Literary theory Books
Duke University Press Melodrama An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Book SynopsisOffering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life. Trade Review"Apropos of his homo-topics, Goldberg writes beautifully, in prose vulnerable and oppositional that elevates academic vernacular to a higher aesthetic plane.... Lucky for us, Goldberg’s decided we can’t have our Hitchcock without our Highsmith, and aren’t they a lovely pair. He writes about music in Hitchcock (something rarely considered) and explores how Highsmith thematizes music in her novels.... [Y]ou will trust Goldberg’s fast-paced, suspenseful ekphrasis and delight in reliving these extraordinary reversals on the page." -- Maxe Crandall * Lambda Literary Review *"Goldberg achieves a greater, more nuanced understanding of melodrama’s potential for artistic and philosophical expression, as well as its unique importance for the study of media, gender, race, and sexuality." -- Matthew J. M. Grant * Film Criticism *"Students of melodrama have long been drilled in the term’s literal meaning: music + drama. But before Jonathan Goldberg’s Melodrama, few have had the chance to take the music seriously. With a rare combination of musical expertise and critical acumen, Goldberg puts the pieces together in this book. . . . Exceptional. . . ." -- Ned Schantz * Crticism *"Melodrama offers a distinctively queer theoretical contribution to the extensive scholarly work on melodrama in film and literary studies. The book is also a form of critical address that seeks to think with works of art the author clearly identifies with and also identifies as practicing a homo-aesthetics that traverses genres, media, and time." -- Victoria Hesford * GLQ *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part I. The Impossible Situation 1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3 2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes 23 Part II. Melos + Drama 3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83 4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133 Coda 155 Notes 169 Bibliography 187 Index 197
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Duke University Press Melodrama
Book SynopsisOffering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the 'impossible situation' in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk''s prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama''s original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven''s opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making itTrade Review"Apropos of his homo-topics, Goldberg writes beautifully, in prose vulnerable and oppositional that elevates academic vernacular to a higher aesthetic plane.... Lucky for us, Goldberg’s decided we can’t have our Hitchcock without our Highsmith, and aren’t they a lovely pair. He writes about music in Hitchcock (something rarely considered) and explores how Highsmith thematizes music in her novels.... [Y]ou will trust Goldberg’s fast-paced, suspenseful ekphrasis and delight in reliving these extraordinary reversals on the page." -- Maxe Crandall * Lambda Literary Review *"Goldberg achieves a greater, more nuanced understanding of melodrama’s potential for artistic and philosophical expression, as well as its unique importance for the study of media, gender, race, and sexuality." -- Matthew J. M. Grant * Film Criticism *"Students of melodrama have long been drilled in the term’s literal meaning: music + drama. But before Jonathan Goldberg’s Melodrama, few have had the chance to take the music seriously. With a rare combination of musical expertise and critical acumen, Goldberg puts the pieces together in this book. . . . Exceptional. . . ." -- Ned Schantz * Crticism *"Melodrama offers a distinctively queer theoretical contribution to the extensive scholarly work on melodrama in film and literary studies. The book is also a form of critical address that seeks to think with works of art the author clearly identifies with and also identifies as practicing a homo-aesthetics that traverses genres, media, and time." -- Victoria Hesford * GLQ *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part I. The Impossible Situation 1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3 2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes 23 Part II. Melos + Drama 3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83 4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133 Coda 155 Notes 169 Bibliography 187 Index 197
£22.49
University of Pittsburgh Press Pedagogy Disturbing History 18191929 Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisMariolina Salvatori presents an anthology of documents that examine the evolution of American education in the nineteenth century and meaning of the word pedagogy.Trade ReviewAnyone who is interested in contemporary appropriations of pedagogy-for whatever reason-must take a look at Salvatori's book.... Eye-opening reading.-CCC
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism A The Soviet Age and Beyond Russian and East European Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age.
£49.56
University of Pittsburgh Press Appropriating Theory
Book SynopsisAngel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work.
£42.63
Fordham University Press Literature as Conduct
Book SynopsisThe work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction.Trade Review"Miller's consideration of what we do when we read begins to make the true strangeness of that activity evident. What does it mean to say we really have just these words on the page, that nothing can answer for the text except the text? I love the way the author takes nothing for granted. What happens whena reader reads the words before her? In what sense do these words have reference? What speech acts make thesewords a work of fiction?" -- -Julie Rivkin Connecticut College "Miller's reading is consistently interesting, surprising, thoughtful, delightful and excellent." -Studies in American Fiction "Densely argued and challenging..." -Choice
£71.10
Fordham University Press The Claims of Literature
Book SynopsisShoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical legal studies. This title presents essays from Felman's oeuvre.Trade Review"The time is ripe for critical theory's re-encounter with Shoshana Felman's singularly creative thinking and reading. Felman's insistence on the implications of theory for literary and cultural reading over its mere "applications" remains a fundamental imperative that continues to press us today to rethink our assumptions and practices. This splendid collection brings together much of her most important work, as well as illuminating responses by Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, and Julia Kristeva, among others." -- -Kenneth Reinhard University of California, Los Angeles "Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most important and most influential thinkers of recent times. The essays selected for the reader are all widely viewed as "classics" and represent a coherent, well-chosen and thoughtful selection. All bear witness to the clarity of Felman's prose and her dedication to rigorous demonstration and lucid argumentation. Indeed, Felman's work derives its pathbreaking insights though its dedication to the clear expression of ideas and experiences that challenge the human capacity for clear expression. By engaging with this essential human paradox (the need to communicate that which defies communication), Felman's work addresses the most important questions of human experience and encourages her readers to open themselves up to new and exciting ways of thinking and reading." -- -Elissa Marder Emory University "The Claims of Literature gathers some of the true "specimen" texts of the last three decades, texts from which proceeded several of the major theoretical breakthroughs of our era. That each essay retains its full power to re-excite thought is testament to Felman's spectacular ability to locate those moments when an argument begins to fend or feed off its own foreignness. To read-or reread-these brilliant essays is to experience that thrilling brush with the unknown that first led Felman to reconceive the relations between writing and madness; the body and speech; femininity and sexual difference; law and justice; trauma and witnessing." -- -Joan Copjec author of Imagine There's No Woman or Director of the Center for the study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at University at Buffalo
