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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

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The North the South and the Environment

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors examine the implications of development in both northern and southern hemispheres and the extreme differences between rich and poor nations in the distribution of income resource use and consumption. Using extensive case studies from WIDER-sponsored research the text explores the limits and consequences of further development. | The North the South and the Environment

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Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have come together to portray livelihoods and lives half full and half empty. After a broad conceptual framework about fish fishery and fishing livelihoods this book has explicitly focused on the lake's ecosystem in Odisha and sustainability in fishing communities. The voices of the fishers have lent credence to the socio-cultural belief systems right of commons and disputes over conservation at individual and community levels. The volatility over the common user rights is underscored by lack of protection to the locals absence of guiding principles and powerful usurpers. The disruption of livelihoods through insufficient economic support is underlined by the lack of viable equitable and regulated credit structures in the region. Issues of mechanization ecological hazards adverse impact of climate change and environmental degradation are explained through their own bearing on bionomic and traditional livelihood disruptions and in-situ footprints on common property resources. In the final countdown the sustained coexistence of Chilika lake and its varied community is narrated through an integrated socio-economic lens that accommodates extant challenges into its field of vision. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

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We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1 750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work while never denying economic motivation as a factor also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians political scientists economists and American studies specialists. | We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

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Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect from exploitations of the agro-sector and the food industry to the Public Health management the novel therapeutic/treatment approaches the new age of space deep-sea and subterranean explorations and the interface with the cyber world and the massive or small-scale projection of violence. It has been present since ancient times tacitly and discreetly but only recently took its present guise the different aspects of which are explored in this book. | Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

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The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved British politicians Irish politicians policemen arms smugglers and others committed or opposed to the IRA explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade The Nature of the Long War 1979-1980; Unconventional Conflict The Hunger Strikes January 1980-October 3 1981; The Protracted Struggle September 1981-January 1984; War Politics and the Split January 1984-December 1986; The Troubles as Institution 1987-1990: and The Armed Struggle Transformed 1991-1996 The End Game. In his new introduction Bell reflects on his decades of research the experiences he has had and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland. | The Secret Army The IRA

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The Treason of the Intellectuals

The Treason of the Intellectuals

Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The treason of the intellectuals is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball. From the time of the pre-Socratics intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a universal humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society. According to Benda this all began to change in the early twentieth century. In Europe in the 1920s intellectuals began abandoning their attachment to traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals and instead glorified particularisms and moral relativism. The treason of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation ushering the world into the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds. From the savage flowering of ethnic and religious hatreds in the Middle East and throughout Europe today to the mendacious demand for political correctness and multiculturalism on college campuses everywhere in the West the treason of the intellectuals continues to play out its unedifying drama.

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The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University is a lucid comprehensive analysis of the rationale principles and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a radical reconstruction based on a social contract that would place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students. The book concludes with a series of practical proposals for Utopian reform including such provocative recommendations as a variable-length ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of the Ph. D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition Wolff expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing upon Freud and Marcuse Wolff proposes that literature art and philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social economic and political progress. Elegantly written and passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential reading for educators and sociologists.

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The Willowbrook Wars Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community

The Willowbrook Wars Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community

The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5 400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree with the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented assignment in six years. From 1975 to 1982 David and Sheila Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of mental disabilities care. Would the state live up to its agreement without dumping residents into other nightmarish institutions? Would the lawyers prove as interested in meeting client needs as in securing client rights? Could a tradition-bound bureaucracy create a new network of community services? And finally would a governor and a legislature tolerate such outside intervention and if so for how long? In answering these questions The Willowbrook Wars takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary the fate of the underprivileged and the potential for social justice. In their new afterword the authors bring the story up to date describing the results of the closing of the institution in 1987 from the experiences of integrating the former residents into communities to the legal battles between the state of New York and advocates for the mentally handicapped. | The Willowbrook Wars Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community

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The Arab Spring The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings

