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Fate, Time, and Language

An Essay on Free Will DaviD Foster Wallace


David Foster Wallace

T h e l at e n o v e l i s t ’ s l e g e n d a r y, u n p u b l i s h e d
w o r k r e v e a l s t h e p h i l o s o p h i c a l f o u n d at i o n s
o f h i s c e l e b r at e d f i c t i o n .

Long before he published Infinite Jest, David Foster


Wallace wrote a brilliant critique of Richard Taylor’s ar- An Essay on Free Will
gument for fatalism. In 1962, Taylor used six common-
ly-accepted philosophical presuppositions to imply that
humans have no control over the future. Not only did
Wallace take issue with Taylor’s method, which, accord-
ing to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language,
and the physical world, but he also called out a semantic
flaw that lie at the heart of Taylor’s argument.

Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a ne-


gation of something more genuine and real. He was
especially suspicious of certain theoretical paradigms— "The real accomplishment of this work

the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gim- is not technical or argumentative but

mickry of postmodernism—that abandoned “the very old more like a moral victory. David Foster

traditional human verities that have to do with spiritual- Wallace's intellectual powers have been

ity and emotion and community.” As Wallace rises up to used to set aright a world momentarily

meet the challenge of Taylor (not to mention a number upended by an intellectual sleight of

of other philosophical heavyweights), we watch the per- hand. He enlists clinical argument in

spective of a major novelist develop, along with a lifelong defense of passionate intuition. He

struggle to find solid ground for his soaring convictions. restores logic and language to their

This volume reproduces Taylor’s original article and other rightful places."—from the Introduction

works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. James by James Ryerson

Ryerson, an editor at the New York Times Magazine, draws


parallels in his introduction between Wallace’s philoso-
phy and fiction.

Dav i d F o s t e r Wa l l ac e ( 1 9 6 2 – 2 0 0 8 ) wrote the acclaimed novels


Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections
Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair.
His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and the full-length work
Everything and More.

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The Preparation of the Novel
Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1978–1979)
Roland Barthes
Translated by Kate Briggs

T h e t h e o r i st s h a r e s h i s d e s i r e to d i s cov e r a
n e w way o f w r i t i n g a n d , c o n s e q u e n t ly, a n e w
way o f l i f e .

Completed just weeks before his death, these lec-


tures mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland
Barthes, declaring the intention, deeply felt, to compose
a novel through an entirely untested method of writing.
Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged
in a unique pedagogical experiment: he would combine
teaching and writing to “simulate” the creation of a novel,
exploring every step of the collaborative process along the
way.

Barthes’s lectures move from the inception of an idea and


praise for Roland Barthes:
the need to write something to the actual decision making,
planning, and material act of producing a book. He meets
“Roland Barthes repeatedly compared
the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise expres-
teaching to play, reading to eros, writ-
sions (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to
ing to seduction. His voice became
longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encoun-
more and more personal, more full of
ters a number of trials and setbacks. Barthes takes solace
grain, as he called it; his intellectual art
in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose
more openly a performance, like that
own opus was similarly inspired by the death of a loved
of the other great anti-systematizers.
one. He also turns to classical philosophy and Taoism and
. . . All of Barthes’s work is an explora-
the works of Chateaubriand, Flaubert, Kafka, and Proust.
tion of the histrionic or ludic; in many
This volume includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes’s
ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a
unwritten novel and notes that shed light on the critic’s
festive (rather than dogmatic or credu-
view of photography. Along with Columbia University
lous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the
Press’s The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France
point is to make us bold, agile, subtle,
(1977–1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes
intelligent, detached. And to give
lectures, this volume completes a profound exploration
pleasure.”—Susan Sontag
into the labor and love of writing.

R o l a n d B a r t h e s ( 1 9 1 5 –1 9 8 0 ) was one of the most influential crit-


ics and philosophers of the twentieth century. His works include
Mythologies, S/Z, A Lover’s Discourse, and Camera Lucida.

Kat e B r i g g s is a scholar and translator based in Paris who has also


translated the work of Michel Foucault.

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Hatred and Forgiveness

forgiveness
h at r e d a n d
Julia Kristeva
Translated by Jeanine Herman

T h e p r o v o c at i v e i n t e l l e c t u a l r e f r a c t s t h e
i m p u l s e t o h at e t h r o u g h t h e p r i s m o f p s yc h o -
a n a ly s i s a n d t e x t.

