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HIGHLIGHTS IN PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
Google Me: One-Click Democracy
BARBARA CASSIN
Translated by Michael Syrotinski
“A readable and entertaining, yet serious indictment of infor-
mational culture. Cassin’s reflections give us a critical space
to consider the cost of our acquiescence to the quantification
of culture that lies at the heart of today’s information-driven
capitalism.”—Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University
In this witty and polemical critique, the philosopher Bar-
bara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data.
While impressed by the search engine’s brilliance, Cassin en-
lists her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition to
challenge the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its
“democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty
and political naïveté that underwrites its founding slogans:
“Organize the world’s information” and “Don’t be evil.”
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Meaning Systems
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
Edited by J.M Bernstein, Adi Ophir, and Ann Laura Stoler
Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political
vocabulary—both everyday and academic—and to do so
critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each
contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a
concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format
“What is X?” and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that
concept can do for us now.
The concepts collected in Political Concepts are “Arche”
(Stathis Gourgouris), “Blood” (Gil Anidjar), “Colony” (Ann
Laura Stoler), “Concept” (Adi Ophir), “Constituent Power”
(Andreas Kalyvas), “Development” (Gayatri Spivak), “Exploi-
tation” (Étienne Balibar), “Federation” (Jean Cohen), “Iden-
tity” (Akeel Bilgrami), “Rule of Law” (J. M. Bernstein), “Sexual
Difference” (Joan Copjec), and “Translation” (Jacques Lezra)
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Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
TENT H A N N I V E R SA RY ED ITION
The Last Professors: The Corporate University and
the Fate of the Humanities, With a New Introduction
FRANK DONOGHUE
“People sometimes believe that they were born too late or too
early. After reading Donoghue’s book, I feel that I have timed
it just right, for it seems that I have had a career that would
not have been available to me had I entered the world 50 years
later. Just lucky, I guess.”—Stanley Fish, The New York Times
In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this
growing corporate culture of higher education threatens
its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining
features: the tenured professor. This new edition includes a
substantial Introduction that elaborates on recent develop-
ments and offers tough but productive analysis that will be
crucial for today’s academics to heed.
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Disappointment
Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding
JARRETT ZIGON
“A clear and powerful rethinking of the concept of the politi-
cal grounded in the world of situations rather than the sub-
ject of enunciations, Disappointment announces the arrival
of a major new figure in the ontological turn in anthropol-
ogy.”—Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and phi-
losophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses
and theories that might help us think and bring about an
otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing
how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political
movement of marginalized peoples can disclose new possibili-
ties for being and acting politically. In Disappointment, Jarrett
Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both political theory
and continental philosophy to rethink some of the most fun-
damental ontological, political and ethical concepts.
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Out of the Ordinary
A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
MICHAEL DILLON/LOBZANG JIVAKA
Edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge
Foreword by Susan Stryker
“The importance of this work to the history of sexuality—
and especially to the history of transsexuality—cannot be
overstated.”—Jose Ignacio Cabezon, University of Califor-
nia, Santa Barbara
“In his gripping autobiography, Dillon finds new answers to
enduring questions about gender. At the same time, he never
manages to solve the puzzle of his own identity and dies in the
pursuit of transcendence. His memoir deserves a place along-
side the great spiritual narratives, from Augustine to Merton.”—
Pagan Kennedy, author of The First Man-Made Man
“...Dillon’s memoir charts his wide-ranging life of education,
gender transition, and conversion to Buddhism...show(s)
continuity of concerns with those of transgender individuals
today.”—Publishers Weekly
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How to Do Comparative Theology
Francis X. Clooney, S.J. and Klaus von Stosch, Editors
“Clooney and von Stosch have produced a truly excel-
lent collection of papers in comparative theology. They
and a few others with papers in this volume are seasoned,
senior scholars. The volume is remarkable, however, for
introducing the work of mid-career and very new scholars.
Some of the papers do actual comparisons and some apply
comparative theology to practices of religious life. Among
the most interesting are those dealing with methodological
differences regarding comparative theology. They all defend
the view that comparative theology is “faith seeking under-
standing,” and they explore some of the very different ways
this approach can be interpreted. This volume is a vital and
distinctive contribution to the larger field of comparative
theology.”—Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University
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Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
Portrait
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Sarah Clift and Simon Sparks
Introduction by Jeffrey S. Librett
Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of sub-
jectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying
a sitter’s self-sameness, is suspended between proximity
and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and
presentation, the faithful and the forceful. A portrait can
identify an individual, but it can also express a more complex
double movement of approach and withdrawal.
