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A LETTER FROM THE PHILOSOPHY EDITOR:
It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2019. These books, which span subjects from aesthetics to ethics, critical life studies, Asian studies,
philosophy of religion, and critical and political theory, reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list and exemplify the quality of scholarship that we value.
Among the many outstanding titles in this year’s wide-ranging catalog, several deserve special notice.
We are especially proud to present Alain Badiou’s Lacan, the first title in our new series The Seminars of Alain Badiou, which will extend to nearly twenty volumes over the next years. Étienne Balibar’s latest book, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics, makes the
case that only by including religion can cosmopolitanism become truly universal. Facebook Society:
Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves by Roberto Simanowski advances the view that social media not only encourage narcissism but also flatten self-awareness and self-determination. And Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition by Souleymane Bachir
Diagne demonstrates conclusively that Islam has a long tradition of critical thinking that is crucial to understanding a pluralist world.
Other innovative projects include titles in philosophy of religion, psychoanalysis, metaphilosophy,
and LGBTQIA studies: Atheism by Alexandre Kojève, the unconventional thinker’s last, unfinished work, predating the "New Atheists" by forty years; Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in
Psychoanalysis by Jamieson Webster, a breathtakingly original work of autotheory; Countersexual
Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado, a performative trans text and compelling call to action; and Where
Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better by Sarah Tyson, a provocative argument for a transformed discipline.
In related fields I’d like to mention in particular Talal Asad’s Secular Translations: Nation-State,
Modern Self, and Calculative Reason, the inaugural title in our Ruth Benedict Book Series; Achille Mbembe’s Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization; and Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog:
Blackness and the Animal Question, which investigates the entangled relationship between these forms of oppression.
I am sure that you will find much to enjoy and ponder in these pages. I, and my colleagues at Columbia University Press, look forward to continuing our dialogue. Wendy Lochner Publishe in philosophy, religion, political theory, animal, and critical life studies http://cup.columbia.edu/static/Wendy-Lochner
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Secularism and Cosmopolitanism
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Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics
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Étienne Balibar
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the philosophy editor, Wendy Lochner (wl2003@ columbia.edu).
For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website, cup.columbia.edu. Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. If no UK price appears for a title, it is most likely available from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada.
Étienne Balibar explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and secularism in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism. Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the public sphere, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism is a profound rethinking of identity and difference. $28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-16860-1 2018 288 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Titles published by Agenda Publishing, the Chinese University Press, Transcript-Verlag, Barbara Budrich Publishers, and ibidem Press are available from Columbia only in North America. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
Secular Translations
Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason Talal Asad
In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. In a consideration of translatability and untranslatability, he explores the ways ideas move between histories and cultures and the ways religious ideas are translated into nonreligious ones. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18987-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18986-6 December 2018 232 pages
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Passions of Our Time
Artaud the Moma
Julia Kristeva
Jacques Derrida
Edited with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman
Edited with an afterword by Kaira M. Cabañas
Translated by Peggy Kamuf
Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18167-9 $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18166-2 2017 112 pages
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Passions of Our Time showcases Julia Kristeva’s recent essays demonstrating her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. Kristeva considers literature, translation, psychoanalysis, disability, gender, humanism, and universalism, among other topics. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17144-1 December 2018 384 pages / 19 illus.
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Lacan
Anti-Philosophy 3 Alain Badiou
Translated by Kenneth Reinhard and Susan Spitzer Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Album ALBUM UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE and TEXTS
ROLAND BARTHES
Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
Roland Barthes
Translated by Jody Gladding
TRANSLATED by JODY GLADDING
The transcript of Alain Badiou’s year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this book offers a forceful reading of an enigmatic yet foundational thinker and sheds light on the crucial role that Lacan plays in Badiou’s own thought. It is the first volume of Badiou’s seminars to be published in English.
Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence through the last years of his life. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century.
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2018 312 pages
2018 3920 pages / 12 illus.
