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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe scope, precision, and flow of these interviews, as well as the significance and range of the thinkers, make this volume a valuable contribution to critical theory and the philosophy of culture. -- Alia Al-Saji, McGill University A book full of insights. Ten of the world's most important critical theorists reflect on the intersections of biography, history, and theory and the interviews shed new light both on their thought and on the process of thinking. -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, Director, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Muller Critical Theory and the Question of Culture 1. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture Opening Dialogue Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill 2. Concrete Universality and Critical Social Theory Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Seyla Benhabib 3. Global Justice and the Renewal of the Critical Theory Tradition Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Nancy Fraser Critical Perspectives on Cultural Politics 4. Accounting for a Philosophic Itinerary: Genealogies of Power and Ethics of Nonviolence Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Judith Butler 5. The Present in the Light of the Longue Duree Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Immanuel Wallerstein 6. A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill Cornel West Culture as Critique: The Limits of Liberalism? 7. Liberalism: Politics, Ethics, and Markets Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Ronan Sharkey Michael Sandel 8. Cultural Rights and Social-Democratic Principles Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Will Kymlicka Epilogue: Critical Theory and Recognition 9. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Theory of Recognition Dialogue with Olivier Voirol Axel Honneth Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe scope, precision, and flow of these interviews, as well as the significance and range of the thinkers, make this volume a valuable contribution to critical theory and the philosophy of culture. -- Alia Al-Saji, McGill University A book full of insights. Ten of the world's most important critical theorists reflect on the intersections of biography, history, and theory and the interviews shed new light both on their thought and on the process of thinking. -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, Director, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Muller Critical Theory and the Question of Culture 1. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture Opening Dialogue Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill 2. Concrete Universality and Critical Social Theory Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Seyla Benhabib 3. Global Justice and the Renewal of the Critical Theory Tradition Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Nancy Fraser Critical Perspectives on Cultural Politics 4. Accounting for a Philosophic Itinerary: Genealogies of Power and Ethics of Nonviolence Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Judith Butler 5. The Present in the Light of the Longue Duree Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Immanuel Wallerstein 6. A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill Cornel West Culture as Critique: The Limits of Liberalism? 7. Liberalism: Politics, Ethics, and Markets Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Ronan Sharkey Michael Sandel 8. Cultural Rights and Social-Democratic Principles Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill Will Kymlicka Epilogue: Critical Theory and Recognition 9. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Theory of Recognition Dialogue with Olivier Voirol Axel Honneth Contributors

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Book SynopsisA bold defense of a neglected concept and its relevance for critical social theory.Trade ReviewThrough a compelling combination of acute analysis and rich phenomenological description, Rahel Jaeggi brings alienation back to the center of political philosophy. She argues alienation concerns a failure to appropriate oneself in the right way, a problem with how one comes to be what one is, rather than an inability to realize some pregiven identity. Jaeggi is not only thoroughly learned in both the continental and analytic traditions. She does what is quite rare: she brings these traditions into a highly productive synthesis. A very impressive achievement. -- Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago With this masterful reconstruction of the concept of alienation, Jaeggi opens fruitful new avenues for critical theory. She also claims her place as a powerful exponent of social philosophy and a thinker of the first rank. Her book is a tour de force of cogent argumentation and rich phenomenological description. -- Nancy Fraser, The New School Alienation, the concept Hegel and Marx made so central to European political and social thought, has receded in importance in recent political philosophy. Like self-deception and weakness of will, it is extremely resistant to analysis even though it continues to be a major theme of modern life and accounts for the features of contemporary life. Jaeggi's great accomplishment is to provide the outlines of a new theory of an old term and thereby show its linkage to major ethical and political concerns. With this book, an entire tradition of political and social philosophy receives a new lease on life. -- Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University Jaeggi's scholarship and writing in this book is excellent, and the resuscitation of the concept of alienation in critical social theory is a welcome event in the literature. -- Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University Alienation is one of the most exciting books to have appeared on the German philosophical scene in the last decade. It not only rejuvenates a lagging discourse on the topic of alienation; it also shows how an account of subjectivity elaborated two centuries ago can be employed in the service of new philosophical insights. -- Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College This insightful and learned book will appeal to anyone interested in social philosophy. Library Journal Rahel Jaeggi's Alienation is an important contribution to - and rejuvenation of - the philosophical literature on the phenomenon of alienation. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books [A]n excellent representative of the work of a new generation of German philosophers who...seem well positioned to reanimate Western philosophy. -- Frederick Neuhouser Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsForeword, by Axel Honneth Translator's Introduction, by Frederick Neuhouser Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1. The Relation of Relationlessness: Reconstructing a Concept of Social Philosophy 1. "A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made": The Concept and Phenomenon of Alienation 2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique 3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique 4. Having Oneself at One's Command: Reconstructing the Concept of Alienation Part 2. Living One's Life as an Alien Life: Four Cases 5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or "The Like of It Now Happens": The Feeling of Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One's Own Actions 6. "A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man": Social Roles and the Loss of Authenticity 7. "She but Not Herself": Self-Alienation as Internal Division 8. "As If Through a Wall of Glass": Indifference and Self-Alienation Part 3. Alienation as a Disturbed Appropriation of Self and World 9. "Like a Structure of Cotton Candy": Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation 10. "Living One's Own Life": Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and Authenticity Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDirect and uncompromising in his views, Rockhill sets forward a political philosophy of aesthetics, that is at once sensuous and pragmatic. The research is based on German and French works in their original articulation, and the analyses themselves take up not what is thematic but, better, what is couched in contradiction. The book will be a strong contribution to a practical-both theoretical and historical-appreciation of aesthetics and politics. -- Tom Conley, Harvard University Art feels too impossibly urgent for it not to matter to the shape of our living together; yet locating where the join between life and art is, precisely, has proved elusive. In this invaluable study, Gabriel Rockhill vanquishes the myth that either there is some privileged moment - of form, content, or effect - uniting art and politics or there is none. With subtlety and analytic rigor, Rockhill demonstrates the nexus connecting - or separating - art and politics is always bound to the dense weave of social practices located at concrete historical times in specific geographical locales. Along the way Rockhill provides a scintillating new analysis of the avant-garde, and the most acute analysis of Jacques Ranciere's aesthetic theory I have come across. Anyone interested in the question of art and politics will want to read this book. -- J. M. Bernstein. New School for Social Research Much has been written about the relationship between art and politics. "How may one reunite what was originally separated?" is a question that foregrounds a deep-seated sophism that is the cause of major misunderstandings, for art and politics have never been different entities and one understands nothing about art and politics as long as one thinks of them as self-contained. Gabriel Rockhill argues definitively against the "talisman complex" which is based on our spontaneously essentialist bias and on an ontology which always ends up sidestepping true analysis. As a radical historicist, he is not shy of complexity and chooses to reinstate art and artworks in social life, i.e., where they have meaning and depth. To isolationist theories and concepts he opposes an energetic interventionist strategy that is particularly welcome in the present field of concept formation. -- Jean-Pierre Cometti, University of Provence In this passionate and rigorous meditation on the vexed issue of the politics of art, Gabriel Rockhill examines the theses of Wittgenstein, Sartre, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukacs, Burger and Ranciere to argue that it is as wrong to "politicize aesthetics" as to "aestheticize politics." Since neither art nor politics can be founded ontologically, this lack of transcendence brings a saving grace. Understood as a historical field of collective negotiations, art recaptures its critical edge, its activist agency, and its social relevance. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania In this bold and erudite intervention into twentieth-century controversies surrounding art and politics, Rockhill dissolves a whole series of reifications, essentialisms, and other symptoms of magical thinking in a bath of 'radical historicism.' Art and politics emerge as no longer clearly defined entities but as a host of artistic and political practices, intertwined and interacting in an everchanging, ever-contested constellation of encounters and relations. -- Kristin Ross, New York University We are living in a period when in many fields of humanities history is taken for granted more often than it is taken seriously. Radical History and the Politics of Art thoroughly challenges this attitude by demonstrating the subversive explanatory power of historical analysis. By considering art and politics as entirely immanent in sociohistorical practices, Rockhill argues for their multiform relationship as displayed in various temporal, geographical, and social configurations. Thus, he integrates the disciplinary priorities of a theoretician of art into a style of discourse that offers a powerful philosophical way of reading history. Radical History and the Politics of Art is elegantly written, informative, and never less than provocative. The result is a radical voice long unheard in the field of theoretical discourse on art. -- Adam Takacs, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest Rockhill's book is a polemic against the various theoretical presuppositions and postures, which fatally misconstrue the relevant factors for assessing the actual agency of aesthetic practices. It is also an assertive defence of the 'politicity' of these practices... [His] book is important because it gives exemplary attention to the factors that a competent approach to this area needs to consider. More than this, Rockhill shows that obscurity is the appropriate fate for undisciplined conceptual speculation. Notre Dame Philosophical Review One welcomes [an] ambitious, iconoclastic work like Gabriel Rockhill's Radical History and the Politics of Art. Radical Philosophy Rockhill's ambitious and erudite Radical History and the Politics of Art covers a sizable and variegated terrain. -- Pavel Lembersky H-Socialisms An engagingly written book that is full of insight, and which judiciously and forcefully combines readings of some of the most cited critics on art and politics in the twentieth century. As such, it makes a new, demanding inquiry into the appropriate methodology for rethinking politicized aesthetic practices. -- Sophie Seita Modernism/modernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Art and Politics in the Time of Radical History Part I. Historical Encounters Between Art and Politics 1. For a Radical Historicist Analytic of Aesthetic and Political Practices 2. Realism, Formalism, Commitment: Three Historic Positions on Art and Politics Part II. Visions of the Avant-Garde 3. The Theoretical Destiny of the Avant-Garde 4. Toward a Reconsideration of Avant-Garde Practices Part III. The Politics of Aesthetics 5. The Silent Revolution: Ranciere's Rethinking of Aesthetics and Politics 6. Productive Contradictions: From Ranciere's Politics of Aesthetics to the Social Politicity of the Arts Part IV. The Social Politicity of Aesthetic Practices 7. The Politicity of 'Apolitical' Art: A Pragmatic Intervention Into the Art of the Cold War 8. Rethinking the Politics of Aesthetic Practices: Advancing the Critique of the Ontological Illusion and the Talisman Complex Conclusion: Radical Art and Politics-No End in Sight Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI am delighted that Wade Baskin's classic translation is back in print, especially since Saussy and Meisel's judicious updating and summary of recent scholarly discoveries make this an invaluable resource for English readers.