Nancy’s readings range from carvings on ancient drinking
vessels to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which
sitters are rendered in the ‘media’ of their own blood, germ
culture, or DNA. The forms of appearing (and disappear-
ing) that mark portraits—old and new—can serve to renew
our exploration of the human figure today. At stake is what
Nancy calls “the very possibility of our being present.”
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Expectation: Philosophy, Literature
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Robert Bononno
Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté
“Expectation stages a courtship between philosophy and lit-
erature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and
finesse. What’s more, this intense courtship leads to a marriage
blessed with specific offspring: Nancy’s book offers both an epi-
thalamium and a pregnant poetics, a poetics of awakening and
emergence—poetics as obstetrics ushering in new ‘senses’ in and
of the world, plus strong and luminescent poems never seen in
English before.”—from Jean-Michel Rabaté’s Introduction
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Power of Gentleness
Meditations on the Risk of Living
ANNE DUFOURMANTELLE
Translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé
Foreword by Catherine Malabou
“Power of Gentleness is an important text that teaches us,
comforts us, disturbs us too.”—Catherine Malabou
The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active pas-
sivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance
within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a
renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst whose untimely
death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a
series of embodied paradoxes: power that is also soft, nobil-
ity that is also humble, fragility that can subvert the status quo.
Against a risk-averse society that crushes human beings “gen-
tly,” Dufourmantelle celebrates the uncompromising gentle-
ness discovered by Gandhi and other revolutionaries. Within
the despair confided by her patients, she traces the force of
resistance and intangible magic that gentleness offers to or-
dinary women and men who fully embrace the risk of living.
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Intercarnations
Exercises in Theological Possibility
CATHERINE KELLER
“Keller at her scholarly best. Intercarnations deals with theo-
logical bodies be they female, carnal, animal, vegetal, min-
eral, cosmological. She generates new and exciting outcomes
and possibilities, speaking across disciplines with grace and
ease.”—Lisa Isherwood, University of Winchester
“Keller’s scholarship is vast and detailed. The essays in this
volume move seamlessly between the history of Eastern and
Western thought, as well as process theology, political theol-
ogy, ecology, feminism, and recent Continental philosophy.
Whatever one makes of her controversial claims, Intercarna-
tions is an important contribution to current debates in Con-
tinental philosophy of religion.”—Brian Gregor, California
State University, Dominguez Hills
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Plato and the Invention of Life
MICHAEL NAAS
“Michael Naas’s remarkable account of Plato traces the
contemporary line between bios and zōē, which has been
an abiding feature of recent discussions of biopolitics, to
reveal the original Platonic invention of the division between
‘Life itself ’ and all other forms of living, including eternal
life. Perhaps another way of saying this, according to Naas,
is that already in Plato there is Platonism, the opposite of
Platonism, and the deconstruction of every future Pla-
tonism.”—Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University
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Of Stigmatology
Punctuation as Experience
PETER SZENDY
Translated by Jan Plug
“From ontology to linguistics, from learned treatise to comic
book, the grace of this fascinating text brings being back to
the infinity of its cut.”—Catherine Malabou
“Peter Szendy’s brilliant reflections on the punctuation of
experience make for a magnificent composition: a new
philosophy of the sensible focused on how one feels oneself
feeling . . . . Never before have exclamation points, dashes,
interrogatives, full stops, and quotation marks been treated
so existentially; never before has the musicality of existence
been so keenly tied to its notation; never before has the
distance between points been used so effectively as a mea-
sure of life-span. In the ‘pows!’ and ‘blams’ of comic-book
blows, glimmers of political violence come into focus. This
is an amazing work of philosophy, aesthetics, media, and
critique!!!”—Emily Apter, New York University
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Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Poetry and Mind
Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
LAURENT DUBREUIL
“Poetry and Mind is an excellent book that performs its own
thesis as a ‘thinking experiment’ that is part classical argu-
ment and part poetic suggestion. In the breathtaking range
of literary and philological knowledge on display, we have a
form of verification built on Wittgensteinian perspicuity—
on the very brilliance of its own learning. Many scholars
and artists have attempted the Tractatarian form before,
but seldom with Dubreuil’s success.”—John Ó Maoilearca,
Kingston University
An elliptic response to Wittgenstein’s point of arrival in
the Tractatus, Poetry and Mind is first and foremost an in-
terdisciplinary study of poetry, drawing on literary theory,
philosophy, and cognitive science.