Dividing her essays into worlds, women, psychoanalysis,


religion, portraits, and writing, Julia Kristeva explores the
phenomenon of hate (and our attempts to subvert, sub-
limate, and otherwise process the emotion) through key
texts and contexts. Her inquiry spans the themes, topics,
and figures that have been central to her writing over the
past three decades, and her paths of discovery advance julia kristeva
Jeanine Herman
the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of
t r a n s l at e d b y

her thought.

Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language,


abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgive-
P r a i s e f o r J u l i a K r i s t e va :
ness. She examines the “maladies of the soul,” utilizing
the ailments of her patients (fatigue, irritability, and gen-
“Julia Kristeva changes the order of
eral malaise), the Bible, and texts by Marguerite Duras, St.
things: she always destroys the latest
Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and
preconception, the one we thought
Georgia O’Keefe. Kristeva balances political calamity and
we could be comforted by, the one of
individual pathology, addressing internal and external
which we could be proud: what she
catastrophes, and global and personal injuries, and she
displaces is the already-said, that is to
confronts the nature of depression, obliviousness, fear,
say, the insistence of the signified; what
and the agony of being and nothingness. Psychoanalysis
she subverts is the authority of mono-
remains the key to serenity, with its turning back, looking
logic science and of filiation.”—Roland
back, investigation of the self, and refashioning of psychi-
Barthes
cal damage into something useful or beautiful. Constant
questioning, Kristeva contends, is essential to achieving a
coming to terms.

J u l i a K r i s t e va is professor of linguistics at the


Université de Paris VII and author of This Incredible
Need to Believe, Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to
Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense,
Hannah Arendt, and Melanie Klein. She is the recipient
of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and
the Holberg International Memorial Prize.

J e a n i n e H e r m a n is the translator of Julia Kristeva’s


The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis.

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c u p. c o l u m b i a . e d u  | 3
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010
Compiled by The AmeriCAn SoCieTy of mAgAzine ediTorS
Compiled by The American Society of
mitch Albom
Magazine Editors
Bryan Burrough
Sheri fink
Introduction by Jon Meacham
Atul gawande

the best
elizabeth Kolbert
michael Lewis
megan mcArdle
“Balanced, comprehensive, thought-provoking, involving,
daphne merkin
and well-crafted.”—Library Journal

american
michael Pollan
Salman rushdie
James Stewart
fareed zakaria
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 is the stron-

magazine gest evidence yet that the narrative and purpose of print

2010
journalism is as vital as ever, providing entertainment,
connection, perspective, and unprecedented revelation
writing in increasingly imaginative and engaging ways. This
year’s selections, chosen from among the finalists of the
National Magazine Awards, include David Grann’s much-
inTroduCTion By Jon meACHAm discussed article on the legal execution of a possibly inno-
cent man in the New Yorker; Shari Fink’s report on alleged
euthanization of patients during Hurricane Katrina in
the New York Times Magazine; and John H. Richardson’s
widely read feature on America’s last late-term-abortion
“The compulsive readability of a good
doctor in Esquire.
novel, but the immediacy and moral
power of good journalism.”—Irish Times
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 continues to
thrill with its captivating profiles, absorbing personal
essays, amusing encounters, and entrancing fiction.
Jonathan Van Meter offers rare access to one of literature’s
most enigmatic marriages in New York; Daphne Merkin
recounts her harrowing experience with chronic depres-
sion in the New York Times Magazine; John Spong recalls
a colorful night at a Texas dance hall in Texas Monthly;
and Mitch Albom rediscovers the spirit of Detroit in its
devotion to athletics in Sports Illustrated. James Stewart,
Michael Lewis, Megan McArdle, and Bryan Burrough
conduct stellar coverage of the year’s financial issues, and
Michael Pollan and Atul Gawande contribute fascinating
pieces on health and health care reform. Salman Rushdie,
George Saunders, and Anthony Doerr are among the
nominated short story writers.

T h e A m e r i c a n S o c i e t y o f M ag a z i n e Ed i to r s ( ASME ) is a non-
profit professional organization for editors of print and online maga-
zines edited, published, and distributed in the United States.

