2014 Columbia UP Philosophy Catalogue

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A Letter from the Philosophy Editor It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2015. These titles, which span subjects from aesthetics to ethics, logic, animal studies, Asian philosophy, philosophy of religion, and critical and political theory, reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list and exemplify the quality of scholarship that we value.

Among the many outstanding titles in this year’s wide-ranging catalog several deserve special attention. Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?, edited by philosopher Akeel Bilgrami and sociologist Jonathan Cole, explores the importance of academic freedom in the US, its protection by the First Amendment, and recent attempts by different groups and tendencies in our society to impede it. It contains 17 essays written by well-known academics including Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, and Judith Butler. Cloud of the Impossible, by ecotheologian Catherine Keller, offers a history of the unknown, the impossible, the unspeakable, and the unthinkable, a progressive force that disrupts traditional religion, globalism, and imperialism, from the multiple perspectives of continental philosophy, feminist and ecological theology, quantum theory, literature, and politics. Teresa, My Love, by psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, is a monumental work of hybrid genres—fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy—which interweaves elements of biography, autobiography, epistolary exchanges, theatrical dialogue, musical scores, and photographs of sculptures and paintings to reconstruct the life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Blood: A Critique of Christianity, by philosopher and religion scholar Gil Anidjar, is a profound examination of the symbol of blood throughout Western Christian history and culture and how it has shaped our vision of everything from religion and community to biology to law and nation to our concept of commerce.

Other innovative authors and projects include Michael Marder on the history of plants in Western philosophy, a collection of feminist Antoinette Fouque’s groundbreaking writings, sociologist Hartmut Rosa on the acceleration of time in modern society—and Lutz Koepnick on deceleration as a corrective, and Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat on the perilous state of the European Union today. I am sure that you will find much to enjoy and ponder in these pages. I, and my colleagues at Columbia University Press, look forward to continuing our dialogue.

Wendy Lochner Publisher, Philosophy, Religion, Political Theory, Animal Studies

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CONTENTS

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Forthcoming February

Continental Philosophy.................................. 3 Philosophy, Aesthetics & Theory.................. 16 Political Philosophy & Critical Theory..........26 Ethics, Environmental Philosophy/ Animal Studies............................................. 36 Philosophy & Religion..................................45 Asian & Islamic Philosophy..........................49 Analytic Philosophy, Logic & Linguistics.....51 Ordering Information...................................55 Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the Philosophy editor, Wendy Lochner at wl2003@columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.columbia.edu Most titles in this catalogue published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears for a title, it is most likely available from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada.

Titles published by The Chinese University Press, The University of Tokyo Press, Hong Kong University Press, Auteur Press, European Consortium for Political Research Press, and the Social Science Research Council are available from Columbia only in North America. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.

There Are Two Sexes Essays in Feminology Antoinette Fouque Foreword by Jean-Joseph Goux

Touching on issues in history and biography, politics and psychoanalysis, Fouque recounts her experiences running the first women’s publishing house in Europe; supporting women under threat; and serving as deputy in the European Parliament. Her theoretical explorations discuss the ongoing development of feminology, a field she initiated, and while she celebrates the progress women have made over the past four decades, she also warns against the trends of counter-liberation: the feminization of poverty, the persistence of sexual violence, and the rise of religious fundamentalism. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16986-8 February 2015 352 pages

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regimes of historicity presentism and experiences of time françois hartog t r a n s l at e d by saskia brown

Regimes of Historicity

Moved by the Past

Presentism and Experiences of Time

Discontinuity and Historical Mutation

François Hartog

Eelco Runia

In this series of meditative chapters, [Hartog] takes us from the Greeks to the present... emphasizing how the theory of history must move from diagnosing the modern gap between expectation and experience to confronting the exigency of historical crisis today. Hartog's reflections are valuable for all humanists."

— Samuel Moyn, Columbia University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16376-7 February 2015 288 pages European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

"Just when the philosophy of history seems to have lost its zip, along comes Eelco Runia to energize it. In elegant and exhilarating prose, these brilliant discussions of historical discontinuity, the presence of the past, selfinvention, and related topics set the field on a new track. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in what history is and can be."

— Brian Fay, Wesleyan University “Runia lays the fundaments of a new philosophy of history. A fascinating book."

— Jörn Rüsen, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16820-5 2014 264 pages European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Forthcoming February who’s A F RA ID of

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Teresa, My Love

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, where coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.

Julia Kristeva Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life.

Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Kristeva’s probing alterego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-14960-0 November 2014 648 pages / 18 illus.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16880-9 February 2015 448 pages

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Alienation Rahel Jaeggi "With this masterful reconstruction of the concept of alienation, Jaeggi opens fruitful new avenues for critical theory. She also claims her place as a powerful exponent of social philosophy and a thinker of the first rank. Her book is a tour de force of cogent argumentation and rich phenomenological description."

— Nancy Fraser, The New School “Jaeggi is not only thoroughly learned in both the continental and analytic traditions. She does what is quite rare: she brings these traditions into a highly productive synthesis.

A very impressive achievement."

— Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15198-6 2014 304 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists Simon Lumsden Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy’s problematic concepts—the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel’s thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point these traditions in exciting new directions.

Revisiting the philosopher’s key texts, Lumsden calls attention to Hegel’s reformulation of liberal and Cartesian conceptions of subjectivity, identifying a critical though unrecognized continuity between poststructuralism and German idealism. $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16822-9 2014 288 pages

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Time and Contemporary Culture

Wrestling with the Angel

Our Broad Present

Experiments in Symbolic Life

Time and Contemporary Culture

Tracy McNulty

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

“Arguing that the force of the Symbolic must be experienced concretely via positive constraints, McNulty pushes Lacanian theory to an unprecedented sophistication and highlights its relevance for ethical activism.

Wrestling with the Angel is a major book that redefines the foundations of contemporary political theory."

— Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "A stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today’s theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields."

— Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico

"Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s latest book offers a startling assessment of present-day cultural globalization, its seduction and its dangers.

It shows how our immediate access to every spatial and temporal aspect of world culture, while freeing us from the weight of history, divests our life from its concrete, palpable richness. A splendid essay by one of the liveliest contemporary thinkers, Our Broad Present is a must read for all those who care about the future of culture."

— Thomas G. Pavel, Gordon J. Laing, University of Chicago $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16361-3 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16360-6 2014 112 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16119-0 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16118-3 2014 320 pages / 3 illus.

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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a semite A Me m o i r o f A l g e r i a

Denis Guenoun Foreword b y Judith Butler

Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

A Semite

A Dialogue

A Memoir of Algeria

Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco

Denis Guénoun

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical “masters,” JeanPaul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou’s experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan’s death—critiquing, for example, the link (or lack thereof) between politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan’s work.

Their exchange reinvigorates how the the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker is perceived. $19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-16511-2 65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16510-5 2014 112 pages

Foreword by Judith Butler

"Drawing on his own recollections as well as documents that offer an official chronicle and letters and journals that pour out personal desires, Guénoun explores the complications of family and identity."

— Booklist René Guénoun called himself a Semite, a word that he felt united Jewish and Arab worlds and best reflected a shared origin. He also believed that Algerians had the same political rights as Frenchmen.

