Philosophy, Theory, Literature

PHILOSOPHY, THEORY, LITERATURE

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Philosophy and Social Theory...... 2-9 Literature, Criticism, and Literary Theory ...... 9-16 Art and Film ...... 17-18 Pilate and Jesus Borrowed Light GIORGIO AGAMBEN Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies TRANSLATED BY ADAM KOTSKO Ordering Information ...... 2 TIMOTHY BRENNAN Pontius Pilate is one of the most Examination Copy Policy ...... 18 A critical revaluation of the humanist enigmatic figures in Christian the- tradition, Borrowed Light makes ology. The only non-Christian to be the case that the 20th century is the named in the Nicene Creed, he is “anti-colonial century.” The sparks of ORDERING presented as a cruel colonial overseer concerted resistance to colonial oppres- in secular accounts, as a conflicted Receive a 20% discount on all titles listed sion were ignited in the gathering of in this catalog. Use the following code to judge convinced of Jesus’s innocence intellectual malcontents from all over redeem this offer on hardcover and pa- in the Gospels, and as either a pious the world in interwar Europe. Many perback editions: S15LIT. Christian or a virtual demon in of this era’s principal figures were Please order by phone or online. Call later Christian writings. This book formed by the experience of revolution 800-621-2736 or visit www.sup.org. takes Pilate’s role in the trial of Jesus on Europe’s semi-developed Eastern as a starting point for investigating Phone orders are accepted Monday–Fri- periphery, making their ideas especially day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm CT. the function of legal judgment in pertinent to current ideas about au- Western society and the ways that such Orders must be prepaid or charged on tonomy and sovereignty. Moreover, the judgment requires us to adjudicate VISA, MasterCard, Discover Card, or debates most prominent then—human American Express (libraries excepted). the competing claims of the eternal vs. inhuman, religions of the book vs. Books not yet published or temporarily and the historical. Coming just as oral cultures, the authoritarian state out of stock will be charged to your cred- Agamben is bringing his decades-long vs. the representative state and, above it card when they become available and Homo Sacer project to an end, Pilate all, scientific rationality vs. humanist are in the process of being shipped. Stan- and Jesus sheds considerable light reason—remain central today. ford University Press books are distrib- on what is at stake in that series as a uted by the University of Chicago Press whole. At the same time, it stands on Timothy Brennan returns to the Distribution Center. Shipping & Handling scientific Enlightenment of the 17th $5.00; outside the United States $9.50; its own, perhaps more than any of the add $1.00 for each additional book. author’s recent works. It thus serves as century and its legacies. In readings a perfect starting place for readers who of the showdown between Spinoza are curious about Agamben’s approach and Vico, Hegel’s critique of liberalism, but do not know where to begin. and Nietzsche’s antipathy towards the MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS colonies and social democracy, Bren- nan identifies the divergent lines of the 88 pages, 2015 9780804794541 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale first anticolonial theory—a literary and 9780804792332 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale philosophical project with strong ties to what we now call Marxism. Along the way, he assesses prospects for a renewal of the study of imperial culture. 304 pages, 2014 9780804790543 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804788328 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

2 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Stanford Briefs— an imprint of Stanford Univer- Stanford sity Press—pres- BRIEFS ents an innovative collection of new books. Published across our various disciplines, these books address the essence of a topic. Briefs are essay-length works freed from the technical requirements of the scholarly journal article and the elaborate documentation of the full-length research