The Arab Spring The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings

Beginning in late 2010 peaceful protests against entrenched regimes unexpectedly erupted in a number of Arab countries causing political upheaval across the region. Through contributions from noted scholars The Arab Spring provides a comprehensive overview of the causes key issues and aftermath of these events. Divided into two parts the book first examines the Arab countries most dramatically impacted by the uprisings as well as why some of their Arab neighbors avoided large-scale protests. The second part explores other countries inside and outside the region-that have a stake and interest in the uprisings. The second edition includes a new chapter on Iraq and coverage of developments in the region since 2012 and how they have altered initial assessments of the Arab Spring's effects. New part introductions and a revised concluding chapter provide contextualization and comparative analyses of key themes and broader questions. This is an essential volume for students and scholars seeking the fullest understanding of how the Arab uprisings continue to impact the region and the world. | The Arab Spring The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings

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The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

Goethe once remarked that every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control. This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau Stendhal Goethe and Carlyle Dostoevsky Whitman Lawrence and Joyce Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. All these writers examined here in one way or another deal with the emancipation of the spirit with all its promise and danger. The characteristic attempt is to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety and. thereby risking even the destruction of the self. They advance the claims of the self at the same time seeking the controls that will secure these claims. The artist-hero becomes the central figure in Goodheart's volume since it is he who comes to exemplify the possibilities of the cult of the ego. Their efforts Goodheart argues have ambiguous results. The seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of egoism which they helped engender. But their heroism was partly in the effort of resistance: moral religious aesthetic. In a large portion of modern literature resistance has been abandoned either out of exhaustion or out of fascination with the destructive tendency of modern life: in Beckett's phrase a world endlessly collapsing. In his introduction to this first paperback edition Goodheart discusses the book's origin in relation to the counter-cultural unrest of 1968 when it was first published and weighs its theme of the emancipated self against current postmodern assertions of the death of the author. The Cult of the Ego is written with admirable clarity and economy. Its interests are literary moral and political. Moving freely and knowledgeably among various national literatures Goodheart has made an original and valuable contribution to the field of comparative literature. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. Among his books are Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction Modernism and the Critical Spirit Culture and the Radical Conscience and Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir all available from Transaction. | The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography. | The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

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The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud John Rickman and D. W. Winnicott but his contribution to psychoanalytic literature was a distinctive and personal one. What emerges from this book is the natural and private crystallization of his experiences with his patients and teachers. As he says in his preface: Psychoanalysis is an extremely private discipline of sensibility and skill. The practice of psychoanalysis multiplies this privacy into a specialized relationship between two persons who through the very nature of their exclusivity with each other change each other. The first thing I wish to say about my work reported in these papers is that my patients have helped me become and personalize my potential of thought affectivity and effort into a way of life that I find deeply satisfying.

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The Birth of the Clinic

The Birth of the Clinic

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault one of the most influential thinkers of recent times calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so he challenges our assumptions not only about history but also about the nature of language and reason even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style Foucault‘s penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again. | The Birth of the Clinic

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The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s

The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s

This concise and accessible book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. Amidst the political and religious disruptions of the Reformation and the Civil War sexual difference and gender were matters of public debate and private contention. Laura Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux through sources ranging from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640 to the dreams of Archbishop Laud and a grandmother describing the first time her grandson wore breeches. Examining gender relations in the contexts of the body the house the neighbourhood and the political world this comprehensive study analyses the tides of change and the power of custom in a pre-modern world. This book offers: Previously unpublished documents by women and men from all levels of society ranging from private letters to court cases A critical examination of a new field reflecting original research and the most recent scholarship In-depth analysis of historical evidence allowing the reader to reconstruct the hidden histories of women Also including a chronology who‘s who of key figures guide to further reading and a full-colour plate section Gender Relations in Early Modern England is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels providing a diverse range of primary sources and the tools to unlock them. | The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s

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The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects – demographic social economic cultural and religious – can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European or better still global system of Jewish communities and populations; and that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues as ghettoization antisemitism the Inquisition the history of conversion and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history early modern Italy early modern Jewish and Italian culture and early modern society. | The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

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The Modern Guise of the Good

The Modern Guise of the Good

This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars. One of the staple items of Western philosophy is the idea that we can only desire or pursue something under the guise of the good: if we see nothing good about it we cannot want it. After enjoying its heydays in ancient and medieval philosophy this idea nowadays labelled “the guise of the good” might seem at first glance to recede into relative obscurity in the early modern and later periods. The contributions to this volume prove that this is not so. Each of the eight chapters shows how the guise of the good was understood revised sometimes defended sometimes attacked by philosophers such as Hobbes Spinoza Locke Leibniz Hume Kant J. S. Mill and Sidgwick. In some cases the volume features the first-ever dedicated treatment of an author’s take on the guise of the good. In other cases it offers exciting new perspectives on ongoing scholarly debates. Given the recent resurgence of interest in the guise of the good as a topic of contemporary discussion The Modern Guise of the Good will appeal not only to historians of philosophy but also to philosophers working at the intersection of ethics and philosophy of mind and action. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.