Although his Jewish family was rooted in Algeria, he inherited French citizenship and revered the principles of the French Revolution. His steadfast belief in liberty, equality, and fraternity led him into trouble, including prison and exile, yet his failures as an activist never shook his faith in a rational, generous future. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16402-3 2014 176 pages / 2 illus.

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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, & What a “Good” Mother Would do

Ahmed the PhilosoPher Al AiN BAdioU 34 Short Plays for Children & Everyone Else

The Ethics of Ambivalence

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

Ahmed the Philosopher Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else

The Ethics of Ambivalence

Alain Badiou

Sarah LaChance Adams

Translated and with an Introduction by Joseph Litvak

"This is the most important book on maternal ethics since Sara Ruddick's Maternal Thinking. LaChance Adams is an eloquent new voice in feminist philosophy who gives us precisely the kind of thinking we need in a world in which idealized images and stories of perfect parents purified of ambivalent feelings toward their children are juxtaposed next to images and stories of cruel parentmonsters. This is a brave, passionate, intelligent, and honest account of the ethical intensities, battles, ambiguities, and promises of the parent-child relation."

— Bonnie Mann, University of Oregon $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16675-1 90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16674-4 2014 272 pages

"An outline of philosophy as a series of commedia dell’arte lazzi, Badiou audaciously stages his thought under the theatrical cover of the improvisations of Ahmed, a philosopher, punster, and thinker from the banlieux of Paris. These skits – slapstick, profound, scatological – insist on the political significance of Badiou’s thought even at its most abstract. Joseph Litvak deftly translates these Brechtian fables into an American idiom....

Richly stage-worthy, intellectually provocative, and at times as funny as Harry Frankfurt – really the only comparison among contemporary philosophers who comes to mind – this volume is also perhaps the best introduction to Badiou’s thought available in English."

— Martin Harries, University of California, Irvine $24.95 / £16.95 paper 978-0-231-16693-5 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16692-8 2014 216 pages

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Social Acceleration:

Love and War

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How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance

Hartmut Rosa Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys

"Hartmut Rosa has put forward the most developed and most important social theoretical analysis of the acceleration of time from the perspective of critical theory. His theory of social acceleration is of great importance, since it explains how our social lives are speeding up, and extends critical theory into a new and fruitful avenue of inquiry—and maybe even into a new generation of social theorizing and critique."

— Jerald Wallulis, University of South Carolina $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-14834-4 2013 512 pages 16 illus New Directions in Critical Theory

Tom Digby Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called “battle of the sexes” is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinity. These are among Tom Digby’s fascinating insights shared in Love and War, which describes the making and manipulation of gender in militaristic societies and the sweeping consequences for men and women in their personal, romantic, sexual, and professional lives. $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-16841-0 $65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16840-3 2014 240 pages / 1 illus.

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The Incident at Antioch/ L’Incident d’Antioche

Subjects of Desire Hegelian Reflections in TwentiethCentury France

A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

Judith Butler

Alain Badiou Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard and Translated by Susan Spitzer

“Between three Pauls, the apostle, Claudel, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Badiou revives the tradition of political theater. In language of unprecedented beauty, he portrays a city— both archaic and ultra-contemporary—whose prince is, or will be, a woman.”

—Catherine Malabou, University of Kingston Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, Badiou’s play features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to reconcile the nature and practice of politics. $22.95 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-15775-9 $69.50 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-15774-2 2013 216 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"Butler’s book . . . is an outstanding one, and deserves to be read by anyone interested in the question of the survival(s) of Hegel in contemporary French philosophy."

— Annals of Scholarship "What [Butler’s] account suggests is that the most damaging aspect of contemporary French Hegel reception is that its highly critical emphasis on the metaphysical issues of identity, rationality, and historical closure have so obscured Hegel’s original idealism... that the rejection of Hegel brings with it, with a kind of dialectical necessity, the return of the pre-Hegelian, even the pre-Kantian, a kind of naive hope for ‘immediacy’ and, paradoxically, a commitment to a realism that the idealist tradition was to have finished off."

— The Philosophical Review $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15999-9 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15998-2 2012 304 pages

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Deleuze Beyond Badiou

The Art of Philosophy

Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event

Wisdom as a Practice

Clayton Crockett

Peter Sloterdijk

"Offers insightful interpretations of several of Deleuze's major works." — Choice

"A spirited brief for Aristotelian-moderated philosophy." — Chronicle of Higher Education

"Crockett constructs a philosophical framework that enables us to envisage the detailed and ramified terms of an engagement between two very powerful thinkers, and in so doing provides us with an indispensable text."

—Kenneth Surin, Duke University

“I am unaware of any other writer who so successfully merges creative rethinking of the philosophical and religious past. In this respect, I think Sloterdijk’s work represents for me something like a gold standard. It is humorous, provocative, and deeply insightful.” —Ward Blanton, University of Kent

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Philosophical Temperaments

Cut of the Real

From Plato to Foucault Peter Sloterdijk

Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy

Translated by Thomas Dunla

Katerina Kolozova

“A highly engaging read."

— Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Sloterdijk is not only an original thinker, he is probably on the way to being one of the world’s most prominent ‘public philosophers.’ In this book, he provides brief, highly charged and colorful readings of the character, life, and ideas of the leading Western philosophers.”

— Carl Raschke, University of Denver $19.95 / £13.95

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$59.50 / £41.00 cloth 978-0-231-15372-0 2013 136 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"Cut of the Real is an important and original contribution to the complex discussions relating to subjectivity and identity. Through her nuanced reading of Lacan and Laruelle, Kolozova creates a powerful argument for a notion of democratic love that allows us to break through some of the ambiguities that have attended discussions of subjectivity, human nature, and the possibility of meaningful or radical social change. Her book is a must-read in fields as diverse as philosophy, anthropology, and law."

— Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University "An important contribution to ongoing debates in feminist theory, queer theory, gender theory, and race theory, as well as the newly emerging philosophical trend of speculative realism....Kolozova’s book is the best introduction to Laruelle’s thought to date."

— Levi R. Bryant, Collin College $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16610-2 2014 208 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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self AND EMOTIONAL LIFE philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience adrian johnston | catherine m alabou

Self and Emotional Life

Nomadic Theory

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

The Portable Rosi Braidotti

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

“At a time when intellectual discourse is becoming increasingly disciplinary, Braidotti opens a path for broad discussion and debate."

—Elizabeth Weed, Brown University

"A major contribution to the important materialist turn in continental philosophy."

— Notre Dame Philosophical Review "A timely and wholly original intervention into one of the most debated questions of recent years: the place of the affects in psychoanalytic, neuroscientific, and philosophical accounts of the subject. It is doubly valuable in being authored by two scholars of the stature of Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou, philosophers whose range and depth of erudition in recent and emerging scholarship in the neurosciences (especially work on the 'emotional brain') and in clinical psychoanalysis seem to be without peer among scholars working at this intersection today." — Tracy McNulty, Cornell University $32.50 / £22.50 paper 978-0-231-15831-2 $99.50 / £68.50 cloth 978-0-231-15830-5 2013 304 pages

Rosi Braidotti

Nomadic Theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over the past decade, crept into continental philosophy, queer theory, and feminist, postcolonial, techno-science, media, and race studies, as well as into architecture, history, and anthropology. This collection provides a core introduction to Braidotti’s nomadic theory and its innovative formulations, which playfully engage with Deleuze, Foucault, Irigaray, and a host of political and cultural issues. $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15191-7 $84.50 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-15190-0 2012 416 pages Gender and Culture Series

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Situating Existentialism

The Call of Character

Key Texts in Context

Living a Life Worth Living

Edited by Jonathan Judaken

Mari Ruti

and Robert Bernasconi A Choice Outstanding Academic Title "The essays are uniformly of high quality... highly recommended." — Choice “If existentialism had any one overriding aim, it was to convince us that we can transcend our contexts, defy convention, and rebel against historical destiny. Yet, with the passage of time, existentialism has seemed more and more an expression of a specific moment and milieu that are no longer our own. These learned and insightful essays provide ample evidence of the parallax vision needed to situate existentialism in its multiple temporal and spatial contexts while allowing us to believe it may still have enduring meaning beyond them all.”