monograph. The National Short and Park to Come MARGRET incisive, Briefs GREBOWICZ Our Word Is Our Bond should appeal with illustrations by Jacqueline How Legal Speech Acts to specialists Schlossman MARIANNE CONSTABLE and nonspe- Historians of wilder- Words can be misspoken, misheard, ness have shown that misunderstood, or misappropriated; cialists alike nature reserves are they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, by reducing for- dangerous, or wrong. When speech used ideologically in goes wrong, law often steps in as malization and the construction of itself a speech act or series of speech American national acts. Marianne Constable argues focusing on de- identity. But the that, as language, modern law makes bates of broad- contemporary prob- claims and hears claims of justice and lem of wilderness injustice, which can admittedly go er interest. demands examination of how profoundly wrong. She proposes an alternative to nature-in-reserve influences something understanding law as a system of rules, All Briefs are peer-re- more fundamental, namely what counts or as fundamentally a policy-making and problem-solving tool. Constable viewed, and the criteria as being well, having a life, and having a introduces and develops insights from future. What is wellness for the citizens Austin, Cavell, Reinach, Nietzsche, that we use to select and to whom the parks are said to democrati- Derrida and Heidegger to show how approve each manu- cally belong? And how does the presence claims of law are performative and of foreigners threaten this wellness? passionate utterances or social acts that script match the rigor Recent critiques of the Wilderness Act appeal implicitly to justice. and high quality of our focus exclusively on its ecological effects, ignoring the extent to which wilderness Our Word Is Our Bond explains that traditional monographs. neither law nor justice are what lawyers policy affects our contemporary collec- and judges say, nor what officials and Without sacrificing the tive experience and political imagination. scholars claim they are. However Tracing the challenges that migration quality of carefully edited inadequate our law and language may and indigenousness currently pose to the be to the world, Constable argues that and produced content, national park system and the Wilderness we know our world and name our ways Act, Grebowicz foregrounds concerns of living and being in it through law these books are pub- and language with social justice against the ecological lished on four-month and aesthetic ones that have created and THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW continue to shape these environments. 232 pages, 2014 schedules, allowing for 9780804774949 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 88 pages, 20 illustrations, 2015 9780804774932 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale time-sensitive dialogue. 9780804789622 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY 3 The Other Adam Smith MIKE HILL AND WARREN MONTAG The Other Adam Smith repre- sents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under- examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill New Demons and Warren Montag take seriously Smith’s entire corpus, his Rethinking Power and Evil Today writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and SIMONA FORTI political economy, as constituting a comprehensive—though TRANSLATED BY ZAKIYA HANAFI highly contestable—system of thought. We meet not just Smith As long as we care about suffering in the economist, but Smith the philosopher, Smith the literary the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to critic, Smith the historian, and Smith the anthropologist. inquire into the question of evil. But Placed in relation to key thinkers such as Hume, Lord Kames, is the concept of evil still useful in a Fielding, Hayek, Von Mises, and Agamben, this other Adam postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativ- Smith, far from being localized in the history of eighteenth- ized by a historicist perspective? Given century economic thought or ideas, stands at the center of the our current unwillingness to judge most vibrant and contentious debates of the twentieth and others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior? twenty-first centuries. Surveying the nineteenth- and twen- “This outstanding interdisciplinary achievement spans English literature, tieth-century Western philosophical social theory, history of philosophy, history of the book, social theory, debates on evil, Forti concludes that and political history in what is a socially important and largely original it is time to leave behind what she calls “the Dostoevsky paradigm”: the re-evaluation of the argument for a market society and Liberal political dualistic vision of an omnipotent economy more generally.” monster pitted against absolute, help- —Eric Schliesser, Ghent University less victims. In its place, she offers a different genealogy of the relationship 416 pages, 2014 between evil and power. At the center 9780804792943 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale of contemporary evil she posits the 9780804791946 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy, and the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies. In our times, she contends, evil must be explored in tandem with our stubborn desire to stay alive at all costs as much as with our deep need for recognition: the new modern absolutes. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT 416 pages, 2014 9780804792950 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 9780804786249 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

4 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Convulsing Bodies Religion and Resistance in Foucault MARK D. JORDAN By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault’s thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher’s work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Chris- tianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was The Far Reaches always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Yet many readers have ignored how central religion is to his Renewal in Central Europe thought, particularly with regard to human bodies and how MICHAEL D. GUBSER they are shaped. The point is not to turn Foucault into some The phenomenological movement not sort of believer or to extract from him a fixed thesis about only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as religion as such. Rather, it is to see how Foucault engages distinguishing right from wrong and religious rhetoric page after page—even when religion is not explaining the status of values; it also his main topic. When readers follow his allusions, they can called on philosophy to renew Euro- pean societies facing crisis, an aim that see why he finds in religion not only an object of critique, but inspired thinkers in interwar Europe as a perennial provocation to think about how speech works on well as later communist bloc dissidents. bodies—and how bodies resist. Despite this legacy, phenomenology continues to be largely discounted as Arguing that Foucault conducts experiments in writing to esoteric and solipsistic, the last gasp of a frustrate academic expectations about history and theory, Cartesian dream to base knowledge on Mark Jordan gives equal weight to the performative and the isolated rational mind. Intellectual histories tend to cite Husserl’s episte- theatrical aspects of Foucault’s writing or lecturing. How does mological influence on philosophies Foucault stage possibilities of self-transformation? How are like existentialism and deconstruction his books or lectures akin to the rituals and liturgies that he without considering his social or ethical imprint. And while a few recent schol- dissects in them? Convulsing Bodies follows its own game of ars have begun to note phenomenol- hide-and-seek with the agents of totalizing systems (not least ogy’s wider ethical resonance, its image in the academy) and gives us a Foucault who plays with his as stubbornly academic continues to hold sway. The Far Reaches challenges audiences as he plays for them—or teaches them. that image by tracing the first history 272 pages, 2014 of phenomenological ethics and social 9780804792769 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale thought in Central Europe, from its founders Franz Brentano and Edmund 9780804789028 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale Husserl through its reception in East Central Europe by dissident thinkers such as Jan Patočka, Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II), and Václav Havel. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT 360 pages, 2014 9780804792523 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9780804790659 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY 5 The Manhattan Project A Theory of a City DAVID KISHIK In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary life in New York. During his anonymous, posthumous existence, while he was haunting and haunted by his new city, Benjamin composed a sequel to his Arcades Project. Just as his incomplete Radical Equality masterpiece revolved around Paris, capital of the nineteenth Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the century, this spectral text was dedicated to New York, capital Risk of Democracy of the twentieth. Kishik’s sui generis work of experimental AISHWARY KUMAR scholarship or fictional philosophy is thus presented as a B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India’s constitution, and Indian nationalist M.K. study of a manuscript that was never written. Gandhi, the two figures whose policies and legacies have most contributed to The fictitious prolongation of Benjamin’s life will raise more Indian democracy, are typically consid- than one eyebrow, but the wit, breadth, and incisiveness of ered antagonists who held irreconcilable Kishik’s own writing is bound to impress. Kishik reveals a views of empire and political and social reform. As such, they are rarely studied world of secret affinities between New York City and Paris, together. This book reassesses their the flâneur and the homeless person, the collector and the complex relationship, focusing on what hoarder, the covered arcade and the bare street, but also be- it identifies as a mutual commitment to unconditional equality as inseparable tween photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, from the struggle for sovereignty. Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane It traces the philosophical foundations Jacobs. A critical celebration of New York City, The Manhat- of their thought in Indian and Western tan Project reshapes our perception of urban life, and rethinks traditions, both religious and secular, our very conception of modernity. and explores the paradoxes and risks of democracy in modern political thought. “The Manhattan Project channels Walter Benjamin in a quest to under- It is particularly attentive to slippages stand twentieth-century New York. Deftly blending history and fiction whereby their militant demands for egalitarian justice are compromised in order to capture the city’s delirious yet weighty reality, David Kishik or contradicted by their own moral offers astute observations of phenomena as diverse as photography, the practices, and where the language of character of the street, Andy Warhol, dance, and the New York Public nonviolence lapses into that of force Library. Turning the pages of this fascinating book is like turning a New or sacrifice. Excavating the intellectual kinship of Ambedkar and Gandhi, York street corner only to find some new and unexpected pleasure.” Aishwary Kumar allows them to shed —Todd May, Clemson University light on each other, and the story of 288 pages, 30 illustrations, 2015 their struggle against inequality, violence, 9780804786034 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale and empire thus transcends national boundaries and unfolds within a broader twentieth-century history of ideas. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT 416 pages, 2015 9780804791953 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