J o n M e ac h a m is editor of Newsweek and the Pulitzer Prize–winning


author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.
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Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb “ Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears.”
Massimo Montanari
Translated by Beth A. Brombert

A wo r l d r e n ow n e d h i sto r i a n o f fo o d a n d t h e
m i d d l e ag e s e xa m i n e s t h e p ow e r o f l a n g uag e
to s h a p e a s o c i a l t r u t h .

“Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with
pears” goes the extremely well known yet hard to decipher
saying. Intrigued by this proverb, which has endured
since the Middle Ages, Massimo Montanari launches an
adventurous history of its origins and utility.

Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary trea-


tises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved proverbs,
Montanari finds in the nobility's demanding palettes and in a Proverb Massimo Montanari
delicate stomachs a deep love of cheese with pears from
medieval times onward. At first, cheese and its visceral,
earthy pleasures was treated as the food of Polyphemus,
the uncivilized man-beast. The pear, on the other hand, “Massimo Montanari is an incredibly

became the symbol of ephemeral, luxuriant pleasure— elegant writer capable of handling the

the indulgence of the social elite. Joined together, cheese most laboriously researched topics with

and pears embodied an exclusive savoir faire, especially disquieting stylistic grace. He is the per-

as the notion of taste as a natural phenomenon evolved fect embodiment of both unsurpassable

into a cultural attitude. Montanari’s delectable history competence and rhetorical virtuosity.”

straddles the line between written and oral tradition, —Luigi Ballerini, University of California,

between economic and social relations, and it thrills in Los Angeles

the vivid power of mental representation. He ultimately


discovers that the ambiguous proverb, so wrapped up in
history, is not a repository of shared wisdom but a rich
locus of social conflict.

Massimo Mo n ta n a r i is professor of medieval history


and the history of food at the Institute of Paleography
P h oto : Kris Snibbe

and Medieval Studies, University of Bologna. He has


authored and coauthored more than a dozen books,
including Food Is Culture; Italian Cuisine: A Cultural
History; Food: A Culinary History; and Famine and
Plenty: The History of Food in Europe.

B e t h A . B r o m b e r t is the author of Edouard Manet:


Rebel in a Frock Coat and the critically acclaimed biog-
raphy Christina: Portraits of a Princess.

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A
DNA
GRAPHIC A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World
GUIDE
to the Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff,
and Borin Van Loon
MOLECULE that SHOOK the WORLD

A r i c h d e p i c t i o n o f DNA’ s o n g o i n g s c i e n t i f i c
a n d s o c i a l r e vo lu t i o n .

With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical in-


sight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with
its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable
for use in and out of the classroom, this volume covers
DNA’s many marvels, from its original discovery in 1869
to early-twentieth-century debates on the mechanisms of
inheritance and the deeper nature of life’s evolution and
variety.
Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, & Borin Van Loon
Even readers who lack a background in science and phi-
losophy will learn a tremendous amount from this engag-
ing narrative. The book elucidates DNA’s relationship to
praise for the
health and the cause and cure of disease. It also covers the
previous edition:
creation of new life forms, nanomachines, and perspec-
tives on crime detection, and considers the philosophical
“All the main points are here—the dis-
sources of classical Darwinian theory and recent, radical
coveries, the competition among sci-
changes in the understanding of evolution itself. Borin
entists, the great debate over where
Van Loon’s humorous illustrations recount the contribu-
genetic engineering may lead us. . . .
tions of Gregor Mendel, Frederick Griffith, James Watson,
For anyone who knows something
and Francis Crick, among other biologists, scientists, and
about the subject, DNA is fun. For
researchers, and vividly depict the modern controversies
those whose ignorance is total, it offers
surrounding the Human Genome Project and cloning.
a good first step toward literacy in the
world’s most important language.”
I s r a e l R o s e n f i e l d teaches at the City University of New York. His
—New York Times Book Review books include The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain and
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness.
“Read it and enjoy it, and try to give
it to your friends before they give Edwa r d Z i ff is professor of biochemistry and neural science at the
New York University School of Medicine. With Israel Rosenfield, he
it to you.”—Nature
has written about evolution and the brain for the New York Review of
Books.

B o r i n Va n Lo o n has been a freelance illustrator since 1977 and has


designed and illustrated fifteen documentary comic books.

