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 HIGHLIGHTS IN PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
NE W I N PA P E R
Pure Act
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
MICHAEL N. McGREGOR
“A fond biography of an unworldly man…vivid and engag-
ing.”—The New York Times Book Review
“To read McGregor’s book is to learn that Lax was a searcher
and a mystic, a poet with a profound love of life and almost
instinctive ability to find God in all things . . . I never had
the chance to visit Robert Lax on the island of Patmos, but
somehow, in reading this book, I feel as if I have . . . There
is joy in Lax’s life and joy in Lax’s work—and that same joy
pervades Pure Act.”—America Magazine
“A monkish naïve character dedicated to God and writing,
Lax maintained his gnomic humour throughout. This was a
man of more Beatitude than Beat. Invited by Billie Holiday to
go to her apartment to smoke dope and listen to jazz records,
McGregor tells us, he declined.”—Times Literary Supplement
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Catholic Practice in North America
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Blackpentecostal Breath
The Aesthetics of Possibility
ASHON T. CRAWLEY
“Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality an-
chored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination,
and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty.”—Ann
Pellegrini, coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and
the Limits of Religious Tolerance
“A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious,
black and cultural studies.”—Roderick A. Ferguson, author
of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
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Commonalities
American Literatures Initiative
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
“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
alongside the great spiritual narratives, from Augustine to
Merton.”—Pagan Kennedy, author of The First Man-Made
Man
“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
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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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Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics
The Heidelberg Conference
JACQUES DERRIDA, HANS-GEORG GADAMER,
AND PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE
Edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Translated by Jeff
Fort, Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-
Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came
together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss
the philosophical and political implications of Martin
Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very am-
phitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger,
as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the
Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled “The University in
the New Reich.” Heidegger’s involvement in Nazism has
always been, and will remain, an indelible scandal, but what
is its real relation to his work and thought?
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Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
MARK D. JORDAN
“This book is beautifully written. It has a lyrical quality. The
text is personal and interpersonal, which suits its purpose
well.”—Diana Fritz Cates, The University of Iowa
“Integrity, proportion, clarity—the qualities that have always
informed Jordan’s writing about Thomas—are beautifully
present in Teaching Bodies. The work is a significant con-
tribution to the reading and interpretation of the medieval
theologian.”—Robert Miner, Baylor University
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Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair
BONNIE HONIG
“A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public
things in democratic politics, especially against the back-
ground of neoliberal privatization.”—John Seery, George
Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and
Professor of Politics, Pomona College
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Thinking Out Loud
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Citizen Subject
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
ÉTIENNE BALIBAR
Translated by Steven Miller, Foreword by Emily Apter
“The appearance of this book in France was something of a
historic event. . . . One of the strongest, most ambitious, and
most pertinent rewritings of the history of philosophy that
readers are likely to encounter in their lifetimes.”—Bruce
Robbins, Columbia University
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Commonalities
The Possibility of a World
Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin
JEAN-LUC NANCY AND PIERRE-PHILIPPE JANDIN
Translated by Travis Holloway and Flor Méchain
“The Possibility of a World presents Jean-Luc Nancy in
dialogue, allowing unique access to his thought. The book
is particularly concerned with the possibility of inhabiting
the world—a world that has become an object of calculation
and mastery. For Nancy, such a habitus entails an ethos,
or an ‘ethics of the world’ that involves the re-creation of
the world. In the context of his thinking of such an ethical
habitus, Nancy continues, throughout the book, his inven-
tive engagement with Heidegger’s thought as well as his
ongoing debate with Derrida. This new book is an important
contribution to Nancy’s rethinking of the world and sense.”
