Capital in the Mirror
(April 2020)
Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension Dan Krier - Editor Mark P. Worrell - Editor
The Space of Disappearance
(April 2020)
A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Author
Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.
More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form ...(Read More)
A Permanent Beginning
(March 2020)
R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity Yitzhak Lewis - Author
Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.
The Hasidic leader R. Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) has held a place in the Jewish popular imagination for more than two centuries. Some see him as the (self-proclaimed) Messiah, others as the forerunner of modern Jewish literature. Existing studies struggle between these dueling readings, largely ign...(Read More)
Announcements
(January 2020)
On Novelty Kristina Mendicino - Author
A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.
Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selection of canonical texts that reflect profound concern with novelty and its apparent contrary, the eternal return of the same, including Nietzsch...(Read More)
Off the Derech
(January 2020)
Leaving Orthodox Judaism Ezra Cappell - Editor Jessica Lang - Editor
Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.
In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories, films, and memoirs. This movement is often identified as “off the derech” (OTD), or off the path, with ...(Read More)
