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Philosophy, Theory, and Literature PHILOSOPHY, THEORY, AND LITERATURE NEW & FORTHCOMING 20% DISCOUNT on all titles STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2016 SUP titles are available as e-books via our website or your favorite e-reading platform. Visit www.sup.org/ebooks for more information, as well as e-book rental and bundle options. TABLE OF CONTENTS Philosophy and Social Theory..............................2-7 Literature and Literary Theory ........................8-13 The Figure of the Migrant The Manhattan Project Art, Film, and Media Studies .........................14-15 THOMAS NAIL A Theory of a City This book offers a much-needed new DAVID KISHIK Ordering Information .................2 political theory of an old phenomenon. In The Manhattan Project, David The last decade alone has marked Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Examination Copy Policy .......13 the highest number of migrations Benjamin who did not commit in recorded history. Constrained by suicide in 1940, but managed instead environmental, economic, and politi- to escape the Nazis to begin a long, cal instability, scores of people are on solitary life in New York. During his ORDERING the move. But other sorts of changes— anonymous, posthumous existence, Receive a 20% discount on all titles from global tourism to undocumented while he was haunting and haunted listed in this catalog. Use the following labor—have led to the fact that to by his new city, Benjamin composed code to redeem this offer on hardcover some extent, we are all becoming a sequel to his Arcades Project. Just as and paperback editions: S15PHIL. migrants. The migrant has become the his incomplete masterpiece revolved Please order by phone or online. Call political figure of our time. around Paris, capital of the nineteenth 800-621-2736 or visit www.sup.org. Rather than viewing migration as century, this spectral text was Phone orders are accepted the exception to the rule of political dedicated to New York, capital of the Monday–Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm CT. fixity and citizenship, Thomas Nail twentieth. Kishik’s sui generis work of Orders must be prepaid or charged on reinterprets the history of political experimental scholarship or fictional VISA, MasterCard, Discover Card, or power from the perspective of the philosophy is thus presented as a study American Express (libraries excepted). movement that defines the migrant of a manuscript that was never written. Books not yet published or temporar- in the first place. Applying his ily out of stock will be charged to The fictitious prolongation of your credit card when they become “kinopolitics” to several major histori- Benjamin’s life will raise more than available and are in the process of cal conditions (territorial, political, one eyebrow, but the wit, breadth, being shipped. Stanford University juridical, and economic) and figures of and incisiveness of Kishik’s own Press books are distributed by the migration (the nomad, the barbarian, writing is bound to impress. Kishik University of Chicago Press Distribu- the vagabond, and the proletariat), he reveals a world of secret affinities tion Center. Shipping & Handling $5.00; provides fresh tools for the analysis between New York City and Paris, outside the United States $9.50; add of contemporary migration. $1.00 for each additional book. the flâneur and the homeless person, 312 pp., 2015 the collector and the hoarder, the 9780804796583 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale covered arcade and the bare street, 9780804787178 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale but also between photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs. 288 pp., 2015 9780804786034 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale 2 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Stasis Pilate and Jesus The Use of Bodies Civil War as a Political Paradigm GIORGIO AGAMBEN GIORGIO AGAMBEN GIORGIO AGAMBEN TRANSLATED BY ADAM KOTSKO TRANSLATED BY ADAM KOTSKO There is currently no viable theory to Pontius Pilate is one of the most The final volume of Giorgio Agamben’s account for the numerous civil wars enigmatic figures in Christian theol- Homo Sacer project, The Use of Bodies that increasingly afflict the world. ogy. He is presented as a cruel colonial breaks considerable new ground while Meant as a first step toward such a overseer in secular accounts, as a clarifying the stakes and implications of theory, this book looks at how civil conflicted judge convinced of Jesus’s the whole project. Its first major section war was conceived of at two crucial innocence in the Gospels, and as uses Aristotle’s discussion of slavery as moments in the history of Western either a pious Christian or a virtual a starting point for radically rethinking thought: in ancient Athens (from demon in later Christian writings. This notions of selfhood; the second calls for a which the political concept of stasis book takes Pilate’s role in the trial of complete reworking of Western ontology; emerges) and in the work of Thomas Jesus as a starting point for investigat- and the third