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CHINA IN THE MIX Northwestern University Press
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the
Age of Globalization SCREENING AUSCHWITZ
Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the
Ying Xiao Politics of Commemoration

Aug 2017 256pp Marek Haltof
9781496812605 Hardback US$65.00
Jan 2018 188pp
Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of 9780810136106 Paperback US$34.95
sound and its essential role in constructing image, Cultural Expressions
culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China
in the Mix fills a critical void as the first book to examine For full details of this title, see page 22.
the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture of
post-Socialist China. Rutgers University Press

MARGARETHE VON TROTTA DEMOGRAPHIC ANGST
Interviews Cultural Narratives and American Films of
the 1950s
Edited by Monika Raesch
Alan Nadel
Feb 2018 224pp
9781496815613 Hardback US$60.00 Dec 2017 256pp
Conversations with Filmmakers Series 9780813565491 Paperback US$29.95

A collection of twenty-four illuminating interviews with Argues that mandated normativity - as a political
the auteur. Spanning three decades, from the mid-1980s agenda and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression
until today, the interviews reveal not only von Trotta’s of the anxiety produced by America’s radically
life in the film industry, but also evolving roles of and reconfigured postwar population. Alan Nadel explores
opportunities provided to women over that time. These influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and
interviews present the different dimensions of von Trotta public documents in conjunction with films to examine
through the lenses of film critics, scholars, and journalists. how these films worked through fresh anxieties that
emerged during the 1950s.
THE SCREEN IS RED
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War FILM REMAKES AND FRANCHISES

Bernard F. Dick Daniel Herbert

Feb 2018 308pp Nov 2017 160pp
9781496814937 Paperback US$30.00 9780813579412 Paperback US$17.95
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Explores Hollywood’s ambivalence toward the former
Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Today Examines how remakes and sequels have been central
the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international to the film industry from its very inception, yet also
terrorism. Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet considers how the recent trends toward reboots and
Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular transmedia franchises depart from those historical
and critically acclaimed television series The Americans. precedents. Film scholar Daniel Herbert not only analyses
More than eighty years later, the screen is still red. the film industry’s increasing reliance on recycled
product, but also asks why audiences are currently so
drawn to such movies.

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GOING VIRAL MAKING BELIEVE
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World Screen Performance and Special Effects in
Popular Cinema
Dahlia Schweitzer
Lisa Bode
Feb 2018 216pp
9780813593142 Paperback US$27.95 Jul 2017 218pp
9780813579979 Paperback US$27.95
Examines outbreak narratives in film, television, and a Techniques of the Moving Image
variety of other media, putting them in conversation
with rhetoric from government authorities and news In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of
organisations that have capitalised on public fears about digital effects cinema in which the human performer
our changing world. Dahlia Schweitzer identifies three is entangled with animation, collaged with other
distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic
to a specific contemporary anxiety. situations. Making Believe sheds light on these
developments by historicising screen performance
IMPERIAL AFFECTS within the context of special effects cinema and
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of technological change in Hollywood filmmaking.
American Cinema
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MOVIES
Jonna Eagle
David Sterritt
Jul 2017 276pp
9780813583020 Paperback US$29.95 Nov 2017 152pp
War Culture 9780813583228 Paperback US$17.95
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
In American culture and history, a feeling of national
identity and belonging have often derived from a sense Presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of
of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Jonna Eagle turns to rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies
the workings of American cinema to understand the to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations
power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance
shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt
representations of imperialist motion and violence considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have
across the twentieth century. regarded rock ‘n’ roll.

THE LIMITS OF AUTEURISM SEARCHING FOR SYCORAX
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed Black Women’s Hauntings of
New Hollywood Contemporary Horror

Nicholas Godfrey Kinitra D. Brooks

Feb 2018 274pp Dec 2017 216pp
9780813589145 Paperback US$27.95 9780813584614 Paperback US$25.95

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early Highlights the unique position of Black women in horror
1970s has become one of the most romanticised periods as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates
in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic
boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes
of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to and interrogating forms of literature that have often
challenge many of these assumptions. been ignored by Black feminist theory.

