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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS COVER PHOTOGRAPHS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): Ken Wilber, courtesy of Ken Wilber. 90 State St., Suite 700 From Visser/ Ken Wilber, p. 1 Albany, NY 12207-1707 John S. Kidder, courtesy of U.S. Army Military History Institute. From Greiner/ Subdued by the Sword, p. 3 Tel: 518-472-5000 Voltairine de Cleyre, courtesy of the Labadie Collection, Fax: 518-472-5038 Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From Sartwell/ Extreme Virtue, p. 6 www.sunypress.edu Charles S. Johnson, courtesy of Fisk University Special Collections. e-mail: [email protected] From Gilpin, Gasman/ Charles S. Johnson, p. 2 ■ general interest

KEN WILBER Thought as Passion FRANK VISSER Foreword by Ken Wilber

his is the definitive guide to the life “Finally, in a single highly readable Tand work of Ken Wilber, edition we have a description of the life widely regarded and passionate and work of one of the most controversial philosopher of our times. In this long and profound thinkers of our age. overdue exploration of Wilber’s life Despite, or indeed because of, the and work, Frank Visser not only prodigious number of books, articles, outlines the theories of this profound and interviews that Ken Wilber has thinker, but also uncovers his personal produced over the years, most readers The first comprehensive overview life, showing how his experiences know little of the history of his intellectual, of the life and thought of the influenced and shaped his writing. spiritual, or private lives, and only a few have attempted to keep track of the American philosopher Ken Wilber. Wilber’s impressive body of work, complex and fascinating intricacies including nineteen books in more than of his thinking on topics as diverse as thirty languages, brings together transpersonal psychology, religion, science and religion, philosophy, art, sociology, and European philosophy. culture, East and West, and places In these pages we get both the big A volume in the SUNY series in them within the all-encompassing picture and a good read. Here is a gift Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology perspective of evolution. Visser’s book to everyone interested in the life and Richard D. Mann, editor follows Wilber’s four distinct phases as work of a spiritual and philosophical genius.” he reveals not only the story behind — Allan Combs, author of The Radiance Wilber’s writing, but also the man of Being: Complexity, Chaos and the PSYCHOLOGY / BIOGRAPHY behind the ideas. In recounting the Evolution of Consciousness September / 352 pages course of Wilber’s life and the motives Illustrated: 35 figures that led him to the subjects he has Frank Visser is an internet specialist written so much about, Visser uncovers who studied the psychology of religion $19.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5816-4 the intricacies of one of the world’s most at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, $81.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5815-6 important intellectuals. Included in this The Netherlands and is the author of indispensable resource is a complete Seven Spheres. bibliography of Wilber’s work.

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CHARLES S. JOHNSON Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow PATRICK J. GILPIN AND MARYBETH GASMAN Foreword by David Levering Lewis

he milestones for blacks in twentieth- “It seems almost inexplicable that Tcentury America—the Harlem the national and international promi- Renaissance, the struggle for equal nence enjoyed by Johnson at the time education, and the civil rights move- of his death is only now receiving ment—would have been inconceivable the well-considered appreciation of without the contributions of one Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman’s important but often overlooked figure, comprehensive biography.” A compelling biography of a Charles S. Johnson (1893–1956). — from the Foreword by This compelling biography demon- David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize– key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, strates the scope of his achievements, winning biographer of W. E. B. Du Bois an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, situates him among other black and a pioneering race relations leader. intellectuals of his time, and casts “Gilpin and Gasman have captured new light on a pivotal era in the the essence of this formal, private, struggle for black equality in America. enigmatic man’s work and put it in the context of his times—the tumultuous An impresario of Harlem Renaissance decades leading up to Brown v. Board culture, an eminent Chicago-trained of Education and the civil rights movement. sociologist, a pioneering race relations This is a welcome and long-overdue leader, and an educator of the genera- addition to the canon of American tion that freed itself from legalized civil rights history.” — John Egerton, segregation, Johnson was a visionary author of Speak Now Against the Day: BIOGRAPHY / who linked the everyday struggles The Generation Before the Civil Rights AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES of blacks with the larger intellectual Movement in the South November / 320 pages Illustrated: 17 b/w photographs and political currents of the day. His distinguished career included After a career as a university history professor $23.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5898-9 twenty-eight years at Fisk University, for many years, Patrick J. Gilpin was $78.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5897-0 where he established the famed admitted to the Texas State Bar and Race Relations Institute and became began practicing law in 1980. His practice Fisk’s first black president. is primarily in the area of civil rights. Marybeth Gasman is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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SUBDUED BY THE SWORD A Line Officer in the 121st New York Volunteers JAMES M. GREINER

rawing on previously unpublished “Greiner has left no stone unturned Dletters written by John S. Kidder to provide a complete history of the to his wife, Harriet, during the Civil War, 121st New York Volunteers. It’s a fascinating James M. Greiner recounts the triumphs story, told from the perspective of a and tragedies endured by one field soldier. The insights into the daily New York family. Kidder, a carriage maker life of the Union soldier are remarkable. living in the rural village of Laurens, He also explores life on the home front, responded to President Lincoln’s call showing how desertions and casualties Presents the life of Captain John S. Kidder in the summer of 1862 for more troops impacted life in a rural New York village.” during the Civil War, as told through by personally recruiting over seventy — Allen Ballard, University at Albany, men living nearby. Serving under State University of New York letters to his wife, Harriet, at home Emory Upton, considered one of in rural New York. the most talented soldiers produced “What is most appealing about this by the Union, Kidder was captain of book is the freshness of this new Company I of the 121st New York Volunteers. material—the window it opens onto The regiment saw action at the life of an ordinary family, which Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, made considerable sacrifices to fight for Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, the Union. Civil War aficionados will the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania. enjoy the opportunity to watch the war Kidder’s letters home contain rich unfold through the eyes of entirely details of camp life, the difficulties new characters.” — Harold Holzer, of commanding men who had only editor of State of the Union: New York HISTORY / NEW YORK STUDIES October / 288 pages recently been his neighbors, and and the Civil War Illustrated: 26 b/w photographs, 5 maps the highs and lows associated with soldiering during the Civil War. James M. Greiner is an independent $18.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5868-7 They also reveal Harriet’s struggle historian and researcher in Herkimer, $75.50/T hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5867-9 to maintain the family home and New York, and the coeditor (with Janet L. business due to the uncertainties Coryell and James R. Smither) of of army pay. A Surgeon’s Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D.

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NELIDA MARIE D’AGOULT LYNN HOGGARD, TRANSLATOR

irst published in 1846 under the “This is an extremely fine translation. Fpen name Daniel Stern, Nelida tells I like the translator’s grasp of descriptive the story of a beautiful French heiress passages and her achievement of a modern who surrenders everything—marriage, idiom devoid of jarring anachronisms. reputation, and an aristocratic way To make Nelida available to modern of life—for the love of a talented young English-speaking readers is to contribute middle class painter. Based on the to the history of women’s literature, A scandalous bestseller of author’s own ten-year relationship with of women’s status, and of coming into the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, self-awareness in the nineteenth century.” mid-nineteenth-century France, the novel quickly became the scandalous — Madelyn Gutwirth, author of translated here for the first time bestseller of its day. Its author, The Twilight of the Goddesses: into English. Marie d’Agoult, has emerged as one Women and Representation of the most remarkable women of in the French Revolutionary Era her time. An aristocratic Parisian woman who left her husband and “Usually I can put a book down, but A volume in the SUNY series, child to become the companion of Liszt, this novel is such a good exemplar of its Women Writers in Translation d’Agoult became an accomplished type (pre-Freud psychology plus post- Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor woman of letters whose works included Sand romance) and so exquisitely a major history of the 1848 revolution translated that I read it in almost in Paris. In Nelida, her only major novel, one sitting. This novel needed the she brings to life the deeply intimate recovery translation provides.” LITERATURE parts of her own story and the era in — Marilyn Gaddis Rose, translator of November / 247 pages which it took place. Written with a keen Volupte by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve Trim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½ Illustrated: 2 b/w photographs sensitivity to social mores and psycho- logical nuances, the novel reveals the Lynn Hoggard is Professor of English, $17.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5912-8 primal cry of a woman determined to French, and Humanities at Midwestern $54.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5911-X control her own destiny without State University. She is the author of betraying her womanhood. Married to Dance: The Story of Irina and Appearing here for the first time in Frank Pal and translator of Tent Posts, English, Lynn Hoggard’s translation a translation of Henri Michaux’s prose of Nelida is ripe for rereading by poems, Poteaux d’angle. today’s readers.

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NINOCHKA A Novel SVETLANA BOYM

playful literary mystery set in the and more implicated in the life of the A1930s and 1990s, Ninochka tells murdered woman. Ultimately, she is the double tale of two women exiles forced to return to her native country, who are both homesick and sick where she confronts her own homesick- of home. Tanya, a Russian immigrant ness in the changing post-Soviet world. living in New York, travels to Paris in an attempt to reconstruct the secret life of “This dazzling work of fiction is both Nina B, who was murdered there a historical murder mystery and a A Russian émigré living in New York almost sixty years ago, on the eve of meditation on the mystery of history itself. travels to Paris to try to reconstruct World War II. The murder was never Writing in a richly elaborated Russian- solved, and in an attempt to crack the American idiom, with Petersburg flair, the secret life of another Russian woman case, Tanya takes possession of Nina’s Svetlana Boym reveals herself as who was murdered there on the eve handbag, which contains her diaries, Nabokov’s literary granddaughter.” of World War II. love letters, kits for embroidering — Larry Wolff, author of Russian blouses, a mysterious treatise Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map on Eurasian supremacy, and a review of Civilization on the Mind A volume in the SUNY series, of Ninotchka, the film in which of the Enlightenment The Margins of Literature Greta Garbo played a KGB agent who Mihai I. Spariosu, editor finds romance in Paris. Svetlana Boym is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Among the potential murder suspects Harvard University. She is the author are a charismatic professor and of several books, including The Future FICTION September / 320 pages nationalist leader, an aspiring American of Nostalgia and Kosmos: Remembrances songwriter, an aging Trotskyite, of the Future, as well as short stories $26.50/T jacketed hardcover a Hungarian con artist, a heavy-drinking and plays. ISBN 0-7914-5773-7 singer of nostalgic romance, and an athletic Comrade X of unknown origins SALES RESTRICTED who was rumored to have returned to TO U.S. AND CANADA the Soviet Union. As Tanya is drawn into this immigrant underworld of displaced people, double agents, and dreamers, she finds herself more

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EXTREME VIRTUE Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives CRISPIN SARTWELL

xtreme Virtue presents a new and “As with Sartwell’s other work, this one Eradical approach to the problems is personal in the best way—that is, of leadership and virtue in public life. it has personality and character, rather Originating in the author’s newspaper than being either personal in the sense writing about the Clinton/Lewinsky of self-indulgent or attempting objective scandal, the book grapples with what impersonality to the point of complete has gone wrong in the American dullness. It is thoroughly opinionated Explores leadership and civic virtue political system and describes what yet never overbearing. It persuasively we should look for in our leaders. argues for the virtues of its heroes, and in American culture. Sartwell argues that the real problem is acknowledges their vices, without ever a pervasive lack of truth in political being reduced to apologetics. It makes leaders and that more can be accom- important and intriguing philosophical plished by straight talk than by polling points about the nature not only of and focus groups. virtue but of human identity, but it does so almost on the sly, through the stories The book consists of biographical it tells, such that one is almost surprised portraits of five great Americans: at the end to realize that one has so anarchists Emma Goldman and enjoyably come to learn so much.” Voltairine de Cleyre, conservative — Karmen MacKendrick, author of senator Barry Goldwater, Lakota Immemorial Silence spiritual leader John Fire Lame Deer, PHILOSOPHY / BIOGRAPHY and black nationalist Malcolm X. Crispin Sartwell is Chair of Humanities October / 144 pages The author argues that what makes and Sciences at the Maryland Institute these figures distinctively American is College of Art and the author of several $16.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5880-6 $49.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5879-2 that each shares a suspicion of power books, including, most recently, End of Story: and a vision of individual liberation. Toward an Annihilation of Language Despite their distinctive and unique and History, also published by SUNY Press. approaches, each person is a model His political writing appears in of truth in public life. The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Harper’s, among other outlets. He also writes a syndicated weekly opinion column.

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JOINING THE SISTERHOOD Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives TOBIN BELZER AND JULIE PELC, EDITORS

oung Jewish women engage in “The essays and poems in this book Yalmost every aspect of religious offer an extraordinary range of and cultural Jewish life, yet their unique experiences of being a woman and perspectives have remained largely a Jew. The writing is compelling, invisible. Through poetry and personal thoughtful, and interesting, and the essays, Joining the Sisterhood sheds light writers’ engagement with their Judaism on the lives of these young women is powerful.” — Riv-Ellen Prell, author of as they search for both personal and Fighting to Become Americans: Essays and poems that offer insight universal truths. By writing about their Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation into what it means to be thoughts and experiences, the women in this anthology join the sisterhood of “These are works of superb intelligence a young Jewish woman today. women who work toward justice in their and range by a new generation of homes, synagogues, and communities. women whose background, interests, concerns, and sense of Judaism are all “This lively collection offers fresh important to learn about.” perspectives on contemporary Jewish — Miriyam Glazer, editor of A volume in the SUNY series in life and feminism from the point of view Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction Modern Jewish Literature and Culture of younger women who have come and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers Sarah Blacher Cohen, editor of age in a radically changed world. For a list of contributors, see page 57. These essays, poems, and narratives Tobin Belzer is a Postdoctoral help stake out the new intellectual Research Associate at the Center terrain of Jewish feminism.” for Religion and Civic Culture and JEWISH STUDIES / LITERATURE October / 224 pages — Joyce Antler, coeditor of the Casden Institute for the Study Changing Education: Women as Radicals of the Jewish Role in American Life $18.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5862-8 and Conservators at the University of Southern California. $57.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5861-X Julie Pelc is a rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and recipient of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship.

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CRITICAL INTELLECTUALS ON WRITING GARY A. OLSON AND LYNN WORSHAM, EDITORS

riting is central to the work of all “Theorists of all persuasions often take Wintellectuals, yet any given the rhetoric and aesthetic of their scholar’s relationship to writing is a writing for granted. This collection of uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson reflections on writing by some of our and Lynn Worsham bring together leading intellectuals is unique in the some of the world’s leading scholars recent literature. Each contribution from a variety of disciplines to examine is insightful and, in many cases, A fascinating look at how some how they conceive of their own relation- a genuine contribution. I recommend ship to writing and to the work of being this book to anyone who wants of the world’s most eminent scholars a critical intellectual. Using excerpts to know what these intellectuals conceive of their own relationship from interviews, originally published are doing in their writing and why.” with writing and with the work in JAC, each scholar’s thoughts are — Stanley Aronowitz of being a critical intellectual. revealed about writing habits, how writing relates to intellectual work, Gary A. Olson is Interim Vice President and the politics of intellectual work. for Academic Affairs at the University Interviewees include Gloria Anzaldúa, Mary Field Belenky, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, of South Florida at St. Petersburg. Noam Chomsky, Donald Davidson, “Critical intellectual work and the Lynn Worsham is Professor of Jacques Derrida, Michael Eric Dyson, challenges of writing are increasingly English at the University of South Florida. Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Clifford Geertz, important in an era of technological Olson is most recently the author of Henry Giroux, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, revolution, social transformation, Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, conflict, and danger. Olson and Work of Rhetoric, published by Ernesto Laclau, Jean-François Lyotard, Worsham provocatively question SUNY Press and Worsham is most J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Avital Ronell, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, major scholars on issues of writing and recently the coeditor (with Sidney I. Dobrin Jane Tompkins, Stephen Toulmin, and conceiving critical intellectual work today. and Gary A. Olson) of The Kinneavy Slavoj Zizek. The wealth of different positions forces Papers: Theory and the Study the reader to consider the complexities of Discourse, also published by CULTURAL STUDIES of communicating with the public, SUNY Press. July / 209 pages finding adequate means of expression, and engaging political and social $17.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5842-3 responsibility.” — Douglas Kellner $54.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5841-5

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THE TEACHER’S BODY Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy DIANE P. F REEDMAN AND MARTHA STODDARD HOLMES, EDITORS Foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Afterword by Madeleine R. Grumet

hese highly personal essays from a teachers and students. These teachers Trange of academic settings explore make themselves present so that their the palpable moments of discomfort, students may be present as well, and disempowerment, and/or enlighten- in that presence integrate their anxious, ment that emerge when we discard the sweaty, sublime ideas and feelings fiction that the teacher has no body. with the stuff of texts and theories.” Visible and/or invisible, the body can — from the Afterword by transform both the teacher’s experience Madeleine R. Grumet A rich and honest conversation and classroom dynamics. When students about professors’ lives and the think the teacher’s body is clearly “This book brings up issues that have marked by ethnicity, race, disability, been generally off limits in discussions absurdity of trying to separate size, gender, sexuality, illness, age, of pedagogy, and this should help push the personal from the professional. pregnancy, class, linguistic and the field into a more overt grappling with geographic origins, or some combina- these concerns. A substantial contribu- tion of these, both the mode and the tion to our comprehension of the content of education can change. relationship between embodiment For a list of contributors, see page 57. Other, less visible aspects of a teacher’s and pedagogical theory.” body, such as depression or a history of — David Mitchell, University of Illinois sexual assault, can have an equally at Chicago powerful impact on how we teach and learn. The collection anatomizes Diane P. Freedman is Associate these moments of embodied pedagogy Professor of English at the University of CULTURAL STUDIES July / 288 pages as unexpected teaching opportunities New Hampshire and the author or editor Illustrated: 25 b/w photographs and examines their apparent impact of several books, including, most recently, on teacher-student educational Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal. $21.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5766-4 dynamics of power, authority, desire, Martha Stoddard Holmes is $65.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5765-6 friendship, open-mindedness, Assistant Professor of Literature and and resistance. Writing Studies at California State University at San Marcos and the “…I … celebrat[e] a curriculum at author of Fictions of Affliction: every level of education that acknowl- Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. edges the existential realities of its

