Political science and theory Books
ME - Fordham University Press After Fukushima
Book SynopsisIn an era of catastrophes natural and man-made, a great French philosopher ponders human responsibility. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with the author.Trade Review"A powerful reflection on our times, our condition, and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima." -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University "Leave it to Jean-Luc Nancy to take an event like the Fukushima nuclear disaster and turn it into an occasion for rethinking the essence of capitalism, globalization, the fate of the Earth, and the future of democracy." -- -Michael Naas DePaul UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Notes
£13.99
Fordham University Press Categories of the Impolitical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The limbic Esposito is laid bare by his translator. This luculent rendition of Categories of the Impolitical provides a fluent and accessible introduction to Esposito's most intriguing and challenging work. Here, finally, in incisive and poetic prose, in a properly humanistic and engaged tenor, Esposito's contropiano, his counterplan of the impolitical and non categorial is made available in partibus infidelium, which is to say, in the anglophone world." -- -Peter Goodrich Cardozo School of Law "Categories of the Impolitical is an impressive attempt to think about politics beyond sovereignty and against political theology. Through clear and sophisticated readings of crucial yet often neglected political thinkers of the twentieth century like Weil, Bataille, Voegelin, and Broch, this book prepares the groundwork for Esposito's continuing exploration of the possibility of community outside of representation and of politics without transcendence. An indispensable work for anyone interested in Italian theory." -- -Miguel Vatter University of New South Wales "Categories of the Impolitical is an original and intense meditation on the central void of our historical epoch. The impolitical, beyond any number of misapprehensions, is the always already political refusal to engage in mystification in the face of nihilism. Esposito's book relentlessly traces and names the suspension and withholding of political sonambulism against every kind of political theology. It is a story, unfinished and unfinishable, about the improbable awakening that a certain type of sleepwalker-the intellectual-simultaneously desires and abhors, and for the most part avoids." -- -Alberto Moreiras Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface to the Second Italian Edition 000 Acknowledgments 000 Translator's Note 000 Introduction: An Impolitical Departure 1 1. At the Limits of the Political 000 2. The Unrepresentable Polis 000 3. Power and Silence 000 4. A Politics of Ascesis 000 5. The Community of Death 000 Notes 000 Index 000
£92.70
ME - Fordham University Press The Life of Things the Love of Things
Book SynopsisFrom prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.Trade Review"Bodei's philosophical expertise is obvious, but he surpasses by far the level of most phenomenologies of "things" thanks to his refined sensibility with regard to the vital, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and religious aspects of various types of things." -- -Adriaan T. Peperzak Loyola University, Chicago "Simple things. Bare objects still new or already worn out. Objects unscathed or consumed and so slated for insignificance and destruction. But is this really the fate of things today or is there instead another way of looking at them, one able to salvage things somehow from such an anonymous and listless end? This is the piercing and original question that Remo Bodei poses in The Life of Things, The Love of Things." -- -Roberto Esposito La repubblicaTable of Contents1. Objects and Things 2. Opening Up to the World 3. Living Nature Notes Index
£62.10
Fordham University Press The Mandate of Dignity
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to review Ronald Dworkin’s entire body of work in its relevance to constitutional dispensations in the Global South.Trade Review"This pathbreaking work puts the revolutionary achievement of the South African Constitution and the interpretive work of the South African constitutional court in the illuminating perspective of the best theory of constitutional interpretation now available, the neo-Kantian theory of equal dignity of Ronald Dworkin. It shows clearly how the work of our best constitutional courts-the South African court among them-is now a common humane enterprise for the protection of universal human rights under the rule of law throughout the world." -- -David A.J. Richards New York University School of Law "The Mandate of Dignity is an ambitious undertaking that contributes importantly to ongoing debates within jurisprudence and political philosophy as well as more specific controversies regarding constitutional law and transitional justice in South Africa." -- -Morris Kaplan Purchase College, SUNYTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Integrity to the Past 2. The Hegelian Conception of a Properly Constituted Community 3. Law's Empire In South Africa 4. The Quest for Unity of Value 5. Integrity to Dignity 6. Dignity in South African Law Conclusion Notes Index
£999.99
Fordham University Press Scatter 1 The Politics of Politics in Foucault
