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Arvo Pärt

Sounding the Sacred

Edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler

Contributor(s): Andrew Albin, Peter C. Bouteneff, Maria Cizmic, Jeffers Engelhardt, Adriana Helbig, Paul Hillier, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas, Christopher May, Ivan Moody, Robert Saler, Andrew Shenton, Toomas Siitan and Sevin Yaraman

Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding...

ISBN: 9780823289769

The Noetics of Nature

The Noetics of Nature

Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible

Bruce V. Foltz

Both philosophical and theological texts of antiquity argued that a “noetic” or contemplative understanding of nature is higher than the discursive rationality oriented toward domination and control. Studying poets, mystics, and nature writers, this book argues that restoring a sacred view of nature is urgently needed in Western thought.

ISBN: 9780823254651

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

Edited by Gyula Klima

The essays of this volume explore the conceptual relationships among intentionality, cognition and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest medieval philosophers, including Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham and Buridan, and some of their lesser known, but in their own time equally influential contemporaries.

ISBN: 9780823262755

The Singular Voice of Being

The Singular Voice of Being

John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference

Andrew T. LaZella

Reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.

ISBN: 9780823284573

Later Medieval Metaphysics

Later Medieval Metaphysics

Ontology, Language, and Logic

Edited by Charles Bolyard and Rondo Keele

This multi-author work focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of the most important metaphysical issues of the day. Though standard ontological topics are covered in detail—e.g., existence, universals, form, and accidents—there is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived to include epistemology, language, and logic.

ISBN: 9780823244737

Radical Botany

Plants and Speculative Fiction

Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari

Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.

ISBN: 9780823286621

Pathological Realities

Pathological Realities

Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History

Mirko Grmek

Translated and Edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.

ISBN: 9780823280353

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference

Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean

Edited by Ryan Szpiech

This collection of fourteen essays by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the nature of exegesis during the High and Late Middle Ages (11th to the 15th Centuries) as a discourse of cross-cultural and inter-religious conflict, paying attention to the commentaries of scholars in the Western and Southern Mediterranean.

ISBN: 9780823264629

Jewish Studies as Counterlife

Jewish Studies as Counterlife

A Report to the Academy

Adam Zachary Newton

This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.

ISBN: 9780823283941

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology

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

On Being and Cognition

On Being and Cognition

Ordinatio 1.3

John Duns Scotus

Translated and Edited by John van den Bercken

In this book Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of intellect and the object cooperate in generating actual cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting skepticism and analyzing the way the knowledge in the case of abstractive cognition.

ISBN: 9780823270736

Pre-Occupied Spaces

Pre-Occupied Spaces

Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

Teresa Fiore

This book rethinks Italy’s formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today’s immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations.

ISBN: 9780823274338

Think, Pig!

Beckett at the Limit of the Human

Jean-Michel Rabaté

How to explain Beckett’s decision to write in French? This book tackles a program in which form resists and leads to a writing of the generic, while a paradoxical ethics of failure, impotence, and humility displaces avant-garde art and modernism. Bataille, Adorno and Badiou here account for Beckett’s enduring appeal. Beckett never flattered his public and yet gives reasons to keep on living even facing nihilism and despair. His inscription in a French context marked by a “writing degree zero” is not a pretext to minimize his genius—on the contrary, Beckett shines because he went further than his contemporaries in an anti-humanist program playing on the theme of the animal in order to subvert the “human.” His “declaration of inhuman rights” still rings true—and offers the most funny mode of expression available to us today.

ISBN: 9780823270866

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Edited by Adam Y. Wells

A selection of essays by notable phenomenologists and biblical scholars on scriptural texts and interpretive methodology.

ISBN: 9780823275564

The Limits of Fabrication

The Limits of Fabrication

Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

Nathan Brown

The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside recent innovations in materials science and engineering.

ISBN: 9780823272990

Mental Language

Mental Language

From Plato to William of Ockham

Claude Panaccio

Translated by Joshua P. Hochschild and Meredith K. Ziebart

This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.

ISBN: 9780823272600

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Edited by Martin Chase

Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry.

ISBN: 9780823257812

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Edited by Seeta Chaganti

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.

ISBN: 9780823243242

Ecstasy in the Classroom

Ecstasy in the Classroom

Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris

Ayelet Even-Ezra

Ecstasy in the Classroom analyzes the early thirteenth century theological discourse about Paul’s rapture and other modes of cognizing God. It reconstructs the perceptions of transformation and self they imply, and demonstrate their role in establishing the peculiar professional identity of scholastic theologians compared with other seers of God.

ISBN: 9780823281916

Under Representation

Under Representation

The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

David Lloyd

Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of representation” whose genealogy runs from Kant to Adorno and Benjamin.

ISBN: 9780823282371

Inner Animalities

Inner Animalities

Theology and the End of the Human

Eric Daryl Meyer

Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth’s creatures—our freedom, our self-awareness, our language,...

ISBN: 9780823280155

Treatise on Consequences

Treatise on Consequences

John Buridan

Translated by Stephen Read

This entirely new English translation of Buridan’s classic treatment of logical consequence aims to make accessible to the modern reader the foremost treatment of the subject in the middle ages. The translation is accompanied by an introduction in which Buridan’s ideas are set in their historical context and clearly explained.

ISBN: 9780823257188

Entangled Worlds

Entangled Worlds

Religion, Science, and New Materialisms

Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This collection examines the intersections of religion and “new” materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?

ISBN: 9780823276226

The Self-Emptying Subject

The Self-Emptying Subject

Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern

Alex Dubilet

The Self-Emptying Subject engages Christian mystical theology, modern philosophy, and contemporary theories of the subject to theorize an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis, that reveals the immanence of a dispossessed life “without a why.”

ISBN: 9780823279470

Eco-Deconstruction

Eco-Deconstruction

Derrida and Environmental Philosophy

Edited by Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood

Contributor(s): Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Matthias Fritsch, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe and David Wood

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher...

ISBN: 9780823279517

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