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P eFrI fL Mo r&mTiVn·gMAUrStI Cs

THE MODERN BRITISH HORROR FILM MUSIC

Steven Gerrard University Press of Florida

Nov 2017 216pp FLORIDA SOUL
9780813579443 Paperback US$17.95 From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
John Capouya
For full details of this title, see page 11.
Sep 2017 368pp
The University of Wisconsin Press 9780813054520 Hardback US$24.95

SIX TURKISH FILMMAKERS Alongside Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans, Macon,
and Muscle Shoals, Florida has a rich soul music history
Laurence Raw – an important cultural legacy that has often gone
unrecognized. Florida Soul celebrates great artists of the
Nov 2017 277pp Sunshine State who have produced some of the most
9780299315405 Hardback US$79.95 electric, emotive soul music America has ever heard.
Wisconsin Film Studies
McFarland
Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema,
Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects EUROPE’S STARS OF ‘80s DANCE POP
of profound socio economic change on ordinary people 32 International Music Legends Discuss Their
in contemporary Turkey. Raw interleaves his film Careers
discussion with thoughtful commentary on nationalism,
gender, personal identity, and cultural pluralism. James Arena

Aug 2017 176pp
9781476671420 Paperback US$35.00

A massive dance music revolution swept across
Europe during the 1980s. Merging rock, new wave,
disco and worldbeat sounds, an explosion of exciting
and increasingly electronic dance-pop music caused
a sensation. In this book of interviews, 32 of the era’s
most celebrated singers, songwriters, producers and
industry professionals share memories of their lives and
careers during this extraordinary time.

THE MUSICAL ARTISTRY OF RAP

Martin E. Connor

Nov 2017 164pp
9780786498987 Paperback US$29.95

Poses challenging questions to the public understanding
of rap music with an analytical foundation that’s firmly
built on a corpus of 135 songs from a group of over 50
artists. Building on Martin Connor’s decade of experience
in both the journalism and scholarly arena, the answers
that he arrives at are likely to be the motivating factors
behind any ongoing discourse that tries to explain and
describe rap.

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University of Michigan Press University Press of Mississippi

BEYOND NOTATION GODFATHER OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS
The Music of Earle Brown Morris Levy

Rebecca Y. Kim Richard Carlin

Oct 2017 424pp Oct 2017 312pp
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American Made Music Series
Earle Brown (1926-2002) was a crucial part of the
seminal group of experimental composers known as the Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in
New York School, and his work intersects in fascinating the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990).
ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland
Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand in Hell’s Kitchen, which became the home for a new
our view of Brown’s work, addressing his practices as a musical style, bebop. In 1957, he founded a record
painter and composer as well as his collaborations with label, Roulette Records. Roulette featured many of the
visual artists. significant jazz artists who played Birdland but also
scored top pop hits.
THE BRITISH BLUES NETWORK
Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-
Andrew Kellett Century Jazz Culture

Sep 2017 256pp Gerhard Kubik
9780472130528 Hardback US$75.00
Nov 2017 464pp
Examines the role of British narratives of masculinity and 9781628462302 Hardback US$75.00
power in the postwar era of decolonisation and national American Made Music Series
decline that contributed to the creation of a network
of Bristish musicians influenced by African-American Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to
blues music, and how its members used the tropes, the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music
vocabulary, and mythology of African-American blues we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself
traditions to forge their own musical identities. and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also
celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and
uncovers hidden gems of jazz history.

JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in
Twentieth-Century Africa

Gerhard Kubik

Dec 2017 272pp
9781496806086 Hardback US$75.00

American Made Music Series

Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic
exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume
I. This second volume amplifies how musicians
influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop
influenced musicians in Africa from the end of
World War II into the 1970s were interacting with
each other and re-creating jazz.

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THEATRE

QUINCY JONES THEATRE
His Life in Music
University of Michigan Press
Clarence Bernard Henry
ELLEN STEWART PRESENTS
Sep 2017 208pp Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre
9781496814883 Paperback US$25.00
American Made Music Series Cindy Rosenthal

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific Oct 2017 208pp
composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and 9780472117420 Hardback US$45.00
humanitarians in American music history and the
recording and film industries. Jones’s career has spanned Founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Ellen
over sixty years, generating a substantial body of work Stewart was responsible for a staggering array of
with over five hundred compositions and arrangements. productions and for fostering the early work of directors,
This book focuses on this material as well as many of playwrights, actors, composers, and performance artists.
Jones’s accomplishments. Theatre scholar Cindy Rosenthal relates the history of
La MaMa through its performance posters, capturing
TEARING THE WORLD APART the irreverence and the aesthetic of La MaMa over five
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century decades.

