PHILOSOPHY AND LITERARY STUDIES

Anarchafeminism

Chiara Bottici

The first introduction to anarchafeminism, setting out a manifesto that proposes how it might actually work in contemporary society.

Chiara Bottici argues that feminism needs anarchism and anarchism needs feminism. Radical political movements do not exist in isolation from each other. The fight for freedom and equality needs to operate on more than one connected plane. Anarchafeminism attempts to incorporate the strategems from both feminist and anarchist theories, approaches and grassroots activism to formulate a specific anarchafeminist approach adapted to the challenges of our times. Adopting a global perspective, with examples and theories from around the world, the book introduces key thinkers and ideas, setting out a manifesto that proposes a practical way ahead for a new, more anarchafeminist society. Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA.

The Future is Feminine

Capitalism and the Masculine Disorder Ciara Cremin

An examination of how the patriarchy and toxic masculinity can be challenged by adopting traditionally feminine objects and mannerisms.

Cremin illustrates that masculinity is a general disorder of a capitalist society that depends and even thrives upon its very symptoms. From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man, the book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. Drawing on theorists such as Marx and Freud, Cremin demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which we are all reconciled as a society with the feminine. In such a future, the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ will neither define us nor determine our relationship to one another. Ciara Cremin lectures in sociology and leads the Gender Studies programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

#MeToo and Literary Studies

Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture Edited by Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett

The first book to consider how literary scholars and teachers can bring the energy of the #MeToo movement into their work, and use their work to amplify and inform the cultural impact of #MeToo.

This collection of essays on literature, from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado offers clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted.

In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world. Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. Heather Hewett is Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an affiliate of the English Department at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.

November 2021 352 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350095878 Bloomsbury Academic

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June 2021 224 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350149762 Bloomsbury Academic

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Notes from the Crawl Room

A Collection of Philosophical Horrors A.M. Moskovitz

A striking collection of interconnected stories that use horror to critique the absurdities of philosophy.

A.M. Moskovitz employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies separated from real, lived experience. From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz addresses the complex aspects of our lives.

September 2021 • 136 pages 216 x 138mm • 9781350178915 Bloomsbury Academic

Why Did the Logician Cross the Road?

Finding Humor in Logical Reasoning Stan Baronett

How humor can help us understand logic, and logic can help us understand humor.

Combining jokes, stories, and ironic situations, Stan Baronett shows how it is possible to ground the formal, symbolic language of logic in everyday experience. Each chapter introduces a basic logical reasoning concept based on happenings in daily life, and ideas are explained by demonstrating how an effective joke may rely on an unanticipated assumption that leads to an unexpected result. Baronett aids understanding of basic causal reasoning and provides light relief for anyone daunted by the complex world of logic. Stan Baronett is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

August 2021 • 176 pages 216 x 138mm • 9781350211902 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Theory in the New Humanities

October 2021 • 320 pages 216 x 138mm • 9781350053717 Bloomsbury Academic

The Philosophy of Matter

A Meditation Rick Dolphijn

A philosophical meditation on the fate of the earth drawing upon contemporary ideas in new materialism, posthumanism and the environmental humanities.

This is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself. With figures such as Spinoza, Deleuze and Serres as philosophical guides and writings on New Materialism, Posthumanism and Affect Theory as intellectual context, Rick Dolphijn proposes a radical rethinking of some of the basic themes of philosophy: subjectivity, materiality, body (both human and otherwise, and the act of living. Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; and Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Socrates On Trial

Nigel Tubbs

A lively and politicised reworking of Plato's Republic for the contemporary world.

Nigel Tubbs tells of Socrates’ return to a modern city, where he finds contemporary society at war with itself. He questions this city, and the city arrests him. Facing trial he sets out his new vision for a just society. His challenge to us, and to the jury that will once again decide his fate, remains the same as before: the unexamined life is still not worth living. Nigel Tubbs is Professor of Philosophical and Educational Thought, University of Winchester, UK.

