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In readings a perfect starting place for readers who of the showdown between Spinoza are curious about Agamben’s approach and Vico, Hegel’s critique of liberalism, but do not know where to begin. and Nietzsche’s antipathy towards the MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS colonies and social democracy, Bren- nan identifies the divergent lines of the 88 pages, 2015 9780804794541 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale first anticolonial theory—a literary and 9780804792332 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale philosophical project with strong ties to what we now call Marxism. Along the way, he assesses prospects for a renewal of the study of imperial culture. 304 pages, 2014 9780804790543 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804788328 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale 2 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Stanford Briefs— an imprint of Stanford Univer- Stanford sity Press—pres- BRIEFS ents an innovative collection of new books. Published across our various disciplines, these books address the essence of a topic. Briefs are essay-length works freed from the technical requirements of the scholarly journal article and the elaborate documentation of the full-length research monograph. The National Short and Park to Come MARGRET incisive, Briefs GREBOWICZ Our Word Is Our Bond should appeal with illustrations by Jacqueline How Legal Speech Acts to specialists Schlossman MARIANNE CONSTABLE and nonspe- Historians of wilder- Words can be misspoken, misheard, ness have shown that misunderstood, or misappropriated; cialists alike nature reserves are they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, by reducing for- dangerous, or wrong. When speech used ideologically in goes wrong, law often steps in as malization and the construction of itself a speech act or series of speech American national acts. Marianne Constable argues focusing on de- identity. 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And how does the presence claims of law are performative and of foreigners threaten this wellness? passionate utterances or social acts that script match the rigor Recent critiques of the Wilderness Act appeal implicitly to justice. and high quality of our focus exclusively on its ecological effects, ignoring the extent to which wilderness Our Word Is Our Bond explains that traditional monographs. neither law nor justice are what lawyers policy affects our contemporary collec- and judges say, nor what officials and Without sacrificing the tive experience and political imagination. scholars claim they are. However Tracing the challenges that migration quality of carefully edited inadequate our law and language may and indigenousness currently pose to the be to the world, Constable argues that and produced content, national park system and the Wilderness we know our world and name our ways Act, Grebowicz foregrounds concerns of living and being in it through law these books are pub- and language with social justice against the ecological lished on four-month and aesthetic ones that have created and THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW continue to shape these environments. 232 pages, 2014 schedules, allowing for 9780804774949 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 88 pages, 20 illustrations, 2015 9780804774932 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale time-sensitive dialogue. 9780804789622 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY 3 The Other Adam Smith MIKE HILL AND WARREN MONTAG The Other Adam Smith repre- sents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under- examined work of this paradig- matic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill New Demons and Warren Montag take seriously Smith’s entire corpus, his Rethinking Power and Evil Today writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and SIMONA FORTI political economy, as constituting a comprehensive—though TRANSLATED BY ZAKIYA HANAFI highly contestable—system of thought. We meet not just Smith As long as we care about suffering in the economist, but Smith the philosopher, Smith the literary the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to critic, Smith the historian, and Smith the anthropologist. inquire into the question of evil. But Placed in relation to key thinkers such as Hume, Lord Kames, is the concept of evil still useful in a Fielding, Hayek, Von Mises, and Agamben, this other Adam postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativ- Smith, far from being localized in the history of eighteenth- ized by a historicist perspective? Given century economic thought or ideas, stands at the center of the our current unwillingness to judge most vibrant and contentious debates of the twentieth and others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior? twenty-first centuries. Surveying the nineteenth- and twen- “This outstanding interdisciplinary achievement spans English literature, tieth-century Western philosophical social theory, history of philosophy, history of the book, social theory, debates on evil, Forti concludes that and political history in what is a socially important and largely original it is time to leave behind what she calls “the Dostoevsky paradigm”: the re-evaluation of the argument for a market society and Liberal political dualistic vision of an omnipotent economy more generally.” monster pitted against absolute, help- —Eric Schliesser, Ghent University less victims. In its place, she offers a different genealogy of the relationship 416 pages, 2014 between evil and power. At the center 9780804792943 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale of contemporary evil she posits the 9780804791946 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy, and the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies. In our times, she contends, evil must be explored in tandem with our stubborn desire to stay alive at all costs as much as with our deep need for recognition: the new modern absolutes. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT 416 pages, 2014 9780804792950 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 9780804786249 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale 4 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY Convulsing Bodies Religion and Resistance in Foucault MARK D.