Edited by Nina Goss & Eric Hoffman MICRODRAMAS
Crucibles for Theater and Time
Sep 2017 208pp
9781496813329 Hardback US$65.00 John H. Muse
American Made Music Series
Oct 2017 256pp
Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob 9780472053636 Paperback US$29.95
Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty- Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
first century - “Love and Theft” (2001), Modern Times
(2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film Argues that tiny plays (shorter than twenty minutes)
Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should
which he appears as an actor and musical performer. be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice.
Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a
The University of North Carolina Press structural principle and a tool to investigate theatre
itself, the book explores four episodes in the history of
BEYOND THE CROSSROADS very short theatre, all characterised by the self-conscious
The Devil and the Blues Tradition embrace of brevity.

Adam Gussow PERFORMING UNIFICATION
History and Nation in German Theater
Oct 2017 416pp after 1989
9781469633664 Paperback US$29.95
New Directions in Southern Studies Matt Cornish

In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the Sep 2017 264pp
full measure of the devil’s presence in the blues. Working 9780472130450 Hardback US$75.00
from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings
released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in
the varied uses to which black southern blues people 1989, the most important German theatre artists
have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also have created plays and productions about unification.
empowering figure. Performing Unification examines how German directors,
playwrights, and theater groups have represented and
misrepresented the past, confronting their nation’s
history and collective identity.

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Northwestern University Press LATINX THEATER IN THE TIMES OF
NEOLIBERALISM
AESTHETIC CITIZENSHIP
Immigration, Theater, and Embodiment in Patricia A. Ybarra
Twenty-First Century Paris
Nov 2017 256pp
Emine Fisek 9780810136458 Paperback US$34.95

Sep 2017 192pp Traces how Latino theatre in the United States has
9780810135666 Paperback US$34.95 engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of
neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to
Presents an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical the present. Patricia Ybarra examines IMF interventions,
performance in questions regarding immigration, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation
citizenship, and the formation of national identity. of border industrialisation initiatives, and austerity
Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine programs, and the response of Latino artists.
Fisek analyses the use of theatre by immigrant-rights
organisations there and examines the relationship Southern Illinois University Press
between aesthetic practices and the political
personhoods they negotiate. ADAPTURGY
The Dramaturg’s Art and Theatrical Adaptation
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Jane Barnette
ARCHITECTURAL INVOLUTIONS
Nov 2017 264pp
Writing, Staging, and Building Space, 9780809336272 Paperback US$40.00
c. 1435-1650
Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential
Mimi Yiu guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to
understand and participate in the process of adaptation
Jan 2018 336pp for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”, Barnette
9780810136595 Paperback US$34.95 redefines the dramaturg’s role and thoroughly refutes
the commonplace point of view that adapted works are
Rethinking the Early Modern somehow less creative than “original” plays.

Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades
to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural
Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theatre
by revealing how innovations in architectural writing
and practice transformed an early modern sense of
interiority. The book situates Alberti, Shakespeare,
Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and
visual change.

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PHILOSOPHY The Catholic University of America Press

Academic Studies Press HEIDEGGER’S QUESTION OF BEING
Dasein, Truth, and History
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
PHILO’S HEIRS Edited by Holger Zaborowski
Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas
Oct 2017 277pp
Luis Cortest 9780813229546 Hardback US$75.00
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
Jun 2017 160pp
9781618116307 Hardback US$89.00 The contributions to this volume, written by leading
scholars in the field of Heidegger research, offer close
In his monumental study of Philo of Alexandria readings of Heidegger’s texts and provide sound
(1947), Harry A. Wolfson argued that the philosophical orientation in the field of contemporary Heidegger
method developed by Philo, in which Greek philosophy research. They show how the different trajectories of
and Scripture are combined, served as the model for Heidegger’s thought all converge at one point: the
Christian, Jewish and Islamic thinkers until the time question of Being.
of Spinoza. This book, through an examination of the
thought of Philo, Maimonides and Aquinas, confirms AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALISM
Wolfson’s thesis.
Juan Manuel Burgos
Broadview Press
Feb 2018 288pp
BRINGING BIOLOGY TO LIFE 9780813229874 Paperback US$34.95
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology
Much has been written about the great personalist
Mahesh Ananth philosophers of the 20th century, but few books cover
the personalist movement as a whole. An Introduction
Oct 2017 300pp to Personalism fills that gap, and presents an engaging
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debate about the meaning of human existence and of
For full details of this title, see page 121. winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of
every person.
MORE PRECISELY
The Math You Need to Do Philosophy, THE MODERN TURN
Second Edition
Edited by Michael Rohlf
Eric Steinhart
Dec 2017 344pp
Oct 2017 248pp 9780813230054 Hardback US$75.00
9781554813452 Paperback US$24.95 Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 60

