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20% discount 20% time offer: Limited University Press Transcendence On Self- Determination and Cosmopolitanism Mitchell Aboulafia Notions of self-determina- tion are central to modern politics, yet the relation- ship between the self-de- termination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to The Sacrament cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this 2 by offering an original theory of self and society. It of Language An Archaeology highlights overlooked affinities between existentialism of the Oath and pragmatism and compares figures central to these Giorgio Agamben traditions. The book’s guiding thread is a unique model Translated by Adam Kotsko of the social development of the self that is indebted This book is a continuation of to the pragmatist George Herbert Mead. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s investiga- the work of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic— tion of political theory, which Hegel, William James, Dewey, Du Bois, Sartre, Marcuse, began with the highly influ- Bourdieu, Rorty, Neil Gross, and Jean-Baker Miller— ential volume Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. and according supporting roles to Adam Smith, Hab- Having already traced the ermas, Herder, Charles Taylor, and Simone de Beauvoir, roots of the idea of sovereignty, Aboulafia combines European and American traditions sacredness, and economy, he of self-determination and cosmopolitanism in a new now turns to a perhaps unlikely topic: the concept of the oath. and persuasive way. This book is important not only for readers of Agamben or of “Mitchell Aboulafia offers a gracefully presented and continental philosophy more intellectually satisfying conception of transcendence broadly, but for anyone inter- for an age when multiculturalism is an undeniable ested in questions relating to social fact. The result is a highly persuasive and sophis- the relationships among reli- gion, law, and language. ticated conception of human freedom that acknowl- edges the social and biological forces associated with Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 104 pp., 2010 Darwin without succumbing to the old dualism of 9780804768986 Paper $16.95 $13.56 sale freedom and determinism.” 9780804768979 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale —Cynthia Willett, Emory University 216 pp., 2010 20% discount 9780804770200 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale on all titles 9780804770194 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale Use promo code: S11LIT

Philosophy A 2009 French Voices Selection The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1 Spermatic Knowledge Henri Atlan Translated by Lenn J. Schramm The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan’s magnum opus, develops his whole philoso- phy with a highly impressive Nudities display of knowledge, wis- Giorgio Agamben dom, depth, rigor, and intellectual and moral vigor. Atlan 3 Translated by David Kishik founds an ethics adapted to the new power over life that and Stefan Pedatella modern scientific knowledge has given us. He holds that Encompassing a wide range of the results of science cannot ground any ethical or politi- subjects, the ten masterful essays cal truth whatsoever, while human creative activity and gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In the conquest of knowledge are a double-edged sword. truth, Giorgio Agamben’s latest “Henri Atlan has undoubtedly become a great scholar book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step and important international figure in the academic backward after reading it from community. His approach to texts is original and cover to cover, and a world of stimulating, his ideas both lucid and insightful. He has secret affinities between the written many volumes on a variety of subjects, but this chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it one has special meaning due to the convulsions so- becomes another indispensable ciety has been undergoing in recent years. The book piece of the finely nuanced phi- is steeped in psychology and religion, biology and losophy that Agamben has been sociology, mysticism and ethos. Drawing from Talmu- patiently constructing over four decades of sustained research. dic sources but also from secular ones, it is sure to find appeal in many circles.” Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 144 pp., 10 illustrations, 2010 —Elie Wiesel 9780804769501 Paper $16.95 $13.56 sale Cultural Memory in the Present 9780804769495 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale 352 pp., 2010 9780804760270 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale Table of 9780804773577 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale Contents Cover photograph by: Greta Cune Philosophy...... Alan Counihan, untitled, bluestone, 2-9 Woodstock School of Art Sculpture Literature Park, Woodstock, NY and Theory...... 10 -19