—David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University
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The Banality of Heidegger
JEAN-LUC NANCY, Translated by Jeff Fort
“A relentlessly powerful probe, masterfully cast, soundly translat-
ed. Rezoning Arendt’s sense of banality, the work commits itself
to handling the disturbingly blithe crudeness of anti-Semitism in
philosophical headquarters. One of the greatest philosophers of
our time, Jean-Luc Nancy tracks Heidegger’s descent, addressing
the scandalous incompatibility of racist outburst and the question
of Being.”—Avital Ronell, New York University
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Believing in Order to See
On the Rationality of Revelation and
the Irrationality of Some Believers
JEAN-LUC MARION
Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner
Faith and reason, at least as regards Christian or more spe-
cifically Roman Catholic thought, are in less contradiction
today than ever, but even the very question of their supposed
conflict makes no sense. Maybe one can lose faith, but surely
not because one gains in reason. It is possible that one loses
faith when one imagines reason incapable of understand-
ing some of what life makes us experience. Very quickly,
we realize: Reason does not understand everything. The
separation between faith and reason, too quickly taken to be
self-evident and even natural, is first of all born from a lack
of rationality, of an easy capitulation of reason before the
supposedly unthinkable. But one does not lose faith through
excessive practice of rationality. To the contrary, it is possible
that one often loses rationality because one excludes faith
too quickly from the realm that it claims to open (namely
that of Revelation). We lose reason by losing faith.
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The Rigor of Things
Conversations with Dan Arbib
JEAN-LUC MARION AND DAN ARBIB
Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner
Foreword by David Tracy
In these conversations with the French Descartes and Levi-
nas scholar Dan Arbib, Jean-Luc Marion reconstructs the
path of his oeuvre in history of philosophy, theology, and
phenomenology.
“This beautiful dialogue, led by student-come-philosopher
Dan Arbib, affords readers a new opportunity to acquaint
themselves with a brilliant mind.”—La Croix
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Imagine No Religion
How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
CARLIN A. BARTON AND DANIEL BOYARIN
“A timely contribution to a growing and important conversa-
tion about the inadequacy of our common category ‘religion’
for the understanding of many practices, attitudes, emo-
tions, and beliefs—especially of peoples in other times and
contexts.”—Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University
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Decreation and the Ethical Bind
Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
YOON SOOK CHA
“Cha’s book is elegant and eloquent, guiding the reader to think
with the author, and with Weil, in a tour of complex theoretical
terrain that addresses some of the most profound philosophical
questions: How are we to live? Who are we? How do we relate
to each other? The book brings Weil into conversations in con-
temporary continental ethics and invites future scholars to take
Weil seriously.”—Vincent William Lloyd, Villanova University
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Levinas and the Night of Being
A Guide to Totality and Infinity
RAOUL MOATI, Translated by Daniel Wyche,
Foreword by Jocelyn Benoist
“What Moati shows is that Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality
and Infinity, offers an ontology that is also fully an ethics.
Moati makes us read Levinas differently: Thanks to him,
we understand that Totality and Infinity, far from being
simply a ‘Jewish’ rewriting of Heidegger’s Being and Time,
finds its proper place near Spinoza’s Ethics. Levinas and the
Night of Being is a remarkable feat of philosophical exegesis
doubling as the consistent re-creation of a whole conceptual
universe.”—Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
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Coming
JEAN-LUC NANCY WITH ADÈLE VAN REETH
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
“A stimulating analysis, Nancy’s Coming shows sex and sexuality
to be crucial understanding central aspects of his work. Moving
from the prurient to the profound, Coming is a scintillating read
for anyone interested in the limits of desire, the loneliness that
pervades much of contemporary culture, or what love means
today.”—Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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The Future Life of Trauma
Partitions, Borders, Repetition
JENNIFER YUSIN
The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in
the concepts of trauma and event by situating a ground-
breaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolo-
nial discourse. It unfolds a new materialism that asserts the
coincidence between the symbolic and empirical domains of
life. The result is the formation of a form of life that elabo-
rates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting
its innate power to transform itself.