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Pantheologies
In Defense of Charisma
Gods, Worlds, Monsters Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Vincent W. Lloyd
In Defense of Charisma develops an account of moral charisma that weaves insights from politics, ethics, and religion together with reflections on contemporary culture. Vincent W. Lloyd distinguishes between authoritarian charisma, which furthers the interests of the powerful, naturalizing racism, patriarchy, and elitism, and democratic charisma, which prompts observers to ask new questions and discover new possibilities. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18387-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18386-4 2018 208 pages
Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that the creator and destroyer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical. Mary-Jane Rubenstein argues that what makes pantheism “monstrous”—at once repellent and seductive—is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator and created. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18946-0 November 2018 320 pages
The Black Circle
Atheism
A Life of Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève
Jeff Love
Translated by Jeff Love
One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Atheism is an erudite and open-ended exploration of profound questions of estrangement, death, suicide, and the infinite that demonstrates the range and the provocative power of Alexandre Kojève’s thought.
Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojève’s works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joining intellectual history, close textual analysis, and philosophy, The Black Circle reveals Kojève’s thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom. $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18656-8 2018 376 pages
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Conversion Disorder
Transitional Subjects
Jamieson Webster
Edited by Amy Allen and Brian O'Connor
Critical Theory and Object Relations
Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis
Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion’s shifting meanings in an intimate account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as well as her continual struggle to apprehend the complexities of the patient’s body. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18408-3 2018 312 pages
The essays in this volume advance the argument that the engagement between object relations and critical theory has not only enriched critical theory-by giving it a more complicated conception of the self and more subtle tools for analyzing social pathologies—but it has also enlivened psychoanalysis-by allowing practitioners to see how their theoretical commitments and clinical methodologies connect with critical theories of society and visions of social transformation. $90.00 cloth 978-0-231-18318-5 June 2019 288 pages
Countersexual Manifesto Paul B. Preciado
AlAin BAdiou & BArBAr A CAssin
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Translated by susAn spitzer & K en n et h r ein h Ar d
Two Lessons on Lacan
Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin
Foreword by Jack Halberstam
Two Lessons on Lacan Introduction by K en n et h r ein h Ar d
Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17563-0 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17562-3 December 2018 208 pages / 15 illus.
CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Translated by Susan Spitzer and Kenneth Reinhard Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Published in 1973, "L'Étourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality. Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin analyze Lacan's text and what kinds of questions it raises in relation to knowledge. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-15795-7 $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-15794-0 2017 136 pages
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A Śabda Reader
Taking Back Philosophy
Language in Classical Indian Thought
A Multicultural Manifesto
Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst
Bryan W. Van Norden
TA K I N G B A C K
Foreword by Jay L. Garfield
PHILOSOPHY A Multicultural Manifesto B R YA N W. VA N N O R D E N Foreword by Jay L. Garfield
Taking Back Philosophy is at once a manifesto for multicultural education, an accessible introduction to Confucian and Buddhist philosophy, a critique of the ethnocentrism and anti-intellectualism characteristic of much contemporary American politics, a defense of the value of philosophy and a liberal-arts education, and a call to return to the search for the good life that defined philosophy for Confucius, Socrates, and the Buddha.
The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. Johannes Bronkhorst brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina— representing a number of schools of thought. $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18940-8 March 2019 384 pages
HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT
$26.00 / £20. 00 paper 978-0-231-18437-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18436-6 2017 248 pages
Mind Beyond Brain
The Oneness Hypothesis
Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
Beyond the Boundary of Self Edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen J. Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, and Eric Schwitzgebel
David E. Presti
Neuroscientist David E. Presti explores how evidence for anomalous phenomena—such as neardeath experiences, apparent memories of past lives, apparitions, and other so-called psi or paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition—can influence the Buddhism-science conversation. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18956-9 2018 240 pages
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The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. This anthology explores the oneness hypothesis through East Asian and Western thought as well as sociology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive neuroscience. $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18298-0 2018 416 pages
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TAX I D E R M Y N AT U R A L H I S T O RY, A N I M A L S U R FA C E S , A N D A RT I N T H E ANTHROPOCENE
Perishability Fatigue
Speculative Taxidermy
Forays Into Environmental Lossand Decay
Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene
Vincent Bruyere
Giovanni Aloi
G I O VA N N I A L O I
Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Giovanni Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world’s agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? Perishability Fatigue reframes the environmental humanities and humanistic inquiry into sustainability science. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18859-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18858-6
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2018 184 pages / 10 illus.