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Diagnosis: Schizophrenia
A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and
diagnosis Helping Professionals
Second Edition
Rachel Miller and Susan E. Mason

schizophrenia “An excellent guide for patients and their families.”—Library


Journal (starred review)

A Com pr e h e n s ive
Thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak
“An excellent guide for r e sou rCe for
patients and their families.” C o n s u m e r s , fA m i li e s , about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while
—Library Journal A n d h e lp i n g
p r o f e s s i o n A ls two specialists illuminate the medical science, psychoe-
ducation, and therapeutic needs of those coping with the
illness, as well as access to medical benefits and commu-
r ac h e l m i l l e r and s u s a n e. m as o n nity resources. A remarkably inclusive guide, this volume
Secon d e dition informs patients, families, friends, and professionals, de-
tailing the possible causes of schizophrenia, medications
and side effects, the functioning of the brain, and the
value of rehabilitation and other services.

“Incorporates new information on the Participants confront shame, stigma, substance use, and
brain, genetic issues, medication man- relapse issues and the necessity of healthy eating, safe sex
agement, treatment, and coping with practices, and coping skills during recovery. Clinicians
symptoms and problems. No other elaborate on the symptoms of schizophrenia, such as
book offers such comprehensive cover- violent and suicidal thoughts, delusions, hallucinations,
age in a style that intertwines stories memory and concentration problems, trouble getting
with research. It provides individuals, motivated or organized, and anxiety and mood disorders.
family members, and friends with a Adopting an uplifting tone of manageability, participants,
comprehensive and useful resource. authors, and clinicians offer more than advice—they pre-
Social workers, counselors, physicians, scribe hope.
nurses, psychologists, and students
in these professions will also find this “Far easier to understand than the classic title for [people
invaluable for quick information that with schizophrenia] and their families.”—Publishers Weekly
can easily be shared with patients and
“Very approachable and offers practical advice on manag-
their families.”—Shelly A. Wiechelt,
ing symptoms of schizophrenia on a day-to-day basis and
University of Maryland, School of
in different aspects of life, much needed by people moving
Social Work
toward mental health recovery.”—Fang-pei Chen, Columbia
University School of Social Work

R ac h e l M i l l e r is a social worker for the National Institute of Mental


Health, Child Psychiatry Branch.

S u sa n E . M as o n is professor of social work and sociology at Yeshiva


University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

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Vaccines and Your Child
Separating Fact from Fiction
Paul A. Offit, M.D., and Charlotte A. Moser

F i n a l ly, a c o n c i s e , t r u s t w o r t h y g u i d e t h at
c u ts t h r o u g h t h e co n f u s i o n a n d m i s i n f o r m a-
t i o n a b o u t va c c i n e s .

Paul A. Offit, M.D., and Charlotte A. Moser, leading ad-


vocates for modern vaccines, answer parents’ numerous
questions about the underlying science of modern vac-
cines and the value of childhood immunization. While
forthrightly addressing parents’ concerns about vaccine
safety, the authors explain how vaccines work, how they
are made, and what goes into their making, as well as real
risks, balanced against the danger of childhood infectious
diseases and the threat of diseases that have reemerged
due to declining childhood vaccination rates.

Offit and Moser address fears that children may receive


P r a i s e f o r Pa u l O f f i t ’ s p r e v i o u s
too many vaccines too early. They consider the evidence
title with Columbia University
that the HPV vaccine may cause chronic fatigue or other
P r e s s , Au ti s m ’ s Fal s e P r o p h e t s :
dangerous side effects, and they lay to rest any worries B ad S c i e n c e , R i s k y M e di c in e , and
that additives and preservatives in vaccines cause autism. t h e S e ar c h f o r a C u r e :
The authors warn against complacency and a false sense
of security or the notion that a disease is too remote to “Arguably the most courageous and
do a child serious harm. There couldn’t be a better mo- knowledgeable scientist about vaccines
ment—or a more pressing need—for a book that offers in the United States”—Robert Goldberg,
honesty, not hype, about protecting children’s health. New York Post

“Paul A. Offit is one of the most


Pa u l A . Off i t, M . D. is the chief of Infectious Diseases and the di-
rector of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of respected scientists and clinicians in
Philadelphia, as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology a field of vital importance to public
and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School health”—Patricia M. Rodier, BioScience
of Medicine. In addition to Autism’s False Prophets, he has authored
Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
and The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the
Growing Vaccine Crisis.