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Philosophy AVAILABLE IN MAY 2011 Little Did I Know Mourning Sickness 4 Habermas Excerpts from Memory Hegel and the The Discourse Theory Stanley Cavell French Revolution of Law and Democracy “Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know Rebecca Comay Hugh Baxter belongs alongside other great Mourning Sickness provides a works of self-examination that “A must read for all those inter- new reading of Hegel in the are also indispensable explora- ested in an exposition of Jürgen light of contemporary theories tions of the human condition, Habermas’s fundamental contri- of historical trauma. It explores books such as the Essais of bution to legal scholarship.” the ways in which major his- Montaigne and the journals of —David M. Rasmussen, torical events are experienced Cavell’s own beloved Emerson. Boston College vicariously, and the fantasies we Cavell’s work has always been use to make sense of them. Co- "A clear, well-judged, and cool about the complexity of human may brings Hegel into relation assessment of Jürgen Habermas life, and his own experience with the most burning con- and his debates with Niklas Luh- has always been present in his temporary discussions around mann, two giants of twentieth- philosophy. His memoir deep- catastrophe, witness, memory, century social theory." ens our understanding of both and the role of culture in shap- —Tim Murphy, his life and his philosophy. It is ing political experience. The London School of Economics a work of great particularity— and Political Science Cavell’s own life from Depres- “Rebecca Comay has written a stunning and powerful book. Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory sion-era Atlanta to late twenti- 360 pp., 2011 eth-century Harvard—but also By making Hegel’s account 9780804769129 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale a work of profound universality, of the “Terror” of the French a thoughtful man’s reflections Revolution the pivot of her new in paperback on everything from fitting into reading, Comay offers a Hegel his clothes and fitting into high who is more radically modern Phenomenology school to finding friends, peers, and intransigently difficult than of the Visual Arts love, personal calling, and social anything either his supporters (even the frame) justice. This book is a treasure.” or critics have imagined.” —Paul Guyer, —J. M. Bernstein, Paul Crowther University of Pennsylvania New School for Social Research The book is a comprehensive Cultural Memory in the Present Cultural Memory in the Present phenomenological study of 584 pp., 2010 224 pp., 2010 meanings that are unique to 9780804770149 Cloth $34.95 $27.96 sale 9780804761277 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale the major visual art forms. 9780804761260 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale 264 pp., 26 illustrations, 2009 9780804776028 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale 9780804762144 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

Philosophy Copy, Archive, The Messianic AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2011 Signature Reduction What Is Life? 5 A Conversation Walter Benjamin and The Intellectual Pertinence on Photography the Shape of Time of Erwin Schrödinger Jacques Derrida Peter Fenves Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Edited and with an A groundbreaking study of Robert Pogue Harrison, Introduction by Walter Benjamin’s thought. Michael R. Hendrickson, Gerhard Richter Fenves places Benjamin’s early and Robert B. Laughlin writings in the context of con- Translated by Jeff Fort Four leading scientists and human- temporaneous philosophy, with “Behind Derrida’s remarks on ists reveal the ongoing contributions particular attention to the work photography stands a vast phil- of Schrödinger’s thought and unfold of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, osophical knowledge, as well its controversial potential. They re- Frege, and Heidegger. as a keen interest in contem- mind us that, in addition to being a porary media and technology. “Fenves offers us not simply an great scientist, Schrödinger was also I can hardly imagine another original window on Benjamin’s a great thinker whose intellectual discussion of photography that early works, but also takes up is- provocations far exceed his histori- would display the same theo- sues that are critical to his entire cal impact. Their insights will be retical and philosophical breath opus. This extraordinarily ambi- valued by biologists, philosophers, and incisiveness that Derrida tious volume will be a keystone physicists—and a wide range of the and his partners bring to bear to the understanding of Benja- scientifically curious alike. on the subject.” min’s work and of his place in “An imaginative and highly interdis- —Samuel Weber, twentieth-century philosophy.” European Graduate School ciplinary invitation to rethink the —Carol Jacobs, work of Erwin Schrödinger, one of Yale University 112 pp., 2010 the most remarkable scientist-phi- 9780804760973 Paper $16.95 $13.56 sale 9780804760966 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics losophers of the last two hundred 336 pp., 2010 years. Each author brings a different 9780804757881 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale perspective—two from the humani- An Atheism that 9780804757874 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale ties, two from the sciences. And the Is Not Humanist whole turns out to be even more Emerges in French than the sum of its parts, thanks to Thought its well-defined focus on Schröding- Stefanos Geroulanos er's thought.” —Peter Galison, Cultural Memory in the Present Harvard University 448 pp., 2010 9780804762991 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 160 pp., 2011 9780804762984 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale 9780804769167 Paper $18.95 $15.16 sale 9780804769150 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Philosophy Between Race and Reason Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come Susan Searls Giroux Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Gir- oux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of “post- AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2011 civil rights” as representing a colorblind or race-tran- The Present Alone 6 scendent triumphalism in national political discourse, is Our Happiness, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent Second Edition “raceless” racism at home and permanent civilizational Conversations