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The Marrano Specter
Derrida and Hispanism
Erin Graff Zivin, Editor
Foreword by Peggy Kamuf
Afterword by Geoffrey Bennington
“The Marrano Specter dazzles in all of its parts and as a whole.
What preoccupies that whole—deconstruction? Hispanism?
both? neither?—may turn out to be its secret subject, which
makes this collection an exemplary meditation on the nature
of identity and the limits of disciplinary thinking.”—Andrew
Parker, Rutgers University
“This work by top-notch scholars will contribute to larger
debates about disciplinarity and the university today. While
the authors locate the traditions they engage in a specifically
‘hispanist’ history, they indicate how the philosophical inter-
ventions are universal and universalizable.”—Rachel Price,
Princeton University
Contributors: Patrick Dove, Erin Graff Zivin, Jaime Hanneken,
David Kelman, Brett Levinson, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras,
Gareth Williams
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STUDIES
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood,
Editors
“Essential reading for anyone interested in environmental
philosophy.”—Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University
“An invaluable reference point for all those interested in
the intersection of ‘continental’ philosophy, literary criti-
cism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns.”—Mick
Smith, Queens University
Contributors: Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Mat-
thias Fritsch, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael
Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael
Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe, David Wood
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Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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 POLITICS
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Derrida’s Seminars and the New Abolitionism
Kelly Oliver and Stephanie M. Straub, Editors
“Deconstructing the Death Penalty . . . offers an indispens-
able reckoning with deconstruction’s legacy and relevance to
current debates around the question of sovereignty and the
state’s monopoly on violence.”—David Lloyd, University of
California, Riverside
Contributors: Nicole Anderson, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther,
Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Mi-
chael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Kas Saghafi, Adam
Thurschwell, Sarah Tyson
296 PAGES
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Liturgical Power
Between Economic and Political Theology
NICHOLAS HERON
“Liturgical Power makes a significant contribution to litur-
gical studies through its ability to illuminate Agamben’s
significant work on the subject in his more recent writings.
The book demonstrates first-rate scholarship in that it takes
up a significant philological discussion that is pursued across
centuries and various sources.”—Colby Dickinson, Loyola
University Chicago
“Heron’s book offers a magisterial reconstruction of the
Christian idea of government. Liturgical Power makes a
crucially important intervention into the emerging field of
political theology.”—Miguel Vatter, University of New South
Wales
216 PAGES
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Commonalities
Modern Language Initiative
Reified Life
Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition
J. PAUL NARKUNAS
The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neolib-
eral and financial capital to organize human societies much
to the detriment of the world’s populations. Reified Life
theorizes the dangerous social implications of a posthuman
future, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic
processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instru-
ments, and nonhuman market and technological forces. As
such, Reified Life addresses the most pressing political ques-
tion of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what
forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or
expendable, human and otherwise?
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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
ANSON RABINBACH
“Widely regarded as a classic of cultural studies, Anson Rabi-
nbach’s The Human Motor revealed for the first time the im-
portance of the late-19th-century European obsession with
the laboring body and its vicissitudes. Scholars from many
different fields who have drawn on it over the years, as well as
those eager to join the discussion, will warmly welcome the
remarkable essays collected in The Eclipse of the Utopias of
Labor, which will enrich their understanding of previous as
well as on-going efforts to create a productive, efficient and
just society.”—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
232 PAGES
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Forms of Living
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On the Nature of Marx’s Things

Translation as Necrophilology
JACQUES LEZRA
Foreword by Vittorio Morfino
“The project of returning ‘Marxist logic’ to a materialist and
pragmatic approach has been underway for some years now.
