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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

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

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

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 Beauty of the Trinity

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

Medieval Nonsense

Medieval Nonsense

Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England

Jordan Kirk

Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble,...

ISBN: 9780823294473

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

Form and Feeling

Form and Feeling

The Making of Concretism in Brazil

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa

Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi and Luisa Valle

Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated CategoryA significant contribution on the development and aftermath...

ISBN: 9780823289110

Theory for Beginners

Theory for Beginners

Children’s Literature as Critical Thought

Kenneth B. Kidd

Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature while also coming to resemble such in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Topics include the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement, graphic guides such as Freud for Beginners, and children’s literature and/as queer theory.

ISBN: 9780823289608

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Peggy Kamuf

How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The Death Penalty, is pursued in the analyses of four fictional texts. The context of the remains of the death penalty in the contemporary U.S. frames these engagements and extends their pertinence today.

ISBN: 9780823282296

Spiritual Grammar

Spiritual Grammar

Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity

F. Dominic Longo

Literary analysis and theological interpretation of Catholic, University of Paris chancellor Jean Gerson’s (d. 1429) Donatus moralizatus and Muslim, Sufi scholar ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī’s (d. 1072) Naḥw al-qulūb. Argues that the genre of these two religious texts aims to engender saintly readers and uses grammar as metaphor for spiritual realities.

ISBN: 9780823283699

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

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

Freud and Monotheism

Freud and Monotheism

Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

Edited by Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman

Contributor(s): Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz, Gilad Sharvit and Joel Whitebook

Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work.

ISBN: 9780823280032

A Grammar of the Corpse

A Grammar of the Corpse

Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Elizabeth Spragins

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across...

ISBN: 9781531501570

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