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The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem Fifth Edition is packed with scientific information about the greater Everglades ecosystem taking into account how drastically the Everglades has changed. The book covers disciplines ranging from ecology geology climatology hydrology simplified biogeochemistry and anthropology to conservation biology. The fifth edition of this bestselling guide presents expanded treatment of subjects where our knowledge of the Everglades and its restoration has greatly improved as well as updates throughout. This more detailed coverage includes a new chapter ‘Everglades Chemistry – A Primer’ and an expanded section on the role of human intervention in Everglades restoration as well as numerous new graphics that bring the science to life. Written in Tom Lodge’s trademark accessible style combined with the expertise of new coauthor Stephen E. Davis III Chief Science Officer with the Everglades Foundation this extensively researched text is essential reading for anybody trying to understand the challenges we face in restoring this unique ecosystem. | The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class

In The Theory of the Leisure Class his first and best-known work Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and with devastating wit and satire exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste education dress and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of success is lavish expenditure conspicuous consumption is the famous term he invented to describe somethings that satisfies no real need but is a mark of prestige. The process Veblen describes continues today albeit in a more circuitous form. The Theory of the Leisure Class is part of an ongoing effort to make available the collected works of Veblen to a present-day audience of students and scholars.

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The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State

The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State

First published in 1987 The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism demonstrates the nature and role of cultural nationalism as a separate movement in the creation of modern nations. This is done through an intensive study of the modern Irish movements and in particular the Gaelic revival at the end of the nineteenth century which makes clear the importance of cultural nationalism as a vision and politics in its own right. The author by approaching his material as both historian and sociologist is able to illuminate the Irish case of nationalism by placing it in a broad comparative perspective showing how cultural nationalism has often provided those answers to the problems of nation building and the rediscovery of national identity that political nationalism failed to provide. This book will be of interest to all those in the social sciences and history who are concerned with problems of national identity the uses of history and culture in the creation of modern nations and the particular case of the development of nationalist movements in Ireland. | The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State

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The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The role of the military in a society raises a number of issues: How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in order to provide national security? Recently the dangers of military dictatorships-as have existed in countries like Panama Chile and Argentina-have become evident. However developing countries often lack the administrative ability and societal unity to keep the state functioning in an orderly and economically feasible manner without military intervention. Societies of course have dealt with the realities of these problems throughout their histories and the action they have taken at any particular point in time has depended on numerous factors. In the first world of democratic countries the civil-military relationship has been thoroughly integrated and indeed by most modern standards this is seen as essential. However several influential Western thinkers have developed theories arguing for the separation of the military from any political or social role. Samuel Huntington emphasized that professionalism would presuppose that the military should intervene as little as possible in the political sphere. Samuel E. Finer in contrast emphasizes that a government can be efficient enough way to keep the civil-military relationship in check ensuring that the need for intervention by the armed forces in society would be minimal. At the time of the book's original publication perhaps as a consequence of a post-World War II Cold War atmosphere this was by no means a universally accepted position. Some considered the military to be a legitimate threat to a free society. Today's post-Cold War environment is an appropriate time to reconsider Finer's classic argument. The Man on Horseback continues to be an important contribution to the study of the military's role in the realm of politics and will be of interest to students of political science government and the military. | The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

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The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives putting forward several traditions aspects and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face exploring its biological and social functions the concept of masks the impact of COVID-19 AI systems digital portraiture symbolic faces in films viral communication alien depictions personhood in video games online intimacy and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters post-productions digital cosmetics all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach. The volume will interest researchers scholars and advanced students who are interested in digital humanities communication studies semiotics visual studies visual anthropology cultural studies and broadly speaking innovative approaches about the meaning of the face in present-day digital societies. | The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

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