C h a r l o t t e A . M o s e r is the assistant director of the Vaccine


Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and creator
of the center’s program for parents, known as Parents PACK. She has
developed a variety of educational materials about vaccines, oversees
the center’s Web content and contact center, and writes the e-mail
newsletter for Parents PACK, which has several thousand subscribers.

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Truth, Errors, and Lies
Politics and Economics in a Volatile World
Grzegorz W. Kolodko

“Grzegorz W. Kolodko is one of the most acute observers of


the international economy, based on his long experience as
both a practitioner and an academic. Kolodko’s writings are
always an important starting point for debate and discus-
sion about the political economy of globalization.”—Francis
Fukuyama, author of The End of History

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world’s leading authori-


ties on economics and development policy, predicted
our global economic crisis. In this book, he applies his
far-reaching expertise to the past and future of the world
economy.

Deploying a novel mix of scientific evaluation and per-


sonal observation, Kolodko begins with a brief dis-
cussion of misinformation and its perpetuation in
“Grzegorz W. Kolodko has been an economics and politics. He criticizes the simplification
important player in the transition of the of complex economic issues and investigates the link be-
Polish economy and has wide experi- tween developments in the global economy and cultural
ence and original insights into themes change, scientific discoveries, and political fluctuations.
and trends in the international economy. Underscoring the necessity of conceptual and theoretical
Every reader with an interest in eco- innovation, Kolodko offers a provocative study of global-
nomic development can benefit from ization and the possibility of coming out ahead in an era
reading this book.”—Robert A. Mundell, of worldwide interdependence. Deeply critical of neolib-
Nobel laureate in economic sciences eralism, which sought to transfer economic control exclu-
“Thanks to the successful marriage of sively to the private sector, Kolodko explores the virtues
economics, history, sociology, politics, of social-economic development and the new rules of the
and literature, Truth, Errors, and Lies is economic game. A website will complement the book,
light reading but not devoid of theoreti- www.volatileworld.net
cal gravity, ideal for the beach and, at
"Distills the lessons for development learned during a whole
the same time, just right for a university
life of work and observations by a thinker and practitioner
seminar.”—Le Monde Diplomatique
of economic transition and real-world politics" —Justin Yifu
Lin, chief economist and senior vice president, World Bank
P h oto : Krzysztof Grazawski

G r z e g o r z W. Ko lo dko was Poland’s deputy prime


minister and minister of finance from 1994 to 1997 and
from 2002 to 2003. He is now a professor of political
economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw.

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Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought
Richard B. Miller

E s ta b l i s h i n g a n e t h i c s t h r o u g h w h i c h t h e Terror,
t o l e r a n t c a n a c c e p t t h e i n t o l e r a n t, e v e n i f
e x t r e m e a n d v i o l e n t.

Religious violence may trigger feelings of repulsion and


indignation, especially in a society that encourages tolera-
tion and respect, but rejection contradicts the very prin-
ciples of inclusion that define a democracy and its core
moral values. How are we to think ethically about reli-
Religion,
gious violence and terrorism, especially in the wake of an & Liberal Thought
atrocity such as 9/11?
R i c h a R d B. M i l l e R
Known for his skillful interrogation of ethical issues
pertaining to religion, politics, and culture, Richard B.
Miller returns to the basic tenets of liberalism to divine
an ethical response to extremism. He questions how we
are to think about the claims and aspirations of political
religions that conflict so deeply with liberal norms and "An outstanding work. The discus-

practices, and he suggests how liberal critics can speak in sion ranges widely and comfortably

ways that respect cultural and religious difference. Miller in diverse areas of scholarly inquiry.

explores other concerns within these investigations as It is also a courageous work, neither

well, such as the protection of human rights and a liberal apologetic nor ideological. It takes the

democratic commitment to multicultural politics. As he basic, widely accepted, settled ideas of

relates religion and ethics, Miller presents a new lens political liberalism, applies them to a

through which we can view political religions and their particular historical context, and follows

moral responsibilities. His probing queries also force us to clear and judicious conclusions."

to rethink our response to 9/11. —Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez,


Youngstown State University
"A judicious application of the liberal tradition to thinking
through a moral evaluation of and response to 9/11 and
intercultural critique. Both are significantly informed by
robust and nuanced understandings of respect for persons,
toleration, and equality in a multicultural world, as well as
human rights."—Sumner Twiss, Florida State University

R ichar d B. Mi ller is director for the Poynter Center for the Study of
Ethics and American Institutions and professor of religious studies at
Indiana University. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics,
Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition and Casuistry and Modern Ethics:
A Poetics of Practical Reasoning.