Football

Mark Yakich

A personal and critical exploration of the world’s most popular sport—from big data analytics to children just learning the game.

Not only is football played across the world, but changes to the game often reflect or anticipate social and economic trends. As an American who has played football his entire life, Mark Yakich is both an insider and an outsider to the sport. Beyond his own experience as a player and coach, he studies the game as a cultural critic, examining its narratives, its patterns and variations, and its manifestations within communities and individuals. Mark Yakich is the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he has been editor of New Orleans Review since 2012.

Sticker

Henry Hoke

A memoir in 20 stickers that explores the intangible nature of identity, with each sticker acting as a talisman of a wider personal and social history.

Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to shout our perspectives from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence. Henry Hoke is the author of The Groundhog Forever (2021), the story collection Genevieves (2017), and The Book of Endless Sleepovers (2016). He also co-created and directs the performance series Enter>text.

Hyphen

Pardis Mahdavi

A history of a humble grammatical marker, that explores the evolution of the hyphen as well as the powerful role it has come to play in identity and sexual politics.

To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. Following the history of the hyphen from antiquity to the present, Pardis Mahdavi explores how it evolved orthographically, and typographically as well as the politics of the hyphen itself. Hyphen is ultimately a compelling story about the intertwining of language and identity. Pardis Mahdavi is Dean of Social Sciences in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA.

Spacecraft

Timothy Morton

Explores the human fascination with spacecraft, both real and imagined.

What are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Furthermore, why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture? Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, and reveals realworld political and ecological lessons along the way. Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA.

January 2022 • 6 mono illus 160 pages • 121 x 165mm 9781501367069 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Object Lessons

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October 2021 • 7 mono illus 312 pages • 152 x 229mm 9781501375750 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

January 2022 • 368 pages 216 x 138mm • 2nd edition 9781350177406 Bloomsbury Academic

October 2021 • 240 pages 198 x 129mm • 9781350263956 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Theory in the New Humanities

September 2021 • 264 pages 216 x 138mm • 9781350214958 Bloomsbury Academic

Wole Soyinka

Literature, Activism, and African Transformation Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola

A critical biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel laureate and social activist, discussing his personal life, major works, and political legacy.

This biography explores Soyinka’s early life, his major texts and his place in history connect his legacy with global issues beyond the boarders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. The volume looks at how Soyinka uses his writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering. Bola Dauda is a retired scholar based in the UK who currently serves as Executive Director of the Pan-African University Press.

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a distinguished teaching professor at University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Chinese Philosophy and Philosophers

An Introduction Ronnie L. Littlejohn

An introduction to Chinese philosophical thought from ancient times to the present day.

Ronnie L. Littlejohn shares everything you need to know about the Chinese thinkers who have made the biggest contributions to the conversation of philosophy. Weaving together key subjects, thinkers and texts, we see how Chinese traditions have profoundly shaped the institutions, social practices and psychological character of the world we are living in. This new edition includes updated reading lists, a comparative chronology and additional translated extracts. Ronnie L. Littlejohn is Virginia M. Chaney Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of Asian Studies at Belmont University, USA.

Materialist Phenomenology

A Philosophy of Perception Manuel DeLanda

A new intervention into phenomenology and materialism from one of the leading thinkers in the field.

Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, Manuel DeLanda has created an entirely new theory of visuality. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of 'the embodied mind') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory), DeLanda forms a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. This is a transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters.

Manuel Delanda is Professor at the European Graduate School and Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, USA.

Capitalism and the Limits of Desire

John Roberts

A radical treatise exploring how loving oneself has been collapsed into loving capitalism, offering a hopeful, emancipatory message.

Why does capitalism seem to be so insurmountable? John Roberts poses that it is because we love capitalism more than we love ourselves. He contends that understanding the insidious nature of capitalist thinking is the starting point to disentangling ourselves from it. Using Marx, Lacan and Spinoza as his guides, Roberts lays out a way for individuals to move forward and forge a sense of self outside the oppressive demands of platform capitalism. John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.