Jacques Lezra, plunging into this logic’s deepest reaches,
discovers there a ‘language of things,’ exactly as in Lucretius;
but also a language of singularities, as in Spinoza; and of dif-
ferences, marshaled against the possibility of any system of
general equivalences. What he calls ‘necrophilology’ inter-
venes wherever such systems would reinstall the fetishes of
humanism to the heights from which they’ve been cast—as a
rupture, a break. Is Lezra proposing an ontology? The word
is heavy, but recalling Lucretius and Spinoza in this way
certainly lightens its weight, and makes ontology powerfully
viable for, and by means of, the critique of contemporary
capitalism.“—Antonio Negri
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 RELIGION
Atopias The Self-Emptying Subject
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern
FRÉDÉRIC NEYRAT ALEX DUBILET
Translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner
“Lucid, timely, and important. Dubilet explores kenosis as
Foreword by Steven Shaviro
a radical possibility for life—where we may find an imma-
“Everything is in flux, as we are told over and over again. And nent joy not dependent on a future redemption.”—Karmen
yet, these are fluxes in which nothing ever really changes... MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
Other thinkers have characterized globalized and financial-
“In this important book, Dubilet recharges immanence via
ized capitalism in this way; Neyrat sees it as a dilemma for
Deleuze and others to fashion a kenotic subject without
critical thought as well... In a world where anything can be
transcendence. Based on cutting-edge scholarship, these
anyplace, and anything can switch places with anything else,
ground-breaking interpretations of Eckhart, Hegel, and
philosophy must insist on its power to be, not everyplace,
Bataille constitute a significant intervention into contem-
but noplace. It must never fit in, but always disturb its con-
porary continental philosophy of religion and theology.”
text,... maintaining a relation with the very Outside that our
—Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
dominant social, economic, and intellectual conditions seek
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forms of existence with whom we share our planet.”—Steven
Shaviro, from the Foreword
112 PAGES Trauma and Transcendence
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Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in
Derrida after the End of Writing recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflec-
Political Theology and New Materialism tions on trauma as a phenomenon that defies claims of disci-
CLAYTON CROCKETT plinary ownership. This volume gathers scholars in a variety
of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think of trauma
“This book is not for you—if you think the specter of Der-
in light of its burgeoning interdisciplinarity and theoretical
rida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially up-
splintering. From distinctive disciplinary approaches, the
dated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself.
work of philosophers, social theorists, philosophical psy-
With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy,
chologists, and theologians consider the limits and prospects
this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political
of theory when thinking trauma and transcendence. Trauma
theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become
and Transcendence draws attention to the increasing chal-
postmortem.”—Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor
lenge of deciding whether trauma’s transcendent, evental,
of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of
or unassimilable quality is being wielded as a defense of
Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility
traumatic experience against reductionism, or whether it is
Derrida After the End of Writing argues for the importance of promulgated as a form of obscurantism.
reading Derrida’s later work from a new materialist perspec- 304 PAGES
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realism and object-oriented ontology, Crockett claims that
Derrida was never a linguistic idealist
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Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal,
and Stephen D. Moore, Editors
Afterword by Elizabeth Freeman
“This volume compellingly queers what we thought we knew
about sexuality and temporality in Christian texts, interpre-
tations, and theologies. Beginning with the question of histo-
riography in the study of ancient texts, it moves through into
the queer time of ethics and theology. Bodies, texts, and time
race forward, touch, pause, and tarry; they fall into catastro-
phe, witness, cry out, and are haunted by pain and hope; yet
still they rehome readers, or afford queer pleasure. Sexual
Disorientations enlivens our reading of these religious texts
by compellingly queering their temporalities and affects.”
—Erin Runions, Pomona College
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Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Religion of the Field Negro
On Black Secularism and Black Theology
VINCENT W. LLOYD
“Once again Vincent Lloyd has written an insightful,
demanding, even daring book, and this time with an ir-
ritating title straight out of the 1960s. Lloyd throws down
a stinging challenge to all those of us who cling to idola-
tries of race, class, and gender as well as to our privileges
in the classroom, the boardroom, and the pulpit. We have
betrayed black theology in our failure to uphold the wis-
dom of the marginalized, the cherished people of God.”
—M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College
304 PAGES
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Inner Animalities
Theology and the End of the Human
ERIC DARYL MEYER
“Meyer adds considerable nuance to the more widespread
observation that Christian anthropology depends on a notion
of animality in its understanding of the human. More clearly
than any thinker I’ve read, Meyer shows that the moment
Christian theologians disavow animals often betrays a trace of
another way of thinking about animals, humans, and God. He
has brought out internal inconsistencies in Christian theologi-
cal articulations of the human/animal binary in a remarkably
fruitful way.”—Aaron Gross, University of San Diego
224 PAGES
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Spiritual Grammar
Genre and the Saintly Subject
in Islam and Christianity
F. DOMINIC LONGO
“Longo engages in an intriguing comparative inquiry into
spiritual grammar in medieval Arabic and Latin treatises.