£45.00
Fordham University Press Idylls of the Wanderer Outside in Literature and
Book SynopsisBuilding upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors.Trade Review“A superb investigation, through careful reading of examples of what it means to be outside or to experience the outside.” ---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineThose who consider, for example, Joyce's Finnegans Wake an inexhaustible vein of gold (as opposed to a verbal junkyard) will find Sussman's vertiginous prose illuminating and exhilerating . . . * —Choice *Explores ideas of exteriority and interiority in literary and philosophical writings, including works by James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, William Faulkner, and James Joyce. * —The Chronicle of Higher Education *. . . Sussman's highly original, trailblazing work. * —Symploke *“Henry Sussman’s Idylls of the Wanderer invites the reader to join in a journey of discovery that knows neither fixed goal nor certain return. Instead, each new twist and turn reveals unexpected perspectives and aspects that challenge established expectations and conventional certitudes. A journey not to be missed!”---—Samuel Weber, Northwestern University
£63.00
Fordham University Press Idylls of the Wanderer
Book SynopsisBuilding upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors.Trade Review“A superb investigation, through careful reading of examples of what it means to be outside or to experience the outside.” ---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineThose who consider, for example, Joyce's Finnegans Wake an inexhaustible vein of gold (as opposed to a verbal junkyard) will find Sussman's vertiginous prose illuminating and exhilerating . . . * —Choice *Explores ideas of exteriority and interiority in literary and philosophical writings, including works by James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, William Faulkner, and James Joyce. * —The Chronicle of Higher Education *. . . Sussman's highly original, trailblazing work. * —Symploke *“Henry Sussman’s Idylls of the Wanderer invites the reader to join in a journey of discovery that knows neither fixed goal nor certain return. Instead, each new twist and turn reveals unexpected perspectives and aspects that challenge established expectations and conventional certitudes. A journey not to be missed!”---—Samuel Weber, Northwestern University
£25.19
Fordham University Press Fielding Derrida
Book SynopsisHow are we to interpret Jacques Derrida's writings, after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought and his astonishing productivity has come to an end? In this book, the author extends his earlier contextualizing of Derrida's work in relation to Husserl by arguing that we must begin from a frame different from that provided by Derrida.Trade Review"Fielding Derrida makes new, potentially path breaking connections between Derrida's work and projects in philosophy, literary criticism, and intellectual history ..." -- -Burt Hopkins Seattle University "Readers in a wide range of disciplines will find this a first rate book with insightful discoveries of all sorts to learn from." -- -Jay Lampert University of Guelph "This intensely philosophical and well-written book addresses the challenge of the legacy of Derridean thought, and what this thought holds for the future, by assessing Derrida's actual contributions to a variety of problems and debates in the contemporary humanities. Once again Kates' profound familiarity with Husserlian thought proves to be a true asset that makes this book a powerful and engaging work to read." -- -Rodolphe Gasche University at Buffalo, The State University of New York "New and previously published writings that, among other things, link the French philosopher to Husserlian phenomenology." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Kates has been producing the deepest, most original, and most even-handed treatment available of the relation between Derrida's thought and that of Husserl This new book opens new ways to think about both; it also introduces intriguing new perspectives on the Derrida-Husserl nexus through probing discussions of Jacob Klein and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It is an important contribution to the evolving understanding of Derrida's place in the history of modern philosophy." -- -Henry Staten University of Washington
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Fordham University Press Prophecies of Leviathan Reading Past Melville
Book SynopsisArgues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way.Trade Review"Szendy uses a dialogical form of criticism to argue that Moby Dick should be read as a prophetic text; the prophecy of an unspeakable catastrophe turns into the experience of writing from the 'outside.' It is the proximity with such an 'outside' that frees Meville's text from its crust of ancient glosses and multiplies amazingly original close readings." -- -Jean-Michel Rabate University of Pennsylvania "Prophecies of Leviathan enacts and performs, within the movement of its language, what it seeks to convey: that any reading worthy of the name "reading" must undergo the storms of reading, must move without compass or anchor, must come to understand that reading means "learning to die." In this, Szendy proves himself to be-like Melville himself-one of the great meteorologists of reading in general. Indeed, in reading "reading," in reading the act of reading, this wildly wonderful book traces the whirlwinds and tempests, the stammering and staccato iterations, that are the signature of Melville's whale of a book and, in so doing, not only invites future readings but also comprehends and anticipates them. I therefore prophesize that by reading backwards in order to read ahead this book will continue to tell us how and why we read at all, regardless of whether we are reading a book, a document, or, in Melville's case, an archive of the world." -- -Eduardo Cadava Princeton University "Prophecies of Leviathan is an extraordinary reading of Melville's fictions as sustained meditations on the nature of reading. If Moby Dick is a prophetic text, this is because-as Peter Szendy shows us-the event of (its) reading is prophetic. Taking his bearings from Blanchot and Derrida while also reading in ways all his own, Szendy will have changed not only how we read Moby Dick but how it reads us." -- -Andrew Parker Amherst College
£27.90
Fordham University Press Wild Materialism
