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Habitations of the Veil
(February 2014)
Metaphor and the Poetics of Being in African American Literature
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher - Author
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Derrida and Joyce
(May 2013)
Texts and Contexts
Andrew J. Mitchell - Editor
Sam Slote - Editor
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All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.
Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay “Th...(Read More) |
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking
(August 2012)
Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense
Peter Gratton - Editor
Marie-Eve Morin - Editor
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Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought.
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent project on the “...(Read More) |
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Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
(August 2011)
Theory, Subjectivity, and Duration
Tamsin Lorraine - Author
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Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
In Deleuze and Guattari’s Immanent Ethics, Tamsin Lorraine focuses on the pragmatic implications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work for human beings struggling to live ethical lives. Her bold alignment of Deleuze and Guattari’s project with the feminist and phenomenological projects of grounding human action ...(Read More) |
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Sleights of Reason
(February 2011)
Norm, Bisexuality, Development
Mary Beth Mader - Author
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Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.
A brilliant and original reimagining of sexuality, Sleights of Reason examines how concepts lend themselves to power/knowledge formations. Many contemporary French philosophers make incidental use of the notion of a ruse. Its names are legion: “duplicity,” “concealment,” “forgett...(Read More) |
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Governing the Female Body
(January 2010)
Gender, Health, and Networks of Power
Lori Reed - Editor
Paula Saukko - Editor
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A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
Drawing on Foucault’s notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically sophisticated case studies showing how gendered, racialized, and socioeconomic agendas structure medical and scientific practic...(Read More) |
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Otherwise Occupied
(November 2008)
Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory
Dorothy M. Figueira - Author
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Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.
Tracing the historical development of recent identity-based trends in literary theory to their roots in structuralism, Dorothy M. Figueira questions the extent to which theories and pedagogies of alterity have actually enabled us to engage the Other. She tracks academic attempts to deal with alterity from their inception in ...(Read More) |
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Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa
(August 2008)
Patrick Lynn Rivers - Author
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Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.
In this book, Patrick Lynn Rivers asserts that states govern racist hate by governing racial constructs. Rivers maintains that state practices used to govern hate and race in both the United States and South Africa do not make citizens safer, even as the United States...(Read More) |
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Process and Difference
(May 2002)
Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms
Catherine Keller - Editor
Anne Daniell - Editor
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Leading scholars explore the relationship between deconstructive theory and process thought.
The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled 'postmodern,' their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these diffe...(Read More) |
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Suffering, Politics, Power
(January 2002)
A Genealogy in Modern Political Theory
Cynthia Halpern - Author
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Suffering and politics in the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche.
Suffering, Politics, Power argues that human suffering on a global scale constitutes the most urgent and least understood question of contemporary politics and political theory. In the modern age, the experience of suffering is primarily a political problem, constructed out of crucial, conflicting perspectives. The book draws on a genealogy of suff...(Read More) |
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