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface and Acknowledgments Textual Note Introduction: Saussure and His Contexts Course in General Linguistics Translator's Introduction Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter I. A Glance at the History of Linguistics Chapter II. Subject Matter and Scope of Linguistics; Its Relations with Other Sciences Chapter III. The Object of Linguistics Chapter IV. Linguistics of Language and Linguists of Speaking Chapter V. Internal and External Elements of Language Chapter VI. Graphic Representation of Language Chapter VII. Phonology Appendix: Principles of Phonology Chapter I. Phonological Species Chapter II. Phonemes in the Spoken Chain Part One: General Principles Chapter I. Nature of the Linguistic Sign Chapter II. Immutability and Mutability of the Sign Chapter III. Static and Evolutionary Linguistics Part Two: Synchronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. The Concrete Entities of Language Chapter III. Identities, Realities, Values Chapter IV. Linguistic Value Chapter V. Syntagmatic and Associative Relations Chapter VI. Mechanism of Language Chapter VII. Grammar and Its Subdivisions Chapter VIII. Role of Abstract Entities in Grammar Part Three: Diachronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. Phonetic Changes Chapter III. Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution Chapter IV. Analogy Chapter V. Analogy and Evolution Chapter VI. Folk Etymology Chapter VII. Agglutination Chapter VIII. Diachronic Unites, Identities, and Realities Appendices to Parts Three and Four Part Four: Geographical Linguistics Chapter I. Concerning the Diversity of Languages Chapter II. Complication of Geographical Diversity Chapter III. Causes of Geographical Diversity Chapter IV. Spread of Linguistic Waves Part Five: Concerning Retrospective Linguistics Chapter I. The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics Chapter II. The Oldest Language at the Prototype Chapter III. Reconstructions Chapter IV. The Contribution of Language to Anthropology and Prehistory Chapter V. Language Families and Linguistic Types Errata Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI am delighted that Wade Baskin's classic translation is back in print, especially since Saussy and Meisel's judicious updating and summary of recent scholarly discoveries make this an invaluable resource for English readers.Table of ContentsEditors' Preface and Acknowledgments Textual Note Introduction: Saussure and His Contexts Course in General Linguistics Translator's Introduction Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter I. A Glance at the History of Linguistics Chapter II. Subject Matter and Scope of Linguistics; Its Relations with Other Sciences Chapter III. The Object of Linguistics Chapter IV. Linguistics of Language and Linguists of Speaking Chapter V. Internal and External Elements of Language Chapter VI. Graphic Representation of Language Chapter VII. Phonology Appendix: Principles of Phonology Chapter I. Phonological Species Chapter II. Phonemes in the Spoken Chain Part One: General Principles Chapter I. Nature of the Linguistic Sign Chapter II. Immutability and Mutability of the Sign Chapter III. Static and Evolutionary Linguistics Part Two: Synchronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. The Concrete Entities of Language Chapter III. Identities, Realities, Values Chapter IV. Linguistic Value Chapter V. Syntagmatic and Associative Relations Chapter VI. Mechanism of Language Chapter VII. Grammar and Its Subdivisions Chapter VIII. Role of Abstract Entities in Grammar Part Three: Diachronic Linguistics Chapter I. Generalities Chapter II. Phonetic Changes Chapter III. Grammatical Consequences of Phonetic Evolution Chapter IV. Analogy Chapter V. Analogy and Evolution Chapter VI. Folk Etymology Chapter VII. Agglutination Chapter VIII. Diachronic Unites, Identities, and Realities Appendices to Parts Three and Four Part Four: Geographical Linguistics Chapter I. Concerning the Diversity of Languages Chapter II. Complication of Geographical Diversity Chapter III. Causes of Geographical Diversity Chapter IV. Spread of Linguistic Waves Part Five: Concerning Retrospective Linguistics Chapter I. The Two Perspectives of Diachronic Linguistics Chapter II. The Oldest Language at the Prototype Chapter III. Reconstructions Chapter IV. The Contribution of Language to Anthropology and Prehistory Chapter V. Language Families and Linguistic Types Errata Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa worthwhile read...a refreshing way to think 'post-modernity' without the brittleness of the 'post'... -- Jill Petersen Adams Continental Philosophy Review [readers are] richly rewarded by a multifaceted survey of the discourse of modernity. -- Klaus Hofmann MLQ Gerhard Richter's rigorously argued book about what he calls 'afterness'... is the lure to thought whose uncertain traces Richter follows through the twists and turns of an enormously suggestive archive, ranging from the work of Kant to Derrida, and from the intricacies of Holderlin's poems to the mise en abyme of Stefan Moses's photographic portraits... Richter's patient tarrying with Nachheit throws into sharp relief the anxious willfulness of those who triumphantly claim to situate themselves 'after theory,' 'after deconstruction,' or 'after the human.' MLN Richter has coined the term 'afterness' to describe the temporal slipperiness of modern experience-he values philosophers and artists that linger with the ephemeral or marginal remainders left over by institutionalized thought and conceptual determination, and the experimental form of his book seeks to both describe and perform this lingering... Richter values the potential for the aesthetic to imagine new collectivities and forms of shared experience and memory. Qui Parle For Richter, coming after should not be misunderstood as merely derivative, belated, or secondary. Instead, he convincingly argues for the recognition of an 'essential' anachronism inherent in any thought that authentically attempts to understand time and history... Richter convincingly connects lucid close readings of particular passages with larger issues of aesthetics, political theory, and philosophy. German Studies Review [Afterness] is a marvel of breadth of vision, precise detail, and depth of thought that philosophers will welcome... We must continue to follow afterness now that Richter's Afterness has appeared, follow it in the sense of Derrida's suivre. To put it formally, after afterness comes nothing that comes-to-be, is to-come, or ever was. Neither the word nor the thing (as, again, Derrida would have said) called afterness can be abandoned or evaded. And that makes Gerhard Richter's Afterness a philosophical event. I conclude my welcoming of it by expressing the hope that Richter will continue with Afterness-for, after all, Hyperion signs his letters to Bellarmin with Nachstens mehr, "More to come, as soon as possible." Research in PhenomenologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Logic of Afterness 1. Afterness and Modernity: A Genealogical Note 2. Afterness and Critique: A Paradigmatic Case 3. Afterness and Aesthetics: End Without End 4. Afterness and Rettung: Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It? 5. Afterness and Translation: The Politics of Carrying Across 6. Afterness and the Image (I): Unsettling Photography 7. Afterness and the Image (II): Image Withdrawal 8. Afterness and Experience (I): Can Hope Be Disappointed? 9. Afterness and Experience (II): Crude Thinking Rethought 10. Afterness and Experience (III): Mourning, Memory, and the Fictions of Anteriority 11. Afterness and Empty Space: No Longer and Not Yet Afterwards: After-Words Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBadiou resembles Sartre in the versatility, creativity, and energy that make them major literary authors as well as philosophers. It is a measure of Spitzer's talent as a translator that she manages to preserve the literariness of Badiou's language-its difficulty, strangeness, and beauty-while making it vivid and fluid and consistent with the syntactical and grammatical demands of English. -- Joseph Litvak, Tufts University Badiou's work on and in the theatre are considerable contributions not only for their ability to give a sense of what a Badiouian approach to performance and theatre studies might be, but also for their capacity to bring Badiou's deep engagement with theatre to light for English-speaking scholars across a variety of philosophical and political fields. -- Ethan Philbrick TDR: The Drama Review A terse political treatise... [The Incident at Antioch] is a worthwhile read for anyone wanting to gain further insight into, or who would perhaps enjoy walking the country road through the beet field that is, Badiou's undertaking. -- Elisabeth Paquette The European Legacy

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Book SynopsisBadiou and Cassin engage with Lacan's L'Etourdit, exploring how love sheds light on the nature of reality and what counts as truth.Trade ReviewLacan's 'L'Etourdit' is a pivotal yet still underappreciated piece of his corpus. In Badiou and Cassin's concise tour de force, two of France's most important living minds tackle this enigmatic text. Through their combined efforts, Badiou and Cassin render 'L'Etourdit' crystal clear, situating Lacan's later teachings in relation to the history of philosophy and logic starting in ancient Greece. This three-way encounter between Lacan, Badiou, and Cassin, stimulating and surprising to equal degrees, will be enthralling for anyone interested in what philosophy and psychoanalysis have to say to each other. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque This is a fascinating and complex little book. Specialists will no doubt spend hours and hours debating the significance of these two lectures for the understanding not only of Lacan but also of the respective projects of his two readers, Badiou and Cassin. -- Bruno Bosteels, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Lacan's Works Cited in the Text Introduction to Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan, by Kenneth Reinhard Authors' Introduction Ab-sense, or Lacan from A to D, by Barbara Cassin Formulas of "L'Etourdit", by Alain Badiou Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBadiou and Cassin engage with Lacan’s L’Etourdit, exploring how love sheds light on the nature of reality and what counts as truth.Trade ReviewLacan's 'L'Etourdit' is a pivotal yet still underappreciated piece of his corpus. In Badiou and Cassin's concise tour de force, two of France's most important living minds tackle this enigmatic text. Through their combined efforts, Badiou and Cassin render 'L'Etourdit' crystal clear, situating Lacan's later teachings in relation to the history of philosophy and logic starting in ancient Greece. This three-way encounter between Lacan, Badiou, and Cassin, stimulating and surprising to equal degrees, will be enthralling for anyone interested in what philosophy and psychoanalysis have to say to each other. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque This is a fascinating and complex little book. Specialists will no doubt spend hours and hours debating the significance of these two lectures for the understanding not only of Lacan but also of the respective projects of his two readers, Badiou and Cassin. -- Bruno Bosteels, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Lacan's Works Cited in the Text Introduction to Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan, by Kenneth Reinhard Authors' Introduction Ab-sense, or Lacan from A to D, by Barbara Cassin Formulas of "L'Etourdit", by Alain Badiou Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHermeneutic Communism is much more than a beautifully written essay in political philosophy, reaching from ontological premises to concrete political analyses: it provides a coherent communist vision from the standpoint of Heideggerian postmetaphysical hermeneutics. All those who criticize postmodern 'weak thought' for its inability to ground radical political practice will have to admit their mistake-Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala demonstrate that weak thought does not mean weak action but is the very resort of strong radical change. This is a book that everyone who thinks about radical politics needs like the air he or she breathes! -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End Hermeneutic Communism is one of those rare books that seamlessly combines postmetaphysical philosophy and political practice, the task of a meticulous ontological interpretation and decisive revolutionary action, the critique of intellectual hegemony and a positive, creative thought. Vattimo and Zabala, unlike Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, do not offer their readers a readymade political ontology but allow radical politics to germinate from each singular and concrete act of interpretation. This is the most significant event of twenty-first-century philosophy! -- Michael Marder, author of Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt The authors argue that 'weak thought,' or an antifoundational hermeneutics, will allow social movements to avoid both the violence attending past struggles and, if triumphant, a falling back into routines of domination-the restoration of what Jean-Paul Sartre called the 'practico-inert.' Vattimo and Zabala end with Latin America as a case study of applied weak thought politics, where the left in recent years has had remarkable success at the polls. -- Greg Grandin, New York University Those interested in the potential for theoretical reformulations made possible by postfoundational political thought and those following the rebellion of marginal sectors of society have a lot to learn from this remarkable book. -- Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason The work of Vattimo and Zabala clears a new stage for political theorizing based on a careful probe of the current state of destitution and hidden edges of social vitality. While I do not always agree with the conclusions drawn by these marvelous writers, I thank them for sparking an essential debate and replenishing our critical vocabularies. -- Avital Ronell, New York University and the European Graduate School ...action-packed... Asia Times ...Vattimo and Zabala offer a refreshing alternative to the hegemonic discourse, a breathof fresh air from the violent imposition of "metaphysics" by those in power. Ceasefire Magazine Despite its thin profile the content itself is formidable in achieving both its critical and scholarly aims. -- Maxwell Kennel Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy BlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Framed Democracy 1. Imposing Descriptions 2. Armed Capitalism Part II. Hermeneutic Communism 3. Interpretation as Anarchy 4. Hermeneutic Communism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHermeneutic Communism is much more than a beautifully written essay in political philosophy, reaching from ontological premises to concrete political analyses: it provides a coherent communist vision from the standpoint of Heideggerian postmetaphysical hermeneutics. All those who criticize postmodern 'weak thought' for its inability to ground radical political practice will have to admit their mistake-Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala demonstrate that weak thought does not mean weak action but is the very resort of strong radical change. This is a book that everyone who thinks about radical politics needs like the air he or she breathes! -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End Hermeneutic Communism is one of those rare books that seamlessly combines postmetaphysical philosophy and political practice, the task of a meticulous ontological interpretation and decisive revolutionary action, the critique of intellectual hegemony and a positive, creative thought. Vattimo and Zabala, unlike Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, do not offer their readers a readymade political ontology but allow radical politics to germinate from each singular and concrete act of interpretation. This is the most significant event of twenty-first-century philosophy! -- Michael Marder, author of Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt The authors argue that 'weak thought,' or an antifoundational hermeneutics, will allow social movements to avoid both the violence attending past struggles and, if triumphant, a falling back into routines of domination-the restoration of what Jean-Paul Sartre called the 'practico-inert.' Vattimo and Zabala end with Latin America as a case study of applied weak thought politics, where the left in recent years has had remarkable success at the polls. -- Greg Grandin, New York University Those interested in the potential for theoretical reformulations made possible by postfoundational political thought and those following the rebellion of marginal sectors of society have a lot to learn from this remarkable book. -- Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason The work of Vattimo and Zabala clears a new stage for political theorizing based on a careful probe of the current state of destitution and hidden edges of social vitality. While I do not always agree with the conclusions drawn by these marvelous writers, I thank them for sparking an essential debate and replenishing our critical vocabularies. -- Avital Ronell, New York University and the European Graduate School ...action-packed... Asia Times ...Vattimo and Zabala offer a refreshing alternative to the hegemonic discourse, a breathof fresh air from the violent imposition of "metaphysics" by those in power. Ceasefire Magazine Despite its thin profile the content itself is formidable in achieving both its critical and scholarly aims. -- Maxwell Kennel Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy BlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Framed Democracy 1. Imposing Descriptions 2. Armed Capitalism Part II. Hermeneutic Communism 3. Interpretation as Anarchy 4. Hermeneutic Communism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLeading philosopher Richard Kearney engages Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, James Wood, Charles Taylor, Catherine Keller, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Caputo on the place of religion in a secular world.Trade ReviewThis eminently readable volume offers rich insights into the leading contemporary Continental philosophers of religion who are addressing the place of the sacred and the sacramental in the contemporary world after the supposed 'death of God' announced by Nietzsche and others. Kearney shows his hermeneutical and dialogical skills in illuminating interviews conducted with leading thinkers, including Jean-Luc Marion, Charles Taylor, Gianni Vattimo and Julia Kristeva. This book explores not just the clash between atheism and theism but the exploration of the traces of the divine, which Kearney has termed anatheism. This book serves both as a lucid introduction to contemporary Continental philosophy of religion and a guide through the complexity of the contested terrain between theists, atheists, and those who search for a credible way to articulate the sacred in everyday life. -- Dermot Moran, University College Dublin This unique collection of interviews stages a critical debate among some of the most respected voices in continental thought around key aspects of Kearney's thesis. This exploration of non-fundamentalist religious belief by a group of prominent philosophers will be considered a significant contribution to the field. -- William Egginton, The Johns Hopkins University A remarkable book of conversations. We learn about the influential ideas of Kearney's interlocutors. Moreover, the impressive voice of Kearney himself offers its own singular contribution and is very worthy of being honored among his peers. -- William Desmond, Villanova University and Katholieke Universteit Leuven With an infectious spirit of intellectual generosity, Kearney and his dialogue partners parse critical points of connection and divergence on the question of God and the meaning of religion in our time. For readers coming to this topic for the first time, this book provides a working bibliography for critical works in this tradition of philosophy and theology. For insiders, it adds new layers to longstanding conversations about 'great, inherited texts.' -- Shelly Rambo, Boston University This rigorous, forward-thinking intellectual treatise opens new space for religious humanism amid cacophonous secular, political, and religious debate. Publishers Weekly A lucid introduction to contemporary Continental philosophy of religion and a guide through the contested terrain between theists, atheists, and those who search for a credible ana-theist option to articulate the sacred in everyday life. -- Dermot Moran, University College Dublin A genuinely fascinating read... Reading Religion A welcome addition... for anyone unfamiliar with the work of Richard Kearney, this could be an excellent first introduction to anatheism and the God-who-may-be. Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger Few will read this book without being challenged to clarify their ideas on God and their attitude to faith. -- Joseph S. O'Leary Los Angeles Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface, by Richard Kearney Introduction, by Jens Zimmermann 1. God After God: An Anatheist Attempt to Reimagine God, by Richard Kearney 2. Imagination, Anatheism, and the Sacred, by Richard Kearney and James Wood 3. Beyond the Impossible, by Richard Kearney and Catherine Keller 4. Transcendent Humanism in a Secular Age, by Richard Kearney and Charles Taylor 5. New Humanism and the Need to Believe, by Richard Kearney and Julia Kristeva 6. Anatheism, Nihilism, and Weak Thought, by Richard Kearney and Gianni Vattimo 7. What's God? "A Shout in the Street, by Richard Kearney and Simon Critchley 8. The Death of the Death of God, by Richard Kearney and Jean-Luc Marion 9. Anatheism and Radical Hermeneutics, by Richard Kearney and John Caputo 10. Theism, Atheism, Anatheism, by David Tracy, Merold Westphal, and Jens Zimmermann Epilogue: In Guise of a Response, by Richard Kearney Artist's Note, by Sheila Gallagher Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA wonderful, insightful, riveting, and entertaining romp. -- Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston College Clearly written...this book could serve...as a core text in a course on women in film. Choice Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects... -- Fran Bigman Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Shameful to Sexy-Pregnant Bellies Exploding Onto the Screen 1. Academic Feminism Versus Hollywood Feminism: How Modest Maternity Becomes Pregnant Glam 2. MomCom as RomCom: Pregnancy as a Vehicle for Romance 3. Accident and Excess: The "Choice" to Have a Baby 4. Pregnant Horror: Gestating the Other(s) Within 5. "What's the Worst That Can Happen?" Techno-Pregnancies Versus Real Pregnancies Conclusion: Twilight Family Values Notes Filmography Texts Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA wonderful, insightful, riveting, and entertaining romp. -- Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston College Clearly written...this book could serve...as a core text in a course on women in film. Choice Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects... -- Fran Bigman Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Shameful to Sexy-Pregnant Bellies Exploding Onto the Screen 1. Academic Feminism Versus Hollywood Feminism: How Modest Maternity Becomes Pregnant Glam 2. MomCom as RomCom: Pregnancy as a Vehicle for Romance 3. Accident and Excess: The "Choice" to Have a Baby 4. Pregnant Horror: Gestating the Other(s) Within 5. "What's the Worst That Can Happen?" Techno-Pregnancies Versus Real Pregnancies Conclusion: Twilight Family Values Notes Filmography Texts Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspectiveTrade ReviewA stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today's theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico A very exciting book, stunningly intelligent and beautifully written. It makes strong, original interventions in a number of current debates and engages with theoretical arguments in a way that is always rigorous and wonderfully lucid and accessible. -- Elizabeth Weed, Brown University. Co-editor, differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies In Wrestling with the Angel, Tracy McNulty examines the political theologies of the 'exception,' ranging from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin, from Alain Badiou to Giorgio Agamben. She shows how they contradict themselves if they avoid grappling with the Symbolic order. Arguing that the force of the Symbolic must be experienced concretely via positive constraints, McNulty pushes Lacanian theory to an unprecedented sophistication and highlights its relevance for ethical activism. Wrestling with the Angel is a major book that redefines the foundations of contemporary political theory. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania This provocative and original defense of law and the symbolic order in psychoanalysis is distinguished by McNulty's attention to clinical work, her supple readings of both Freudian and literary texts, and the trenchant case she makes for the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis to the practice of human freedom, action, and creativity today. McNulty's command of the notoriously complex and difficult Lacanian corpus is matched by the fluency of her engagement with adjoining and competing discourses, including political theology; experimental poetics and aesthetics; political theory and critical legal studies; and religious studies and the legacy of Judaism. Arguing that novelty, invention, and renewal occur not despite but because of processes of symbolization, Wrestling with the Angel recalls us to our limits to remind us of our capacities. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life In Wrestling with the Angel, McNulty shows how the traditional reduction of Lacan's symbolic register to the Oedipus complex falsifies the complexity and disturbing incompleteness inherent to this crucial aspect of his theory. Her insight opens the way for a fundamental reassessment and reunderstanding of Lacan's work, and is, by itself, worth the price of admission. But she goes much farther, tracing out the implications of her rereading on a series of social thinkers, notably the influential conservative German political theorist Carl Schmitt, the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and the French Marxist philosopher, Alain Badiou. With the exception of Carl Schmitt, these analyses revolve around two principal collections of seminal legal texts: the Hebrew Decalogue and Saint Paul's discussions of the "new law" of Christianity. Essentially, she argues that in each case an imaginary version of the law is juxtaposed to a more complex and "liberatory" symbolic version of it. Rich, densely thought, and provocative, this book will reorient studies on Lacan and will excercise an enduring influence on how his writings are used in other fields and disciplines. -- Jonathan Strauss, Miami University As a reading of the French psychoanalytic thinker Jacques Lacan, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the rich discussion of the symbolic register and its relation to the real. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Enabling Constraints Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic 1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud 2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written 3. Wrestling with the Angel 4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology 5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real 6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life 7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspectiveTrade ReviewA stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today's theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico A very exciting book, stunningly intelligent and beautifully written. It makes strong, original interventions in a number of current debates and engages with theoretical arguments in a way that is always rigorous and wonderfully lucid and accessible. -- Elizabeth Weed, Brown University. Co-editor, differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies In Wrestling with the Angel, Tracy McNulty examines the political theologies of the 'exception,' ranging from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin, from Alain Badiou to Giorgio Agamben. She shows how they contradict themselves if they avoid grappling with the Symbolic order. Arguing that the force of the Symbolic must be experienced concretely via positive constraints, McNulty pushes Lacanian theory to an unprecedented sophistication and highlights its relevance for ethical activism. Wrestling with the Angel is a major book that redefines the foundations of contemporary political theory. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania This provocative and original defense of law and the symbolic order in psychoanalysis is distinguished by McNulty's attention to clinical work, her supple readings of both Freudian and literary texts, and the trenchant case she makes for the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis to the practice of human freedom, action, and creativity today. McNulty's command of the notoriously complex and difficult Lacanian corpus is matched by the fluency of her engagement with adjoining and competing discourses, including political theology; experimental poetics and aesthetics; political theory and critical legal studies; and religious studies and the legacy of Judaism. Arguing that novelty, invention, and renewal occur not despite but because of processes of symbolization, Wrestling with the Angel recalls us to our limits to remind us of our capacities. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life In Wrestling with the Angel, McNulty shows how the traditional reduction of Lacan's symbolic register to the Oedipus complex falsifies the complexity and disturbing incompleteness inherent to this crucial aspect of his theory. Her insight opens the way for a fundamental reassessment and reunderstanding of Lacan's work, and is, by itself, worth the price of admission. But she goes much farther, tracing out the implications of her rereading on a series of social thinkers, notably the influential conservative German political theorist Carl Schmitt, the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and the French Marxist philosopher, Alain Badiou. With the exception of Carl Schmitt, these analyses revolve around two principal collections of seminal legal texts: the Hebrew Decalogue and Saint Paul's discussions of the "new law" of Christianity. Essentially, she argues that in each case an imaginary version of the law is juxtaposed to a more complex and "liberatory" symbolic version of it. Rich, densely thought, and provocative, this book will reorient studies on Lacan and will excercise an enduring influence on how his writings are used in other fields and disciplines. -- Jonathan Strauss, Miami University As a reading of the French psychoanalytic thinker Jacques Lacan, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the rich discussion of the symbolic register and its relation to the real. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Enabling Constraints Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic 1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud 2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written 3. Wrestling with the Angel 4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology 5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real 6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life 7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations.Trade ReviewColleen Glenney Boggs's engagement with texts by Poe, Dickinson, and Barbara Bush's Puppy Love makes her focus unique. Her analysis of the connection between animal figures and slavery in Poe's work is fascinating. -- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University This is a book about Fido and Derrida, about Sparky and Levinas, about animals and major twentieth-century (and now twenty-first century) theorists of subjectivity such as Lacan, Agamben, and Foucault. Such unexpectedness and daring supplies a refreshing tonic not only for American literary criticism but also for other intellectual endeavors such as philosophy, ethics, and psychoanalysis indebted to species logic. Boggs shows how productive the interdisciplinary work of animal studies is, and it is a task she accomplishes with grace and perspicacity. -- Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Colleen Glenney Boggs brings animal studies into dialogue with American literary studies to chronicle the emergence of 'the human' in relation to 'the animal.' She reads the question of species in relation to race and gender and shows how the shifting relations of these terms underlie the most basic questions of social justice; she shows, that is, why animal studies is such a significant field in the current moment. In its bringing together and working through the nature of biopolitics, the role of affect in cultural studies, the relationship of the animal to the human, and the importance of literature to the fashioning of a more just and equitable society, Animalia Americana models new directions not only for animal studies but for the humanities more broadly. -- Priscilla Wald, Duke University From dogs in the White House and Abu Ghraib to Plymouth Plantation and some of the key texts in the canon of American literature, Colleen Glenney Boggs explores 'the animal' as a representational nexus where the biopolitics of subjectivity and community are ceaselessly negotiated. An important contribution to both Americanist literary history and the burgeoning exchange between animal studies and biopolitical thought, Animalia Americana explores the space where affect and embodiment cut across species lines, reconfiguring relations not just of species but also of race, gender, and nation. -- Cary Wolfe, Rice University The welcome spirit (pun intended) of an irreverent polemic runs through this provocative and important argument... this study exemplifies scholarship that takes as its starting point a critical stance toward the delimiting categories and assumptions of rational humanism. American Literary History Online A very ambitious and smart book... [Boggs's] scholarship will appeal quite forcefully to scholars of American literature and contemporary theory (her endnotes in themselves make for a terrific read). Poe StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib) 2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower (Frederick Douglass) 3. Animals and the Letter of the Law (Edgar Allan Poe) 4. Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity (Emily Dickinson) 5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates) Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRestoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.Trade ReviewThis book offers insightful interpretations of several of Deleuze's major works. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. Setting Up the Encounter 1. Introduction 2. The Clamor of Being: Badiou vs. Deleuze Part II. Deleuze 3. A Repetition of Difference 4. Deleuze's Logic of Double Articulation 5. Producing the Event as Machine Part III. Badiou 6. Being a Sublime Event 7. Being a Subject in a Transcendental World Part IV. Deleuze Beyond Badiou 8. Energetics of Being 9. Politics of the Event 10. Vodou Economics: Haiti and the Future of Democracy Index

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Book SynopsisRestoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.Trade ReviewThis book offers insightful interpretations of several of Deleuze's major works. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. Setting Up the Encounter 1. Introduction 2. The Clamor of Being: Badiou vs. Deleuze Part II. Deleuze 3. A Repetition of Difference 4. Deleuze's Logic of Double Articulation 5. Producing the Event as Machine Part III. Badiou 6. Being a Sublime Event 7. Being a Subject in a Transcendental World Part IV. Deleuze Beyond Badiou 8. Energetics of Being 9. Politics of the Event 10. Vodou Economics: Haiti and the Future of Democracy Index

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Book SynopsisRevisiting the schism that rendered twentieth-century philosophy into irreconcilable continental and analytic camps.Trade ReviewIn its very violence, the debate between Jacques Derrida and John Searle was the proof of the gap that continues to separate the continental speculative tradition from its Anglo-Saxon analytic counterpart. Raoul Moati's book is much more than a review of the debate-he is part of the debate, bringing it to its philosophical conclusion. Sometimes, while reading his book, one has the feeling that Derrida and Searle engaged in their debate so that Moati could write his book on them, in the same way that, for Hegel, the Peloponnesian War was fought so that Thucydides could write his classic book on it. -- Slavoj Zizek Derrida and Searle's confrontation divided once and for all philosophical debate and division with consequences that probably surpassed both masters' predictions. The fact that this debate never took place (considering that Searle and Derrida never met personally and the former also refused to reprint one of his responses in an edited collection) makes Moati's text particularly useful in reconstructing the history of this famous dispute. -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona A very brilliant reconstruction of the philosophical clash between two prominent giants of continental and American philosophies. -- Thibaut Gress, ActuPhilosophia There are almost no other studies of this controversy either in France or in the United States; at least, there is no other book that I know about on this topic. The dialogue between Searle and Derrida concerning Austin's theory on the 'performative' or 'speech acts' has been, as it were, resurrected by Moati-and it is fascinating. By focusing so strictly on a limited series of polemical texts, Moati does more than provide a subtle explanation of the historical divergence between Austin, Searle, and Derrida, he allows us to understand the very roots of a lasting misunderstanding between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Moati's work is a real breakthrough. He helps us make sense of the very distinction between so-called analytic and continental philosophies. The exceptional clarity of his style, the accuracy of his analyses shed a completely new light on both authors and the nature of their quarrel. He provides deep insight into Derrida's view and Searle's, addressing their common presuppositions. The outcome of such an unbiased approach is a completely new understanding of the contemporary philosophical landscape. It will prove helpful for philosophers of language and mind, as well as for metaphysicians, and for everyone who wants