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THE CALL OF GOD Women Doing Theology in Peru TOM POWERS, S.J.

ased on conversations with women “The Call of God provides a historical Bin one of the poorest neighborhoods and theological context through which in Lima, Peru, The Call of God explores we can begin to hear what the women how their faith provides them with an of Peru have to teach us about scrip- understanding amidst extreme poverty, ture, poverty, conversion, social violence, and displacement. Peru was responsibility, and the love of God. the birthplace of liberation theology The book comes alive in its direct Explores the religious thought and the poor women of that country quotations from the women themselves were instrumental in its original elucidation. as they tell the stories of their lives, and lives of the poor women of Peru, This book introduces the women their struggles and projects, and who were central to the birth of of El Agustino, where a diverse, their evolving theologies.” liberation theology. dedicated and eloquent group have — Robert Inchausti, author of set out to answer questions, Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy solve problems, and rebuild a society stricken with rampant inflation and “Powers brings to light the theological terrorism, all in response to the call sophistication of so-called ordinary of God. Without much formal education, Peruvian women. In this respect, these women possess and espouse he is entering into an innovative and complex theological propositions vital discussion about how religious with a high degree of independence and social change are effected in the and proficiency. A careful reading real world.” — Curt Cadorette, RELIGIOUS STUDIES reveals an education of a different coeditor of Liberation Theology: July / 176 pages sort—one rooted in life’s changing An Introductory Reader experiences; one directed toward $18.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5790-7 $57.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5789-3 a different liberation. Tom Powers, S.J. is Director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Adjunct Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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PILGRIMAGE THROUGH A BURNING WORLD Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site KEN BUTIGAN

or two decades the Nevada Desert “The Cold War may be over, but the FExperience has organized nonviolent nuclear threat still looms large. action at the Nevada Test Site as Ken Butigan’s reflections on the part of the global movement to end Nevada Test Site protests document nuclear testing. Pilgrimage through a an important new chapter in the Burning World illuminates how the history of nonviolent social action. Franciscan-based group has crafted a contemporary desert spirituality that “Through a series of anthropological An account of how the Nevada Desert integrates religious ritual and political and theological speculations—coupled Experience—the nonviolent protest action to grapple with the challenges of with photographs and first-person an institutionalized and internalized accounts—Butigan argues that this against nuclear testing that has been nuclear world. Ken Butigan shows how unique desert pilgrimage/social action ongoing since the 1980s—has created the annual pilgrimage to the test site reflects a new post-nuclear asceticism a unique spiritual practice combining has contributed to the personal capable of bringing traditional spiritual religious ritual and political action. transformation of people “on both longings into dialogue with contempo- sides of the fence” at the test site and rary political realities.” to the worldwide emergence of the — Robert Inchausti, author of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy

“Ken Butigan captures moving first- Ken Butigan is Adjunct Professor person accounts of contemporary acts of Religious Studies at Saint Martin’s of faith and conscience of people College and Program Coordinator RELIGIOUS STUDIES / SOCIOLOGY July / 256 pages who were involved in the Nevada of the From Violence to Wholeness Illustrated: 15 b/w photographs Desert Experience. In view of the current Program at the Pace e Bene Nonviolence SDI procurement, this is an important Service. He is coeditor (with Philip N. $21.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5778-8 and provocative book.” Joranson) of Cry of the Environment: $65.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5777-X — Martin Sheen Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition.

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A PARLIAMENT OF SCIENCE Science for the 21st Century MICHAEL TOBIAS, TEUN TIMMERS, AND GILL WRIGHT, EDITORS

ased on interviews with eighteen “The scientific community cannot remain Bprominent scientists and public silent: to know is to foresee, to foresee is policymakers from around the globe, to prevent. Another world is possible if A Parliament of Science provides a rich there is another vision, another way of overview of the challenges, promises, addressing the problems. This book and perils of science and technology outlines how to build a brighter future in the twenty-first century. What can that protects the environment, values, Interviews with scientific leaders focus we hope for? What must we fear? and people-driven policies, and applies How can scientists, civil society, and scientific knowledge for peace, justice, and on the challenges, promises, and politicians work together to harness the improvement of universal respect of perils of science and technology. science and technology into a power human dignity. The word and not the for the good of all humanity? sword is the real solution! This book offers Interviewees include Bruce Alberts, an enlightening guidance and compass Yechiel Becker, Rita R. Colwell, John Durant, Those interviewed speak candidly of at the dawn of the twenty-first century.” Madhav Gadgil, Mohamed H. A. Hassan, their passions, hopes, and concerns as — Federico Mayor, former Director-General Anthony C. Janetos, Leon M. Lederman, they explore the scientific and policy of the United Nations Educational, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Robert May, implications of the major issues of our Scientific, and Cultural Organization Federico Mayor, Joseph Rotblat, time, including sustainability, politics, (UNESCO) Ismail Serageldin, Margaret Somerville, M. S. Swaminathan, Crispin Tickell, cloning, ethics, global climate change, Frans B. M. de Waal, and Robert Watson. the digital divide, and mass extinction Michael Tobias is the author of twenty-five of biological species. This welcome books and writer, director, and producer of introduction to the debate on nearly one hundred films, mostly concerned SCIENCE / mankind’s needs for a true “science for with global environmental and ethical issues. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES the twenty-first century” also serves as He is the coeditor (with J. Patrick Fitzgerald August / 192 pages a sobering reappraisal of where we and David Rothenberg) of A Parliament Illustrated: 21 b/w photographs have been, what our ingenuity has of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium, wrought for better or for worse, and also published by SUNY Press. $18.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5814-8 where we and the whole planet seem At Global Vision Network, a privately $57.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5813-X to be headed. funded think tank in England estab- lished in 1996, Teun Timmers is Senior Programme Developer and Gill Wright is Chief Executive.

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OWNING THE GENOME A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting DAVID B. RESNIK

NA patenting has emerged as a “For those unfamiliar with the Dhot topic in science policy and biological material, the legal issues, bioethics as private companies and and the various moral arguments government agencies spend billions from a diversity of ethical perspec- of dollars on genetic research and tives, this book offers a clear development in a race to identify, and helpful introduction.” sequence, and analyze DNA from — David Edward Shaner, human, animal, and plant species. Furman University A clear, introductory overview of the David B. Resnik’s Owning the Genome issues surrounding gene patenting. explores the ethical, social, philosophical, David B. Resnik is Professor of theological, and policy issues surrounding Medical Humanities at the Brody DNA patenting and develops a School of Medicine at East Carolina comprehensive approach to the topic. University. He is the author of The Ethics Resnik considers arguments for and of Science: An Introduction and the against DNA patenting and concludes coauthor (with Holly B. Steinkraus and that only a patent on a whole human Pamela J. Langer) of Human Germline genome would be inherently immoral, Gene Therapy: Scientific, Moral, and while the morality of other DNA Political Issues and (with Adil E. Shamoo) patents depends on their consequences Responsible Conduct of Research. for science, medicine, agriculture, industry, and society. He also stresses the importance of government regula- PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE November / 272 pages tions and policies in order to minimize Illustrated: 1 table, 9 figures the harmful effects of patenting while promoting the beneficial ones. $18.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5932-2 $57.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5931-4

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WHO’S IN CHARGE OF AMERICA’S RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES? A Blueprint for Reform THOMAS J. TIGHE

his book explores the American governance authorities on the truly Tresearch university, and, in a larger unique characteristics of the university. sense, addresses knowledge creation A number of controversial issues in in our society, since research universities higher education are examined in are the primary means for the production detail, including the teaching-research and dissemination of basic knowledge relation, the question of tenure, in the public interest. Universities not only accountability, and relations between Goes to the heart of the challenges play a major role in technological, universities and the corporate sector. facing the nation’s research universities. economic, and cultural development, but also prepare much of the country’s Thomas J. Tighe is Professor and leadership, particularly in the sciences, Director of the Cognitive and Neural engineering, medicine, and other professions. Sciences Program at the University of South Florida. Throughout his Confronting the pervasive sense that distinguished career, he has served there is something seriously wrong with as both faculty member and university our research universities, Thomas J. Tighe administrator at a number of institutions identifies internal division—specifically and, in these capacities, has worked dysfunction in governance—as closely with university governing boards. the major cause of the problems of higher education. He traces the current EDUCATION strains in the university to societal and June / 190 pages institutional changes over the past several decades that together have $19.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5742-7 created a growing schism between $59.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5741-9 the concerns and objectives of faculty and those of governing authorities. To address this state of affairs, Tighe proposes a new university structure that would re-engage faculty with the governance and welfare of their institutions, while helping to educate

14 ■ www.sunypress.edu now available SUN BIN: THE ART OF WARFARE A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY, BY D. C. LAU AND ROGER T. AMES

un Bin’s Art of Warfare is an “For one who has really mastered Sessential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy the way of warfare, his enemy can in general. This book, lost for over do nothing to escape death.” two thousand years and rediscovered — Sun Bin only in 1972, has not yet reached the prominence of Sunzi’s (Sun-tzu) of battlefield casualties increased tenfold. The Art of Warfare, which is the best- Sun Bin’s work is the key to understanding A classic of both military strategy known military treatise in the world. the physical and intellectual revolution and Eastern philosophy from Sun Bin’s work is an indispensable that made such “progress” in the the fourth century B.C.E. companion to the work of Sunzi, efficiency of warfare possible. who is believed to be his ancestor, but deserves to be better known in The Art of Warfare shows Sun Bin as its own right, both philosophically both practical tactician and philosopher. and historically. Here, noted sinologists He discusses war and rulership not only D. C. Lau and Roger T. Ames offer as philosophical concepts, but also A volume in the SUNY series in an admirably lucid translation, as practical matters, evidenced by Chinese Philosophy and Culture and provide an introduction examining his battle-tested techniques. This is a David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, editors the life, times, and original philosophical fascinating book both for its reflection contributions of Sun Bin. on its own time and for its reflection on power, conflict, and leadership for all times. Sun Bin, advisor to King Wei of the state April / 288 pages of Qi, worked and wrote during the D. C. Lau is Professor Emeritus at $16.95/T paperback ISBN 0-7914-5496-7 mid-fourth century B.C.E. during China’s the Chinese University of Hong Kong. $49.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5495-9 Warring States period. It was a time He has translated such Chinese of unprecedented violence; without a classics as Mencius and Confucius: central national authority, nation-states The Analects. Roger T. Ames is fought fiercely amongst one another. Professor of Philosophy at the New technologies made fighting more University of Hawaii. He is the deadly, so that between the mid-fourth author and editor of many books, and mid-third centuries B.C.E., the number including Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare.

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eatured IMAGINING ITALIANS f t i t l e The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880–1910 DISGUST JOSEPH P. C OSCO Theory and History of a Strong Sensation Explores changes in American attitudes toward Italy and Italians during a crucial period WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS of U.S. immigration history. HOWARD EILAND AND JOEL GOLB, TRANSLATORS

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural literary, and art historical perspectives. studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America’s cultural September / 512 pages “Disgust satiates.” — Kant pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian “racial odyssey” in America. It examines how American representations $19.95 paperback “Writers only talk stench.” — Kafka of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with ISBN 0-7914-5832-6 “Disgust is the very fundament of social communication.” national debates over immigration, race, and national $57.50 hardcover identity during the period 1880–1910. Joseph P. Cosco ISBN 0-7914-5831-8 — Bataille offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant Disgust is a state of high alert. It acutely says “no” journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten American iconographic writers Henry James and the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, journalism, photos, travel narratives, and fiction, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers of hidden impulses and libidinal drives. In Disgust, fresh readings of Riis’s reform efforts and photography, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive James’s The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and account of the significance of this forceful emotion Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. in modern Western thought, ranging from a consideration of the role of disgust as both a cognitive “I very much like the grouping of writers (journalists, and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche to recent novelists, and politicians) Cosco chose in order to debates on “Abject Art.” highlight the intense debate over race in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. That Cosco places “This absorbing study represents the first systematic lesser-known immigrant writers with well-known novelists and historically comprehensive attempt to think allows the thematic concerns about race and immigra- through the perplexing status of ‘disgust’ as a notion tion to be reinforced. Moreover, Cosco’s analysis of James July / 320 pages in aesthetics, philosophy, and literature from the and Twain also allows readers to see how abidingly Illustrated: 6 b/w photographs eighteenth century to the present. A fascinating read.” influenced these men were by the issues of immigration — Rodolphe Gasché, coeditor of Literary Philosophers: and nativism. Without damning those writers for being $22.95 paperback Borges, Calvino, Eco influenced by the contemporary thought of their day, ISBN 0-7914-5762-1 Cosco does a good job of illuminating their struggle $68.50 hardcover Winfried Menninghaus is Professor of Comparative to tell a compassionate story while holding on ISBN 0-7914-5761-3 Literature at the Free University, Berlin, and Visiting to Anglo-Saxon values.” — Mary Jo Bona, author of Professor at Yale University. He is the author of many Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers books, including In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard. Joseph P. Cosco is Assistant Professor of English A volume in the SUNY series, at Old Dominion University. Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Rodolphe Gasché, editor A volume in the SUNY series in Italian/American Culture Fred L. Gardaphe, editor

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eatured f t i t l e s BEYOND THE MARGINS EXPERIENCES Reflections of a Feminist Philosopher BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY LINDA A. BELL AND COMMUNICATION Incorporates memoir in the context of Engaging the Philosophical philosophical and political theory Contributions of Calvin O. Schrag and argument. RAMSEY ERIC RAMSEY AND DAVID JAMES MILLER, EDITORS Presenting essays rich with her own personal experiences, philosopher Linda A. Bell examines not Leading scholars address the work of American November / 256 pages only her own life but also problems arising from philosopher Calvin O. Schrag. ways that living affects thinking. She reflects on her $17.95 paperback own experience in order to challenge a variety of Providing developments and advancements ISBN 0-7914-5904-7 provocative claims, including: that affirmative action concerning the thought of Calvin O. Schrag, this $59.50 hardcover harms those it is designed to help; that suicide, book includes the first full-length interview with the ISBN 0-7914-5903-9 while perhaps acceptable for some with fatal diseases, American continental philosopher and covers his is otherwise a manifestation of mental illness; long and illustrative philosophical contribution to that women are to blame for male violence toward thinking about the consequences of communication. them if they don’t leave the relationships; that a The influence of Schrag’s work is significant and low profile is the best path to success for women in broad, and these nine thought-provoking pieces by academe; that women are treated fairly in academe, leading scholars whose work has been influenced perhaps even better than men; and that “political by his philosophy presents the best contemporary correctness” is a recent and aberrant move away thought on communicative praxis. Encompassing from respect for freedom of speech. Although drawing questions of democracy, the public and private from experience as she creates and critiques theory, spheres, and relations inside organizational Bell argues against the icon that it is the bedrock of theory. structures, to questions of giving and ethics, rhetoric and narrative, suffering and love, this is a wellspring “In an extraordinary mixture of personal autobiog- of insight and provocation for both those already raphy and theory, Linda A. Bell writes passionately familiar with Schrag’s work and those seeking a of her outrage at the injustice she suffered as a woman keen invitation to his many critical reflections. bent on becoming a philosopher; her theoretical essays are remarkable for their balanced thought. …” Ramsey Eric Ramsey is Associate Professor of September / 224 pages — Hazel E. Barnes, author of The Story I Tell Myself: Communication Studies and Faculty Director of the A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University West. $18.95 paperback He is the author of The Long Path to Nearness. ISBN 0-7914-5876-8 Linda A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy and David James Miller has degrees in Philosophy $57.50 hardcover Director of the Women’s Studies Institute at and Cultural Studies from Purdue University. ISBN 0-7914-5875-X Georgia State University. She is the author of Visions of Women; Sartre’s Ethics of Authenticity; and A volume in the SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Lenore Langsdorf, editor Approach to Freedom; and the coeditor (with David Blumenfeld) of Overcoming Racism and Sexism. For a list of contributors, see page 57. A volume in the SUNY series, Feminist Philosophy Jeffner Allen, editor

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eatured KANT ON CAUSATION f t i t l e On the Fivefold Routes LAUGHING AT NOTHING to the Principle of Causation STEVEN M. BAYNE Humor as a Response to Nihilism JOHN MARMYSZ An in-depth examination of the nature of Kant’s causal principle. Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair, but can be responded Kant famously confessed that Hume’s treatment of to positively. cause and effect woke him from his dogmatic slumber. According to Hume, the concept of cause does not Disputing the common misconception that nihilism arise through reason, but through force of habit. September / 128 pages is wholly negative and necessarily damaging to the Kant believes this can be avoided through the human spirit, John Marmysz offers a clear and development of a revolutionary new cognitive $17.95 paperback complete definition to argue that it is compatible, framework as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. ISBN 0-7914-5840-7 and indeed preferably responded to, with an attitude of Focusing on the Second Analogy and other important $54.50 hardcover good humor. He carefully scrutinizes the phenomenon texts from the first Critique, as well as texts from the ISBN 0-7914-5839-3 of nihilism as it appears in the works, lives, and actions Critique of Judgment, the author discusses the nature of key figures in the history of philosophy, literature, of Kant’s causal principle, the nature of his proof for politics, and theology, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, this principle, and the status of his intended proof. Camus, and Mishima. While suggesting that there Bayne argues that the key to understanding Kant’s ultimately is no solution to the problem of nihilism, proof is his discussion of objects of representations and Marmysz proposes a way of utilizing the anxiety and his investigation into the requirements for an event despair that is associated with the problem as a spur being an object of representations that enable him to toward liveliness, activity, and the celebration of life. develop his proof of the causal principle.

