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Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
(August 2016)
Tim Delaney - Author
Tim Madigan - Author
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Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
As the “culture of the people,” popular culture provides a sense of identity that binds individuals to the greater society and unites the masses on ideals of acceptable forms of behavior. Lessons Learned from Popular Culture offers an informative and entertaining look at the social relevance of popular culture. Focusing ...(Read More) |
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Cinematic Cuts
(July 2016)
Theorizing Film Endings
Sheila Kunkle - Editor
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Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.
Editing has been called the language of cinema, and thus a film’s ending can be considered the final punctuation mark of this language, framing everything that came before and offering the key to both our interpretation and our enjoyment of a film. In Cinematic Cuts, scholars explore the philosophical, literary, an...(Read More) |
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Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated
(July 2016)
Philosopher of Science and Imagination
Roch C. Smith - Author
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Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers.
Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this boo...(Read More) |
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Doing Time
(June 2016)
Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema
Lee Carruthers - Author
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Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer.
Doing Time addresses two areas of interest in recent film study—film temporality and film philosophy—to propose an innovative theorization of cinematic time that sees it as a dynamic process of engagement, or something we do as viewers. This active relation to cinematic time, which...(Read More) |
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Chinese Thought as Global Theory
(June 2016)
Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Leigh Jenco - Editor
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Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.
With a particular focus on Chinese thought, this volume explores how, and under what conditions, so-called “non-Western” traditions of thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory. Reversing the usual comparison between “local” Chinese applicati...(Read More) |
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Out of Control
(June 2016)
Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
Richard A. Cohen - Author
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Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.
After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza’s answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas’s is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontat...(Read More) |
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The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle
(June 2016)
A Somatic Guide
Douglas Robinson - Author
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Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.
Mencius (385–303/302 BCE) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in t...(Read More) |
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Between Faith and Belief
(May 2016)
Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life
Joeri Schrijvers - Author
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A contemporary philosophy of religion that offers a phenomenology of love.
What is to be done at the end of metaphysics? Joeri Schrijvers’s contemporary philosophy of religion takes up this question, originally posed by Reiner Schürmann and central to continental philosophy. The book navigates the work of thinkers who have addressed such metaphysical concerns, including Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nan...(Read More) |
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Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato
(May 2016)
A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism
Michael LaFargue - Author
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Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.
Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato’s legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato’s Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character ...(Read More) |
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Engaging the World
(May 2016)
Thinking after Irigaray
Mary C. Rawlinson - Editor
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Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.
Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray’s writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one’s self. Th...(Read More) |
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