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All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage
PETER SZENDY, Translated by Roland Végs
“Spying and surveilling—what Szendy himself expansively
translates as ‘overhearing’—are the rudiments of an old
profession, ‘perhaps the second oldest.’ Hence the neces-
sity of patiently patrolling the inner and outer corridors of
power, of walking the wild and labyrinthine sides of ‘our
ears,’ the history of which Szendy has again been proved a
masterful and exemplary listener. In this topical and grip-
ping book, which records and samples from the best and the
unexpected among spy stories (Sophocles, Kafka), theories
(Sun Tzu, Bentham, Adorno, Derrida), operas (Monteverdi,
Mozart, Berg), and films (Coppola, De Palma), Szendy ur-
gently reaches for a new listening post, and flawlessly deliv-
ers.”—Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
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T E XTS & ST U D IE S
Mental Language
From Plato to William of Ockham
CLAUDE PANACCIO, Translated by Joshua P.
Hochschild and Meredith K. Ziebart
“Mental language was no twentieth-century philosophical
invention, and Claude Panaccio’s book, Mental Language:
From Plato to William of Ockham, first published in French
in 1999, remains the best guide to the many theories that
were formulated in antiquity and the Middle Ages. There
is no more complete or authoritative work on the subject.
The book is philosophically astute and sophisticated, but
eminently readable. A postscript brings the work completely
up to date, with an exhaustive discussion of the copious
literature that has appeared on the topic in the past fifteen
years.”—Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame
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CON T IN E N TA L PHILOSOPHY
The Decolonial Abyss
Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
AN YOUNTAE
“The abyss provides a fascinating lens through which to
politicize the mystical on the one hand and theologize the
post- and decolonial on the other. Each of these is a worthy
project on its own and even more compelling in relation
to the other. . . . A sophisticated, readable, and important
book.”—Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
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Resistance of the Sensible World
An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty
EMMANUEL ALLOA, Translated by Jane Marie
Todd, Foreword by Renaud Barbaras
“This challenging yet engaging work is part and parcel of a
vanguard of creative new scholarship that carries forward
Merleau-Ponty’s late thought so as to address contemporary
philosophical concerns. What it challenges specifically is the
‘ideology of transparence’ that, deeply rooted in Western
thought, continues subtly to inform one’s understanding of
embodiment, perception, language, art, and ontology. Alloa
stresses not only an awareness of pervasive opacity, resis-
tance, and the inalienable residue of absence within presenc-
ing itself that negate this ideology, but he also creatively ex-
plores the new ontological dimensions of diaphaneity, ‘trans-
appearing’ and ‘co-belonging,’ in quest of a transformation of
the fundamental parameters of ontology.”—Veronique Foti,
Pennsylvania State University
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Words Fail
Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation
COLBY DICKINSON
“Colby Dickinson provides us with a compelling meditation
on the complex relationship between poetry, philosophy,
and religion. He not only illuminates Derrida and Agam-
ben’s engagement with poetry but allows poetry to talk back
to philosophy—and invites the reader to reconsider what is
at stake every time we sit down to write.”—Adam Kotsko,
Shimer College
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Questions of Phenomenology
Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude
FRANÇOISE DASTUR
Translated by Robert Vallier
“In Questions of Phenomenology, Françoise Dastur displays
remarkable erudition and originality. The erudition can be
seen in the wide range of phenomenological figures that
Questions of Phenomenology covers, figures such as Husserl,
Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, of course, but also Levinas,
Ricœur, Gadamer, Patocka, and Fink and even lesser known
figures such as Lotze, Medard Boss, and Dilthey. The origi-
nality can be seen in the unifying idea of the essays: origi-
nary finitude. Finitude is not a weakness, for Dastur, but a
resource. Appropriating a phrase of Merleau-Ponty, Dastur
shows that the problem of death places phenomenology at
its limits. Dastur remains one of our greatest scholars of
phenomenology and one of our greatest phenomenological
thinkers.”—Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University
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The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist
EMMANUEL FALQUE
Translated by George Hughes
“Animality, embodiedness, and eros: such, for Emmanuel
Falque, are the grounds for our hope as we kneel before the
altar and await the words of consecration in the Eucharist
and behold not only what nourishes us here but also an
intimacy promised to us hereafter. Here, as a complement
to theologies of the Eucharist, is a phenomenology of the
sacred liturgy: perhaps the most capacious account of our
desire for Christ in the Sacrament offered to us by a contem-
porary.”—Kevin Hart, The University of Virginia
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Transcendence and the Concrete
Selected Writings
JEAN WAHL
Edited by Alan D. Schrift and Ian Alexander Moore
Contributors: Bruce Baugh, Scott Davidson, Russell Ford, Anna
Johnson, Leonard Lawlor, Simone Rowen
“Emmanuel Levinas likened the thought of Jean Wahl to ‘a
child’s question coming from the lips of the wisest of philos-
ophers,’ with the potential to disrupt and reorient thanks to
its unexpected combination of innocence and intelligence.
