Political Science

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Goods

Emanuele Coccia, Marissa Gemma

Edited by Marissa Gemma

Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness—not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

ISBN: 9780823280230

The Postcolonial Contemporary

The Postcolonial Contemporary

Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Vinay Gidwani

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it.

ISBN: 9780823280070

Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Kas Saghafi, Sarah Tyson, Nicole Anderson, Adam Thurschwell

This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.

ISBN: 9780823280117

Reified Life

J. Paul Narkunas

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the human, and documents their effects on culture, human rights, language and literature.

ISBN: 9780823280315

Oh Capitano!

Rudolph J. Vecoli, Francesco Durante, Donna R. Gabaccia, Elizabeth O. Venditto

Edited by Elizabeth O. Venditto

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.

ISBN: 9780823279876

Contested Loyalty

Contested Loyalty

Robert M. Sandow, Gary W. Gallagher, Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky, Sean A. Scott, Matthew Warshauer, Jonathan W. White, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Situational and wartime constructions of "Patriotism" and "Loyalty" shaped American discourse and actions throughout the Civil War. While most scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, this volume examines the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the Civil War Era North.

ISBN: 9780823279753

Our Country

Grant R. Brodrecht

Our Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.

ISBN: 9780823279913

Poetry and Mind

Poetry and Mind

Laurent Dubreuil

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize.” So concludes this remarkable sequence of propositions on the centrality of poetry for what we call cognition. Developed through brief, lucid, and...

ISBN: 9780823279647

On the Nature of Marx's Things

On the Nature of Marx's Things

Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino

On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

ISBN: 9780823279432

The Watchdog Still Barks

The Watchdog Still Barks

Beth Knobel

Perhaps no function of the press is as important as being a watchdog over the government. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, this book shows how American newspapers held fast to the watchdog role in the digital age, despite financial and technological challenges.

ISBN: 9780823279340

Finance Fictions

Finance Fictions

Arne De Boever

Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.

ISBN: 9780823279173

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Anson Rabinbach

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of “the great utopias of labor” in the first half of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780823278572

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

David Prior

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings,...

ISBN: 9780823278312

Political Concepts

Political Concepts

J. M. Bernstein, Adi Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Gil Anidjar, Ann Laura Stoler, Adi Ophir, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Joan Copjec, Jacques Lezra, Andreas Kalyvas, Jean L. Cohen, Akeel Bilgrami

Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.

ISBN: 9780823276691

Xamissa

Henk Rossouw

Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running...

ISBN: 9780823281107

Fighting Authoritarianism

Fighting Authoritarianism

Britt Haas

Calling into question the Cold War perspective that continued to permeate analyses of radicalism long after the fall of the Soviet Union, this study examines young Depression-Era radicals’ worldview—a worldview developed from the epicenter of young radical activism and ideology: New York City college campuses.

ISBN: 9780823277995

Stasis Before the State

Stasis Before the State

Dimitris Vardoulakis

How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.

ISBN: 9780823277407

Disappointment

Jarrett Zigon

Possibilities responds to recent calls to imaginatively and creatively theorize an otherwise by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples – the anti-drug war movement – can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.

ISBN: 9780823278244

The Transcontinental Maghreb

The Transcontinental Maghreb

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

Through close readings of literary and cultural texts, proposes to recalibrate readings of Francophone Maghrebi literature and their critical methodologies in light of Mediterranean Studies.

ISBN: 9780823275168

Google Me

Barbara Cassin, Michael Syrotinski

Edited by Michael Syrotinski

A witty, philosophically-informed, and openly polemical critique by Barbara Cassin of Google that looks at Google’s claims to organize knowledge, and its alleged ethical basis. This critique goes to the heart of the assumed benefits to humanity of increasingly advanced internet technology.

ISBN: 9780823278077

The Bread of the Strong

The Bread of the Strong

Jack Lee Downey

The Bread of the Strong investigates the origins, development, and migration of a Roman Catholic retreat movement founded by Onésime Lacouture, SJ. Although suppressed in its original host region of Québec, it migrated to the United States, thanks largely to John Hugo’s advocacy, and critically influenced Dorothy Day’s spiritual development.

ISBN: 9780823278732

A Worldly Affair

A Worldly Affair

Pamela Hanlon

For more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage—both tempestuous...

ISBN: 9780823277957

The Possibility of a World

The Possibility of a World

Jean-Luc Nancy, Pierre-Philippe Jandin, Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain

Edited by Flor Méchain

Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.

ISBN: 9780823275410

Milestones in Humanitarian Action

Milestones in Humanitarian Action

Kevin M. Cahill

This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC).

ISBN: 9780823279050

Kant on the Frontier

Kant on the Frontier

Geoffrey Bennington

This book examines the figure of the frontier (both bilateral border and open edge of civilization) both literally in Kant’s political writings, and figuratively in Critiques, developing via a reading of teleological judgment the concept of “interrupted teleology” as a reasoned but non-rationalistic response to rationalism.

ISBN: 9780823275984

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