Book SynopsisOpening a methodological dialogue between Freud's work and Althusser's late understanding of aleatory materialism, the author shows how an ethic of terror, and in the political sphere a radically democratic republic, can be built on what he calls 'wild materialism'.Trade Review"Blends a discussion of terror with radical democracy in a way that is thoroughly original ... an important book on a large and crucial topic." -- -Marc Redfield Claremont Graduate University "Wild Materialism is a theoretical event. Not only is it one of the most brilliant, rigorous and transformative books since DeMan's Allegories of Reading or Jameson's Political Unconscious, in it we witness what Althusser would call 'an unexpected birth.' Like other wild children, when Lezra had to think the political-philosophic condition of present democracy, he had to work through and past the critical impasses of biopolitics, sovereignty, radical democratic theory, and post-politics, to inventively refigure an ethic of terror as fright. This fearless book not only revisits political theology's primal scenes, but through its unique standpoint of Spanish Republicanism it offers a haunting and haunted meta-reflection on exile and its experiences. Here at last is the affirmative secular response to the challenges of a post 9/11 present, where, as Lezra so effectively argues, only wounded sovereignty, weak concepts, unbounded events and defective social universals might save us." -- -Diane Rubenstein Cornell University "An urgently contemporary study of the relation between 'terror' as a state of expectancy in relation to an event to come, and 'terrorism' as the deadly deployment of force in situations of radical exploitation and oppression." -- -Julia Lupton University of California, Irvine "Lezra sketches a fascinating trip from the archaic scene of Oedipus, beyond the time of the founding of the individual and collective subject, to the events of September 11, at the threshold of our contingent future. Wild Materialism's path leads through the Paris of the 15th century, the Spanish empire, the war in Algeria, and on to the contemporary world, and delivers an analysis of the production of universals in and of political space, that prior instant from which dualisms and differences flow--inside/out, frien/enemy, private/public, terror/terrorism--divisions and reconstitutions of what is held in common. This is a work that refuses finally to dissolve politics into aesthetics, and seeks out an innovative, apt vocabulary for the tasks of ethics and politics, far from the fiction of sovereign, constituting power. Wild Materialism revises the sense of radical republicanism, basing itself in a fascinating interpretation of Levinas, Althusser and Freud, which forces us to rethink the classic arguments of the 20th century, from Arendt to Schmitt, from Koselleck to Habermas, Derrida to Negri." -- -Jose Luis Villacanas Universidad Complutense de Madrid
£28.80
Fordham University Press The Singularity of Being
Book SynopsisThe Singularity of Being offers a Lacanian interpretation on what makes each of us a unique and irreplaceable creature. Focusing on the Lacanian real, it builds a theory of individual distinctiveness while also intervening in critical debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action.Trade Review"... The Singularity of Being never surrenders its distinctly humanist commitment to real lives. In doing so, Ruti reminds us that the opacity of the other, just like the potential opacity of philosophical and psychoanalytic ideas, cannot--and should not--entirely be conjured away." -Los Angeles Review of Books "In a work of truly impressive post-Lacanian scholarship, Mari Ruti has made The Singularity of Being into a unique reading event. Verve and passion mark every page and instantiate in action the contents on the page. One learns, almost experientially, about key Lacanian concepts such as Das Ding, the sublime-in-sublimation, and jouissance. Most importantly, in her brilliant chapter on Love, we learn that we are always in an ethical position relative to the complexities of our desire. There are many books on Lacan. Few offer as rich an experience as The Singularity of Being." -- -Mitchell Wilson Training and Supervising Analyst, The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis "In this passionate, innovative book, Mari Ruti brings Lacanian psychoanalysis into the twenty-first century. She argues brilliantly for the creativity and fragility of singular beings who are in constant transformation while also changing the social orders in which they are embedded from the inside. Erudite and enjoyable, this book is a must read for all those interested in the future of psychoanalysis as well as in cultural and critical theory." -- -Verena Andermatt Conley Harvard University "In this intense meditation on the possibilities for an ethical life as a creative subject, Mari Ruti extends her previous explorations into the paradoxes of post-Lacanian theory and philosophy. What does it mean to live one's life as a singular human being limited by a finite set of events and cultural imperatives that everywhere create victimhood and injustice? Is the wound of singularity founded on an unassimilable corporeal real trauma enough to serve as foundation for an ethical principle based on desire? Ruti restlessly probes the responses of numerous thinkers- notably Badiou, Santner, and Zizek- to these questions and shows us their limitations as moral philosophers. At the same, she highlights the relevance of their at times uncompromising or extreme positions. Ruti's stubborn resistance to settled notions about trauma, subjectivity, and multiculturalist realities, her discomfort with apocalyptic or utopian solutions, and her personal honesty in struggling with moral imperatives make this work an impressive contribution to moral philosophy and to post-Freudian psychoanalytic critical thought." -- -Lewis Kirshner Harvard University "In her breathtaking new work, Mari Ruti completely transforms our understanding of ambivalence, revealing the role that art plays in the expression of singularity and the role that commodities play in its destruction." -- -Todd McGowan The University of Vermont
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Fordham University Press Ending and Unending Agony On Maurice Blanchot Lit
Book SynopsisTranslation of a posthumous work by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe on Maurice Blanchot. Discusses such topics as literature, myth, the experience of death, autobiography, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, as well as the political and ethical implications thereof.Trade Review"Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's vigilant engagement with Blanchot's late 'autobiographical' texts is a piercing testimony to the originality and power of a writer whose significance should be beyond dispute. For those who prize close reading, Ending and Unending Agony will be both an inspiration and a delight." -- -Kevin Hart University of Virginia "As it makes its way, in a manner that is painstakingly attentive and demanding, through two texts by Maurice Blanchot (The Instant of My Death and "(A Primal Scene?)"), Ending and Unending Agony explores the relationship between "dying" and "writing": Does not each hold the truth of the other as they relate to the immemorial? That which never took place and of which there is neither memory nor forgetting is also that which binds us to the extremity of sense, where sense renders itself absent. What is at stake as this limit is reached? Can one speak of "myth"-something Blanchot had ruled out long ago-or rather of an experience which no one can experience but which nevertheless leaves a trace? Such are some of the questions to which English-speaking audiences may now direct their attention thanks to this translation of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's