One of the most interesting and original thinkers of his time,
Wahl helped invent existentialism and exerted influence on a
host of canonical French philosophers of the twentieth cen-
tury. Thanks to the marvelous editorial work of Ian Moore
and Alan Schrift, this collection of Wahl’s writings recovers
him for a new generation of readers.”—Samuel Moyn, Har-
vard University, author of Origins of the Other: Emmanuel
Levinas between Revelation and Ethics
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Phenomenologies of Scripture
Edited by Adam Y. Wells
Contributors: Jeffrey Bloechl, Walter Breuggemann, Jean-Louis
Chretien, Kevin Hart, Robyn Horner, Emmanuel Housset, Jean-
Yves Lacoste, Jean-Luc Marion, Dale Martin, Robert Sokolowski
“Phenomenologies of Scripture draws the reader into the bib-
lical text through close readings that often reveal sparkling
new insights and open up depths previously unplumbed.
One does not have to be a trained phenomenologist to ben-
efit from these riches. Time spent with this volume will be
amply repaid.”—Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College
“A strong collection of essays, featuring some of the best
scholars of contemporary phenomenology of religion along
with responses from two important biblical scholars.”
—Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
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WRI TI NG TH EORY
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Edited by J. M. Bernstein, Adi Ophir,
and Ann Laura Stoler
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon 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 the volume’s contributors present their own original
reflection on the question what is that concept and thereby
what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for
us now.
The concepts collected in this first volume of Political Con-
cepts are “Arche” (Stathis Gourgouris), “Authority” (Avital
Ronell), “Blood” (Gil Anidjar), “Colony” (Ann Stoler),
“Concept” (Adi Ophir), “Constituent Power” (Andreas
Kalyvas), “Development” (Gayatri Spivak), “Exploitation”
(Etienne Balibar), “Federation” (Jean Cohen), “Identity”
(Akeel Bilgrami), “Rule of Law” (Jay Bernstein), “Sexual Dif-
ference” (Joan Copjec), “Translation,” Jacques Lezra.
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Writing of the Formless
Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time
JAIME RODRÍGUEZ MATOS
“Deep and dazzling. The Writing of the Formless dismantles
or powerfully threatens the very basis of much of what today
wants to present itself as ‘properly leftist’ thought but also
the equally paralyzing liberal-democratic administration of
things: both ideologies are anchored in disavowed under-
standings of temporality. This is a groundbreaking, extraor-
dinary book that will mark a before and after in Latinameri-
canism.”—Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University
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Kant on the Frontier
Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth
GEOFFREY BENNINGTON
Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of
civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new
field of activity.
Following what Kant himself would call this “guiding
thread” first in the “political” writings and then in the still
little-read “Critique of teleological judgment,” Bennington
tries to bring out a complex, abyssal, fractal structure, which
always leaves a residue of nature—violence—in every fron-
tier (including conceptual frontiers), and which complicates
Kant’s most explicit, most rational arguments by adding to
them an element of reticence or interruption.
Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book
also proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for
which thinking the frontier is both an essential resource and
the recurrent, fruitful, interruption.
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Sodomscapes
Hospitality in the Flesh
LOWELL GALLAGHER
Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh presents a fresh under-
standing of Lot’s wife in the reception history of the Sodom
story. The sudden mutation of Lot’s wife in the flight from
Sodom exemplifies the antiscopic bias that late modern
critical thought inherited from premodern legacies of pro-
hibited gazing. The book’s cumulative perspective identifies
Lot’s wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling between
the substantialist dream of resemblance and the mutating
dynamism of otherness. The radical in-betweenness of the
figure discloses counter-intuitive ways of understanding
what counts as a life in the context of divergent claims of
being-with and being-for.
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Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
KRISTINA MENDICINO
“Prophecies of Language offers strikingly original insights
into some of the most complex dimensions of Idealist and
Romantic thought. Mendicino’s ingenious analyses help us
rethink the singular challenges of these canonical texts in
innovative ways.”—Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
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 G EN DER & SEXUALITY
Members of His Body
Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy
WILL STOCKTON
“Writing from a historical moment in which gay marriage
has refocused debates around religion, citizenship, and
sexuality, Will Stockton astutely explores how the concept
of “shared embodiment” at the heart of early modern mar-
riage theology manifests in Shakespeare’s plays. If Christians
marry in order to join the body of Christ, Stockton proposes,
then marriage produces not a bounded couple but a queerly
plural, embodied community. From this insight Stockton
produces supple, surprising readings of some familiar
Shakespearean texts, readings that are wonderfully alive to
the perversely non-monogamous marriages that result when
we restore God to the shared life of Shakespeare’s husbands
and wives.”—Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and the
Graduate Center, CUNY
192 PAGES
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Sexagon
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National
Culture
MEHAMMED AMADEUS MACK
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues
of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine
Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes
liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexual-
ity altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation,
and sexuality, Sexagon studies the broad politicization of
Franco-Arab identity in the context of French culture and its
assumptions about appropriate modes of sexual and gender
expression, both gay and straight.
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ART
Breaking Resemblance
The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
ALENA ALEXANDROVA
“Breaking Resemblance is a consistently thoughtful, well-
informed, original examination of modern art and some of
its principal debts to the visuality of Christianity.”—David
Morgan, Duke University
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A RT
The Insistence of Art
Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity
Edited by Paul A. Kottman
Contributors: Anthony J. Cascardi, J. M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr,
Paul A. Kottman, Andrew Cutrofello, Victoria Kahn, Maarten
Delbeke, Jon R. Snyder, Rachel Eisendrath, Kristin Gjesdal
“A superb and timely collection—rigorous wide-ranging
essays demonstrating some of the most compelling trends
in their respective fields. It’s the sort of collection that gives
substance and urgency to interdisciplinary thinking.”—
Christopher Pye, Williams College
320 PAGES, 26 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS
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POLIT IC S
Artifacts of Thinking
Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch
Edited by Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey
Contributors: Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Champlin, Wout Cornelis-
sen, Ursula Ludz, Anne O’Byrne, Ian Storey, Tracy Strong, Tatjana
Noemi Tömmel, Thomas Wild
“Artifacts of Thinking contributes new and important work
to scholarship on Hannah Arendt’s thinking. The essays
included in the volume take up familiar topics in Arendt’s
thought but informed by her private ‘thought diary’ take
up these topics in unusual and provocative ways. The book
also introduces German scholars of Arendt to English-only
readers of Arendt and the inclusion of their voices in the
conversion opens up exciting horizons for research and
study.”—Jennifer Culbert, Johns Hopkins University
224 PAGES
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GR OU N DWOR KS
Wilderness in America
Philosophical Writings
HENRY BUGBEE
Edited by David W. Rodick
“Essential for anyone interested in wilderness, revelation,
and calling. Henry Bugbee is a philosophical voice of the first