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor,
The Power of religion and Cornel West
in The Public SPhere Edited and Introduced by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan
VanAntwerpen
Afterword by Craig Calhoun
JudiTh buTler
JÜrgen habermaS
c h a r l e S Tay l o r
EditEd and introducEd by cornel weST
F o u r m a j o r p o l i t i c a l p h i lo s o p h e r s d i s c u ss
E d u a r d o M E n d i E ta
J o n at h a n V a n a n t w E r p E n t h e p l a c e o f r e l i g i o n i n s o c i e t y, c u lt u r e , a n d
aftErword by
Craig Calhoun
g o v e r n m e n t.

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere is a rare op-


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portunity to experience how preeminent philosophers


tackle one all-encompassing concern: what role does—or
should—religion play in our public lives? Judith Butler’s
response reflects her recent work on state-sponsored vio-
lence in Israel, examining the function of religion within
the context of cultural critique. Jürgen Habermas, best
known for his innovative conception of the public sphere,
explores the limits of secularism, the enduring impor-
"The Power of Religion in the Public tance of religion, and the political significance of religious
Sphere marks the event of a conversa- tolerance. Charles Taylor takes stock of our post-Chisten-
tion among four of the world's lead- dom Christianity and the need for a radical redefinition
ing public intellectuals on a subject of secularism, and Cornel West passionately defends
that is one of the most important and civil disobedience and emancipatory theology, especially
widely discussed issues in contempo- in the service of civil rights and just opposition to war.
rary theory and public policy. It is an In their introduction, Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan
exciting and original exchange that at VanAntwerpen detail the immense contribution of these
once presses these figures to declare philosophers to contemporary scholarship and, specifi-
themselves on the proper place of cally, to the issues of direct concern to the volume. In an
religion in the public sphere and at the afterword, Craig Calhoun discusses the effect of these ap-
same time allows them to clarify their proaches on the national and international sphere.
already significant contributions to the
J u d i t h B u t l e r is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of
matter."—Jeffrey Robbins, Lebanon
Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at
Valley College
Berkeley.

J ü r g e n H a b e r m a s is a German philosopher and sociologist and for-


mer director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of
Frankfurt.

C ha r l e s Tay lo r is a Canadian philosopher and professor emeritus of


political science and philosophy at McGill University.

C o r n e l W e s t is an American philosopher, critic, pastor, and civil


rights activist. He is a Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton
University, where he teaches in the Center for African American studies
and the Department of Religion.
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An Ethics for Today
Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion
Richard Rorty
Introduction by Gianni Vattimo
AN ETHICS FOR
T h e l at e p h i l o s o p h e r b r i d g e s s e c u l a r i s m a n d
s p i r i t u a l i t y a n d c o n f r o n t s t h e c l a i m t h at FINDING COMMON GROUND
BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY
r e l at i v i s m c h a l l e n g e s s p i r i t u a l a u t h o r i t y. AND RELIGION

Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his


philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work
not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses I N T R O D U C T I O N BY

modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowl- GIANNI VATTIMO

edge and representation. At the same time, the celebrated


pragmatist believed moral questions did not have univer-
sally valid answers, leading to a complex view of religion
rarely expressed in his writings.

