Spring 2021 Catalog

Fordham University Press SPRING 2021

The fascinating biography of Eunice Hunton Carter, a social justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman prosecutor on the Luciano trial

Eunice Hunton Carter A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

M A R I LY N S . G R E E N WA L D and Y U N L I 240 pages, 19 b/w illustrations 9780823293735, Hardback, $34.95, £26.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions APR I L

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Eunice Hunton Carter rose to public prominence in 1936 as both the only woman and the only person of color on Thomas Dewey’s famous gangbuster team that prosecuted mobster Lucky Luciano. But her life before and after the trial remains relatively unknown. In this definitive biography on this trailblazing social justice activist, authors Marilyn S. Greenwald and Yun Li tell the story of this unknown but critical pioneer in the struggle for racial and gender equality in the twentieth century.

Carter worked harder than most men because of her race and gender, and Greenwald and Li reflect on her lifelong commitment to her adopted home of Harlem, where she was viewed as a role model, arts patron, community organizer, and, later, as a legal advisor to the United Nations, the National Council of Negro Women, and several other national and global organizations.

Carter was both a witness to and a participant in many pivotal events of the early and mid– twentieth century, including the Harlem riot of 1935 and the social scene during the Harlem Renaissance.

Using transcripts, letters, and other primary and secondary sources from several archives in the United States and Canada, the authors paint a colorful portrait of how Eunice continued the legacy of the Carter family, which valued education, perseverance, and hard work: a grandfather who was a slave who bought his freedom and became a successful businessman in a small colony of former slaves in Ontario, Canada; a father who nearly single-handedly integrated the nation’s YMCAs in the Jim Crow South; and a mother who provided aid to Black soldiers in France during World War I and who became a leader in several global and domestic racial equality causes.

Carter’s inspirational multi-decade career working in an environment of bias, segregation, and patriarchy in Depression-era America helped pave the way for those who came after her.

MARILYN S. GREENWALD is a Professor Emerita in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Her books include Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War and A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism, and the Career of Charlotte Curtis, which was a Notable Book of the New York Times.

is a reporter at CNBC covering the U.S. financial markets. Her work has appeared in Reuters, Bloomberg News, and Businessweek.

YUN LI

“Shell-Shocked is funny, lacerating, and extremely thoughtful about feminism’s power and utility during and emerging from the Donald Trump administration. Deftly weaving together political, literary and pop cultural analysis, Honig’s vivid account will prove crucial as we work to resensitize ourselves. It is a reminder that feminism is a critical tool in beginning to unravel, respond to, and ideally build something better out of, the shock politics of the past four years.”

— R E B ECCA TR A IS TER , AUTH OR OF GOOD AND MAD: T HE REVOLU T I ONARY P OW ER OF W OMEN’S ANGER

A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics

Shell-Shocked

Feminist Criticism after Trump B ON N I E HON IG 272 pages, 5 × 8, 17 b/w illustrations 9780823293766, Paperback, $24.95, £18.99 (TP) 9780823293773, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available POLITIC S | FEMINISM | MEDIA MARCH

Stormy Daniels offered a #metoo moment, and Anderson Cooper missed it. Conservatives don’t believe that gender is fluid, except when they’re feminizing James Comey. “Gaslighting” is our word for male domination, but a gaslight is also an abused woman’s strategy of survival.

Across two dozen trenchant, witty reflections, Bonnie Honig offers a biting feminist account of politics since Trump. Writing about today’s shock politics, Honig traces the continuing work of patriarchy as powerful, mediocre men gaslight their way across the landscape of democratic institutions.

But amid the plundering and patriarchy, feminist criticism finds ways to demand justice.

Shell-Shocked shows how women have talked back, acted out, and built anew, exposing the practices and policies of feminization that have historically been aimed not just at women but also at racial and ethnic minorities. The task of feminist criticism—and this is what makes it particularly well suited to this moment—is to respond to shock politics by re-sensitizing us to its injustices and honing the empathy needed for living with others in the world as equals.

Honig’s damning, funny, and razor-sharp essays take on popular culture, national politics, and political theory alike as texts for resensitizing through a feminist lens. Here are insightful readings of film and television, from Gaslight to Bombshell, Unbelievable to Stranger Things, Rambo to the Kavanaugh hearings. In seeking out the details that might break the spell of shock, this groundbreaking book illustrates alternative ways of living and writing in a time of public violence, plunder, and—we hope—democratic renewal. is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair.

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AUDIOBOOK FORTHCOMING FROM TANTOR MEDIA “I devoured these pages. With Kubrick’s Men we discover a full and impressive display of Rambuss’s multidimensional and natural erudition. This masterful blend of the learned and the popular brings Kubrick’s male characters alive in novel, enlightening, and even dangerous ways. To read this work is to watch anew a master artist of the twentieth century.”

—ANTHONY SWO FFO RD, AU THO R O F JA RH EA D

“Kubrick’s Men is a bold, original, and richly textured study of one of the twentieth century’s most important and influential filmmakers. With astonishing detail, Rambuss traces Kubrick’s preoccupation with masculinities on the verge of coming undone.”

— R OBE RT J. CORBE R, AU THOR O F COL D WA R FEMME: L ESB IANISM , NATIONAL I D EN TI TY, A N D H OL LYWOOD C I N EMA

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desire

Kubrick’s Men R IC HA R D R A M BU S S

288 pages, 44 b/w illustrations 9780823293889, Paperback, $29.95, £22.99 (TP) 9780823293872, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available CI NE MA AND MEDIA STUDIES | GENDER AND SEX UA LIT Y QUEER THEO RY MARCH

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The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.

The stories that Kubrick’s movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals.

They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.

Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick’s three bodies of work—his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films—Kubrick’s Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick’s male-oriented work.

RICHARD RAMBUSS is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Chair of the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spencer’s Secret Career and the editor of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.

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The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineering

Sunnyside Gardens

Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb J E F F R E Y A . K ROE S SL E R 272 pages, 45 b/w illustrations 9780823293803, Paperback, $34.95, £26.99 (TP) 9780823293810, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions URBA N STUDIES | HISTORY APR I L

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Situated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnyside Gardens has been an icon of urbanism and planning since its inception in the 1920s. Not the most beautifully planned community, nor the most elegant, and certainly not the most perfectly preserved, Sunnyside Gardens nevertheless endures as significant both in terms of the planning principles that inspired its creators and in its subsequent history. Why this garden suburb was built and how it has fared over its first century is at the heart of Sunnyside Gardens.

Reform-minded architects and planners in England and the United States knew too well the social and environmental ills of the cities around them at the turn of the twentieth century.

Garden cities gained traction across the Atlantic before the Great War, and its principles were modified by American pragmatism to fit societal conditions and applied almost as a matter of faith by urban planners for much of the twentieth century. The designers of Sunnyside— Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, Frederick Ackerman, and landscape architect Marjorie Cautley—crafted a residential community intended to foster a sense of community among residents.

Richly illustrated throughout with historic and contemporary photographs as well as architectural plans of the houses, blocks, and courts, Sunnyside Gardens first explores the planning of Sunnyside, beginning with the English garden-city movement and its earliest incarnations built around London. Chapters cover the planning and building of Sunnyside and its construction by the City Housing Corporation, the design of the homes and gardens, and the tragedy of the Great Depression, when hundreds of families lost their homes. The second section examine how the garden suburbs outside London have been preserved and how aesthetic regulation is enforced in New York. The history of the preservation of Sunnyside Gardens is discussed in depth, as is the controversial proposal to place the Aluminaire House, an innovative housing prototype from the 1930s, on the only vacant site in the historic district.

Sunnyside Gardens pays homage to a time when far-sighted and socially conscious architects and planners sought to build communities, not merely buildings, a spirit that has faded to near-invisibility. is an Associate Professor at the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and author of six published books, including The Greater New York Sports Chronology; New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis; and Historic Preservation in Queens.

JEFFREY A . KROESSLER

How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit

Palisades

The People’s Park

ROB E RT O. B I N N E W I E S 368 pages, 7 × 10, 30 b/w illustrations 9780823293698, Paperback, $39.95, £32.00 (TP) 9780823293704, Hardback, $140.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions E N VI RO NME NTAL S TU D IES | PUBLIC PLANNING | NEW YORK MAY

The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. Palisades: The People’s Park presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next.

Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. The conflicts between developers and conservationists, industrialists and wilderness enthusiasts, with their opposing views regarding the uses of natural resources required the commissioners of the PIPC to become skilled negotiators, assiduous fundraisers, and savvy participants in the political process. The efforts to create Palisades Interstate Park was prodigious, requiring more than 1,000 real estate transactions to establish Sterling Forest, to save Storm King Mountain, to preserve Lake Minnewaska, to protect Stony Point Battlefield and Washington’s headquarters, to open Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks, and to add the other sixteen parks to the Palisades Interstate Park System.

