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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILOSOPHY, THEORY, AND LITERATURE 20% DISCOUNT NEW & FORTHCOMING ON ALL TITLES 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS Redwood Press .............................2 Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities ................... 2-3 Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times ...............3-4 Post*45 ..........................................5-7 Philosophy and Social Theory ..........................7-10 Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics ............10-12 Cultural Memory in the Present ......................... 12-14 Literature and Literary Studies .................... 14-18 This Atom Bomb in Me Ordinary Unhappiness Shakesplish The Long Public Life of a History in Financial Times Asian and Asian Lindsey A. Freeman The Therapeutic Fiction of How We Read Short Private Poem Amin Samman American Literature .................19 David Foster Wallace Shakespeare’s Language Reading and Remembering This Atom Bomb in Me traces what Critical theorists of economy tend Thomas Wyatt Digital Publishing Initiative ....19 it felt like to grow up suffused with Jon Baskin Paula Blank to understand the history of market American nuclear culture in and In recent years, the American fiction Shakespeare may have written in Peter Murphy society as a succession of distinct around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, writer David Foster Wallace has Elizabethan English, but when Thomas Wyatt didn’t publish “They stages. This vision of history rests on ORDERING Tennessee. As a secret city during been treated as a symbol, an icon, we read him, we can’t help but Flee from Me.” It was written in a a chronological conception of time Use code S19PHIL to receive a the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge and even a film character. Ordinary understand his words, metaphors, notebook, maybe abroad, maybe whereby each present slips into the 20% discount on all books listed enriched the uranium that powered Unhappiness returns us to the reason and syntax in relation to our own. even in prison. Today it is in every past so that a future might take its in this catalog. Visit sup.org to Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed we all know about him in the first Until now, explaining the powers poetry anthology. How did it survive? place. This book argues that the linear order online. Visit sup.org/help/ Hiroshima. Today, Oak Ridge place: his fiction. By closely examining and pleasures of the Bard’s language That is the story Peter Murphy tells— mode of thinking misses something orderingbyphone/ for information contains the world’s largest supply Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with has meant returning it to its original in vivid and compelling detail—of crucial about the dynamics of on phone orders. Books not yet of fissionable uranium. Hideous Men, and Pale King, Jon linguistic and rhetorical contexts. the accidents of fate that kept a great contemporary capitalism. Rather published or temporarily out of stock Baskin points readers to the work at Countless excellent studies may than each present leaving a set will be charged to your credit card The granddaughter of an atomic poem alive across 500 turbulent years. the center of Wallace’s oeuvre and mention the presumptions of past behind it, the past continually when they become available and are courier, Lindsey A. 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Yet the term remains necessary Capital and Time advances an The first sustained study of the What would it mean to be In December of 1997, the International not be restricted to the financial for understanding the varieties of understanding of economy as a relations between literary celebrity avant-garde today? Arguing against Monetary Fund announced the sphere. It argues that the expansion capitalism across space and time. process whereby patterns of order and queer sexuality, Categorically the notion that the avant-garde is largest bailout package in its history, of finance has created a distinctive Arguing that neoliberalism is widely emerge out of the interaction of Famous looks at the careers of three dead or confined to historically aimed at stabilizing the South Korean social world, one that demands a misunderstood when reduced speculative investments. Progressive celebrity writers–James Baldwin, “failed” movements, this book economy in response to a major credit speculative stance toward life in to a doctrine of markets and critics have assumed that the Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal–in offers a more dynamic theory of and currency crisis. Vicious Circuits general. Speculation changes our economics alone, this book shows state occupies a neutral, external relation to the gay and lesbian avant-gardes, one that is more examines what it terms “Korea’s relationship to time and organizes that it has a political dimension position from which it can step in liberation movement of the 1960s. inclusive and that accounts for how IMF Cinema,” the decade of cinema our social worlds to maximize that we can reconstruct and to constrain speculative behaviors. While none of these writers “came they work in our present. Innovative following that crisis, to consider the productive capacities around flows critique. By examining the views On the contrary, Martijn Konings out” in our current sense, all in approach, Provisional Avant- transformations of global political of money. Defining features of our of state, democracy, science, and argues, the state has always been contributed to a greater openness Gardes focuses on the medium of the economy at the end of the American age are hardwired to speculative politics in the work of six major deeply implicated in the speculative toward homosexuality.