity have recently attracted a great interest among researchers. In spite of attempts of previous research to solve these problems, the field has not moved far from its preliminary phase. This book is an attempt to move away from this preliminary phase by applying Bakhtinian concepts of ‘dialogic relationships,’ ‘polyphony,’ ‘carnival,’ and ‘chronotope’.

Market: 
Communication and Media Studies, Social Sciences, Michael Bahktin theory/philosophy, Marketing, Cybernetics , Print Advertising & Product Branding
Release Date: 
July 15 2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-46-2
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Cultures of Memory: Memory Culture, Memory Crisis and the Age of Amnesia

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Chicago, Professor, D/English University of Minnesota

“There is,to my knowledge, no work in English that covers the field historically and across disciplines as this one does. It gives researchers in many disciplines the full picture of the range of memory studies and once more shows us the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.”
Ray Hanna, North American Book Reviews

Market: 
Memory Studies, Cultural Amnesia, Literary Studies, Neurosciences, cognitive development, Interdisciplinary Studies, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Genre Literature
Release Date: 
07/08/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-22-6
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
146
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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