with war abroad. She sees the university as a primary battle- Jeannie Carlier and ground in this ongoing struggle. As the heir to Enlight- Arnold I. Davidson enment ideals of civic education, the university should Pierre Hadot be the institution for the production of an informed and Translated by Marc Djaballah reflective democratic citizenry responsible to and for and Michael Chase the civic health of the polity, a privileged site committed One of the most influential histo- to free and equal exchange in the interests of peace- rians of ancient philosophy of the past half-century, Pierre Hadot ful and democratic coexistence. And yet, says Giroux, was adept at using ancient philos- historically and currently the university has failed and ophers to illuminate the relevance continues to fail in this role. of their ideas to contemporary life. This new edition, which has “Race is changing in our midst, and it is crucial that we been significantly revised and ex- understand its shifting nature and the implications panded to include two previously for the future of the US as a racialized nation state. A untranslated essays, is an ideal introduction to some of Hadot’s response is in order, and Between Race and Reason more scholarly work. provides it. We speak of legal citizenship, cultural citi- Cultural Memory in the Present zenship, and now, with the advent of this book, we can 248 pp., 2011 add intellectual citizenship.” 9780804775434 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale —Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley Communitas 296 pp., 2010 The Origin and Destiny 9780804770484 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 9780804770477 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale of Community Roberto Esposito Translated by Timothy C. Campbell Cultural Memory in the Present 192 pp., 2009 9780804746472 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale 9780804746465 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Philosophy The Price of Truth Gift, Money, and Philosophy Marcel Hénaff Translated by Jean-Louis Morhange with the collaboration of Anne- Marie Feenberg-Dibon Can exchange bring us together? Are there any physical or intangible Rawls and Habermas goods that escape the Reason, Pluralism, and logic of the marketplace? Is there a relationship be- the Claims of Political tween truth—the very purpose of philosophy—and 7 Philosophy money? Does truth have a price? Todd Hedrick “Among the numerous studies of the ‘gift’—ceremo- “This book is a highly informed, scholarly and very readable nial gift-giving as distinct from exchange and from discussion of the differences charity—Marcel Hénaff’s wide-ranging book is the between the two leading best. Its empirical richness is disciplined by a rigorous political theorists of the last conceptual framework. This is one of the most impor- half-century—Rawls and Habermas. Hedrick offers a tant philosophical works of our time, full of inspiring careful analysis of Habermas’s ideas for anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, political philosophy and does and historians.” a superb job of developing —Hans Joas, Max Weber Center, immanently some of the ten- University of Erfurt, Germany, and Committee on sions and difficulties in Rawls’s Social Thought, University of Chicago evolving account of construc- tivism. The result is a lively “A magisterial work.” engagement with the ideas of —Claude Lévi-Strauss, Esprit Magazine (2004) these two important theorists and one that is sure to invite a response, especially from “Priceless truths about the price of truth.” those who are more sympa- —Michel Serres, of the Académie Française thetic to Rawls’s political con- structivism than Habermas’s Cultural Memory in the Present reconstructive project.” 496 pp., 2010 —Kenneth Baynes, 9780804760829 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale Syracuse University 9780804760812 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale 256 pp., 2010 9780804770774 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 9780804770767 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale www.sup.org Philosophy AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2011 Heidegger Among On Historicizing 8 The Problem the Sculptors Epistemology with Grace Body, Space, and the An Essay Reconfiguring Political Art of Dwelling Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Theology Andrew J. Mitchell Translated by Vincent W. Lloyd A provocative illustrated ex- David Fernbach This book develops a post- amination of Heidegger’s sculp- “An elegantly written, lucid intro- secular, post-sectarian political tural writings that shows how duction to the problems that are theology, taking that burgeon- they rethink the relationship at stake in the history of science. ing field in a new direction. between bodies and space and This book will have an immense With his bold suggestion that the place of art in our lives. impact on the all-too-solidified ideologies of many scientists.” political philosophy must be- “This is a truly exceptional book: gin with political theology, Vin- —Rainer Nägele, beautifully written, carefully ar- Yale University cent Lloyd investigates a series gued, and deploying a detailed of religious concepts such as knowledge of Heidegger’s Cultural Memory in the Present love, faith, liturgy, and revela- oeuvre with a light touch. It is 128 pp., 2010 tion and explores their political 9780804762892 Paper $18.95 $15.16 sale the first to be written on Heide- 9780804762885 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale relevance by extracting them gger and art that concentrates from their Christian theologi- on sculpture and looks at the Technics and Time, 3 cal context while refusing to re- specific