In this posthumous publication, Rorty, a strict secular-


ist, finds in the pragmatic thought of John Dewey, John
Stuart Mill, Henry James, and George Santayana a politi- "Contrary to Richard Rorty’s previous

cal imagination shared by many religious traditions. His writings on religion, this book engages

intent is not to promote belief over nonbelief, or to blur in a critical debate with the dogmatic

the distinction between religious and public domains, but and metaphysical affirmations of Pope

to locate patterns of similarity and difference for an ethics Benedict XVI on human nature, relativ-

of decency and a politics of solidarity. He particularly re- ism, and homosexuality. Commenting

sponds to Pope Benedict XVI and his campaign against on John Stuart Mill, George Santayana,

postmodern inquiry. Whether holding theologians, meta- Martin Heidegger, John Dewey, Jürgen

physicians, or political ideologues to account, Rorty re- Habermas, and Peter Singer's progres-

mains steadfast in his opposition to absolute uniformity sive philosophies, Rorty shows how the

and its exploitation of political strength. pope belongs to those fundamentalist


intellectuals who still believe that truth

“Richard Rorty’s argument rather clearly and succinctly is greater than any other value, includ-

brings the claims of pragmatism to issues at the heart of ing democracy."—Santiago Zabala,

Catholic politics—a clash between relativism and funda- Johns Hopkins University

mentalism that is in many ways emblematic of the larger


struggles between religious and secular traditions across
the globe.”—Robert T. Valgenti, Lebanon Valley College

R i c h a r d R o r t y ( 1 93 1 – 2 0 07 ) was professor of comparative literature


and philosophy at Stanford University.

G i a n n i Vat t i m o is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University


of Turin and a member of the European Parliament.

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Democracy in What State?
Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel
Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy,
Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, and
Slavoj Žižek
Translated by William McCuaig

A m o n u m e n ta l c o l l a b o r at i o n a m o n g t h e
w o r l d ’ s t o p p h i l o s o p h e r s o n t h e n at u r e a n d
p u r p o s e o f c o n t e m p o r a r y d e m o c r a c y.

“Is it meaningful, as far as you are concerned, to call


oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the
word?” In responding to this question, eight iconoclas-
tic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy and
its critical weaknesses. They also reconceive the practice
for new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben
traces the history of constitutions and their coexistence
with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts cur-
rent democratic practice with democratic communism.
"This collection is an extremely signifi-
Daniel Bensaid ponders the institutionalization of
cant contribution to the critical debate
democracy, while Wendy Brown discusses the democra-
on the current state of world politics
tization of society under neoliberalism. Jean-Luc Nancy
and, more specifically, the role of the
measures the difference between democracy as a form of
term 'democracy' in political theory and
rule and as a human end, while Jacques Rancière high-
practice. It includes invited contribu-
lights its egalitarian nature. Kristin Ross identifies hier-
tions and interviews with a battery of
archical relationships within democratic practice, and
intellectuals who possess a rare con-
Slavoj Žižek complicates the distinction between desiring
ceptual pedigree, including some of
to own the state and hoping to do without it.
the most well-known living European
philosophers, and the welcome con- G i o r g i o Ag a m b e n teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia, the

tribution of two renowned American Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, and the European

intellectuals."—Gabriel Rockhill, Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. A l a i n B a d i o u is René


Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School and teaches at the
Villanova University
Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie.
Da n i e l B e n s a i d is a philosopher and author of Marx for Our Times.

W e n dy B r ow n is professor of political science at the University of


California, Berkeley. J e a n - L u c N a n c y is professor of philosophy
emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. Jacq u e s R a n c i è r e is pro-
fessor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Paris. K r i st i n R oss
is professor of comparative literature at New York University and the
author of the award-winning Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization
and the Reordering of French Culture. S l avoj Ž i ž e k is a professor at
the Institute for Sociology, Univeristy of Ljubljana, and the European
Graduate School.

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The Responsibility of the Philosopher
Gianni Vattimo
Edited by Franca D’Agostini
Translated by William McCuaig

T h e p o p u l a r p h i l o s o p h e r , m e m o i r i s t, a n d
p o l i t i c a l f i g u r e i n t r o d u c e s r e a d e r s to t h e
b r e a dt h o f h i s —a n d t h e p h i lo s o p h e r ' s —wo r k .

Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has as-


THE RESPONSIBILITY
sumed a number of public and private identities and has OF THE PHILOSOPHER

pursued multiple intellectual paths. He seems to embody Gianni Vattimo

several contradictions, at once defending and questioning Franca D’Agostini William McCuaig
editor translator
religion, critiquing and serving the state. Yet the diversity
of his life and thought form the very essence of, as he
sees it, the vocation and responsibility of the philosopher.
In a world that desires quantifiable results and ideological
expediency, the philosopher becomes the vital interpreter
of the endlessly complex.