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bennington's Scatter 1 is a sophisticated, detailed, and strikingly original demonstration of the political efficacy of deconstruction. As always with Bennington to read him is to undergo an education in reading." -- -Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Politics 1. Parrhesia 2. Pseudos 3. Kairos 4. Moria 5. Diakrisis 6. Axioma Appendix: Derrida's notes on Dignity Index
£92.70
Fordham University Press Scatter 1
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bennington's Scatter 1 is a sophisticated, detailed, and strikingly original demonstration of the political efficacy of deconstruction. As always with Bennington to read him is to undergo an education in reading." -- -Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Politics 1. Parrhesia 2. Pseudos 3. Kairos 4. Moria 5. Diakrisis 6. Axioma Appendix: Derrida's notes on Dignity Index
£27.90
Fordham University Press Foucaults Critical Ethics
Book SynopsisArgues that Michel Foucault's account of power provides a inescapable framework for ethics. Traces Foucault's analyses of power and ancient and contemporary ethical practices. Articulates a Foucauldian ethics constituted by a critical attitude, with substantive but revisable values grounded in a practice of freedom.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Michel Foucault as critical theorist 1. Approaching power from a new theoretical basis 2. Disciplinary power: testing the Hobbesian hypothesis 3. Reframing the theory: biopower and governmentality 4. Freedom's critique: the trajectories of a Foucauldian ethics Conclusion: To struggle with hope Appendix: Michel Foucault's shorter works in English Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£40.50
Fordham University Press Heidegger Philosophy and Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In light of the renewed debates about Heidegger and Nazism, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics is a timely book. Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe and Gadamer tackle Heidegger's thinking head on, providing new insights into his legacy." -- -Leonard Lawlor Penn State University
£999.99
Fordham University Press Heidegger Philosophy and Politics The Heidelberg
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In light of the renewed debates about Heidegger and Nazism, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics is a timely book. Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe and Gadamer tackle Heidegger's thinking head on, providing new insights into his legacy." -- -Leonard Lawlor Penn State University
£19.94
Fordham University Press Kant on the Frontier
Book SynopsisThis book examines the figure of the frontier (both bilateral border and open edge of civilization) both literally in Kant’s political writings, and figuratively in Critiques, developing via a reading of teleological judgment the concept of “interrupted teleology” as a reasoned but non-rationalistic response to rationalism.Trade Review"This is a magnificent, thrilling book. Bennington shows that the geopolitical vocabulary that pervades Kant's critical system-frontiers, limits, borders boundaries, territories, battlefields-is not merely a analogy but rather the index of the essentially political nature of thought. His brilliant, gorgeous readings manage to negotiate the fragile boundary between Kant's usually marginalized historical-political writings and the central problematic of the critical-transcendental project. The problems of philosophy cannot be cordoned off from the 'cosmopolitan' concerns of humanity. This is truly an achievement." -- -Rebecca Comay University of Toronto "Beyond meticulously describing the impasses around which Kant conducts what he sometimes calls his 'critical business,' Kant on the Frontier culminates in an analysis of the Critique of Teleological Judgment that is at once philologically exact and strikingly topical: here we encounter a thinker who, in seeking to erect impregnable borders, opens onto the 'abyss of judgment.'" -- -Peter Fenves Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Pre-liminary Prolegomena 1. The End of Nature 2. The Return of Nature 3. Rest in Peace Interlude-The Guiding Thread (on Philosophical Reading) 4. Radical Nature 5. The Abyss of Judgment Finis Appendix: On Transcendental Fiction (Grenze and Schranke) Index
£999.99
Fordham University Press The Origin of the Political
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For Esposito, thought does not just fight-it is the fight itself. Esposito moves on the basis of a fundamental ontology of war, which marks what a previous tradition would have called "the unity of being." The Origin of the Political elaborates implications of this, not only through its masterful conceptual analysis and through its insights into the two thinkers it studies and critiques, but also because, as it makes explicit the stakes of the impolitical approach, it also ruins so many of the foundations of modern political thought and prepares the way for its fundamental renewal." -- -Alberto Moreiras Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition (2014) 1. Partitions 2. Truth 3. Principium and Initium 4. Beginn, Anfang, Ursprung 5. Polemos-Polis 6. The Third Origin 7. Nothingness 8. Forces 9. In Common 10. Imperium 11. Topologies 12. In the Grip of Love 13. The Final Battle
£22.79
Fordham University Press Political Concepts A Critical Lexicon
Book SynopsisEssays 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 concept can do for us now.