—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley $34.50 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-14775-0 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-14774-3 2012 440 pages

"The Call of Character engages questions of perennial interest to philosophers, theorists, and all individuals, and Mari Ruti is perhaps uniquely qualified to write it. She has an uncanny ability to translate complex theoretical issues into clear and readable—yet not the least bit dumbed-down—prose. Her treatment of the timeless question (what makes for a good life?) is both original and insightful. I wholeheartedly recommend this book."

— Amy Allen, Dartmouth College $25.00 / £17.50 cloth 978-0-231-16408-5 2013 224 pages

Forthcoming in paper, January

Plato’s Republic A Dialogue in 16 Chapters Alain Badiou Translated by Susan Spitzer and Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

"A lively rendering. . . . Those familiar with Plato’s Republic will still hear Plato’s voice in this engaging rendition." — Library Journal "A must read for students of Badiou."

— Choice $24.00 paper 978-0-231-16017-9 $35.00 cloth 978-0-231-16016-2 January 2015 400 pages

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Lutz Koepnick Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past. Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Lutz Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations.

"In this passionate and rigorous meditation on the vexed issue of the politics of art, Gabriel Rockhill examines the theses of Wittgenstein, Sartre, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukacs, Bürger and Rancière to argue that it is as wrong to “politicize aesthetics” as to “aestheticize politics.” Since neither art nor politics can be founded ontologically, this lack of transcendence brings a saving grace.

Understood as a historical field of collective negotiations, art recaptures its critical edge, its activist agency, and its social relevance."

— Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15201-3 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-15200-6 2014 288 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16832-8 2014 336 pages 44 illus.

Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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PHILOSOPHY, AESTHETICS & THEORY f i l m wo rl ds

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a p h i los o p h i cal aesthetics of cinema

HEAD CASES julia kristeva on philosophy and art in depressed times

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Film Worlds

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A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times

Daniel Yacavone "A half-century after Jean Mitry’s magisterial integration of classical film theory, Daniel Yacavone has done the same for its modern counterpart, managing not just to reconcile, but to recruit the extremes of cognitivism and of phenomenology for his prodigious satellite mapping of the terrae incognitae he rightly calls 'Film Worlds'..... Yacavone delivers a stable and progressive suite of concepts that address films as texts and as embodied affect, He has culled these from a balanced review of an impressive roster of film theorists as well as of the 20th century thinkers many of them have drawn on, some of whom, notably Nelson Goodman and Ernst Cassirer, have been waiting in the wing to contribute to a compelling vision like Yacavone’s. That vision not only illuminates how films work but how they work on us, and even work for us."

— Dudley Andrew, Yale University

Elaine P. Miller Reviewing Kristeva’s corpus, Elaine P. Miller considers the intellectual’s “aesthetic idea” and “thought specular” in their capacity to reshape depressive thought on both the individual and cultural level. Focusing on specific artworks that illustrate Kristeva’s ideas, from ancient Greek tragedy to early photography, contemporary installation art, and film, Miller positions creative acts as a form of “spiritual inoculation” against the violence of our society and its discouragement of thought and reflection. $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16682-9 2014 264 pages Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15769-8 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15768-1 December 2014 344 pages / 17 illus.

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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction Environment and Affect Heather Houser Tracing the development of ecosickness through a compelling archive of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives deploy. In chapters on David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marge Piercy, Jan Zita Grover, and David Wojnarowicz, Heather Houser shows how narrative affects such as wonder and disgust organize perception of an endangered world and orient us ethically toward it. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16514-3 2014 328 pages / 5 illus.

Literature Now

Photography and Its Violations John Roberts "Photography and Its Violations poses a world-transforming ethical challenge to photography’s makers, subjects, and viewers alike: to reveal or conceal the exercise of power. Armed with John Roberts’s insights into the often insidious, sometimes enfranchising, always intricate interplay of these two opposing violations, sensitive readers will be empowered and emboldened as they battle for position amid the tsunami of photographs that has come to define our world."

— Blake Stimson, University of Illinois at Chicago Theorists critique photography for “objectifying” its subjects and manipulating appearances for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photography’s violating powers of disclosure and aesthetic technique as part of a complex “social ontology” that exposes the hierarchies, divisions, and exclusions behind appearances. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16818-2 2014 232 pages Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

Lubitsch Can't Wait

Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

A Collection of Ten Philosophical Discussions on Ernst Lubitsch's Film Comedy

William Rothman “Nobody knows the films of Alfred Hitchcock better than William Rothman. The idea of linking these wonderful and dense films with an Emersonian vision is inspired. Rothman’s training in philosophy combines lucidly with his lifelong devotion to film in producing a work of originality and authority.”

— Stanley Cavell, Harvard University “While Rothman draws his examples from all across the Hitchcock canon, his work remains resolutely and productively philosophical in that he grapples with the history of Hitchcock’s thinking about film, his thinking with and through film. In tracking Hitchcock’s ruminations on love, murder, and mortality Rothman both deepens and illuminates our understanding of Hitchcock’s continued and uncanny appeal.”

— Leland Poague, Iowa State University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16603-4 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16602-7 2014 320 pages / 111 illus.

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Edited by Ivana Novak, Mladen Dolar, and Jela Krečič In this collection, renowned world thinkers and philosophers position Ernst Lubitsch as the premium director of subversive cinema, reflecting on his attitude toward love and politics which correspond to contemporary issues. Contributors focus on love as stealing, the ethics of style, and comedy in times of austerity in the director’s masterpiece, Trouble in Paradise (1932); discuss links between masochism, melancholia, and ideology in Ninotchka (1939); celebrate the ethical gesture of comedy in To Be or Not to Be (1942); and promote the revolutionary comic spirit of Lubitsch’s last directorial effort, Cluny Brown (1946). The essays highlight Lubitsch’s unique understanding of love, sex, comedy, and politics and idiosyncratic conception of totalitarian“nightmares” and capitalistic “paradise,” countering the non-dialectic and politically correct discourse of mainstream and independent cinema today. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-961-6417-84-6 2014 240 pages Slovenian Cinematheque

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IMAGINAL POLITICS

after the red army faction gender, culture, and militancy

I M AG E S B E YO N D I M AG I N AT I O N AND THE I M AG I N A RY

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Imaginal Politics

After the Red Army Faction

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

Gender, Culture, and Militancy

Chiara Bottici

Charity Scribner

Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15778-0 2014 272 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

"The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics." — Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of “All Power to the Imagination!”: Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture Masterminded and led by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s, and afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Žižek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Charity Scribner engages critical theory to address these questions and analyze signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism. $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16864-9 December 2014 312 pages / 30 illus

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Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

Are the Lips a Grave?

