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A Guide to The Guide to
the Perplexed
A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork
Lenn Goodman
February 2024 247pp
9781503637474 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503629530 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring Maimonides' treatments of revelation, religious practice and experience, law and ritual, the problem of evil, and the rational purposes of the commandments, this guide to the Guide explains the tactics Maimonides deployed to ensure that readers not get in over their heads when venturing into philosophical deep waters.
A Theology of Creation Ecology, Art, and Laudato Si'
Thomas S. Hibbs
Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
August 2023 210pp 4 color illus.
9780268205621 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Hibbs shows how certain strains of modern art both capture our alienation and anticipate visions of recovered harmony among persons, nature, and God. Throughout this tour de force, Hibbs calls for a commitment to an “ecological poetics,” a project that responds to the crisis of our times by taking poets and painters as seriously as philosophers and theologians.
an other
a black feminist consideration of animal life
Sharon Patricia Holland
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
August 2023 344pp 22 illus.
9781478025078 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478020097 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals, spotlighting those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. By focusing on doing rather than being, Holland demonstrates that Black life is not solely likened to animal life; it is relational and world-forming with animal lives.
A Philosophy of Belonging Persons, Politics, Cosmos
James Greenaway
The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics
August 2023 338pp
9780268206024 £45.00/ $50.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In A Philosophy of Belonging, Greenaway treats the notion of belonging as an intrinsically philosophical one. After all, belonging raises intense questions of personal self-understanding, identity, mortality, and longing. Experiences of alienation, exclusion, and despair become conspicuous only because we are already moved by a primordial desire to belong.
Aesthetic Action
Florian Klinger
January 2024 386pp
9781503636972 £72.00/ $80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In conversation with philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe; political thinkers such as Marx and Lorde; and contemporary interlocutors such as Michael Thompson, Sebastian Rödl, and Thomas Khurana, Klinger's book makes a case for a conception of the human form that systematically includes the aesthetic: an actualization of the form that is indeterminate and nevertheless rational.
Anteaesthetics Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form
Rizvana Bradley
Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics
October 2023 400pp
9781503637139 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503633025 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its threshold and aporia.
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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"
Mary P. Nichols
July 2023 356pp
9780268205454 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the divine into his “philosophizing about human affairs”. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle, both piety and politics are central to a human life and that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine but also an awareness of a divinity that we cannot entirely fathom.
Becoming Foucault
The Poitiers Years
Michael C. Behrent
Intellectual History of the Modern Age
December 2023 320pp 15 b&w
9781512825145 £40.00/ $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Behrent presents a historical reconstruction of the world in which Foucault grew up and shows how Foucault’s early experiences surfaced in his later work, offering a unique interpretation of key aspects of his thought.
Black Enlightenment
Surya Parekh
August 2023 216pp
9781478025191 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478020264 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the work of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697–1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (ca. 1729–1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753–1784) alongside that of their white European contemporaries David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
Beautiful Ugliness
Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts
Mark William Roche
October 2023 520pp 63 color illus., 2 b&w illus.
9780268207014 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Many great artworks include elements of ugliness. Roche’s authoritative monograph challenges current practices of the dominant aesthetic schools by exploring the role of ugliness in art and literature. Roche offers a comprehensive and unique framework that integrates philosophical and theological reflection.
Beyond the Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art
Grant H. Kester
January 2024 288pp 7 illus.
9781478025344 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020585 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative with greater possibilities for critical practice. Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for political transformation.
Casablanca's Conscience
Robert Weldon Whalen
February 2024 160pp
9781531504809 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781531504793 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca which remains one of the world's most enduringly favorite movies. Applying a new lens to an old classic, Whalen focuses on the film's timeless themes and engages the fictional characters against the philosophical and theological discourse of their real contemporaries.
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Diary of a Philosophy Student
Volume 3, 1926-30
Simone de Beauvoir
Enlightened Spirituality
Immanuel Kant, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Neibuhr
Translated
& edited
by Barbara Klaw Beauvoir Series
January 2024 296pp
9780252045646 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Written between the age of eighteen and twentyone, the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into Beauvoir’s thoughts while illuminating the people and ideas swirling around her. The pages offer rare insights into Beauvoir’s intellectual development; her early experiences with love, desire, and freedom; and relationships.
