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Politics
Fascist Mythologies
The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt Federico Finchelstein
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18321-5 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-18320-8 2022 192 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Vulnerable Minds
The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies Liya Yu
Liya Yu develops a novel political framework that builds on neuroscientific discoveries to rethink the social contract. She advances a new neuropolitical language of persuasion that refrains from moralizing or shaming and instead appeals to shared neurobiological vulnerabilities.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20031-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20030-1 2022 304 pages Organizing for Power and Empowerment
The Fight for Democracy Second Edition Jacqueline B. Mondros and Joan Minieri
This second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18945-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18944-6 January 2023 400 pages 4 illus.
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
Edited by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong
This book brings together leading experts to explore the possibilities of the Green New Deal, emphasizing the future of work. Contributors examine transformations that are already underway and put forth bold new proposals that can provide jobs while reducing carbon consumption—building a world that is sustainable both economically and ecologically.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20557-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20556-6 2022 384 pages 12 illus.
On John Stuart Mill
Philip Kitcher
Sharing insights from teaching John Stuart Mill for many years, the eminent philosopher Philip Kitcher makes a cogent case for why we should read this nineteenth-century thinker now. He reflects on Mill’s ideas in the context of contemporary ethical, social, and political issues.
$14.95 / £11.99 paper 978-0-231-20415-6 $60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-20414-9 January 2023 152 pages
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Subaltern Social Groups
A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 Antonio Gramsci Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green
This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the entirety of Prison Notebook 25 devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources, and considers these ideas in the context of his earlier writings and letters.
$24.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-19039-8 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19038-1 2021 288 pages Accidental Agents
Ecological Politics Beyond the Human Martin Crowley
Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20403-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20402-6 2022 296 pages
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
We Testify with Our Lives
How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson
Terrence L. Johnson argues that the Black radical tradition derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion’s sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20045-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20044-8 2021 312 pages
The Concept of Social Class in Contemporary Marxist Theory
Edited by Massimo Modonesi, Alfonso Garcia Vela, and Maria Vignau Loria
This book reconsiders theorists who represent the backbone of Marxist thought: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, Nicos Poulantzas, Erik O. Wright, Antonio Negri, and John Holloway, with references to Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ralph Miliband.
$30.00 paper 978-3-8382-1607-2 2022 200 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
The Politics of Digital Pharmacology
Exploring the Craft of Collective Care Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein
New types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies are an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Heidenreich and Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and forms of sociality, but there is risk of intoxication.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-6249-8 October 2022 120 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
On the Idea of Humanitarian Intervention
A New Compartmentalization of IR Theories Piotr Pietrzak
This study examines the nature of the concept of humanitarian intervention, focusing on its primary function, the protection of the endangered civilian populations that find themselves at risk of genocide. The book provides a deep ontological inquiry into the nature, origin, and genesis of the idea of humanitarian intervention.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8382-1592-1 2022 382 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Ecce Humanitas
Beholding the Pain of Humanity Brad Evans Foreword by Jake Chapman
Through a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18463-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18462-5 2021 352 pages 22 illus.
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
In Statu Nascendi, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022)
Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations: Special Issue: The Work of Haruki Murakami Edited by Piotr Pietrzak and Joseph Thomas Milburn
Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that encompasses original academic research dedicated to the circle of political philosophy, cultural studies, theory of international relations, foreign policy, and the political decision-making process. The journal investigates different scences where the “stage-of-becoming” plays a vital role.
$51.00 paper 978-3-8382-1699-7 2022 210 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
In Statu Nascendi vol. 5, no. 2 (2022)
Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations: Special Issue Gender Equality in Politics and International Relations Piotr Pietrzak and Venera Russo
Statu Nascend vol. 5, no. 2 deals with issues related to gender equality in politics, international relations and philosophy, feminism in the global landscape, and women’s engagement in international peace and security.
$51.00 paper 978-3-8382-1737-6 October 2022 210 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
America’s Public Philosopher
Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy John Dewey
Edited and with an introduction by Eric Thomas Weber
John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey’s public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today. It includes fortysix essays on topics such as democracy in the United States, political power, education, economic justice, science and society, and philosophy and culture.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19895-0 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19894-3 2021 352 pages The Sublime of the Political
Narrative and Autoethnography as Theory Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes
Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and excluded voices. They offer a new assessment of political texts to challenge who can write and disseminate political ideas—and how.
$110.00 cloth 978-3-8376-4772-3 2021 162 pages