sculptural works dis- duce them to secular terms. He cussed by Heidegger. Mitchell’s Cinematic Time and the assembles an unusual canon achievement in this area is Question of Malaise of thinkers “too Jewish to be truly significant.N ot only will Bernard Stiegler Christian and too Christian this book appeal to Heidegger Translated by Stephen Barker to be Jewish”—Simone Weil, scholars, it will be of genuine James Baldwin, Franz Kafka, interest to anyone who studies Technics and Time, 3 furthers and Gillian Rose—to aid him or is moved by sculpture.” Stiegler's critique of technics, in his explorations. working (back) through Kant —Andrew Benjamin, Monash University in order to examine the nature “This important book will of "cinematic time" relative to deepen post-modern/post- 144 pp., 32 illustrations, 2010 phenomenology and hyper- liberal discussions of religion 9780804770231 Paper $17.95 $14.36 sale technology. and public life, public theology, 9780804770224 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale and political theology.” Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 280 pp., 2010 —Victor Anderson, 9780804761680 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale Vanderbilt University 9780804761673 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale 240 pp., 2011 9780804768849 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale 9780804768832 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Philosophy Malfeasance Appropriation Through Pollution? Michel Serres Translated by Anne- Marie Feenberg-Dibon In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the rela- tion between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world’s con- The Ego and the Flesh temporary environmental An Introduction problems. He does so through the surprising proposi- to Egoanalysis tion that our cleanliness is our dirt. While all living 9 Jacob Rogozinski beings pollute to lay claim to their habitat, humans have Translated by Robert Vallier multiplied pollution’s effects catastrophically since the “Perhaps the major presumption Industrial Revolution through the economic system’s of 20th-century thought was mode of appropriation and its emphasis on mindless that the subject, particularly the growth. He warns that while we can measure what he Cartesian ego, had to be subject- calls “hard pollution”—the poisoning of the Earth—we ed to ‘egicide.’ It is precisely this ego that Rogozinski sets out to ignore at our peril the disastrous impact of the “soft defend in this fascinating book. pollution” created by sound and images on our psyches. What is suggestively introduced Sounding the alarm that the planet is heading for disas- here is the concept of egoanaly- ter, Serres proposes that humanity should stop trying to sis that is not based on some disembodied self, but on what “own” the world and become “renters.” Building on his Rogozinski calls ‘the ego-flesh.’” earlier work, especially that on hominization, he urges —Simon Critchley, us to establish a “natural contract” with nature. New School for Social Research Cultural Memory in the Present “Michel Serres is widely considered one of the most 376 pp., 2010 important French thinkers of the postwar era. He 9780804759892 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9780804759885 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale believes in the age-old, overreaching ambition of philosophy: to synthesize the totality of human

AVAILABLE IN MAY 2011 knowledge. Malfeasance reads like a manifesto of his philosophy of synthesis.” Kantian Ethics —Robert Harrison, Stanford University and Economics Autonomy, Dignity, “In the face of pollution’s calamities, Serres calls for and Character responsible action, a new social contract, a peaceful Mark D. White compact with the world. Reversing Rousseau’s nega- 286 pp., 2011 tive command—’This is mine’—he proffers, ‘This is 9780804768948 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale enough for me.’” —Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University 104 pp., 2010 9780804773034 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale 9780804773027 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale

Philosophy The Meridian Final Version— Drafts—Materials Paul Celan Edited by Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schmull Translated by Pierre Joris Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occa- sion of Celan’s acceptance Care Crosses of the Georg Büchner Prize for literature, The Merid- the River ian is one of, if not the most important poetological 10 Hans Blumenberg statement of the second half of the twentieth century. Translated by Paul Fleming Much more than a personal statement or occasional In this accessible collection of piece, it is a meditation on the state of poetry and art short meditations on various in general and a rigorous attempt to account for what topics, Blumenberg works as poetry is, can, and must be after the Holocaust. This a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual definitive historico-critical edition, available for the and philosophical history for first time in English, presents not only the first drafts, clues—metaphors, gestures, but also a vast array of notes and preparatory work anecdotes—essential to grasp- and a brief essay on Osip Mandelstam, all of which ing human finitude. work to expand the field of reference of Celan’s mani- Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 176 pp., 2010 festo and reveal its true scope. Rich commentaries 9780804735803 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale clarify Celan’s notes to authors as diverse as Leibniz, 9780804735797 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale Scheler, Kafka, Hofmannsthal, Husserl, Pascal, Valéry, The Metamor- Heidegger, and others. phoses of Tintin “Celan’s celebration of the uncanny and transitory ap- or Tintin for Adults pears along with its several early versions and with a Jean-Marie Apostolidès range of source materials that make up a poetic col- Translated by Jocelyn Hoy lage, an implicit epic, in their own right. Those who “This volume's strengths: its know how to read it will find sustenance here for groundbreaking critical ap- years to come.” proach, careful scrutiny of —Jerome Rothenberg characters and plots, and clear, concise presentation (the last “It may seem quixotic to undertake a translation of all attributable to Hoy's transla- the notes and drafts leading up to The Meridian. But tion).... Recommended.” what we have here is more: it is a record of Celan's —J. A. Lent, CHOICE thinking. In other words, a treasure.” 