6 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY The Emotional Logic of Capitalism What Progressives Have Missed MARTIJN KONINGS The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new The World of Freedom sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics Heidegger, Foucault, and the of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of Politics of Historical Ontology attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding ROBERT NICHOLS force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement influential thinkers of the twentieth with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, century. Each has spawned volumes of Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism’s emotional and secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about theological content in order to understand the paradoxical the relationship between philosophy sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In and politics. And yet, to date there developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism. engagement of the two in relation to “This extraordinarily incisive and provocative book goes a long way one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna. toward explaining the tenacious grip of money on the American moral imagination.” Robert Nichols demonstrates that it is —Eugene McCarraher, Villanova University not merely interesting but necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside 184 pages, 2015 one another if we are to properly 9780804794473 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale understand the shape of twentieth- 9780804794077 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale century Continental thought. Through close, scholarly engagement with primary texts, he develops original and demanding insights into the relationship between fundamental and historical ontology, modes of objectification and subjectification, and an ethopoetic conception of freedom. He also reveals the role that Heidegger’s reception in France played in Foucault’s intellectual development—the first major work to do so while taking full advantage of the recent publication of Foucault’s last Collège de France lectures of the 1980s. 296 pages, 2014 9780804792646 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804788755 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY 7 The Specter of Capital JOSEPH VOGL In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism—with its bewil- dering array of new instru- ments—by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical economic theorists have played a decisive role here. Ignoring early warnings about the instability Spinoza Contra of speculative finance markets, they have persisted in their Phenomenology belief in the inherent equilibrium of the market, describing French Rationalism from Cavaillès even major crises as mere aberrations or adjustments and to Deleuze rationalizing dubious financial practices that escalate risk KNOX PEDEN while seeking to manage it. Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar “The market knows best”: this is a secular version of Adam French thought, typically presumed to Smith’s faith in the market’s “invisible hand,” his economic have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. interpretation of eighteenth-century providentialist theo- Although the reception of phenom- dicy, which subsequently hardened into an “oikodicy,” an enology gave rise to many innovative unquestioning belief in the self-regulating beneficence of developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, market forces. Vogl shows that financial theory, assisted by not everyone in France was pleased with mathematical modeling and digital technology, itself operates this German import. This book recounts as a “hidden hand,” pushing economic reality into unknown how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark against territory. He challenges economic theorists to move beyond the nominally irrationalist tendencies the neoclassical paradigm to discern the true contours of the of phenomenology. From its beginnings current epoch of financial convulsions. in the interwar years, this rationalism would prove foundational for Althusser’s “To understand what capitalism means today, we must ask about eco- rethinking of Marxism and Deleuze’s nomics and culture, for capital is central to each. It takes on spectral ambitious metaphysics. There has been a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism form: shadowy, fleeting, but omnipresent. This is finance capitalism. It of late by those who see his work as a has existed before but is of newly dramatic power now. Vogl’s book is kind of neo-vitalism or philosophy of full of insights into what is going on and what it all means.” life and affect. Peden counters this trend by tracking a decisive and neglected —Craig Calhoun, aspect of Spinoza’s philosophy—his Director, London School of Economics and Political Science rationalism—in a body of thought too CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT often presumed to have rejected reason. 168 pages, 2014 In the process, he demonstrates that the 9780804792929 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale virtues of Spinoza’s rationalism have yet 9780804789042 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale to be exhausted. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT 384 pages, 1 figure, 2014 9780804791342 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 9780804787413 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