explores the enigmatic con- Hobbes. It identifies civil war as an ing the function of legal judgment in cept of “form-of-life,” which is in many apparatus that has alternately allowed Western society and the ways that such ways the motivating force behind the for the de-politicization of citizenship judgment requires us to adjudicate entire series. Interwoven between these and the mobilization of the unpolitical. the competing claims of the eternal major sections are shorter reflections on Agamben’s arguments, first conceived and the historical. An integral piece individual thinkers—Debord, Foucault, of in the immediate aftermath of of Agamben’s decades-long Homo and Heidegger—while the epilogue 9/11, have become ever more relevant Sacer project, Pilate and Jesus sheds pushes toward a new approach to politi- now that we have entered the age of considerable light on what is at stake cal life that breaks with the destructive planetary civil war. in the series as a whole. deadlocks of Western thought. MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS 96 pp., 2015 80 pp., 2015 336 pp., 2016 9780804797313 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale 9780804794541 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale 9780804798402 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 9780804796057 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale 9780804792332 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale 9780804792349 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies, the final volume in the Homo Sacer project, marks the completion of a true masterwork by one of our greatest living philosophers. PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY 3 StanfordBRIEFS Thinking Through Animals The Burnout Society The Transparency Society Identity, Difference, Indistinction BYUNG-CHUL HAN BYUNG-CHUL HAN MATTHEW CALARCO Our competitive, service-oriented Transparency is the order of the day. The rapidly expanding field of critical societies are taking a toll on the It is a term, a slogan, that dominates animal studies now offers a myriad of late-modern individual. Rather public discourse about corruption and theoretical and philosophical positions than improving life, multitasking, freedom of information. Considered from which to choose. This timely book “user-friendly” technology, and the crucial to democracy, it touches our provides an overview and analysis of culture of convenience are producing political and economic lives as well the most influential of these trends: disorders that range from depression as our private lives. Anyone can identity, difference, and indistinction. to attention deficit disorder to border- obtain information about anything. Approachable and concise, it is intended line personality disorder. Byung-Chul Everything—and everyone—has for readers sympathetic to the project Han interprets the spreading malaise become transparent: unveiled or of changing our ways of thinking as an inability to manage negative exposed by the apparatuses that exert about and interacting with animals experiences in an age characterized a kind of collective control over the yet relatively new to the variety of by excessive positivity and the post-capitalist world. philosophical ideas and figures in the universal availability of people and For transparency has a dark side that, discipline. The identity approach aims goods. Stress and exhaustion are not ironically, has everything to do with a to establish continuity among human just personal experiences, but social lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. beings and animals so as to grant and historical phenomena as well. Behind the apparent accessibility of animals equal access to the ethical and Denouncing a world in which every knowledge lies the disappearance political community. The difference against-the-grain response can lead of privacy, homogenization, and framework views the animal world to further disempowerment, he draws the collapse of trust. The anxiety to as containing its own richly complex on literature, philosophy, and the accumulate ever more information and differentiated modes of existence social and natural sciences to explore does not necessarily produce more in order to allow for a more expansive the stakes of sacrificing intermittent knowledge or faith. Technology ethical and political worldview. The intellectual reflection for constant creates the illusion of total containment indistinction approach argues that we neural connection. should abandon the notion that humans and constant monitoring of informa- are unique in order to explore new ways 72 pp., 2015 tion, but what we lack is adequate of conceiving human-animal relations. 9780804795098 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale interpretation of the information. Each approach is interrogated for its In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han relative strengths and weaknesses, with The National Park to Come denounces transparency as a false ideal, specific emphasis placed on the kinds of MARGRET GREBOWICZ the strongest and most pernicious transformational potential it contains.
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