book on Blanchot." -- -Jean-Luc Nancy University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg "Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, writer, thinker, translator and interpreter of Holderlin, Heidegger, and Benjamin, was also one of Maurice Blanchot's most constant, scrupulous, and uncompromising readers. In this book on death's interruptions, itself interrupted by death, he provides an incisive, rigorous, and illuminating account of the work of one of the twentieth-century's most incisive, rigorous, and illuminating thinkers. It is powerful testimony to the enduring contemporaneity of an unending dialogue exploring with remarkable originality the possibilities and impossibilities of writing and its critical relationship with literature, philosophy, and politics." -- -Leslie Hill University of WarwickTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Acknowledgements Introduction Leonid Kharlamov and Aristide Bianchi Ending and Unending Agony (on Maurice Blanchot) Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Foreword I. "The Secret Miracle" (20 July?) Fidelities The Contestation of Death Annexes 1. Birth is Death 2. The Agony of Religion II. Ending and Unending Agony (22 September?) Ending and Unending Agony Appendix [In 1976, Malraux...] Interview with Pascal Possoz Dismay Bibliographical Note Index of Names
£23.79
Fordham University Press Minima Philologica
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£63.00
Fordham University Press A World in Ruins Chronicles of Intellectual Life
Book SynopsisThis is the third volume of Maurice Blanchot’s war-time Literary Chronicles. Written in 1943, they appeared during the darkest days of the war yet also at a time when real hope for victory was becoming possible. Against the grain of any simple optimism, Blanchot identifies in ruin and disaster a sign and a chance for a mode of human relation that will truly guarantee the future.Trade Review"Maurice Blanchot's writings during the Vichy years (1941-44) may be the most crucial of his long career, particularly when read against his controversial political writings of the 1930s. Although to all appearances occasional pieces, these literary essays and reviews are also projects of self-transformation in which Blanchot becomes an increasingly distanced and even invisible observer of the disaster of Occupied France, as well as a writer whose critiques of the conventions of the novel look forward to his later experiments in fragmentary writing and the materializations of language." -- -Gerald L. Bruns University of Notre Dame "Writing from one world in ruins to another, Blanchot comes to us today to pose the question of what, if anything, deserves to survive the collapse of an established order of meaning. Through the richness and precision of Michael Holland's presentation of these texts, and the elegance and rigour of his translations, we meet with new understanding one of recent history's most stringent explorations of the possibilities and limitations of thought in the face of disaster. If the now-forgotten subjects of many of these essays might suggest that they have little to say to our present day, Holland helps us to see that nothing could be further from the truth. Blanchot is not writing to us, no doubt. But he is most certainly writing for us." -- -Martin Crowley Queens' College "...what makes Blanchot's critical essays so important is the depth of his engagement with writing as a concept and the experience of writing fiction that he brings to the task. An essential Blanchotian theme treated in this volume, as throughout his work, is the ambiguity of literary language. Blanchot conceives of literature as having a unique power to put language itself in question, exposing the reader or writer to what lies beyond meaning, knowledge, and all familiar relations... Holland has rendered readers a service by stressing the importance of historical context in interpreting Blanchot's writings, and by extension 20th-century French thought, more generally." -- -Calum Watt Review 31 / Kings College "How did Maurice Blanchot transform himself from journeyman reviewer to the theorist of narrative whose work transformed the intellectual landscape of the postwar era? This collection of reviews from a single, harrowing year, 1943, provides answers. Expertly introduced, annotated, and translated by leading Blanchot scholar Michael Holland, A World in Ruins provides a unique entry into making of literature under Nazi occupation." -- -Alice Kaplan Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction by Michael Holland Nicholas of Cusa The Correspondence of Madame de Lafayette The Book Novels of the Land Tocqueville's Recollections Symbolism and the Poets of Today On Montherlant's Play The Romance of Marie Dorval and Vigny Novels Machiavelli Eloquence and Literature On Jouhandeau's Work The Thirteen Forms of a Novel From Praise to Sovereignty Religious Poetry Novels French Suite Hoffman's Fantastic On the Song of Roland Kierkegaard and AEsthetics The Art of the Short Story Women Novelists of Today A History of French Literature The Influence of the American Novel The Mysticism of Angelus Silesius Autobiographical Narratives History and the Masterpiece A Study of the Apocalypse La Fontaine Without the Fables The Pure Novel The Novel of the Gaze Tradition and Surrealism A World in Ruins Index
£92.70
Fordham University Press Two
Book SynopsisThis book describes the historical underpinnings of political theology that continue to exert their influence. The confluence of Roman and Christian notions on the person fuels an exclusionary mechanism that unites by dividing people. Restoring thought to an impersonal place of universal access can help to end this oppressive conceptual regime.Trade Review"Two is a tour-de-force by Roberto Esposito: an attempt to grasp the phenomenon of political theology, from its origins in Roman jurisprudence and Christian theology, all the way up to the twentieth-century debate on this theme." -- -Miguel Vatter University of New South Wales "With his usual genealogical acumen, in Two, Esposito makes a very significant contribution to the dismantling of what he identifies as the hierarchical dispositive of Western civilization as such: political theology. Philosophy can and must develop a new conceptual lexicon able to overcome the forgetting of the Two within the One. What is here ultimately at stake is an ambitious redefinition of thought as impersonally applicable to the human species, rather than to individuals. This book is indispensable reading for anybody interested in biopolitics and the future of critique at large." -- -Lorenzo Chiesa Director of the Genoa School of Humanities "This work, beautifully translated by Zakiya Hanafi, shows how professor Esposito's thought is developing from his groundbreaking earlier work on community and immunity. This book will be a welcome and important contribution to students of the history of biopolitics, continental philosophers, historians of ideas, and political theorists." -- -Jonathon Short York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Passage: Gestell 1. Machination Passage: Katechon 2. The dispositif of the person Passage: Nexum (economic theology I) 3. The Place of Thought Passage: Sovereign debt (economic theology II) Index
£23.39