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CRITICAL LIFE SERIES
2018 328 pages / 10 illus.
CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES
The Life of Imagination
POSTHUMOUS LIFE T H E O R I Z I N G B E YO N D T H E P O ST H U M A N Edited by
JAMI WEINSTEIN
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CLAIRE COLEBROOK
Revealing and Making the World
Posthumous Life
Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman
Edited by Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook
Jennifer Anna GosettiFerencei
The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Jennifer Anna GosettiFerencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18908-8 2018 360 pages
Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, contributors examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference, ultimately providing new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-17215-8 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-17214-1 2017 392 pages
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The Future as Catastrophe
Sprezzatura
Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age Eva Horn
Paolo D'Angelo
Translated by Valentine Pakis
We are dazzled by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental disasters, technological meltdowns. The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the modern fascination with disaster from Romanticism to end-of-the-world blockbusters. Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18863-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18862-3 2018 296 pages / 44 illus.
In this book, the first to consider sprezzatura in its own right, philosopher of art Paolo D’Angelo reconstructs the history of concealing art, from ancient rhetoric to our own times. The precept that art must be hidden turns up in a number of fields, from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic. Through exploring different articulations of this idea, D’Angelo shows the paradox of aesthetics: art hides that it is art, but in doing so it reveals itself to be art and becomes an assertion about art. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17582-1 2018 192 pages
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Why Only Art Can Save Us
AND THE ARTS
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
An Essay in Political Aesthetics
Santiago Zabala
Fred Evans
In this provocative book, Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, only contemporary art’s capacity to alter reality can save us. Building on Arthur Danto, Jacques Rancière, and Gianni Vattimo, who made aesthetics more responsive to contemporary art, Zabala argues that works of art are not simply a means of elevating consumerism or contemplating beauty but are points of departure to change the world.
Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18758-9 2018 360 pages / 22 illus.
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Where Are the Women?
Political Theology of the Earth
Sarah Tyson
Catherine Keller
Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
Sarah Tyson makes a powerful case for how redressing women’s exclusion can make philosophy better. She argues that engagements with historical thinkers typically afforded little authority can transform the field, outlining strategies based on the work of three influential theorists: Genevieve Lloyd, Luce Irigaray, and Michèle Le Doeuff.
Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. She calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice.
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Sibling Action
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
Stefani Engelstein
Mari Ruti
SIBLING AC T I O N THE GENEALOGICAL STRUCTURE OF MODERNITY
S t e fa n i e n g e l S t e i n
Stefani Engelstein argues that the sibling paradigm shaped the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities such as race, religion, and gender. Integrating close readings with panoramic intellectual history, Sibling Action presents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18040-5 2017 376 pages / 18 illus.
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Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18668-1 2018 312 pages
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Postcolonial Theory
Out of the Dark Night
A Critical Introduction Second edition
Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe
Leela Gandhi
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16028-5
Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism. In this revised edition, Gandhi examines recent alliances with critical race theory and Africanist postcolonialism, considers challenges from postsecular and postcritical perspectives, and takes into account the ontological, environmental, affective, and ethical turns in the changed landscape of critical theory.
April 2019 208 pages
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17839-6
In Out of the Dark Night, Achille Mbembe offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about Africa.
$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17838-9 January 2019 280 pages
Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
Man, the State, and War A Theoretical Analysis Anniversary edition
Edited by Andrew Arato, Jean L. Cohen, and Astrid von Busekist
Kenneth N. Waltz
Foreword by Stephen M. Walt
In this landmark work of international relations theory first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz offers a foundational analysis of the nature of conflict between states. He explores works by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, as well as modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.
In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state, discussing these alternatives' ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century as well as their capacity to deal with deep societal differences. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18703-9 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18702-2 2018 392 pages
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Open to Reason
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg
Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
Foreword by Elias Khoury
Afterword by Jacqueline Rose
Open to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Souleymane Bachir Diagne explains their relevance to our own time. $26.00 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18546-2 2018 136 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. Focusing on similarities and differences, contributors pave the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. $40.00 / £32.95 paper 978-0-231-18297-3 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18296-6
2018 424 pages / 33 illus.
