Theory

CONTENTS Theory ..................................................................3 Politics .................................................................9 Aesthetics ............................................................13 Animals, Environment, and Food .......................18 Asian Philosophy ................................................19 Science................................................................20 Religion .............................................................22 History ..............................................................24 Gender................................................................25 New in Paperback...............................................27 Ordering Information.........................................29

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Siegfried Kracauer Edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch, and John Abromeit

This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-15896-1 January 2022 408 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

Crisis Under Critique

How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations Edited by Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth

Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and a group of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20433-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20432-3 February 2022 408 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

A Face Drawn in Sand

Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present Rey Chow

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault’s concept of “outside.” She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.

$27.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18837-1 $115.00 / £95.00 cloth 978-0-231-18836-4 2021 232 pages

Critique of Latin American Reason

Santiago Castro-Gómez Translated by Andrew Ascherl Foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff Introduction by Eduardo Mendieta

Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have emerged from South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20007-3 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20006-6 2021 352 pages. Sexuality

The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures Michel Foucault

Edited by Claude Doron General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Graham Burchell Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt Michel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished in any language until recently. This book presents Foucault’s first lectures on sexuality in English for the first time.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19507-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19506-5 2021 440 pages

FOUCAULT’S EARLY LECTURES AND MANUSCRIPTS

Knowledge Worlds

Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University Reinhold Martin

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18983-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18982-8 2021 384 pages 90 illus.

Praxis and Revolution

A Theory of Social Transformation Eva von Redecker Translated by Lucy Duggan

Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19823-3 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19822-6

2021 296 pages NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

Hermeneutics as Critique

Science, Politics, Race, and Culture Lorenzo C. Simpson

Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for addressing many of the urgent issues of today. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable debates in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social epistemology, and racial and social justice.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19685-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19684-0

2021 256 pages NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

Recognition and Ambivalence

Edited by Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl

This book brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It is organized around a debate between Axel Honneth and Judith Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17761-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17760-3 2021 352 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

The HabermasLuhmann Debate

Gorm Harste

Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious debate that would continue for decades. This is the first book in English about one of the most important conflicts in social theory today.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-15915-9 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-15914-2 2021 424 pages

The Indivisible Globe, the Indissoluble Nation

Universality, Postcoloniality, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization Li-Chun Hsiao

Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he conceives as “the primal scene of postcoloniality”—the Haitian Revolution. He unpacks and critiques poststructuralist penchants and undercurrents of the postcolonial paradigm in First-World academia.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1524-2

2021 220 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Self-Knowledge and Moral Identity

Edited by Ranjan Kumar Panda

Many contemporary philosophers, such as Akeel Bilgrami, Crispin Wright, Christine Korsgaard, and Mrinal Miri, have explicitly discussed the relevance of self-knowledge in relation to the discourse of normativity. This book addresses the notion of self-knowledge as relevant in the formation of moral identity.

$45.00 / £35.00 cloth 978-81-950559-3-7 February 2022 292 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

Survival through Bildung

On the Topicality of Heinz-Joachim Heydorn's Philosophy of Education Edited by Helge Kminek

Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text, recently translated into English for the first time. In this book, scholars from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interpretations up for discussion.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8474-2480-2 November 2021 250 pages

VERLAG BARBARA BUDRICH

The Transcendental and the Mundane

Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life Cho-yun Hsu Translated by David Ownby

Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. In addition to focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, he pays attention to everyday people’s cultural ideas.

$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-212-2 2021 330 pages

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS

Philosophical Ideas

A Historical Study Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene

This book invites the reader to consider central ideas from Plato, Hegel, Vico, and Cassirer from points of view that are not typically encountered interpretations. It is an examination of the ideas of poetics, dialectics, science, and symbol as they function in their works with a focus on the problem of knowledge.

$30.00 paper 978-3-8382-1585-3 2021 160 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger

A Contrastive Analysis Vanessa Freerks

Vanessa Freerks analyzes how Baudrillard reactualizes Nietzsche, investigating how themes and approaches in his books resonate with Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of continental philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1474-0 November 2021 200 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Mindfulness and Meditation at University

Ten Years of the Munich Model Andreas de Bruin

Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model “Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context.” Students describe the effects of mindfulness and meditation on their studies and in their daily lives.

$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-5696-1 2021 216 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Unlocking Luhmann

A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory Claudio Baraldi, Giancarlo Corsi, and Elena Esposito

Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes Luhmann’s complex theoryaccessible while maintaining its richness. Readers inside and outside sociology can easily explore and engage with sociological systems theory.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5674-9 2021 276 pages

BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Critique on the Couch

Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis Amy Allen

Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinking that centers on notions of loss, negativity, ambivalence, and mourning.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19861-5 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19860-8 2020 280 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

The Betrayal of Substance

Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” Mary C. Rawlinson

Mary C. Rawlinson offers a critical analysis of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that exposes three crucial elisions: Hegel’s effacements of sexual difference, human mortality, and literary style. Demonstrating the power of Hegel’s phenomenological method, The Betrayal of Substance is a magisterial rereading of this challenging masterwork.

$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19905-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19904-9 2021 264 pages Out of the Dark Night

Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe

In Out of the Dark Night, Achille Mbembe offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about Africa.

$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-16028-5 2021 280 pages

Subterranean Fanon

An Underground Theory of Radical Change Gavin Arnall

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19365-8 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19364-1 2020 304 pages