312 pp., 2 tables, 15 figures, 2009 —Rosmarie Waldrop 9780804760317 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804760300 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 304 pp., 14 illustrations, 2011 9780804739528 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804739511 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Literature and Theory Five Plays Anton Chekhov Translated by Marina Brodskaya with an Introduction by Tobias Wolff Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the ground- work for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first On Ceasing to time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest Be Human plays are available to an English-speaking audience. 11 Gerald L. Bruns This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in lan- “A must read in terms of recent guage that will move readers and theater audiences alike, discussions relating to the man/ animal distinction. This book making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, does a brilliant job of bringing and innovations. His characters’ vulnerabilities, needs, together strands of intellectual and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their history—Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to Agamben, Bataille, Blanchot, and Levinas—whose interconnec- life as never before and will surprise readers with their tions enable us to read French vivacity, originality, and relevance. theory in an entirely new way even as they inform questions “Chekhov’s desperate, comedic greatness comes about the end of the human.” through in these versions as never before.” —Herman Rapaport, —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University Wake Forest University 152 pp., 2010 “In these superlative translations, Marina Brodskaya 9780804772099 Paper $18.95 $15.16 sale succeeds in letting Chekhov speak for himself. Her 9780804772082 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale sensitivity to Chekhov’s concise and delicate lan- The Culture guage allows the beauty of his writing to shine of Diagram through in a way which is wonderfully redolent of John Bender and the original Russian.” —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes From a Life, Michael Marrinan translator of About Love and Other Stories, and “The Culture of Diagram is sumptu- Founding Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation ously produced and printed.” —Jonathan Kramnick, “With Chekhov, there are infinite possibilities in every Studies in English Literature thought, every interaction. All an actor asks for in a 296 pp., 48 illustrations (8 color), 2010 translation is that these possibilities be left open as 9780804745055 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 9780804745048 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale they are so beautifully here.” —Peter Sarsgaard, actor 312 pp., 14 illustrations, 2010 9780804769662 Paper $17.95 $14.36 sale 9780804769655 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Literature and Theory Parages AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2011 Glory and Agony Jacques Derrida The Souls of Isaac’s Sacrifice and 12 Edited by John P. Leavey Mixed Folk National Narrative Translated by Tom Conley, Race, Politics, and Yael S. Feldman James Hulbert, John P. Aesthetics in the “An excellent intellectual study Leavey, and Avital Ronell New Millennium that probes into the heart of This volume brings together Michele Elam contemporary Israeli identity four of Jacques Derrida’s essays while situating and arguing its on Maurice Blanchot’s fictions: Examines representations of construction in two mutually “Pace Not(s),” “Living on,” “Title mixed race in literature and inclusive contexts: Jewish tradi- To Be Specified,” and “The Law the arts that redefine new mil- tion and Western thought and of Genre.” lennial aesthetics and politics. philosophy. Clearly an academic Focusing on black-white mixes, work of the highest standards, Cultural Memory in the Present Elam analyzes expressive 280 pp., 2 images, 2011 this important book presents an 9780804735827 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale works as artistic rejoinders to outstandingly well thought out 9780804735810 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale the perception that post-Civil argument for reconsidering the Rights politics are bereft and violent nature of our conduct: new in paperback post-Black art is apolitical. personally, collectively, nationally, Named a CHOICE Outstanding “The Souls of Mixed Folks brings and globally-universally.” Academic Title for 2009 into sharp and dynamic focus —Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University Romanticism and the crucial and complex re- workings of racial identity in Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture the Rise of English the post civil rights era. Elam's 440 pp., 6 illustrations, 2010 Andrew Elfenbein deep