“Marmysz is original, insightful, and displays a keen “This book contains extremely intriguing and knowledge of the typologies of nihilism, craftily tracing, promising insights, and it discusses very important among other things, the historical, existential, and neglected topics.” — Andrew N. Carpenter, political uses and misuses of the word. This is one of Kaplan College the best books I have read.” — Weaver Santaniello, author of Nietzsche and the Gods “Bayne’s book, which focuses on Kant’s argument for causality in the Second Analogy, is especially valuable “Engagingly written, well-organized, and succinctly because it presents the vast literature on the topic in November / 224 pages argued, this book shows how humor can bring the terms of contrasting argumentative strategies, points threat of nihilism into new, less disabling perspectives out objections that each strategy must face, and offers $17.95 paperback and teach us how to find affirmative, hopeful lessons a novel reconstruction of Kant’s argument. Since these ISBN 0-7914-5902-0 in its outlook.” — Donald A. Crosby, author of discussions are clear and accessible to those who $54.50 hardcover A Religion of Nature are not Kant scholars, Bayne’s book represents ISBN 0-7914-5901-2 a significant contribution.” — Eric Watkins, John Marmysz teaches Philosophy at Corning University of California, San Diego Community College. Steven M. Bayne is Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy George R. Lucas Jr., editor

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ART, ORIGINS, OTHERNESS WHAT HAPPENS TO US Between Philosophy and Art WHEN WE THINK WILLIAM DESMOND Transformation and Reality Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics. MICHAEL GELVEN Explores the transformation humans undergo Though our time is often said to be post-religious and when they do metaphysics. post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, metaphysically transforms us, and consequently and otherness, both in themselves and in philosophical the nature of metaphysics itself is transformational. engagements with the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Using concrete existential phenomena such as the July / 336 pages Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. learning process, how children mature into adults, Addressing themes such as eros and mania, genius and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes $22.95 paperback and sublime, transcendence and the saving power an understanding of metaphysical transformation. of art, William Desmond tries to make sense of the ISBN 0-7914-5746-X paradox that too much has been asked of art that now $68.50 hardcover “Gelven’s book is an analysis of the very nature of ISBN 0-7914-5745-1 almost nothing is asked of it. He argues that there is philosophical thinking. Clearly inspired by certain more to be said philosophically of art, and claims that canonical figures, such as Plato, Kant, and Heidegger, art has the power to open up mindfulness beyond it is ultimately an original exploration of this theme. objectifying knowledge, as well as beyond thinking that The author’s originality and insightfulness is, perhaps, claims to be entirely self-determining. best illustrated in his analysis of the transition from childhood to adulthood—an issue that is rarely “This book is a passionate questioning of the place addressed by philosophers. By explicating the basic of art in relation to ‘transcendence,’ and specifically structure of this transition, Gelven shows that there is to religion and philosophy (especially metaphysics).” a genuinely metaphysical, rather than merely physical, — Véronique M. Fóti, author of Vision’s Invisibles: psychological, or sociological aspect to the move Philosophical Explorations from childhood to adulthood. Here Gelven breaks new ground.” — Mark Basil Tanzer, author of “The pleasure in reading Desmond has as much to do Heidegger, Decisionism, and Quietism with the rigor of his thought as it does with the felicitous and creative ways in which he expresses his insights. Michael Gelven is Distinguished Professor of The turns of phrase he employs and the concrete Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and examples which he so often introduces not only make the author of many books, including Truth and July / 160 pages his ‘abstract’ thought more vivid and compelling but the Comedic Art, also published by SUNY Press, also add to the pleasures of reading his texts.” and A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, — Jere Paul O’Neill Surber, University of Denver Revised Edition. $16.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5748-6 William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy and $49.50 hardcover Director of the International Program in Philosophy, ISBN 0-7914-5747-8 Institute of Philosophy, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of many books, including the award-winning Being and the Between; Ethics and the Between; and coeditor (with Joseph Grange) of Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics as a Cultural Presence; all published by SUNY Press.

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THE CONNECTIVITY HYPOTHESIS UNDERSTANDING Foundations of an Integral Science UNDERSTANDING of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, RICHARD MASON and Consciousness A study of the scope and limits of understanding. ERVIN LASZLO Foreword by Ralph H. Abraham How is understanding to be understood? Are there Provides the foundations of a genuine unified limits to understanding? What of importance, field theory. if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know Ervin Laszlo, widely regarded as the founder of systems about understanding? Richard Mason’s argument is philosophy and general evolution theory, introduces the that a critical theory of understanding, modeled on July / 160 pages foundations of a genuine unified theory of the world in past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable. this pioneering treatise on the new sciences. In contrast to $16.95 paperback other unified theories that center mainly on physics, Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfortable ISBN 0-7914-5786-9 Laszlo’s embraces quantum, cosmos, life, as well thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. $49.50 hardcover Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at ISBN 0-7914-5785-0 as consciousness. He delineates the principles of a new physics of universal connectivity and puts forth the least as much as knowledge. How we understand corresponding metaphysics, discussing the implications understanding affects how we understand philosophy. for such philosophical issues as the nature of matter If we put aside a narrow view of understanding based and mind, freedom and morality, and design upon a cartesian model of knowledge, we may gain a versus evolution. This landmark book lays the ground- more liberal, open understanding of philosophy. work for the non-materialist and non-reductionist yet rigorous paradigm that is likely to signal the next Mason’s treatment of these fascinating problems offers revolution in science: the “paradigm of universal connectivity.” a clear and lucid dialogue with a number of contempo- rary philosophical schools and with philosophy’s past. “This is a brilliant summary of the major conceptual His discussions include the thought of Hume, challenges for the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm, which Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, has dominated Western scientific thinking for the last Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, three centuries. Laszlo outlines the areas in quantum James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This fascinating physics, astrophysics, biology, and psychology where book contributes to the work of many of these these disciplines encountered observations that they could traditions as well as to the nature of understanding not account for. But he does not stop there; he offers an in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics. elegant interdisciplinary model that could help to reconcile October / 160 pages the existing paradoxes. Ervin Laszlo is a world-class scientist “The topic is fascinating and obviously central and his contributions are groundbreaking. This is an to philosophy. It brings together an eclectic set $16.95 paperback outstanding book.” — Stanislav Grof, author of Psychology of of thinkers.” — Michael P. Hodges, coauthor of ISBN 0-7914-5872-5 the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana $49.50 hardcover on Contingency ISBN 0-7914-5871-7 Ervin Laszlo is Founder and President of the Club of Budapest International and Founder and Director of the Richard Mason is a Fellow of Wolfson College General Evolution Research Group. He has authored or at Cambridge. He is the author of Before Logic, edited over seventy books, including The Creative Cosmos: also published by SUNY Press, and The God of Spinoza. A Unified Science of Matter, Life and Mind; The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science; A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy The Interconnected Universe: Conceptual Foundations George R. Lucas Jr., editor of Transdisciplinary Unified Theory; and Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World.

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FOR LOVE OF MATTER JOHN DEWEY A Contemporary Panpsychism AND ENVIRONMENTAL FREYA MATHEWS PHILOSOPHY A bold and original work in ecocosmology HUGH P. M CDONALD and metaphysics. A comprehensive look at how John Dewey’s ethics can inform environmental issues. In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern Hugh P. McDonald’s John Dewey and Environmental philosophy, and environmental philosophy, Philosophy breaks new ground by applying Dewey’s arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom insights to a new approach to philosophy of the of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests environment; the concern for the rights of animals; on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop August / 224 pages the preservation of rare species, habitats, and landscapes; to human presence rather than a communicative and the health of the whole ecology. The book presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical $18.95 paperback summarizes much of the current literature on congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative ISBN 0-7914-5808-3 environmental ethics, concentrating on the writings effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist $57.50 hardcover of major figures in the movement: Tom Regan, premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests ISBN 0-7914-5807-5 J. Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston, and Bryan Norton. that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an The heart of the book consists of a detailed analysis expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are of Dewey’s ethics, his theory of intrinsic value, mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state and his holistic approach to moral justification. of realization. She argues that any adequate Arguing against the idea that Dewey’s philosophy philosophical response to the so-called “environmental is anthropocentric, McDonald makes a strong case crisis” cannot be encompassed within the minor that using Dewey’s philosophy will result in a superior discipline of environmental philosophy but must framework for environmental ethics. instead address the full range of existential questions. “McDonald displays a deep understanding of Dewey’s “The most important thing about this book is that it philosophy and skillfully and imaginatively builds is an attempt to develop, in a modern ecological and convincing arguments on Dewey’s behalf.” psychoanalytically sophisticated context, a new version — Tom Colwell, New York University of very ancient and often now disparaged views of the world. The kind of materialist philosophy the author Hugh P. McDonald teaches philosophy at several describes and attacks remains dominant and largely colleges in the New York City area, including unquestioned. She questions it, in a philosophically New York City Technical College and New School University. informed and thought-provoking way.” September / 279 pages He is the author of Political Philosophy and Ideology: — Clare Palmer, author of Environmental Ethics A Critique of Political Essentialism. and Process Thinking $22.95 paperback A volume in the SUNY series in ISBN 0-7914-5874-1 Freya Mathews is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy Environmental Philosophy and Ethics $68.50 hardcover at La Trobe University. She is the author of J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors ISBN 0-7914-5873-3 The Ecological Self and editor of Ecology and Democracy.

A volume in the SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors

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ETHICS AND SELFHOOD THE MICRO-POLITICS OF CAPITAL Alterity and the Phenomenology Marx and the Prehistory of the Present of Obligation JASON READ JAMES R. MENSCH Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary Argues that a coherent theory of ethics requires critical interrogation of subjectivity. an account of selfhood. What is the relation between the economy, or the According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement mode of production, and culture, beliefs, and desires? for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. How is it possible to think of these relations without In deciding which races are to live and which to die, reducing one to the other, or effacing one for the sake genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. of the other? To answer these questions, The Micro- July / 256 pages To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must Politics of Capital re-reads Marx in light of the contem- attain the critical distance required for ethical judgment porary critical interrogations of subjectivity in the works $20.95 paperback without assuming a superhuman position. of Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Negri. ISBN 0-7914-5752-4 His description of how to attain this distance constitutes Jason Read suggests that what characterizes contem- $62.50 hardcover a genuinely new reading of the possibility of a porary capitalism is the intimate intersection of the ISBN 0-7914-5751-6 phenomenological ethics, one that involves reassessing production of commodities with the production of what it means to be a self. Selfhood, according to desire, beliefs, and knowledge. Mensch, involves both embodiment and the self- separation brought about by our encounter with “Jason Read’s book contains the most original and others—the very others who provide us with the incisive readings of Marx’s texts that I have read in experiential context needed for moral judgment. years, along with equally penetrating analyses Buttressing his position with documented accounts of of Althusser, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. those who hid Jews during the Holocaust, Mensch He demonstrates beautifully along the way that French shows how the self-separation that occurs in empathy poststructuralism is not opposed to Marxism, but that opens the space within which moral judgment can the two are in fact intimately related in their theories occur and obligation can find its expression. of the production of subjectivity. The book helps He includes a reading of the major moral philoso- reorient our understandings of both Marxism phers—Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Arendt, Levinas— and poststructuralism.” — Michael Hardt, even as he develops a phenomenological account of coauthor of Empire the necessity of reading literature to understand the full extent of ethical responsibility. Mensch’s work offers “This book represents a thoughtful reconsideration of Marx’s an original and provocative approach to a topic of notion of the mode of production and does so in a way that is September / 230 pages fundamental importance. likely to appeal to a new and younger readership by showing that mode of production is not simply an economic concept $18.95 paperback “Mensch breaks through some of the main oppositions but one that can explain the forms of subjectivity peculiar ISBN 0-7914-5844-X in historical and contemporary ethical theory in an to different kinds of social organization. The theoretical $57.50 hardcover original, provocative, and unique way.” framework of the book is refreshingly broad; the author draws ISBN 0-7914-5843-1 — John J. Drummond, coeditor of Phenomenological from a number of theoretical and philosophical schools and Approaches to Moral Philosophy: A Handbook cannot easily be categorized as ‘Deleuzean’ or ‘Althusserian.’ This represents the perspective of a generation no James R. Mensch is Professor of Philosophy longer constrained by the notion of opposing at Saint Francis Xavier University. He is the author theoretical camps so prevalent in the 1980s and 90s.” of several books, including After Modernity: — Warren Montag, author of Louis Althusser Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition and Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism, Jason Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy both published by SUNY Press. at the University of Southern Maine.

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EPISTEMOLOGY HUMAN EXPERIENCE An Introduction Philosophy, Neurosis, to the Theory of Knowledge and the Elements of Everyday Life NICHOLAS RESCHER JOHN RUSSON

A comprehensive introduction to the theory Proposes that philosophy is the proper cure of knowledge. for neurosis.

Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, John Russon’s Human Experience draws on central Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts of contemporary European philosophy concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and to develop a novel analysis of the human psyche. explains the principles at work in the development of Beginning with a study of the nature of perception, rational inquiry. It examines how these principles embodiment, and memory, Russon investigates August / 432 pages Illustrated: 9 tables, 2 figures analyze the course of scientific progress and how the the formation of personality through family and development of scientific inquiry inevitably encounters social experience. He focuses on the importance certain natural disasters. At the center of the book’s of the feedback we receive from others regarding our $27.95 paperback deliberations there lies not only the potential for fundamental worth as persons, and on the way this ISBN 0-7914-5812-1 $81.50 hardcover scientific progress but also the limit of science as well. interpersonal process embeds meaning into our most ISBN 0-7914-5811-3 This comprehensive introduction to the theory of basic bodily practices: eating, sleeping, sex, and so on. knowledge addresses a myriad of topics, including the Russon concludes with an original interpretation of critique of skepticism, the nature of rationality, the neurosis as the habits of bodily practice developed in possibility of science for extraterrestrial intelligences, family interactions that have become the foundation and the prospect of insoluble issues in science. for developed interpersonal life, and proposes a theory of psychological therapy as the development of “This book covers a wide span of issues in epistemology philosophical insight that responds to these and encapsulates complex debates with lucidity. neurotic compulsions. It lives up to its goal of organizing research in contemporary theory of knowledge into a “The book is persuasively insightful and an excellent ‘single systematic whole.’” — Vrinda Dalmiya, translation of phenomenological-hermeneutical ideas, University of Hawaii at Manoa resonating with the works of Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others, into a practical application Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy concerning the nature of therapy.” — Shaun Gallagher, at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of many editor of Hegel, History, and Interpretation books, including Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy; Predicting the Future: “This is a daring book. Russon has clearly challenged July / 128 pages An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting; many prejudices. …” — Leonard Lawlor, coeditor of Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy; Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh $16.95 paperback and Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the ISBN 0-7914-5754-0 Theory of Knowledge; all published by SUNY Press. John Russon is Associate Professor of Philosophy $49.50 jacketed hardcover Among his many achievements, he is former president at Penn State at University Park. He is the author of ISBN 0-7914-5753-2 of the American Philosophical Association and The Self and Its Body in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize He is also the coeditor (with John Sallis) of Retracing the for Humanistic Scholarship. Platonic Text and (with Michael Baur) Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H. S. Harris. A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy George R. Lucas Jr., editor A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

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CONFUCIAN DEMOCRACY THE CONSPIRACY OF LIFE A Deweyan Reconstruction Meditations on Schelling and His Time SOR-HOON TAN JASON M. WIRTH

Using both Confucian texts and the work of Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth- American pragmatist John Dewey, this book century continental philosophy. offers a distinctly Confucian model of democracy. The Conspiracy of Life offers a series of meditations Through a detailed study of relevant concepts and on the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854), theories in Confucianism and John Dewey’s pragmatist a great—and greatly neglected—philosopher of life. philosophy, this book illustrates the possibility of Rather than construing him as a loopy mystic, or as Confucian democracy and offers an alternative to an antiquated theologian, Jason M. Wirth attempts October / 288 pages Western liberal models. Sor-hoon Tan synthesizes the to locate Schelling as the belated contemporary two philosophies through a comparative examination of of thinkers like Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Irigaray, $20.95 paperback individuals and community, democratic ideals of equality Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and many others. ISBN 0-7914-5890-3 and freedom, and the nature of ethical and political order. As such, Schelling is already at the central nerve $65.50 hardcover By constructing a model of Confucian democracy that of current discussions concerning the crisis of truth; ISBN 0-7914-5889-X combines the strengths of both Confucianism and the primacy of the Good; the ecstatic nature of time; Deweyan pragmatism, this book explores how a the nature of art; deep ecology; the world as an premodern tradition could be put in dialogue with aesthetic phenomenon; comparative philosophy; contemporary political and philosophical theories. the possibility of non-dialectical philosophy; radical evil; the haunting of philosophy; and the possibility “Extremely well-written and clear, this is an exemplary of a philosophical religion. illustration of modern comparative philosophy. The whole question of whether or not there can be “This is one of the very few significant studies of something we call a ‘Confucian Democracy’ is an Schelling published in English during the last extremely lively academic and political issue these days. fifteen years. It is especially timely and theoretically Tan does an excellent job defining democracy and imaginative, an important contribution to philosophical Confucianism with a balanced discussion between Dewey and religious thought generally, as well as specifically and various classical Chinese thinkers.” — John Berthrong, to knowledge of Schelling and nineteenth-century author of All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms German thought.” — Charles E. Scott, author of in Confucian-Christian Dialogue The Lives of Things

“Tan’s remarkable interweaving of Confucius and Jason M. Wirth is Associate Professor and Chair August / 320 pages Dewey has both the practical cash value Dewey would of Philosophy, Communications, and Fine Arts insist upon and the carefully wrought authoritative at Oglethorpe University. He previously translated $23.95 paperback texture Confucius would expect. She has written and wrote the introduction to Schelling’s The Ages ISBN 0-7914-5794-X a wonderfully insightful and stimulating book.” of the World for SUNY Press. $71.50 jacketed hardcover — George Allan, author of The Patterns of the Present: ISBN 0-7914-5793-1 Interpreting the Authority of Form A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Sor-hoon Tan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy Dennis J. Schmidt, editor at the National University of Singapore. She is the coeditor (with K. C. Chong and C. L. Ten) of The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Perspectives.

