NP new books of interest

[pynchonoid]

new books related to some recent Pynchon-L threads:


Title: Johnson, Samuel: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Thoemmes Press

Distributed for the Thoemmes Press    Arguably one of
the three main
thinkers of pre-independence America,  Samuel Johnson
was the chief
exponent of Berkeley's idealism and the  first
president of the
religious college that later became Columbia 
University. Containing
his autobiography and correspondence with other 
important figures of
the period, his philosophical and clerical works,  and
a history of
Columbia University, these volumes also contain a 
bibliography and
index. 

For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15411.ctl


Title: Rastier, Francois: Semantics for Descriptions
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and
Information

Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language
and Information   
Text description presents many conceptual  problems:
texts, as cultural
objects, cannot be interpreted without  descriptions
of genre,
communicative conditions, and language, which 
positivist approaches
have proved unable to provide. Rastier argues  that
rational
hermeneutics can offer better  descriptive methods by
allowing the
theoretical and practical  conditions of text
interpretation to be
defined. 

For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14721.ctl


Title: Enders, Jody: Death by Drama and Other Medieval
Urban Legends
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Medieval France may not have had tales of alligators
in sewers, but it
did have its own urban legends, 14 of  which are
retold and
insightfully interpreted in this  new study. Was a
convicted criminal
executed on stage  during a beheading scene? Was an
unfortunate actor
driven insane while  playing a madman? Did a
theatrical enactment of a
crucifixion result  in a real one? Did an androgynous
young man seduce
a priest when  portraying a female saint?   

For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15260.ctl


Title: Etlin, Richard A.: Art, Culture, and Media
Under the Third Reich
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich explores
the ways  in
which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their
country as a 
champion of Kultur and civilization. Rather than
focusing  strictly on
the role of the arts in state-supported propaganda as 
other studies
do, this volume reveals how multiple domains of
cultural  activity
served to conceptually dehumanize Jews and other
groups,  sowing the
psychological seeds for the Holocaust to come. 

For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15374.ctl




Even Mr. T might find these interesting:

Title: Dewey, John: John Dewey and American Education
Publisher: Thoemmes Press

Distributed for the Thoemmes Press    Dewey had a huge
influence on the
theory and practice of education in  America, one that
continues to be
felt today. He believed that schools  should change
from places where
children's heads were stuffed with  facts to
environments where
children were encouraged to think for  themselves.
Reprinted here are
three of his most important books on  education, along
with a selection
of reviews from contemporary  journals. 



For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15409.ctl


Title: Jackson, John P.: Science, Race, and Ethnicity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Recent scholarship has argued that "race" is a fairly
recent concept  in
Western thought and arose concurrently with modern
science. Yet, in 
recent decades, science has been a powerful tool
employed against 
racialist thinking. How is it that science has been a
factor for both 
the rise of racialist thinking and its demise? This
volume of essays
demonstrates  that race and political and social
ideologies have
interacted in  complex and unexpected ways. 

For more information, see the book synopsis at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15379.ctl




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