historical insight coupled 9780804759021 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale “Elfenbein fleshes out general- with her spot-on analysis of the izations with persuasive close conversation on mixed race new in paperback readings that have something in contemporary culture and The Gothic Text genuine to say about works politics will have a powerful Marshall Brown (by Austen, Scott, Wordsworth, impact on how we remember “...conveyed with such grace of Keats, Byron, Shelley) one this pivotal moment. This book style and such a range of refer- thought one knew well.” is a must have.” ence here that every student of —CHOICE — Tricia Rose, the Gothic and the Romantic and Brown University 288 pp., 2009 their relationship ought to take 9780804773621 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 312 pp., 23 illustrations, 2011 account of it from now on.” 9780804756303 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale —European Romantic Review 9780804756297 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale 312 pp., 2005 9780804739139 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

Literature and Theory Sound and Sight Theaters of Justice Tokyo in Transit Poetry and Courtier Judging, Staging, and Japanese Culture on Culture in theYongming Working Through in the Rails and Road 13 Era (483–493) Arendt, Brecht, and Alisa Freedman Meow Hui Goh Delbo “A significant contribution to This is the first book to examine Yasco Horsman Japanese literary studies, Tokyo Chinese poetry and courtier Through an analysis of philo- in Transit offers such a readable, culture using the concept of sophical and literary texts by compelling cultural history that shengse—sound and sight— Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht, anyone who has ever taken a which connotes “sensual plea- and Charlotte Delbo, this book train or waited at a bus stop will sure.” Under the moral and raises the question: how does find a story here that strikes a political imperative to avoid or the theatrical structure of a chord.” even eliminate representations criminal trial both facilitate and —Jan Bardsley, of sense perception, premodern limit national processes of heal- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chinese commentators treated ing and learning from the past? overt displays of artistry with 352 pp., 16 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, 2010 great suspicion, and their influ- “An important and highly read- 9780804771450 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale ence is still alive in modern and able in-depth study of post-war 9780804771443 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale contemporary constructions of legal and literary events that literary and cultural history. continue to exert their influence Imagining Harmony on the contemporary under- Poetry, Empathy, and “As this book demonstrates, standing of justice and historical Community in Mid- ‘sound’ is not just a physical truth. Horsman is concerned phenomenon, but a mode of with those aspects of reality that Tokugawa Confucianism perception. Perception in all its are negotiated and expressed and Nativism modes was a matter of intense in a trial but cannot be dealt Peter Flueckiger interest for the Yongming poets, with adequately within the “This work will undoubtedly and an area in which their receptivity categories of the law; he shows immediately emerge as a fresh to Buddhist teaching met their that literature commemorates starting point for studies of both attention to verbal craft; and and conveys dimensions of the literary and sociopolitical thought it is through her attention to past that do not fit easily into in Tokugawa Japan. The scholar- the modes of perception made the idiom, structure, or purpose ship is careful, grounded in sound active in the poetry that Meow of legal discourse.” theory, and bold in its revision of Hui Goh links literary style with —Ulrich Baer, long-held interpretations.” intellectual history.” New York University —Lawrence E. Marceau, —Haun Saussy, Cultural Memory in the Present University of Auckland Yale University 232 pp., 2010 304 pp., 2010 208 pp., 2010 9780804770323 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 9780804761574 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale 9780804768597 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale 9780804770316 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

Literature and Theory Memos from the Besieged City Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability Djelal Kadir This book argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precari- ous circumstances to make significant contributions East West Mimesis to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous hu- Auerbach in Turkey 14 man acts. Focusing on historically vital crossroads— Kader Konuk Baghdad, Florence, Byzantium, Istanbul, Rome, Paris, “Konuk’s groundbreaking study New York, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Beijing, Stockholm, significantly enhances our under- Warsaw—Kadir looks at how unconventional and standing of the shared intellectual, literary, and political history that nonconformist writings define literacy, culture, and links twentieth-century Turkey to intellectual commitment. major developments in Europe. Her work poses a significant chal- “Exceptionally original in conception, innovative in lenge to persistent beliefs about argumentation, and eloquent in style, Memos from the the ‘backwardness’ and ‘Oriental- Besieged City takes on a moral urgency in addressing ness’ of modern Turkey.” —Nina Berman, itself to an age of homeland insecurity and projections Ohio State University of power abroad, revealing an all too close linkage 320 pp., 22 illustrations, 2010 between American