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CELLULOID NATIONALISM REMAKING AND OTHER MELODRAMAS THE FRANKENSTEIN MYTH From Post-Revolutionary Mexico ON FILM to fin de siglo Mexamérica Between Laughter and Horror SUSAN DEVER CAROLINE JOAN S. PICART

Explores issues of representation and rebellion Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters in Mexican and Mexican American cinema. have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative. Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas looks at representation and rebellion in times of Focusing on films outside the horror genre, this book national uncertainty. Moving from mid-century offers a unique account of the Frankenstein myth’s July / 320 pages Mexican cinema to recent films staged in Los Angeles popularity and endurance. Although the Frankenstein Illustrated: 50 b/w photographs and Mexico City, Susan Dever analyzes melodrama’s narrative has been a staple in horror films, it has also double function as a genre and as a sensibility, crossed over into other genres, particularly comedy $24.95 paperback revealing coincidences between movie morals and science fiction, resulting in such films as ISBN 0-7914-5764-8 and political pieties in the civic-minded films of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, $73.50 hardcover Emilio Fernández, Matilde Landeta, Allison Anders, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bladerunner, and ISBN 0-7914-5763-X and Marcela Fernández Violante. These filmmakers’ the Alien and Terminator film series. In addition to rationally and emotionally engaged cinema—offering addressing horror’s relationship to comedy and science representations of indigenous peoples and poor urban fiction, the book also explores the versatility and power women who alternately endorsed “civilizing” projects of the Frankenstein narrative as a contemporary myth and voiced resistance to such totalization—both through which our deepest attitudes concerning gender interrupts and sustains fictions of national coherence (masculine versus feminine), race (Same versus Other), in an increasingly transnational world. and technology (natural versus artificial) are both revealed and concealed. The book not only examines “I particularly like the elegant and entertaining the films themselves, but also explores early drafts of manner in which Dever gracefully negotiates different film scripts, scenes that were cut from the final releases, registers of highly theoretical and autobiographical publicity materials, and reviews, in order to consider discourse. Her selection of directors and texts combines more fully how and why the Frankenstein myth original rereadings of the Mexican male canon— continues to resonate in the popular imagination. Emilio Fernández—with groundbreaking work on several understudied Mexican and U.S. women directors.” “Picart tells a story of the story of every film in a gifted — Cynthia Steele, author of Politics, Gender, and the way; this takes talent, as well as a thorough familiarity July / 288 pages Mexican Novel, 1968–1988: Beyond the Pyramid with the films and a genuine enthusiasm for them.” Illustrated: 3 b/w photographs — Joseph Natoli, author of Memory’s Orbit: Susan Dever is Associate Professor of Media Arts Film and Culture 1999–2000 $20.95 paperback at the University of New Mexico. ISBN 0-7914-5770-2 Caroline Joan S. Picart is Assistant Professor of $62.50 hardcover A volume in the SUNY series, English and Humanities and Courtesy Assistant Professor ISBN 0-7914-5769-9 Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video of Law at Florida State University. She is the author of Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, and A volume in the SUNY series in and Beyond and the coauthor (with Frank Smoot and Feminist Criticism and Theory Jayne Blodgett) of The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook. Michelle A. Massé, editor A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor

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BORED TO DISTRACTION eatured Cinema of Excess f t i t l e in End-of-the-Century Mexico REREADING GEORGE ELIOT and Spain Changing Responses CLAUDIA SCHAEFER to Her Experiments in Life Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish BERNARD J. PARIS films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines. A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change. Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes October / 224 pages and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise In a probing analysis that has broad implications for Illustrated: 18 b/w photographs of material goods to the profusion of despair, theories of reading, Bernard J. Paris explores how from devastating tragedy to exaggerated rapture, personal needs and changes in his own psychology $19.95 paperback a dizzying array of images assaults the eye. have affected his responses to George Eliot over the years. ISBN 0-7914-5888-1 Drawing on recent films from Mexico and Spain, Having lost his earlier enthusiasm for her “Religion of $59.50 hardcover Humanity,” he now appreciates the psychological ISBN 0-7914-5887-3 Bored to Distraction navigates this visual terrain, from melodrama to horror, looking for what, intuitions that are embodied in her brilliant portraits of if anything, might be excessive enough to rouse us characters and relationships. Concentrating on Eliot’s from our comfortable everyday routines. most impressive psychological novels, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, Paris focuses on her detailed “A very smart, theoretically informed, and provocative portrayals of major characters in an effort to recover discussion of film in the context of a timely analysis her intuitions and appreciate her mimetic achievement. of consumer-oriented cultures.” — Debra A. Castillo, He argues that although she intended for her author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern characters to provide confirmation of her views, Mexican Fiction she was instead led to deeper, more enduring truths, although she did not consciously comprehend “Very well written and quite reader-friendly. the discoveries she had made. Like her characters, Schaefer’s theoretical framework is at the cutting edge Paris argues, these truths must be disengaged of the field, and helps identify the place of the traditional from her rhetoric in order to be perceived. cultural paradigm of leisure in the current production of middle class boredom and its economic and “Consistently fascinating and engaging, this book ideological ramifications.” — Jaume Martí-Olivella, represents a new kind of criticism in which the June / 224 pages coauthor of The New Catalan Short Story: An Anthology interpreter is as interested in interrogating himself as he is the writer under study.” — Jeffrey Berman, $18.95 paperback Claudia Schaefer is Professor of Spanish and author of Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and ISBN 0-7914-5834-2 Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester Self-Transformation in the Classroom $57.50 hardcover and the author of Danger Zones: Homosexuality, ISBN 0-7914-5833-4 National Identity, and Mexican Culture and Textured Lives: Bernard J. Paris is Professor Emeritus of English at Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico. the University of Florida and the author of a number of books, including Experiments in Life: George Eliot’s Quest A volume in the SUNY series in for Values and Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor

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DOMESTIC ABOLITIONISM TRAUMATIC ENCOUNTERS AND JUVENILE LITERATURE, Holocaust Representation 1830–1865 and the Hegelian Subject PAUL EISENSTEIN DEBORAH C. DE ROSA

Explores why women abolitionists turned Addresses the difficulty of representing the to children’s literature to make their case Holocaust in literature and on film. against slavery. Traumatic Encounters argues for an alternative Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature memorial path in Holocaust and cultural studies— of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth- one that shows the vital necessity of thinking in century women created to voice their political a universal way about an event like the Holocaust. Relying on Hegel’s notion that the particular is already October / 224 pages sentiments when cultural imperatives demanded Illustrated: 5 figures their silence. For nineteenth-century women struggling universal, Eisenstein shows how the encounter with trauma transpires not in the refusal of a universalizing to find an abolitionist voice while maintaining the $18.95 paperback codes of gender and respectability, writing children’s gesture but rather in its wholesale embrace. This embrace results in a recognition involving ISBN 0-7914-5826-1 literature was an acceptable strategy to counteract $57.50 hardcover the trauma that conditions the possibility of history the opposition. By seizing the opportunity to write ISBN 0-7914-5825-3 abolitionist juvenile literature, De Rosa argues, in the first place—a structural trauma immune domestic abolitionists were able to enter the public to historicization that Hegel and psychoanalysis arena while simultaneously maintaining their identities place at the heart of subjectivity and community. as exemplary mother-educators and preserving their The structural trauma encounter is at the center of four claims to “femininity.” Using close textual analyses of titles that Eisenstein examines: Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, archival materials, De Rosa examines the convergence D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, Thomas Mann’s of discourses about slavery, gender, and children in Doctor Faustus, and David Grossman’s See Under: Love. juvenile literature from 1830 to 1865, filling an important gap in our understanding of women’s “An exceptionally ambitious and timely intervention literary productions about race and gender, as well as into contemporary discussions about the ethics of our understanding of nineteenth-century American representation after the Holocaust.” — Wulf Kansteiner, literature more generally. Binghamton University, State University of New York

“De Rosa offers a detailed analysis of various works of “Traumatic Encounters offers an innovative abolitionist children’s literature to make a compelling (Zizekian/Lacanian) approach to the Holocaust case that this primary source can be valuable in in literature and provides significant insight into August / 224 pages explaining an overlooked dimension of antislavery an interesting selection of important texts.” activism before the Civil War. This study provides a new — David Brenner, Chair of Jewish Studies, $18.95 paperback avenue for understanding female abolitionism and Kent State University ISBN 0-7914-5800-8 children’s literature.” — Nancy Isenberg, author of $57.50 hardcover Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America Paul Eisenstein is Assistant Professor of English at Otterbein College. ISBN 0-7914-5799-0 “De Rosa should be commended for recognizing the gap in scholarship of the period and for finding value in a group of writers who took seriously the intersection of abolitionist and domestic concerns.” — Bruce Mills, Kalamazoo College

Deborah C. De Rosa is Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University.

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SHATTERED VESSELS SCENES OF THE APPLE Memory, Identity, and Creation Food and the Female Body in the Work of David Shahar in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century MICHAL PELED GINSBURG AND MOSHE RON Women’s Writing TAMAR HELLER AND PATRICIA MORAN, EDITORS The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar. Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women’s writing. David Shahar (1926–1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered Vessels, occupies an Focusing on women’s writing of the last two centuries, ambiguous position in the Israeli literary canon. Scenes of the Apple traces the intricate relationship Often compared to Proust, Shahar produced a body of between food and body image for women. November / 224 pages work that offers a fascinating poetic and ideological Ranging over a variety of genres, including novels, Illustrated: 3 maps alternative to the dominant models of Amos Oz and culinary memoirs, and essays, the contributors explore A. B. Yehoshua. This book, the first full-length study of works by a diverse group of writers, including $17.95 paperback this fascinating author, takes a fresh look at the Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Toni Morrison, ISBN 0-7914-5920-9 uniqueness of his literary achievement in both poetic Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Jeanette Winterson, $54.50 hardcover and ideological terms. In addition to situating Shahar ISBN 0-7914-5919-5 as well as such nonliterary documents as discussions within the European literary tradition, the book reads of Queen Victoria’s appetite and news coverage of Shahar’s representation of Jerusalem in his multi- suffragettes’ hunger strikes. Moreover, in addressing volume novel as a “heterotopia”—an actual space works by Hispanic, African, African American, Jewish, where society’s unconscious (what does not fit on its and lesbian writers, the book explodes the myth that ideological map) is materially present—and argues for only white, privileged, and heterosexual women are the relevance of Shahar’s work to the critical discussion concerned with body image, and shows the many of the Arab question in Israeli culture. cultural contexts in which food and cooking are important in women’s literature. Above all, the essays “…The concluding chapter, which elaborates a brilliant pay tribute to the rich and multiple meanings of food and illuminating comparison of Proust and Shahar, is in women’s writing as a symbol for all kinds of alone worth the price of admission. I have read Shahar delightful—and transgressive—desires. for years with great interest … and learned a great deal from this deft book. It breaks significant new ground “…Fascinating and provocative reading.” both in comparative literature and Israeli fiction.” — Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, coeditor of Anxious Power: — Murray Baumgarten, author of City Scriptures Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women

July / 256 pages Michal Peled Ginsburg is Professor of French and Tamar Heller is Assistant Professor of English and Illustrated: 8 b/w photographs Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. of French and Italian at Northwestern University. She is She is the author of Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the $19.95 paperback the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies; Female Gothic and coeditor (with Diane Long Hoeveler) ISBN 0-7914-5784-2 Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the of Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and $59.50 hardcover Nineteenth-Century Novel; and editor of Approaches American Traditions. Patricia Moran is Associate ISBN 0-7914-5783-4 to Teaching Balzac’s Old Goriot. Moshe Ron is Senior Professor of English at the University of California Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the at Davis and the author of Word of Mouth: Body Language Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the translator of in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. La Pharmacie de Platon by Jacques Derrida, as well as works by Raymond Carver and Paul Auster. A volume in the SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory A volume in the SUNY series in Michelle A. Massé, editor Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen, editor For a list of contributors, see page 57.

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ANGLO-SAXON STYLES BRAHMA IN THE WEST CATHERINE E. KARKOV AND William Blake GEORGE HARDIN BROWN, EDITORS and the Oriental Renaissance DAVID WEIR Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature. Argues that the myths and ideals of William Blake’s poetry were heavily influenced Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as by the Oriental Renaissance—the British “the constant form—and sometimes the constant discovery of Hindu literature. elements, qualities, and expression—in the art of an individual or group.” Today, style is frequently Examining William Blake’s poetry in relation to the overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, October / 288 pages Illustrated: 42 b/w photographs, the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates David Weir argues that Blake’s mythic system springs 1 map, 9 figures just how vital style remains in a methodological from the same rich historical context that produced the and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, Oriental Renaissance. That context includes republican individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors politics and dissenting theology—two interrelated $23.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5870-9 from a variety of disciplines—including literature, developments that help elucidate many of the $71.50 hardcover art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more— obscurities of Blake’s poetry and explain much of its ISBN 0-7914-5869-5 consider the definitions and implications of style in intellectual energy. Weir shows how Blake’s poetic Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. career underwent a profound development as a result They demonstrate that the idea of style as a “constant of his exposure to Hindu mythology. By combining form” has its limitations, and that style is in fact the mythographic insight with republican politics and ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon Protestant dissent, Blake devised a poetic system texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, that opposed the powers of Church and King. presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style. “David Weir’s approach to Blake’s reconstitution of the Indian mythopoetic thought in his own terms— “This is one of the few books attempting to synthesize his locating of Blake’s vision in terms of Oriental our knowledge on Anglo-Saxon culture in new Renaissance—takes into account the history of and interesting ways by finding a bridge between art interpretation of Hindu texts by colonialist and and literature in the word ‘style.’” — Patrick W. Conner, non-colonialist writers of the eighteenth century. author of Anglo-Saxon Exeter: A Tenth-Century As Weir suggests, in many places when the colonialist Cultural History authors saw ‘error and superstition,’ Blake’s poetic mind encountered mythic richness. More important August / 192 pages Catherine E. Karkov is Professor of Art at Miami University is the fact that Weir looks into Blake’s own misreadings, Illustrated: 11 b/w photographs and the author of Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: locating them historically, and he makes a good case Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript, the for the legitimacy of misreading as part of cross $17.95 paperback editor of Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, and cultural influence. It is all very fascinating.” ISBN 0-7914-5818-0 the coeditor (with Robert T. Farrell and Michael Ryan) — Lalita Pandit, coeditor of Literary India: $54.50 hardcover of The Insular Tradition, also published by SUNY Press. Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture ISBN 0-7914-5817-2 George Hardin Brown is Professor of English at Stanford University and the author of Bede the Venerable David Weir is Associate Professor on the Faculty and Bede the Educator. of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the A volume in the SUNY series in Medieval Studies author of Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics Paul E. Szarmach, editor of Modernism; James Joyce and the Art of Mediation; and Decadence and the Making of Modernism. For a list of contributors, see page 57.

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f eatured GODHEAD AND THE NOTHING t i t l e THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER WOMEN IN OCHRE ROBES An eminent theologian argues that nothingness Gendering Hindu Renunciation is necessary in order to fully actualize the Godhead. MEENA KHANDELWAL Eminent theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer breaks Focuses on the lives of female Hindu ascetics and the new ground by exploring the ultimate transfiguration significance of gender to the tradition of renunciation. of the Godhead as a question of the Nihil or nothingness and God. The Nihil is essential to the full actualization Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate of the Godhead in that it fully occurs in both a portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who primordial and an apocalyptic sacrifice of the Godhead. November / 256 pages “wear ochre robes,” those who have renounced family Virtually unexplored by philosophical and theological and worldly concerns for lives of celibate asceticism thinking, the Nihil is luminously enacted in the deepest $18.95 paperback and spiritual discipline. Their initiation into the largely expressions of the imagination, and most clearly and ISBN 0-7914-5922-5 male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders them decisively so in the Christian epic tradition. Altizer looks $57.50 hardcover “dead” to their previous identities, and although at the works of philosophers and theologians such as ISBN 0-7914-5921-7 symbolically “dead,” these women struggle with, Spinoza, Barth, Hegel, Nietzsche, and epic writers such and joke about, the tensions and ironies of living in as Dante, Milton, and Blake to ultimately posit a God the world while trying not to be of it. that is necessarily a dichotomous God.

