On Philosophy and Fashion Gwenda-lin Kaur Grewal, The New School for Social Research, USA
Thought and Poetry
Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth John Koethe, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, USA
This book seeks to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion’s superficiality. Using ancient Greek texts, alongside allusions to fashion and pop culture, Grewal examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, and challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Fashion’s quarrel with philosophy may be as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry. And the quest for fashion’s origins – for a neutrally-outfitted self, stripped of the self-awareness that comes with thinking – prompts questions about human agency and time. In the silhouettes of clothes and words, fashion emerges as philosophy’s most underestimated doppelgänger.
This collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe’s thoughts on the connections between poetry and philosophy and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them. The essays traverse the philosophical conception of the self in modern poetry and locate connections between poets including William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashberry alongside philosophers including Wittgenstein, Kant, and Schopenhauer. Using an associative and impressionistic style to write philosophically about poetry, Koethe defends his own approach that such writing cannot and should not aim for the rigor of philosophical argumentation.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781350201460 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350201453 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350201484 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9781350201477 • £19.79 / $26.05 Bloomsbury Academic
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781350262447 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350262461 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350262454 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic
Tragic Novels, René Girard and the American Dream Sacrifice in Suburbia
Carly Osborn, University of Adelaide, Australia This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three 20th-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road) are tragedies. In deploying a plethora of tragic tropes, including plagues of envy and hatred, contagions, disrupted holy rites, and monstrous women, these novels participate in a deep-rooted American tragic tradition, which Carly Osborn extends to consider the American Dream itself as a tragic idea and ideal, ending in violence. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 216 pages PB 9781350294530 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350083486 ePub 9781350083509 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9781350083493 • £26.09 / $35.17 Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred • Bloomsbury Academic
Vegetal Sex
Philosophy of Plants Stella Sandford, Kingston University London, UK This book introduces the exciting field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction, asking what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do ‘male’ and ‘female’ really mean the same when applied to humans, trees and algae? Sandford addresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to today. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, she shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plantcentred philosophy of vegetal sex look like?
P H I L O S O P H Y - Philosophy & Fashion / Literature / Gender
Fashion | Sense
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350274938 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350274921 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350274952 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781350274945 • £17.99 / $23.44 Bloomsbury Academic
Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Edited by Lee A. McBride III, College of Wooster, USA & Erin McKenna, University of Oregon, USA A contemporary appraisal of the breadth, significance, and legacy of the work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried, this book brings together writings focused on pragmatist feminism/feminist pragmatism, contemporary pragmatism, William James and the reconstruction of philosophy, education and American philosophy in the 21st century. Seigfried is a looming figure in American thought who coined the phrase 'pragmatist feminist' which has become an increasingly important concept in contemporary philosophy. This book explores and pushes this theory and brings it into conversation with some of the most vibrant strands of current philosophy. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 368 pages HB 9781350201507 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350201521 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350201514 • £117.00 / $153.74 Bloomsbury Academic
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