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Pure Act

The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax

Michael N. McGregor

A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author’s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax’s distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.

ISBN: 9780823276820

Teaching as an Act of Faith

Teaching as an Act of Faith

Theory and Practice in Church Related Higher Education

Arlin C. Migliazzo

Interest in church-related higher education has increased greatly in recent years. Teaching as an Act of Faith is a practical guidebook on strategies to incarnate mission and epitomize theological and...

ISBN: 9780823222216

A Dancer in the Revolution

A Dancer in the Revolution

Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club

Howard Eugene Johnson

With Wendy Johnson

Discusses the life of Howard “Stretch” Johnson, an African American civil rights activist and educator, (1915–2000), who was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, member of the Communist Party U.S.A. and World War II veteran.

ISBN: 9780823256532

Heartbeats in the Muck

Heartbeats in the Muck

The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition

John Waldman

Now in a revised edition, the award-winning chronicle of the rich aquatic wilderness surrounding New York City—an extraordinary story of ecological survival despite the ravages of urban development

ISBN: 9780823249855

Boy with the Bullhorn

Boy with the Bullhorn

A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York

Ron Goldberg

Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ NonfictionWinner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/BiographyA coming-of-age...

ISBN: 9781531500979

Class Acts

Derrida on the Public Stage

Michael Naas

Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.

ISBN: 9780823298402

Couch City

Socrates against Simonides

Harry Berger

Edited by Ward Risvold and J. Benjamin Fuqua

Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos,...

ISBN: 9780823294237

Melancholy Acts

Melancholy Acts

Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

Nouri Gana

How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they...

ISBN: 9781531503505

Portrait Stories

Portrait Stories

Michal Peled Ginsburg

What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Through close readings of nineteenth-century portrait stories from different literary traditions, the book analyzes the way subjectivity is produced in relation to representations, focusing on the power to represent, especially its relation to gender, and on the act of seeing.

ISBN: 9780823262601

Beyond the Mushroom Cloud

Beyond the Mushroom Cloud

Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima

Yuki Miyamoto

This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945’s atomic bombings. Unfortunately, their ethic of “not retaliation, but reconciliation” has not been much known, perhaps obscured by the mushroom cloud. However, it is worth examining their philosophy, as it could offer resources to reconcile the contested issues of public memories, especially in the post 9-11 era.

ISBN: 9780823240517

Giving an Account of Oneself

Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith Butler

What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical...

ISBN: 9780823225040

Literature as Conduct

Literature as Conduct

Speech Acts in Henry James

J. Hillis Miller

The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques...

ISBN: 9780823225385

Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

Frank Ruda

Translated by Heather H. Yeung

This book problematizes predominant and intuitive understandings of freedom as natural capacity. It demonstrates how these conceptions emerge with a specific form of modernity, notably capitalist modernity and thereby demonstrates how philosophy from its modern inception was always also a critique of capitalism and its notion of freedom.

ISBN: 9781531505325

The Rhetoric of Terror

The Rhetoric of Terror

Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror

Marc Redfield

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom “9/11”: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma...

ISBN: 9780823231249

Postindustrial DIY

Postindustrial DIY

Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

Daniel Campo

Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary...

ISBN: 9781531504687

Earthly Things

Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

Edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton and Whitney Bauman

Contributor(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn and Carol Wayne White

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human...

ISBN: 9781531503062

Breaking Point

The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II

Rebecca Schwartz Greene

This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War...

ISBN: 9781531500269

Look Round for Poetry

Look Round for Poetry

Untimely Romanticisms

Brian McGrath

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.

ISBN: 9780823299799

Between Heaven and Russia

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.

ISBN: 9780823299508

Giving the Devil His Due

Giving the Devil His Due

Satan and Cinema

Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen

Contributor(s): Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, Regina M. Hansen, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder, R. Barton Palmer, Carl H. Sederholm, David Sterritt, J.P. Telotte and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined...

ISBN: 9780823297900

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners

Sarah Mangold

An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a “natural body”An innovative book-length poem that delves into the...

ISBN: 9780823297702

Crossing Back

Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced...

ISBN: 9780823297788

Called Back

My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

Mary Cappello

Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest...

ISBN: 9780823294046

The Princeton Fugitive Slave

The Princeton Fugitive Slave

The Trials of James Collins Johnson

Lolita Buckner Inniss

James Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried as a fugitive. Though convicted and slated for return to slavery, he was redeemed by a local white woman. Johnson became one of the best-known vendors at Princeton over his six-decade career. This book challenges this uncomplicated account of Johnson’s life.

ISBN: 9780823294077

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Stephanie N. Brehm

This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert’s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.

ISBN: 9780823294039