Delineating and crossing boundaries and genres, he explores
a new confusing yet delightful subfield in the genre of com-
parative theological Islamo-Christian studies.”
—Pim Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America
“Dominic Longo helps us to understand Islam and Chris-
tianity in deeper ways through the genre of ‘spiritual
grammar’. This is an extraordinary book that will benefit
scholars of Islam, Christianity, and Comparative Theology.”
—Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
256 PAGES
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The Bread of the Strong
Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985
JACK LEE DOWNEY
“The Bread of the Strong is a thrilling spiritual adventure
story. Jack Downey brilliantly tracks the origins and flour-
ishing of the controversial, mysterious, and extremely
influential retreat movement most prominently associated
with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. ‘The retreat’
blended passionately mystical Québécois spirituality with
the hard-nosed militancy of Catholic labor movement advo-
cacy of Industrial Era Pittsburgh. The result was a paradoxi-
cal—and most potent—form of Catholic spiritual radicalism
that fulfilled Dorothy Day’s lifelong search for authentic
communion with Jesus and her fellows.”—Jim Fisher, author
of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the
Soul of the Port of New York
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Catholic Practice in North America
O RT H O D OX
CHRISTIANITY
God, Hierarchy, and Power
Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium
ASHLEY M. PURPURA
“How can we understand and work with the concept of
hierarchy in an era of democratic values, concerns about
abuse of power by those with authority, and empowerment
for those who lack it? Purpura asks serious questions with
skill, economy, clarity, and penetrating insight. A powerful
new voice that will matter to theologians and historians
alike, this is a rich, masterful entry into major Orthodox cur-
rents of thought, past and present.”—Susan Harvey, Brown
University
In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals
have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among
other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the
challenging questions: “Why is hierarchy maintained as the
model of organizing the church, and what are the theological
justifications for its persistence?”
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O RT H O D OX
CHRISTIANITY
Liturgical Theology after Schmemann
An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur
BRIAN A. BUTCHER
Foreword by Andrew Louth, FBA
While only rarely reflecting explicitly on liturgy, French phi-
losopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) gave sustained attention
to several themes pertinent to the interpretation of worship,
including metaphor, narrative, subjectivity, and memory.
Inspired by his well-known aphorism, “The symbol gives
rise to thought,” Liturgical Theology after Schmemann of-
fers an original exploration of the symbolic world of the
Byzantine Rite , culminating in a Ricoeurian analysis of its
Theophany “Great Blessing of Water.”
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Christianity, Democracy, and
the Shadow of Constantine
Edited by George E. Demacopoulos
and Aristotle Papanikolaou
“Many of us in the field of political theology are poorer for
the lack of conversation most of us experience between East-
ern and Western political theologies. Even if we are open
and sympathetic to one another—and historically that is a
big ‘if ’—the traditions are so distinct from one another that
few can claim expertise in both, and so we continue to focus
narrowly on our own traditions. This volume represents a
welcome change to this pattern, opening a conversation
between theologians across Eastern and Western traditions
on the timely topics of church and state, democracy, and lib-
eralism.”—Elizabeth Phillips, Tutor in Theology and Ethics,
Westcott House, Cambridge
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The Forgiveness to Come
The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
PETER BANKI
“An extremely well-written, subtle, and moving medita-
tion on the impasses of forgiveness in the face of the
Holocaust and other unforgivable crimes, challenging
our notions of what it means to be a person and whether
there is a universal order of ​human beings that might al-
low perpetrator and victim to recognize in each other
a shared humanity. Banki’s book is an excellent study—
supple in its interpretations, limpid in its style—and will
be of great interest to students and scholars of literature,
political science, philosophy, history, and anthropology.”
—Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University
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Just Ideas
Modern Language Initiative
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman, Editors
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-
secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the
works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the intercon-
nection of psychoanalysis, religion, political theory, and
modernity has emerged, with Freud’s final book, Moses and
Montheism, taking a central role. Highlighting the broad
impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, the
contributors hail from such diverse disciplines as philoso-
phy, comparative literature, cultural studies, German stud-
ies, Jewish studies and psychoanalysis.