order.”—Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University
“Wilderness in America is an impressive introduction to the
life and work of an original (and far-too-long neglected) fig-
ure in American philosophy. David Rodick has performed a
valuable service to students and scholars of American arts
and letters.”—Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University
216 PAGES, 2 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Techne of Giving
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
TIMOTHY C. CAMPBELL
“A very original, extremely well-researched piece of work
that combines theoretical sophistication with depth of liter-
ary, cultural, and cinematic knowledge.”—Rosi Braidotti,
Utrecht University
“Timothy Campbell offers a philosophical meditation
on Italian cinema that is like nothing else in film studies
or Italian studies. Campbell gently compels us to see how
film models a mode of comportment toward the world
that is nonpossessive, tentative, and open to discovery. In
his exquisite handling of films by Visconti, Rossellini, and
Antonioni, Campbell nudges us toward a vision of cinema’s
redemptively expropriating gestures.”—John David Rhodes,
University of Cambridge
232 PAGES, 30 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Disavowed Community
JEAN-LUC NANCY
Translated by Philip Armstrong
“This is a powerful and important book, in several respects:
first, because this is Nancy’s first public engagement with
Maurice Blanchot’s 1983 book The Unavowable Commu-
nity, bringing to focus decades of research on this issue and
shedding exciting new light on the relation between the
two thinkers. Second, this work provides the latest elabora-
tions by Jean-Luc Nancy on what has been his longstanding
research on being-with and community, issues that have
occupied him for the past thirty years. Finally, the analyses
proposed are some of the most sophisticated that one can
find in Nancy’s corpus. As such, they represent a significant
contribution to philosophical work and research.”—François
Raffoul, Louisiana State University
144 PAGES
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The Origin of the Political
Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
ROBERTO ESPOSITO
Translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Gareth Williams
“Esposito shows how, in the Western tradition of realist
political thought, the conflict between power and interests
has always resulted in the suppression, on the side of power,
of conflict itself. Arendt and Weil, in inverted ways, were
able to replace a thought of conflict at the site of its symbolic
mediation or suppression, liberating the terrain for a fresh,
genealogical look at political ontology. For Esposito, thought
does not just fight—it is the fight itself. Esposito moves on
the basis of a fundamental ontology of war, which marks
what a previous tradition would have called “the unity of
being.” The Origin of the Political elaborates implications
of this, not only through its masterful conceptual analysis
and through its insights into the two thinkers it studies and
critiques, but also because, as it makes explicit the stakes of
the impolitical approach, it also ruins so many of the founda-
tions of modern political thought and prepares the way for
its fundamental renewal.”—Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M
University
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JE WISH ST U D IE S
Bestiarium Judaicum
Unnatural Histories of the Jews
JAY GELLER
“Jay Geller’s Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of
the Jews is a remarkable monograph that has no parallel
in scholarly literature. The author offers a sophisticated
conceptual and historical account of how the longstanding
discourse about the animality of the Jew is accompanied by
an iconography of an unnatural Jewish bestiary. The racial
antisemitism that fueled the horrors of the Holocaust is con-
textualized in a new and thought-provoking way.”—Elliot R.
Wolfson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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 THEOLOGY
The Weight of Love
Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaven-
ture
ROBERT GLENN DAVIS
“The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well
researched book that illustrates the complexity of what
scholars call ‘affective’ devotion in the high Middle Ages by
means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most cele-
brated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian
Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure.
This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship
on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and
natural philosophy.”—Patricia Dailey, Columbia University
232 PAGES
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Comparing Faithfully
Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection
Edited by Michelle Voss Roberts
Contributors: Sharon V. Betcher, Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Wendy
Farley, Holly Hillgardner, Amir Hussain, Kristin Kiblinger, Jeffery D.
Long, Marianne Moyaert, Hugh Nicholson, Elaine Padilla, Joshua
Ralston, Shelly Rambo, Klaus von Stosch, Jon Paul Sydnor, Tracy
Sayuki Tiemeier
“Advances the burgeoning field of comparative theology.