Estado Vegetal Performance and Plant-Thinking
Edited by Giovanni Aloi
Art After Nature
November 2023 176pp 13 b&w illus.
9781517913083 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781517913076 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This first book dedicated to Infante’s plant-focused performance features eight essays by scholars, poets, and artists whose practices draw from research fields as disparate as new materialism, anthropogenic feminism, queer studies, and speculative realism. This book is at once a critical plant studies primer and an artistic problematization of the philosophical questions that have been central to the latest multidisciplinary discussions on plantbeing.
Friendship
The Future of an Ancient Gift
Claudia
Baracchi
December 2023 160pp
Edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach & Amanda Avila Kaminski
Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality
9781531505738 £8.99/ $9.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christian spirituality rests on the constituent role that morality, and ethics. Kant’s work serves as a bridge between the spirituality displayed in the Medieval and Reformation periods and the deep questions that modern Christians face today.
Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against Melancholy
Elie
Wiesel
Introduction by Irving Greenberg
October 2023 188pp 1 b&w illus., 1 map, 1 table
9780268207274 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Wiesel presents the stories of four Hasidic masters with direct attention to their premonitions of the tragedy of the Holocaust. We are invited to truly understand their work both as religious figures studying and pursuing the divine and as humans trying their best to survive in a world rampant with pain and suffering.
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics
Translated by
Elena Bartolini & Catherine Fullarton
Studies in Continental Thought
September 2023 160pp
9780253067357 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253067340 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the philosophical underpinnings of friendship. Tackling the issue of friendship in the era of Facebook and online social networks requires courage and even a certain impertinence. Focusing on the works of Aristotle, Baracchi explores ancient reflections on friendship, in the belief they have much to teach us about present day relationships .
Edited by William
C. Bausman & Janella K. Baxter
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
January 2024 352pp 20 b&w illus. and two tables
9781517916718 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9781517916701 £143.00/ $160.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This book examines how to reconcile the methods of biological practice with metaphysical cosmology, specifically the origins of life. The contributors take up a wide range of traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science topics, including natural kinds, medicine, ecology, genetics and more.
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Fugitive Time
Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
Matthew Omelsky
December 2023 288pp 19 illus., including 12 in color
9781478025382 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020615 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury black art to outline the distinct utopian desire directed at the moment when pain vanishes from the body and mind, bringing with it a form of being that is free of the violence that has consumed blackness.
Gramsci at Sea
Sharad Chari
Forerunners: Ideas First
August 2023 106pp
9781517915919 £8.99/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How might an oceanic Gramsci speak to Black aquafuturism and other forms of oceanic critique?
Chari argues that the imprisoned militant’s method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexciyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to “storm” us on different shores.
God without the Idea of Evil
Jean-Miguel Garrigues, O.P.
Translated by Gregory
Casprini, O.S.B.
September 2023 200pp 1 b&w illus.
9780268205416 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In God without the Idea of Evil, well-known French Catholic theologian Jean-Miguel Garrigues, O.P., seeks to rise above the apparent contradiction of faith and the existence of evil, suffering, and death. The book invites us to rediscover in the eyes of Jesus the eternal, continually renewed charm of the divine gaze.
Hegel
The Philosopher of Freedom
Klaus Vieweg
Translated by Sophia
Kottman & Paul A. Kottman
December 2023 448pp
9781503630574 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this landmark biography, the philosopher Klaus Vieweg paints a new picture of the life and work of the most important representative of German idealism. His vivid portrait provides readers an intimate account of Hegel's times and the milieu in which he developed his thought, along with detailed, clear-sighted analyses of Hegel's four major works.
Hermes I Communication
Michel Serres Translated by Louise Burchill
Posthumanities
December 2023 360pp 8 b&w illus.
9780816678839 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780816678822 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
For the first time in English, this is the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works. Hermes I embarks on a reflection concerning the history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz and culminates by way of a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas, Molière, Verne, and the story of Cinderella.
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents
Frank Ruda
Translated by Heather H. Yeung
October 2023 224pp
9781531505325 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531505318 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book problematizes predominant and intuitive understandings of freedom as natural capacity. It demonstrates how these conceptions emerge with modernity, notably capitalist modernity and how philosophy from its modern inception is a critique of capitalism and its notion of freedom.
