Ghosts of self and state

John Cale’s enigmatic masterpiece,Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever.It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil cri...

This book examines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world that, rather than explicitly referencing recent politic...

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fictionexamines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In ...

Feeling Good by Doing Good: A Guide to Authentic Self-Esteem presents a new evidence-based approach to defining, understanding, and increasing self-esteem. The book translates deca...

Abstract Self is central to our ordinary understanding of the mind and ourselves. The fifth-century Abhidharma Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu presents a radical no-...

Italian-Argentine artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) can be seen as the original artist-celebrity; her self-mythologization was promulgated by some of the 20th century’s most prominent...

Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America’s richest men and the largest single shareh...

Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free of domination. The self’s embodiments are the...