Ewa Ptonowksa Ziarek

Lynne Huffer

A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex

“Elegantly argued and often brilliant in its handling of diverse theoretical traditions, Ziarek’s book will speak equally to those interested in the longer history of post-Kantian art-philosophy and to those working in the more recent discourses of critical theory... a major contribution to several scholarly fields at once, likely to become a touchstone for those seeking rigorous but enabling language for the ways in which modernism continues to matter.”

— Dan Blanton, UC Berkeley

"Beautifully written and stimulating for the theorist and non-theorist alike."

— New Books in Gender Studies "Against the persistent rumor that feminism and queer theory can never be friends, Lynne Huffer recovers a wide—and at times wild— range of shared political and critical lineages.

Provocative, impassioned, and at times deeply personal, Are the Lips a Grave? is the first full-length defense of ‘queer feminism.’"

— Robyn Wiegman, Duke University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16417-7

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Globalectics Theory and the Politics of Knowing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o "In an ever-shrinking world, this book demonstrated the need to understand the similarities and differences in the stories we tell each other." — Publishers Weekly $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-15951-7 $24.00 / £16.50 cloth 978-0-231-15950-0 2014 120 pages Wellek Library Lectures

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To Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony Daniel Herwitz "A work of ebullient imagination, zest, and wit, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony explores the double life of heritage in the making of modern political identities—as both the fixed capital of national hegemony and the fluid currency of novel visions and claims. The book may evoke an aura of timeless homage, but heritage is also a riff in real time. In this acute exploration of its recent, postcolonial iterations, Daniel Herwitz shows that while its role remains much the same, its substance is constantly, ingeniously changing."

— Jean Comaroff, Harvard University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 2 978-0-231-16018-6 2012 232 pages / 24 illus.

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How to Live Together Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces Roland Barthes Translated by Kate Briggs

“This is Barthes at his inventive and idiosyncratic best: a brilliant and suggestive reader, both of literary texts and of the social, psychic, and affective spaces of everyday life.”

—Diana Knight, University of Nottingham In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes’s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. A distinct project that sets the tone for his subsequent lectures, How to Live Together is a key introduction to Barthes’s pedagogical methods and critical worldview. $26.95 / £18.95 paper 978-0-231-13617-4 $84.50 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-13616-7 2012 256 pages european perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticism

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Knock me up, Knock me d o w n

Night Passages PhilosoPhy, literature , and film

Images of

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Pregnancy In Hollywood

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Night Passages

Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down

Philosophy, Literature, and Film

Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films

Elisabeth Bronfen

Kelly Oliver

"[A] brilliantly idiosyncratic study." — Choice "[A] sprawling meditation on the meanings of the night; it is full of restless, probing insights."— Times Literary Supplement "Elisabeth Bronfen's Night Passages will take readers not only to the end of the night, but to its beginnings and middle as well. The nocturnal world of the ancient Greeks, of Shakespeare, Hegel, Freud, and film noir, of Mozart, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Martin Scorsese—it is all here. No other work deals so profoundly with what the human mind has imagined about life between sunset and sunrise."

— William Sharpe, Barnard College $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-14799-6 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-14798-9

"Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects" — Times Literary Supplement "In her characteristically lucid prose and with her incisive wit, Oliver easily engages the reader in this very timely and much needed analysis of representations of the pregnant body and birth in Hollywood film, ranging from the romantic comedy to horror and science fiction. Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down is as enjoyable and accessible as it is insightful."

— Pleshette DeArmitt, The University of Memphis $26.50 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16109-1 $79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16108-4 2012 248 pages

2013 496 pages / 21 illus.

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Deaths in Venice

Where Film Meets Philosophy

The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

Philip Kitcher "[An] outstanding, intellectually agile book, which sheds so much fresh light on Mann's work and on the philosophical questions that it explores."

— Times Literary Supplement "A thorough discussion of the possible relation of literature, and art in general, to philosophical thinking. It is this double intensity of perspectives—a double intensity that is never sacrificed in the one or the other direction—that makes reading the book a unique experience."

— Rudiger Campe, Yale University

Hunter Vaughan “A rewarding study that brings postwar philosophy into a shared legacy of cinema.”

— Tom Conley, Harvard University “Vaughan’s brilliant book places him on the cutting edge of contemporary studies that blend film and philosophy. Reconstructing and clarifying how film-philosophy renders fresh insight into the revolutionary potential of the moving film image, Vaughan opens a new dimension to thought and action.”

— Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16133-6

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The Utopia of Film

Crowds and Democracy

Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik

The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism

Christopher Pavsek

Stefan Jonsson

“At a time when older conceptions of political film have become outmoded, if not forgotten altogether, Christopher Pavsek unexpectedly reinvents this form through his pathbreaking examination of three neglected but extraordinary filmmakers. The Utopia of Film is a revelation and a resource.”

— Fredric Jameson, Duke University

"Jonsson traverses an extensive archive, delving into novels and artworks, philosophy, historiography, and psychoanalysis. From this remarkable interdisciplinary bricolage emerges a profound set of insights into the shifting notions of the masses during the interwar years.”

—Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan

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Forthcoming January

the union and its discontents

what does europe want?

ŽiŽek & horvat

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What Does Europe Want?

The Union and Its Discontents Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe’s growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. Although the European Union’s economic woes appear to be its greatest problem, Žižek and Horvat show that the real peril is an ongoing ideological–political crisis that threatens an era of instability and reactionary brutality. $25.00 paper 978-0-231-17107-6

Rawls and Religion Edited by Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile "John Rawls’s liberal theory of justice is one of the most exciting and influential developments in political philosophy for over a century. Yet, the place of religion for his philosophy remains underexplored. Rawls and Religion is the best collection available and essential reading on this topic with groundbreaking essays by leading philosophers in this field."

— Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government, Durham University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16799-4 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16798-7 January 2015 328 pages

$75.00 cloth 978-0-231-17106-9 January 2015 240 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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Social Inquiry After wittgenstein and kuhn john g. gunnell

Starve and Immolate

Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn

The Politics of Human Weapons

Leaving Everything as It Is

Banu Bargu

John G. Gunnell “John G. Gunnell vividly demonstrates the relevance of the insights of Wittgenstein and Kuhn to the conceptual, interpretive, and historical dimensions of social inquiry.

Indeed, with characteristic clarity and historical acumen, Gunnell presents Wittgenstein’s philosophy as the very basis for social inquiry and Kuhn’s history of science as an exemplar of that social inquiry in action. If, with Wittgenstein, ‘words are deeds,’ then the words in this book are deeds exceedingly well done."

— James Farr, Northwestern University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16940-0 November 2014 280 pages

"This extraordinary book movingly and effectively describes and analyzes the history of the death fast movement in the early years of the twenty-first century in Turkey. It is a treasure trove of material, both empirical and theoretical, making it at once a wonderful (though grim) account and a thoughtful reflection on what prisons do and how they do it, as well as what forms of resistance are effective or even possible when and where."

— Laleh Khalili, SOAS, University of London, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies $65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16340-8 2014 512 pages / 4 illus.