8 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Ethics in Economics What Money Wants Literature and the Creative An Introduction to Moral An Economy of Desire Economy Frameworks NOAM YURAN SARAH BROUILLETTE WITH A PREFACE BY KEITH HART JONATHAN B. WIGHT For nearly twenty years, social In Ethics in Economics , Jonathan B. One thing all mainstream economists scientists and policy makers have been Wight provides an overview of the agree upon is that money has nothing highly interested in the idea of the role that ethical considerations play whatsoever to do with desire. This creative economy. This book contends in economic debates. Whereas much strange blindness of the profession to that mainstream considerations of the of the field tends to focus on welfare what is otherwise considered to be a economic and social force of culture, outcomes, Wight calls for a deeper basic feature of economic life serves as including theories of the creative class examination of the origin and evolution the starting point for this provocative and of cognitive and immaterial labor, of our moral norms. He argues that new theory of money. Through the are indebted to historic conceptions of economic life relies on three inter- works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, the art of literary authorship. What’s related ethical systems: outcome-based, and Max Weber, What Money Wants more, it shows how contemporary duty- and rule-based, and virtue-based. argues that money is first and foremost literature has been involved in and has Wight provides a thorough and an object of desire. Noam Yuran responded to creative-economy phe- accessible outline of all three schools, explores the theoretical consequences nomena, including the presentation of explaining how they fit or contrast with of the possibility that an ordinary artists as models of contentedly flexible the economic welfare model, and then object fulfills money’s function insofar and self-managed work, the treatment uses these conceptual underpinnings to as it is desired as money. Rich in color- of training in and exposure to art as examine a range of contemporary top- ful and accessible examples, from the a pathway to social inclusion, the use ics, such as the 2008 financial crisis, the work of Charles Dickens to Reality TV of culture and cultural institutions to moral limits to markets, the findings and commercials, this book convinces increase property values, and support of experimental economics, and the us that we must return to Marx and for cultural diversity as a means of nature of economic justice. His analysis Veblen if we are to understand how growing cultural markets. is guided by the innovative concept brand names, broadcast television, and Taking a sociological approach to of ethical pluralism—the recognition celebrity culture work. Analyzing both literary criticism, Brouillette interprets that each system has appropriate classical and contemporary economic major works of contemporary fiction applications, and that no one prevails. theory, it reveals the philosophical by Monica Ali, Aravind Adiga, Daljit This book is ideal for undergraduates dimensions of the controversy between Nagra, and Ian McEwan alongside or uninitiated readers who seek an orthodox and heterodox economics. government policy, social science, and introduction to this topic. 320 pages, 2014 theoretical explorations of creative 9780804785938 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale STANFORD ECONOMICS AND FINANCE 9780804785921 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale work and immaterial labor. 280 pages, 12 figures 248 pages, 2014 9780804794534 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9780804789486 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale 9780804793258 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

LITERATURE, CRITICISM, 9 AND LITERARY THEORY Mother Folly A Tale FRANÇOISE DAVOINE TRANSLATED BY JUDITH G. MILLER WITH A PREFACE BY MIEKE BAL If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide. She herself has a crisis, and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and she conjures up an interconnected world, where apiculture, NOW IN PAPER! Better Left Unsaid wondrous rituals, theater, and language games illuminate her Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, therapeutic practice as well as her personal history. Patients, and the Benefits of Censorship fools, and the actors of medieval farces rise up from the past NORA GILBERT along with great thinkers who represent the author’s own philo- Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly sophical and literary sources: the humanist Erasmus, mathema- position of defending censorship tician René Thom, writer Antonin Artaud, philosopher Ludwig from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking Wittgenstein, and physicist Edwin Schrödinger, to name a few. two genres generally presumed to Mother Folly is an important intervention in the debate about have been stymied by the censor’s how to treat the mentally ill, particularly those with psycho- knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals sis. A practicing analyst and a skilled reader of literary and the varied ways in which censorship, philosophical texts, Davoine provides a humane antidote to our for all its blustery self-righteousness, increasingly mechanized and drug-reliant system of dealing can actually be good for sex, politics, with “fools and madmen.” feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism is equated “Luminous, erudite, diabolically ironic, and wonderfully wild, Francoise with such cultural impulses as repres- Davoine’s Mother Folly turns psychiatry on its head. Taking her lead sion and prudery, few scholars have from that great satirical work by Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Davoine explored the Victorian novel as a has created a hybrid text, which combines elements of fiction, theatrical “censored” commodity—thanks, in large part, to the indirectness and in- production, philosophical meditation, and narrative history to expose tangibility of England’s literary censor- the absurdities of contemporary platitudes about mental illness and its ship process. This indirection stands in treatment and to reveal the hidden truths of trauma and madness.” sharp contrast to the explicit, detailed —Siri Hustvedt formality of Hollywood’s infamous Production Code of 1930. In compar- CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT ing these two versions of censorship, 256 pages, 2014 Nora Gilbert explores the paradoxical 9780804782784 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804782777 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale effects of prohibitive practices. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them. THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW 200 pages, 13 illustrations, 2013 9780804795319 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale

10 LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY A Life with Mary Shelley BARBARA JOHNSON

EDITED BY JUDITH BUTLER AND SHOSHANA FELMAN In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theo- rist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson’s lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of “wom- American Terror en’s studies,” one of whose commitments was the rediscovery The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded Poe, and Melville from the academic canon. It is surprising to recall that when PAUL HURH Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley’s novels were in If America is a nation founded upon print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writ- Enlightenment ideals, then why are ing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror husband’s. Johnson came to pen yet more essays on Shelley returns to the question of American over the course of a brilliant career, and much of what we literature’s distinctive tone of ter- know and think about Mary Shelley today is due to her work. ror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar In this volume, Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman have Allan Poe, and Herman Melville—who not only wrote works of terror, but who united all of Johnson’s published and unpublished work on defended, theorized, and championed Shelley alongside their own new, insightful pieces of criticism it. Combining updated historical and those of two other peers and fellow pioneers in feminist perspectives with close reading, Paul Hurh shows how these authors devel- theory, Mary Wilson Carpenter and Cathy Caruth. oped terror as a special literary affect “This animated book brings to life the very thing Mary Shelley could informed by the way the concept of thinking becomes, in the wake of herself hardly have imagined: the critical difference a supportive circle Enlightenment empiricism, increasingly of women writers can make.” defined by a set of austere mechanic — Diana Fuss, Los Angeles Review of Books processes, such as the scientific method MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS and the algebraic functions of analytical 232 pages, 2014 logic. Rather than trying to find a 9780804791250, Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale feeling that would transcend thinking 9780804790529, Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale by subtending reason to emotion, these writers found in terror the feeling of thinking, the peculiar feeling of reason’s authority over emotional schemes. 336 pages, 2 illustrations, 2015 9780804791144 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY 11 The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers Tales of Futures Past Robinson Jeffers, with Poet and Prophet Anticipation and the Ends of Selected Letters of Una JAMES KARMAN Literature in Contemporary China Jeffers The precipitous cliffs, rolling head- PAOLA IOVENE Volume Three, 1940–1962 lands, and rocky inlets of the Cali- Most studies of Chinese literature EDITED BY JAMES KARMAN fornia coast come alive in the poetry conflate the category of the future of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of This volume of correspondence, the with notions of progress and nation the environmental movement. In last in a three-volume edition, spans a building, and with the utopian visions this concise and accessible biography, pivotal moment in American history: broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals the mid-twentieth century, from the developmental state. The future is deep insights into this passionate beginning of World War II, through thus understood as a preconceived and complex figure and establishes the years of rebuilding and uneasy endpoint that is propagated, at times Jeffers as a leading American poet of peace that followed, to the election of even imposed, by a center of power. By prophetic vision. President John F. Kennedy. Robinson contrast, Tales of Futures Past intro- Jeffers published four important books At the height of his popularity in duces “anticipation”—the expectations during this period—Be Angry at the the 1920s and 1930s, Jeffers became that permeate life as it unfolds—as a Sun (1941), Medea (1946), The Double one of the few poets ever featured lens through which to reexamine the Axe (1948), and Hungerfield (1954). He on the cover of Time magazine, and textual, institutional, and experiential also faced changes to his hometown posthumously put on a U.S. postage aspects of Chinese literary culture from village of Carmel, experienced the stamp. Writing by kerosene lamp in a the 1950s to 2011. In doing so, Paola rewards of being a successful dramatist granite tower that he had built himself, Iovene connects the emergence of new in the United States and abroad, and his vivid and descriptive poetry of the literary genres with changing visions of endured the loss of his wife Una. Jeffers’ coast evoked the difficulty and beauty the future in contemporary China. letters, and those of Una written in of the wild and inspired photographers She provides a nuanced and dynamic the decade prior to her death, offer a such as Edward Weston and Ansel account of the relationship between vivid chronicle of the life and times of a Adams. Inspiring later artists from state discourses, market pressures, singular and visionary poet. Charles Bukowski to Czesław Miłosz and individual writers and texts, and 1024 pages, 43 illustrations, 2015 and even the Beach Boys, Robinson stresses authors’ and editors’ efforts to 9780804794671 Cloth $95.00 $76.00 sale Jeffers’ contribution to American let- redefine what constitutes literature un- ters is skillfully brought back out of the der changing political and economic shadows of history in this compelling circumstances. Iovene mines Chinese biography of a complex man of poetic science fiction and popular science, genius who wrote so powerfully of the puts forward a new interpretation of astonishing beauty of nature. familiar Chinese avant-garde fiction, 192 pages, 19 illustrations, 2015 and offers close readings of texts that 9780804789639 Paper $19.95 $15.96 sale have not yet received any attention in English-language scholarship 240 pages, 5 figures, 2014 9780804789370 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