comparatism and a hegemonic 9780804769747 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale hubris that academics may share even as they seek to oppose it.” From Kabbalah —David Damrosch, Harvard University to Class Struggle Expressionism, Marxism, “This important and original book will prove controver- and Yiddish Literature sial and difficult to ignore.” in the Life and Work of —Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz Meir Wiener Cultural Memory in the Present Mikhail Krutikov 296 pp., 2010 9780804770507 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale “This fascinating book offers the 9780804770491 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale first complete evaluation of the legacy of Meir Wiener, one of the most prominent Jewish intellec- tuals and writers of the twentieth century.” —Dan Miron, Columbia University Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture 408 pp., 6 illustrations, 2010 9780804770071 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Literature and Theory Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson Jonathan Kramnick How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person’s hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make The Jewish Persona a promise? In Actions and in the European Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature 15 Imagination and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth A Case of Russian and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and Literature novelists, poets and scientists were all concerned with Leonid Livak the place of the mind in the world. This book argues that the repre- sentation of Jews in European “As a philosopher and cognitive scientist, I read Jona- literature has little to do with than Kramnick’s book Actions and Objects from Hobbes actual, human Jews, but rather to Richardson with mounting excitement. He makes is derived from the concep- a compelling case that Rochester’s late-seventeenth- tion of Jews as Christianity’s paradigmatic Other, eternally century erotic poetry—on such topics as unwelcome reenacting their morally am- episodes of impotence or random sexual encounters biguous New Testament role as in London’s public parks—can and should be read as the Christ-bearing and -killing making innovative contributions to then flourishing de- chosen people of God. bates about the nature of mind, the person and agency. “Contributes a new understand- What’s more, Kramnick shows that these earlier debates ing both of familiar Russian lit- continue to shape our engagement today with these erary texts and less familiar East Slavic religious and folkloric same topics. If Kramnick is right, then contemporary texts. Livak’s theory is power- philosophy of mind needs to take a new look at these fully explanatory and will excite old literatures. But there is a more far-reaching upshot: controversy and debate.” Kramnick describes a world where there were no sharp —Gabriella Safran, Stanford University lines to be drawn between the work of theory and the Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture work of the literary artist. Perhaps this too ought to 512 pp., 11 illustrations, 2010 serve as a model for us today? Maybe it is time for us to 9780804770552 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale bridge the gap that separates the concerns and meth- ods of science and those of literature in contemporary society. Kramnick’s book is more than intellectual his- tory. It actively engages with these important issues.” —Alva Noe, University of California, Berkeley 320 pp., 2010 9780804770521 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804770514 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Literature and Theory Adventures in the French Trade Fragments Toward a Life Jeffrey Mehlman This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman’s amour new in paperback Winner of the 2010 Phi Beta vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for Kappa Gauss Book Award 16 France and the French. The reader will encounter mas- ters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration Telling Images elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements V.A. Kolve have had in the author’s life. With all its idiosyncrasies, 408 pp., 160 illustrations, 2009 Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual 9780804776585 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French new in paperback theory but also those who do not. This provocative book Literary Historicity should be of interest to students of intellectual history, Literature and literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of Ameri- Historical Experience can academia, and the genre of the memoir itself. in Eighteenth-Century Britain “This wondrous memoir draws the reader into a unique Ruth Mack career and ‘trade’ that have been points of reference on 240 pp., 2009 9780804773676 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale the horizon of French letters since the middle 1960s. It is sensuous, engaging, of great sweep, and in its obser- new in paperback vations both cutting and entertaining. No one of his Postsocialist generation bears the same signature as Jeffrey Mehl- Modernity man; Adventures in the French Trade tells us why.” Chinese Cinema, —Tom Conley, Harvard University Literature, and Criticism Cultural Memory in the Present in the Market Age 200 pp., 2 figures, 2010 Jason McGrath 9780804769624 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale 320 pp., 1 table, 11 illustrations, 2008 9780804769617 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale 9780804773638 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

