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Living in Death

Living in Death

Genocide and Its Functionaries

Richard Rechtman

Translated by Lindsay Turner

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.

ISBN: 9780823297863

Orphaned Landscapes

Orphaned Landscapes

Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Patricia Spyer

This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.

ISBN: 9780823298693

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Edited by Ina Merdjanova

Contributor(s): Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Detelina Tocheva

This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research.

ISBN: 9780823298617

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Allan Punzalan Isaac

This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.

ISBN: 9780823298532

The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes

African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution

Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources....

ISBN: 9780823298808

The Book of Tiny Prayer

The Book of Tiny Prayer

Daily Meditations from the Plague Year

Micah Bucey

Bearing witness to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemicWhen New York City went into lockdown in March 2020, spiritual leader Micah Bucey found the world and himself in...

ISBN: 9780823299225

Missions Begin with Blood

Missions Begin with Blood

Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain

Brandon Bayne

While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish...

ISBN: 9780823294190

Throwing the Moral Dice

Throwing the Moral Dice

Ethics and the Problem of Contingency

Edited by Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi

Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe and Slavoj Žižek

From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.

ISBN: 9780823298082

The Body of the Cross

The Body of the Cross

Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement

Travis E. Ables

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice....

ISBN: 9780823298006

Freedoms Gained and Lost

Freedoms Gained and Lost

Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later

Edited by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis

Contributor(s): Bruce E. Baker, Adam H. Domby, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Hilary Green, Ethan Kytle, Simon Lewis, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler, Shannon Smith, Felicity Turner and Samuel Watts

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham...

ISBN: 9780823298167

Political Theology on Edge

Political Theology on Edge

Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene

Edited by Clayton Crockett and Catherine Keller

Contributor(s): Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Clayton Crockett, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfield Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Catherine Keller, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian and L. L. Welborn

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of...

ISBN: 9780823298129

King Al

How Sharpton Took the Throne

Ron Howell

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United StatesThrough the 1980s, the mainstream press...

ISBN: 9780823298877

Infrapolitics

A Handbook

Alberto Moreiras

Infrapolitics: A Handbook elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a general critique of the political apparatus and seeks to establish an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. The book provides a genealogy of infrapolitics in the context of contemporary philosophical and politico-theoretical reflection.

ISBN: 9780823298365

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

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, Catherine O'Brien, R. Barton Palmer, Carl H. Sederholm, David Sterritt, J.P. Telotte and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s...

ISBN: 9780823297900

Stroke Book

The Diary of a Blindspot

Jonathan Alexander

An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what...

ISBN: 9780823297665

Eros

Beyond the Death Drive

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz

Translated by Ramsey McGlazer

This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.

ISBN: 9780823298280

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men

Phil Rosenzweig

The untold story behind one of America’s greatest dramasIn early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen...

ISBN: 9780823297740

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...

ISBN: 9780823297702

Gasoline Dreams

Gasoline Dreams

Waking Up from Petroculture

Simon Orpana

Afterword by Mark Simpson

A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to helpbreak our petroleum dependencyWhat if the biggest barriers to responding to climate...

ISBN: 9780823297726

Well Waiting Room

Well Waiting Room

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinetsTaking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside)...

ISBN: 9780823297771

The Corpse in the Kitchen

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War

Adam John Waterman

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary...

ISBN: 9780823298778

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...

ISBN: 9780823297788

What Is Theology?

What Is Theology?

Christian Thought and Contemporary Life

Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

ISBN: 9780823297825

Atonement and Comparative Theology

Atonement and Comparative Theology

The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions

Edited by Catherine Cornille

Contributor(s): Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Francis X. Clooney, Thierry-Marie Courau, S. Mark Heim, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Leo D. Lefebure, Daniel A. Madigan, Marianne Moyaert, Joshua Ralston, Elochukwu Uzukwu, Klaus von Stosch and Michelle Voss Roberts

The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has...

ISBN: 9780823294343

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