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Bourg, Julian From revolution to ethics: May 1968 and contemporary French thought
McGill-Queen's, 2007. 468p bibl index afp ISBN 9780773531994
In this richly informative, almost encyclopedic book examining the momentous events of 1968 in France, which appeared to be revolutionary, widespread, and popular, Bourg (Bucknell) provides a vast panorama of the involvement of various political factions and iconic French intellectuals.
Killinger, Barbara. Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason
McGill-Queen's, 2007. 204p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780773532878
Killinger (a clinical psychologist and author of Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts, 1992) uses the concept of integrity as an umbrella to cover a wide range of personal qualities for living a moral, ethical, and spiritual existence. ...
NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
Martha Langford and Sandra Paikowsky, series editors
McGill-Queen’s University Press and the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation are proud to announce a new series devoted to the study of Canadian art and Canada’s visual and material culture. Recognizing the need for a better understanding of Canada’s artistic culture both at home and abroad, the generous support of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation makes possible the publication of innovative books that will support, stimulate, and energize scholarship. We welcome submissions from Canadian and international scholars for book-length projects on historical and contemporary Canadian art and visual and material culture, including Native and Inuit art, architecture, photography, craft, design, and museum studies. We will also consider studies on non-Canadian themes by Canadian scholars.
This series continues the contribution that the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation has made to scholarship and publishing in the arts in Canada by supporting the following McGill-Queen’s University Press publications: Pegi by Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist by Laura Brandon; Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada by Sandra Alfoldy; Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America by Jayne Wark; Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Joan Coutu; From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education in Canada edited by Harold Pearse; Seduced by Modernity: The Photography of Margaret Watkins by Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie; and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art by Martha Langford.
Martha Langford is associate professor of art history at Concordia University, author of Suspended Conversations and Scissors, Paper, Stone, and editor of Image & Imagination. She is the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Sandra Paikowsky is professor of art history at Concordia University and the co-founder and current publisher and managing editor of The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien.
MQUP welcomes inquires from authors. If you have a project that you think would fit the series, please contact:
McGill-Queen's University Press
3430 McTavish Street Montreal, QC H3A 1X9
Robert Fulford, National Post 24 March 2008Iris Murdoch, a sharp-eyed philosopher before she began writing her outrageous novels about convoluted relationships, once suggested a way to learn the real purpose of a philosopher. You should ask, "What is he afraid of?"