£102.60
Fordham University Press Political Concepts A Critical Lexicon
Book SynopsisEssays 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 concept can do for us now.
£27.90
Fordham University Press Stasis Before the State Nine Theses on Agonistic
Book SynopsisHow is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.Trade Review"Against the naive utopias of radical democracy and of liberal democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with 'agonistic democracy'-a non-teleological and paradoxical political practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the State is a truly remarkable and memorable book." -- -Cesare Casarino University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior Editor "A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear conflict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic life." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble, or On Agonistic Monism Thesis 1 Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty Thesis 2 Sovereign violence is always justified violence Thesis 3 The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty Intermezzo 1 Sovereignty and the Refugee Thesis 4 Judgment is constitutive of democracy Thesis 5 Judgement establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejusti-fying violence Thesis 6 Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political and the ethical Intermezzo 2 The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power Thesis 7 Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution Thesis 8 Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sover-eignty Thesis 9 Stasis underlies all political praxis Vardoulak
£66.60
Fordham University Press Stasis Before the State Nine Theses on Agonistic
Book SynopsisHow is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.Trade Review"Against the naive utopias of radical democracy and of liberal democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with 'agonistic democracy'-a non-teleological and paradoxical political practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the State is a truly remarkable and memorable book." -- -Cesare Casarino University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior Editor "A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear conflict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic life." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble, or On Agonistic Monism Thesis 1 Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty Thesis 2 Sovereign violence is always justified violence Thesis 3 The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty Intermezzo 1 Sovereignty and the Refugee Thesis 4 Judgment is constitutive of democracy Thesis 5 Judgement establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejusti-fying violence Thesis 6 Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political and the ethical Intermezzo 2 The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power Thesis 7 Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution Thesis 8 Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sover-eignty Thesis 9 Stasis underlies all political praxis Vardoulak
£19.79
Fordham University Press Disappointment
Book SynopsisDisappointment responds to recent calls to imaginatively and creatively theorize an otherwise by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples â the anti-drug war movement â can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.Trade Review"It is an extremely rare occurrence for a book to come along that truly breaks open new possibilities for thinking. This is one of those books. In dialogue with philosophy, political theory, critical theory, and anthropology, Disappointment illuminates pathways for creatively thinking through the necessary intertwinings of ontology, ethics, and politics in an effort to critically diagnose and respond to "the overwhelming disappointment" that characterizes a world that is no longer bearable." -- -C. Jason Throop University of California, Los Angeles "A clear and powerful rethinking of the concept of the political grounded in the world of situations rather than the subject of enunciations, Disappointment announces the arrival of a major new figure in the ontological turn in anthropology." -- -Elizabeth Povinelli Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 - The Effective History of Rights 2 – Progress (Or, the repetition of differential sameness) 3 – Worlds and Situations 4 – An Ethics of Dwelling 5 – World-building and Attunement Epilogue – Critical Hermeneutics
£78.30
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
£92.70
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 Goods Advertising Urban Space and the Moral Law
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Last Name of the Good 1. Walls 2. Cities 3. The Banality of the Good 4. Totem 5. The World of Things 6. Towards a Moral Hyper-Realism Afterword to the English-Language Edition Notes Acknowledgments
£71.10
Fordham University Press Goods Advertising Urban Space and the Moral Law
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Last Name of the Good 1. Walls 2. Cities 3. The Banality of the Good 4. Totem 5. The World of Things 6. Towards a Moral Hyper-Realism Afterword to the English-Language Edition Notes Acknowledgments
£22.79
Fordham University Press Reified Life Speculative Capital and the Ahuman
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents Chapter 1: Market Humans: Homo Oeconomicus, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of Risk Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating “We Other Humans” Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and Governmentality Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court, Translation and the Human Status Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living