Contributors: Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel,
Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Sega-
lovitz, Gilad Sharvit, Joel Whitebook
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Other Others
The Political after the Talmud
SERGEY DOLGOPOLSKI
“Dolgopolski’s Other Others is the most ambitious work I
have read in the field of Jewish political and philosophical
though in some time. It is creative, synthetic, well writ-
ten and conceptually clear. Dolgopolski is a master of his
material and an innovator. The combination makes for a
scintillating piece of scholarship.”—Sarah Hammerschlag,
University of Chicago
Excluding certain others from a society, while still tolerating
diversity, stabilizes a political order. Or does it? Revisiting
this classical question of political theory, this book turns
to the Talmud. That late ancient body of text and thought
displays a new concept of the political, and thus a new take
on the question of excluded others.
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Stasis Before the State
Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
DIMITRIS VARDOULAKIS
“A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses
Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of
contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear con-
flict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic
life.”—James Martel, San Francisco State University
“Against the naïve utopias of radical democracy and of lib-
eral democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with ‘agonistic
democracy’—a non-teleological and paradoxical political
practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as
the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the
State is a truly remarkable and memorable book.”—Cesare
Casarino, University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior
Editor
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Commonalities
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Goods
Advertising, Urban Space,
and the Moral Law of the Image
EMANUELE COCCIA
Translated by Marissa Gemma
“This short, unsettling book offers new perspectives on the
moral place of things in the cosmology of industrial mo-
dernity. In making his radical argument, Coccia questions
many of our habits of thought, by showing that the love of
things—crystallized in fashion, advertising and consump-
tion—reflects a search for a form of political normativity
which has for too long been seen as illicit, illusory and im-
moral.”—Arjun Appadurai, New York University
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Commonalities
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The Technological Introject
Friedrich Kittler between Implementation
and the Incalculable
Jeffrey Champlin and Antje Pfannkuchen, Editors
Afterword by Avital Ronell
“Spearheaded by New York philosophy icon Avital Ronell,
this book pays tribute to Germany’s most controversial yet
most original media theorist, who completely changed the
German academic landscape by following his declared goal
to drive the human out of the humanities. In completely
new and exciting ways, the essays collected in this important
volume introduce Friedrich Kittler’s radical and challenging
approach to the study of Western culture, literature, and
philosophy to an American audience.”—Arne Hocker, Uni-
versity of Colorado, Boulder
Contributors: Rudiger Campe, Jeffrey Champlin, Bernhard J.
Dotzler, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Hans-Christian von Herrmann,
Ute Holl, Alexander Lambrow, Antje Pfannkuchen, Mert Bahadir
Reisoğlu, Nimrod Reitman, Laurence A. Rickels, Avital Ronell,
Bernhard Siegert, Chadwick T. Smith, Elisabeth Weber, Samuel
Weber, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Dominik Zechner
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ART
Georges de La Tour and
the Enigma of the Visible
DALIA JUDOVITZ
“A century has passed since the paintings of Georges de La
Tour were rescued from near oblivion. Yet the interest in his
enigmatic achievement has never diminished. Dalia Judovitz
surveys a wealth of previous writings, and argues brilliantly
for the significance of the new spiritual dimension that his
work inhabits.”—Stephen Bann, Bristol University
By exploring the representations of light, vision, and the vis-
ible in La Tour’s works, this interdisciplinary study examines
the nature of painting and its artistic, religious, and philo-
sophical implications.
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MEDICINE
Pathological Realities
Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History
MIRKO GRMEK
Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by
Pierre-Olivier Méthot
Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Pathological Realities proposes a collection of engaging es-
says by the late Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000), providing
a portrait of his entire career as a historian of science and
an engaged intellectual figure. Drawing on literary works,
scientific texts, and artistic and biological artefacts, Grmek’s
scholarship pieces together the “traces of the past in the pres-
ent” and reconstructs the “pathological reality” of particular
historical moments, places and peoples. Through detailed
case-studies his contributions reveal the interconnections of
diseases, societies, mentalities and medical theories. Strad-
dling the sciences and the humanities, his historical work re-
sulted in him crafting significant new concepts and methods
and to engaging with contemporary social problems such as
wars, genocides and pandemics.
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