Khandelwal juxtaposes the common refrain that “Startling in its originality and cumulative power, this is “in renunciation there is no male and female” a remarkable achievement in philosophical theology with observations that suggest that gender is by a major thinker who has reshaped the way in which indeed relevant. In exploring these apparent contradic- God is understood in a post-Nietzschean world. tions, she brings together worldly and otherworldly The most significant and widely read of the death of values within renunciation and argues that these God theologians, Altizer focuses on the inseparability of create tensions that are at once philosophical, social, nothingness and God. A consummation of his lifework, and emotional. This book reveals the “female voice” this question is considered in its most important in renunciation. historical and metaphysical expressions. This work cannot leave the reader indifferent. It will provoke “…This book provides richly detailed accounts of the admiration and disagreement, but it will be read.” author’s many months living with, observing, and — Edith Wyschogrod, coeditor of Lacan and interacting with sannyasinis, their followers, and Theological Discourse August / 192 pages fellow ascetics. Descriptions of daily life at the ashrams, reports of long conversations, attention to the details Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of $16.95 paperback of place, dress, food and its preparation, and the Religious Studies at the State University of New York ISBN 0-7914-5796-6 descriptions of visitors all help create vivid pictures of at Stony Brook. He is the author of a number of books, $49.50 hardcover the lives of the sannyasinis.” — Anne Mackenzie Pearson, including The Contemporary Jesus; History as Apocalypse ISBN 0-7914-5795-8 author of Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind: Ritual Fasts (both published by SUNY Press); The Genesis of God: in the Religious Lives of Hindu Women A Theological Genealogy; Radical Theology and the Death of God (with William Hamilton); The Self-Embodiment Meena Khandelwal is Visiting Assistant Professor of God; and The Descent Into Hell: A Study of the Radical of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the Reversal of the Christian Consciousness. University of Iowa.

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RECONCILING YOGAS RELIGION AND PEACEBUILDING Haribhadra’s Collection HAROLD COWARD AND of Views on Yoga GORDON S. SMITH, EDITORS CHRISTOPHER KEY CHAPPLE Acknowledging that religion can motivate With a New Translation of Haribhadra’s Yogadrstisamuccaya by both violence and compassion, this book looks Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey at how a variety of world religions can and do build peace. Presents the various religious approaches to Yoga described by Haribhadra, the eighth-century sage, In the wake of September 11, 2001 religion is often seen who held a universal view of religion. Includes a as the motivating force behind terrorism and other acts translation of his original text on Yoga. of violence. Religion and Peacebuilding looks beyond headlines concerning violence perpetrated in the name October / 192 pages Reconciling Yogas explores five approaches to the of religion to examine how world religions have also Illustrated: 8 tables, 1 figure accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious inspired social welfare and peacemaking activism. perspectives: Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist. Leading scholars from the Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, $17.95 paperback Haribhadra, a prolific Jaina scholar who espoused Confucian, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions ISBN 0-7914-5900-4 a universal view of religion, proclaimed that truth provide detailed analyses of the spiritual resources $54.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5899-7 can be found in all faiths and sought to elucidate for fostering peace within their respective religions. differences between various schools of thought. The contributors discuss the formidable obstacles In Yoga, he discovered a form of spiritual practice to nonviolent conflict transformation found within common to many faiths and juxtaposed their paths sacred texts and living traditions. Case studies of to demonstrate the common goal of liberation. Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa Utilizing the structure of Patañjali’s advanced eightfold are also examined as practical applications of spiritual path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, Haribhadra formulates resources for peace. his own eight stages of Yoga to which he assigns titles in the feminine gender that echo the names of goddesses. “This book grows on you and merits more than Discussed are the Jaina stages of spiritual ascent and a quick read. Due to its scope, it offers an abundance two forms of Yoga for which there is no other account. of useful insights and ramifications. There can be Also included is a new translation of the no doubt as to the significance of this book.” Yogadrstisamuccaya, an eighth-century text — Robert D. Baird, editor of Religion in Modern India by Haribhadra. Harold Coward is with the Centre for Studies “This is a rare piece of work and a wonderful contribu- in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria tion to the field. This book offers what may be the first and is the author and editor of many books, including, November / 352 pages translation of its kind.” — Ashok K. Malhotra, author of most recently, Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy: An Annotated and Mysticism, also published by SUNY Press. $24.95 paperback Translation of the Yoga Sutras Gordon S. Smith is Director of the Centre for Global ISBN 0-7914-5934-9 Studies at the University of Victoria and the author and $73.50 hardcover Christopher Key Chapple is Professor of Theological editor of many books, including (with Daniel Wolfish) ISBN 0-7914-5933-0 Studies and Director of Asian and Pacific Studies at Who Is Afraid of the State?: Canada in a World of Multiple Loyola Marymount University. He has published Centres of Power. several books, including Karma and Creativity and Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies both with SUNY Press. John Thomas Casey is Harold Coward, editor Visiting Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. For a list of contributors, see page 58.

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HINDU BIOETHICS WOMEN IN THE YORUBA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RELIGIOUS SPHERE S. CROMWELL CRAWFORD OYERONKE OLAJUBU Foreword by Jacob K. Olupona Explores contemporary controversies in bioethics from a Hindu perspective. An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion—both Christianity and S. Cromwell Crawford breaks new ground in this Yoruba traditional religion. provocative study of Hindu bioethics in a Western setting. He provides a new moral and philosophical perspective Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, on fascinating and controversial bioethical issues that this book shows that women occupy a central place are routinely in the news: cloning, genetic engineering, in the religious worldview and life of the Yoruba people August / 256 pages the human genome project, reproductive technologies, and shows how men and women engage in mutually the end of life, and many more. This Hindu perspective beneficial roles in the Yoruba religious sphere. $20.95 paperback is particularly noteworthy because of India’s own It explores how gender issues play out in two Yoruba ISBN 0-7914-5780-X indigenous medical system, which is stronger than ever religious traditions—indigenous religion and $62.50 hardcover and drawing continued interest from the West. ISBN 0-7914-5779-6 Christianity in Southwestern Nigeria. Rather than The Hindu bioethics presented in this book are shy away from illuminating the tensions between philosophically pluralistic and ethically contextual, the prominent roles of Yoruba women in religion giving them that conceptual flexibility which is often and their perceived marginalization, author missing in Western religions, but which is demanded Oyeronke Olajubu underscores how Yoruba women by the twenty-first century’s complex moral problems. have challenged marginalization in ways unprecedented Comprehensive in scope and passionate in nature, in other world religions. Crawford’s study is an important resource for analyses of practical ethics, bioethics, and health care. “This book’s thorough study of the interplay of gender and power relations in the Yoruba religious sphere “Crawford makes accessible a wealth of Hindu provides a fresh interpretation to dominant theses and perspectives on biomedical reasoning and practice ideas in this area of study.” — Akintunde E. Akinade, that are at once practical and profound. His book coeditor of The Agitated Mind of God: The Theology is indispensable for practitioners and educators of Kosuke Koyama in biomedicine and health care who are concerned with utilizing the contributions of world traditions “There is no other book on Yoruba women and religion to attain more comprehensive and satisfactory solutions with such breadth, ethnographic richness, and to some of the most challenging problems faced updated data. Olajubu provides an opportunity October / 192 pages by humankind. It is a tremendous resource to consider Yoruba gender practices in various for understanding Hindu value theory and philosophy socio-historical contexts, and she fills an information $16.95 paperback of person and body, as seen through the lens of health gap on Yoruba women in more recent charismatic ISBN 0-7914-5886-5 and medicine.” — Gregory P. Fields, author of and Pentecostal churches.” — Deidre H. Crumbley, $49.50 hardcover Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, North Carolina State University ISBN 0-7914-5885-7 Ayurveda, and Tantra Oyeronke Olajubu is Senior Lecturer of Comparative S. Cromwell Crawford is Professor and Chair Religion at the University of Ilorin. of Religion at the University of Hawaii and the author of many books on Hindu ethics, including Dilemmas of A volume in the McGill Studies in the History of Religions, Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship also published by SUNY Press. Katherine K. Young, editor

A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies Harold Coward, editor

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THE JOURNEY TOWARD GOD CONTESTED NATURE IN AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS Promoting International Biodiversity Books I–VI with Social Justice CARL G. VAUGHT in the Twenty-first Century STEVEN R. BRECHIN, PETER R. WILSHUSEN, A new interpretation of the first six books CRYSTAL L. FORTWANGLER, AND of Augustine’s Confessions, emphasizing the PATRICK C. WEST, EDITORS importance of Christianity rather than Neoplatonism. Contends that effective biological conservation This detailed discussion of Augustine’s journey toward and social justice must go hand in hand. God, as it is described in the first six books of the Confessions, begins with infancy, moves through How can the international conservation movement August / 208 pages childhood and adolescence, and culminates in protect biological diversity, while at the same time youthful maturity. In the first stage, Augustine deals safeguarding the rights and fulfilling the needs of $17.95 paperback with the problems of original innocence and sin; people, particularly the poor? Contested Nature argues ISBN 0-7914-5792-3 in the second, he addresses a pear-stealing episode that to be successful in the long-term, social justice and $54.50 hardcover that recapitulates the theft of the forbidden fruit in the biological conservation must go hand in hand. ISBN 0-7914-5791-5 Garden of Eden and confronts the problem of sexuality The protection of nature is a complex social enterprise, with which he wrestles until his conversion; and in the and much more a process of politics, and of human third, he turns toward philosophy, only to be captivated organization, than ecology. Although this political successively by dualism, skepticism, and Catholicism. complexity is recognized by practitioners, it rarely Augustine’s journey exhibits temporal, spatial, enters into the problem analyses that inform conserva- and eternal dimensions and combines his head and tion policy. Structured around conceptual chapters and his heart in equal proportions. Vaught shows that supporting case studies that examine the politics of the Confessions should be interpreted as an attempt conservation in specific contexts, the book shows to address the person as a whole rather than through that pursuing social justice enhances biodiversity our intellectual or volitional dimensions exclusively. conservation rather than diminishing it, and that the The passion with which Augustine describes the end of fate of local peoples and that of conservation are his journey is reflected best in a sentence found in the completely intertwined. opening chapter of the text—“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” “…Contested Nature opens new vistas on how social justice can be furthered through the establishment and Interpreting this statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a management of protected areas while still meeting critical more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually nature conservation objectives.” — David Harmon, August / 288 pages found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view executive director of The George Wright Society Illustrated: 12 tables, 2 figures Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as Steven R. Brechin is Associate Professor of Sociology $19.95 paperback successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be at The University of Illinois. He is the coauthor (with ISBN 0-7914-5776-1 denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine Patrick C. West) of Resident Peoples and National Parks: $59.50 hardcover decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation. ISBN 0-7914-5775-3 theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together Peter R. Wilshusen is Assistant Professor of as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition. Environmental Studies at Bucknell University. Crystal L. Fortwangler is a doctoral candidate Carl G. Vaught is Distinguished Professor of at the University of Michigan. Patrick C. West is Philosophy at Baylor University. He is the editor and Vice President and Chairman of the Board of author of several books, including The Quest for Wholeness Windago Heights and editor of Windago Heights Press. and The Sermon on the Mount: A Theological Interpretation, both published by SUNY Press. For a list of contributors, see page 58.

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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTALISM f eatured AND LOCAL POLITICS t i t l e Transnational Advocacy Networks WHAT MOVES MAN in Brazil, Ecuador, and India The Realist Theory MARIA GUADALUPE MOOG RODRIGUES of International Relations Examines the internal politics of transnational and Its Judgment of Human Nature environmental advocacy networks. ANNETTE FREYBERG-INAN

A critical look at the image of human nature What is the role played by local organizations that underlies the realist theory of in transnational environmental advocacy networks? international relations. September / 230 pages Global Environmentalism and Local Politics revisits this question by looking at transnational environmental Illustrated: 1 table The realist theory of international relations is based on activism in Brazil, Ecuador, and India. a particularly gloomy set of assumptions about Rodrigues investigates the internal politics of these $18.95 paperback universal human motives. Believing people to be networks, focusing on their internal balance of power, ISBN 0-7914-5878-4 essentially asocial, selfish, and untrustworthy, realism choice of strategies, and distribution of resources $57.50 hardcover counsels a politics of distrust and competition in the ISBN 0-7914-5877-6 among members at the international, national, international arena. What Moves Man subjects realism and local levels. Contrary to existing assumptions, to a broad and deep critique. Freyberg-Inan argues, local organizations, rather than international or first, that realist psychology is incomplete and suffers national non-governmental organizations, are the from a pessimistic bias. Second, she explains how this key players in these networks, while at the same time bias systematically undermines both realist scholar- mere participation in transnational advocacy efforts ship and efforts to promote international cooperation does not necessarily lead to the empowerment and peace. Third, she argues that realism’s bias has of local organizations. Participation may, for example, a tendency to function as a self-fulfilling prophecy: impose unanticipated political and technical burdens, it nurtures and promotes the very behaviors it and despite their overarching common goal assumes predominate human nature. Freyberg-Inan of environmental preservation, network members concludes by suggesting how a broader and more may have different understandings of what environ- complex view of human motivation would deliver mentally sustainable development is and how it more complete explanations of international behavior, can be best achieved. reduce the risk of bias, and better promote practical progress in the conduct of international affairs. “Rodrigues shows that participation of local groups in transnational activism does not always lead to their August / 272 pages “This is the best treatment of realism I have seen empowerment and can even threaten their material Illustrated: 4 tables from an interdisciplinary standpoint. It borrows and physical safety.” — Jill M. Belsky, from philosophy, psychology, history, and elsewhere University of Montana $19.95 paperback to provide a comprehensive assessment of realism ISBN 0-7914-5828-8 as an interpretation of human nature and Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues is $59.50 hardcover international relations.” — Patrick James, author of Assistant Professor of Political Science at the ISBN 0-7914-5827-X International Relations and Scientific Progress: College of the Holy Cross. Structural Realism Reconsidered A volume in the SUNY series in Global Environmental Policy Annette Freyberg-Inan is the Civic Education Project Uday Desai, editor Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Bucharest.

A volume in the SUNY series in Global Politics James N. Rosenau, editor

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COPING IN POLITICS EX UNO PLURA WITH INDETERMINATE NORMS State Constitutions A Theory of Enlightened Localism and Their Political Cultures BENJAMIN GREGG JAMES T. MCHUGH

Argues that social equity and legal justice Explores the foundations of various state are possible even in the absence of universal constitutional traditions. political norms. State constitutions have become increasingly important Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice in light of recent trends in jurisprudence that favor possible within a liberal political order, even if norms decentralizing the American federal system. are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished Ex Uno Plura uses a political culture approach July / 224 pages by both its complexity and the absence of a single to explore eight state constitutional traditions. theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to McHugh argues that state jurisprudence is not merely $17.95 paperback constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms a reflection of the process, values, and decisions ISBN 0-7914-5782-6 demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather found at the federal level, especially through the influence of the Fourteenth Amendment. A close $54.50 hardcover than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than ISBN 0-7914-5781-8 universal, social integration and democratic politics are examination of separate state constitutions, including still attainable goals. Gregg fashions a theory that their origins, sociopolitical cultures, and jurisprudence, combines proceduralism with pragmatism— reveals historically, culturally, and philosophically an “enlightened localism”—that adjudicates unique characteristics, each of which will contribute among competing normative commitments and to the ongoing debate concerning American interpretations using local criteria in the absence judicial federalism. The states included are Alaska, of universal standards. The theory is applied to California, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Utah, Vermont, three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and Wyoming. and law and morality. “I particularly liked the interesting details about state “Gregg shows that while proceduralism and relativism constitutional development. McHugh obviously spent are tempting responses to normative indeterminacy, a great amount of time investigating the cultural and they are inadequate. His own position uniquely joins ideological circumstances native to these particular diverse disciplinary approaches to show that states, and it shows with rich and descriptive detail.” a pragmatic, enlightened localism need not mean — Laura Langer, author of Judicial Review parochialism, narrow-mindedness, and the like. in State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study Tightly argued and often provocative, his position July / 352 pages makes perfect sense.” — Dick Howard, author of James T. McHugh is Associate Professor of The Specter of Democracy Political Science and Chair of the Legal Studies Program at Roosevelt University. He is the author of $25.95 paperback Benjamin Gregg is Associate Professor of Government Comparative Constitutional Traditions, The Essential ISBN 0-7914-5750-8 $75.50 hardcover at The University of Texas at Austin and the author of Concept of Law, and the coauthor (with James S. Pacy) of ISBN 0-7914-5749-4 Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Diplomats Without a Country: Baltic Diplomacy, Communities of Belief. International Law, and the Cold War.

