In our fiction and poetry selections, explore the meanings of home: a mother whose house and privacy are invaded by a mysterious stranger; a nose that leaves its face to make its way in the world; Ursula K. Le Guin's poetic celebrations of the Pacific Northwest; and more. Browse anytime at semcoop.com...
On our Front Table this week, find reflections on scholarly and artistic method with a study of medieval Christian devotional objects that culminates in a critique of comparativism, a meditation on the temporal conditions of the creative process, and an exploration of the tensions between the emancipatory claims of scholarship and its implication in structures of domination. Browse anytime at...
On our Front Table this week, explore the relation of lives and letters with a history of the Chicago school of sociology, a memoir of a writer's childhood in East Berlin, an account of a philosopher's engagement with literature, and a new biography of a long-overlooked Russian master. Browse anytime at ...
On this week's front table, explore the forces that drive historical change, including the impact of the internet on linguistic innovation, the interrelation of artistic avant-gardes with the development of counter-liberal feminisms, the vicissitudes of capitalist globalizaton, and the tensions in Frantz Fanon's view of revolutionary transformation. Browse anytime at ...
On this week's front table, encounter thought-provoking juxtapositions of scale: an astrophysicist grappling with personal loss; the global reception of intimate artistic works; a remote Tibetan community facing large-scale historical transformations; and more. Browse anytime at semcoop.com
Fiction and poetry selections from The Seminary Co-op, including a feminist reimagining of Ovid, the poetry of an imaginary Portuguese shepherd, and more. For more, browse anytime at semcoop.com
Be Holding is a love song to...
On this week's front table, experience travels through time and space: a people's history of Ellis Island; a 19th century Japanese woman's daring move to Edo; a study of English-French language exchange; a journalist's travels following the movements of forests; and more. Browse anytime at semcoop.com
On this week’s Front Table, explore histories that reverberate through our current moment: an analysis of Reagan-era transformations of the American right; lessons from the life of James Baldwin; the role of the potato in the development of capitalist food systems; and the scholarly impact and historical decline of the polymath. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week's front table, reexaminations of films by Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock, family letters from a prominent philosopher, myriad political...
On this week’s Front Table, we take a dazzling look into the role of race in art circulation, read the posthumous letters from an esteemed French philosopher, investigate the nature of U.S. Islamophobia, and delve into the world of artistic possibility. For more, browse anytime at semcoop.com
Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion (Yale University Press)
Barbara H. Rosenwein
Barbara H. Rosenwein traces our many conflicting ideas about and expressions of anger, taking the story from the Buddha to our own time, from...