to understand the big philosophical divide that has characterized the past fifty years. -- Jocelyn Benoist, University of Paris-I, Pantheon-Sorbonne A thoughtful and judicious analysis... CHOICETable of ContentsForeword: Per Formam Domi, by Jean-Michel Rabate Acknowledgments Introduction: The Circumstances of an "Improbable" Debate 1. The Iterative as the Reverse Side of the Performative 2. Do Intentions Dissolve in Iteration? From Differance to the Dispute (Differend) Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisInterspecies Ethics explores animals’ vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.Trade ReviewInterspecies Ethics is philosophy's St. Crispin's speech for creating a new compact with our animal kin. Cynthia Willett's book is a must read for anyone and everyone committed to putting the humanity back into human living and restoring the planet. -- G.A. Bradshaw, author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers. -- Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist If you are one of a vanishing minority of people who think that we humans are the only animals with highly evolved cognitive and emotional capacities and agency, Cynthia Willett's new book will surely make you reconsider this false view of who we are and who they (other animals) really are. The border between "us" and "them" already is blurry, and as we accumulate scientific data on the fascinating and surprising lives of other animals it becomes even more blurred. Surely, humans are exceptional beings, but so too are other animals. Arguing for human exceptionalism at the expense of other animals no longer works. We all need someone we can lean on and with whom we can engage, and this book and much research show that we lose when other animals lose, and similarly, we flourish when they flourish and when they are treated with respect and dignity. Peaceful coexistence is win-win ethic for all. -- Marc Bekoff, editor of Ignoring nature no more: The case for compassionate conservation and author of Rewilding our hearts: Building pathways of compassion and coexistence Filled with insight and humor, fascinating animal studies and profound philosophical speculations on the meaning of life and our place in it, Willett's Interspecies Ethics is a beautifully crafted testament to the need for interspecies ethics by considering what she calls "communitarian cohabitation." Bringing together classical philosophy, contemporary Continental Philosophy, literature, psychology, zoology, and animal studies, Willett weaves a captivating tale of human-animal relationships that takes us well beyond human domination and towards interspecies community. This may be as important a paradigm shift in animal studies as Peter Singer's animal liberation or Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of the category "Animal." -- Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human, and Earth and World In Interspecies Ethics, Cynthia Willett gives us a book from which the reader derives pleasure as well as lessons. There is deftness in the prose, a breadth of vision in the references, and a genuine feeling to the book, a feeling we could call "humaneness" if the restrictiveness of that phrase weren't one of the targets of the book. "Interspecies ethics" is an affect-based ethics, focusing on attachments and disruptions within and across species lines. Outflanking common continental tropes, Willett's interspecies ethics is neither a "response ethics" nor a "becoming animal," but a living with animals. In the course of the book we find a movement, "from affect attunement in horizontal relationships, [which] culminates in an enlightened experience of cosmic peace." But the author won't rest without turning to "predation and death." Hence the Coda's discussion of Coetzee's Disgrace. But even then there is a turn not to the simple positive but to regeneration, the intertwining not just of human and non-human but of death and life as the tragic violence of the Coda ends with a "musical vision of mourning that regenerates the social basis of interspecies life." -- John Protevi, Louisiana State University Willett draws on an incredible range of sources and disciplines for this project, demonstrating in the process how work in animal studies requires redrawing disciplinary boundaries in significant ways. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A wonderful book that insists upon our return to the paleozoic ground of ethics and opens so many doors for further thinking about how we animals must live together as the planet evolves in strange and horrifying ways. -- Louise Westling Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living 1. Can the Animal Subaltern Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism, with Julie Willett 2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics' Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism 3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species 4. Water and Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace 5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life Coda; or, The Song of the Dog-Man: Mourning in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRevisiting the philosopher’s key texts, Lumsden calls attention to Hegel’s reformulation of liberal and Cartesian conceptions of subjectivity, identifying a critical though unrecognized continuity between poststructuralism and German idealismTrade ReviewSelf-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject addresses a topic that, while familiar within the tradition of continental philosophy, is rarely addressed with the focus and clarity found here. Simon Lumsden has his own distinctive way of bringing Hegel to life, with Hegel's views insightfully presented in a readily understandable way in clear prose uncluttered by 'Hegelese.' -- Paul Redding, University of Sydney The great strength of Simon Lumsden's analysis is that it straddles a number of different philosophical worlds. Though writing from a largely Hegelian perspective, Lumsden has the audacity to wander about in other fields and consider other figures-that is, to venture outside the confines of his academic territory. Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject is a highly disciplined work. It focuses on the status of the subject in the five philosophers that it analyzes and brings those thinkers into a confrontation with each other in a way that charts a new path for our understanding of German idealism and poststructuralism. -- Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University This clearly written and ambitiously set up book does provide a welcome kind of Anstoss to provoke further thought for anyone interested in the relation between German idealism, Heidegger and poststructuralism. -- Johan de Jong Hegel-StudienTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Metaphysics of Presence and the Worldless Subject: Heidegger's Critique of Modern Philosophy 2. Fichte's Striving Subject 3. Hegel: Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination 4. Heidegger, Care, and Selfhood 5. Derrida and the Question of Subjectivity 6. The Dialectic and Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze's Critique of Hegel Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.Trade ReviewFrom the conversation of Socrates and Phaedrus in the shade of the plane tree to Irigaray's meditation on the water lily, The Philosopher's Plant takes us outside city walls, across gardens of letters and vegetables, grassy slopes and vineyards, to the dimly lit sources of philosophy's vitality. With distinctive depth and clarity, Marder reminds us that, far from walled in, the human community communes with nature and is itself inhabited by nature. -- Claudia Baracchi, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca The Philosopher's Plant is an original contribution to a concept which for too long has been marginalized. As the only contemporary philosopher working on plants from a deconstructive and weak-thought perspective, Marder provides not only another contribution to the philosophical concept of plants in general, but also adds onto his own work. -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA/University of Barcelona The Philosopher's Plant is a genuine pleasure to read and one of the most innovative books I have encountered in some time. Marder's argument is that contemporary scientific research into how plants communicate, interact with, and possibly even perceive the environment should be enriched by an engagement with how the Western philosophical tradition has already thought and continues thinking the problem of plant life for human being-in-the-world. -- William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University The Philosopher's Plant is an alluring immersion in phytophilia, exploring the thought of philosophers from Plato to Irigaray by way of their intimate reflections on plant life. Not only do we learn much that is subtle and profound about plants but we come to see the work of these thinkers in refreshing new lights. Humor and wit alternate with penetrating philosophical insight in this bouquet of delights. -- Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook, author of The World at a Glance and The World on Edge One must give Michael Marder credit for combining the deconstruction of our traditional metaphysics with a focus on the plant world. He invites us to perceive and consider again the presence and the potential of our living environment, the thoughtless use of which has damaged both our life and our culture. -- Luce Irigaray All who get a taste of this succulent study will find much food for thought. Library Journal (starred review) [The Philosopher's Plant] provides provocative insight into the significance of plant life in the evolution of philosophical thought... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Herbarium Philosophicum Part I: Ancient Plant-Souls 1. Plato's Plane Tree 2. Aristotle's Wheat 3. Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant" Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments 4. Augustine's Pears 5. Avicenna's Celery 6. Maimonides' Palm Tree Part III. Modern Plant-Images 7. Leibniz's Blades of Grass 8. Kant's Tulip 9. Hegel's Grapes Part IV: Postmodern Plant-Subjects 10. Heidegger's Apple Tree 11. Derrida's Sunflowers 12. Irigaray's Water Lily Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.Trade ReviewFrom the conversation of Socrates and Phaedrus in the shade of the plane tree to Irigaray's meditation on the water lily, The Philosopher's Plant takes us outside city walls, across gardens of letters and vegetables, grassy slopes and vineyards, to the dimly lit sources of philosophy's vitality. With distinctive depth and clarity, Marder reminds us that, far from walled in, the human community communes with nature and is itself inhabited by nature. -- Claudia Baracchi, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca The Philosopher's Plant is an original contribution to a concept which for too long has been marginalized. As the only contemporary philosopher working on plants from a deconstructive and weak-thought perspective, Marder provides not only another contribution to the philosophical concept of plants in general, but also adds onto his own work. -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA/University of Barcelona The Philosopher's Plant is a genuine pleasure to read and one of the most innovative books I have encountered in some time. Marder's argument is that contemporary scientific research into how plants communicate, interact with, and possibly even perceive the environment should be enriched by an engagement with how the Western philosophical tradition has already thought and continues thinking the problem of plant life for human being-in-the-world. -- William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University The Philosopher's Plant is an alluring immersion in phytophilia, exploring the thought of philosophers from Plato to Irigaray by way of their intimate reflections on plant life. Not only do we learn much that is subtle and profound about plants but we come to see the work of these thinkers in refreshing new lights. Humor and wit alternate with penetrating philosophical insight in this bouquet of delights. -- Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook, author of The World at a Glance and The World on Edge One must give Michael Marder credit for combining the deconstruction of our traditional metaphysics with a focus on the plant world. He invites us to perceive and consider again the presence and the potential of our living environment, the thoughtless use of which has damaged both our life and our culture. -- Luce Irigaray All who get a taste of this succulent study will find much food for thought. Library Journal (starred review) [The Philosopher's Plant] provides provocative insight into the significance of plant life in the evolution of philosophical thought... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Herbarium Philosophicum Part I: Ancient Plant-Souls 1. Plato's Plane Tree 2. Aristotle's Wheat 3. Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant" Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments 4. Augustine's Pears 5. Avicenna's Celery 6. Maimonides' Palm Tree Part III. Modern Plant-Images 7. Leibniz's Blades of Grass 8. Kant's Tulip 9. Hegel's Grapes Part IV: Postmodern Plant-Subjects 10. Heidegger's Apple Tree 11. Derrida's Sunflowers 12. Irigaray's Water Lily Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this knowledge to navigate life's most perplexing problems, ethics becomes second nature. Ogien explores, through experimental philosophy and other methods, the responses nineteen real-world conundrums provoke. Is a short, mediocre life better than no life at all? Is it acceptable to kill a healthy person so his organs can save five others? Would you swap a natural life filled with frustration, disappointment, and partial success for a world in which all of your needs are met, but through artificial and mechanical means? Ogien doesn't seek to show how difficult it is to determine right from wrong Trade ReviewHuman Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants is Ruwen Ogien at his very best. The book's richness lies in Ogien's endeavor to do philosophy from the reality of lived experience rather than the kind of imaginary reflection that is characteristic of so much of philosophy. -- Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University A lucid translation of a wide-ranging intellectual foray. Booklist (starred review)Table of ContentsPreface: An Antimanual of Ethics Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Use of Thought Experiments? Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles 1. Emergencies 2. The Child Who Is Drowning in a Pond 3. A Transplant Gone Mad 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd 5. The Killer Trolley 6. Incest in All Innocence 7. The Amoralist 8. The Experience Machine 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All? 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them? 12. The Utility Monster 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health 15. Who Am I Without My Organs? 16. And If Sexuality Were Free? 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance 19. Monsters and Saints Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral "Cuisine" 20. Intuitions and Rules 21. A Little Method! 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions? 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone? 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument Conclusion Glossary Notes Index

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Book SynopsisKey selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.Trade ReviewThis is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of Eric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Francois Guery, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon A fitting testimony to the dedication and energy of a remarkable woman. -- Catherine Rodgers Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jean-Joseph Goux Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Note on the Translation 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 2. Women in Movements: Yesterday 3. There Are Two Sexes 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 5. The Plague of Misogyny 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women's Powerlessness? 7. "It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear": Aung San Suu Kyi 8. My Freud, My Father 9. From Liberation to Democratization 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 12. Recognitions 13. Wartime Rapes 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 19. Tomorrow, Parity 20. Women and Europe 21. If This Is a Woman 22. They're Burning a Woman 23. What Is a Woman? 24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift 25. Gravida Notes Biographical Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOver thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy, religion and literature. In Broken Tablets, Sarah Hammerschlag traces that conversation and argues for its political significance, highlighting the role that Judaism played in their relationship.Trade ReviewThis text offers a careful tracking of the intellectual dynamic between Derrida and Levinas, showing how a biographical and philosophical proximity coexisted with divergent views on religion and language. The ethical claim in Levinas's work is taken up by Derrida with gravity and irony. This careful historical and textual analysis allows us to see how these thinkers are bound up with one another even as Levinas presses philosophy toward religion and for Derrida, it is literature that is at the heart of sanctity and betrayal. At stake in this copious and attentive comparative work is the question, what is it to be a Jewish thinker? In the end, it appears that 'otherness' remains and persists as a broken tablet whose secret meaning is never fully revealed but hides out in public view. This is a welcome book, exacting and detailed, that gives us a story and a theory, a scene of enigmatic and provocative encounter between Levinas and Derrida. -- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley A remarkably clear, incisive, and important book. It will be required reading for those interested in Levinas and Derrida and for all of those in the study of religion who wish to explore the relationship between ethics, politics, religion, and literature. -- Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School Deconstruction teaches us to question the integrity of binary oppositions, destabilizing conventional wisdom about the fixity of our categorical distinctions. But what if the field of contesting terms has three or more components? Beginning with the legacies of Derrida and Levinas, Hammerschlag investigates the oscillating similarities that united and dissimilarities that divided them. But then with her customary analytical acumen, she builds upon that exercise to explore their dynamic implications for the triangulated relationship between philosophy, religion, and literature, while complicating the argument still further by adding politics to the mix. The result is a remarkable, four-dimensional map of the rolling and jagged landscape of recent theoretical discourse. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley From early texts such as Violence and Metaphysics to late works such as Adieu, Derrida sustained a powerful and philosophically productive bond with Levinas. But their differences, in matters of metaphysics and on the question of Jewish 'communitarianism,' were profound. In this searching and suggestive meditation, Hammerschlag asks us to consider anew this troubled affiliation and examines the dialectic of fidelity and betrayal that marked their intellectual friendship across the decades. -- Peter E. Gordon, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. "What Must a Jewish Thinker Be?" 2. Levinas, Literature, and the Ruin of the World 3. Between the Jew and Writing 4. To Lose One's Head: Literature and the Democracy to Come 5. Literature and the Political-Theological Remains Epilogue: "There Is Not a Pin to Choose Between Us" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.Trade ReviewA sizzling, citable line on every page, this is Catherine Keller at her poetic, theopoetic, theological best. She meditates not the fire of the apocalypse, nor the water of the deep, but the cloud-of the impossible which precipitates the possible itself, the entanglement of knowing and nonknowing, of the relational and what overflows relation, of the enfolding and the unfolding. For her, the name of God is not the name of a cause or a guarantee but the lure of something that needs to be made and done. From philosophy and theology to physics and ecology-a sensational tour de force from a major theological voice. -- John D. Caputo, Syracuse University and Villanova University At last! A negative theology that plies the complex requirements of planetary life. Long intent on crafting ways of thinking theologically that resist common and oversimplified oppositions between divine and fleshy things, Catherine Keller leads us via ancient, medieval, and recent traditions of unsaying certainties into a rich understanding of divine entanglement as a basis for communal thriving and just democracy. This is a monumental contribution to Christian theology, especially regarding its foundational claims of divine embodiment and love. -- Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University Catherine Keller is our most creative and profound theologian today, and this book is her richest to date, tracking the enfolding and unfolding relation of everything to everything with theopoetic brilliance. -- Gary Dorrien, author of Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology Catherine Keller's nuanced consideration of the apophatic cloud is both true to its subject and marvelously lucid. Tracing unexpected connections in the thought of medieval theologians, process philosophers, environmental activists, quantum physicists, and more, the book enfolds and unfolds, each line of thought traced with delicate precision, each intersection marked. Out of impossibility itself, enfolded in each and every relation, a new and open possible emerges. Through folds and mirrors, holograms and entanglements, poetry and theology, trauma and joy, this possible-impossible, this luminous darkness, entice us to follow-and to be glad that we did. -- Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College Facing the complex majesty of Cloud of the Impossible, one cannot help but feel like some Moses-manque before a literary Sinai. The prose is finely wrought, tracing the inter- and indeterminacies of a provisionally named 'apophatic entanglement.' This is a beautiful and important book, which traces the contours of a transfigured, queerly-theological discourse and practice--precisely where such a thing might seem impossible. -- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University With this work, Catherine Keller has produced a masterpiece on the level of her Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. There is something of James Joyce in these pages. Readers are taken through core Hebrew and Greek debates, the emergence of infinity in Patristic theology, Christian and non-Christian mysticism, quantum physics, contemporary poststructuralist philosophy, the plight of theology today, nineteenth-century poetry, the environmental crisis... and that is only a start. Many critics will say that this is her best book yet. -- Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology Keller's bewildering and creatively beautiful body of work is often more poetry than prose... It is always worth the effort. Christian Century An impressive and astonishing work. Syndicate Theology This is an extraordinary book... Readers will engage an astounding sweep of resources and conversation partners in this book. InterpretationTable of ContentsBefore Part 1: Complications 1. The Dark Nuance of Beginning 2. Cloud-Writing: A Genealogy of the Luminous Dark 3. Enfolding and Unfolding God: Cusanic Complicatio Part 2: Explications 4. Spooky Entanglements: The Physics of Nonseparability 5. The Fold in Process: Deleuze and Whitehead 6. "Unfolded Out of the Folds": Walt Whitman and the Apophatic Sex of the Earth 7. Unsaying and Undoing: Judith Butler and the Ethics of Relational Ontology Part 3: Implications 8. Crusade, Capital, and Cosmopolis: Ambiguous Entanglements 9. Broken Touch: Ecology of the Im/possible 10. In Questionable Love After: Theopoetics of the Cloud Notes Acknowledments Index

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Book SynopsisA progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.Trade ReviewA sizzling, citable line on every page, this is Catherine Keller at her poetic, theopoetic, theological best. She meditates not the fire of the apocalypse, nor the water of the deep, but the cloud-of the impossible which precipitates the possible itself, the entanglement of knowing and nonknowing, of the relational and what overflows relation, of the enfolding and the unfolding. For her, the name of God is not the name of a cause or a guarantee but the lure of something that needs to be made and done. From philosophy and theology to physics and ecology-a sensational tour de force from a major theological voice. -- John D. Caputo, Syracuse University and Villanova University At last! A negative theology that plies the complex requirements of planetary life. Long intent on crafting ways of thinking theologically that resist common and oversimplified oppositions between divine and fleshy things, Catherine Keller leads us via ancient, medieval, and recent traditions of unsaying certainties into a rich understanding of divine entanglement as a basis for communal thriving and just democracy. This is a monumental contribution to Christian theology, especially regarding its foundational claims of divine embodiment and love. -- Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University Catherine Keller is our most creative and profound theologian today, and this book is her richest to date, tracking the enfolding and unfolding relation of everything to everything with theopoetic brilliance. -- Gary Dorrien, author of Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology Catherine Keller's nuanced consideration of the apophatic cloud is both true to its subject and marvelously lucid. Tracing unexpected connections in the thought of medieval theologians, process philosophers, environmental activists, quantum physicists, and more, the book enfolds and unfolds, each line of thought traced with delicate precision, each intersection marked. Out of impossibility itself, enfolded in each and every relation, a new and open possible emerges. Through folds and mirrors, holograms and entanglements, poetry and theology, trauma and joy, this possible-impossible, this luminous