12 LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY Mark Twain in China SELINA LAI-HENDERSON Mark Twain (Samuel Lang- horne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued The Stranger and the to travel through China in Chinese Moral Imagination translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive HAIYAN LEE today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied In the last two decades, China has and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn become a dramatically more urban alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese society and hundreds of millions of translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Look- people have changed residence. Fam- ily and communal bonds have been ing at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to broken in a country once known as “a events involving the American Chinese community and to the society of kith and kin.” There has Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through been a pervasive sense of moral crisis in contemporary China, and the new translation, and China’s reception of the author and his work, market economy doesn’t seem to offer Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a any solutions. global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts This book investigates how the Chinese such as “race,” “nation,” and “empire,” and helps us rethink their have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses racial and cultural dynamics from the United States. the easy answers claiming that this “moral crisis” is merely smoke and “A fresh contribution to Mark Twain studies and to American literary mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, studies, as well as to transnational American Studies, and cultural stud- overwrought leaders and scholars, or ies more broadly, this groundbreaking book will pave the way for future that it can be simply chalked up to the investigations of the many approaches that the author opens up for us.” topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the per- —Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University ception of crisis is itself symptomatic 184 pages, 11 illustrations, 2015 of a deeper problem that has roots in 9780804789646 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality. This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger— foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, unattached woman, animal—across literature, film, television, and museum culture. 376 pages, 13 illustrations, 3 figures, 2014 9780804785914 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY 13 The Case of Mistress Mary The Practice of Misuse Poetic Force Hampson Rugged Consumerism in Poetry after Kant Her Story of Marital Abuse and Contemporary American Culture KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN Defiance in Seventeenth-Century RAYMOND MALEWITZ This book argues that the theory of England In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvage- force elaborated in Immanuel Kant’s JESSICA L. MALAY punks, this book charts the emergence aesthetics (and in particular, his of “rugged consumers” who creatively theorization of the dynamic sublime) The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects is of decisive importance to poetry Mary Hampson is the autobiographical within their environments to suit their in the nineteenth century and to the narrative of a 17th-century woman idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures connection between poetry and in an abusive and violent marriage. of both literary and material culture philosophy over the last two centuries. Composed at a time when marital dis- whose behavior evokes an American Inspired by his deep engagement with harmony was in vogue with readers and can-do ethic, rugged consumers mediate the critical theory of Walter Benjamin, publishers, it stands out from compara- between older mythic models of self- who especially developed this Kantian ble works, usually single broadsheets. In sufficiency and the consumption-driven strain of thinking, Kevin McLaughlin her own words, Mary recounts various realities of our passive, post-industrial uses this theory of force to illuminate dramatic and stressful episodes from economy. Through their unorthodox the work of three of the most influ- her decades-long marriage to Robert encounters with the material world, rug- ential nineteenth-century writers in Hampson and her strategies for dealing ged consumers show that using objects their respective national traditions: with it. The harrowing tale contains ‘properly’ is a conventional behavior that Friedrich Hölderlin, Charles Baude- scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, must be renewed and reinforced rather laire, and Matthew Arnold. The result abandonment, flight, and destitution. than a naturalized process that persists is a fine elucidation of Kantian theory Mary wrote her story to come to terms untroubled through time and space. and a fresh account of poetic language with her situation, to justify her actions, and its aesthetic, ethical, and political and to cast herself in a virtuous light. At the same time, this Utopian ideal is possibilities. The accompanying discussion of her life, rarely met: most examples of rugged drawn from other sources, provides consumerism conceal rather than fore- MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS chilling evidence of the vulnerability of ground the ideological problems to which 216 pages, 2014 seventeenth-century women and the they respond and thus support or ignore 9780804791007 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale flawed legal mechanisms that were sup- rather than challenge the structures of posed to protect them. Malay’s archival late capitalist consumerism. By analyzing efforts have rescued a compelling and convergences and divergences between complicated voice from the past. subjective material practices and collec- 176 pages, 7 figures, 2014 tivist politics, Raymond Malewitz shows 9780804790550 Paper $19.95 $15.96 sale how rugged consumerism both recodes 9780804786287 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale and reflects the dynamic social history of objects in the United States from the 1960s to the present. 240 pages, 5 illustrations, 2014 9780804791960 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