A volume in the SUNY series in A volume in the SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues American Constitutionalism Philip Green, editor Robert J. Spitzer, editor and A volume in the SUNY series in Radical Social and Political Theory Roger S. Gottlieb, editor

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LINKING HUMAN SERVICES THE PUBLIC BENEFIT How Selected States and Counties OF PRIVATE FAITH Have Succeeded in Integrating Religious Organizations Human Service Programs and the Delivery of Social Services MARK RAGAN DAVID J. WRIGHT, EDITOR

Analyzes common factors in successful human Drawing on a comprehensive national study, services integration efforts. this book explores faith-based organizations’ use of public resources to provide social services. Linking Human Services describes different approaches taken by state and local program managers to address Despite strong governmental initiatives encouraging the many challenges of comprehensive service reform. faith-based groups to use public resources to expand on Human service professionals have long expressed their long tradition of providing important services to the interest in moving from the fractured, redundant, needy, there remain wide gaps in knowledge about the and confusing model of separate human service effectiveness of faith-based social services and about programs to a more coherent system, often called issues involved in supporting them with public funds. service integration, to better meet the needs of Drawing from a comprehensive, multi-pronged national poor families. Mark Ragan addresses the lack of real study, The Public Benefit of Private Faith reports new, information about these attempts by analyzing much-needed information about the scale and efficacy December / 200 pages a number of service integration efforts designed of faith-based social service programs, assesses how to reform the welfare system and by describing significant the “faith factor” is to their level of effectiveness, $15.00 paperback several critical success factors based on more than and outlines the latest developments in federal and ISBN 1-930912-05-6 forty site visits conducted in twelve states. state constitutional law governing the relationship $25.00 hardcover between government and religious organizations. ISBN 1-930912-04-8 The book details the changing nature of welfare and shows that many families need multiple benefits The book begins with a path-breaking taxonomy that and services, such as child care, job training, makes sense of the tangle of institutions labeled as health insurance, and counseling in order to succeed “faith-based organizations” and describes their scope in the labor market. Linking Human Services also looks of activities, level of public funding, and the immediate at new legislation that has given program administrators policy environment they face. New information is greater flexibility to design and implement systems included detailing what states and key local governments that connect the myriad of human service programs are doing through new laws, regulations, contracting at the local level. This combination of flexibility requirements, and liaison offices affecting participation and the need to move families from dependence by religious organizations in social service delivery. to self-sufficiency makes service integration not just Expert analysis is included on the latest developments wishful thinking, but a necessity. in constitutional, statutory, and administrative law governing the relationship between government and Mark Ragan is a Senior Fellow at the Rockefeller religious organizations. The book also examines case Institute of Government and previously an official studies comparing process and outcome effects among December / 300 pages with the Administration for Children and Families Illustrated: 25 b/w photographs, carefully matched faith-based and secular organizations federal agency. 40 tables, 10 figures providing shelter services for the homeless, after-school literacy programs, and residential treatment for drug abuse.

$15.00 paperback only ISBN 1-930912-03-X David J. Wright is Project Director of the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy and Director of Urban/ Metro Studies for the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

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NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT eatured What It Does, How It Works f t i t l e ROBERT B. WARD This is the first comprehensive examination of New York State RACE IN THE JURY BOX government in more than two decades. Robert Ward’s book Affirmative Action in Jury Selection provides readers a thorough grounding in the state Constitution, HIROSHI FUKURAI AND RICHARD KROOTH the three branches of government in Albany, and the broad scope of state activities and services. This highly readable text Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights presents rich and valuable insights into the competition that strategies for achieving racially mixed juries. powerful actors engage in to develop and carry out public policies. Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative 2002 / 474 pages jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality $15.00 paperback ISBN 0-914341-89-8 and a recurring source of controversy in American life. September / 288 pages $25.00 hardcover ISBN 0-914341-88-X Because members of minority groups remain Illustrated: 26 tables, 1 figure SOCIAL SCIENCE IN GOVERNMENT underrepresented on juries, various communities have The Role of Policy Researchers tried race-conscious jury selection, termed “affirmative $22.95 paperback RICHARD P. N ATHAN jury selection.” The authors argue that affirmative jury ISBN 0-7914-5838-5 $68.50 hardcover This book presents a lively retrospective account of a career selection can insure fairness, verdict legitimization, and ISBN 0-7914-5837-7 as an inner and outer in American government and academe public confidence in the justice system. This book offers a by a social scientist who has spent many years conducting critical analysis and systematic examination of possible evaluation studies of what works—and what doesn’t work— applications of race-based jury selection, examining the in domestic public affairs. It uses rich histories of prominent public perception of these measures and their constitutionality. policy issues and descriptions of major studies of welfare The authors make use of court cases, their own experiences and job programs to bring to life crucial questions about as jury consultants, and jury research, as well as statistical how social science can best serve social policy. This is a surveys and analysis. The work concludes with the substantially updated, and expanded version of a book presentation of four strategies for affirmative jury selection. published by Basic Books over a decade ago. “This is a one-of-a-kind book. In addition to its focus 2000 / 213 pages on race, its findings have direct policy relevance. It tackles $16.95 paperback ISBN 0-914341-66-9 a very important set of issues within the legal/jurispru- $38.95 hardcover ISBN 0-914341-65-0 dence and social science literatures and an important public policy debate—the causes and consequences IT TAKES A NEIGHBORHOOD of racial exclusion in juries and possible remedies Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline for the problem.” — Darnell F. Hawkins, editor of DAVID J. WRIGHT Ethnicity, Race, and Crime: Perspectives Across Time and Place The Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a comprehensive community building program in ten neighborhoods from Hiroshi Fukurai is Associate Professor of Sociology nine mostly mid-sized cities, is examined here. Wright shows what was learned through NPI about the value of focusing at the University of California at Santa Cruz. on working-class neighborhoods, as well as how to think Richard Krooth is Visiting Scholar of Sociology at about and structure community building efforts generally. the University of California at Berkeley and teaches The lessons gained from NPI about engaging established, International Studies at Golden Gate University. They are networked community organizations in deliberate action- the coeditors (with Edgar W. Butler) of Race and the Jury: oriented strategies, fueled by flexible funding, and linked Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice and to systems of local support, are shown to be applicable Common Destiny: Japan and the United States in the Global Age. to a wide spectrum of community building initiatives. A volume in the SUNY series in 2002 / 206 pages New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies $16.95 paperback 0-914341-84-7 Austin T. Turk, editor $34.95 hardcover 0-914341-83-9

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SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION THE CONTEXTS OF JUVENILE AND PUBLIC POLICY JUSTICE DECISION MAKING Evaluating California’s When Race Matters Imprisonment Crisis MICHAEL J. LEIBER KATHLEEN AUERHAHN Explores the contexts of judges’ decision making Using cutting-edge methodologies, this book in juvenile courts that incarcerate disproportion- evaluates California’s measures to protect the ately more minorities than whites. public from dangerous criminals. An in-depth examination of the contextual nature of From the 1970s to the new millennium, the prison decision making and the causes of disproportionate minority confinement in four relatively homogenous August / 288 pages population in the United States has quadrupled while Illustrated: 6 tables, 64 figures an unprecedented amount of sentencing reform has juvenile courts in Iowa, this book explores the subjective taken place, largely intended to protect the public from social psychological processes of juvenile court officers dangerous criminals. This book details the California and the factors that influence those processes. $23.95 paperback Iowa, although a state with a predominantly white ISBN 0-7914-5798-2 experience, including the history and politics of criminal $71.50 hardcover sentencing policy reform, as well as the consequences population, has one of the highest minority incarcera- ISBN 0-7914-5797-4 of this activity to the criminal justice system. tion rates for juveniles. Michael J. Leiber focuses on the Using cutting-edge computer simulation modeling, relationships between adherence to correctional Kathleen Auerhahn explores the impact that sentencing orientations (such as retribution and rehabilitation) reforms dating back to the 1970s have had on the and decision-makers’ views concerning race, crime, composition and structure of the criminal justice family, and respect for authority with judgments and system, with specific focus on prison populations. differential outcomes for youth. Quantitative and She illustrates how dynamic systems simulation qualitative methodologies are used to determine the modeling is used to both examine “possible futures” extent to which correctional ideologies and decision- under a variety of sentencing structures and sentencing makers’ stereotyping of minorities are fueled by a wide policy alternatives, including narrowing “strike zones” range of contingencies, the impact of case processing and the early release of elderly offenders, in order to and outcomes of whites, African Americans, more effectively target the dangerous criminals these and Native Americans, and how it varies by jurisdiction. policies promise to remove from society via incarceration. “This is a highly readable book that covers a topic of “A unique treatment of the impact of sentencing policy major importance in present-day society. As Leiber changes on the criminal justice system, including notes, the role of decision-makers’ attitudes is an myriad unintended consequences, and an exploration important, yet largely ignored variable and the July / 240 pages of more positive alternatives. The author grounds her qualitative portion of his study are an important Illustrated: 27 tables, 3 figures analysis and argument in important historical contexts contribution to the literature.” — Randall G. Shelden, and theoretical material, whereby the method of University of Nevada at Las Vegas $20.95 paperback analysis is compelling and worthy of emulation.” ISBN 0-7914-5768-0 — Jeffery Ulmer, author of Social Worlds of Sentencing: Michael J. Leiber is Professor of Criminology at the $62.50 hardcover University of Northern Iowa. ISBN 0-7914-5767-2 Court Communities Under Sentencing Guidelines

Kathleen Auerhahn is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

A volume in the SUNY series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies Austin T. Turk, editor

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GALILEO’S PENDULUM LANDSCAPES Science, Sexuality, OF ABANDONMENT and the Body-Instrument Link Capitalism, Modernity, DUSAN I. BJELIC and Estrangement Foreword by Michael Lynch ROGER SALERNO

Examines the history of science in light of recent Argues that the modern West’s pervasive sense theories of sexuality and the body. of abandonment is a side effect of capitalism.

Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Using social theory and cultural analysis, Roger Salerno Judith Butler, and others who have written on the explores the relationship of abandonment to the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo’s Pendulum construction of contemporary capitalistic cultures. October / 224 pages explores how the emergence of the scientific method in Beginning with an array of narratives on the emergence Illustrated: 1 b/w photograph, the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the of capitalism in the West and its undermining 39 figures body and sexuality. The first half of the book focuses of traditional social institutions and structures, on the historical modeling of the relation between he provides an overview of both the definition of $18.95 paperback pleasure and knowledge by examining a history of and reactions to abandonment, analyzing its historical, ISBN 0-7914-5882-2 scientific rationality and its relation to the formation of social, and psychological dimensions. The author $57.50 hardcover the modern scientist’s subjectivity. Relying on Foucault’s contends that abandonment anxiety and feelings of ISBN 0-7914-5881-4 history of sexuality, the author hypothesizes that estrangement not only have deep psychological roots, Galileo’s pendulum, as an extension of mathematics but also important social causes and cultural and the body, must have been sexualized by schemes manifestations such as a quest for security or a hunger of historical representation to the same extent that such for commodities. Salerno surveys important contribu- schemes were rationalized by Galileo. The second half tions of writers, artists, philosophers, and social of the book explores the problems of scientific methodology scientists and how their work expresses this sense of and attempts to return the body in an explicit way modern abandonment. He also examines how and to scientific practice. Ultimately, Galileo’s Pendulum offers why this phenomenon has become a central motif in a discursive method and praxis for resexualizing renderings of community, the environment, and the the history of Galilean science. process of globalization and presents a richer understanding of our modern social condition. “…a highly imaginative—and yet exquisitely material—investigation of the embodied practice “Landscapes of Abandonment is an original treatment of demonstrating ‘Galilean’ science. …[I]t should be of an important cultural force.” — Robert P. Weiss, possible to read this book not only as a source of State University of New York at Plattsburgh information, but also as an installation that facilitates October / 288 pages an unusually direct, material engagement with Roger Salerno is Associate Professor of Sociology foundational issues in the history, philosophy, and and Environmental Studies at Pace University. $21.95 paperback sociology of physical science.” — from the Foreword by ISBN 0-7914-5846-6 Michael Lynch A volume in the SUNY series in the Sociology of Culture $65.50 hardcover Charles R. Simpson, editor ISBN 0-7914-5845-8 Dusan I. Bjelic is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine and the coeditor (with Obrad Savic) of Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation.

A volume in the SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant, editors

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f eatured HIDING THE WORLD t i t l e IN THE WORLD INDIAN CRITIQUES OF GANDHI Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi SCOTT COOK, EDITOR HAROLD COWARD, EDITOR

Through examinations of Gandhi’s critics, Presents wide-ranging and up-to-date interpre- both individuals and groups, this book shows tations of the Zhuangzi, the Daoist classic and the complexity of Indian society and opinion at one of the most elusive works ever written. the time of the Indian Independence Movement. A literary and philosophical masterpiece of its age, Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of and yet one of the most puzzling and elusive texts ever written, the Zhuangzi has been continuously reinterpreted. November / 320 pages books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures Here the age-old hermeneutic project of reading the Zhuangzi is brought up to the present with new essays $22.95 paperback in the Indian Independence Movement who were often addressing an array of interrelated topics from ISBN 0-7914-5910-1 his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by a variety of perspectives. These include how the work $68.50 hardcover examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi’s stands in relation to such issues as mystical experience, ISBN 0-7914-5909-8 contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the “skeptical” and “relativist” attitudes, individual value, dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, ethical orientation, folk psychologies and popular Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, beliefs, and rhetorical logic and structure. By providing Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers ten “uneven” perspectives on such matters, this volume key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate contributes to the ongoing discourse on Zhuangzi’s into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, philosophy by placing it within our present interpretive Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi’s context and pushing that context to new limits. ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle. “Scott Cook has done an excellent job of putting together a first-rate anthology of current research on “Too many books on Gandhi give the impression the Zhuangzi. This is a scholarly collection that is also that he was a solitary hero who had no critics or allies. enjoyable and entertaining to read. It contains insights This book places Gandhi in context, that is, the context that, I would hope, will inspire new directions of of his contemporaries and peers in the struggle for research in the study of Zhuangzi’s philosophy.” Indian independence, adding new insights and — Steven Coutinho, Towson University raising new questions. This is an important work.” Scott Cook is Associate Professor of Chinese October / 320 pages — Fred Dallmayr, author of Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter at Grinnell College. $25.95 paperback A volume in the SUNY series in Harold Coward is Emeritus Professor of History and ISBN 0-7914-5866-0 Chinese Philosophy and Culture $75.50 hardcover Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Roger T. Ames, editor ISBN 0-7914-5865-2 at the University of Victoria. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Yoga and For a list of contributors, see page 58. Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism, also published by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies Harold Coward, editor

For a list of contributors, see page 58.

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REDISCOVERING WEN TINGYUN POVERTY AND CHARITY A Historical Key to a Poetic Labyrinth IN MIDDLE EASTERN CONTEXTS HUAICHUAN MOU MICHAEL BONNER, MINE ENER, AND A new look at the life, times, and work of AMY SINGER, EDITORS the great Tang dynasty poet, Wen Tingyun, Addresses the ideals and institutions through that rebuts the negative aspects of his reputation. which Middle Eastern societies have confronted Translations of a number of his works poverty and the poor. are included. Offering insights and analysis in a field that has only In this book, Huaichuan Mou takes a fresh look at the recently come into existence, this book explores the life, times, and work of Wen Tingyun, the great poet of ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern November / 320 pages the late Tang dynasty in China, whose reputation has societies—from the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. been overshadowed by notoriety and misunderstanding to the present day—have confronted poverty and $21.95 paperback for more than a thousand years. In probing the the poor. By introducing new sources and presenting ISBN 0-7914-5936-5 political intricacies of the major events of Wen’s life and familiar ones with new questions, the contributors the complex contexts in which these events took place, $65.50 hardcover examine ideas about poverty and the poor, ideals and ISBN 0-7914-5935-7 Mou presents a historical key to Wen’s artistic practices of charity, and state and private initiatives of labyrinth, unraveling many of Wen’s poetic puzzles poor relief over this extensive time span. They avoid and rediscovering a historical past which vividly easy generalizations about Islam and the Middle East represents his unyielding pursuit of ideal government as they seek to set the ideals and practices in compara- and true love. This reconstruction of the poet’s life tive perspective. results in not only a new understanding of his literary work but also of late Tang history as well. “A well-thought-out analysis with the very specific aim of Translations and close readings of a number of poems addressing a gap in the historiography of the Middle East.” and prose essays are included. — Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700–1783 “I admire the author’s breadth of reference and familiarity with the history of the late Tang period and Michael Bonner is Associate Professor of Medieval his impressive erudition and literary sensitivity which Islamic History and the Director of the Center for enable him to decipher the complex allusions used in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Wen’s literary work. The reader will walk away with an the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is enriched understanding of the Chinese literary tradition. the author of Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: A major contribution to the field.” — Shuen-fu Lin, Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier. June / 352 pages cotranslator of The Tower of Myriad Mirrors Mine Ener is Assistant Professor of History at Illustrated: 7 figures by Tung Yüeh Villanova University. Amy Singer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African Huaichuan Mou is Lecturer in Asian Studies History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author $23.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-5738-9 at the University of British Columbia. of Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: $71.50 hardcover Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem A volume in the SUNY series in ISBN 0-7914-5737-0 and Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Chinese Philosophy and Culture Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem, published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames, editor A volume in the SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, editor

For a list of contributors, see page 59.