Voss Roberts hones in on how theologians read closely and
respectfully the texts and ideas of other traditions, making
themselves vulnerable to their insights; and consider wheth-
er rational accounts of their own faith could be substantively
enriched by encounters with those others, without cannibal-
izing or appropriating them.”—James W. Farwell, Virginia
Theological Seminary
336 PAGES
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Spiritual Grammar
Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity
F. DOMINIC LONGO
“Dominic Longo helps us to understand Islam and Christi-
anity in deeper ways through the genre of ‘spiritual gram-
mar’. This is an extraordinary book that will benefit scholars
of Islam, Christianity, and Comparative Theology.”—Amir
Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
“Longo engages in an intriguing comparative inquiry into
spiritual grammar in medieval Arabic and Latin treatises.
Delineating and crossing boundaries and genres, he ex-
plores a new confusing yet delightful subfield in the genre
of comparative theological Islamo-Christian studies.”—Pim
Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America
256 PAGES
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T R A N SD ISC IPLIN A RY
T HE OLOGIC A L COLLOQU IA
Entangled Worlds
Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Contributors: Catherine Keller, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Loriliai
Biernacki, Philip Clayton, Jacob J. Erickson, Jane Bennett, Terra
S. Rowe, Beatrice Marovich, Elias Ortega-Aponte, Carol Wayne
White, Karen Barad, Elizabeth Singleton, Theodore Walker,
Manuel Vasquez
The “new materialisms” currently coursing through cultural,
feminist, political, and queer theories seek to displace hu-
man privilege by attending to the agency of matter itself. Far
from being passive or inert, they show us that matter acts,
creates, destroys, and transforms—and as such, is more of a
process than a thing. This collection examines the intersec-
tions of religion and new and old materialisms.
320 PAGES
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R E LIGION
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
CAROL WAYNE WHITE
“As constructions of race, religion, and identity grow more
complex in the twenty-first century, we are in deep need of
texts like Black Lives and Sacred Humanity. White provides
an account of African American religiosity that explores
the radical diversity of the black religious tradition. The
result is a beautifully embroidered new narrative, one that
is rooted historically in heterodox religious voices such as
Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin.
By reconstructing black religion on naturalistic and human-
istic grounds, Sacred Humanity provides new resources for
giving voice to the varieties of African American religious
expression and for imagining its future possibilities.”
—Jonathon S Kahn, Vassar College
176 PAGES
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Paul Hanly Furfey
Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer
NICK RADEMACHER
Meticulously researched and clearly written, this book sheds
new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey’s life by draw-
ing on Furfey’s copious published material and substantial
archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896–1992) is one of
U.S. Catholicism’s greatest champions of peace and social
justice. He and his colleagues at The Catholic University of
America offered a revolutionary view of the university as a
center for social transformation, not only in training stu-
dents to be agents for social change but also in establishing
structures which would empower and transform the com-
munities that surrounded the university. In part a response
to the Great Depression, their social settlement model drew
on the latest social scientific research and technique while
at the same time incorporating principles they learned from
radical Catholics like Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck
Doherty.
352 PAGES
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E D U C AT ION
Undocumented and in College
Students and Institutions in a Climate of National
Hostility
Edited by Terry-Ann Jones and Laura Nichols
Cutting across the fields of U.S. immigration policy, theory,
and history, religion, law, and education, this book first
delineates the historical and then present-day contexts of
immigration including the role of religious institutions, and
then presents findings of research on the current experiences
of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of
entering and then thriving in private, religiously-based col-
leges. The book is a crucial resource for those working with
immigrant students in high school and the college context.
Contributors: Michael M. Canaris, Maria Guzman, Katherine
Kaufka Walts, Suzanna Klaf, Melissa M. Quan, Kurt Schlichting,
Ana Siscar, Sahng-An Yoo
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CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
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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