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Varieties of Temporal Experience
The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow
Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time
Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other
Elliot R. Wolfson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and our experience. Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the bewildering multiplicity of temporal experience. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18601-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18600-1 2018 320 pages / 10 illus.
In spite of Heidegger’s explicit anti-Semitic statements, Elliot R. Wolfson reveals some crucial aspects of his thinking—including criticism of the biological racism and militant apocalypticism of Nazism—that betray an affinity with dimensions of Jewish thought. He challenges the tendency to bifurcate the relationship of the political and the philosophical in Heidegger’s thought, but parts company with those who write off Heidegger as a Nazi ideologue. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-185639
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$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18562-2 2018 336 pages
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Critical Theory at a Crossroads
Naming Violence
Edited by Stijn De Cauwer
Mathias Thaler
A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism
Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis
Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years, the protest movements that have risen up in response, and the use of the term "crisis" in political discourse. Contributors spar over crucial developments in these past years of catastrophe and the calamity of everyday life under capitalism, and ultimately shed light on how crises and the discourse of crisis can both obscure and reveal fundamental aspects of modern societies. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18679-7 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18678-0
In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18814-2 2018 248 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
2018 256 pages
The Return of Work in Critical Theory
Political Categories
Thinking Beyond Concepts
Self, Society, Politics
Michael Marder
Christophe Dejours, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, and Nicholas H. Smith
This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and clinical psychology, it brings together empirical research with incisive analysis of work’s political stakes to present a diagnosis of the pathologies of contemporary work and propose powerful remedies.
Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms “categorial thinking.” Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power.
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Clayton Chin
Iain MacKenzie
Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Rorty and Continental Thought
Clayton Chin illustrates the significance of Richard Rorty’s thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of “philosophy as cultural politics” as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty’s pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-17398-8 2018 312 pages
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"The truth will set you free” is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the twentieth century. Iain MacKenzie analyzes two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative postfoundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-3907-0 2018 148 pages
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Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left
Powers of the Mind
Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis
Ernst Bloch
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Michael Bray
Peter Thompson
Ernst Bloch argues that the great medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) planted the seeds of a radical materialism still relevant for critical theory today. He contrasts Avicenna’s and Aquinas’s interpretations of Aristotle on form and matter, arguing that Avicenna’s reading democratizes power and undermines clerical and political authority. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17535-7 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17534-0 December 2018 144 pages
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Michael Bray argues that the Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles. Bray traces the conceptual and sociopolitical history of this labor division and emphasizes how the forms of control and organization that it articulates in practices of production, democracy, racialization, and financialization are becoming increasingly important.
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Catherine Fieschi looks beyond definitional issues to examine why populism and populist parties have become a feature of our politics. She shows how new dynamics unleashed by social media—the fantasy of radical transparency, the demand for immediacy, and the rejection of expert truth and facts—have been harnessed by populism, enabling it to make new inroads into a formerly unreceptive political landscape.
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This volume considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new alt-right authoritarianism and explores whether it represents “real” democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships, abuses, and dysfunctional government. $50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1153-4 November 2018 458 pages
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Beyond the Panama Papers
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In Statu Nascendi is a new peer-reviewed journal that includes original academic research dedicated to political philosophy, cultural studies, theory of international relations, foreign policy, and the political decision-making process. The journal investigates specific issues using sociocultural, philosophical, and anthropological approaches to raise a new type of civic awareness about the complexity of contemporary crisis, instability, and warfare situations, where the “stage-of-becoming” plays a vital role. $50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1229-6 2018 330 pages
This final title in the Anticorruption Report series covers the most important findings of the fiveyear-long EU-sponsored ANTICORRP project on corruption and organized crime. How prone to corruption are EU funds? Who wins and who loses the anticorruption fight? And can we have better measurements than people's perceptions to indicate if corruption changes? This issue introduces a new index of public integrity and a variety of other tools created as part of the project. $26.00 paper 978-3-8474-0582-5 2018 128 pages
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Ronaldo Munck offers a sober appraisal of how globalization has created a new global working class through the massive acceleration of capital accumulation and, concomitantly, has increased the insecurity and precarious nature of most employment. Munck suggests it is this new global class of workers that lies at the heart of the future globalization project and its possible alternatives, such as the “decent work” agenda of official institutions and “social movement unionism.”