14 LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY Out of Character NOW IN PAPER! NOW IN PAPER! Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life What Is a Classic? Why Literary Periods OMRI MOSES Postcolonial Rewriting and Mattered “Characters” are those fictive beings Invention of the Canon Historical Contrast and the in novels whose coherent patterns of ANKHI MUKHERJEE Prestige of English Studies behavior make them credible as people. What Is a Classic? revisits the famous TED UNDERWOOD “Character” is also used to refer to the question posed by critics from In the mid-nineteenth century, the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. study of English literature began to to sustain core principles. When char- Coetzee to ask how classics emanate be divided into courses that surveyed acters are inconsistent, they risk coming from postcolonial histories and discrete “periods.” Since that time, across as dangerous or immoral, not societies. Exploring definitive trends scholars’ definitions of literature and to mention unconvincing. But what is in twentieth- and twenty-first century their rationales for teaching it have behind our culture’s esteem for unwaver- English and Anglophone literature, changed radically. But the periodized ing consistency? Out of Character Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the structure of the curriculum has examines literary characters who defy relevance of the question of the classic remained oddly unshaken, as if the our culture’s models of personal integrity. for the global politics of identifying exercise of contrasting one literary It argues that modernist writers Henry and perpetuating so-called core texts. period with another has an impor- James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot Emergent canons are scrutinized in tance that transcends the content of drew inspiration from vitalism as a way the context of the wider cultural phe- any individual course. of reinventing the means of depicting nomena of book prizes, the translation people in fiction and poetry. Rather and distribution of world literatures, Why Literary Periods Mattered explains than regarding a rigid character as and multimedia adaptations of world how historical contrast became central something that inoculates us against classics. Throughout, Mukherjee to literary study, and why it remained the shifting tides of circumstance, these attunes traditional literary critical institutionally central in spite of criti- writers insist on the ethical necessity concerns to the value contestations cal controversy about literature itself. of forming improvisational, dynamic mobilizing postcolonial and world Organizing literary history around social relationships. Charting the liter- literature. The breadth of debates and contrast rather than causal continuity ary impact of William James, Charles topics she addresses, as well as the helped literature departments separate Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and, in book’s ambitious historical schema, themselves from departments of particular, Henri Bergson, this book which includes South Asia, Africa, the history. But critics’ long reliance on a contends that vitalist understandings of Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, rhetoric of contrasted movements and psychology, affect, and perception led to New Zealand, Europe, and North fateful turns has produced important new situational and relational definitions America, set this study apart from blind spots in the discipline. In the of selfhood. As Moses demonstrates, related titles on the bookshelf today. twenty-first century, Underwood the modernists stirred by these argues, literary study may need digital vital life lessons give us a sense of CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT technology in particular to develop what psychic life looks like at its most 296 pages, 2013 new methods of reasoning about 9780804795258 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale intricate, complex, and unpredictable. gradual, continuous change. 296 pages, 2014 216 pages, 2 illustrations 2013 9780804789141 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 9780804795265, paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY 15 Flaubert Postsecular Modernity Crossed Out BARBARA VINKEN By his national affiliation and choice of genre, French novelist Gustave Flaubert can be considered emblematic of modernity. This book show- cases his specific and highly refined imaginary as at once unique and symptomatic of an era. In particular, it con- tributes to the controversial discussion of modernity’s relation to religion. At a time when new religious fundamentalisms throughout the world Jewish Pasts, German are on the rise, this has only become a more pressing issue. Fictions History, Memory, and Minority Through this single acclaimed author, we realize that Culture in Germany, 1824–1955 modernity can only be understood in terms of its critical JONATHAN SKOLNIK rewriting of religious dogma. Strikingly, already in Flaubert, Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first this rewriting emerges in conjunction with questions of the comprehensive study of how German- Orient and Orientalism. Flaubert’s Orient is an Other that is Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their always already within Western society. By highlighting the place in German culture and society. complexity of the relation between religion, modernity, and Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish the Oriental, Barbara Vinken’s discussion of these issues goes historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to beyond simple binaries. Her Flaubert Postsecular is a model the modern, demythologizing project of scholarly research with far-reaching political implications. of secular Jewish history writing. “This book is not only one of a handful of the best works to have come What did it imply for a minority to out on Flaubert in a very long time; it is also, and in so many ways, imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case paradigmatic for literary studies today.” that the answer lies in the creation of —Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a “Flaubert Postsecular opens up an entirely new perspective not only central role. After Hitler’s rise to power onto Flaubert as an emblematic figure of literary modernity, but also in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, onto modernity itself. After Vinken’s book, we will have to renegotiate both in Nazi Germany and in exile, what it means to be ‘absolutely modern.’” employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fas- —Susanne Lüdemann, cism, the predicament of exile, and the author of Politics of Deconstruction: A New Introduction to destruction of European Jewry in the Jacques Derrida (2014) Holocaust. Ultimately, Skolnik posi- tions the Jewish embrace of German CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT culture not as an act of assimilation 552 pages, 2015 but rather a reinvention of Jewish 9780804780643 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale identity and historical memory. 9780804780650 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE 280 pages, 17 illustrations, 2014 9780804786072 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