Beginning with the efforts of Elizabeth Vermilye of the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs, who enlisted President Theodore Roosevelt’s support to stop the blasting and quarrying of Palisades rock, author Robert Binnewies traces the story of the famous, including J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harrimans, as well as the not-so-famous men and women whose donations of time and money led to the preservation of New York and New Jersey’s most scenic and historic lands. The park experiment, begun in 1900, still stands as a dynamic model among the nation’s major environmental achievements. was Executive Director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission throughout the 1990s. During a conservation career that spanned nearly 40 years, he also served as Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, and Executive Director of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

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ANTIQUITY IN GOTHAM The Ancient Architecture of New York City

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

Antiquity in Gotham

The Ancient Architecture of New York City E L I Z A B E T H M AC AU L AY- L E W I S 288 pages, 7 × 10 72 color and 43 b/w illustrations 9780823293841, Hardback, $39.95, £32.00 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions ARCHITECTURE | HISTORY | NEW YOR K MARCH

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The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structures Since the city’s inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and purposefully engaged with ancient architecture to design and erect many of its most iconic buildings and monuments, including Grand Central Terminal and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, as well as forgotten gems such as Snug Harbor on Staten Island and the Gould Memorial Library in the Bronx. Antiquity in Gotham interprets the various ways ancient architecture was re-conceived in New York City from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Contextualizing New York’s Neo-Antique architecture within larger American architectural trends, author Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis applies an archaeological lens to the study of the New York buildings that incorporated these various models in their design, bringing together these diverse sources of inspiration into a single continuum. Antiquity in Gotham explores how ancient architecture communicated the political ideals of the new republic through the adaptation of Greek and Roman architecture, how Egyptian temples conveyed the city’s new technological achievements, and how the ancient Near East served many artistic masters, decorating the interiors of glitzy Gilded Age restaurants and the tops of skyscrapers. Rather than classifying neo-classical (and Greek Revival), Egyptianizing, and architecture inspired by the ancient Near East into distinct categories, Macaulay-Lewis applies the Neo-Antique framework that considers the similarities and differences—intellectually, conceptually, and chronologically—among the reception of these different architectural traditions.

This fundamentally interdisciplinary project draws upon all available evidence and archival materials—such as the letters and memos of architects and their patrons, and the commentary in contemporary newspapers and magazines—to provide a lively multi-dimensional analysis that examines not only the city’s ancient buildings and rooms themselves but also how New Yorkers envisaged them, lived in them, talked about them, and reacted to them. Antiquity offered New Yorkers architecture with flexible aesthetic, functional, cultural, and intellectual resonances—whether it be the democratic ideals of Periclean Athens, the technological might of Pharaonic Egypt, or the majesty of Imperial Rome. The result of these dialogues with ancient architectural forms was the creation of innovative architecture that has defined New York City’s skyline throughout its history.

ELIZABETH MACAULAY-LEWIS is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Middle Eastern Studies and the Executive Officer of the M.A Program in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is the editor or author of five books, including Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham and Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World, and the author of more than a dozen articles on ancient Roman and Islamic gardens and architecture.

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America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century

For nine years, Stephen Colbert’s persona “Colbert”—a Republican superhero and parody of conservative political pundits—informed audiences on current events, politics, social issues, and religion while lampooning conservative political policy, biblical literalism, and religious hypocrisy. To devout, vocal, and authoritative lay Catholics, religion is central to both the actor and his most famous character. Yet many viewers wonder, “Is Colbert a practicing Catholic in real life or is this part of his act?” America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) examines the ways in which Colbert challenges perceptions of Catholicism and Catholic mores through his faith and comedy.

Religion and the foibles of religious institutions have served as rich fodder for scores of comedians over the years. What set “Colbert” apart on his Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, was that his critical observations were made more powerful and harder to ignore because he approached religious material not from the predictable stance of the irreverent secular comedian but from his position as one of the faithful. He is a Catholic celebrity who can bridge critical outsider and participating insider, neither fully reverent nor fully irreverent.

Providing a digital media ethnography and rhetorical analysis of Stephen Colbert and his character from 2005 to 2014, author Stephanie N. Brehm examines the intersection between lived religion and mass media, moving from an exploration of how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s life and world towards a conversation about how “Colbert” shapes Catholicism.

Brehm provides historical context by discovering how “Colbert” compares to other Catholic figures, such Don Novello, George Carlin, Louis C.K., and Jim Gaffigan, who have each presented their views of Catholicism to Americans through radio, film, and television. The last chapter provides a current glimpse of Colbert on The Late Show, where he continues to be voice for Catholicism on late night, now to an even broader audience.

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) also explores how Colbert carved space for Americans who currently define their religious lives through absence, ambivalence, and alternatives. Brehm reflects on the complexity of contemporary American Catholicism as it is lived today in the often-ignored form of Catholic multiplicity: thinking Catholics, cultural Catholics, cafeteria Catholics, and lukewarm Catholics, or what others have called Colbert Catholicism, an emphasis on the joy of religion in concert with the suffering. By examining the humor in religion, Brehm allows us to see clearly the religious elements in the work and life of comedian Stephen Colbert.

STEPHANIE N. BREHM

at Northwestern University.

holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and is an administrator-scholar

S T E P HA N I E N . B R E H M 256 pages, 10 b/w illustrations 9780823294039, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (AC) [Hardback edition available: 9780823285303] eBook Available Catholic Practice in North America RELIGION | BIOGRAPHY | MEDIA MAY

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3-VOLUME BOXED SET Perfect for gift giving, the complete three-volume boxed set of In Your Eyes I See My Words gives readers an extraordinary opportunity to understand the vision of Pope Francis Volume 1 (1999–2004)

In Your Eyes I See My Words

Homilies and Speeches from Buenos Aires

JORG E M A R IO B E RG O G L IO, P OP E F R A NC I S Translated by M A R I NA A . H E R R E R A , P H . D. Edited and with an Introduction by A N TO N IO SPA DA R O, S . J. Foreword by PAT R IC K J. RYA N , S . J. 9780823294947, Boxed Set, $99.95, £79.00 (HC) RELIGION MA RC H

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Pope Francis is a first in many ways: the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit, the first Francis, the first child of immigrants from the Old World, nurtured and transformed by the New World and returned to lead the whole world. His eloquent homilies and speeches have inspired the faithful of Argentina for decades, largely through his gift of oratory, tracing back to his time as a bishop, archbishop, and cardinal in his home country. Published in English for the first time in their entirety and with contextual annotations, In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 1 collects his homilies and speeches from 1999 to 2004.

This illuminating collection presents an extraordinary opportunity to understand the vision of a great pastor. His words bear witness to the deep experience of faith among God’s people while also showcasing his own extraordinary ability to connect with communities of faith. Through these homilies and speeches, Pope Francis humbly displays his abilities as a wordsmith, a patient and attentive teacher, an inspired and faithful theologian, and a sensitive pastor uniquely attuned to his people, offering ready guidance for their journeys but also journeying with them.

The first of a three-volume translation of Pope Francis’s theological, pastoral, anthropological, and educational thought provides rich insights into the mind and theological unfolding of a spiritual leader who has become beloved across the globe. Within it we see Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio—later Pope Francis—ministering to the needs of the people while also engaging with the political, technological, and societal forces affecting their daily lives. Here is an ecclesial voice not afraid to challenge the politicians, the culturemakers, and media moguls—even his own ordained and lay church ministers—to live a life of faithfulness marked by justice, equality, and concern for the needs of everyone, urging all to rely on the “vitality of memory” and the “recovery of hope.” In Your Eyes I See My Words also provides a glimpse into the political, social, and religious environment of Argentina and Latin America, providing a unique perspective on the issues confronting the faithful and how those issues motivated and nurtured Pope Francis’s understanding of the Church’s mission to all segments of society—particularly to those underrepresented and on the margins of history.

Volume 2 (2005–2008)

In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 2 contains Pope Francis’s homilies and speeches from 2005 to 2008. Continuing what began in the first volume of this three-volume publication, Volume 2 shows Archbishop Bergoglio’s growth as a pastor and a theologian/scholar in the midst of his people. At the same time, it shows him emerging as an international voice calling for changes in the way the Church carries out its ministry and its educational task on behalf of children, youth, adults, and Church ministers. In his homilies from Christmas, Easter, and especially in his response to the tragic fire and deaths of 194 people at the nightclub Republica Cromañon, we see Bergoglio speak passionately to his parishioners, challenging

them with equal portions of tenderness and righteous anger. Perhaps uniquely, we also watch as his audiences, prominence, and influence grow globally, foreshadowing who he will become in 2013 when he is elected Pope.