Literature and Theory Our Conrad Dialectic and Literary Passports Constituting American Dialogue The Making of Modernity Dmitri Nikulin Modernist Hebrew 17 Peter Lancelot Mallios This book considers the emer- Fiction in Europe Our Conrad is a literary and gence of dialectic out of the Shachar M. Pinsker cultural history, political in em- spirit of dialogue and, begin- Literary Passports is the first phasis, of the modern Ameri- ning with the ancient Greeks book to explore modernist He- can invention of Joseph Con- and moving through modern brew fiction in Europe in the rad as a “master” literary figure philosophy, traces a historical early decades of the twentieth as well as a call to transnation- and systematic relation be- century. It deals with modern- alize the field of American liter- tween the two. ist Hebrew fiction as an urban ary and cultural studies. “Nikulin’s newest book on dia- phenomenon, explores the ways in which the genre dealt “Mallios weaves his tale master- logue and dialectics displays a with issues of sexuality and fully and convinces me that beautiful combination of great gender, and examines its depic- Conrad-in-America was much scholarship, fine storytelling, tions the complex relations more significant than I had and innovative ideas.” between tradition, modernity, realized—that the reception —Ágnes Heller, and religion. of Conrad in America says as New School for Social Research much about America as it does “Dialectic and Dialogue is a “Literary Passports is a break- about Conrad. Our Conrad will very important work, poten- through in the understanding be embraced by scholars in tially a classic. It is stimulating of the literary modernism English and American literature throughout, as well as original that flourished in Hebrew and American history, as well in conception and execution— on European soil during the as readers outside academia the first study to bring together early decades of the twentieth who want to understand the these two signal concepts.” century. Its vivid investiga- connection of America with tion of the cafe world of the —Mark Roche, the rest of the world during the University of Notre Dame Hebrew writers locates their early twentieth century.” work in concrete cultural space, —Fred Hobson, 184 pp., 2010 and the discussion of sexual University of North Carolina at 9780804770163 Paper $19.95 $15.96 sale themes in Hebrew modernism 9780804770156 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale Chapel Hill shows how deeply engaged it 488 pp., 15 illustrations, 2010 was in the prevalent European 9780804757911 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale discourse of the era.” —Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture 464 pp., 20 illustrations, 2010 9780804770644 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Literature and Theory The Rhetoric of AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2011 Police Aesthetics Error from Locke Mongrels or Marvels Literature, Film, and 18 to Kleist The Levantine Writings the Secret Police in Zachary Sng of Jacqueline Shohet Soviet Times The Rhetoric of Error considers Kahanoff Cristina Vatulescu the important role of error in Edited by Deborah A. Starr Taking advantage of the partial eighteenth-century accounts of and Sasson Somekh opening of secret police ar- language, subjectivity, and epis- This collection of essays and chives in Russia and Romania, temology in authors such as fiction offers critical insights Police Aesthetics explores the Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, into Egypt’s cosmopolitan past, intersections between culture Goethe, and Kleist. Jewish-Levantine identities, and policing in Soviet times. and the possibilities for cul- “The Rhetoric of Error from Locke “This is a very important, tural integration within Israel to Kleist is highly ambitious and groundbreaking book, one and beyond. shows a remarkable erudition of the most original and il- in a broad spectrum of fields: “Kahanoff's extraordinarily luminating works I have seen philosophy, literature, and important writings have held in recent years in comparative above all literary theory. This is a certain aura or mystery for Slavic studies. Police Aesthetics theoretical thinking and literary many decades and have been will unquestionably position criticism at its best.” unavailable in their original Cristina Vatulescu as one of —Carol Jacobs, English language form. They the foremost scholars of So- Yale University are of particular interest; in part viet culture.” because she is a woman, and —Catharine Nepomnyashchy, “This elegant, lucid book ad- Jewish, but most importantly Columbia University dresses itself to one of the because her ideas, sometimes most imposingly significant 264 pp., 29 illustrations, 2010 anachronistic, idiosyncratic, topics imaginable. [It] not only 9780804760805 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale and even contradictory, were contributes richly to our under- clearly ahead of her time. Her standing of classic eighteenth- Binding Violence work has enduring value, shed- century literary and philosophi- Literary Visions of ding light on an important cal texts, but offers the rare historical period from a unique Political Origins spectacle of a work fearlessly and complex perspective.” Moira Fradinger committed to the task of think- 352 pp., 2010 ing about reading.” —Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College, City University 9780804763301 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale —Marc Redfield, of New York Claremont Graduate University Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture 216 pp., 2010 280 pp., 2011 9780804770170 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale 9780804769532 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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