£92.70
Fordham University Press Reified Life Speculative Capital and the Ahuman
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents Chapter 1: Market Humans: Homo Oeconomicus, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of Risk Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating “We Other Humans” Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and Governmentality Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court, Translation and the Human Status Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living
£27.90
Fordham University Press Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places Justice
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, 1 Places 1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 Rebecca M. McLennan, 15 2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law Samera Esmeir, 37 3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia Daniel Fisher, 62 4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country Beth H. Piatote, 85 Membership 5. Signs of Law Leti Volpp, 103 6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding Sarah Song, 131 7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality Saba Mahmood, 145 Religion 8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Wendy Brown, 169 9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus Daniel Boyarin, 189 10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany Sara Ludin, 201 11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner Christopher Tomlins, 225 Performance 12. A Vigil at the End of the World Kathryn Abrams, 247 13. Invention and Process in Bilski Marianne Constable, 258 14. “Erudite Curiosity”: The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 Ramona Naddaff, 273 15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud Bryan Wagner, 287 List of Contributors, 299 Index, 303
£22.79
Fordham University Press Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places Justice
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, 1 Places 1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 Rebecca M. McLennan, 15 2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law Samera Esmeir, 37 3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia Daniel Fisher, 62 4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country Beth H. Piatote, 85 Membership 5. Signs of Law Leti Volpp, 103 6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding Sarah Song, 131 7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality Saba Mahmood, 145 Religion 8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Wendy Brown, 169 9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus Daniel Boyarin, 189 10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany Sara Ludin, 201 11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner Christopher Tomlins, 225 Performance 12. A Vigil at the End of the World Kathryn Abrams, 247 13. Invention and Process in Bilski Marianne Constable, 258 14. “Erudite Curiosity”: The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 Ramona Naddaff, 273 15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud Bryan Wagner, 287 List of Contributors, 299 Index, 303
£78.30
Fordham University Press Murderous Consent
Book SynopsisMurderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.Table of ContentsForeword by James Martel | ix Introduction | 1 1 Justice | 17 2 Life | 46 3 Freedom | 75 4 Truth | 109 5 The World | 140 Conclusion | 173 Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History | 181 Notes | 195 Index | 213
£25.19
Fordham University Press Murderous Consent
Book SynopsisMurderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.Table of ContentsForeword by James Martel | ix Introduction | 1 1 Justice | 17 2 Life | 46 3 Freedom | 75 4 Truth | 109 5 The World | 140 Conclusion | 173 Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History | 181 Notes | 195 Index | 213
£81.90
ME - Fordham University Press King Alfonso VIII of Castile Government Family
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Alfonso VIII: An Introduction Teofilo F. Ruiz 1. Ideas of Kingship in the Preambles of Alfonso VIII’s Charters Joseph F. O’Callaghan 2. Selling Castile: Coinage, Propaganda, and Mediterranean Trade in the Age of Alfonso VIII James J. Todesca 3. The Infantazgo in the Reign of Alfonso VIII Janna Bianchini 4. “Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: Th e Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet Miriam Shadis 5. A Wall and a Shield: Alfonso VIII and the Military Orders Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J. 6. Holy War and Crusade during the Reign of Alfonso VIII Carlos de Ayala Martínez 7. Alfonso VIII and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa Miguel Gómez 8. Alfonso VIII and the Papacy Damian Smith 9. “Si Possides Amicum, in Temptatione Posside”: Alfonso VIII and Peter the Catholic Martín Alvira Cabrer 10. A Prosopography of the Castilian Episcopate in the Reign of Alfonso VIII Kyle C. Lincoln 11. Via impugnandi in the Age of Alfonso VIII: Iberian-Christian Kalām and a Latin Triad Revisited Thomas Burman Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
£999.99
Fordham University Press Last Acts
Book SynopsisLast Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. The book analyzes representations of dying in plays by writers including Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Dying | 1 1. Dying Badly: Doctor Faustus and the Parodic Drama of Blasphemy | 31 2. Dying Politically: Edward II and the Ends of Dynastic Monarchy | 54 3. Dying Representatively: Richard II and Mimetic Mortality | 87 4. Dying Communally: Volpone and How to Get Rich Quick | 120 Epilogue: Afterlife | 147 Acknowledgments | 169 Notes | 171 Index | 207
£78.30