The “resource curse” refers to a central tenet in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources. S. Mansoob Murshed examines the nature of resource booms, the benefits and costs of export-led growth, the problems of deindustrialization and manufacturing base erosion, and the empirical evidence of the effects of natural resource dependence on growth.
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Distinguished scholars including Nancy Frankenberry, Philip Kitcher, Wayne Proudfoot, and Jeffrey Stout examine pragmatism’s distinctive form of nonreductive naturalism and consider its merits for the study of religion, democratic theory, and as a general philosophical orientation. They display the enduring power and contemporary relevance of pragmatic naturalism.
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This volume is an introduction to one of the key concepts in Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, the object of cognition. It provides an overview of the notion of cognizable objects in Sa skya Pandita (1182–1251), a short summary of Western research on that concept, and an edited translation of the first chapter of his fundamental work Tshad ma rigs gter together with the canonical commentary by Go rams pa (1429–1489). $45.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-233-4381-3
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In this festschrift, students of Donald J. Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro’s body of work in essays that extend his legacy, exploring topics as varied as the ethics of Zhuangzi’s autotelicity, the teleology of nature in Zhu Xi, and family love in Confucianism and Christianity. $52.00 cloth 978-988-237-052-4 February 2019 416 pages
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Johannes Heinrichs
As philosophers in the continental tradition have taken an interest in the return of religion, anthropologists and sociologists have rejected the once-dominant secularization thesis. Bradley B. Onishi connects these lines of thought to reveal how philosophy’s religious investigations have enabled critical reflections on the category of the secular.
This cumulative course on Johannes Heinrichs’s philosophical works presents the essence of his thought. Starting with an emphasis on reflection as the basis of epistemology, Heinrichs presents a theory of democracy as well as philosophical semiotics and structural and integral ontology.
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Queer Terror
Genealogies of Terrorism
Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony
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C. Heike Schotten
Verena ErlenbuschAnderson
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Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to late imperial Russia, colonized Algeria, and the post-9/11 United States, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism. She offers an important corrective to attempts to develop universal definitions that assure semantic consistency and provide normative certainty, showing that terrorism means many different things and serves a wide range of political purposes.
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After Sept. 11, 2001, George W. Bush declared, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Bush’s assertion encapsulates the civilizationalist moralism that has always motivated and defined the United States, linking the War on Terror to the nation’s settlement and founding. C. Heike Schotten provides an anatomy of this moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology.
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American Immanence
What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings
Democracy for an Uncertain World
Michael S. Hogue
Ernest Renan Translated and edited by M. F. N. Giglioli
American Immanence seeks to replace the dominant American political tradition, which has resulted in global social, economic, and environmental injustices, with a new form of political theology, its dominant feature a radical democratic politics. Michael S. Hogue explores the potential of a dissenting immanental tradition in American religion.
This anthology illuminates the characteristics that distinguished nineteenth-century French liberalism from its English and American counterparts. It also examines the more controversial parts of Ernest Renan’s legacy, including his analysis of colonial expansion, his views on Islam and Judaism, and the role of race in his thought.
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The Gig Economy
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Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown
The “gig economy” describes, among others self-employed people, who work for hire; those on temporary, short-term contracts; and those on zero-hours contracts. Proponents point out that flexible working arrangements can unlock the potential of those who cannot work fulltime and note that technology is changing the nature of work. Opponents fear that corporate need to cut costs and reduce the administrative burden and legal responsibilities drive the gig economy. Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown provide a concise overview. $25.00 paper 978-1-7882-1005-8 $70.00 cloth 978-1-7882-1004-1
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James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomics in relation to gender dynamics and challenges the dominant methods and measurements, suggesting new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts. He concludes by considering how this new way of thinking could transform policymaking in the future. $35.00 paper 978-1-788210-63-8 December 2018 160 pages
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The European Single Market
The Sex Economy Monica O'Connor
John-Paul Salter
Monica O’Connor challenges the suggestion that the sale of women’s bodies as commodities can ever be acceptable, and that the male consumer has an acceptable right to buy their services. She disproves the claim that sex work is a lucrative occupation for impoverished women and girls that can be considered for regulation as part of the normal economy. She lays bare the harm that “normalizing” the sex trade does to women’s lives, gender equality, and society as a whole, and exposes the realities that constrain and control women locked in prostitution.
