This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies & other performance types that examine America & its history & culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS & post-9/11 America, it displays the various & important ways theatre & performance studies have examined & conversed with American culture & history. ...

Presents essays that focus on our embodied responsiveness to others, particularly as this is illuminated in the thought of French phenomenologist & psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This volume addresses his influence on ethical theory & argues for a renewed sense of the ethical. ...

Focusing on the embodied responsiveness to others, this volume informs philosophy, psychology, anthropology, visual art, dance & many other fields. It shows Merleau-Ponty's influence on ethical theory, & argues for a renewed sense of the ethical, drawing out the facets of ethical responsibility suggested by his writings. ...

After opening with an account of the author's awakening to Marxism, this book goes on to review its central principles as a social science, paying particular heed to feminist concepts & the meaning of inequality. It concludes by exploring possible futures under capitalism & socialism. ...

Polish drama which was originally banned by the Polish government for being 'inflammatory & dangerous'. The story centres around a cabaret singer who, after a one-night stand with a military officer, is imprisoned by the secret police, without ever being informed of her alleged crime. For the next five years, she is subjected to harrowing torture & harassment, which she doggedly withstands in a struggle to maintain her dignity & sanity. ...