On the larger national and international scale, Bergoglio addresses various conferences, such as the Argentina Press Association and the Episcopal Conference of Argentina of which he was elected President in 2005 and served the maximum possible term of six years. We see and read as his work takes him outside his country to Rome (2007) at the Pontifical Commission for Latin America; to Brazil (2007), where his presentation on the Crisis of Civilization and Culture at the Fifth CELAM Conference ends up shaping much of the Aparecida Conclusions; and, finally, to Quebec (2008) as he speaks at the FortyNinth International Eucharistic Congress.

All told, In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 2 is a glimpse into a period of time in which Archbishop Bergoglio grows immensely in thought, reflection, and action, laying the groundwork for the mature, thoughtful, and beloved Pope Francis he has come to be known as around the world.

Volume 3 (2009–2013)

In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 3 brings together the homilies and speeches of Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from 2009 through his election as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013. Taken together, all three volumes present with remarkable clarity his theological, educational, and pastoral vision for the Church that was shaped far from Europe and North America and in the tumultuous years of Argentina’s political and economic struggles. These writings provide an intimate glimpse into the theological, philosophical, scientific, and cultural-educational currents that forged the steady, loving, and nurturing hands with which Bergoglio guided the Church in Buenos Aires. Those very same hands have now done the same for the Church from Rome, a Church rocked by financial and moral scandals, and a world shaken by the first global pandemic in a century.

No Pope in modern times has compiled such a rich variety of writings in as many fields as Bergoglio has done for us in the years prior to his election to the papacy, especially during his time as Archbishop/Cardinal of Buenos Aires. These writings were kneaded—a word he uses when talking about the work of molding the souls and character of youth and seminarians—in the relationships he formed in his bus rides to work and in his intense contact with all segments of the population. Because of that careful and prayerful process of kneading, they have found their full development in Bergoglio’s writing as Pope

Francis, especially in Evangelii gaudium (November 2013); Gaudete et exsultate, On the call to sanctity (March 2018); and his encyclical Laudato si’ (May 2015). In this final volume of Bergoglio’s homilies and papers we meet European theologians and thinkers such as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Bergoglio’s Uruguayan philosopher and friend Methol Ferré, the literary figure Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Enrique Santos Discépolo, a singer and composer of tangos that decry corruption.

In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 3 concludes with a homily Bergoglio prepared before leaving for Rome to attend the conclave that elected him to the papacy. It was for the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, to be delivered to his priests in Buenos Aires. Instead, it was his homily from Rome to the priests of the world, reminding them, “The precious oil that anoints Aaron’s beard not only perfumes his person but spreads and reaches the margins. The Lord will say it clearly: his anointing is for the poor, the prisoners, the sick, those who are sad and alone.” Here, as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis, he spoke words of deep tenderness, reminding all of us that the Lord’s anointing is meant precisely for those who are floundering—those who are sick, who are sad or alone, who are in need of care. In short, the Lord’s anointing is meant for the world we live in today, at this exact moment of crisis. In a prophetic conclusion, the last homily of this volume is an outline of the road map Pope Francis has followed throughout his papacy: one defined by ongoing love and care for God’s people and that seeks to spread God’s anointing to those living on the margins of life.

P O P E F R A N C I S was born in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, entered the Society of Jesus at age twenty-one, and was ordained in 1969 with a degree in philosophy. He became auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992, archbishop in 1998, and cardinal in 2001. He was elected as the first Jesuit pope on March 13, 2013.

ANTONIO SPADARO, S.J. is editor of the review La Civiltà Cattolica and teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

PATRICK J. RYAN, S.J. is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University.

MARINA A . HERRERA is co-editor, translator, and writer for La Fe Viva, daily biblical devotions for Creative Communications for the Parish.

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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE NEW IN PAPERBACK “The Princeton Fugitive Slave is fascinating historical detective work. Lolita Buckner Inniss has recovered the journey of James Collins Johnson from his youth as a slave on the Maryland Eastern Shore to his life as a free man in Princeton. Deeply researched, the book overturns any lingering idea that Princeton was a haven from the broader society.

Johnson had to cope with the casual racism of students, occasional eruptions of racial violence in town, and the ubiquitous use of the N-word by even the supposedly educated.

This book contributes to our understanding of slavery’s legacy today.”

—SHANE W HITE, AU THOR O F PRI N C E OF DA RK N ESS: TH E UNTOLD STORY OF JEREMI A H G. H A MI LTON , WA L L STREET ’ S FI RST BL ACK MI LLIONAIRE

“[A] groundbreaking work of scholarship examining the relationship between the institutions of higher education and slavery. . . VERDICT Inniss presents a riveting legal review of a high-profile fugitive slave case. Whereas Johnson’s story had previously been localized, this study is a welcome addition to all research, legal, and public libraries as an invaluable addition to this emergent field of studies.”

—J OHN MU LLE R, L I BRA RY JOU RN A L

“Collectively, Inniss’s work provides an exciting model for future scholars of slavery and labor. Perhaps most importantly, Inniss skillfully and compassionately restores Johnson’s voice to his own historical narrative.”

—G. PATRIC K O’ BRIE N, H-SLAV E RY

The Princeton Fugitive Slave

The Trials of James Collins Johnson L OL I TA BU C K N E R I N N I S S 272 pages, 14 b/w illustrations 9780823294077, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) [Hardback edition available: 9780823285341] HI S TO RY | E DUCATION | A FRICA N A MERICAN STUDIES JUN E

“A rare story. James Collins Johnson was a legend among Princeton students, and Inniss provides enriching detail to explain what slave life was like, the difficulties of escape, the practical operation of the fugitive slave law, and why an owner would bother to seek a slave’s return four years after he left. Johnson’s saga is one example of the hurdles faced by fugitive slaves and of race relations in the nineteenth century in slave-holding Maryland and the free state of New Jersey.”

—JAME S H. J O HNSTON, AU THO R O F FROM SL AV E SH I P TO HARVARD: YARROW MA MOU T A N D TH E H I STORY OF A N A FRI C A N A MERI CA N FAM ILY

“Inniss has richly transformed Johnson’s story from that of an escapee from a ‘kind slave master,’ saved by a white woman, and beloved by Princeton students as a sweet, jovial darling into a much more nuanced portrait of a human being. Her portrayal raises important questions about what it means to be free, and where the line lies between work and servitude. Most of all it is a lesson in the critical importance in listening to the narrative of each person.”

—C E NTE R FOR CO MPASSIO NATE LE AD E RSHIP

LOLITA BUCKNER INNISS, J.D., LL.M., PH.D., is a professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she is a Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Her research addresses historic, geographic, metaphoric, and visual norms of law, especially in the context of race, gender, and comparative constitutionalism.

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A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolution “Casting her supremely intelligent eye on the simultaneous possibilities and limits of art, Rachel Weiss offers a far-reaching study of performance, painting, and film in the aftermath of societal convulsions and revolutions. She creatively rethinks how and why art comes to work in societies troubled by censorship, dictatorship, state violence, and trauma, on the one hand, and dreams of revolution, collectivism, and social justice on the other. Crucially, Weiss’s impassioned account of the stories that art can offer about these extreme historical realities takes on a new relevance and urgency in our current world, where authoritarianism, fake news, and alternative facts increasingly appear to rule the day.”

—SALO NI MATHU R, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , LOS ANGE LES

“‘It is just as hard to face our hopes as our suffering,’ observes Rachel Weiss in this empathically argued account of living in the wake of once-promising, truncated social transformations. This redemptive poetics of history inhabits the imagination of the present moment radically altered by inherited traumas, idealisms, and messianic hopes.

These encounters align the horizon under a night sky flashing with the stars of regardless and henceforward.”

—ROBE RTO TE JADA , U NIV E RSITY O F HOU STON

Now What?

Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past R AC H E L W E I S S 240 pages, 5 × 8, 4 b/w illustrations 9780823293926, Paperback, $24.95, £18.99 (AC) 9780823293919, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available ART | POLITIC S | HISTORY MARCH

Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over time. The moments returned to—the Cuban Revolution, Chile’s 1973 coup d’état, the ambiguous 1989 “revolution” in Romania, and the mayhem surrounding the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany—stand as historical watersheds, foundational and precipitate moments in the history of radical politics. Delving into these key historical moments by way of Tania Bruguera’s 2009 performance Tatlin’s Whisper in Havana, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s decades-long cycle of returns to Allende’s Chile, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica’s Videograms of a Revolution, Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest, the film Germany in Autumn, and Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 suite of paintings, Rachel Weiss convincingly threads these works together through subtle and illuminating reflections on the complex dynamics involved in historical trauma and memory, addressing key questions about the meanings and uses of the past. is Professor of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art .

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New York ReLit, a sub-imprint of Empire State Editions, will publish reissues of historical literary fiction, beginning with the March 2021 trade paperback reissue of a timely American classic: distinguished Irish American author Peter Quinn’s 1995 American Book Award-winning novel, Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York.