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A TALE OF TWO FACTIONS LET SHEPHERDING ENDURE Myth, Memory, and Identity Applied Anthropology in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen and the Preservation JANE HATHAWAY of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East Reevaluates the foundation myths of two rival factions in Egypt during the Ottoman era. GIDEON M. KRESSEL Addresses how shepherding communities in This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and Israel and the Middle East might be preserved. foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during Examining the crucial problems confronting present- the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt day livestock breeders, principally Bedouin and Jews October / 288 pages was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. Illustrated: 4 b/w photographs, in Israel, but also pastoral nomads in neighboring In answer to the enduring mystery surrounding 2 maps Middle Eastern countries, Let Shepherding Endure the factions’ origins, Jane Hathaway places their proposes new ways for these governments to enhance emergence within the generalized crisis that the and sustain the long-term future development of $20.95 paperback Ottoman Empire—like much of the rest of the world— ISBN 0-7914-5884-9 shepherding communities. Adopting a broad historical suffered during the early modern period, while $62.50 hardcover and anthropological perspective on the topic, uncovering a symbiosis between Ottoman Egypt and ISBN 0-7914-5883-0 and assessing various pastoral relief programs, Yemen that was critical to their formation. In addition, Kressel proposes an alternative program whereby the she scrutinizes the factions’ foundation myths, region’s states would promote a brand of pastoralism deconstructing their tropes and symbols to reveal their that preserves rangeland herding while keeping in step connections to much older popular narratives. with the contemporary cultural and political context. Drawing on parallels from a wide array of cultures, This truly visionary set of recommendations would she demonstrates with striking originality how rituals have several dividends, especially for the Bedouin: such as storytelling and public processions, as well as their cultural legacy, in danger of obsolescence, identifying colors and emblems, could serve to reinforce would be preserved while at the same time enhancing factional identity. both their pastoral skills and ability to secure a livelihood from herding. “Hathaway addresses a number of important questions: How do we understand the formation of “This is a significant contribution, not just isolated to political identities in the early modern period? In what managing the ‘Bedouin problem,’ but also as a kind of ways do public rituals, folklore, and myths of origin model for applied research in similar fields.” factor into the formation of these identities? — Trond Thuen, author of Quest for Equity: August / 256 pages She elegantly draws us into the cultural world of an era Norway and the Saami Challenge Illustrated: 7 b/w photographs, that is gone and opens up new avenues for research 1 map, 1 table on political culture in the early modern period.” Gideon M. Kressel is Professor of Anthropology — Dina Rizk Khoury, author of State and Provincial and Oriental Sciences at Ben-Gurion University $19.95 paperback Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540–1834 of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of several books, ISBN 0-7914-5806-7 including Ascendancy Through Aggression: The Anatomy $59.50 hardcover Jane Hathaway is Associate Professor of History ISBN 0-7914-5805-9 of a Blood Feud Among Urbanized Bedouins and coeditor at Ohio State University, the author of The Politics of (with A. Paul Hare) of Israel as Center Stage: A Setting Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis, for Social and Religious Enactments. and editor of Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective. A volume in the SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies A volume in the SUNY series in the Walter P. Zenner, editor Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, editor

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f eatured THE SOUL IN EVERYDAY LIFE t i t l e DANIEL CHAPELLE EMBODIED SPIRITUALITY Argues that contemporary psychology neglects IN A SACRED WORLD the soul and addresses ways to remedy this. MICHAEL WASHBURN The Soul in Everyday Life argues that modern psychology Presents an account of human development from has given up on dealing with the idea of soul (or psyche), a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective. even though the field is named after it. If psychology wishes to be truly satisfying, it needs to be more than Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human behavioral science, according to Daniel Chapelle. spirituality will find something of value in He concludes that psychology can only satisfy the Michael Washburn’s new book. Drawing on a rich deepest human needs when it can offer a sense of soul September / 256 pages variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential- in everyday life. He explores ways of restoring this Illustrated: 7 tables, 1 figure phenomenological sources and on both Western sense of soul to everyday life by examining how talk and Asian spiritual texts, Embodied Spirituality about something as elusive as the soul is possible and $19.95 paperback in a Sacred World provides a theoretical foundation by reanimating a sense for what the notion of soul ISBN 0-7914-5848-2 for the idea that human development follows a can mean. Working in the tradition of Nietzsche, $59.50 hardcover spiral path. Washburn shows that ego development Freud, Jung, and Jung’s student James Hillman, ISBN 0-7914-5847-4 early in life requires us to turn our backs on original Chapelle reaches back into millennia of Western thought sources of our existence and, therefore, that spiritual to reanimate the dying sense of soul in everyday life development later in life requires us to spiral back to and put the “psyche” back in “psychology.” these sources on the way to whole-psyche integration. “Chapelle takes the archetypal psychological way of “Michael Washburn’s ability to integrate the thinking about psychotherapy and psychology and central findings of psychoanalytic, Jungian, gives it a novel twist, one derived from a reading and transpersonal psychology has enabled him of Nietzsche. He moves further in the direction that to work out a comprehensive and convincing James Hillman initiated, of speaking of the archetypal account of spiritual development. Embodied Spirituality rather than the archetypes (in a Platonic or Kantian fashion). in a Sacred World, his magnum opus, is an impressive Chapelle is quite brilliant, in shifting from believing in overview of how the spirit expresses itself at every archetypes to seeing archetypally. He provides fresh stage of the life cycle and in all the areas of insights and connects them to one’s everyday life, and experiencing that make us human.” there is a great deal of therapeutic wisdom in this book, — John Beebe, Chairperson of the Committee in the way that Chapelle develops Nietzsche’s thought on Spirituality and the Psyche for the International of the eternal return of all things. It becomes a October / 288 pages Federation of Psychoanalytic Education and celebration of the ordinary and how extraordinary author of Integrity in Depth. the ordinary can be. Chapelle’s is a fresh and $21.95 paperback original voice.” — Robert Kugelmann, author of ISBN 0-7914-5864-4 Michael Washburn is Professor of Philosophy at The Windows of Soul $65.50 hardcover Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of ISBN 0-7914-5863-6 The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal “A careful reader will find self-reflection and Theory of Human Development, Second Edition, ‘soul-searching’ made relevant again.” also published by SUNY Press. — David Appelbaum, author of The Delay of the Heart

A volume in the SUNY series in Daniel Chapelle is a practicing psychologist with a Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology background in theoretical and philosophical psychology Richard D. Mann, editor and the author of Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis, also published by SUNY Press.

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LIVES IN SPIRIT THE GREAT ADVENTURE Precursors and Dilemmas Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution of a Secular Western Mysticism DAVID LOYE, EDITOR HARRY T. HUNT Foreword by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Explores the roots of modern transpersonal Outlines how a new working partnership between psychology and spirituality through psychologists and evolutionary systems scientists can psychobiography. help create a more humanistic evolutionary theory.

Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both Working to achieve the dream of the great spiritual and energized and distorted the spiritual development of scientific visionaries, an international and multidisciplinary key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or group of advanced evolution theorists explores whether a new August / 320 pages “this-worldly” mysticism. With its historical roots in the morally-sensitive and action-oriented theory of human Illustrated: 1 figure early Gnostics and Plotinus, this characteristically evolution can help guide our species through troubled times Western spirituality re-emerges with the secularization to reach a higher plateau for humanity. The Great Adventure $22.95 paperback and loss of traditional religious belief of modernity. probes how chaos and complexity theories, new brain ISBN 0-7914-5804-0 The lives, works, and direct experiences of Nietzsche, research, studies of child development, new theories of $68.50 hardcover Emerson, Thoreau, Jung, Heidegger, Gurdjieff, Crowley, creativity and consciousness, and other neglected social and ISBN 0-7914-5803-2 and contemporary feminist mysticism are considered systems science discoveries cumulate to reveal a new full- in terms of transpersonal psychology (Almaas), the spectrum, action-oriented theory. The book outlines how sociology of mysticism (Weber and Troeltsch), and a new working partnership between psychologists and contemporary psychoanalysis (Winnicott, Bion, Kohut). evolutionary systems scientists can meet a pivotal Spiritual or essential experience is seen as an inherent challenge for the twenty-first century. In addition to form of human intelligence, which while potentially describing how to build such a theory, the book includes and even increasingly impacted by personal dynamics outlines for distance learning studies. and social crisis, is not reducible to them. “…the themes introduced by the authors are likely to “Harry T. Hunt’s informative and insightful study of be among the central ones of any new world-view. … ‘inner worldly mysticism’ gives a cogent discussion of David Loye’s central insight, which motivates this book, the kind of mystical inclination that arises in our secular is in my opinion right on the money. The organizing culture and the pitfalls inherent in such spiritual forms. principle of the new faith—a faith of human beings His first-hand familiarity with the Diamond Approach about human beings—is evolution itself. Not the gives him the depth and breadth to use some of its traditionally taught evolutionary scenario dominated concepts in contextualizing both the achievements by competition and selfishness, but an understanding November / 352 pages and limitations of influential figures such as Plotinus, closer to the original Darwinian one that sees Illustrated: 2 tables, 24 figures Nietzsche, Jung, and Maslow (in a way that clarifies cooperation and transcendence of the self as the most modern forms of Western spirituality).” — A. H. Almaas, exciting parts of the story.” — from the Foreword by $23.95 paperback author of Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN 0-7914-5924-1 The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization $71.50 hardcover David Loye is co-founder of The General Evolution Research ISBN 0-7914-5923-3 Harry T. Hunt is Professor in the Department of Group and Vice President of the Center for Partnership Studies. Psychology at Brock University. He is the author of Among his books are the award-winning The Healing of a On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, Phenomeno- Nation; The Leadership Passion; and The Sphinx and the Rainbow. logical, and Transpersonal Perspectives and The Multiplicity of Dreams: Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness. A volume in the SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology A volume in the SUNY series in Richard D. Mann, editor Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann, editor For a list of contributors, see page 59.

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DREAMING AND THE SELF eatured New Perspectives on Subjectivity, f t i t l e Identity, and Emotion COMMUNICATION BEST PRACTICES JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO, EDITOR AT DELL, GENERAL ELECTRIC, Anthropological perspectives on dreams around MICROSOFT, AND MONSANTO the world. DONALD P. C USHMAN AND SARAH SANDERSON KING With a chapter by Ted J. Smith III and Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and William C. Adams psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self—particularly to subjectivity, Highlights successful communication practices at identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto. dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore July / 256 pages how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, Through case studies of communication best practices how they forge identities out of their cultural and at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto, $19.95 paperback historical experiences, how the cultural and historical this book provides specific and powerful theories for ISBN 0-7914-5788-5 worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits leadership, marketing, and stockholder communication. $59.50 hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5787-7 and responses, and how the person as agent responds Best practice limitations are also revealed in the cases of to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. IBM, the Bumper Works, and Asea Brown and Boveri, These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on where organizational learning, a firm’s timeline, topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how and corporate culture made implementation difficult. people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, Taken collectively, these case studies suggest several and migration. Actual dreams are examined, including ways in which benchmarking can become an dreams of Samoan young people about race; of a Haitian important research methodology and theorist tool for priestess about vodou deities; of a Pakistani about understanding excellence in organizational practice. spiritual teachers; of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars, witches, and sex; and of a “The book’s greatest strength is its focus on how some young Balinese mother about a neglected dog. of the best corporations communicate. Such an approach is a fruitful way to link theory and practice “This outstanding anthology promises to propel the in the field of organizational communication, a field anthropological study of dreaming in important of study that desperately needs such bridges between new directions. Indeed, researchers who assume that theory and practice.” — Branislav Kovacic, editor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience are the primary Emerging Theories of Human Communication disciplines of dream investigation will likely be surprised at the thought-provoking and critically acute discussions Donald P. Cushman is CEO of The Cushman Group July / 160 pages in this book.” — Kelly Bulkeley, author of and Professor Emeritus of Communication, University Illustrated: 10 tables, 1 figure The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings at Albany, State University of New York. He is also the of Dreams in Modern Western Culture coeditor of the SUNY series, Human Communication $19.95 paperback Processes. Sarah Sanderson King is CFO of ISBN 0-7914-5740-0 Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor The Cushman Group and Professor Emerita of $59.50 hardcover of Anthropology at Washington State University and Communication at Central Connecticut State University. ISBN 0-7914-5739-7 the editor of several books, including, most recently, Together they have written many books, including Power and the Self. She is also the author of Excellence in Communicating Organizational Strategy, Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities. also published by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series in Dream Studies A volume in the SUNY series, Robert L. Van de Castle, editor Human Communication Processes Donald P. Cushman and Ted J. Smith III, editors For a list of contributors, see page 59.

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THE GLOBALIZATION METAPHOR AND KNOWLEDGE OF CORPORATE MEDIA HEGEMONY The Challenges of Writing Science LEE ARTZ AND YAHYA R. KAMALIPOUR, EDITORS KEN BAAKE Foreword by Stephen A. Bernhardt Shows how dominant commercial media practices secure a hold among and affect diverse Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric national cultures. of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts. When commercial media practices are insinuated into local cultures, existing cultural and media practices are Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history often displaced and social inequalities are exacer- of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into bated—sometimes with the consent of consumers, questions about how language constitutes knowledge. September / 320 pages but frequently confronting organized proponents. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony provides the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisci- $22.95 paperback case studies from five continents—from government- plinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows ISBN 0-7914-5822-9 promoted telecommunications programs and the difficulty of writing science when word meanings $68.50 hardcover technologies in Canada and Britain, MTV Asia’s call-in are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor ISBN 0-7914-5821-0 request lines, and the pan-Latin ideology of a Mexican in science. He argues that metaphors function as television variety show, to Islamic pop radio in Turkey, musical notes, which sound “harmonics” in the process commercial radio in Africa, a “Millionaire” game show of transferring ideas from one term to another. in India, and Hollywood’s muted influence on Korean These harmonics force scientists to confront implica- cinema, among others. Each case offers new insight tions, even paradoxes, of a theory. into the particulars of an expanding corporate hegemony and together they invite the conversation “A real glory in this book is Baake’s engaging presentation. on media globalization to consider the dynamics This work is a treat to read.... [Baake] is able to write in ways of class conflict and negotiation as an analytical that engage and propel the reader along on a highly perspective having prescriptive potential. enjoyable excursion. His prose is smooth and progressive; his arguments are well cast and a delight to follow. “This book will become one of the important texts in the field The text is populated with the voices and perspectives of communication studies. Hegemony and globalization are of his subjects, always showing them thoughtful and topics that continue to expand in importance and this book complex, even as they take diametrically opposed positions.” provides an excellent global view of these concepts.” — from the Foreword by Stephen A. Bernhardt — Rick Rockwell, American University “Whenever scientists are involved in interdisciplinary July / 208 pages At Purdue University Calumet, Lee Artz is Associate Professor projects to simulate phenomena of complex physico- of Communication and Yahya R. Kamalipour is chemical, biotic, or socio-economic systems, they are $21.95 paperback Professor of Communication and Head of the Department of bound to face communication problems while applying ISBN 0-7914-5744-3 Communication and Creative Arts. Artz is the coauthor (with basic disciplinary terms and using metaphors for their $65.50 hardcover Bren Ortega Murphy) of Cultural Hegemony in the United States conceptual models. As a biologist, I found this analysis of ISBN 0-7914-5743-5 and is the editor of Communication Practices and Democratic language issues among scientists to be rigorous and Society. Kamalipour is the editor of Images of the U.S. around thought-provoking. …” — Charlotte Kaempf, the World: A Multicultural Perspective and coeditor University of Karlsruhe (with Theresa Carilli) of Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media, both also published by SUNY Press. Ken Baake is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Texas Tech University. A volume in the SUNY series in Global Media Studies Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal, editors A volume in the SUNY series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication For a list of contributors, see page 59. James P. Zappen, editor

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EXPRESSIONS FRACTURED FEMINISMS OF ETHNOGRAPHY Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation Novel Approaches LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE AND to Qualitative Methods GIL HAROOTUNIAN, EDITORS ROBIN PATRIC CLAIR, EDITOR Crucial conversations about feminist theories and A different approach to contemporary ethnography, how they can fall apart, rupture, and fragment. embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience. This advanced analysis of gender issues in higher education represents a significant new turn in Expressions of Ethnography embraces the idea that feminist thinking. Fractured Feminisms resists and alternative genres may be used to express culture. reshapes boundaries by investigating how gender studies’ intersection with race and ethnicity, September / 320 pages Using examples of a wide variety of cultural phenomena, Illustrated: 3 b/w photographs contemporary ways to practice ethnography, and class, postcoloniality, sexuality, globalization, novel forms of expressing the cultural experience, the interdisciplinarity, technology studies, and $23.95 paperback book offers an eclectic mix of short stories, novels, and administration exposes the “silenced other” of feminisms themselves. These crucial conversations ISBN 0-7914-5824-5 poetry, as well as traditional scholarly reports of $71.50 hardcover about feminisms depend upon facing the perplexing poignant, provocative, and powerful cultural phenomena. ISBN 0-7914-5823-7 Included are accounts of recovery following the rhetorical problems within feminist debates, yet work terrorist attacks of 9/11, life as a prison guard, within these fractures to discover newly emerging, surviving child abuse and coping via an eating productive feminist practices. This book contends that disorder, dealing with disabilities, living the gay life, it’s important to better understand the ways in which birthing babies, as well as searching for birth mothers. feminist rhetorics both empower and constrain and the Special attention is given to dialogue, from dialogue kinds of identities feminisms afford as well as deny. with families and friends to American ethnographers interviewing Thai managers. Laura Gray-Rosendale is Associate Professor of English and Co-Chair of the Commission on the Status “This book covers a somewhat daunting range of of Women at Northern Arizona University. She is the perspectives and also introduces diverse, yet nuanced coeditor (with Sibylle Gruber) of Alternative Rhetorics: styles for representing ethnographic research. In that Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, also published by regard, I consider it to be an innovative book that will SUNY Press. Gil Harootunian is Professional Writing likely produce further interest in ethnography and in Instructor in the Syracuse University Writing Program. new forms of representing self and other in scholarship.” She is the editor of The Personal Narrative: Writing — Steve May, University of North Carolina Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars. August / 256 pages at Chapel Hill For a list of contributors, see page 60. Illustrated: 1 table Robin Patric Clair is Associate Professor of Commu- $20.95 paperback nication at Purdue University. She is the author of ISBN 0-7914-5802-4 Organizing Silence: A World of Possibilities, also $62.50 hardcover published by SUNY Press and winner of the National ISBN 0-7914-5801-6 Communication Association Organizational Communi- cation Division’s Outstanding Book of the Year (2000).