Fordham University Press In Praise of Risk
Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187
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Fordham University Press Technologies of Critique
Book SynopsisCritiquea program of thought as well as a disposition toward the worldis a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile's history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.Table of ContentsTranslation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction | vii 1 Critique and Life | 1 2 Critique and Work | 5 3 The Kríno Constellation | 8 4 Technologies of Critique | 10 5 The Word “Critique” | 14 6 Marx’s Critical Turn | 18 7 Crisis and Avant-Garde | 19 8 Critical Attitude | 24 9 Sovereign Critique I | 25 10 Hyperbole | 28 11 Sovereign Critique II | 31 12 The Epoch of Critique | 33 13 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame | 35 14 Manet: The Kant of Painting | 38 15 Heidegger’s Demand | 40 16 Critique and Figure | 44 17 Thought and Figure | 46 18 The Leveling of the Pit | 49 19 The Clash of Film and Theater | 51 20 Critique’s Loss of Aura | 54 21 Critique and Mass | 55 22 Nihil and Philosophy | 60 23 Jenny | 62 24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. | 66 25 The Exhausted Age | 70 26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx | 73 27 Referential Illusion | 75 28 Critique and Installation | 76 29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater | 82 30 Destruction | 86 31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception | 87 32 The Absolute Drought of Critique | 95 33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique | 97 34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique | 104 35 The Destruction of Theater | 107 36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique | 111 Notes | 115 Index | 171
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Fordham University Press Technologies of Critique
Book SynopsisTechnologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes critique’s capture by institutional and market logics. Building on Chile’s history of dissident art and its entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.Table of ContentsTranslation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction | vii 1 Critique and Life | 1 2 Critique and Work | 5 3 The Kríno Constellation | 8 4 Technologies of Critique | 10 5 The Word “Critique” | 14 6 Marx’s Critical Turn | 18 7 Crisis and Avant-Garde | 19 8 Critical Attitude | 24 9 Sovereign Critique I | 25 10 Hyperbole | 28 11 Sovereign Critique II | 31 12 The Epoch of Critique | 33 13 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame | 35 14 Manet: The Kant of Painting | 38 15 Heidegger’s Demand | 40 16 Critique and Figure | 44 17 Thought and Figure | 46 18 The Leveling of the Pit | 49 19 The Clash of Film and Theater | 51 20 Critique’s Loss of Aura | 54 21 Critique and Mass | 55 22 Nihil and Philosophy | 60 23 Jenny | 62 24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. | 66 25 The Exhausted Age | 70 26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx | 73 27 Referential Illusion | 75 28 Critique and Installation | 76 29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater | 82 30 Destruction | 86 31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception | 87 32 The Absolute Drought of Critique | 95 33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique | 97 34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique | 104 35 The Destruction of Theater | 107 36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique | 111 Notes | 115 Index | 171
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Fordham University Press Anarchaeologies
Book SynopsisHow do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature | 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics | 53 Levinas in Latin America | 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham’s Double Bind | 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory | 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University | 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 163 Bibliography | 177 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Anarchaeologies Reading as Misreading Lit Z
Book SynopsisHow do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature | 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics | 53 Levinas in Latin America | 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham’s Double Bind | 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory | 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University | 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 163 Bibliography | 177 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Grave Attending
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Unbegun Introductions | 1 2. Unsaved Time | 30 3. Unproductive Worth | 68 4. Unwilling Feeling | 105 5. Unreasoned Care | 152 6. Unattended Affect | 185 Acknowledgments | 213 Notes | 217 Bibliography | 243 Index | 251
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Fordham University Press Grave Attending A Political Theology for the
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Unbegun Introductions | 1 2. Unsaved Time | 30 3. Unproductive Worth | 68 4. Unwilling Feeling | 105 5. Unreasoned Care | 152 6. Unattended Affect | 185 Acknowledgments | 213 Notes | 217 Bibliography | 243 Index | 251
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Fordham University Press Noir Affect