Banished Children of Eve

A Novel of Civil War New York PETER QUINN 624 pages 9780823294084, Paperback, $17.95, £13.99 (TP) New York ReLit / Empire State Editions F I CT I O N | H I S TO RY | N E W YO R K A PR I L

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“Historical fiction as well made and whole as this is not common. . . . Convincing and intriguing. . . . Hardly a page of this book is without some revelation.”

— TH E N E W YO R K T I MES BO O K R EVIEW

“Peter Quinn’s extraordinarily fine and ingenious novel Banished Children of Eve shows how much we are made of history.

Unflinching in its depiction of prejudice and, for that matter, of grace, Quinn’s book deftly weaves the lives of his characters into an intricate web of past and present, of association and moral involvement, until I, at least, had a sense not only of this terrible time but of history itself at the fundamental level, of the individual actions that make up its fabric.”

—THE B OSTO N SU N DAY G LO BE

“One of the very, very best of modern historical novels.”

—T H O M AS F LAN AG AN

“Vividly imagined, scrupulously researched, and almost disorienting in its authenticity. . . . A historical classic. Nothing short of splendid.”

—THE P HI L A DE L P HI A INQ U IR ER

“Exceptional. . . . The author’s pungent style, refusal to romanticize, and affinity for historical details all blend to make Banished Children of Eve an achingly vibrant panorama of ethnic feuds and struggles.”

—THE LOS A N GE L E S T IM ES

“A stunning portrayal of New York in 1863. . . . Would that all history be told as well.”

—THE C HI C AGO SU N -T IM ES

“[O]ne of the year’s most impressive books.”

“A new and formidable talent. . . . Flawed and broken though they are, these ‘banished children’ are irresistible. Peter Quinn’s achievement is to have brought them alive in a historic moment and to have given us an historical novel of stature and breadth.”

— COMMON WEA L

“A new voice in the annals of Irish literacy. It is dark and brilliant, fateful and forceful, unsparing in its evocations of brutality and tender in bearing witness to the travails of the innocent. In style it forges into the new space created by the belief. There are no overarching explanations, no overarching narratives. The reader is left to create out of vivid rags and snatches the world of a vanished period and the cry of a banished race.”

—TH E I RI SH L I TERA RY SU PPL EMEN T

The Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most devastating and destructive urban riot in American history.

Banished Children of Eve traces that event as its tentacles grip New York City. The cast is drawn from every stratum: a likeable and laconic Irish-American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious mulatto actress and her white minstrel lover as well as a cluster of real-life characters, including scheming, ever-pompous General George McClellan; fiery, fierce Archbishop “Dagger John” Hughes; and fast-declining musical genius Stephen Foster. The fates of these characters coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots, as a pivotal period in the history of New York and the nation is painfully, vividly, magically bought to life. is a novelist, political historian, and foremost chronicler of New York City. He is the author of Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America and a trilogy of historical detective novels— Hour of the Cat, The Man Who Never Returned, and Dry Bones.

PETER QUINN

—THE MI LWAU KE E J O U R N AL

“In the tradition of great historical novels, Banished Children of Eve attempts to excavate the past using a fiction writer’s pick and spade, uncovering truths both historians and journalists have left behind.”

—THE N E W YO R K O B SERVER

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“Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to ‘make it new,’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books have become a genre that nobody wants to read, except this book. Read this book. Called Back is exquisite.”

—PATTY DANN

“There is no scarier moment than when the doctor looks at his feet, clears his throat, and mutters that you have cancer. The earth opens under you. After a while, most patients summon a remarkable courage to confront the relentless disease and the rugged cures. But few have summoned the clear-eyed, large-hearted intelligence that Mary Cappello has to describe the experience in harrowing, redemptive detail. With precision, passion, wit, and a poet’s eye for the incongruous and devastating—that is to say, the human—she has written a book that will open your eyes and touch your heart. Called Back is an astonishing literary achievement.”

—J. D. MCC LATC HY

“The momentum of Called Back . . . derives from [Mary Cappello’s] extraordinarily capacious mind: her intelligence, wit, and emotional candor; the clarity and alertness of her train of thought; the restlessness of her style. Cappello makes stunning connections between literature, art, her life, medicine, cancer. A brilliant book.”

—DAV ID SHIE LDS

Called Back

My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life M A RY C A P P E L L O 220 pages, 51/4 × 8 9780823294046, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available ME MO I R | L I TERA RY NONFICTION | WOMEN’ S STUDIES JU LY

“I loved being offered the companionship of Cappello’s feeling mind. I loved her insistence on taking everything in, not rushing to be ‘healed’ before experience registers. I loved the precision and passion with which this book about facing mortality attends to the particulars of being alive—both in the body and in language.”

—JAN C LAU SE N

“Mary Cappello’s spins in Called Back are essential and compelling, each one presenting the reader with a gallery of images, the collage of a life, a feast that stretches the entire length of a Great Hall. Her wonder-filled riffs are wholly human: profane and always sacred. Called Back is a book to savor and reflect upon—to read again, to keep close.

What she gives us in this terrifyingly conscious narrative of a woman replying to cancer, returning from the grip of it, is nothing less than a hyperawareness of aliveness—hers first, welcome back!—but through the power of her reflections and the force of her dogged, fierce survival, ours as well.”

—MAU RE E N SE ATO N, L A MBDA L I TERA RY REV I EW

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“I’m not really fond of cancer memoirs, which have become so commonplace (like the diagnosis itself) that they constitute a genre of their own. But Mary Cappello’s Called Back is in a class all by itself. Well, she’s a writer ,after all, and she uses her own clearsighted intelligence and razor-sharp sense of language to scrutinize the culture of breast cancer and to blaze right through it, port scar and all.”

—JE AN F ER ECA , HE R E O N EART H, W I SCO N S I N P U B L I C RAD IO

“The narrative of cancer has become disconcertingly familiar to us. But Mary Cappello turns the story inside out, folds it up, and deftly re-opens it into something new and rather marvelous. This is someone who reads Proust on the gurney while waiting to be wheeled into surgery. She brings us along for the ride, and it’s a dizzying, discursive delight. With a bracing combination of intellectual and emotional acuity, Cappello explores the inanities and indignities of the medical establishment, the solitude and camaraderie of illness, the politics and poetics of cancer culture.

‘Most essays are finished before they’ve begun,’ Cappello cautions her undergraduate writing students. Her book is an essay continually striking off into unexpected terrain with giddy courage and wonderment. Called back across that grim border, Cappello brings with her a luminous gift.”

—PUBLIS HING T R IAN G L E J U D G E S

Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for “Getting the News,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2009

An extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature of time inside illness, Called Back is both a narrative and non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, Called Back relies on these artists’ queer aesthetics to tease the author back to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs “see” inside breast cancer’s paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate?

The first chapter paves the way for the book’s central emphases: a meditation on the nature of “news” and the new, on noticing, on messages—including those that the body itself relies upon in the assumption of disease—and the interpretive methods we bring to them in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we treat it, Cappello argues.

Working at the borders of memoir, literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, Called Back aims to displace tonal and affective norms— infantilizing or moralizing, redemptive, sentimental or cute—with reverie, rage, passionate intensity, intelligence, and humor.

MARY CAPPELLO’S seven books of literary nonfiction include a Los Angeles Times bestselling detour on awkwardness, a lyric biography, and the mood fantasia Life Breaks In. Her most recent book, Lecture, a speculative manifesto, inaugurates Transit Books’ Undelivered Lecture Series. A former Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island.

Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for “Getting the News” Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerrilla Girls On Tour and by WILLA: Women in Literary Arts and Letters

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“Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex—‘neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.’ If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of ‘sex itself,’ Nancy uncovers what we’ve missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound—and profoundly necessary—meditation on sex and being.”

— T IM D E AN, AU THO R O F U N L I MI TED I N TI MAC Y: REFL EC TI ONS ON THE SU BC U LTU RE OF BA REBACK I N G

“Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience.”

—E LISSA MARD E R, E MORY U NIV E RSITY

Sexistence J E A N - LU C NA NC Y

Translated by ST EV E N M I L L E R 160 pages, 5 × 8, 1 b/w illustration 9780823293995, Paperback, $28.00, £20.99 (AC) 9780823294008, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available PHILOSOPHY | GENDER A ND SEX UALIT Y M AY

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Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence.

Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation of an originary trouble at the limits of language that divides being and opens the world.

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that resonates with contemporary research on gender and biopolitics. Without attempting to be comprehensive, the book ranges from the ancient world through psychoanalysis to discover the turbulence of the drive at the heart of existence. is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Portrait, The Possibility of a World, The Banality of Heidegger, The Disavowed Community, and Corpus.

JEAN-LUC NANCY

STEV EN MILLER is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Catherine Malabou, Étienne Balibar, and Anne Dufourmantelle.

