Most Popular Books by David Hawkes

Ideology is a clear, even-handed overview of the broad subject of ideology. Hawkes considers all the various meanings and definitions, and traces the history of the debates surrounding ideology from Martin Luther through to modern approaches.

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to a wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’s classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese, with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and a commentary on the subject, the form, the historical background, and the individual lines. There is no other book quite like it for any language: a nuts-and-bolts account of how Chinese poems in general, and specifically the poems of one of the world’s greatest poets, are constructed. It’s an irresistible challenge for readers to invent their own translations.

The concept of ‘performativity’ has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people’s personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

John Milton — poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost — is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech. In his time, however, his ideas far exceeded the orthodoxy of English life; spurred by his conscience and an iron grip on logic, Milton was uncompromising in his beliefs at a time of great religious and political flux in England. In John Milton, David Hawkes expertly interweaves details from Milton''s public and private life, providing new insight into the man and his prophetic stance on politics and the social order. By including a broad range of Milton''s iconoclastic views on issues as diverse as politics, economics, and sex, Hawkes suggests that Milton''s approach to market capitalism, political violence, and religious terrorism continues to be applicable even in the 21st century. This insightful biography closely examines Milton''s participation in the English civil war and his startlingly modern ideas about capitalism, love, and marriage, reminding us that human liberty and autonomy should never be taken for granted.

Over the last 20 years, the concept of ''economic'' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the ''economy'' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare''s England, where the financial had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter''s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare''s work.

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An examination of federal and provincial government responsibilities with respect to native peoples, these essays deal with the most appalling "political football" in Canadian politics. Specially commissioned experts in the field write on topics such as fiscal, legal and constitutional issues, and examine the circumstances of specific native groups in Canada.

Der Risikofaktor Mensch hat technische Faktoren in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten als Hauptrisikoquelle abgelöst. Die Schadensursachen beim Umgang mit komplexen Technologien reichen dabei vom individuellen menschlichen Versagen bis hin zu wissenschaftlichen Kenntnisdefiziten. Mit den traditionellen prognosegestützten Rechtsbegriffen der Gefahrenabwehr und Vorsorge sind durch menschliches Fehlverhalten überraschend auftretende Schadensverläufe kaum zu erfassen. Anhand des Gentechnikrechts werden die Probleme des sicherheitsrechtlichen Instrumentariums beschrieben und versucht, Lösungsmöglichkeiten zu entwickeln.

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The role of cellular lipids in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) replication is well established. There is also a large body of evidence that indicates that HIV-1 utilizes lipid rafts at the plasma membrane for viral entry, assembly and budding. HIV-1 is enriched in cholesterol and sphingomyelin which are two of the major lipid components of lipid rafts, and a specific subset (Brij98) of lipid rafts have been isolated from HIV-1 virions. Virion associated cholesterol and sphingomyelin have also been shown to be critical for HIV-1 replication, but the precise timing and mechanism remains unclear. A number of studies have investigated the contribution of different lipid classes to the HIV¬1 lipid composition, and recent advances in lipid mass spectrometry have allowed a more in depth analysis of the specific lipid species, not just classes, involved. This thesis provides the first study of the effects of viral genome, production method and producer cell on the phospholipid (specifically the lipid raft associated sphingomyelin and non-raft phosphatidylcholine) species distribution. These observations suggest that HIV-1 packages a relatively conserved subset of phospholipid species regardless of producer cell or viral genome. There is evidence to suggest that virion-associated sphingomyelin and phosphatidylcholine are important for HIV-1 infectivity. This thesis determined that sphingomyelin is required for both viral entry and infectivity. However, a reduction in virion associated phosphatidylcholine levels did not affect either entry or infectivity of HIV-1. These findings are in agreement with other studies which have shown that the lipid raft component sphingomyelin plays a role in the early stages of HIV-1 cell-cell fusion. While the stage of HIV-1 replication for which cell-derived cholesterol is required is currently undefined, it has generally been suggested that it is required for the very early stages of HIV-1 replication such as binding and fusion/entry into target cells. This thesis provides the first information that virion associated cholesterol is not required for HIV-1 viral entry but is required for a stage of replication prior to the completion of reverse transcription. In conclusion this thesis has demonstrated that virion-associated lipids play key, but different, roles in the early stages of HIV-1 infection. Data presented here show that the virion associated lipid (raft) components of HIV-1 are critical for both fusion/entry and for additional stage(s) post entry but prior to the completion of reverse transcription, possibly mediated through viral induced cellular signaling.