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The Power of Tolerance

Intimate Strangers

A Debate Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst; Edited by

Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse

Luca Di Blasi and Christoph F. E. Holzhey

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

"As a practice and a concept, tolerance counts as a major historical discovery in struggles against domination. Yet by casting the tolerant as the figure of virtue, and the tolerated or intolerant as its other, political discourses of toleration often mask and sustain relations of domination. In this brilliant exchange between the two leading theorists of toleration in contemporary political theory, Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst trace the tangled embrace of power and toleration in all its intricacy. The clarity, grace and humor of the dialogue make for highly enjoyable reading, as accessible to students as it is illuminating for experts."

— Melissa Williams, University of Toronto

"A finely argued contribution to the discussion of immigration."

— Kirkus Reviews "Intimate Strangers highlights the diverse stories of four iconic figures—Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said—and how their "stranger personas" were ambivalently received in America. It says as much about American culture as it does about "foreign" intellectuals. This book is a "must-read" for anyone interested in the politics and challenges of cultural identity."

— Michael Krausz, author of Oneness and the Displacement of Self: Dialogues on SelfRealization

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Adventures of the Symbolic P o s t-M a rx i s M a n d r a d i c a l d e M o c r a c y

Warren Breckman

Radical Cosmopolitics

Adventures of the Symbolic

The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism

Postmarxism and Democratic Theory Warren Breckman

James D. Ingram "James D. Ingram’s argument in defense of a ‘cosmopolitanism from below’ is not only admirably articulated and grounded in the history of ideas and a careful assessment of contemporary debates. It is also extremely courageous intellectually: being fully aware of the past and present mystifications that affect them, he gives up neither on implementing universalistic values nor on combining the ethical and the political. His ‘realism of possibility’ begins with prudence and leads to endeavor."

—Étienne Balibar, author of We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16110-7 2013 352 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

"[Breckman]addresses one of the most controversial and fascinating trends in postwar European social thought—the dismantling of the Marxian paradigm and the emergence of a new species of theory that casts light on the radically open and postfoundational character of democracy. Castoriadis, Lefort, Laclau, Mouffe, Gauchet, Žižek—these are names to conjure with, but to understand their contributions is another thing entirely.

Warren Breckman has the rare combination of theoretical lucidity and political acumen to guide us on this adventure" — Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University, author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14394-3 2013 376 pages Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

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the plebeian experience a discontinuous history of political freedom

martin breaugh translated by lazer lederhendler

Freedom's Right

The Plebeian Experience

The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom

Axel Honneth "This book represents a major statement of the distinctive perspective of a pivotal figure in the Frankfurt School tradition. Honneth's accounts of social freedom, normative reconstruction, and societal pathologies are sure to be points of reference within critical social theory for decades to come."

—Joel Anderson, Utrecht University Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world applications. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, constructing a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored in the law and institutionally established practices that possess moral legitimacy. $35.00 cloth 978-0-231-16246-3 2014 448 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

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Martin Breaugh Translated by Lazer Lederhen Foreword by Dick Howard

"A rich, discontinuous history of plebeian uprisings from the founding of republican Rome to the present. Martin Breaugh writes vividly of these holidays of the oppressed in ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, and modern Europe as seen through the eyes of Livy, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Marx, Thompson, Soboul, and Abensour. Those who follow the Occupy or the Aboriginal Idle No More Movements will obtain fresh insight and exhilaration from Breaugh’s highly readable account of these spontaneous struggles for dignity."

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The Disclosure of Politics

To Carl Schmitt

Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization

Letters and Reflections

María Pía Lara

Translated by Keith Tribe

Jacob Taubes

"Skillfully employing the tools of ‘conceptual history,’ María Pía Lara maps the convoluted discourse of secularization in Carl Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and the father of Begriffsgeschichte himself, Reinhart Koselleck. The result is not only a masterful vindication of a method but also a challenge to the glib assumption that we have reached a postsecular era in which politics can be traced back to its allegedly theological roots.

Instead, Lara makes a powerful case for a democratic politics of immanence only disclosed in a modern age facing problems that no restoration of a presecular past can solve."

—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16280-7 2013 256 pages New Directions in Critical Theory

In this collection of Jacob Taubes’s writings on Carl Schmitt, the two intellectuals work through ideas of the apocalypse and other central concepts of political theology.

Taubes acknowledges Schmitt’s reservations about the weakness of liberal democracy yet distances himself from his prescription to rectify it, arguing the apocalyptic worldview requires less of a rigid hierarchical social ordering than a community committed to the importance of decision making. In these writings, a sharper and more nuanced portrait of Schmitt’s thought emerges, as well as a more complicated understanding of Taubes, who has shaped the work of Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, and other major twentieth-century theorists. $18.50 / £13.00 cloth 978-0-231-15412-3 2013 120 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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A Farewell to Truth

The Scandal of Reason

Gianni Vattimo

A Critical Theory of Political Judgment

Translated by William McCuaig and Foreword by Robert T. Valgenti

"A Farewell to Truth is Gianni Vattimo's exciting philosophical manifesto for a credible political liberation, recognizing how, when faced with postmodern pluralism, the truth can only and necessarily appear as a matter of consensus over collective interpretations and shared paradigms. In this sense, Vattimo's claim that a farewell to (absolute and objectivistic) truths is 'the commencement and the very basis of democracy' is not only highly plausible but extraordinarily inspiring for those who have not lost hope that philosophy may (still and always) contribute politically and ethically to the fate of our contemporary globalized world."

— Silvia Benso, Rochester Insitute of Technology

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Albena Azmanova "Moving well beyond the earlier generation of discursive theories, [Azmanova] open[s] up new modalities of politics and provide[s] us with new ways of thinking about them."

— Constellations Combining Hannah Arendt’s study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu’s social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, Azmanova centers her inquiry on the way participants in moral conflicts attribute meaning to their grievances of injustice. She then demonstrates the emancipatory potential of the model of critical deliberative judgment she forges and its capacity to guide policy making.

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SPINOZA for

OUR TIME Politics and Postmodernity ANTONIO NEGRI Translated by William McCuaig with a foreword by Rocco Gangle

Spinoza for Our Time

Factory of Strategy

Politics and Postmodernity

Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

Antonio Negri;

Antonio Negri

Translated by William McCuaig.

Translated by Arianna Bove

With a foreword by Rocco Gangle

"There are very few authors who are able to supply the degree and force of insight that Antonio Negri does on the subject of contemporary continental political philosophy.

Even among those living thinkers who are as important as Negri, no oneis able to offer a substantive and creative account of the value of Spinoza for contemporary thought. It is precisely such an account that Negri here provides and in a way that makes original advances beyond even his more notable previous contributions."

— Daniel Colucciello Barber, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry $24.00 / £16.50 cloth 978-0-231-16046-9 2013 152 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"Factory of Strategy is a bracingly original and systematic inquiry into the development of the Russian revolutionary's political thought, bearing comparison with Lukács’s earlier Lenin. It doubles as a unique record of a crucial moment in Negri’s trajectory as a political philosopher and activist, when questions of strategy and insurrection were foremost in his mind. Among the most accessible, accomplished and vibrant pieces of Negri’s writing, it stands out for its effort to combine political pedagogy and ideological intervention."

—Alberto Toscano, University of London, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-14682-1 2014 368 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism Judith Butler "An incredibly important and timely book.

