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The animal that therefore i am
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,” the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two pub...
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Citizen subject
A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on “subjecthood” and “subjectivity” in Modernity, as it was framed by the “Controversy on the subject” from the 1960’s, and showing how it is ...
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Queer natures, queer mythologies
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be cons...
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Expanded cinema
Published in 1970, Expanded Cinema was the first book to capture the explosion of video, computers, and holography as filmmaking technologies, inaugurating media arts as an artistic and scholarly discipline. The introductory essay by R. Buckminster Fuller established an encompassing 1960s counter...
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Political concepts
Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that co...
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Freud's jaw and other lost objects
Draws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Fr...
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Knowledge of life
As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his es...
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Left bank of the hudson
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmaker...
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Under representation
Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of repre...
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Power of gentleness
Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowne...
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Resounding events
In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. Connolly explores how diverse events jolt and animate thinking, and he enunciates the tasks of engaged intellectuals today.
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Africans in harlem
The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem Renaissance movement brought together Black writers, artists, and musicians from different back...
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In the beginning was the state
This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible’s varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theol...
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Continent in crisis
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world hist...
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Sexistence
Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.
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Midden
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island,...
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When god was a bird
2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNERIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s...
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From life to survival
The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death a...
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Material mystery
Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine cha...
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Machines for making gods
An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.
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A reader in early franciscan theology
This Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first t...
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Join the conspiracy
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American history: the late 1960s. A...
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Italian dumplings and chinese pizzas
WINNER, 2026 AUPresses BOOK JACKET, & JOURNAL SHOW, JACKETS & COVERSDesigns a novel analytical framework to approach transcultural food mobilities, a culinary phenomenon that has been with us for decades as a result of colonialism and globalization Why is it surprising for some of us to r...
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Audible loss
An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in AmericaMusic has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three major crises ...
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Revolution and restoration
Revolution and Restoration shows how new concepts that emerge from political conflicts can remake democratic systems in crisis
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Indigenous affinities
Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing ‘affinity’ as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines the multifaceted connection betwe...
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Bad medievalism and the modernity problem
Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem, Kathy Lavezzo demonstrates how the temporal divide scho...
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Paranoid publics
Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.
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Inventing america's first immigration crisis
Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the Nat...
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In search of radical theology
This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large.Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argume...
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Form and feeling
Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated CategoryA significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the ...
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Breaking the bronze ceiling
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
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Mother of stories
A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.
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Stormy weather
This counter-history of western thought explores how a Christian cosmology supported the conquest of paganism in Europe and the Americas, sowed seeds of climate wreckage, complemented capitalist ravages, and helped to conceal that wreckage. Connolly advances a counter-cosmology and political stra...
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An honest living
An exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academeIn the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he la...
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Sexagon
Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa—as well as their French descendants—have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness re...
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On universals
Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutio...
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Decadent orientalisms
Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Fieni reads both Western and Islamic discourses of decadence ...
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Killing times
Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of hum...
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Thinking with balibar
This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought.
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King alfonso viii of castile
King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire...
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The mark of theory
What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory.As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imprints and ...
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Greek
The first edition of this extremely popular two volume Greek text has been successfully adopted in many high schools and colleges; the organization and approach used by the authors, make it an equally effective tool for those who would enjoy learning the language on their own.
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What should we do with our brain?
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized “plasticity,” the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with thems...
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Sensible life
This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fas...
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Senses of the subject
This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and F...
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Migrant hearts and the atlantic return
Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration’s debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at ...
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The idol and distance
Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion nevertheless maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and ever more widely discussed phenomenology. And while Marion will want to insist on a clear distinct...
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Being brains
Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.
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Phenomenologies of scripture
A selection of essays by notable phenomenologists and biblical scholars on scriptural texts and interpretive methodology.
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