It is impossible to fully understand much of the most What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words,
important work in contemporary philosophy without a what are the features that make modern philosophy
basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, decision distinctively “modern” in contrast with the pre-modern
theory, and modality. More Precisely is written for people philosophy from which it emerged? The twelve essays in
who wish to engage with contemporary philosophical this volume seek to address this question, and in doing
writing but first need to fill gaps in their technical so, exemplify and contribute to a rich debate about the
knowledge. nature and value of modern philosophy.

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THE THINGS THAT MATTER University of Hawaii Press
Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques
Maritain CONFUCIANISM
Its Roots and Global Significance
Edited by Heidi M. Geibel
Ming-huei Lee
Feb 2018 296pp Edited by David Jones
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Oct 2017 192pp
Comprised of original essays by twenty English-speaking 9780824867300 Hardback US$58.00
Thomists on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary Confucian Cultures
of Jacques Maritain’s Untrammeled Approaches first
English appearance, this volume explores several of Provides a rare opportunity to read the work in a single
Maritain’s still-untrammeled (or at least less-trammeled) volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars.
themes. While following his unbeaten paths, the Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English
contributing authors find and refine hidden treasures at before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in
every turn. German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-
mindedness and precision of thinking associated with
American Maritain Association Publications German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions
of Confucianism.
THOMAS AQUINAS
A Historical and Philosophical Profile ENGAGING JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY
A Short History
Pasquale Porro
Translated by Joseph G. Trabbic & Roger W. Nutt Thomas P. Kasulis

May 2017 400pp Dec 2017 746pp
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Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture
Reflecting the highest standards of philological
and textual scholarship accompanied by judicious Philosophy challenges our assumptions - especially
philosophic analysis, Pasquale Porro explores the when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring
philosophical issues in each of Thomas Aquinas’ Japanese philosophy, a dependable guide is essential.
writings, which he interprets within the parameters The present volume, written by a renowned authority
of the temporal circumstances and institutional on the subject, offers readers a historical survey of
imperatives of their composition and in respect of the Japanese thought that is both comprehensive and
authoritative texts that Thomas encountered. comprehensible.

The University of Georgia Press University of Massachusetts Press

THE FATE OF TRANSCENDENTALISM TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE
Secularity, Materiality, and Human CULTIVATION OF THE SOUL
Flourishing
Barry M. Andrews
Bruce A. Ronda
Oct 2017 184pp
Oct 2017 256pp 9781625342935 Paperback US$26.95
9780820351247 Hardback US$64.95
American Transcendentalism is often seen as a literary
Examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of movement - a flowering of works written by New
American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s England intellectuals who retreated from society
influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and and lived in nature. In this volume, Barry M. Andrews
artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the focuses on a neglected aspect of this well-known group,
creative outpouring it produced. Bruce A. Ronda offers showing how American Transcendentalists developed
an account of the movement as an early example of the rich spiritual practices to nurture their souls and discover
secular turn in American culture. the divine.

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University of Michigan Press ESSENTIAL VULNERABILITIES
Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other
KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace Deborah Achtenberg

Sean Patrick Molloy Oct 2017 224pp
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Jul 2017 264pp
9780472130405 Hardback US$75.00 Contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a
philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return
In this wide-ranging study, Seán Molloy proposes to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher
that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with of the other. Nonetheless, Deborah Achtenberg argues,
Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot Plato and Levinas are different. Though they view
be fully understood without reference to Kant’s wider human beings as essentially vulnerable and in relation
philosophical projects, and in particular, the role that to others, they conceive human vulnerability and
belief in God plays within critical philosophy and Kant’s responsiveness differently.
inquiries into anthropology, politics, and theology.
JUDGMENT AND ACTION
University Press of Mississippi Fragments toward a History

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PHILOSOPHY Edited by Vivasvan Soni & Thomas Pfau

Edited by Jeff McLaughlin Dec 2017 360pp
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Sep 2017 240pp
9781496813275 Hardback US$65.00 Written by theologians, literary scholars, political
theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in
For full details of this title, see page 46. Judgment and Action address the growing sense that
certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have
University of Missouri Press become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid
the current plethora of critical methods. These essays
aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and
action.