darkness, entice us to follow-and to be glad that we did. -- Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College Facing the complex majesty of Cloud of the Impossible, one cannot help but feel like some Moses-manque before a literary Sinai. The prose is finely wrought, tracing the inter- and indeterminacies of a provisionally named 'apophatic entanglement.' This is a beautiful and important book, which traces the contours of a transfigured, queerly-theological discourse and practice--precisely where such a thing might seem impossible. -- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University With this work, Catherine Keller has produced a masterpiece on the level of her Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. There is something of James Joyce in these pages. Readers are taken through core Hebrew and Greek debates, the emergence of infinity in Patristic theology, Christian and non-Christian mysticism, quantum physics, contemporary poststructuralist philosophy, the plight of theology today, nineteenth-century poetry, the environmental crisis... and that is only a start. Many critics will say that this is her best book yet. -- Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology Keller's bewildering and creatively beautiful body of work is often more poetry than prose... It is always worth the effort. Christian Century An impressive and astonishing work. Syndicate Theology This is an extraordinary book... Readers will engage an astounding sweep of resources and conversation partners in this book. InterpretationTable of ContentsBefore Part 1: Complications 1. The Dark Nuance of Beginning 2. Cloud-Writing: A Genealogy of the Luminous Dark 3. Enfolding and Unfolding God: Cusanic Complicatio Part 2: Explications 4. Spooky Entanglements: The Physics of Nonseparability 5. The Fold in Process: Deleuze and Whitehead 6. "Unfolded Out of the Folds": Walt Whitman and the Apophatic Sex of the Earth 7. Unsaying and Undoing: Judith Butler and the Ethics of Relational Ontology Part 3: Implications 8. Crusade, Capital, and Cosmopolis: Ambiguous Entanglements 9. Broken Touch: Ecology of the Im/possible 10. In Questionable Love After: Theopoetics of the Cloud Notes Acknowledments Index

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Book SynopsisPenelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.Trade ReviewFoucault's Futures opens up a new future for Foucault by showing how profoundly, and how unexpectedly, his account of biopolitical power informs the procreative politics implicit in his various writings on sex. Combining theoretical rigor with intellectual generosity, Penelope Deutscher proposes and enacts a critical ethics that mobilizes the "suspended reserves" of Foucault (and many other theorists) to generate striking conceptual convergences that make for a brilliantly productive critique of reproductive reason. -- Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University Foucault's Futures teaches us to read, with generosity and curiosity, for the limits that enable contemporary work on reproductive biopolitics. With impeccable intellectual skill, Deutscher maps the illegibilities, resistances, inclusions, violences, gatherings and vulnerabilities that form the infrastructure of reproductive futurism, maternal bodies, and fetal life. This is feminist theory at its finest: an accomplished and exquisitely argued book that expands the conceptual space within which feminism can engage text and world. -- Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University The book is unique not only for the originality of its complex philosophical argument about life, children, and maternity in biopower but also for the interdisciplinary range of works it thinks together in surprising new ways. -- Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University This strikingly imaginative book brings Foucault into dialogue with unexpected interlocutors and explores fascinating themes and figures in his thought - fetuses, viruses and marsupial mothers. Deutscher's ideas never fail to interest and provoke. -- Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki Foucault's Futures, the latest of Penelope Deutscher's many pathbreaking works, not only challenges us to rethink what we know about recent French thought, feminism, queer studies, biopolitics, the very question of futurity. It also shows us how to work with the peculiar "resources" of debates that do not give us what we seem to want from them. Capacious in its breadth, riveting in its prose, surprising in its arguments and choice of examples, Foucault's Futures is itself the resource we will turn to frequently for help in imagining futures for theory. -- Andrew Parker, author of The Theorist's Mother Deutscher has an enticing facility with her material, and illuminates previously neglected texts. When you read Foucault's Futures, you become wholly aware of the brilliant mind at work weaving together disparate material eloquently and forcefully. Pedagogically brilliant and conceptually surprising, this is a deeply pleasurable and innovative book that allows us to see all its characters in a new light. -- Ranjana Khanna, Duke University In Foucault's Futures, Penny Deutscher stages a series of perverse encounters-between Foucault and Derrida, between reproductive futurism and feminism, between Judith Butler and the biopolitical-carefully interrogating some of contemporary critical theory's most fertile missed opportunities. Through her surprising juxtapositions and her slyly brilliant readings, Deutscher unlocks the "suspended resources of Foucault's work" for thinking the mother, the child, and the family thanopolitically, and offers a fresh and original consideration of the logics and politics of reproduction. Essential reading. -- Gayle Salamon, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Suspensions of Sex: Foucault and Derrida 2. Reproductive Futurism, Lee Edelman, and Reproductive Rights 3. Foucault's Children: Re-Reading The History of Sexuality 4. Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction: Foucault, Esposito, Agamben 5. Judith Butler, Precarious Life, and Reproduction: From Social Ontology to Ontological Tact Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPenelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.Trade ReviewFoucault's Futures opens up a new future for Foucault by showing how profoundly, and how unexpectedly, his account of biopolitical power informs the procreative politics implicit in his various writings on sex. Combining theoretical rigor with intellectual generosity, Penelope Deutscher proposes and enacts a critical ethics that mobilizes the "suspended reserves" of Foucault (and many other theorists) to generate striking conceptual convergences that make for a brilliantly productive critique of reproductive reason. -- Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University Foucault's Futures teaches us to read, with generosity and curiosity, for the limits that enable contemporary work on reproductive biopolitics. With impeccable intellectual skill, Deutscher maps the illegibilities, resistances, inclusions, violences, gatherings and vulnerabilities that form the infrastructure of reproductive futurism, maternal bodies, and fetal life. This is feminist theory at its finest: an accomplished and exquisitely argued book that expands the conceptual space within which feminism can engage text and world. -- Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University The book is unique not only for the originality of its complex philosophical argument about life, children, and maternity in biopower but also for the interdisciplinary range of works it thinks together in surprising new ways. -- Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University This strikingly imaginative book brings Foucault into dialogue with unexpected interlocutors and explores fascinating themes and figures in his thought - fetuses, viruses and marsupial mothers. Deutscher's ideas never fail to interest and provoke. -- Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki Foucault's Futures, the latest of Penelope Deutscher's many pathbreaking works, not only challenges us to rethink what we know about recent French thought, feminism, queer studies, biopolitics, the very question of futurity. It also shows us how to work with the peculiar "resources" of debates that do not give us what we seem to want from them. Capacious in its breadth, riveting in its prose, surprising in its arguments and choice of examples, Foucault's Futures is itself the resource we will turn to frequently for help in imagining futures for theory. -- Andrew Parker, author of The Theorist's Mother Deutscher has an enticing facility with her material, and illuminates previously neglected texts. When you read Foucault's Futures, you become wholly aware of the brilliant mind at work weaving together disparate material eloquently and forcefully. Pedagogically brilliant and conceptually surprising, this is a deeply pleasurable and innovative book that allows us to see all its characters in a new light. -- Ranjana Khanna, Duke University In Foucault's Futures, Penny Deutscher stages a series of perverse encounters-between Foucault and Derrida, between reproductive futurism and feminism, between Judith Butler and the biopolitical-carefully interrogating some of contemporary critical theory's most fertile missed opportunities. Through her surprising juxtapositions and her slyly brilliant readings, Deutscher unlocks the "suspended resources of Foucault's work" for thinking the mother, the child, and the family thanopolitically, and offers a fresh and original consideration of the logics and politics of reproduction. Essential reading. -- Gayle Salamon, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Suspensions of Sex: Foucault and Derrida 2. Reproductive Futurism, Lee Edelman, and Reproductive Rights 3. Foucault's Children: Re-Reading The History of Sexuality 4. Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction: Foucault, Esposito, Agamben 5. Judith Butler, Precarious Life, and Reproduction: From Social Ontology to Ontological Tact Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAlain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.Trade ReviewAlain Badiou’s seminars are essential to understanding the evolution of his thought. This much-awaited collection of Badiou’s teachings enables the English-speaking world to experience the ‘true heart’ of his philosophy. -- Sigi Jöttkandt, author of First Love: A Phenomenology of the OneThe publication of Alain Badiou’s seminar The One is a major event for the philosopher of the event. When reading it, one has a sense of thinking alongside a great thinker as he formulates one of his central ideas—the distinction between the One and the count-as-one. Come to this seminar for Badiou’s most in-depth analysis of how the One functions and leave with the incredible bonus of magisterial interpretations of Descartes, Plato, and Kant. This is Badiou at his very best and at his most accessible. The perfect introduction to his foundational work Being and Event. -- Todd McGowan, author of Enjoyment Right & LeftBadiou’s seminar is a space of conceptual experimentation and system creation, bringing together rigorous critique of contemporary ideology with innovative returns to major figures from the history of philosophy. This book, which also provides incisive introductory material, demonstrates the power of Badiou’s method. His readings of Descartes, Plato, and Kant not only are genuinely inventive, they also attest to the creation of one of the most significant philosophical endeavors of our era, Badiou’s own. -- Frank Ruda, author of For Badiou: Idealism without IdealismIn this daring and challenging work, Badiou, one of the most fascinating and intellectually provocative thinkers of our time, provides a remarkable examination of the impasses of the metaphysics of the One in Descartes, Plato, and Kant. Badiou adapts their grappling with the equivalence of being and one to his own project of thinking the proper object of philosophy: the triad of events, truths, and subjects setting out from the idea that being is detached from the One. Knitting together mathematics and philosophy, Badiou makes a compelling demand for what he calls The Critique of Evental Reason. -- Jelica Šumič Riha, Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, SloveniaTable of ContentsEditors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouAuthor’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouIntroduction to Alain Badiou’s seminar The One (1983–1984) (Kenneth Reinhard)About the 1983–1984 SeminarSession 1Session 2Session 3Session 4Session 5Session 6Session 7Session 8Session 9Session 10Session 11Session 12Session 13Session 14Session 15Session 16NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.Trade ReviewIn a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book exemplifies the enviable rewards of a sustained in-depth engagement with Foucault as an ethopoietic thinker. -- Rey Chow, author of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceIn this innovative and intimate work, Huffer recuperates from the work of Michel Foucault a philosophy of eros with the potential to replace the unduly dominant orders of sexuality. Eros would always be murmuring and calling for various forms of release, including the release of 'self from self.' The consequences of eros' broad scope and elusiveness, are shown to encompasses the full range of Foucault’s work, and