An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding.

“This may well be the very best collection of essays ever assembled treating religious responses to contemporary street homelessness. If we are ever to address adequately the ensemble of social problems that perpetuate homelessness even in affluent societies, the solutions we implement will be rooted in both sound research and genuine religious motivation. This volume sheds abundant light on both of these realities and deserves the highest recommendation.”

— T HOMAS MASSARO, SJ, PROFE SSOR O F MORAL THEO LOGY, FO RD HAM U NIV E RSITY

“Land of Stark Contrasts offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the theme of homelessness through the lens of religious studies and theology. Unlike many texts that speak of the poor or marginalized in abstraction, this volume clearly expresses the concrete realities of homelessness in the United States and current efforts to combat it.

This is a powerful effort to de-stigmatize homelessness and decriminalize the homeless population through a study of religious ethics and faith-based communities.”

—MIC HE LLE GONZALE Z MALD ONAD O, THE U NIV E RSITY O F SCRANTON

Land of Stark Contrasts

Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States M A N U E L M E J I D O C O STOYA , Editor 384 pages, 7 b/w illustrations 9780823293964, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (AC) 9780823293957, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available RELIGION | POLITIC S | ETHIC S APRIL

Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston.

Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource.

Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke.

Co-published with Seattle University’s Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs MANUEL MEJIDO COSTOYA has worked for the United Nations in Geneva and Bangkok and has held teaching and research appointments in Chile, Switzerland, and the United States.

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“In a time of increasing hostility and suspicion of the stranger, Radical Hospitality could not be more welcome. It is descriptively rich in historical examples and concrete phenomenologies of hospitality in all its embodiments. The book goes beyond mere description to grasp the ethics of hospitable interactions, giving nuance to the ambiguities of these interactions and showing their fragility as well as their necessity. Above all, Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how effective acts of hospitality at once recognize human fragility and vulnerability and yet provide the strength and inspiration to pursue peace.”

— E DWARD S. C ASE Y, STONY BRO O K U NIV E RSITY, AU THO R O F TH E WORL D ON ED G E

Radical Hospitality

From Thought to Action

R IC HA R D K E A R N E Y and M E L I S S A F I T Z PAT R IC K 144 pages, 3 b/w illustrations 9780823294435, Paperback, $25.00, £18.99 (SDT) 9780823294428, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy PHILOSOPHY | ETHIC S MARCH

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Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger.

Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves—by crossing borders, whether literal or figurative. Against the fears, dogmas, and demands for certainty and security that push us toward hostility, we also desire to wager with the unknown, leap into the unanticipated, and celebrate the new, a desire this book seeks to recognize and cultivate. The book contends that hospitality means chancing one’s hand, one’s arm, one’s very self, thereby opening a vital space for new voices to be heard, shedding old skins and welcoming new understandings.

Radical Hospitality engages with urgent moral conversations concerning identity, nationality, immigration, commemoration, and justice, moving between theory and praxis and on to the formative life of the classroom. Building on key critical debates on the question of hospitality ranging from phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction to neo-Kantian moral critique and Anglo-American virtue ethics, the book explores novel possibilities for an ethics of hospitality to our contemporary world of border anxiety, refugee crises, and ecological catastrophe.

RICHARD KEARNEY is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and the author or editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founder of the Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a post-nationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades.

MELISSA FITZPATRICK is Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ethics for the Portico Program in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and Director of Pedagogy for Guestbook Project.

“A tour-de-force analysis of the role of sound in contemporary biopolitics and a landmark volume within and beyond music studies.”

—MIC HAE L GALLO PE, U NIV E RSITY OF MINNE SOTA

“Shattering Biopolitics brilliantly weaves together two threads: It carefully auscultates the philosophical discourses of deconstruction and biopolitics in order to sound them out on their aural imagination, and it pursues a true ‘politics of listening,’ a performative intervention that seeks to reconfigure the way we lend our ears.”

—PE TE R SZE NDY, BROW N U NIV E RSITY

Shattering Biopolitics

Militant Listening and the Sound of Life NAOM I WA LT HA M - SM I T H 272 pages, 5 b/w illustrations 9780823294879, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823294862, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Commonalities MU S I C AND SOUND STUDIES | PHILOSOPHY JULY

A missed phone call. A misheard word. An inaudible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and exclusion of certain forms of life. Audibility decides livability. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates for the first time the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in recent European philosophy, together with the political stakes of this entanglement.

Nowhere is aurality more pivotal than in the dialogue between biopolitical theory and deconstruction about the power over and of life. Closer inspection of these debates reveals that the main points of contention coalesce around figures of sound and listening: inarticulate voices, meaningless sounds, resonant echoes, syncopated rhythms, animal cries, bells, and telephone rings. Recent sound-art projects take up similar concerns from racialized chokeholds and anti-migrant forensic voice analysis to politicized speech acts and activist practices of listening.

Building on such thinkers as Derrida, Agamben, Cixous, Nancy, and Malabou, Shattering Biopolitics elaborates sound’s capacity to shatter sovereignty, as if it were a glass made to vibrate at its natural frequency, that allows it to amplify and disseminate a power of life that refuses to be mastered. In doing so, the book advances the burgeoning field of sound studies with a new, theoretically sophisticated analysis of the political imbrications of its object of inquiry. is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration. As a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2019–20, she has been developing deconstructive field-recording methodologies to explore contemporary urban marginalization and resistance.

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“Gila Ashtor’s Homo Psyche is a bold and ambitious attempt to rethink the foundations of contemporary queer theory beyond its customary psyche versus anti-psyche (or psychoanalysis versus anti-psychoanalysis) divisions. The need to transcend these pointless divisions—which lead to paralyzing intellectual impasses—is undoubtedly an urgent task. In this sense, Ashtor’s book is a timely and astute intervention.”

—MARI RU TI, AU THOR O F PEN I S EN V Y A N D OTH ER BA D FEE LINGS: THE EMOTI ON A L COSTS OF EV ERYDAY L I FE AND TH E ETH I C S OF OPTING OUT: QU EER TH EORY’ S D EFI A N T SU BJECTS

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia G I L A ASH TOR 256 pages 9780823294152, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823294169, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Q U E E R THEO RY | PSYCHOANALYSIS | LITERA RY CRITICISM JUN E

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Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains far from grasping that sexuality’s radical potential lies in its being understood as “exogenous, intersubjective and intrusive” (Laplanche). In particular, and despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated the singular role of psychology in shaping the field’s conceptual impasses and politico-ethical limitations.

Through close readings of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane Gallop—Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis vis-à-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who insisted on “new foundations for psychoanalysis” that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the field’s systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory’s radical and ethical project. is a critical theorist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She teaches at Columbia University and is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and is the the author of a book on psychoanalytic theory, Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche, and an experimental memoir, Aural History.

GILA ASHTOR

“Hijras, Lovers, Brothers is a gripping ethnography of hijras and their communities.

Saria details the intimate, social, and economic structures that determine how hijras craft their lives, whom and where they love, and the losses they grieve. With startling insights, Saria shows how hijras shape and reshape those very experiences. This book will be a touchstone for Indian anthropology, sexuality studies of the global South, queer studies, international public health, transgender and feminist studies, and the comparative anthropology of kinship. An iconoclastic, vivid, and deeply meaningful book.”

—C HANDAN RE D DY, U NIV E RSITY O F WASHINGTON

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India VA I B HAV S A R IA

272 pages 9780823294718, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823294701, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere GE NDE R AND SEX UA LITY | A NTHROPOLOGY SOUTH A SIAN STUDIES MAY

Hijras, one of India’s third-gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized forms with begging and sex work. In more recent years hijras have seen a degree of political emergence as a moral presence in Indian electoral politics, and with heightened vulnerability within global health terms as a high-risk population caught within the AIDS epidemic.

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers recounts two years of living with a group of hijras in rural India. In this riveting ethnography, Vaibhav Saria reveals not just a group of stigmatized or marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires that trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.

Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras make the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance, irresponsibility, or illiteracy but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of selffashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programs and queer theory.

Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday—laughter, flirting, teasing—to impossible longings, kinship, and economies of property and substance, in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.

VAIBHAV SARIA

Fraser University.

is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon

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“Tatiana Chudakova has given us a graceful ethnographic account that speaks to broad concerns within medical anthropology: the politics of ‘integrative’ medicine, the limitations of concepts such as ‘medical pluralism,’ the relationship between religion and science as they cross various political and ideological domains, and the condition of post-socialism as a lived and embodied experience. Mixing Medicines is a remarkable contribution to Tibetan studies and to anthropologies of post-socialist societies.”