THE ERIC VOEGELIN READER KANT’S CONCEPTION OF PEDAGOGY
Politics, History, Consciousness Toward Education for Freedom

Charles R. Embry & Hughes Glenn G. Felicitas Munzel

Sep 2017 416pp Jul 2017 472pp
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For full details of this title, see page 72. Topics in Historical Philosophy

Northwestern University Press Although he was involved in the education debates of
his time, it is widely held that in his mature philosophical
A PROCESS MODEL writings Immanuel Kant is silent on the subject. In this
groundbreaking book, G. Felicitas Munzel finds extant
Eugene Gendlin in Kant’s writings the so-called missing critical treatise
on education; it appears in the Doctrines of Method with
Nov 2017 320pp which he concludes each of his major works.
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Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

A foundational text by Eugene Gendlin, increasingly
recognised as one of the most original contemporary
thinkers, A Process Model demonstrates how human
behaving, perceiving, speaking, and everyday living arise
from body-environment interaction. Gendlin creates an
alternative model in which we define living bodies in
such a way that one of them can be ours.

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KIERKEGAARD, LITERATURE, AND THE SAYING WHAT WE MEAN
ARTS Implicit Precision and the Responsive Order

Edited by Eric Ziolkowski Eugene Gendlin
Edited by Edward S. Casey & Donata Schoeller
Jan 2018 280pp
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Presents a collection of fourteen essays that illuminate Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
the broad and often underappreciated variety of the
nineteenth-century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s The first collection of Gendlin’s groundbreaking essays
engagements with literature and the arts. These essays in philosophical psychology, Saying What We Mean casts
explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature, the familiar areas of human experience, such as language
performing arts, and the visual arts and film. and feeling, in a radically different light. Instead of the
familiar emphasis on the conceptually explicit in an
ONLY A JOKE CAN SAVE US era of scientism, Gendlin shows that the implicit also
A Theory of Comedy comprises a structure available for recognition and
analysis.
Todd McGowan
University of Notre Dame Press
Sep 2017 288pp
9780810135802 Paperback US$34.95 METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES
Diaeresis
Nicholas Rescher
Presents an innovative and comprehensive theory
of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high Dec 2017 288pp
and popular culture and with careful attention to the 9780268102890 Hardback US$45.00
treatment of humour in philosophy, Todd McGowan
locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to
the opposing concepts lack and excess. conceptualise, and in some cases answer, some of
the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and
PERCEPTION IN ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS value theory. He engages issues across a wide range
of metaphysical themes, from different world views
Eve Rabinoff and ultimate questions to contingency and necessity,
to empathy and other minds, moral obligation, and
Feb 2018 176pp philosophical methodology.
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WILLIAM DESMOND AND
Demonstrates that living an ethical life requires a mode CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
of perception that is best called ethical perception.
Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts Edited by Christopher Ben Simpson &
of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Brendan Thomas Sammon
Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of
perception, which is often thought to be an entirely Nov 2017 288pp
physical phenomenon, is informed by intellect and has 9780268102210 Hardback US$50.00
an ethical dimension.
Offers a timely exploration of William Desmond’s work
on theology and metaphysics, bringing the disciplines of
philosophy and theology together in new and vital ways.
The book examines the contribution that Desmond’s
metaphysics makes to contemporary theological
discourse and to the renewal of metaphysics.

