Rancière and Literature Edited by Grace Hellyer and Julian Murphet
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Rancière and Literature Edited by Grace Hellyer and Julian Murphet May 2016 Hb • 978 1 4744 0257 6 • £70.00 BIC: DSA, HPS 224 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 0259 0 • £70.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0260 6 • £19.99 An evaluation of Jacques Rancière’s contribution to literary scholarship Description The Editors With the increasingly rapid translation of Rancière’s writing into English, the Grace Hellyer is completing her question of what this philosopher has to offer to the study of literature has doctorate at the University of New become pressing. This collection of high-quality original commissioned essays South Wales where she teaches both engages with Rancière’s accounts of literature from across his body of undergraduate courses on the history work, and puts his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of literary criticism. of the novel. From Rancière’s archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, from his concept Julian Murphet is Professor in Modern of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three Film and Literature at the University of 'regimes' of literary practice – this collection seeks to unearth, to consolidate, New South Wales, Australia. to evaluate, and to critique this influential thinker’s work on and with literature. Series Critical Connections Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working in Continental philosophy and literary criticism. Philosophy The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Critical Luxury Studies Art, Design, Media Edited by John Armitage and Joanne Roberts May 2016 Hb • 978 1 4744 0261 3 • £75.00 BIC: ACX, HPN 256 pp 234 x 156 mm 4 colour illustrations, 16 b&w illustrations Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 0262 0 • £75.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0487 7 • £75.00 A guide to appreciating the new field of critical luxury studies incorporating key case studies Description The Editors Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media is a critical approach to contemporary John Armitage is Professor of luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practices. Media Arts and Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive, and expanding Winchester School of Art, University of subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Southampton. Roberts present a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led, and media-related examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and ideas of luxury. Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group This book offers a technoculturally inspired survey of the mediated arts and at Winchester School of Art, University design, as well as a means of comprehending the socio-economic order with of Southampton. novel philosophical tools and critical methods of interrogation that are re- defining the concept of luxury in the 21st century. Series Case Studies Technicities Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Silk Shiki for Hermès The plain white t-shirt Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH) Readership The architecture of Las Vegas Postgraduate students and researchers working in fashion, art and fine art, design, media studies, critical theory and philosophy. Rearchers (particularly Part I), undergraduate 2nd and 3rd year) and postgraduate students (MA, MSc, PhD) (particularly Part II). Philosophy The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com French Philosophy Today New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour Christopher Watkin May 2016 Hb • 978 1 4744 1473 9 • £75.00 BIC: HPJ, HPS 304 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 1474 6 • £75.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 1475 3 • £75.00 A comparative critique of five of the most influential and best-known French thinkers writing today: Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour Description The Author A new generation of French philosophers are seeking to move away from Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in accounts of reality that put the human being at its centre. Such a move is French Studies at Monash University. necessary, they argue, in the light of advances in contemporary science and technology, and in the face of threats both economic and ecological. However, Readership this task of transforming the human is much more difficult than they have yet acknowledged. MA students, postgraduates and academics working in contemporary Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils inherent in the European thought and within the current attempts to rethink humanity’s relation to ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, to the emerging field of New Materialism. objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains, arguing that the stakes of this project are high for our technologically advanced but socially atomised and ecologically vulnerable society. Key Features • Bursts through the political and tribal partitions which often prevent these 5 thinkers from being considered in productive dialogue. • Offers the reader an overview of different contemporary French approaches to the question of the human, facilitating an appreciation not only of the benefits and problems of one particular approach but the important similarities and differences between them. • Assesses the different ways in which philosophers are both charting and spearheading the transformation of the human today, in dialogue with problems and advances in mathematics, neuroscience and ecology Philosophy The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Assemblage Theory Manuel DeLanda May 2016 Pb • 978 1 4744 1363 3 • £19.99 BIC: HPJ, HPS 216 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Hb • 978 1 4744 1362 6 • £85.00 Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 1364 0 • £85.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 1365 7 • £19.99 Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theory Description The Author Assemblage theory has injected new life into materialism. Now, Manuel Manuel DeLanda is an internationally DeLanda analyses the different formulations of the concept of 'assemblage recognised philosopher. He is Professor theory'. He shows how it has been applied in many disciplines – sociology, of Contemporary Philosophy and linguistics, military organisations and science – opening up the area so that Science at the European Graduate future researchers can rigorously deploy the concept in their own fields. School and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. Key Features Series • Critically connects DeLanda with more recent theoretical turns in speculative realism Speculative Realism • Makes sense of the fragmentary discussions of assemblage theory in the work of Deleuze and Guattari Readership Upper-level undergraduates, Selling Points postgraduates and researchers • Broad interdisciplinary audience across continental philosophy, science working in contemporary philosophy, studies, media studies, literary criticism and political theory Deleuze Studies and on Speculative • Part of the bestselling Speculative Realism series Realism. • Publicity will target features on the most-read contemporary philosophy blogs – we will target Critical-Theory.com in particular and we have a certain mention on series editor Graham Harman's popular blog Table of Contents Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Preface Introduction 1. Assemblages and Human History 2. Assemblages and Linguistic Evolution 3. Assemblages and the Weapons of War 4. Assemblages and Scientific Practice Philosophy 5. Assemblages and Virtual Diagrams The Tun – Holyrood Road, 6. Assemblages and Realist Ontology 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ 7. Assemblages as Solutions to Problems tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 Bibliography fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 Index [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Peter Webb May 2016 Hb • 978 1 4744 0826 4 • £75.00 BIC: HBJF1, HRH, HBJ 384 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 0827 1 • £75.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0828 8 • £75.00 A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identity Description The Author Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what Peter Webb is British Academy was the Arabs’ role in the rise of Islam? Investigating the core questions about Postdoctoral Fellow (2015–18) at SOAS, Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that University of London. depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and Readership its origins. This book offers the most comprehensive analysis of Arab identity using the widest array of Arabic primary sources to explain why people began MA students and academics in calling themselves ‘Arabs’ in early Islam and to interpret the many meanings of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Arab history. particularly