Moot Thoughts & Musings

Today I got my catalogue with new stuff from the University of Chicago Press. It's one of my favorite ones that I get. Few things caught my eye of varying degrees of interest.

First, this was one amused me: We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930 by Harvey Levenstein. Chicago's website blurb: "For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people."
It also seems to be a good opportunity to display the funny card that Erica got me for my bday. It totally cracked me up.

Couple on memory and history, a topic that has interest to me as it pertains to a particular project I hope to revisit after the dissertation:
Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past by Eviatar Zerubavel. And I guess I'll have to deal with Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur (trans. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer) at some point, but then maybe afterwards I'll read On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath by Ernst Breisach, which looks to be a handy overview on the topic.

And I would like to read Nietzsche and Music by Georges Liebert (trans. David Pellauer and Graham Parkes) sometime as it may pertain to another project I hope to return to after my dissertation...along with Metaphor and Musical Thought by Michael Spitzer.

(At this rate I'll have a whole shelf-full of post-diss projects. Right now I have at least four. aack. And I haven't even started the diss!)

Oh. and this one just looked interesting, since I'm a Said fan. Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, ed. Homi K. Bhabha and W. J. T. Mitchell.
Oh, this one looked cool, too, since I hadn't realized Foucault had traveled to Iran and the Iranian Revolution has always intrigued me, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson.
Oh wow! And there's a new edition of Verlaine's poems! He's one of my fave poets: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, trans. Norman R Shapiro. Ok, on that note, I'm off to prepare a lecture on Debussy. woohoo.