Book SynopsisNoir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Dark Passages Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 1 1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect Justus Nieland | 29 2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive Christopher Breu | 59 3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld Kirin Wachter-Grene | 78 4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 99 5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect Sean Grattan | 122 6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado | 137 7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise Peter Hitchcock | 156 8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game Brian Rejack | 178 9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl Pamela Thoma | 197 10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt Alexander Dunst | 222 11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto Andrew Pepper | 241 Afterword: Melodrama, Noir’s Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump’s America Paula Rabinowitz | 261 List of Contributors | 275 Index | 279
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Fordham University Press Xenocitizens Illiberal Ontologies in
Book SynopsisXenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Xenocitizens | 1 Part I: Illiberal Ontologies 1. Emerson’s Operative Mood | 33 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller | 58 Part II: Illiberal Ecologies 3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables | 101 4. Unadjusted Emancipations | 153 Epilogue: Care, There and Now | 201 Notes | 205 Index | 279
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Fordham University Press Xenocitizens
Book SynopsisXenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Xenocitizens | 1 Part I: Illiberal Ontologies 1. Emerson’s Operative Mood | 33 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller | 58 Part II: Illiberal Ecologies 3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables | 101 4. Unadjusted Emancipations | 153 Epilogue: Care, There and Now | 201 Notes | 205 Index | 279
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Fordham University Press Form and Event
Book SynopsisDiano’s Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Jacques Lezra | 1 Form and Event | 27 Illustrations | 105 Notes | 115
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Fordham University Press Thinking with Balibar A Lexicon of Conceptual
Book SynopsisThis 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.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Balibar and the Philosophy of the Concept Warren Montag | 1 Anthropological Bruce Robbins | 15 Border-Concept (of the Political) Stathis Gourgouris | 28 Civil Religion: Secularism as Religion? Judith Butler | 45 Concept Étienne Balibar | 54 Contre- / Counter- Bernard E. Harcourt | 71 Conversion Monique David-Ménard | 85 Cosmopolitics Emily Apter | 94 Interior Frontiers Ann Laura Stoler | 117 Materialism Patrice Maniglier | 140 The Political Adi Ophir | 158 Punishment Didier Fassin | 183 Race Hanan Elsayed | 193 Relation Jacques Lezra | 211 Rights J. M. Bernstein | 230 Solidarity Gary Wilder | 253 Bibliography | 275 List of Contributors | 311 Index | 315
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Fordham University Press Thinking with Balibar A Lexicon of Conceptual
Book SynopsisThis 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.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Balibar and the Philosophy of the Concept Warren Montag | 1 Anthropological Bruce Robbins | 15 Border-Concept (of the Political) Stathis Gourgouris | 28 Civil Religion: Secularism as Religion? Judith Butler | 45 Concept Étienne Balibar | 54 Contre- / Counter- Bernard E. Harcourt | 71 Conversion Monique David-Ménard | 85 Cosmopolitics Emily Apter | 94 Interior Frontiers Ann Laura Stoler | 117 Materialism Patrice Maniglier | 140 The Political Adi Ophir | 158 Punishment Didier Fassin | 183 Race Hanan Elsayed | 193 Relation Jacques Lezra | 211 Rights J. M. Bernstein | 230 Solidarity Gary Wilder | 253 Bibliography | 275 List of Contributors | 311 Index | 315
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Fordham University Press On Universals Constructing and Deconstructing
Book SynopsisMany 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 revolutionary politics answerable to the common.Table of ContentsPreface: Equivocity of the Universal | vii 1 Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler | 1 Racism and sexism: a single “community”? | 5 The institution and discriminatory function of the universal | 8 “Human essence,” “normality,” and “anthropological differences” | 14 2 Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal | 19 First Lecture | 19 Second Lecture | 39 3 Sub Specie Universitatis: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy | 59 Strategies of disjunction | 65 Strategies of subsumption | 69 Strategies of translation | 75 4 On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou | 84 5 A New Quarrel | 96 Anthropological differences and “human” subjectivity | 97 The desire to know | 103 Three aporias of universality | 105 “Les langues se parlent” | 115 Notes | 121
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Fordham University Press Passing Orders Demonology and Sovereignty in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Paradise Has Walls | 1 1. Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity | 23 2. Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft , Queerness, Transnationality | 52 3. The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback | 81 4. Leviathan’s Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order | 109 Conclusion: Paradise Refused | 141 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 161 Bibliography | 193 Index | 211