Despite the centrality of the single market to the European project, it is a relatively recent achievement and also one around which there is considerable confusion and misunderstanding. John-Paul Salter examines the single market's crucial role in the EU, showing how it is tightly bound with other areas of EU policy and can only be understood within a broader EU social, macroeconomic, and public-policy framework.
2018 160 pages
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Cinema/Politics/ Philosophy
Foucault at the Movies Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan
Nico Baumbach
Translated by Clare O'Farrell
Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political? He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable.
Foucault at the Movies brings together all of Foucault’s commentary on film, some of it available for the first time in English, along with important contemporary analysis and further extensions of this work. It offers detailed, up-to-date commentary, inviting us to go to the movies with Foucault.
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FILM AND CULTURE SERIES
Staged
Facebook Society
Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment
Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves
Roberto Simanowski
Minou Arjomand
Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Minou Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.
Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.
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Restating Orientalism
A New German Idealism
A Critique of Modern Knowledge
Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism
Wael B. Hallaq
Adrian Johnston
Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil, in which Žižek returns to Hegel. Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive materialism capable of preserving and advancing the legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions.
Wael B. Hallaq takes critique of Orientalism as a point of departure for rethinking the modern project. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines, Restating Orientalism exposes the depth of academia’s lethal complicity in modern forms of capitalism, colonialism, and hegemonic power.
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The Habermas Handbook
Excessive Subjectivity
Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics
Edited by Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide, and Cristina Lafont
Jürgen Habermas is one of the most influential philosophers of our time. The Habermas Handbook offers a comprehensive overview and an in-depth analysis of Habermas’s work. Habermas scholars elucidate his thought, providing essential insight into his key concepts and his influence across politics, law, the social sciences, and public life. $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-16642-3 2017 672 pages
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Dominik Finkelde
In Excessive Subjectivity, Dominik Finkelde rereads the tradition of German idealism and finds in it the potential for transformative acts that are capable of revolutionizing the social order. Finkelde's discussion of the meaning and structure of the ethical act meticulously engages thinkers typically treated as opposed—Kant, Hegel, and Lacan—to develop the concept of excessive subjectivity, which is characterized by nonconformist acts that reshape the contours of ethical life. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-17318-6
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The Logic of Design Process
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Invention and Discovery in the Light of the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
E P I S T E M O L O G Y,
M E TA P H I L O S O P H Y,
Tiago da Costa e Silva
Kuhn's Legacy
Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism Bojana Mladenović
A N D P R A G M AT I S M
BOJANA MLADENOVIĆ
In opposition to predominant views that understand design processes as mechanical, this study uses the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce to characterize design activities as a continuous and serendipitous interplay of aesthetic experience, of defining rules, and of manifesting forms. Da Costa e Silva concludes that invention and discovery are intrinsic to every development in any given design context. £35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4377-0 January 2019 340 pages / 15 illus.
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. However, Kuhn’s philosophy is still often misunderstood and underappreciated. In Kuhn’s Legacy, Bojana Mladenović
argues that Kuhn’s historicism was always coupled with a firm and consistent antirelativism but that it was only in his mature writings that Kuhn began to systematically develop an original account of scientific rationality. $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-14668-5
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Indigenous Vanguards
Phenomena of Power
Ben Conisbee Baer
Introduction by Andreas Göttlich
Authority, Domination, and Violence Heinrich Popitz
Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism
and Jochen Dreher
Translated by Gianfranco Poggi
Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of the relationships between modern literature, representations of indigeneity, and educative practices in colonial zones from the 1920s to the 1940s, encompassing the central place of teaching and learning both in modernist aesthetics and on the part of writeractivists. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-16372-9
Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power, stabilization, and institutionalization of power, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world. $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-17594-4 2017 240 pages
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The Fall of the Wild
Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition
Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson
Ben A. Minteer
Craig Thomas Ben A. Minteer examines the ethical dilemmas of species loss and recovery in an increasingly humandriven world. He probes the tension between our impulse to do whatever it takes and the risk of pursuing strategies that undermine our broader commitment to the preservation of wildness. $28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-17778-8 December 2018 192 pages / 25 illus.
