Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. This book spotlights Russian modernist poets’ and formalist theorists’ engagement... Læs mere
A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her generation. In addition to a lively dialogue with both the contemporary and ancient culture of her adopted... Læs mere
The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints.
For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou's thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. Ruda begins with a thorough and clear outline of the sometimes difficult main tenets of Badiou's philosophy.
Capturing the experience of the upper-middle-class African American, the author lays out two families' worth of secrets in this precise play. With only six characters, she constructs a weekend of crossed pasts and uncertain but optimistic futures.
An exploration of 'pataphysics, or the science of imaginary solutions. It covers the tangled history of 'pataphysics, discussing the tension between... Læs mere
As a whole, the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, now complete in fifteen volumes, offers for the first time the total body of Melville's extant writings in a critical text, faithful to his intentions.
Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and... Læs mere
While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors to this volume... Læs mere
Argues that Edmund Husserl's late reflections on Europe should not be read either as departures from his early transcendental phenomenology or as simple exercises of cultural criticism but rather as systematic phenomenological reflections on generativity and historicity.
Responding to the ongoing “objectal turn” throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a... Læs mere
Contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. George Strodach... Læs mere