As always, Judith Butler generates a brilliant and rich argument through a series of readings, in this case complex and nuanced engagements with the work of Edward Said, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, and Mahmoud Darwish. Her book is intent on showing that one can develop from Jewish sources a perspective on Israel-Palestine that is nonZionist, and that it might even be possible to assert resistance to Zionism as itself a ‘Jewish’ value. These scare quotes are Butler’s, who constantly questions what it means to be Jewish."

—Amy Hollywood, Harvard University $19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-14611-1 $27.95/ £19.50 cloth 978-0-231-14610-4 2012 256 pages

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Hermeneutic Communism

The Lives of Erich Fromm

From Heidegger to Marx

Love's Prophet

Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala

Lawrence J. Friedman

“Vattimo and Zabala offer a refreshing alternative to the hegemonic discourse, a breath of fresh air from the violent imposition of 'metaphysics' by those in power.”

— Ceasefire Magazine

"The brilliantly comprehensive study of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm’s (1900–1980) many 'lives' as a clinician, philosopher, social critic and political activist...Academic biography at its best." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) $19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-16259-3

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2014 410 pages / 15 illus.

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Poli-

Reforming Democracies

tics, and Culture

The Wrath of Capital

Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda

Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics

Douglas A. Chalmers

Adrian Parr "An engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism" — Choice $23.00 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-15829-9

"Well written and thoughtful, this book should provoke conversations among those seeking changes to an imperfect system."

— Publishers Weekly $23.00 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-16295-1

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2014 192 pages / 15 illus.

Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

The Right to Justification Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice Rainer Forst "A tour de force that exhibits both a compelling, unified vision and a wide range of concrete insights. It ought to be read by all those with an interest in moral or political philosophy or in global justice."

— Ethics and International Affairs $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-14709-5 $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-14708-8 2014 368 pages new directions in critical theory

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ethics, environmental philosophy/animal studies

The Philosopher's Plant An Intellectual Herbarium

The Question of the Animal and Religion

Michael Marder

Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications

"From the conversation of Socrates and Phaedrus in the shade of the plane tree to Irigaray’s meditation on the water lily, The Philosopher’s Plant takes us outside city walls, across gardens of letters and vegetables, grassy slopes and vineyards, to the dimly lit sources of philosophy’s vitality. With distinctive depth and clarity, Marder reminds us that, far from walled in, the human community communes with nature and is itself inhabited by nature."

— Claudia Baracchi, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca $24.95 / £16.95 paper 978-0-231-16903-5 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16902-8 November 2014 288 pages / 12 illus.

Aaron S. Gross "With this highly original and exciting book, Aaron Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection."

— Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College "Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration into the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in."

— J.M. Coetzee $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16751-2 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16750-5 December 2014 304 pages / 1 illus.

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Interspecies Ethics

Flight Ways

Cynthia Willett

Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

"Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers."

— Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16777-2

Thom van Dooren "Thom van Dooren's book...blends philosophy with the natural sciences in his discussion of the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Birds are the focus of this lovely book and readers are treated to beautiful prose about what it means to the birds themselves and to us to lose these amazing beings."

— Psychology Today $30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-16618-8

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16776-5

2014 208 pages / 14 illus.

2014 232 pages 7 illus.

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

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Religion and Ecology

Animal Minds & Animal Ethics

Developing a Planetary Ethic

Connecting Two Separate Fields

Whitney A. Bauman

Edited by Klaus Petrus and Markus Wild

"A very impressive book; a visionary synthesis of the most important issues concerning the intersection of science, religion, politics, and philosophy. Bauman weaves a complex and powerful narrative in his constitution of a planetary community. Religion and Ecology is a unique contribution to a growing body of work that critically rethinks our ideas of nature to vitalize the possibilities of material and ecological thinking." — Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16343-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16342-2 2014 256 pages Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

Philosophers investigating questions of animal ethics tend to draw on animal cognition research while subscribing to strong positions regarding animal minds, and philosophers pursuing the question of animal minds frequently draw conclusions from the arguments of ethical philosophers. Despite this exchange, animal mind and animal ethics research have developed in fundamentally different directions. One reason for this divison lies in the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy.

This anthology brings these fields and their philosophical approaches closer together, mapping their surprising ideological and methodological overlap. $70.00 paper 978-3-8376-2462-5 2014 358 pages Transcript-Verlag

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Experiencing

AnimAl

minds An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters

Julie A. Smith & RobeRt W. mitchell editoRS

Experiencing Animal Minds

Plant-Thinking

An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters

A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

Edited by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell

Michael Marder

"In Experiencing Animal Minds, Julie Smith and Robert Mitchell bring together a stellar group of scholars ranging, literally, from A (art historians) to Z (zoologists), all of whom are concerned with our ability to understand the minds of other species. Readers will contemplate topics such as whether apes make art, dolphins as cultural icons, Caesar Milan’s view of dog psychology, the neural basis of elephant sociality, and the animal mind/animal body connection. The result is a wonderfully eclectic intellectual ride."

—Hal Herzog, Western Carolina University $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16151-0 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16150-3

"A superbly presented seminal work. . . .

Highly recommended."

— Midwest Book Review "Marder argues that recent advances in animal ethics, for all their virtues, are often blind to the blinkered instrumentality of our understanding of plants. Re-thinking that relation opens the vegetal world to a thinking encounter few thought possible (or necessary), one that puts plants in a wholly different light yet also offers new resources for dismantling our deeply rooted metaphysical legacy....A remarkable book."

— David Wood, Vanderbilt University $30.00/ £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16125-1

2012 400 pages 29 illus.

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

$90.00/£ 62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16124-4 2013 248 pages

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ethics, environmental philosophy/animal studies being animal

Beasts & Boundaries in Nature Ethics

anna l. peterson

Worlds Without End

Being Animal

The Many Lives of the Multiverse

Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Anna L. Peterson

"Rubenstein's witty, thought-provoking history of philosophy and physics leaves one in awe of just how close Thomas Aquinas and American physicist Steven Weinberg are in spirit as they seek ultimate answers."

— Publishers Weekly "Wonderful... A fun, mind-stretching read, clear and enlightening."

— San Francisco Book Review $28.95 / £19.95 paper 978-0-231-15662-2 2014 360 pages / 12 illus.

"[A]n excellent introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights... Peterson weaves clear, down-to-earth writing with extensive knowledge of the philosophical debates in animal rights... Engaging, stimulating, and well written."

— Quarterly Review of Biology "Peterson calls for an alternative nature ethic, one that is holistic and includes serious consideration of animals. As she claims and supports through carefully researched examples, and a fascinating reinterpretation of Marx, nonhuman animals are the 'proletariat of environmental thought' and as such they 'demand and embody the negation of human exceptionalism.'"

—Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, author of The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16227-2 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16226-5 2013 240 pages Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

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ANIMALS and the HUMAN IMAGINATION A Companion to Animal Studies Edited by Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer and Epilogue by Wendy Doniger

Why Animal Studies Now?

Animals and the Human Imagination

Kari Weil

A Companion to Animal Studies

Thinking Animals

“From J.M. Coetzee and Bill Viola to Virginia Woolf and Sam Taylor-Wood, Kari Weil plumbs our thick entanglements with nonhuman animals as companions, as abjected others, as subjects of grief and mourning— those dense contact zones in which art and literature may well ‘think’ non-human animals better, or at least more patiently, than theory and philosophy. Anyone interested in love, life, and death across species will want to read this book.”

