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Beyond Bergson
(April 2019)
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
Andrea J. Pitts - Editor
Mark William Westmoreland - Editor
Leonard Lawlor - Foreword by
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Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.
Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and...(Read More) |
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Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran
(April 2019)
A Sojourn in Comparative Political Theory
Alireza Shomali - Author
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Bridges western and non-western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadence in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.
Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical studies have been rare, often speculative and deterministic. Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran explores from a theoretical ...(Read More) |
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Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
(March 2019)
Saladdin Ahmed - Author
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Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then can it be truly controlled. The gaze of power and the commodity form are capable of infiltrating even the darkest of corners, and often, we invite them into our most private spa...(Read More) |
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Militant Acts
(January 2019)
The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles
Marcelo Hoffman - Author
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Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject
(October 2018)
Reconsidering Minor Losses
Olga Maya Demetriou - Author
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Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus.
Being a “refugee” is not simply a matter of law, determination procedures, or the act of flight. It is an ontological condition, structured by the politics of law, affect, and territory. Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject explores the variable facets of refugeehood, their interconnections, and thei...(Read More) |
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The New Welfare Consensus
(August 2018)
Ideological, Political, and Social Origins
Darren Barany - Author
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Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.
Families on welfare in the United States are the target of much public indignation from not only the general public but also political figures and the very workers whose job it is to help the poor. The question is, What explains this animus and, more specifically, the failure of the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage fo...(Read More) |
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Roberto Esposito
(July 2018)
Biopolitics and Philosophy
Inna Viriasova - Editor
Antonio Calcagno - Editor
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Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe’s leading philosophers.
One of Europe’s leading philosophers, Roberto Esposito has produced a considerable body of work that continues to have a significant impact on political science, sociology, literature, and philosophy. This volume offers both a comprehensive introduction to and critical explanation of Esposito’s political thought and key con...(Read More) |
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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
(March 2018)
George A. Gonzalez - Author
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Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.
In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He presents a cle...(Read More) |
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For Foucault
(January 2018)
Against Normative Political Theory
Mark G. E. Kelly - Author
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Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy.
This book comprises a series of staged confrontations between the thought of Michel Foucault and a cast of other figures in European and Anglophone political philosophy, including Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Deleuze, Rorty, Honneth, and Geuss. Focusing on the status of normativity in their thought, Mark...(Read More) |
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The Symbolic Order of the Mother
(January 2018)
Luisa Muraro - Author
Francesca Novello - Translator
Timothy S. Murphy - Edited and with an introduction by
Alison Stone - Foreword by
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Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.
In The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa Muraro identifies the bond between mother and child as ontologically fundamental to the development of culture and politics, and therefore as key to achieving truly emancipatory political change. Both corporea...(Read More) |
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