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A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

Rachel Ida Buff

Translated by Alejandra Oliva

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisisAs millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental...

ISBN: 9780823289158

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The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker

Peter Maurin

Edited by Lincoln Rice

The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected...

ISBN: 9780823287536

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Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World

Philosophy and Literature

Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.

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On Universals

Constructing and Deconstructing Community

Étienne Balibar

Translated by Joshua David Jordan

Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

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In the Wake of Medea

Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction

Juliette Cherbuliez

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.

ISBN: 9780823287819

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Labyrinths

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.

Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow...

ISBN: 9780823293650

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Form and Event

Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World

Carlo Diano

Translated by Timothy C. Campbell and Lia Turtas

Diano’s Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy.

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Working Alternatives

American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy

Edited by John C. Seitz and Christine Firer Hinze

Contributor(s): Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Colis Greene, Christine Firer Hinze, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas K. Rademacher, John C. Seitz, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirstin Swinth and Sandra Waddock

Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.

ISBN: 9780823288342

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The Geological Unconscious

German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary

Jason Groves

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the...

ISBN: 9780823288090

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Thinking with Balibar

A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris and Jacques Lezra

Contributor(s): Emily Apter, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Judith Butler, Monique David-Ménard, Hanan Elsayed, Didier Fassin, Stathis Gourgouris, Bernard Harcourt, Jacques Lezra, Patrice Maniglier, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins, Ann Laura Stoler and Gary Wilder

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought.

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Womanpriest

Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church

Jill Peterfeso

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking...

ISBN: 9780823288274

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Circling the Elephant

A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity

John J. Thatamanil

This book argues that Christian theology must be done in conversation with other religions. The book integrates theology of religious diversity, comparative theology, and constructive theology by moving beyond reified accounts of “religions” that make interreligious learning impossible. The author proposes a new theory of the religious that celebrates interreligious learning.

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Xenocitizens

Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America

Jason Berger

Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.

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The Fact of Resonance

Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form

Julie Beth Napolin

The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.

ISBN: 9780823288168

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Noir Affect

Edited by Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker

Afterword by Paula Rabinowitz

Contributor(s): Christopher Breu, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Pamela Thoma and Kirin Wachter-Grene

Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.

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Radical Ambivalence

Race in Flannery O'Connor

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor, the first book-length study of O’Connor’s complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence, contends that O’Connor’s race-haunted writing serves as the literary incarnation of her uncertainty about the great question of her era and of her urgent need, despite considerable reluctance, to address the fraught relationship between the races.

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Against Sustainability

Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis

Michelle Neely

Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainability, recycling, frugality, preservation, radical pet keeping, zero waste, and utopianism.

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Critique of Journalistic Reason

Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper

Tom Vandeputte

This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.

ISBN: 9780823290253

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Middling Romanticism

Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery

Zachary Sng

Examines various forms of the middle (such as the medium, moderation, and mediocrity) that re-negotiated in the writings of British and German romanticism, along with a consideration of how our own relationship to romanticism is influenced by its medial thinking.

ISBN: 9780823288410

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban...

ISBN: 9780823289424

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My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites

S. Brook Corfman

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting—that...

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scenery

a lyric

José Felipe Alvergue

Poetry, memoir, archival study on the development of personhood in America through reflections on law, colonial-to-contemporary violence, parenthood, and history.

ISBN: 9780823288670

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Boss of Black Brooklyn

The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823288694

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Cathay

A Critical Edition

Ezra Pound

Edited by Timothy Billings

An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.

ISBN: 9780823288687

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Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

ISBN: 9780823287697

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A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World

On Universals

In the Wake of Medea

Labyrinths

Form and Event

Working Alternatives

The Geological Unconscious

Thinking with Balibar

Womanpriest

Circling the Elephant

Xenocitizens

The Fact of Resonance

Noir Affect

Radical Ambivalence

Against Sustainability

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Middling Romanticism

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites

scenery

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Cathay

Textures of the Ordinary

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