— Cary Wolfe, author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and the Posthumanist Theory $29.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-14809-2

Edited by Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely “Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates.

Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can’t imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15297-6 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15296-9 2012 392 pages / 25 illus.

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-14808-5 2012 216 pages

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Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism Gary Steiner "With this book, Steiner establishes himself as one of the most talented and insightful philosophers working in the burgeoning field of animal rights" — Richard Wolin, The Graduate Center, City University of New York "This book... is a global overview and a reasoned critique of our anthropocentric philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to John Rawls, put in the service of the construction of a new and consistent theory of justice for all sentient beings."

— Paola Cavalieri, author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights

Animalia Americana Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity Colleen Glenney Boggs "This is a book about Fido and Derrida, about Sparky and Levinas, about animals and major twentieth-century (and now twentyfirst century) theorists of subjectivity such as Lacan, Agamben, and Foucault. Such unexpectedness and daring supplies a refreshing tonic not only for American literary criticism but also for other intellectual endeavors such as philosophy, ethics, and psychoanalysis indebted to species logic."

—Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin– Madison $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16123-7 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16122-0

$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15343-0

2013 312 pages / 7 illus.

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Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

2013 312 pages Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

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Animal Oppression and Human Violence

Animal Rights Without Liberation

Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

Applied Ethics and Human Obligations Alasdair Cochrane

David A. Nibert "A book with great cross-disciplinary appeal.

Highly recommended."

— Choice "A profound and radical reinterpretation of the process of animal 'domestication.'

Challenging orthodox views, Nibert’s comparative historical analysis charts the intertwined exploitations of nonhuman animals and humans as mutually-reinforcing relations of power and violence. In his sobering discussion of the global system of 'meat' production, Nibert demonstrates how the exploitation of nonhuman animals is fundamentally connected to the most serious problems facing all of us today....Anyone concerned with social justice issues in general will benefit from reading this important book."—John Sorenson, Brock University

Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous agents, they have no intrinsic interest in liberty. As such, he argues that our obligations to animals lie in ending practices that cause their suffering and death and do not require the liberation of animals. $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15827-5 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15826-8 2012 256 pages Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15189-4 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15188-7 2013 352 pages Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

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Animals and Society

LoveKnowledge

An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida

Margo DeMello " DeMello’s book surpasses the typical textbook in offering a well-written overview of the field, with historical and cultural coverage of the changing categorizations of animals, the social construction of animals, the various human use of animals, attitudes toward animals, and symbolic manifestations of animals." — Zeteo "A well-considered and artfully structured work that provokes thoughtful reflection and stimulates ideas for both theoretical and applied study." — PsycCritiques $34.50 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15295-2 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15294-5

Roy Brand What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities. $24.50 / £17.00 cloth 978-0-231-16044-5 2012 160 pages

2012 488 pages / 6o illus.

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Recovering Place

Cloud of the Impossible

Reflections on Stone Hill

Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement

Mark C. Taylor

Catherine Keller

"[Taylor's] musings, when paired with the author's own color photos, read as poetic and verbal artifacts... The book will inspire readers to pause, look, and consider."

— Publishers Weekly "Beautiful images of the natural world paired with introspective musings on life's greatest mysteries fill this wondrous compendium...

Recovering Place makes an excellent and unforgettable giftbook; nature lovers especially will enjoy browsing its insights."

— Midwest Book Review "Indescribable... it contains some of the finest prose and photography you'll find anywhere.

A weird, wonderful, wallop-packing work of untethered spirituality."

— Foreword Reviews

"Long intent on crafting ways of thinking theologically that resist common and oversimplified oppositions between divine and fleshy things, Catherine Keller leads us via ancient, medieval, and recent traditions of unsaying certainties into a rich understanding of divine entanglement as a basis for communal thriving and just democracy. This is a monumental contribution to Christian theology, especially regarding its foundational claims of divine embodiment and love."

— Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17115-1 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-17114-4 December 2014 408 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16498-6 2014 176 pages / 156 color photographs Religion, Culture, and Public Life

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Blood

Kant and the Meaning of Religion

A Critique of Christianit

Terry F. Godlove

Gil Anidjar Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law.

Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16720-8

Terry F. Godlove discovers in Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy resources that have much wider implications beyond Christianity and the philosophical issues that concern monotheism and its beliefs.

For Godlove, Kant’s insights, when properly applied, can help rejuvenate our understanding of the general study of religion and its challenges. He therefore bypasses what is usually considered to be the “Kantian philosophy of religion” and instead focuses on more fundamental issues, such as Kant's account of concepts, experience, and reason and their significance in controversial matters. $30.00 paper 978-0-231-17033-8 $90.00 cloth 978-0-231-17032-1 2014 192 pages

2014 464 pages Religion, Culture, and Public Life

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chris

without

ad m

A

m at e r i a l i s m for the

masses

subjectivity & sexual difference in the philosophers' paul

Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

benjamin h. dunning

ward blanton

Christ Without Adam

A Materialism for the Masses

Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers’ Paul

Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life

Benjamin H. Dunning

Ward Blanton

"An outstanding contribution not only to Pauline studies and critical theory but also to contemporary Christian theological anthropology."

— David Brakke, Ohio State University Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy. It builds a constructive proposal for embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with—and in contrast to—the “Paulinisms” of Stanislas Breton, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16765-9

“Ward Blanton further solidifies his reputation as the most adventurous and rigorous scholar of his generation as he reimagines the historical meaning and political impetus of early Christianity and its ongoing...effect on the most enduring philosophical and ethical questions of our time.”

— Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University "Ward Blanton’s handling—and mastery—of Western philosophical traditions provides a much more convincing account of Christian origins as well as a greater appreciation of the ways in which power works in the present."

— James Crossley, University of Sheffield $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16691-1

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2014 264 pages

Gender, Theory, and Religion

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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Encountering Religion Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism Tyler Roberts "Tyler Roberts’s work is the single most consequential programmatic work on the study of religion in the past several decades. It takes seriously, and treats charitably, a range of thinkers from J. Z. Smith and Rowan Williams to Saba Mahmood and Stanley Cavell, learning from them while (and sometimes through) critiquing them. It also lucidly lays out an alternative vision of a truly humanistic form of the study of religion— one open to a response to religious themes, figures, and texts, not just permitting an explanation or critique of those objects....A tremendous accomplishment" — Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14752-1 2013 320 pages Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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Rewiring the Real In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo Mark C. Taylor "Intellectually luminous and generically unplaceable, Rewiring the Real, in its investigations of the theory of poetry and life, embodies all the dreams of an artful philosophy, carving out new possibilities in literature and technology for the religious imagination."

— Jenny Davidson, Columbia University "A stunning capstone achievement. I judge that at the end of the twenty-first century, Taylor will be one of a handful of cultural critics still worth reading."

— Ray L. Hart, Boston University $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16041-4 $27.50 / £19.00 cloth 978-0-231-16040-7 2013 344 pages / 21 illus.

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Asian & Islamic Philosophy self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation, and philosophy

w a k i n g, d r e a m i n g, being E van Th o m pso n fo r e wo r d by sTEph En BaTc h Elo r

Refiguring the Spiritual

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy

Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

Mark C. Taylor "Mark Taylor weaves together a multitude of sources in Refiguring the Spiritual—taking from poetry, art history, critical theory, philosophy, science, economics, and theology—and demonstrates how the visual arts can reveal fundamental truths about existence in the world—a world that lies beyond the limits of mimetic representation and language."