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Law by Night
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Global and Insurgent Legalities
November 2023 328pp 2 illus.
9781478025351 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020530 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asks what we can learn about modern law and its authority by understanding how it operates in the dark of night. He outlines how the social experience and cultural meanings of night promote racialized and gender violence, but also make possible freedom of movement for marginalized groups that might be otherwise unavailable during the day.
Nietzsche's Posthumanism
Edgar Landgraf
Posthumanities
September 2023 280pp
9781517915339 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517915322 £100.00/ $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche’s thought for our time. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism— Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies.
On Inception
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Peter Hanly Studies in Continental Thought
October 2023 196pp
9780253066848 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
On Inception deepens the investigation underway in the other volumes of the series and provides a unique perspective on Heidegger's thinking of Being and of Event. Here, Heidegger asks, with a greater insistence than anywhere else in his work, what it might mean to think of being as event, and not as presence.
Modern Jewish Theology
The First One Hundred Years, 1835–1935
Edited by Samuel J. Kessler & George Y. Kohler
JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought
December 2023 472pp index
9780827615137 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This book is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the era, explorations of Judaism’s identity, uniqueness, and relevance, the origin of ethical monotheism, and Jewish existentialism.
Of Effacement Blackness and Non-Being
David Marriott
Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics
November 2023 408pp
9781503637252 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503628786 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. He thus develops the basis for a reading of blackness by recasting its effacement as an identity, while insisting on it as a fundamental question for philosophy.
On the Ground
Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics
O'neil Van Horn
December 2023 224pp
9781531505561 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531505554 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene. Using the philosophical and theological idea of “ground,” Horn offers a symbol for conceiving the effects of climate change as collective and yet located. In so doing, he offers critical interventions on theorizations of hope and political action amid the crises of climate change.
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Philosophizing the Americas
Edited by Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo
Estévez
October 2023 352pp
9781531504915 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531504922 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature.
Pope Francis and Mercy
A Dynamic Theological Hermeneutic
Gill K. Goulding, CJ
September 2023 276pp
9780268206444 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Goulding, CJ, examines for the first time the critical and determinative role of mercy in Francis’s papacy using his homilies, allocutions, encyclicals, and addresses as primary sources. Goulding traces the theme of mercy in Francis’s thought, attending to its Ignatian foundations and its Christological, Trinitarian, and ecclesiological significance for the Church today.
Salvation in Henri de Lubac
Plato's "Letters"
The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
Plato
Translated by Ariel Helfer
Agora Editions
December 2023 294pp
9781501772894 £38.00/ $41.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's letters as a work of Platonic philosophy.
Revenant Ecologies
Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation
Audra Mitchell
February 2024 392pp 5 b&w illus.
9781517906818 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517906801 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of “extinction,” “conservation,” and “biodiversity,” Mitchell fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives.
Sensitive Witnesses
Divine
Grace,
Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross
Eugene R. Schlesinger
July 2023 280pp
9780268205539 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The writings of Henri de Lubac have left an indelible mark on Catholic theology, preparing the ground for the seminal event of twentieth-century Catholicism: the Second Vatican Council. Schlesinger claims that unless we understand de Lubac and his work we risk reducing him to a proxy in the struggle for postconciliar Catholic self-definition.
Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment
Kristin M. Girten
February 2024 216pp
9781503633032 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book explores the feminist materialist practice of sensitive witnessing, establishing an alternate history of the emergence of the scientific method in the 18th century. Francis Bacon and other male natural philosophers regularly downplayed the embodied nature of their observations.
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Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts
Edited by Elizabeth Stewart
November 2023 200pp
9781478024781 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à l’acte” can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir” on the sociopolitico-cultural scene.
The Affect Theory Reader 2
Worldings, Tensions, Futures
Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth & Carolyn Pedwell
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
November 2023 504pp 13 illus.
9781478024910 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781478020196 £107.00/ $119.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies.
The Essence of Reality
A Defense of Philosophical
Sufism
ʿAyn al-Quḍāt
Translated by Mohammed
Rustom Foreword by Livia
Kohn
Library of Arabic Literature
November 2023 270pp
9781479826278 £12.99/ $15.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Consists of one hundred brief chapters with Qurʾanic verses, prophetic sayings, Sufi maxims, and poetry. The book takes readers on a philosophical journey, with lucid expositions of questions including the eternity of the world; the nature of God’s essence; and the soul’s relationship to the body.
