New Dangerous Liaisons

New Dangerous LiaisonsIn Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the

It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers

The second part of this volume

and of life-cycle events

To meet the global demand poultry meat

and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians

A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English "Gawain" poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism

Interrogating the thresholds between sacred and secular

My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt

Spinal Cord Injury will help patients

Communication is brought out not as a singular activity

the learned opinion of native Tibetan scholars

An afterword by James Williams-one of the world's leading Lyotard commentators-is included