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The University of South Carolina Press RETHINKING SINCERITY AND
AUTHENTICITY
THE KEYS OF POWER The Ethics of Theatricality in Kant,
The Rhetoric and Politics of Kierkegaard, and Levinas
Transcendentalism
Howard Pickett
Nathan Crick
Oct 2017 296pp
Aug 2017 288pp 9780813940151 Hardback US$49.50
9781611177787 Hardback US$49.99 Studies in Religion and Culture
Studies in Comparative Religion
Drawing on the writings of Immanuel Kant, Søren
A critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists Kierkegaard, and Emmanuel Levinas, Howard Pickett
that interprets a selection of their major works between presents a vivid defence of virtuous hypocrisy. Rethinking
the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses Sincerity and Authenticity offers an engaging new
to the growing crises of their times. Nathan Crick appraisal not only of the ethics of theatricality but of the
argues that one of the legacies of the Transcendentalist theatricality of ethics.
movement is the multifaceted understanding of
transcendental eloquence as a distinct rhetorical genre. The University of Wisconsin Press

UNDERSTANDING FRANZ KAFKA REASON AFTER ITS ECLIPSE
On Late Critical Theory
Allen Thiher
Martin Jay
Jan 2018 312pp
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Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature 9780299306540 Paperback US$21.95
George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and
For full details of this title, see page 42. Intellectual History

University of Virginia Press Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today:
what is reason, and what roles does and should it have
EXPERIENCING WILLIAM JAMES in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual
Belief in a Pluralistic World history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not
fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the
James Campbell term reason over two millennia, homing in on moments
of crisis, critique, and defence of reason.
Nov 2017 328pp
9780813940489 Paperback US$35.00

William James has long been recognised as a central
figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his
ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary
thinking. Yet there has never been a comprehensive
exploration of his thought. In Experiencing William James,
James Campbell provides the fuller and more complete
analysis that James scholarship has long needed.

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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL ARAB POLITICS BEYOND THE UPRISINGS
RELATIONS Experiments in an Era of Resurgent
Authoritarianism
ASP (Academic & Scientific Publishers)
Edited by Thanassis Cambanis & Michael Wahid Hanna
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reduce the risks of war with Russia. Michael O’Hanlon
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concept of this new security architecture would be one
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RELATIONS
END GAME
Edited by Sasha Toperich, Samy Boukaila & Does Israel Have a Plan?
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MILITANTS, CRIMINALS, AND WARLORDS THE FUTURE OF ISIS
The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age Regional and International Implications
of Disorder
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Geopolitics in the 21st Century The Islamic State has been active for less than a decade,
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or political agendas and others focused primarily on United States, do to counter it?
economic gain.
THE NEW AUTOCRACY
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The result of a two-year collaboration between Russian
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SOVEREIGNTY REIMAGINED THE TERRORIST ARGUMENT
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A look at protecting sovereignty while advancing Propaganda used by terrorists and armed groups might
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THE EAGLE AND THE TRIDENT
U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times

Steven Pifer

Aug 2017 366pp
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Provides the first detailed account of US diplomacy
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narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship.

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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Chatham House
TURKEY AND THE WEST
Faultlines in a Troubled Alliance ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Kemal Kirisci Jacob Parakilas et al

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Geopolitics in the 21st Century
Discussions about the future of artificial intelligence
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The objective of this report is to establish greater
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domestic and foreign policies. any differences.

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University Press of Kansas Lynne Rienner Publishers

AMBITION, PRAGMATISM, AND PARTY COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF THE
A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford GLOBAL SOUTH
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LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN POLITICS EVOLVING PATTERNS OF PEACEKEEPING
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for the international community.

The University Press of Kentucky INTERNATIONAL LAW IN
WORLD POLITICS
A POLITICAL COMPANION TO An Introduction,Third Edition
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THE RESURGENCE OF POPULISM IN University of Michigan Press
LATIN AMERICA
BETWEEN MILITARY RULE AND DEMOCRACY
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millions of Ukrainians the hope of a European future. historically tolerated the filibuster, even when it has been
used to defeat their agenda.

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RISING POWERS AND FOREIGN POLICY Syracuse University Press
REVISIONISM
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Eventual achievement of nuclear disarmament has been
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IN PURSUIT OF PEACE IN ISRAEL AND Academica Press
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Brookings Institution Press
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THE SOVIET UNION AND THE GUTTING OF AN INTRODUCTION TO VATICAN II AS AN
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FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY THE CLEANSING OF THE HEART
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THE LIGHT OF CHRIST The Crossroad Publishing Company
An Introduction to Christianity
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PROPHETIC WITNESS Holy Trinity Publications
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED RELIGION AS CRITIQUE
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CREATION EX NIHILO The University of South Carolina Press
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RELIGION, CONFLICT, AND PEACEMAKING
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SOCIAL STUDIES The University of Georgia Press

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