— Nancy Spector, deputy director and chief curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation $30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15766-7 2012 244 pages / 55 illus.

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

New in paper

Field Notes from Elsewhere Reflections on Dying and Living Mark C. Taylor

"A intoxicating whirl of a book, an engine of thought and feeling that touches on everything that counts most to us: living and dying, families, faith, friendship, and the quest to ground oneself in the real.

— Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy, among other novels

Evan Thompson Foreword by Stephen Batchelor

"[Thompson] pushes us to think beyond our entrenched conceptual boundaries, not with vague arguments or wishful thinking but with equal doses of logical rigor and phenomenological empathy."

— William S. Waldron, Middlebury College A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of the mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. $32.50 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-13709-6 November 2014 496 pages

$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-14781-1 $26.95 / £18,95 cloth 978-0-231-14780-4 2014 288 pages / 113 illus.

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Asian & Islamic Philosophy Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue LiberAting

trADitions

Ibn Sina’ s Remarks & Admonitions: Physics & Metaphysics A N

A N A LY S I S

A N N O TAT E D

A N D

T R A N S L AT I O N

Shams Inati

Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby butnor, editors

Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue

Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions

Liberating Traditions

Physics and Metaphysics: An Analysis

Edited by Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor

and Annotated Translation

"A serious yet creative examination of current feminist theories as they may be applied to or refined through Asian philosophical and religious perspectives. I know of no edited volume that considers such a wide range of Asian philosophies in a feminist light."

— Erica Fox Brindley, Pennsylvania State University Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics.

Shams C. Inati "An important text by one of the leading writers on Islamic philosophy and the first English translation of high quality. It will be heavily used by those in the discipline."

— Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky "In providing a clear and accessible translation of difficult text with very useful annotations, Inati has made a major contribution to Avicenna’s studies and has put students of Islamic as well as Western medieval philosophy in her debt."

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University

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2014 248 pages

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Analytic philosophy, Logic, & Linguistics AT I R AO U L M O

n Chun and Mauree y Attanucci Rabaté d by Timoth ichel Translate

by Jean-M Foreword

De R R i DA/ SeAR Le uction Deconstr nary and ordi

Language

Derrida/Searle

The Domestication of Language

Deconstruction and Ordinary Language

Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal

Raoul Moati Translated by Timothy Attanucci and Maureen Chun.

Foreword by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

"The dialogue between Searle and Derrida concerning Austin’s theory on the 'performative' or 'speech acts' has been, as it were, resurrected by Moati—and it is fascinating.

By focusing so strictly on a limited series of polemical texts, Moati does more than provide a subtle explanation of the historical divergence between Austin, Searle, and Derrida, he allows us to understand the very roots of a lasting misunderstanding between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology."

— Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16671-3

Daniel Cloud "A tour de force. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of language, evolutionary biology and ethology, Daniel Cloud has fashioned a new account of the origins of our capacity for linguistic communication.

Cloud’s book is both a wonderfully readable introduction to the topic and a bold and original work of scholarship. Any attempt to reconstruct the origins of language will be speculative; but this is the best sort of speculation: rigorous, scientifically informed, strikingly imaginative and at the same time utterly plausible."

— Gideon Rosen, Princeton University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16792-5 December 2014 288 pages

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16670-6 2014 160 pages

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Analytic philosophy, Logic, & Linguistics

TIME &THE THE OTHER TIME OTHER TIME && THE OTHER TIME TIME& &THE THEOTHER OTHER TIME & THE OTHER & THE OTHER E & THETIME OTHER TIME & THE OTHER TIME &&TIME THE OTHER & THE OTHER TIME TIME &THE THE OTHER OTHER & THE OTHER TIME & THE OTHER TIME & THE OTHER E TIME OTHER TIME & THE OTHER TIME &OTHER THE OTHER & THE TIME &&THE TIME THEOTHER OTHER TIME & THE OTHER TI & THETIME OTHER TIME & TIME && TIMETIME & THE TIMETIME OTHER &TIME THE & THE OTHER TIME & TH TIME & THE OTHER TIME & THE OTHER TIME &THE THEOTHER OTHER TIME & &TIME THE &OTHER OTHER TIME THE TIME&&THE THEOTHER OTHER IME & THE TIME OTHERTIME & THE OTHER Johannes Fabian

How AntHropology MAkes its object

Foreword by Matti Bunzl / With a New Postscript by the Author

Time and the Other How Anthropology Makes Its Object Johannes Fabian In this classic work, Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the “here and now,” that their subjects live in the “there and then,” and that the “other” exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the “other” and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s). $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16927-1 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16926-4 2014 272 pages

Deductive Systems and the Decidability Problem for Hybrid Logics Michał Zawidzki This book stands at the intersection of two topics: the decidability and computational complexity of hybrid logics, and the deductive systems designed for them. It will be of interest to philosophers and logicians working with modal and hybrid logics, as well as to computer scientists interested in deductive systems and decision procedures for logics. Extensive fragments of the first part of the book can also serve as an introduction to hybrid logics for wider audience interested in logic. The content of the book is situated in the areas of formal logic and theoretical computer science with some elements of the theory of computational complexity. $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-83-233-3695-2 2014 232 pages / 7 illus.

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Serendipities Language and Lunacy Umberto Eco "Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous....The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions."

— The Atlantic $17.95 / £12.95 paper 978-0-231-11135-5 $30.00 cloth 978-0-231-11134-8 2014 128 pages Italian Academy Lectures

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Analytic philosophy, Logic, & Linguistics

If A, Then B

Finding Ourselves at the Movies

How the World Discovered Logic

Philosophy for a New Generation

Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White

Paul W. Kahn

Gold Medal Winner of the Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year Award for Philosophy "A delightful book, both well written and highly informative." — Teaching Philosophy "Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White's book is great fun for people who enjoy ideas. It is full of provocative claims about a variety of topics, but Shenefelt and White's positions are not just provocative. They are also perceptive and intriguing, and they are supported by often ingenious arguments."

— Phil Washburn, New York University $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16105-3

"Rich and thought provoking....[Kahn] has written a book that is both sophisticated in its philosophical argument and accessible to an intelligent, non-specialist readership."

— Notre Dame Philosophical Review "Drawing on everything from war movies to romantic comedies, from horror films to family dramas, Kahn shows us how the movies mirror the ways we communally invest our lives and our world with meaning. His readings of popular films and the shared world these films reflect are at once astute and provocative."

— Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16438-2

2013 352 pages / 18 illus.

2013 256 pages

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Analytic philosophy, Logic, & Linguistics The

ElEmEnTs of

AcAdEmic

Style

WriTing for ThE humAniTiEs

Eric Hayot

The Multivoiced Body

The Elements of Academic Style

Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity

Writing for the Humanities

Fred Evans "Fred Evans gracefully traverses the history of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, psychoanalysis, history and philosophy of science, literature, linguistics, and political theory, bringing complex philosophies of subjectivity and language to bear on concrete political situations, events, and art. Working through the problems of the relationship between identity and difference and autonomy and community that have obsessed continental philosophy for the last few decades, Evans gives a new twist to the ethical implications of the connection between bodies and language. He masterfully forges a dialogue between continental and analytic philosophies on some of the most important issues of our era."

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