http://thehumanities.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:11:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is true translation impossible? From the Poetry Foundation: Ilya Kaminsky and Adam Kirsch... ADAM KIRSCH: First of all, let me say congratulations on The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. It’s a moving and impressive book, and I hope you’ll be able to talk a bit about how you edited it—there are so ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/18/various-tongues-an-exchange/ Op-Ed by Alain Badiou at Infinite Thought.... For almost thirty years, the present, in our country, has been a disoriented time. I mean a time that does not offer its youth, especially the youth of the popular classes, any principle to orient existence. What is the precise character of this disorientation? ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/16/the-courage-of-the-present/ The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 12 , of The International Journal of the Humanities includes: The Politics of International Education by Melville Miranda. Permitting Beauty in Architectural Education by Ehud Belferman and Iris Aravot. The Importance of Non-Government Organizations in the ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/15/humanities-journal-volume-7-number-12/ From n+1 magazine: To read the 1,802 pages of the Swedish crime novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is to be told that, for all their perceived virtue, the institutions of social democracy are a farce. In Larsson's books, American readers will find the Sweden they expect: the welfare-state comforts, Volvo security, ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/08/the-man-who-blew-up-the-welfare-state/ From It's Nice That: Feminist Press is an independent nonprofit publisher based in New York. Founded in 1970, they have a wide variety of material that ranges from fiction to feminist theory. Promoting freedom of expression and social justice, they now own a great collection of books from around the world ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/05/feminist-press/ The final issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published. Volume 7, Number 12 includes: A Socialist Feminist Reading of Doris Lessing’s the Grass is Singing by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya and Pedram Lalbakhsh. Cultural Identity Past ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/05/humanities-journal-volume-7-number-complete/ Reclaim Your Self: The Complexity of Identity by Andrew Malionek is now available from The Humanities imprint. Socrates once asked the simple question - "Who am I?" For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, scientists and psychologists have contemplated the answer to this question. In a modern world filled with distractions, ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/02/16/reclaim-your-self-the-complexity-of-identity/ The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 11, of The International Journal of the Humanities includes: The Cinematic Transformation in Post-Socialist China: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower by Lunpeng Ma. Is History Just a Collection of Biographies? Notes from a Military Historical Database by William Acres. Adolescents’ Perceptions about Coping ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/02/03/latest-humanities-journal-papers/ By Daniyal Mueenuddin From The Washington Post... Because of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Rohinton Mistry, to mention just a few of the most prominent authors, American readers have long been able to enjoy one terrific Indian novel after another. But Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/29/michael-dirda-on-in-other-rooms-other-wonders/ The eleventh issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published. Volume 7, Number 11 includes: The Estrangement of Community in Between the Acts: A Play Embedded in a Novel by Nicole Tabor. Embodied Knowledge and Platonic Epistemology by Dwayne Moore. Artist and Designer Statements by Lisa Graham. Unvisibility Undone: ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/27/humanities-journal-volume-7-number-11-available/