Fordham University Press Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spanos's Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum remains a brilliant speculation on the fate of American exceptionalism and a powerful call for insurrection and revolt." -Los Angeles Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword by Donald Pease Preface 1. The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle: The American Sublime Revisited 2. American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era: The Myth and the Reality 3. The Center Will Not Hold: The Widening Gyre of the New Americanist Studies 4. American Exceptionalism and the Calling: A Genealogy of the Vocational Ethic Appendix: The Debate World and the Making of the American Political Class: An Interview with William V. Spanos Notes Index
£78.30
Fordham University Press Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spanos's Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum remains a brilliant speculation on the fate of American exceptionalism and a powerful call for insurrection and revolt." -Los Angeles Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword by Donald Pease Preface 1. The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle: The American Sublime Revisited 2. American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era: The Myth and the Reality 3. The Center Will Not Hold: The Widening Gyre of the New Americanist Studies 4. American Exceptionalism and the Calling: A Genealogy of the Vocational Ethic Appendix: The Debate World and the Making of the American Political Class: An Interview with William V. Spanos Notes Index
£21.59
Fordham University Press The Matter of Voice Sensual Soundings
Book SynopsisVoices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music.Trade Review"In this eloquently written and elegantly conceived book, Karmen MacKendrick speaks for voice--and speaks up for it--in much-needed new terms. MacKendrick ask us to recognize that voice matters in part because it is matter. The bodily and musical qualities of voice have rarely, if ever, been given their philosophical due. Moving across a wide span of concerns from literature to theology, The Matter of Voice shows why that gap in our thinking should be filled and proceeds to fill it memorably." -- -Lawrence Kramer Fordham University "The Matter of Voice is a work of philosophical theology in a multidisciplinary and poetic key. Its central organizing insight is that voice and voicing are productive of corporeality and rhythm in language. As MacKendrick shows, at the heart of the voice is 'an irreducible and carnal strangeness' that refuses closure and invites passion back into thinking. The book is a sterling exemplar of the richness that results from attending to the somatic quality of words, yielding a layering of ideas that forms a virtual chorus of multiperspectival thinking." -- -Patricia Cox Miller Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Hearing Voices 1. The Matter of Voice 2. Speaking to Learn to Listen 3. Thou Art Translated! 4. The Voice in the Mirror 5. Original Breath 6. The Meaning in the Music Notes Works Cited Index
£19.79
Fordham University Press The Ethnography of Rhythm
Book SynopsisA history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema).Trade Review"Only Haun Saussy-with his historical range, theoretical breadth, and fine close-reading-could have pulled off this brilliant comparative history of 'the perturbation caused by the idea of oral literature.' The disciplinary range of this dazzling scholarly performance takes us from linguistics and philology to ethnography and religious studies, from physiology and psychiatry to the history of graphic and sound technologies. Be prepared to marvel-and learn." -- -Linda Hutcheon University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Weighing Hearsay 1. Poetry Without Poems or Poets "Two or Three Hundred Rhythmic Formulae Festivals of Rhythm The Oral Style Formula as System Langue, Parole, and Constraint 2. Writing as One Form of Notation The Epic Cyborg "Word for Word" Stitches in Time 3. Autography The Inscribing Ear "Speech is a Movement" The Patois of Parnassus A Difference of Fifteen Cycles 4. The Human Gramophone "Errores Modernistarum" The Gospel of Movement A Bone Gallery "Four Obscure Jews" Gallo-Galilean Civilization 5. Embodiment and Inscription Materials Science Techniques of the Body Notes Bibliography Index
£74.70
Fordham University Press The Ethnography of Rhythm Orality and Its
Book SynopsisA history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema).Trade Review"Only Haun Saussy-with his historical range, theoretical breadth, and fine close-reading-could have pulled off this brilliant comparative history of 'the perturbation caused by the idea of oral literature.' The disciplinary range of this dazzling scholarly performance takes us from linguistics and philology to ethnography and religious studies, from physiology and psychiatry to the history of graphic and sound technologies. Be prepared to marvel-and learn." -- -Linda Hutcheon University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Weighing Hearsay 1. Poetry Without Poems or Poets "Two or Three Hundred Rhythmic Formulae Festivals of Rhythm The Oral Style Formula as System Langue, Parole, and Constraint 2. Writing as One Form of Notation The Epic Cyborg "Word for Word" Stitches in Time 3. Autography The Inscribing Ear "Speech is a Movement" The Patois of Parnassus A Difference of Fifteen Cycles 4. The Human Gramophone "Errores Modernistarum" The Gospel of Movement A Bone Gallery "Four Obscure Jews" Gallo-Galilean Civilization 5. Embodiment and Inscription Materials Science Techniques of the Body Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Fordham University Press Celebricities Media Culture and the
Book SynopsisA phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Exordium Introduction Part I 1. The phenomenology of television 2. The life not ours to live 3. The celebrity and the nobody 4. Being(s) 5. The life of things 6. The essence of ideology; the essence of truth 7. The truth of the commodity 8. Value, publicity, politics 9. Reproduction 10. The gadget 11. Back to the things themselves Part II 12. Methods Concepts of criticism Language is the EL of being Satanic laughter Techniques of writing Vita contemplativa The raccoon trap 13. Celebrity Epic form Celebrity and singularity Innocence Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of Madonna The strange celebrity The Uncandy Candy Candy What percentage of the American population are celebrities? Specters of Spector Excrement and enterprise The dissociating pleasure of things Abstract pleasures Experiences The theory of suffering Advertising The next top model Television and celebrity Politics and humor The visionary Things Listening to Radiohead for the first time, 17 years too late. 14. Television/Gadget It's bicycle repairmanEL Dialectica gizmotica The Trojan horse The personal computer Terror-vision The Joker Gigi Nip/Tuck The Following The Ring House Disjecta membra Dexteri Boogie Nights Man or Muppet The sweatshops of Hollywood Muppetation and mediation Demectomy Action figures Liberal Arts Glee Bunheads Breaking Bad/Elective Affinities 15. Epilogue How I met my mother (French Theory, by Francois Cusset) Bibliography Videography Notes
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Fordham University Press Words Fail
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure.Trade Review"Colby Dickinson provides us with a compelling meditation on the complex relationship between poetry, philosophy, and religion. He not only illuminates Derrida and Agamben's engagement with poetry but allows poetry to talk back to philosophy-and invites the reader to reconsider what is at stake every time we sit down to write." -- -Adam Kotsko Shimer CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The logic of the 'as if' and the (non)existence of God: An inquiry into the nature of belief 2. Aesthetics among the metaphysical ruins: The poetry of Paul Celan seen through the works of Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 3. On language and its profanation: Beyond representation in the poetic theory of Giorgio Agamben Conclusion: The Spiritual and Creative Failures of Representation, or On the Art of Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£66.60
