Tag: Difference

Free Download Ovidiu Anemtoaicei, "Male Bodies and Sexual Difference"
English | ISBN: 1527505405 | 2018 | 260 pages | PDF | 998 KB
This book addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicit feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others. Whereas the majority of works in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities draw predominantly on gender and queer theories, this book works from within the sexual difference theory as developed by feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray. As such, it proposes a conceptual sketch for a different understanding of the complex relationships between male bodies, men and masculinities, making use of Gilles Deleuzes radical notion of critique and arguing, at the same time, for a post-Deleuzean concept of becoming-man from the philosophy of sexual difference perspective. The book represents a contribution to the interpretations of Luce Irigarays rich work, as well as to the fields of masculinities studies and feminist philosophy, and it is written primarily for scholars and students in cultural studies, women and gender studies, sexuality studies, and philosophy.

Free Download Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka "
English | ISBN: 0231205295 | 2023 | 336 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the final stages of civil war, spurred nationalist anxieties, moral panics, and even episodes of violence by Buddhists against Christians suspected of facilitating "unethical" conversions.

Free Download Chloé Deambrogio, "Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court "
English | ISBN: 1503630323 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts’ assessments of defendants’ mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors’ interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.

Free Download Jennifer Yusin, "A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference"
English | ISBN: 1032431652 | 2023 | 104 pages | EPUB, PDF | 699 KB + 4 MB
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyzes the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterized by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.

Free Download Saber Elaydi, "An Introduction to Difference Equations"
English | 2005 | pages: 547 | ISBN: 1441920013, 0387230599 | PDF | 4,5 mb
A must-read for mathematicians, scientists and engineers who want to understand difference equations and discrete dynamics

Free Download Difference is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society (Audiobook)
English | May 04, 2023 | ASIN: B0C2QGJZNQ | MP3@VBR kbps | 8h 48m | 172.78 MB
Author: Michael Handrick
Narrator: George Naylor
Raw and stunningly written, Handrick takes us on a journey through his experiences as a gay working-class man, confronting the toxic narratives and myths that society has built up around masculinity, class, and sexuality.

Free Download What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray edited by Mary C. Rawlinson, James Sares
English | June 6, 2023 | ISBN: 0231202725, 0231202733 | True EPUB | 472 pages | 29.6 MB
Luce Irigaray has written that "sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age." Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how sexual difference structures being and subjectivity, organizes our experience of the world, and affects the images and discourses involved in knowledge production and practical action. No other philosopher has paid such careful attention to the consequences of the elision of sexual difference in philosophical thought. However, at a time when notions of sexual and gender difference are hotly contested, Irigaray’s thought has often been dismissed as essentialist or reductively binary.

Free Download Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women’s Writing By Richa Dwor
2015 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1472589793 | PDF | 2 MB
Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women’s theological expression.For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable differences in style and outlook, Aguilar and Levy are shown to deploy Jewish feeling in their ethics of futurity, resistance to conversion and closure, and in their foregrounding of a model of reading with feeling.

Free Download Making a Difference; Careers in Health Informatics
by Rebecca Meehan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103202903X | 204 pages | True PDF | 13.12 MB

Free Download Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, "Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference (Traces 4)"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 9622097731, 962209774X | PDF | pages: 359 | 65.2 mb
Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, the fourth book in the Traces series, focuses on the problems of translation and the political dynamics surrounding multiplicity ― linguistic, regional, transnational, and civilizational ― today. The international group of authors deal, both theoretically and empirically, with the historical obstacles and future opportunities offered by an emerging global order that is still struggling with the legacy of the previous four centuries of Eurocentric capitalist development. The authors amply illustrate that the concept of translation is far from being singularly determined, and how extremely difficult it is for philosophy to be distinct from translation. Here translation is regarded as a general concept, by which the Eurocentric framework implicit in the existent academic practices of comparison is problematized and according to which old questions are transformed into new ones and articulated to one another across disciplinary boundaries and regional or national borders. This book shows how the emerging global order might be viewed once we have been liberated from the Eurocentric perspective; it includes sociological inquiries into the system of international security networks and an analysis of the consequences of the transformation of the nation-state; it deals with the foundation of international law and its unalienable connection to modern colonial violence, and the foundational complicity between modern sovereignty and biopolitics. On an empirical note, the essays in this major volume deal with the various practices of translation in multiple locales, the belated constitution of anthropological language, philosophical discussion on translation, and the sexual aspects of translational politics. The relations between economics, ontology, and politics together form the crossroads at which the authors in this volume meet. As such, the volume will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience of readers in the Humanities concerned with the intersections among politics, economy, philosophy, postcoloniality, and translation studies, and would above all attract interest from the emerging readership in biopolitics (under the field of comparative literature). Contributors Serena ANDERLINI-D’ONOFRIO, Jacques BIDET, Didier BIGO, Brian HOLMES, Yoshihiko ICHIDA, François LARUELLE, Takaaki MORINAKA, Yann MOULIER BOUTANG, Jean-Luc NANCY, Brett NEILSON, Frédéric NEYRAT, Osamu NISHITANI, Sathya RAO, Tobias WARNER, Hiroaki YAMADA, Ichida YOSHIHIKO