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The increasing numbers of scholars, policy-makers, and political activists who are concerned with questions of physical and cognitive disability will warmly welcome Henri-Jacques Stiker's book, the first to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages. Published in 1997 in France as Corps infirmes et sociétés and available now in an excellent English translation, the book traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. In this volume, Stiker examines a fundamental issue in contemporary Western discourse on disability: the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society. He highlights the consequences of such a mindset, illustrating the intolerance of diversity and individualism that arises from placing such importance on equality. Importantly, Stiker does not hesitate to assert his own stance on the issues he discusses: that difference is not only acceptable, but that it is desirable, that it is necessary. The author goes beyond anecdotal history to traverse a little known history, penetrating to the heart of collective attitudes and reflecting on elements of policy. The sweep is broad; from a rereading and reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth to current legislation regarding disablity, he proposes an analytical history that demonstrates how societies reveal themselves through their attitudes towards disability, at times in unexpected ways, since the study of detail is often the best entry into the whole of a culture. The book will be of interest to scholars of disability, historians, social scientists, cultural anthropologists, and those who are intrigued by the role that culture plays in the development of language and thought surrounding the disabled. Henri-Jacques Stiker is Director of Research and member of the department of the History and Civilization of Western Societies, University of Paris VII.

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He progressively reverts to a wild state in the harsh climate, where he is forced to fight to dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But Kafka’s probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. He could not help seeing the failure of communication between father and son as another moment in the larger existential predicament depicted in so much of his work. Probably realizing the futility of her son’s gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author.

“İnşa edilmiş kristalize şehirlerin sizler tarafından yaratılıp, düzenlenmesinde birçok yüceliklerin dâhil olduğu bu alandan size ulaşıyoruz, burası kristalize olmuş bir âlemdir.” “Anadolu’dan doğacak olan bu uygarlığın, bize en büyük katkı ve hizmetlerini ulaştıran Mustafa Kemal Atatürk olarak bildiğiniz yücedir. Şu anki haliyle zatında bedenlenmiş olup, birtakım çalışmalarla düzene katkı sağlamaktadır” “Kimi ırkların yok oluşuna, ancak kimi ırkların da doğuşuna şahit olacaksınız. Bu düzenlemenin gerekli olduğunun farkındasınız ve kalp üzerinden birleştiniz ancak sesinizi duyuramıyorsunuz, duyduk ve geldik biz sizdeyiz sizinleyiz.” “Birlik halinden uzaklaşmayın biz olduğunuz sürece size hiçbir zarar gelmeyecektir, size kurtuluş için küçük bir süredir bu, ancak temiz kalpler zaten bizimledir.” “Kutupların ardındaki istirahat yerime bekliyorum sizleri, orada size nice güzellikler hazırladım ve daha da hazırlamaktayım. Kul olma halinizi kesrete geçerek derslerinizi tamamladınız. Şimdi düzenlerinizi de tamamlayıp bize ulaşın, hedefiniz bu olsun.” “Birçok bilginin verildiği bu kitabın asıl amacı size hakikat âleminin kapılarını açmaktı. Hakikatinizi anlayarak devam etmenizi istiyoruz, tüm âleminizin artık kapatılacağı gerçeğini anlayın istiyoruz. Çünkü bu yazdığımız özelliklere ulaşamayacak olanlar varsa, onlardan artık bir sonraki döngüye kadar umudumuzu kesmiş oluyoruz. Kendinize bu iyiliği yapın ki kurtuluşunuz olsun, aksi halde tekrar bir döngüye girerek hallerinizle baş başa kalacaksınız.”