Fordham University Press Words Fail Theology Poetry and the Challenge of
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure.Trade Review"Colby Dickinson provides us with a compelling meditation on the complex relationship between poetry, philosophy, and religion. He not only illuminates Derrida and Agamben's engagement with poetry but allows poetry to talk back to philosophy-and invites the reader to reconsider what is at stake every time we sit down to write." -- -Adam Kotsko Shimer CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The logic of the 'as if' and the (non)existence of God: An inquiry into the nature of belief 2. Aesthetics among the metaphysical ruins: The poetry of Paul Celan seen through the works of Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 3. On language and its profanation: Beyond representation in the poetic theory of Giorgio Agamben Conclusion: The Spiritual and Creative Failures of Representation, or On the Art of Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
Fordham University Press The Possibility of a World
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.Trade Review"The Possibility of a World presents Jean-Luc Nancy in dialogue, allowing unique access to his thought. The book is particularly concerned with the possibility of inhabiting the world--a world that has become an object of calculation and mastery. For Nancy, such a habitus entails an ethos, or an 'ethics of the world' that involves the re-creation of the world. In the context of his thinking of such an ethical habitus, Nancy continues, throughout the book, his inventive engagement with Heidegger's thought as well as his ongoing debate with Derrida. This new book is an important contribution to Nancy's rethinking of the world and sense." -- -David Pettigrew Southern Connecticut State University
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Fordham University Press The Possibility of a World
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.Trade Review"The Possibility of a World presents Jean-Luc Nancy in dialogue, allowing unique access to his thought. The book is particularly concerned with the possibility of inhabiting the world--a world that has become an object of calculation and mastery. For Nancy, such a habitus entails an ethos, or an 'ethics of the world' that involves the re-creation of the world. In the context of his thinking of such an ethical habitus, Nancy continues, throughout the book, his inventive engagement with Heidegger's thought as well as his ongoing debate with Derrida. This new book is an important contribution to Nancy's rethinking of the world and sense." -- -David Pettigrew Southern Connecticut State University
£22.79
Fordham University Press The Writing of Spirit
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Eternal Etymology: From Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure 1. Language Ensouled Grammatical Life * Life Science * Kosmon Psychon * How Inflection Unfolds * Etymology: the Method * Spirit Superfluous? * The Demise of Analysis 2. Saussure's Dream In Search of the Literal * Neither Flesh nor Spirit * But Rather Writing * Postmeditation 3. Verse Origins Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit * 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (=2+2) * Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes * The Rhythm of Geist * The Cult of Cancellation Part II. Tending Toward Zero: From Runes to Phonemes 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres Philology + Harmony * Wotan's Staff 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory The Wagnerian Sound of Sense * Wave Systems (Acoustics) * The Undulating All (Psychophysics) * A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) 6. Jakobson's Zeros Analogy: the Method * Zero Degree Rhyme * The Silent "e" * Mama and Papa * In Retrospect: The Future Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press The Writing of Spirit
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Eternal Etymology: From Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure 1. Language Ensouled Grammatical Life * Life Science * Kosmon Psychon * How Inflection Unfolds * Etymology: the Method * Spirit Superfluous? * The Demise of Analysis 2. Saussure's Dream In Search of the Literal * Neither Flesh nor Spirit * But Rather Writing * Postmeditation 3. Verse Origins Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit * 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (=2+2) * Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes * The Rhythm of Geist * The Cult of Cancellation Part II. Tending Toward Zero: From Runes to Phonemes 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres Philology + Harmony * Wotan's Staff 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory The Wagnerian Sound of Sense * Wave Systems (Acoustics) * The Undulating All (Psychophysics) * A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) 6. Jakobson's Zeros Analogy: the Method * Zero Degree Rhyme * The Silent "e" * Mama and Papa * In Retrospect: The Future Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
Fordham University Press Expectation
Book SynopsisExpectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues such questions as literature's claims to truth, the status of narrative, the relation of poetry and prose, and the unity of a book or of a text, and he addresses a number of major European writers, including Dante, Sterne, Rousseau, Hölderlin, Proust, Joyce, and Blanchot.The final section offers a number of impressive pieces by Nancy that completely merge his concerns for philosophy and literature and philosophy-as-literature. These include a lengthy parody of Valéry's La Jeune Parque, several original poems by Nancy, and a beautiful prose-poetic discourse on an installation by Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani that incorporates the Faust theme. Opening with a substantial IntroduTrade Review"Expectation stages a courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse. What's more, this intense courtship leads to a marriage blessed with specific offspring: Nancy's book offers both an epithalamium and a pregnant poetics, a poetics of awakening and emergence-poetics as obstetrics ushering in new 'senses' in and of the world, plus strong and luminescent poems never seen in English before." -- from Jean-Michel Rabate's IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction Cornerstones 1: Cone 2: Baldwin 3: Mbembe 4: Derrida, Agamben, Wynter Questions 5: What is Black Tradition? 6: What is Black Organizing? 7: For What Are Blacks to Hope? 8: For What Are Whites to Hope? Exempla 9: The Revelation of Race: On Steve Biko 10: The Racial Messiah: On Huey P. Newton 11: The Post-Racial Saint: On Barack Obama 12: The Race of the Soul: On Gillian Rose Afterword: The Birth of the Black Church Bibliography
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Fordham University Press Of Stigmatology