The existing sustainable development paradigm and its reliance on tradeoffs between the three pillars of environment, economics, and equity is not robust enough to maintain global carrying capacity. Craig Thomas argues that the holistic and transdisciplinary thinking of four iconic American naturalists—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson—can help solve our biggest twenty-first-century challenges by synthesizing values from four eras of cultural and environmental history. $100.00 paper 978-3-8376-4178-3 2018 230 pages / 15 illus.
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The Situationality of Human-Animal Relations
The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well
Edited by Thiemo Breyer and Thomas Widlok,
Donald Phillip Verene
Philosophical and Historical Reflections on Food and Dining in Culture
Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy
This anthology presents case studies of situations in which humans and animals come into contact and analyzes the anthropological and philosophical implications of such encounters. Contributors examine concepts such as embodiment and emplacement and consder the term “situationality” within the field of anthropology. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4107-3 2018 300 pages / 10 illus.
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Donald Phillip Verene discusses the nature of the first meals as found in Greek literature, the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico, the Roman cookbook of Apicius (the first known cookbook), the cookbook of Artusi (the seminal cookbook of Italian cooking), Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste, Plutarch’s “Dinner of the Seven Wise Men,” and Athenaeus’ work on the Learned Banqueters (the Deipnosophists). $25.00 paper 978-3-8382-1198-5 2018 120 pages
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Afro-Dog
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Bénédicte Boisseron
Michael Yudell
Blackness and the Animal Question
Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century Foreword by J. Craig Venterrapy
In Afro-Dog, Bénédicte Boisseron investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic, exposing a hegemonic system that compulsively links and opposes blackness and animality to measure the value of life. Drawing on recent debates on black lives and animal welfare, Afro-Dog reframes the fast-growing interest in human–animal relationships by positioning blackness as a focus of animal inquiry, opening new possibilities for animal studies and black studies to think side by side.
Race Unmasked revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16875-5 2018 304 pages $45.00 / £35.00 cloth 978-0-231-16874-8 2014
RACE, INEQUALITY, AND HEALTH
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JONATHAN KAHN
Race on the
Brain What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice
What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice
From Abolition to Brexit Robbie Shilliam
Jonathan Kahn
In Race on the Brain, Jonathan Kahn argues that implicit bias has grown into a master narrative of race relations—one with profound, if unintended, negative consequences for law, science, and society. He emphasizes its limitations, arguing that while useful as a tool to understand particular types of behavior, it is only one among several tools available to policy makers. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18424-3 2017 304 pages
Race and the Undeserving Poor
Race on the Brain
This book examines the rise of a shifting postcolonial settlement in which the racialization of the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor persists, and through which the white working class emerges. By situating his analysis within a postcolonial genealogy of British empire, Robbie Shilliam shows that the white working class is not an indigenous constituency, but a product of the struggles to consolidate and defend British imperial order that have shaped British society since the abolition of slavery. $30.00 paper 978-1-788210-38-6 $90.00 cloth 978-1-788210-37-9 2018 224 pages
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The Incorporeal
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Dark Ecology
For a Logic of Future Coexistence Timothy Morton
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With Dogs at the Edge of Life
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Colin Dayan
Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-16713-0
Katerina Kolozova
2018 208 pages / 38 illus.
Foreword by François Laruelle
Political Responsibility
Responding to Predicaments of Power Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
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The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales Sean Meighoo
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Death and Mastery
Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism Benjamin Y. Fong
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Data Love
The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies Roberto Simanowski
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty
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Animals and Society An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies Margo DeMello
deciding what's true
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The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism Lucas Graves
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"A 'must' book to own and read.... Animals and Society is an essential addition to our bookshelves, required readings, citations lists, and textbook adoptions."-Arnold Arluke, Northeastern University
"In an age of partisan warfare, this urgently needed book reveals the transformations, tensions, and continuing virtues of journalistic objectivity."-Rodney Benson, New York University $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17507-4
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