—SIE NNA R. C RAIG, DARTMOU TH COLLEGE

“Mixing Medicines delves into the misunderstood and deeply Orientalized practice of Tibetan medicine. In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Tatiana Chudakova shows the elusiveness of Tibetan medicine as Siberia’s Buryat minority seeks to maintain the practice’s integrity and their status as a unique group while also striving to be a part of the Russian nation. Carefully researched and meticulously argued, Mixing Medicines offers a nuanced case for the intimate ties between today’s Russia and Inner Asia.”

—MANDU HAI BU YAND E LGE R, MASSAC HU SE TTS INSTITU TE OF TECHNOLOGY

Mixing Medicines

Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia TAT IA NA C H U DA KOVA 288 pages, 6 b/w illustrations 9780823294305, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9780823294312, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere ANTHROPOLOGY | MEDICINE | RELIGION JUN E

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Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today’s Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. Mixing Medicines seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and replenishment. Set in Buryatia, a semi-autonomous indigenous republic in southeastern Siberia, the book offers an ethnography of the institutionalization of Tibetan medicine, a botanically based therapeutic practice framed as at once foreign, international, and local to Russia’s Buddhist regions.

By highlighting the cosmopolitan nature of Tibetan medicine and the culturally origins of biomedicine, the book shows how people in Buryatia trouble entrenched center-periphery models, complicating narratives about isolation and political marginality. Chudakova argues that a therapeutic life mediated through the practices of traditional medicines is not a lastresort response to sociopolitical abandonment but depends on a densely collective mingling of human and nonhuman worlds that produces new senses of rootedness while reshaping regional and national conversations about care, history, and belonging.

TATIANA CHUDAKOVA

is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University.

“A remarkable collection with genuine interdisciplinary reach, Living with Concepts opens up a critical dialogue between philosophers and anthropologists about the various paths that thinking can take when concepts are rethought as intrinsic to forms of life.”

—JASON THRO O P, U C LA

“Living with Concepts moves between anthropology and philosophy in fresh and fruitful ways that powerfully bring out the moral and political urgency of understanding what is involved in trafficking in concepts. The contributors are united in questioning the legitimacy of assumptions so widespread they might be described as belonging to the zeitgeist.”

—ALIC E C RARY, NE W SC HOO L FOR SOC IAL RE SE ARC H

Living with Concepts

Anthropology in the Grip of Reality A N DR E W B R A N DE L and M A RC O M OT TA , Editors

This volume examines an often taken-for-granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life?

Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language.

Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed and showing how the supposed need to grasp reality may be replaced by an acknowledgment that we are in its grip.

Contributors: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal ANDREW BRANDEL MARCO MOTTA

is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University.

is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern.

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“Cold War Reckonings is not only a sophisticated work of cultural criticism but also an astounding articulation of political theory. Analyzing literary and cinematic texts alongside occasions like PEN regional meetings, Jini Kim Watson offers an altogether original story about the Cold War and decolonization in Asia, on the one hand, and about the relationship between capitalism and authoritarianism, on the other. The book profoundly shifts our understanding of the Cold War, arrested decolonization, postcolonial sovereignty, and the developmental state within capitalist modernity. In short, it offers a new theory of the state in general, and of the capitalist authoritarian state in particular.”

—J O D I KIM, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , RIV E RSID E

“Jini Kim Watson’s Cold War Reckonings is an important, brilliant, and extremely engaging book that is beautifully written and bold and innovative in its arguments.

Watson shows how the social and political promises of decolonization were derailed by the developmentalism that permitted certain sectors of postcolonial states to seize power by vowing ‘to fast-forward the time of national development.’ Treating third-world dictatorial regimes neither as unprepared political actors nor as dupes, Watson shows the overlapping interests between global capitalism and authoritarianism in some of Asia’s ‘capitalist success stories.’”

—J OSE PH SLAU GHTE R, COLU MBIA U NIV E RSITY

Cold War Reckonings

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Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Across a body of transpacific cultural works, Jini Kim Watson reveals the problem of “free world” authoritarianism to be not a deficient form of liberal democracy but the result of Cold War entanglements with decolonization.

Focusing on the U.S.-allied illiberal regimes of South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia, the book scrutinizes cultural texts ranging from dissident poetry, fiction, and writers’ conference proceedings of the Cold War period to more recent literature, graphic novels, and films that retrospectively look back to these decades with a critical eye. Watson’s book argues that the cultural forms and narrative techniques that emerged from the Cold War–decolonizing matrix offer new ways of comprehending these histories and connecting them to our present.

JINI KIM WATSON is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of the New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form and editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present.

“Infectious Liberty generatively reconceives Romantic literature as a set of counterhegemonic techniques of biopolitical experimentation. Casting Romanticism as an attempt ‘to steer the biopolitical techniques of liberalism toward more liberatory shores,’ Mitchell uncovers resources for our own grasp of neoliberalism and its relation to ecological crisis. In so doing, his scholarship serves the immense purpose of reconnecting the study of Romantic literature to each of the disciplinary domains that cohere, transformed, in Foucault’s theory of biopolitics.”

—AMANDA J O GO LDSTE IN, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , BE RKELEY

Infectious Liberty Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism ROB E RT M I TC H E L L 304 pages, 9 b/w illustrations 9780823294596, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823294589, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Lit Z LIT E RARY CRI TI C I S M | P OLITICA L THEORY | SCIENCE STUDIES APRIL

Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romanticera debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a range of elements of modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism and biopolitics.

Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theorists of liberalism such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus drew upon the new sciences of population to develop a liberal biopolitics that aimed to coordinate differences among individuals by means of the culling powers of the market. Infectious Liberty focuses on such authors as Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth, who drew upon the sciences of population to develop a biopolitics beyond liberalism. These authors attempted what Roberto Esposito describes as an “affirmative” biopolitics that rejects the principle of establishing security by distinguishing between valued and unvalued lives, seeks to support even the most abject members of a population, and proposes new ways of living in common.

Infectious Liberty expands our understandings of liberalism and biopolitics—and the relationship between them—while also helping us to understand better both the ways in which creative literature facilitates the project of reimagining what the politics of life might consist of. is Marcello Lotti Professor and Chair of English at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize.

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“On the Horizon of World Literature is an outstanding, original, and groundbreaking book. Sun shows how asynchronous and historically unrelated works can be brought together for mutual illumination. Sun’s comparisons take into consideration the historical significance of texts as responses to modernity and their very existence as products of historical forces that shape what we understand as modernity. The author’s ambition in treating texts as fields of interlocking developments marks the book’s originality.”

—WAI-Y E E LI, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

“Emily Sun’s pathbreaking book bridges early-twentieth-century Chinese literature and early-nineteenth-century British literature in an entirely original and convincing way.

By building this remarkable two-way literary dialogue—across cultures, periods, and continents—Sun reawakens the promise and the necessity of comparative literature as a unique discipline with new stories still to tell.”

—ALE X WO LO C H, STANFORD U NIV E RSITY

On the Horizon of World Literature

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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided—and continues to provide—a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization.

The book offers readings of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new sociopolitical forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and sociopolitical importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages, activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, the texts explore the far-fromsettled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds.

Sun’s book brings to light the disciplinary-historical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a de-provincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles.

EMILY SUN is Visiting Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics and co-editor of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader.

“Inceptions is an erudite, original investigation into the conditions of possibility of works of literature: how formal language evolves from the silence or noisiness of the world. The investigation is as much ethical and erotic as it is formal. Returning to the origins of texts restores the moment when the text was all potential; this revives the moment of freedom to our lives and subjectivities. The book will be of interest to scholars of each of Ohi’s authors; Ohi is a match (to name three of them) for George Eliot’s complexity, Henry James’s subtlety, and Wallace Stevens’s abstraction.”

—J OHN LIMO N, W ILLIAMS COLLEGE

Inceptions

Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form K E V I N OH I

The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way, the fact that they must begin renders our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called “latency” marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asynchronicity.

From Henry James’s New York Edition prefaces to George Eliot’s epigraphs, from Ovid’s play with meter to Charles Dickens’s thematizing of the ex nihilo emergence of character, from Wallace Stevens’s abstract consideration of poetic origins to James Baldwin’s, Carson McCullers’s, and Eudora Welty’s descriptions of queer childhood, writers repeatedly confront the problem of inception. Inception introduces a fundamental contingency into texts and psyches alike: in the beginning, all could have been otherwise.

For Kevin Ohi, the act of inception, and the potential it embodies, enables us to see making and unmaking coincide within the mechanism of creation. In this sense, Inceptions traces an ethics of reading, the possibility of perceiving, in the ostensibly finished forms of lives and texts, the potentiality inherent in their having started forth. is Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of three previous books, including, most recently, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission.

KEV IN OHI

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“The Form of Love is a stunningly original analysis of how ‘loving reading’ is also a form of thinking. Kuzner performs this thinking as he lovingly reads through lyric poems we thought we knew and—by lingering over odd figures, prosodic strangeness, contradictions, uncertainties, and confessions of incomplete, even failed knowledge—reveals how much we have yet to see. Eschewing masterful pronouncements in favor of surprise, frustration, and pleasure, Kuzner shows us what we can discover if we take both poems and ourselves less seriously.”