Book SynopsisTrade Review"To the now of the point, Heidegger opposes the ecstasy of time. For the past of the point, Deleuze substitutes becoming without history. Both, Peter Szendy objects, are but different ways of punctuating. Cuts, blows, silences, blanks: these stigmata are all irreducible, as are punctuation marks in a text. From ontology to linguistics, from learned treatise to comic book, the grace of this fascinating text brings being back to the infinity of its cut." -- -Catherine Malabou Kingston University "Peter Szendy's brilliant reflections on the punctuation of experience make for a magnificent composition: a new philosophy of the sensible focused on how one feels oneself feeling, and an investigation of 'how one makes a point' philosophically and emotively. Never before have exclamation points, dashes, interrogatives, full stops, and quotation marks been treated so existentially; never before has the musicality of existence been so keenly tied to its notation; never before has the distance between points been used so effectively as a measure of life-span. In the "pows!" and "blams" of comic-book blows, glimmers of political violence come into focus. This is an amazing work of philosophy, aesthetics, media, and critique!!!" -- -Emily Apter New York UniversityTable of ContentsStigmatology From the Rubrica to the Smiley, A Portable History The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram's Cut (Un)pointings P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida) Phrasing, Or the Holes in Meaning The Dotted Lines of Auscultation Monauralisms, Or the Bubble of Quotation Marks Punctum Saliens, or the Salient Point The Point of the Overcast Stitch Ekphrasis General Chatter Punctuation and Politics, Or the Dot Above the I Final Survey
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Fordham University Press The New York Editions
Book SynopsisThe New York Editions is a Lycidan Dichterliebe to a distant Beloved, opening onto and out of a submerged, decades-long experimental translation of The New York Edition—Henry James's late-in-life reissue of his own novels and short stories—into poems, queerly calibrated to an optic of otherworldly contiguities.
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Fordham University Press Last Things
Book SynopsisLast Things explores lastness as a formal structure in romantic and post-romantic literature and art as something other than either a privation or a conclusion. It touches on the unthinkable dimensions of our life and world, and reads the fate of romanticism as a limit of the human.Table of ContentsList of Color Plates Has Been Introduction: Of Last Things 1. The Unfinished World 2. Life Is Gone 3. As if That Look Must Be the Last Acknowledgments Notes Index Color plates follow page
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Fordham University Press Portrait
Book SynopsisSuspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English- Language Edition vii Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1 Jeffrey S. Librett The Look of the Portrait The Autonomous Portrait 13 Resemblance 21 Recall 29 Look 36 The Other Portrait L’altro ritratto 47 Character 51 The Eye 54 Visageity 56 Mimesis 59 Withdrawn Presence 63 Ipseity 67 Theophany 72 Revelation 76 Divine Abandonment 81 Dis- figuration 84 Eclipse 89 Infinite Detachment 93 Coda I 99 Coda II 101 Coda III 104 Notes 109 List of Figures 125
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Fordham University Press Freud and Monotheism
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis''s relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud's masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely recognized. Freud and Monotheism critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point Freud's relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud's book and the modern world with whichTable of ContentsIntroduction Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit “Why [the Jews] have Attracted this Undying Hatred” Richard Bernstein “Geistigkeit”: A Problematic Concept Joel Whitebook Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History Willi Goetschel Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging Gabriele Schwab A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention Yael Segalovitz Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses Jan Assmann Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea Ronald Hendel Is Psychic Phylogenesis only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance Catherine Malabou Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible Gilad Sharvit Notes List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty Stephanie M. Straub Part I: Reading Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars 1. Beginning with Literature Peggy Kamuf 2. Derrida and the Scene of Execution Elizabeth Rottenberg 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty Michael Naas 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions Christina Howells Part II: Derrida and His Interlocuters 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution Katie Chenoweth 6. “Bidding Up” on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin Kir Kuiken 7. Calculus Kas Saghafi Part III: Extending Derrida’s Analysis 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law Nicole Anderson 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death Elissa Marder 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty Kelly Oliver Part IV: Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States 11. Furman and Finitude Adam Thurschwell 12. The Heart of the Other? Sarah Tyson 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex Lisa Guenther List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press Deconstructing the Death Penalty Derridas
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty Stephanie M. Straub Part I: Reading Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars 1. Beginning with Literature Peggy Kamuf 2. Derrida and the Scene of Execution Elizabeth Rottenberg 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty Michael Naas 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions Christina Howells Part II: Derrida and His Interlocuters 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution Katie Chenoweth 6. “Bidding Up” on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin Kir Kuiken 7. Calculus Kas Saghafi Part III: Extending Derrida’s Analysis 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law Nicole Anderson 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death Elissa Marder 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty Kelly Oliver Part IV: Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States 11. Furman and Finitude Adam Thurschwell 12. The Heart of the Other? Sarah Tyson 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex Lisa Guenther List of Contributors Index
£27.90
Fordham University Press Deep Time Dark Times On Being Geologically Human
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Herding the Cats of Deep Time 1 2. Who Do We Think We Are? 26 3. Cosmic Passions 36 4. Thinking Geologically after Nietzsche 47 5. Angst and Attunement 60 6. The Present Age: A Case Study 73 7. Posthumanist Responsibility 82 8. The New Materialism 96 9. The Unthinkable and the Impossible 107 10. What Is to Be Done? Democracy and Beyond 121 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 139 Index 157
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Fordham University Press Systems of Life