16 LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND LITERARY THEORY Sentimental Memorials NOW IN PAPER! An Early Self Women and the Novel in Thinking Its Presence Jewish Belonging in Romance Literary History Form, Race, and Subjectivity Literature, 1499–1627 MELISSA SODEMAN in Contemporary Asian SUSANNE ZEPP During the later eighteenth century, American Poetry What role has Jewish intellectual culture changes in the meaning and status of DOROTHY J. WANG played in the development of modern literature left popular sentimental novels When will American poetry and poet- Romance literature? Susanne Zepp stranded on the margins of literary his- ics stop viewing poetry by racialized seeks to answer this question through tory. While critics no longer dismiss or persons as a secondary subject within an examination of five influential early ignore these works, recent reassessments the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an modern texts written between 1499 and have emphasized their interventions in impassioned case that now is the time. 1627: Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina, various political and cultural debates Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore, the rather than their literary significance. rethinking of how American poetry anonymous tale Lazarillo de Tormes Sentimental Memorials, by contrast, is being read today, offering its own (the first picaresque novel), Montaigne’s argues that sentimental novels gave the reading as a roadmap. Essais, and the poetical renditions of women who wrote them a means of the Bible by João Pinto Delgado. Forced clarifying, protesting, and finally memo- While focusing on the work of five to straddle two cultures and religions, rializing the historical conditions under contemporary Asian American these Iberian conversos (Jews who which they wrote. As women writers poets—Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, converted to Catholicism) prefigured successfully navigated the professional John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and the subjectivity which would come to marketplace but struggled to position Pamela Lu—the book contends that aes- characterize modernity. their works among more lasting literary thetic forms are inseparable from social, monuments, their novels reflect on what political, and historical contexts in the As “New Christians” in an intolerant the elevation of literature would mean writing and reception of all poetry. This world, these thinkers worked within for women’s literary reputations. is the first sustained study of the formal the tensions of their historical context properties in Asian American poetry to question norms and dogmas. Zepp Drawing together the history of the across a range of aesthetic styles, from interprets the changes that took place novel, women’s literary history, and book traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang in various literary genres and works of history, Melissa Sodeman revisits the argues with conviction that critics the period within the broader historical critical frameworks through which we should read minority poetry with the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth have understood the history of literature. same attention to language and form centuries, demonstrating the extent Novels by Sophia Lee, Ann Radcliffe, that they bring to their analyses of to which the development of early Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson, writing by white poets. modern subjective consciousness and she argues, offer ways of rethinking its expression in literary works can be some of the signal literary developments ASIAN AMERICA explained in part as a universalization of this period, from emerging notions of 416 pages, 2013 of originally Jewish experiences. genius and originality to the rise of an 9780804795272 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH English canon. HISTORY AND CULTURE 200 pages, 2 illustrations, 2014 272 pages, 2 illustrations, 2014 9780804780650 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 9780804787451 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 9780804791328 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

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18 ART AND FILM The Studios after the Studios Neoclassical Hollywood (1970–2010) J.D. CONNOR Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this Concerning the Spiritual— new classical era, the major studios movies — their stories and the Concrete—in and styles — were astonishingly precise biographies of the Kandinsky’s Art studios that made them. Movies became product placements LISA FLORMAN for their studios, advertising them to the industry, to their This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who employees, and to the public at large. If we want to know how is widely regarded as one of the first studios work—how studios think—we need to watch their artists to produce non-representational films closely. How closely? Maniacally so. In a wide range paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky’s intentions is On the of examples, The Studios after the Studios explores the gaps Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he between story and backstory in order to excavate the hidden published in 1911. Where most scholars history of Hollywood’s second great studio era. have taken its repeated references to “spirit” as signaling quasi-religious “Connor offers interpretations of key films from the 1970s and 80s or mystical concerns, Florman argues that are often highly original and unexpected, making sure that The instead that Kandinsky’s primary Studios After the Studios has many thrilling moments of discovery frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel’s Aesthetics, in which art had similarly (and surprise). As an important contribution to film studies, it will been presented as a vehicle for the be especially productive in re-opening the debate on Hollywood and developing self-consciousness of spirit authorship.” (or Geist, in German). In addition to —Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam close readings of Kandinsky’s writings, the book also includes a discussion of POST*45 a 1936 essay on the artist’s paintings 384 pages, 73 illustrations, 2015 written by his own nephew, philosopher 9780804790772 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale Alexandre Kojève, the foremost Hegel scholar in France at that time. It also provides detailed analyses of individual paintings by Kandinsky, demonstrating how the development of his oeuvre challenges Hegel’s views on modern art, yet operates in much the same manner as does Hegel’s philosophical system. 280 pages, 48 illustrations, 24 color images, 1 figure, 3 tables, 2014 9780804784849 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 9780804784832 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale

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