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A Philosophy of Immanence

Edited by Fabio Vighi, Cardiff University, UK & Riccardo Panattoni, Verona University, Italy Taking seriously Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meaning� Written by leading international scholars, including Roberto Esposito and Slavoj Žižek, each chapter reflects on contemporary power structures and inspires consideration of new political potentialities, which our focus on politics in transcendental rather than immanent terms has thus far obscured� In so doing, this volume uncovers the centrality of both psychoanalysis and the philosophy of immanence to an up-to-date understanding of the political�

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350240247 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9781350240278 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350240261 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Politics of the Many

Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency

Edited by Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Alexei Penzin, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Stefano Pippa, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy & Rebecca Carson, Royal College of Art, London, UK Protests in the 21st century are arranged around collectives as centreless, leaderless assemblages� This tendency towards proliferation has been theorized through the concept of multitude, most famously put forward by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri� This book problematizes the concept of multitude, exploring its strengths and weaknesses and assessing its relevance to contemporary movements within anti-globalization and anti-capitalist politics and activism�

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 248 pages PB 9781350268081 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350105645 ePub 9781350105669 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350105638 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Mitchell Dean, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Lotte List, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark & Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt declared that ‘all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts’ in his now classic Political Theology (1922)� The book appeared anachronistic at the time, going against Max Weber’s popular thesis defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world characteristic of modern societies� Nevertheless, the concept of political theology has seen a revival in recent years and this centenary volume investigates this elusive concept as an object of study, an analytical tool and a field of research� It asks the question: what to do with political theology today?

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350344518 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9781350344532 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350344525 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Academic

The Ethics of Water

From Commodification to Common Ownership

Cameron Fioret, University of Michigan, USA The ethics of water commodification provide the stimulus in this global approach to climate change and freshwater access� Cameron Fioret argues that communities who are subject to water commodification suffer a form of political domination that demands reform� Five main case studies including Detroit, Cochabamba, and Kerala span four continents to convey the global and local scope of normative water issues� These examples draw on contemporary water justice movements to explore how anti-water-commodification struggles can utilize water recommoning practices to make water governance processes more deeply democratic�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages HB 9781350348806 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9781350348820 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350348813 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Academic

Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory

Matthew R. McLennan, Saint Paul University, Canada For Matthew McLennan, Joan Didion’s writing is unified by the ‘ethics of memory’ – themes linked to memory: witnessing and grieving, nostalgia, and the paradoxically amnesiac qualities of our increasingly documented lives explored in famous texts like Blue Nights and The Year of Magical Thinking� In a book suitable for students of ethics and moral philosophy, American literature and American studies, McLennan frames Didion as a serious if iconoclastic philosopher of time and memory� Through her encounters with the past, the lauded writer offers lessons for the future in an increasingly unsettled world�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 208 pages PB 9781350271869 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350149571 ePub 9781350149601 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350149595 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Academic