Book SynopsisSystems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid eighteenth to the midnineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume's contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or aesthetic representation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag 1 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century Christian Marouby 35 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence James Edward Ford III 56 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity Pierre Macherey 82 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith’s Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life Catherine Packham 93 5. Vitalism’s Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics Richard A. Barney 114 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy Annika Mann 135 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny Amanda Jo Goldstein 162 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment Mrinalini Chakravorty 201 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank Timothy C. Campbell 236 List of Contributors 257 Index 261
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Fordham University Press Decolonial Love
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Decolonial Love? 1 Part I: Christian Theology in the Networks of Colonial Modernity 1. Colonial Modernity as a Historical Context 17 2. The Entanglement of Christian Theology and the Coloniality of Power: The Possibilities of a Response 31 3. Decolonial Openings in Theologies of Liberation 49 Part II: Decolonial Love 4. Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Love: A New Humanism in Historical Struggle 73 5. James Baldwin’s Decolonial Love: Uncovering the Revelation of the Beat 100 Part III: Theological Reflection as a Decolonial Option 6. The Theological Pedagogy of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin 119 7. Decolonizing Salvation 135 Conclusion: Sharpening Decolonial Options in the Present Moment 159 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 201 Index 211
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Fordham University Press Decolonial Love
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Decolonial Love? 1 Part I: Christian Theology in the Networks of Colonial Modernity 1. Colonial Modernity as a Historical Context 17 2. The Entanglement of Christian Theology and the Coloniality of Power: The Possibilities of a Response 31 3. Decolonial Openings in Theologies of Liberation 49 Part II: Decolonial Love 4. Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Love: A New Humanism in Historical Struggle 73 5. James Baldwin’s Decolonial Love: Uncovering the Revelation of the Beat 100 Part III: Theological Reflection as a Decolonial Option 6. The Theological Pedagogy of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin 119 7. Decolonizing Salvation 135 Conclusion: Sharpening Decolonial Options in the Present Moment 159 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 201 Index 211
£73.80
Fordham University Press Mapping Memory Visuality Affect and Embodied
Book SynopsisInterweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of place.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Affect, Haunting, and Mapping Memory 27 2. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Feeling the Past 56 3. Performing Archives, Performing Ruins 88 4. The Politics of Seeing: Affect, Forensics, and Visuality in the US-Mexico Borderlands 120 Conclusion 153 Acknowledgments 159 Notes 161 Bibliography 181 Index 195
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Fordham University Press Reading Sideways The Queer Politics of Art in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | vii Introduction | 1 1. Strange Beauty | 15 2. Small Collectivity and the Low Arts | 43 3. The Impossible Art Object of Desire | 75 4. Willa Cather and W. E. B. Du Bois Go to the Opera | 112 Part One: A Continuous Repetition of Sound | 116 Part Two: Endless Melody | 138 Conclusion | 159 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Reading Sideways The Queer Politics of Art in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | vii Introduction | 1 1. Strange Beauty | 15 2. Small Collectivity and the Low Arts | 43 3. The Impossible Art Object of Desire | 75 4. Willa Cather and W. E. B. Du Bois Go to the Opera | 112 Part One: A Continuous Repetition of Sound | 116 Part Two: Endless Melody | 138 Conclusion | 159 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Alegal Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of
Book SynopsisAlegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.Table of ContentsPreface ix Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124 Conclusion 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 211
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Fordham University Press Alegal Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of
Book SynopsisAlegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.Table of ContentsPreface ix Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124 Conclusion 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 211
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Fordham University Press Administering Interpretation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Peter Goodrich and Michel Rosenfeld | 1 I Reconstructing Interpretative Communities 1. Interpretations as Hypotheses Bernhard Schlink | 11 2. Antonin Scalia, Bernhard Schlink, and Lancelot Andrewes: Reading Heller Stanley Fish 22 3. The Interpreter, the Analyst, and the Scientist Jeanne L. Schroeder | 38 4. Law against Justice and Solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the Margins of the One and the Many Michel Rosenfeld | 54 II Derrida and Dissimulation 5. Jacques Derrida Never Wrote about Law Pierre Legrand | 105 6. Derrida’s Legal Times: Decision, Declaration, Deferral, and Event Bernadette Meyler | 147 7. Derrida’s Shylock: The Letter and the Life of Law Katrin Trüstedt | 168 III The Justice of Administration 8. A Postmodern Hetoimasia—Feigning Sovereignty during the State of Exception Marinos Diamantides | 189 9. Contra Iurem: Giorgio Agamben’s Two Ontologies Laurent de Sutter | 234 IV CounterPlaces, CounterTimes 10. Cities of Refuge, Rebel Cities, and the City to Come Giovanna Borradori | 253 11. A Ghost Story: Electoral Reform and Hong Kong Popular Theater Marco Wan | 272 12. Appearing under Erasure: Of War, Disappearance, and the Contretemps Allen Feldman | 290 List of Contributors | 323 Index | 329
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Fordham University Press Administering Interpretation Derrida Agamben and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Peter Goodrich and Michel Rosenfeld | 1 I Reconstructing Interpretative Communities 1. Interpretations as Hypotheses Bernhard Schlink | 11 2. Antonin Scalia, Bernhard Schlink, and Lancelot Andrewes: Reading Heller Stanley Fish 22 3. The Interpreter, the Analyst, and the Scientist Jeanne L. Schroeder | 38 4. Law against Justice and Solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the Margins of the One and the Many Michel Rosenfeld | 54 II Derrida and Dissimulation 5. Jacques Derrida Never Wrote about Law Pierre Legrand | 105 6. Derrida’s Legal Times: Decision, Declaration, Deferral, and Event Bernadette Meyler | 147 7. Derrida’s Shylock: The Letter and the Life of Law Katrin Trüstedt | 168 III The Justice of Administration 8. A Postmodern Hetoimasia—Feigning Sovereignty during the State of Exception Marinos Diamantides | 189 9. Contra Iurem: Giorgio Agamben’s Two Ontologies Laurent de Sutter | 234 IV CounterPlaces, CounterTimes 10. Cities of Refuge, Rebel Cities, and the City to Come Giovanna Borradori | 253 11. A Ghost Story: Electoral Reform and Hong Kong Popular Theater Marco Wan | 272 12. Appearing under Erasure: Of War, Disappearance, and the Contretemps Allen Feldman | 290 List of Contributors | 323 Index | 329
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