—ME LISSA E. SANC HE Z, AU THO R O F QU EER FA I TH : REA D I NG PROM ISCUITY A N D RAC E I N TH E SECU L A R LOV E TRA D I TI ON

“This extraordinary book pursues two questions at the heart of literary study in our time: How can poems tell us anything we don’t already know? How can we relate to lives that aren’t ours? Kuzner’s astonishing readings of metaphysical poems illuminate virtual experiences in which we can participate, but with which we cannot identify.”

—MIC HAE L W. C LU NE, C ASE W E STE RN RE SE RV E U NIV E RSITY

The Form of Love Poetry’s Quarrel with Philosophy JA M E S K U Z N E R 240 pages 9780823294510, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823294503, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available L I TE RARY CRITICISM | RENA ISSANCE STUDIES JULY

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Can poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? The Form of Love argues that it can. In close readings of seven “metaphysical” poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the truth about love but to create a virtual experience of love, in all its guises.

The Form of Love shows how verse creates love that can’t exist without poetry’s specific affordances, and how poems can, in their impossibility, prompt love’s radical re-imagining. Like the philosophies on which they draw, metaphysical poems imagine love as an intense form of nonsovereignty, of giving up control. They even imagine love as a liberating bondage—to a friend, a beloved, a saint, a God, or a garden. Yet these poems create strange, striking versions of such love, made in, rather than through, the devices, structures, and forces where love appears.

Tracing how poems think, Kuzner argues, requires an intimate form of reading: close— even too close—attention to and thinking with the text. Showing how poetry thinks of love otherwise than other fields, the book reveals how poetry and philosophy can nevertheless enter into a relation that is itself like love. is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Shakespeare as a Way of Life and Open Subjects.

JAMES KUZNER

“Harry Berger has done it again. His ever-sharp vision has once more pierced through the opacities of plodding scholarship about the debates of Plato’s Socrates about poets and their poetry. Yes, these poets and their defenders were foils for Plato, but they were in real life Socrates’ most worthy intellectual match. Berger’s portrait of Simonides as viewed by Protagoras is translucent—yet another masterpiece achieved by a true master of Platonic exegesis.”

—GREGORY NAGY, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

“Berger’s provocative interpretation of the Protagoras is guided by his immensely capacious reading practice, which trains his inimitable historical, literary, and sensorial energies on the implicities and complicities of the dialogue’s language.”

—J ILL FRANK, FROM THE INTRODU C TIO N

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Socrates against Simonides HA R RY B E RG E R , J R .

Edited by WA R D R I S VOL D and J. B E N JA M I N F U QUA Introduction by J I L L F R A N K

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Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors’ speech acts even as they are tethered to his.

Plato’s Republic and Protagoras both reserve a small but significant place for a poet who differs from Homer and Hesiod: the lyric poet Simonides of Ceos. In the Protagoras, Socrates takes apart a poem attributed to Simonides and uses this to finish off the famous and supposedly dangerous sophist, Protagoras. Couch City is a close reading of the comic procedures Socrates deploys against Protagoras as he reduces him to silence. But it also shows that Socrates takes the danger posed by Protagoras and his fellow sophists seriously. Even if they are represented as buffoons, sophists are among the charismatic authority figures—poets, rhapsodes, seers, orators, and lawgivers—who promote views harmful to Athenian democracy.

Socrates uses Simonides’s poem to show how sophists not only practice misinterpretation but are unable to defend against it.

Berger ports his roots as a pioneering literary theorist into this rhetorical discussion, balancing ideas such as speech-act theory with hard-nosed philology. The result is a provocative and counterintuitive reassessment of Plato’s engagement with democracy. is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books are Resisting Allegory: Interpretive Delirium in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’; Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’; and The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt.

HARRY BERGER, JR.,

WARD RISVOLD

teaches writing in the Writing Center Program at Nazarbayev University.

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is Lecturer in English at Clemson University.

is Professor of Government at Cornell University.

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“Material Mystery is a landmark work that cuts through the traditional divides between philosophy and theology, religion and science, matter and spirit, and knowledge and mystery. By challenging our most cherished assumptions and modes of belief, MacKendrick opens up the Western religious and philosophical traditions to a nonstandard reading while also showing how integral the noncanonical and esoteric traditions can be to our contemporary understanding. A masterpiece of erudition, Material Mystery provides a moving, compelling, and timely synthesis of countertraditional readings of ancient philosophy with biblical and gnostic literature and theology.”

— J E FFRE Y W. ROBBINS, AU THOR O F RA D I C A L TH EOLOGY: A V I SI ON FOR CH A N G E

Material Mystery

The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

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Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption.

But it is possible, Karmen MacKendrick shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force.

Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the Middle Ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity—intellectual, artistic, and theological—generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world’s matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention—particularly Wisdom’s combination of care and delight. is Professor of Philosophy at LeMoyne College. Her books include Failing Desire, Divine Enticement, and Word Made Skin.

KARMEN MACKENDRICK

“Form and Foreskin is a new, original, and compelling experiment in close reading.

Looking through the lens of circumcision at pastoral literature and poetry in Latin, Middle English, and English, Strouse writes in a dynamic, engaging manner that will be of interest especially to scholars of Middle English literature and those who work on queer studies and studies of masculinity.”

—ANNA M. KŁOSOW SKA , MIAMI U NIV E RSITY

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics. is a poet and an adjunct professor of medieval literature, as well as the author of many scholarly articles, poems, and art projects.

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Form and Foreskin

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“Medieval Nonsense makes a historically informed, theoretically sophisticated case for the centrality—indeed the foundational necessity—of the concept of nonsignification for medieval writers working across many fields of study and literary traditions, including linguistics, philosophy, theology, devotional literature, and hagiography.”

—ROBE RT STU RGE S, ARIZONA STATE U NIV E RSITY

In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere sound. Medieval Nonsense rebuts the idea that single-minded devotion to the kernel of meaning within the word motivated these authors in their engagement with vox sola, the mere utterance. Rather, they recognized the possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity, and they transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of nonsignification.

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Medieval Nonsense

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is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College.

“This is a fascinating, lucid, and engaging account of the problems with attempts to resist capitalist consumerism with an idealized logic of the Eucharist. It makes important contributions to liturgical and ritual studies and Eucharistic theologies, as well as to theological and ethical critiques of consumption and capitalism more broadly. Antonio Eduardo Alonso provides a nuanced assessment of the Eucharist that accords both with lived experience and theological tradition, taking the reality of sin and persistent injustice seriously and also recalling a divine grace that can be invoked not just in spite of but together with such human and material brokenness.”

—D E V IN SINGH, DARTMOU TH COLLEGE

“Commodified Communion is an extraordinary book. It is also extraordinarily important. Antonio Alonso offers a fresh and compelling reading of the Eucharist by attending to its celebration in a deeply commodified world. Most importantly, Commodified Communion offers a vision of hope beyond the trope of Eucharist as resistance, rooting hope instead in God’s own sovereign power to redeem. A fascinating and powerful read.”

—TE RE SA BE RGE R, YALE D IV INITY SC HO O L & YALE INSTITU TE OF SACRED MU SIC

Commodified Communion

Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life A N TON IO E DUA R D O A L ON S O

Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes. is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Catholic Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. He is also a widely published composer of liturgical music.

ANTONIO ( TONY ) EDUARDO ALONSO

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“What Christian doctrine has proved itself more problematic—for biblical hermeneutics, for ecumenical engagement, for feminist theology, for ethical deployment—than that of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus? And, therefore, what better choice for a multi-religious engagement? This volume opens the symbol of the atonement to startlingly fresh questions, contrasts, and critiques. Catherine Cornille has effected a multi-faceted demonstration of the transformative potential—beyond respectful juxtaposition or conceptual translation— of comparative theology.”

— C ATHE RINE KE LLE R, GEO RGE T. COBB PROFE SSOR O F CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLO GY, D RE W U NIV E RSITY, AND AU THO R O F C LOU D OF THE I MPOSSI BL E: N EG ATI V E TH EOLOGY A N D PL A N ETA RY EN TANGLE M E NT

“Atonement and Comparative Theology is an excellent resource for those who think they have no time to teach comparative theology because they are too busy teaching systematics, or Christology, or any other branch of theology. It helps us to understand Christian theologies of atonement by using a comparative lens from some of the finest comparative theologians in the world.”