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Fordham University Press Passing Orders Demonology and Sovereignty in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Paradise Has Walls | 1 1. Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity | 23 2. Jezebel Assemblages: Witchcraft , Queerness, Transnationality | 52 3. The Islamic Antichrist: An Eschatology of Blowback | 81 4. Leviathan’s Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order | 109 Conclusion: Paradise Refused | 141 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 161 Bibliography | 193 Index | 211
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Fordham University Press Scatter 2 Politics in Deconstruction
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | xiii Introduction: Politics in Deconstruction | 1 Part I: Politics, Metaphysics, Sovereignty 1. Bios Theōrētikos, Bios Politikos | 15 2. Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes) | 48 3. Polykoiranie II (Philo Judaeus, Early Christian Apologists, Pseudo-Dionysius) | 70 4. Polykoiranie III (John of Salisbury, Aquinas, Dante, Marsilius of Padua) | 100 5. Polykoiranie IV (Bodin, La Boétie) | 125 Part II: (Proto)Democracy 6. To Poikilon (Plato, Alfarabi, Aristotle) | 147 7. Democracy (Arendt, Aristotle) | 182 8. Protodemocracy and the Fall of Sovereignty (Hobbes, Aristotle) | 203 9. Nature, Sovereignty, Government (Spinoza, Rousseau) | 250 10. Stasiology (Rothaug, Peterson, Schmitt, Gregory of Nazianzus) | 280 Postscript | 301 Index | 305
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Fordham University Press Nothing Absolute German Idealism and the
Book SynopsisAgainst traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immanence, Genealogy, Delegitimation | 1 Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet 1 Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction | 35 Kirill Chepurin 2 Utopia and Political Theology in the “Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” | 54 S. D. Chrostowska 3 Relational Division | 73 Daniel Colucciello Barber 4 Otherwise Than Terror: Ten Theses on the Modernist Secular | 87 Daniel Whistler 5 Kant’s Unexpected Materialism: How the Object Saves Kant (and Us) from the Moral Law | 104 James Martel 6 Earth Unbounded: Division and Inseparability in Hölderlin and Günderrode | 124 Joseph Albernaz 7 Kant with Sade with Hegel: The Death of God and the Joy of Reason | 144 Oxana Timofeeva 8 A Political Theology of Tolerance: Universalism and the Tragic Position of the Religious Minority | 160 Thomas Lynch 9 Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty | 174 Vincent Lloyd 10 Political Theology of the Death of God: Hegel and Derrida | 188 Agata Bielik-Robson 11 Exception without Sovereignty: The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling | 207 Saitya Brata Das 12 Once More, from Below: The Concept of Reduplication and the Immanence of Political Theology | 223 Steven Shakespeare 13 On the General Secular Contradiction: Secularization, Christianity, and Political Theology | 240 Alex Dubilet List of Contributors | 257 Index | 261
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Fordham University Press Nothing Absolute
Book SynopsisAgainst traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immanence, Genealogy, Delegitimation | 1 Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet 1 Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction | 35 Kirill Chepurin 2 Utopia and Political Theology in the “Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” | 54 S. D. Chrostowska 3 Relational Division | 73 Daniel Colucciello Barber 4 Otherwise Than Terror: Ten Theses on the Modernist Secular | 87 Daniel Whistler 5 Kant’s Unexpected Materialism: How the Object Saves Kant (and Us) from the Moral Law | 104 James Martel 6 Earth Unbounded: Division and Inseparability in Hölderlin and Günderrode | 124 Joseph Albernaz 7 Kant with Sade with Hegel: The Death of God and the Joy of Reason | 144 Oxana Timofeeva 8 A Political Theology of Tolerance: Universalism and the Tragic Position of the Religious Minority | 160 Thomas Lynch 9 Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty | 174 Vincent Lloyd 10 Political Theology of the Death of God: Hegel and Derrida | 188 Agata Bielik-Robson 11 Exception without Sovereignty: The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling | 207 Saitya Brata Das 12 Once More, from Below: The Concept of Reduplication and the Immanence of Political Theology | 223 Steven Shakespeare 13 On the General Secular Contradiction: Secularization, Christianity, and Political Theology | 240 Alex Dubilet List of Contributors | 257 Index | 261
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Fordham University Press Throwing the Moral Dice
Book SynopsisFrom deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.Table of ContentsForeword: Ethics and Contingency Alain Badiou | ix Introduction" Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi | 1 I Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and/of Contingency Three Notes on Contingency Today: Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht | 33 Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency: Toward a Metonymic Community Thomas Claviez | 45 Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency Michael Naas | 69 The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, Negation Viola Marchi | 94 II Other Others: Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the “Unsynthesizable” Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma? Étienne Balibar | 127 Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation Rosi Braidotti | 145 The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation Drucilla Cornell | 162 Ethics of Circular Time Slavoj Žižek | 182 The Road Not Taken: Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency Thomas Claviez | 206 “There Is No World”: Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology Cary Wolfe | 229 Works Cited | 251 List of Contributors | 269 Index | 273
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