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THE REALMS OF RHETORIC THE LANGUAGE The Prospects for Rhetoric Education OF BATTERED WOMEN JOSEPH PETRAGLIA AND DEEPIKA BAHRI, EDITORS A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent CAROL L. WINKELMANN curricular space for rhetoric in the academy. Shows how battered women’s personal theologies help them survive and heal, despite the women’s In The Realms of Rhetoric, contributors from a wide knowledge that religion may also have contributed range of disciplines explore the challenges and to their oppression. opportunities faced in building a curricular space in the academy for rhetoric. Although rhetoric education has This study of battered women living in a shelter offers its roots in ancient times, the modern era has seen it a rhetorical analysis of survivors’ personal theologies. August / 320 pages fragmented into composition and public speaking, Author Carol L. Winkelmann holds that while it is obscuring concepts, theories, and skills. Petraglia and virtually ignored in the domestic violence literature, $22.95 paperback Bahri consider the prospects for rhetoric education the Christian heritage of many battered women plays ISBN 0-7914-5810-5 outside of narrow disciplinary constraints and, a significant, if complicated, role in their language, $68.50 hardcover together with leading scholars, examine opportunities ISBN 0-7914-5809-1 thoughts, and lives. The women’s religious faith serves that can propel and revitalize rhetoric education at the not only to sustain them through periods of profound beginning of the millennium. suffering, but also to develop solidarity with other culturally-different women in the shelter. Designed to “The teaching of rhetoric—of how to think together assist women to greater independence, the shelter and talk together and read and write together—is the actually functions as a culture of surveillance where most important of all vocations, and this book is a step women turn to one another and to their faith to cope toward uniting those of us who, under whatever with the trauma of violence. To heal, the women disciplinary label, see it that way.” engage in dialogue that is dense in religious imagery, — from the Foreword by Wayne C. Booth talking about the relationship of God and the church to suffering and evil. At the same time, these women “The great strength of this book is that Petraglia also acknowledge that organized religion is very much and Bahri were able to collect essays that all pursue involved in the maintenance of patriarchal marriage a common goal—the articulation of a common, and its attendant abuses in their own lives. trans-disciplinary rhetoric education—without Together, battered women are sometimes able to sacrificing coherence.” — Bruce McComiskey, construct creative theological responses to the problem author of Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric of suffering and evil. A mix of religious and secular languages compels them to devise new ways of November / 256 pages Joseph Petraglia is Co-Director of Global Health thinking about their role in family, church, and society. Communications and an International Project $19.95 paperback Manager for the Centers for Disease Control “An honest assessment and dramatic rendering of ISBN 0-7914-5942-X and Prevention. He is the author of Reality by Design: the paradoxical relationship between battered women $59.50 hardcover The Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education and theology. Winkelmann’s analysis of the unique ISBN 0-7914-5941-1 and editor of Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking problems of conscience faced by battered women Writing Instruction. Deepika Bahri is Associate is mature and nuanced, keyed to the ironies and Professor of English at Emory University. She is the difficulties real people face when they try to make real coeditor (with Mary Vasudeva) of Between the Lines: changes in their lives. This is a very moving book.” South Asians and Postcoloniality. — Robert Inchausti, author of Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy For a list of contributors, see page 60. Carol L. Winkelmann is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Xavier University.

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WRITING POWER THE IDEA OF IDENTIFICATION Communication in an Engineering Center GARY C. WOODWARD DOROTHY A. WINSOR Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Adds to our understanding of the powerful Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that nature of texts and writing. create powerful moments of identification.

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LEARNING FROM THE OTHER RECONSIDERING Levinas, Psychoanalysis, FEMINIST RESEARCH and Ethical Possibilities in Education IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP SHARON TODD MICHELLE D. YOUNG AND LINDA SKRLA, EDITORS

How does ethics influence the myriad ways we A critical reflection on the field of feminist engage difference within educational settings? research in educational leadership.

Learning from the Other presents a philosophical Ten prominent feminist researchers from diverse investigation into the ethical possibilities of education, backgrounds examine educational leadership especially social justice education. In this original by focusing on critical questions about the theories, treatment, Sharon Todd rethinks the ethical basis methods, and epistemologies feminist researchers use. September / 192 pages of responsibility as emerging out of the everyday The contributors analyze the impact of research on and complex ways we engage difference within participants and assess the ethical and political educational settings. She works through the implica- $16.95 paperback implications of researching across groups. They explore ISBN 0-7914-5836-9 tions of the productive tension between the thought the types of strategies feminist researchers have of Emmanuel Levinas and that of Sigmund Freud, $49.50 hardcover developed to address the problems of the field and ISBN 0-7914-5835-0 Melanie Klein, Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, propose alternative epistemologies that provide for and others. Challenging the idea that knowledge more sensitive research methods and more complex about the other is the answer to questions of responsi- research results. The book provides a timely examina- bility, she proposes that responsibility is rooted instead tion of how gender inequalities were created and in a learning from the other. The author focuses structured within U.S. systems of school administration, on empathy, love, guilt, and listening to highlight how they are maintained and perpetuated, and how the complex nature of learning from difference they might best be understood and dismantled. and to probe where the conditions for ethical possibility might lie. “This book fills an important gap in the literature by bringing people of color and women’s voices into the “This book contains many original insights into conversations about the knowledge base, research the ethical character of the educational relationship. methods, and practice in the field. Its greatest strengths Although there is a tradition of this kind of theorizing are that it challenges and illustrates alternatives to in continental educational philosophy, it is quite predominant thinking about understanding, doing, unique—and quite needed—in the English-speaking and sharing research in educational leadership, and world. Todd displays an excellent command of the does so with optimism about prospects for change complex material that she uses to develop her and improvement.” — Marilyn Tallerico, author of July / 320 pages argumentation and presents an excellent balance Accessing the Superintendency: The Unwritten Rules between theoretical and philosophical argumentation $22.95 paperback on the one hand, and practical issues on the other.” Michelle D. Young is Executive Director of the ISBN 0-7914-5772-9 — Gert J.J. Biesta, coeditor of Derrida and Education University Council for Educational Administration $68.50 hardcover at the University of Missouri at Columbia. ISBN 0-7914-5771-0 Sharon Todd is Associate Professor of Education Linda Skrla is Assistant Professor of Educational at York University and the editor of Learning Desire: Administration at Texas A&M University and coauthor Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture, and the Unsaid. (with David A. Erlandson, Eileen M. Reed, and Alfred P. Wilson) of The Emerging Principalship. A volume in the SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations A volume in the SUNY series in Women in Education Deborah P. Britzman, editor Margaret Grogan, editor

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FRACTURED FEMINISMS / PAGE 47 RECONSIDERING FEMINIST RESEARCH Laura Gray-Rosendale and Gil Harootunian, editors IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP / PAGE 51 M. Diane Benton / Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI Michelle D. Young and Linda Skrla, editors Linda S. Bergmann / Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Maenette K. P. AhNee-Benham / Michigan State University, Stuart H.D. Ching / Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA East Lansing, MI Joanne Detore-Nakamura / Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University, Colleen A. Capper / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Daytona Beach, FL Cynthia B. Dillard / Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Laura Gray-Rosendale / Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Margaret Grogan / University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Sibylle Gruber / Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Julie C. Laible / University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Gil Harootunian / Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Catherine Marshall / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Ching Huang Hoon / National University of Singapore, Singapore Sylvia Méndez-Morse / Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Rose Kamel / University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Jennifer Scott / Longview, TX Veronica Pantoja / Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Linda Skrla / Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Bradley Peters / Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL Michelle D. Young / University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Duane Roen / Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Chitra Sankaran / National University of Singapore, Singapore Eileen Schell / Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Shelly Whitfield / Tempe, AZ

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Altizer/ Godhead and the Nothing, p. 30 Leiber/ The Contexts of Juvenile Justice Decision Making, p. 38 Artz, Kamalipour/ The Globalization of Corporate Media…, p. 46 Loye/ The Great Adventure, p. 44 Auerhahn/ Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy, p. 38 Mageo/ Dreaming and the Self, p. 45 Baake/ Metaphor and Knowledge, p. 46 Marmysz/ Laughing at Nothing, p. 18 Baum/ Community Action for School Reform, p. 50 Mason/ Understanding Understanding, p. 20 Bayne/ Kant on Causation, p. 18 Mathews/ For Love of Matter, p. 21 Bell/ Beyond the Margins, p. 17 McDonald/ John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy, p. 21 Belzer, Pelc/ Joining the Sisterhood, p. 7 McHugh/ Ex Uno Plura, p. 35 Bjelic/ Galileo’s Pendulum, p. 39 Menninghaus/ Disgust, p. 16 Bonner, et al./ Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts, p. 41 Mensch/ Ethics and Selfhood, p. 22 Boym/ Ninochka, p. 5 Mou/ Rediscovering Wen Tingyun, p. 41 Brechin, et al./ Contested Nature, p. 33 Olajubu/ Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere, p. 32 Butigan/ Pilgrimage through a Burning World, p. 11 Olson, Worsham/ Critical Intellectuals on Writing, p. 8 Chapelle/ The Soul in Everyday Life, p. 43 Paris/ Rereading George Eliot, p. 26 Chapple/ Reconciling Yogas, p. 31 Petraglia, Bahri/ The Realms of Rhetoric, p. 48 Clair/ Expressions of Ethnography, p. 47 Picart/ Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film, p. 25 Cook/ Hiding the World in the World, p. 40 Powers/ The Call of God, p. 10 Cosco/ Imagining Italians, p. 16 Ragan/ Linking Human Services, p. 36 Coward/ Indian Critiques of Gandhi, p. 40 Ramsey, Miller/ Experiences between Philosophy and…, p. 17 Coward, Smith/ Religion and Peacebuilding, p. 31 Read/ The Micro-Politics of Capital, p. 22 Crawford/ Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century, p. 32 Rescher/ Epistemology, p. 23 Cushman, King/ Communication Best Practices at Dell, General…, p. 45 Resnik/ Owning the Genome, p. 13 d’Agoult / Nelida, p. 4 Rodrigues/ Global Environmentalism and Local Politics, p. 34 De Rosa/ Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature…, p. 27 Russon/ Human Experience, p. 23 Desmond/ Art, Origins, Otherness, p. 19 Salerno/ Landscapes of Abandonment, p. 39 Dever/ Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas, p. 25 Sartwell/ Extreme Virtue, p. 6 Eisenstein/ Traumatic Encounters, p. 27 Schaefer/ Bored to Distraction, p. 26 Freedman, Holmes/ The Teacher’s Body, p. 9 Tan/ Confucian Democracy, p. 24 Freyberg-Inan/ What Moves Man, p. 34 Tighe/ Who’s in Charge of America’s Research Universities?, p. 14 Fukurai, Krooth/ Race in the Jury Box, p. 37 Tobias, et al./ A Parliament of Science, p. 12 Gelven/ What Happens to Us When We Think, p. 19 Todd/ Learning from the Other, p. 51 Gilpin, Gasman/ Charles S. Johnson, p. 2 Vaught/ The Journey toward God in Augustine’s Confessions, p. 33 Ginsburg, Ron/ Shattered Vessels, p. 28 Visser/ Ken Wilber, p. 1 Gonick/ Between Femininities, p. 50 Washburn/ Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World, p. 43 Gray-Rosendale, Harootunian/ Fractured Feminisms, p. 47 Weir/ Brahma in the West, p. 29 Gregg/ Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms, p. 35 Winkelmann/ The Language of Battered Women, p. 48 Greiner/ Subdued by the Sword, p. 3 Winsor/ Writing Power, p. 49 Hathaway/ A Tale of Two Factions, p. 42 Wirth/ The Conspiracy of Life, p. 24 Heller, Moran/ Scenes of the Apple, p. 28 Woodward/ The Idea of Identification, p. 49 Hunt/ Lives in Spirit, p. 44 Wright/ The Public Benefit of Private Faith, p. 36 Karkov, Brown/ Anglo-Saxon Styles, p. 29 Young, Skrla/ Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational…, p. 51 Khandelwal/ Women in Ochre Robes, p. 30 Kressel/ Let Shepherding Endure, p. 42 Laszlo/ The Connectivity Hypothesis, p. 20 Lau, Ames/ Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare, p. 15

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Anglo-Saxon Styles/ Karkov, Brown, p. 29 Ken Wilber/ Visser, p. 1 Art, Origins, Otherness/ Desmond, p. 19 Landscapes of Abandonment/ Salerno, p. 39 Between Femininities/ Gonick, p. 50 Language of Battered Women, The/ Winkelmann, p. 48 Beyond the Margins/ Bell, p. 17 Laughing at Nothing/ Marmysz, p. 18 Bored to Distraction/ Schaefer, p. 26 Learning from the Other/ Todd, p. 51 Brahma in the West/ Weir, p. 29 Let Shepherding Endure/ Kressel, p. 42 Call of God, The/ Powers, p. 10 Linking Human Services/ Ragan, p. 36 Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas/ Dever, p. 25 Lives in Spirit/ Hunt, p. 44 Charles S. Johnson/ Gilpin, Gasman, p. 2 Metaphor and Knowledge/ Baake, p. 46 Communication Best Practices at Dell, General…/ Cushman, King, p. 45 Micro-Politics of Capital, The/ Read, p. 22 Community Action for School Reform/ Baum, p. 50 Nelida/ d’Agoult , p. 4 Confucian Democracy/ Tan, p. 24 Ninochka/ Boym, p. 5 Connectivity Hypothesis, The/ Laszlo, p. 20 Owning the Genome/ Resnik, p. 13 Conspiracy of Life, The/ Wirth, p. 24 Parliament of Science, A/ Tobias, et al., p. 12 Contested Nature/ Brechin, et al., p. 33 Pilgrimage through a Burning World/ Butigan, p. 11 Contexts of Juvenile Justice Decision Making, The/ Leiber, p. 38 Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts/ Bonner, et al., p. 41 Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms/ Gregg, p. 35 Public Benefit of Private Faith, The/ Wright, p. 36 Critical Intellectuals on Writing/ Olson, Worsham, p. 8 Race in the Jury Box/ Fukurai, Krooth, p. 37 Disgust/ Menninghaus, p. 16 Realms of Rhetoric, The/ Petraglia, Bahri, p. 48 Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature…/ De Rosa, p. 27 Reconciling Yogas/ Chapple, p. 31 Dreaming and the Self/ Mageo, p. 45 Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational…/ Young, Skrla, p. 51 Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World/ Washburn, p. 43 Rediscovering Wen Tingyun/ Mou, p. 41 Epistemology/ Rescher, p. 23 Religion and Peacebuilding/ Coward, Smith, p. 31 Ethics and Selfhood/ Mensch, p. 22 Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film/ Picart, p. 25 Ex Uno Plura/ McHugh, p. 35 Rereading George Eliot/ Paris, p. 26 Experiences between Philosophy and…/ Ramsey, Miller, p. 17 Scenes of the Apple/ Heller, Moran, p. 28 Expressions of Ethnography/ Clair, p. 47 Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy/ Auerhahn, p. 38 Extreme Virtue/ Sartwell, p. 6 Shattered Vessels/ Ginsburg, Ron, p. 28 For Love of Matter/ Mathews, p. 21 Soul in Everyday Life, The/ Chapelle, p. 43 Fractured Feminisms/ Gray-Rosendale, Harootunian, p. 47 Subdued by the Sword/ Greiner, p. 3 Galileo’s Pendulum/ Bjelic, p. 39 Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare/ Lau, Ames, p. 15 Global Environmentalism and Local Politics/ Rodrigues, p. 34 Tale of Two Factions, A/ Hathaway, p. 42 Globalization of Corporate Media…, The/ Artz, Kamalipour, p. 46 Teacher’s Body, The/ Freedman, Holmes, p. 9 Godhead and the Nothing/ Altizer, p. 30 Traumatic Encounters/ Eisenstein, p. 27 Great Adventure, The/ Loye, p. 44 Understanding Understanding/ Mason, p. 20 Hiding the World in the World/ Cook, p. 40 What Happens to Us When We Think/ Gelven, p. 19 Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century/ Crawford, p. 32 What Moves Man/ Freyberg-Inan, p. 34 Human Experience/ Russon, p. 23 Who’s in Charge of America’s Research Universities?/ Tighe, p. 14 Idea of Identification, The/ Woodward, p. 49 Women in Ochre Robes/ Khandelwal, p. 30 Imagining Italians/ Cosco, p. 16 Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere/ Olajubu, p. 32 Indian Critiques of Gandhi/ Coward, p. 40 Writing Power/ Winsor, p. 49 John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy/ McDonald, p. 21 Joining the Sisterhood/ Belzer, Pelc, p. 7 Journey toward God in Augustine’s Confessions, The/ Vaught, p. 33 Kant on Causation/ Bayne, p. 18

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