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Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition

John Kaag

An important scholarly contribution from the author of several trade books on philosophy that have reached a wide readership.

ISBN: 9781531501846

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Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

Edited by Irving Goh

Contributor(s): Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy and John H. Smith

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on...

ISBN: 9781531501990

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What Is Extinction?

A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals

Joshua Schuster

Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments...

ISBN: 9781531501655

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The Philology of Life

Walter Benjamin's Critical Program

Kevin McLaughlin

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program,...

ISBN: 9781531501693

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Corpus III

Cruor and Other Writings

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Jeff Fort

A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe

ISBN: 9781531501129

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Spectacles and Specters

A Performative Theory of Political Trials

Başak Ertür

Developing a theory of political trials, Ertür begins by reconstructing and building on a legacy of critical thought on Nuremberg in close engagement with theories of performativity. She then...

ISBN: 9781531501860

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Let Them Rot

Antigone’s Parallax

Alenka Zupančič

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

ISBN: 9781531501044

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Sufi Deleuze

Secretions of Islamic Atheism

Michael Muhammad Knight

“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What is Philosophy?. Their claim that Christianity “secretes”...

ISBN: 9781531501815

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The Beauty of the Trinity

A Reading of the Summa Halensis

Justin Coyle

In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris....

ISBN: 9781531500030

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Grammatology of Images

A History of the A-Visible

Sigrid Weigel

Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.

ISBN: 9781531500276

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The Political Logic of Experience

Expression in Phenomenology

Neal DeRoo

The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, experience,...

ISBN: 9781531500054

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Adapt!

On a New Political Imperative

Barbara Stiegler

Translated by Adam Hocker

This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment.

ISBN: 9780823299294

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If Babel Had a Form

Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific

Tze-Yin Teo

“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.”...

ISBN: 9781531500191

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Resounding Events

Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class

William E. Connolly

In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. Connolly explores how diverse events jolt and animate thinking, and he enunciates the tasks of engaged intellectuals today.

ISBN: 9781531500238

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Totality Inside Out

Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital

Edited by Kevin Floyd, Jen Hedler Phillis and Sarika Chandra

Contributor(s): Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, Joshua Clover, Tim Kreiner, Jen Hedler Phillis, Arthur Scarritt, Zoe Sutherland and Marina Vishmidt

However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed...

ISBN: 9780823298204

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From Life to Survival

Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction

Robert Trumbull

The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.

ISBN: 9780823298730

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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology

The Summa Halensis

Edited by Oleg Bychkov and Lydia Schumacher

This Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first time.

ISBN: 9780823298846

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Vertigo

The Temptation of Identity

Andrea Cavalletti

Translated by Max Matukhin

Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. In doing so, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.

ISBN: 9780823298044

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Throwing the Moral Dice

Ethics and the Problem of Contingency

Edited by Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi

Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Material Mystery

The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

Karmen MacKendrick

Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

ISBN: 9780823294558

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Thinking Through the Imagination

Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

What Is Extinction?

The Philology of Life

Corpus III

Spectacles and Specters

Let Them Rot

Sufi Deleuze

The Beauty of the Trinity

Grammatology of Images

The Political Logic of Experience

Adapt!

If Babel Had a Form

Resounding Events

Totality Inside Out

From Life to Survival

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology

Vertigo

Throwing the Moral Dice

Political Theology on Edge

Infrapolitics

Class Acts

Eros

What Is Theology?

Material Mystery

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