to challenging our understanding of freedom, intimacy, passion, ethics, and selfhood. -- Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive ReasonFoucault's Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading and creative responding. -- Mark Jordan, author of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in FoucaultBowing, bending down, and keeping watch over Foucault's work, Lynne Huffer listens for Foucault's Strange Eros and its ethical call. Huffer reads Foucault as a poet, allowing us to hear the discontinuous Sapphic murmur beneath philosophy's Platonic ground. This is an inspired work of love and a tour de force. -- Sverre Raffnsøe, editor in chief of Foucault Studies and author of Michel Foucault: A Research CompanionFoucault's Strange Eros is a haunting and beautiful book. In this final book in her Foucault trilogy, Lynne Huffer once again returns to the theme of Foucault’s erotic ethics. Drawing on Anne Carson's new translations and writings on Sappho, she identifies a queer feminist erotic, a non-phallic creative capacity for new relational forms. In this light, Foucault's genealogies are revealed as rooted in a poignant ethical sensibility—that of a loving and vigilant guardian of the lost 'little ones' in the archives, one who uncovers traces of unnecessary and intolerable suffering, and events that did not take place. This is what is meant by thought of the outside—impossible thought, or thoughts and experiences erased and rendered impossible within present conditions of possibility. Thus, Huffer deepens our appreciation of genealogy as an ethical practice of freedom, of eros—a practice that might loosen our attachments to present understandings of self and world—to ways of living that create unnecessary suffering and violence. -- Jana Sawicki, Williams CollegeTable of ContentsPreface: ProwlingIntroduction: Foucault’s Strange Eros1. Eros Is Strange: Foucault, the Outside, and the Historical A Priori (Fragments)2. Ars Erotica: Poetic Cuts in the Archives of Infamy3. Erotic Time: Unreason, Eros, and Foucault’s Evil Genius4. Prowling Eros: Carriers of Light in the Panopticon5. Now Again (δεῦτε): Foucault, Wittig, SapphoCoda: SapphicAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.Trade ReviewIn a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book exemplifies the enviable rewards of a sustained in-depth engagement with Foucault as an ethopoietic thinker. -- Rey Chow, author of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceIn this innovative and intimate work, Huffer recuperates from the work of Michel Foucault a philosophy of eros with the potential to replace the unduly dominant orders of sexuality. Eros would always be murmuring and calling for various forms of release, including the release of 'self from self.' The consequences of eros' broad scope and elusiveness, are shown to encompasses the full range of Foucault’s work, and to challenging our understanding of freedom, intimacy, passion, ethics, and selfhood. -- Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive ReasonFoucault's Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading and creative responding. -- Mark Jordan, author of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in FoucaultBowing, bending down, and keeping watch over Foucault's work, Lynne Huffer listens for Foucault's Strange Eros and its ethical call. Huffer reads Foucault as a poet, allowing us to hear the discontinuous Sapphic murmur beneath philosophy's Platonic ground. This is an inspired work of love and a tour de force. -- Sverre Raffnsøe, editor in chief of Foucault Studies and author of Michel Foucault: A Research CompanionFoucault's Strange Eros is a haunting and beautiful book. In this final book in her Foucault trilogy, Lynne Huffer once again returns to the theme of Foucault’s erotic ethics. Drawing on Anne Carson's new translations and writings on Sappho, she identifies a queer feminist erotic, a non-phallic creative capacity for new relational forms. In this light, Foucault's genealogies are revealed as rooted in a poignant ethical sensibility—that of a loving and vigilant guardian of the lost 'little ones' in the archives, one who uncovers traces of unnecessary and intolerable suffering, and events that did not take place. This is what is meant by thought of the outside—impossible thought, or thoughts and experiences erased and rendered impossible within present conditions of possibility. Thus, Huffer deepens our appreciation of genealogy as an ethical practice of freedom, of eros—a practice that might loosen our attachments to present understandings of self and world—to ways of living that create unnecessary suffering and violence. -- Jana Sawicki, Williams CollegeTable of ContentsPreface: ProwlingIntroduction: Foucault’s Strange Eros1. Eros Is Strange: Foucault, the Outside, and the Historical A Priori (Fragments)2. Ars Erotica: Poetic Cuts in the Archives of Infamy3. Erotic Time: Unreason, Eros, and Foucault’s Evil Genius4. Prowling Eros: Carriers of Light in the Panopticon5. Now Again (δεῦτε): Foucault, Wittig, SapphoCoda: SapphicAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDifference is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades, including post-structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, psychoanalysis, French feminism and postcolonialism. Employing literary case studies throughout, Difference provides an accessible introduction to a term at the heart of today's critical idiom.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: Identity and difference, 2 Difference and reference, 3 Difference, 4 Different histories, 5 Cultural difference, 6 Difference and equivalence, GLOSSARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

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Book SynopsisJacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida on Deconstruction introduces and assesses: Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy the key themes of the critique of metaphysics, language and ethics that characterize his most widely read works the continuing importance of Derrida's work to philosophy. This is a much-needed introduction for philosophy or humanities students undertaking courses on Derrida.Trade Review'Barry Stocker's guidebook achieves a great deal ... in a lucid prose that serves to demystify both Derrida and deconstruction ...' - A. Singh and M. Singamsetty, Metapsychology Online Reviews'Barry Stocker's guidebook achieves a great deal ... in a lucid prose that serves to demystify both Derrida and deconstruction ...' - A. Singh and M. Singamsetty, Metapsychology Online Reviews Table of Contents1. Introduction: Derrida’s Life and the Background to His Philosophy 2. Metaphysics 3. Language: Sense and Meaning 4. Consciousness: Intentionality and Perception 5. Knowledge: Origin and Structure 6. Values: Ethics, Sovereignty, Humanism and Religion 7. Metaphor, Literature and Aesthetics 8. Towards a Definition of Deconstruction Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida, showing how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Joanna Hodge compares and contrasts Derrida's arguments concerning time with those of Kant, Husserl, Augustine, Heidegger, Levinas, Freud, and Blanchot. Trade Review‘Perhaps there has been no more resilient form of thought in the last two hundred years than phenomenology, and yet, poignant critiques have been made of it. Joanna Hodge allows us to start to move beyond the horizon of phenomenology while recognizing the contributions it has made for thinking.’ - Len Lawlor, University of Memphis, USA'...it is a book that rewards close and repeated re-engagement.' -- Linnell Secomb, University of GreenwichTable of ContentsPart 1: In the Beginning Part 2: Interrupting Husserl Part 3: Experience and Limit: Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot Part 4: The Politics of Places Part Five: Animal/Machine: The Return of Transcendental Aesthetics as Biography

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Book SynopsisMichel Foucaultâs The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But Foucaultâs writing can be a difficult book to grasp as Foucault assumes a familiarity with the intellectually dominant theories of his time which renders many passages obscure for newcomers to his work. The Routledge Guidebook to Foucaultâs The History of Sexuality offers a clear and comprehensive guide to this groundbreaking work, examining: The historical context in which Foucault wrote A critical discussion of the text, which examines the relationship between The History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of The Self The reception and ongoing influence of The History of Sexuality Offering a close reading of the text, this is essential reading for anyone studying this enormously influential work.Trade ReviewTaylor’s well-written guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality promises to become a welcome companion for students delving into Foucault’s influential text, as it provides historical context and clarifies points of reference that may require some explanation and background for the new reader of Foucault.Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, USAIn this invaluable guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1, Taylor offers a lucid explication of one of the most consistently misread books of our time. Without sacrificing nuance or depth, Taylor frames Foucault’s History of Sexuality within the history of eugenics. This text will be especially illuminating for students who have looked to Foucault for a theory of sexual liberation. The chapters on Foucault’s uptake by feminists and queer theorists are a tour de force! Highly recommended for beginners and experts alike. Lynne Huffer, Emory University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Will to Know Questioning the Repressive HypothesisConfessionThe Social Construction of SexualitiesThe Perverse ImplantationChapter Two: Power Over Life Objective: RegicideMethod: or How to Theorize Power without the KingPower is everywherePower is warPower is relational Power is immanentPower comes from belowPower relations are intentional and non-subjectivePower produces resistanceChapter Three: Women, Children, Couples and ‘Perverts’ Denaturalizing SexDomain: The FamilyWomenChildrenCouples‘Perverts’Periodization: Retelling the History of SexualityChapter Four: Sex, Racism, and Death From Sanguinity to SexualityFoucault’s Genealogy of Modern RacismFrom Spectacles of Death to the Management of MorbidityExecutionsSuicideWarLetting DieDe-sexing sexualityChapter Five: The History of Sexuality and Feminist TheoryFeminist TensionsThe Repressive Hypothesis, Identity Politics, and the Feminist Sex WarsConsciousness Raising, Confession, and ExperienceFeminist Bodies and Pleasures Chapter Six: The History of Sexuality and Queer Theory From Feminism to Queer Theory‘A Queer Voice’Canonizing Foucault ‘The Imperial Prude’Chapter Seven: A Genealogy of the Desiring Subject Revising the ProjectSexual Austerity and the Monogamous IdealUsing SexSexual Anxiety‘The antimony of the boy’A Male EthicsEthics versus CodesScalePositions and PartnersSexual BinariesSex and HealthSex without PsychologyThe Use of The Use of PleasureBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhy is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopianism, colonial legal codes, and ideas of authorship. Dismissing the notion that the two camps are ideologically opposed and thus incompatible, these essays demonstrate an exciting new scholarship that confidently mixes the empiricism of Enlightenment thought with a strong postmodernist skepticism, painting a subtler and richer historical canvas.Trade Review"This superb collection not only provides original and important perspectives on many aspects of eighteenth century thought; it also insists, passionately and provocatively, that the Enlightenment could speak to the drama and frustrations of the human condition more cogently than the philosophy of our own day. The contributors engage lucidly and critically with postmodernism, making keen use of its important insights, but sternly deflating the widespread misconceptins it has engendered about its intellectual predecessors. Few readers will agree with everything said here. But all readers will find something to make them stop, and ponder, and reflect." -- David A.Bell,Professor ofHistory, John Hopkins University"This much-needed collection of essays explodes postmodernism's ignorant prejudices about the Enlightenment and restores that great intellectual movement to its proper place as the source of the modern Enlightenment fashion, the essays are vigorously argued and lucidly written. An Outstanding book." -- PaulRobinson, Professor of History, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction, Daniel Gordon; Chapter 1 Montesquieu in the Caribbean, Malick W. Ghachem; Chapter 2 Man in the Mirror, Arthur Goldhammer; Chapter 3 An Eighteenth-Century Time Machine, Daniel Rosenberg; Chapter 4 Virtuous Economies, Elena Russo; Chapter 5 Rationalizing the Enlightenment, Ronald Schechter; Chapter 6 Writing the History of Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment, Sophia Rosenfeld; Chapter 7 Reproducing Utopia, Alessa Johns; Chapter 8 The Pre-Postmodernism of Carl Becker, Johnson Kent Wright; Chapter 9 Foucault, Nietzsche, Enlightenment, Louis Miller; Chapter 10 On the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment, Daniel Gordon;

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