— A MIR HU SSAIN, C HAIR AND PRO FE SSOR O F THEOLOGIC A L STUDIES, LOYO LA MARY MO U NT U NIV E RSITY

Atonement and Comparative Theology The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions

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The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has given rise to various theories of atonement, many of which have been subject to critique as they no longer speak to contemporary notions of evil and sin or to current conceptions of justice. One of the important challenges for contemporary Christian theology thus involves exploring new ways of understanding the salvific meaning of the cross.

In Atonement and Comparative Theology, Christian theologians with expertise in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and African Religions reflect on how engagement with these traditions sheds new light on the Christian understanding of atonement by pointing to analogous structures of sin and salvation, drawing attention to the scandal of the cross as seen by the religious other, and re-interpreting aspects of the Christian understanding of atonement. Together, they illustrate the possibilities for comparative theology to deepen and enrich Christian theological reflection.

Contributors: Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Francis Clooney, S.J., Thierry-Marie Courau, S. Mark Heim, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Leo D. Lefebure, Daniel A. Madigan, S.J., Marianne Moyaert, Joshua Ralston, Elochukwu Uzukwu, Klaus Von Stosch, Michelle Voss Roberts is Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, where she holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture. She is the author of The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology.

CATHERINE CORNILLE

“Brandon Bayne weaves together Jesuit writings, observations, and natural histories to arrive at an engrossing intellectual history of the Spanish religious as they tenuously moved among the indigenous peoples of Sinaloa and the Pimería Alta. Bayne argues that the Jesuits successfully crafted a narrative that extolled suffering and martyrdom as the necessary prerequisites for the long-term implementation of the faith in the New World.

His book offers a novel interpretation of the role of martyrdom, both real and imagined, to the centrality of the Jesuit enterprise in New Spain’s northern frontier.”

—DANA V E LASCO MU RILLO, U NIV E RSITY O F C ALIFORNIA , SAN DIEGO

“This is a deeply researched, beautifully written, and always fascinating account of Catholic martyrdom in the Mexican-American borderlands. While assiduously contextualizing how early modern Catholic missionaries to the region understood the violent deaths of their comrades, Bayne also highlights the startling contemporary relevance of these martyrs’ often troubling legacy for our own times. The work also provides a long-overdue reconsideration of the life and legacy of Eusebio Francisco Kino.

Vivid, engaging, imaginative, and compelling, this excellent book deserves—and will command—a wide readership.”

— E MMA AND E RSON, AU THO R O F TH E D EATH A N D A FTERL I FE OF TH E N ORTH A MERI C A N MA RTYRS

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Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain B R A N D ON L . BAY N E 288 pages, 9 b/w illustrations 9780823294190, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823294206, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Catholic Practice in North America RE L I GI O N | HISTORY | LATIN AMERICA N STUDIES AUGUST

While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity. is Associate Professor of Religion in the Americas at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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“Martyn Sampson expands our understanding of both Graham Greene’s Catholic imagination and the status of theological aesthetics by focusing on the formal dimensions of Greene’s literary production over the easily abstracted theological content of his work.

Sampson uses the term ‘impulses’ to interrogate the imaginative pressures of faith, belief, and doubt that drove Greene’s work throughout his long literary career. He argues, in the end, that Greene’s conception of what a Catholic novel might be is more about a genre that brings the secular and the religious closer than apart, an embrace of possibility and risk at the heart of the human condition. What is remarkable in this study is Sampson’s deep reading of the discourses of critical theory placed in conversation with the vast range of Greene’s scholarship over the past decade. Between Form and Faith is an impressive achievement.”

— M ARK BOSCO, S.J., GEO RGE TOW N U NIV E RSITY, AU THO R O F G RA H A M G REEN E ’ S CATH OL I C I MAG I N ATI ON

“Here is a book of genuine intellectual heft. In his analysis of Graham Greene, Martyn Sampson brings together the insights of contemporary critical theory with those of modern theology to turn the notion of a ‘Catholic Novel’ on its head, treating faith not as a body of beliefs external to the fictions and so to be affirmed or denied, but as a dimension of the novels’ imagined worlds. This insightful and innovative book should become essential reading for literary and theological scholars.”

—RIC HARD GRE E NE, U NIV E RSITY O F TO RONTO

Between Form and Faith

What is a “Catholic” novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution to add to their methodological premises. Chapters on Greene’s four “Catholic” novels and two of his “post-Catholic” novels are complemented by fresh insight into the critical importance of his nonfiction. The study paints an image of an inviting yet beguilingly complex literary figure.

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MARTYN SAMPSON earned his Ph.D. from the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he taught English. He served as Director of the 2018 and 2019 Graham Greene International Festivals.

Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel

304 pages 9780823294671, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823294664, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O’Connor Trust Series L I TE RARY S TUDIES | THEOLOGY | CATHOLIC STUDI ES JU LY

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“Perhaps the best book on Christian anarchism since Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and the Kingdom of God is a timely and valuable addition to resurgent interest in political theology across various disciplines. Learned and well-written, it brings neglected sources from the Orthodox Christian tradition into this current renaissance and makes clear their relevance for contemporary economic and political debates in contexts ranging from the United States to postcommunist Europe and Russia.”

—E RIC GREGORY, PRINC E TON U NIV E RSITY

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective.

Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human freedom—one of the most prominent forces in human history—as a foundational theological principle in Christianity. That principle enables a fresh reexamination of the problems of democracy and justice in the age of global (neoliberal) capitalism. is Professor in the Department of Eastern Christian Studies at Stockholm School of Theology and President of The Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity.

He is most recently the author of In Medias Res and Religion and Realism and editor of Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky.

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Anarchy and the Kingdom of God From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back DAVOR D Ž A LTO 320 pages, 5 b/w illustrations 9780823294398, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823294381, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought RELIGION | POLITICAL SCIENCE JUNE

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“The essays in The Survival of Dulles provide a cogent and compelling reflection on the development of one theologian’s craft over a long and productive lifetime and offer insight into the meaning and significance of his work for today. The contributors to this volume extend Dulles’s project to the present moment by creatively engaging both the Christian tradition and contemporary culture to shed light on such pressing topics as migration, ecumenism, and the church in the digital age. This volume will introduce Dulles to an emerging generation of scholars and deepen the appreciation of Dulles for those who are familiar with his work.”

—NIC HOLAS RAD E MAC HE R, C ABRINI U NIV E RSITY

The Survival of Dulles

Reflections on a Second Century of Influence M IC HA E L M . C A NA R I S , Editor

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This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the volume offers both historical analyses of Dulles’s contributions and applications of his insights and methodologies to current issues like immigration, exclusion, and digital culture. It includes essays by Dulles’s students, colleagues, and peers, as well as by emerging scholars who have been and continue to be indebted to his theological vision and encyclopedic fluency in the ecclesiological developments of the post-conciliar Church.

Though focused more on Catholic and ecumenical affairs than interreligious ones, the volume is intentionally outward-facing and strives to make clear the diverse and pluralistic contours of the cardinal’s nearly unrivaled impact on the North American Church, which truly crossed ideological, denominational, and generational boundaries. While critically recognizing the limits and lacunae of his historical moment, it serves as one among a multitude of testaments to the notion that the ripples of Avery Dulles’s influence continue to widen toward intellectually distant shores.

Contributors: H. Ashley Hall, Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., Michael C. McCarthy, S.J., Most Rev. James Massa, Peter C. Phan, Stephanie Ann Puen, Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., Katherine G. Schmidt, Vincent L. Strand, S.J., Terrence W. Tilley, Mary Beth Yount MICHAEL M. CANARIS is Assistant Professor of Ecclesiology and Systematic Theology at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies.

The Refuge Press The Refuge Press is an independent humanitarian imprint that was founded in 2019.

Following on from a successful International Humanitarian Affairs Series through Fordham University Press, The Refuge Press, with Brendan Cahill as its publisher, publishes four books per year. The Refuge Press books challenge humanitarian thinking and offer personal and professional reflections on global crises.

Blood of Two Streams Gender Balance in Parental Legacy

F R A NC I S M A DI N G DE N G 290 pages, 18 b/w illustrations 9780823297627, Paperback, $24.95, £18.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available The Refuge Press INTERNATION AL H UM AN I TAR I AN AF FAI R S SUDA N | SOUT H S UDAN | G EN EALO GY MA RCH

This book—part memoir, part political statement— examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal.

is currently Deputy Rapporteur of South Sudan National Dialogue and Roving Ambassador. He formerly held the positions of Sudan’s Ambassador to the Nordic countries, Canada, and the United States; Sudan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; the first Permanent Representative of South Sudan to the United Nations; Human Rights Officer in the UN Secretariat; Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Internally Displaced Persons; and Special Advisor of the Secretary General for the Prevention of Genocide. He holds an LLB (honors) from Khartoum University and an LLM and JSD from Yale University. He has written or edited more than forty scholarly books on a wide variety of subjects and two novels on the crisis of identity in the Sudan. Dr. Deng has held senior positions in leading American universities and think tanks.

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