Styles of Seriousness
Steven Connor
October 2023 248pp
9781503636866 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503636453 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most poignantly indeterminate, perhaps because of the impossibility of being completely serious.
The Anarchy of Black Religion
A Mystic Song
J. Kameron Carter
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
August 2023 216pp 2 illus.
9781478025030 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478020042 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter examines the philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to theorize religion as a central feature of settler colonialism and racial capitalism. By enacting a black study of religion, Carter elucidates the violence of religion as the violence of modern life while also opening an alternate praxis of the sacred.
The Guide to the Perplexed
A New Translation
Moses Maimonides
Translated by Lenn E. Goodman & Phillip I.
Lieberman
February 2024 720pp
9780804787383 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Goodman and Lieberman's extensive commentary provides historical context and philosophical enlightenment, giving access to the nuances and complexities of what is widely agreed to be the most significant text on medieval Jewish thought. A work that offers hope of harmonizing religious commitments and scientific understanding.
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The Logic of Hatred
From Witch Hunts to the Terror Jacob Rogozinski
Translated by Sepehr Razavi
Afterword by Carlo Ginzburg
January 2024 336pp
9781531505363 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531505356 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a philosophical and historical genealogy of persecution focused on two significant events: the witch-hunt that took place during the Renaissance and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. It shows how hatred manifests itself in persecution and terror apparatuses.
The Sovereign Self Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-
Garde
Grant H. Kester
August 2023 280pp 2 illus.
9781478020424 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478019961 £94.00/ $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society—through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis.
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition
Graham James McAleer
Alexander S. Rosenthal-
Pubul Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
December 2023 330pp
9780268207427 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In this book, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. They make a case for a political orientation that they call “conservative humanism,” which threads a middle way between liberal universalism and its ideological alternatives
The Perversity of Gratitude An Apartheid Education
Grant Farred
December 2023 226pp
9781439924976 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781439924969 £94.00/ $104.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Brings to bear the work of influential philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. The book tackles broad philosophical concepts— transgression, withdrawal, and the dialectic. This leads to the creation of a new concept, “the diaspora-in-place,” which Farred explains, “is having left a place before one physically removes oneself from this place.”
The War That Must Not Occur
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise
September 2023 192pp
9781503635159 £21.99/ $25.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, JeanPierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur.
Totalitarianism
A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
Simona Forti
Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
January 2024 184pp
9781503637375 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503627505 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present?
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Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881)
Volume 13
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Complete Works of Friedrich
Nietzsche
December 2023 368pp
9781503636989 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780804728867 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from 1879 to 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the Human, All Too Human trilogy.
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
Eli Friedlander
Cultural Memory in the Present
January 2024 344pp
9781503637702 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503636552 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently explores what the natural in the human comes to, that is, how nature is transformed, actualized, redeemed, and overcome in human existence. The book progresses gradually from Benjamin's philosophically fundamental writings on language and nature to his Goethean empiricism, from the presentation of ideas to the primal history of the Paris arcades.
Who Are My People?
Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emmanuel Katongole
Contending Modernities
July 2023 244pp 12 b&w illus., 4 maps, 1 table
9780268202576 £29.99/ $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent that is often riddled with violence. The driving assumption behind the investigation is that the recurring forms of violence in Africa reflect an ongoing crisis of belonging. This investigation shows that Christianity can generate alternative forms of community and nonviolent agency.
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino Reality in Trouble
Isabelle Stengers
Translated by Andrew Goffey
Experimental Futures
November 2023 264pp
9781478025207 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020295 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book addresses the challenges of modern, scientific, and technical thinking without the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary. Stenger develops an “ecology of practices” into a capacious and diverse view of cultural and political forces.
White Musical Mythologies
Sonic Presence in Modernism
Edmund Mendelssohn
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
September 2023 306pp
9781503636637 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636347 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism.
Zimzum
God and the Origin of the World Christoph Schulte
Jewish Culture and Contexts
November 2023 424pp 37 illus.
9781512824353 £58.00/ $64.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. This has fascinated Jewish and Christian theologians, philosophers, and writers like no other Kabbalistic teaching. This book follows the traces of the zimzum across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over more than four centuries.
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