As he outlines his ideas about the philosopher’s role, “The Vocation and Responsibility of the
Vattimo builds an important companion to his life’s work. Philosopher is brilliant and entertaining
He confronts questions concerning science, religion, without becoming overly conceptual.
logic, literature, and truth, and passionately defends the The language is consistently rigorous,
power of hermeneutics to engage with life’s difficulties. yet it is incredibly clear and accessible
He conjures a clear vision of philosophy as something to a philosophically unsophisticated
separate from the sciences and the humanities but also audience.”—Silvia Benso, Rochester
intimately connected to their processes, and he reiterates Institute of Technology
a conception of truth that emphasizes fidelity and partici-
"One of Gianni Vattimo's most skilled
pation through dialogue.
students, Franca D'Agostini man-
ages to present both the logic behind
G i a n n i Vat t i m o is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University
of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with weak thought and the novelty of this
Columbia University Press include Christianity, Truth, and Weakening text, which reveals the Italian mas-
Faith: A Dialogue; Not Being God; The Future of Religion (with Richard ter's intuitions on crucial problems of
Rorty); Dialogue with Nietzsche; and Nihilism and Emancipation.
contemporary philosophy."—Santiago
F r a n c a D ’Ag o s t i n i is professor of philosophy at the University of Zabala, author of The Remains of
Turin. Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After
Metaphysics

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Craving Earth

CRAVING
Understanding Pica—the Urge to Eat
Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk
Sera L. Young

EARTH I l l u m i n at i n g a n e n i g m at i c b e h av i o r d e e p ly
e n t w i n e d w i t h h u m a n b i o l o g y a n d c u lt u r e .

Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than


Understanding Pica—
2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other
The Urge to Eat unorthodox foods. Some even claim they would “go crazy”
Clay, without these items, but why? What pleasure do they
Starch,
provide? What sensory messages do they send? What is
Ice
& Chalk
the cultural significance of these cravings? What is their
function in the body?

SERA L . YOUNG Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and


biomedical findings, Sera Young creates a portrait of pica,
or non food cravings, from humans’ earliest ingestions
to current trends and practices. In highly readable detail,
“The human focus of Sera Young’s book she describes frequently consumed substances and the
provides a welcome counterpoint to many methods (including the Internet) used to obtain
the strictly medical focus currently them. She reveals how pica is remarkably prevalent (it oc-
available in other sources.”—David L. curs in nearly every human culture and throughout the
Browman, Washington University in animal kingdom), identifies its most avid partakers (preg-
St. Louis nant women and young children), and describes the po-
“Fascinating! Filled with both wit and tentially healthful and harmful effects. In the second half
keen scientific insight, Sera Young has of her book, Young evaluates the many hypotheses about
written the landmark study of pica. It is the causes of pica, from the fantastical to the scientific,
sure to be a classic in anthropology and including hunger, nutritional deficiencies, and protective
nutrition for a long time to come.” capacities. Never has a book examined pica so thoroughly
—Gretel H. Pelto, Cornell University or accessibly.

S e r a l . Yo u n g is a faculty member of the Department


of Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, and a
P h oto : Heidi Ryder

visiting fellow in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at


Cornell University.

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Disaster Deferred
How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake
Hazards in the Midwest
Seth Stein

the real science behind the next "big one"


s u pp o s e d t o h i t t h e m i d w e s t.

In the winter of 1811–12, large earthquakes shook the


Midwest along the New Madrid seismic zone that many
have (mistakenly) believed to be the biggest to hit the
United States. Today the federal government, acting on
what they think to be sound science, ranks the hazard
in the Midwest as high as California’s and has pressured
communities to undertake expensive preparations for di-
saster. Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the New
Madrid earthquakes, Disaster Deferred revisits this seismic
event and the predictions of doom that have followed in
its wake.

Geared toward a general audience, Disaster Deferred “Seth Stein thoughtfully recognizes the

clearly explains the techniques seismologists use to study painful decisions that various politicians

Midwestern quakes and estimate their danger. Detailing and emergency managers must make,

how limited scientific knowledge, bureaucratic instincts, and he provides realistic descriptions

and the media’s love of a good story can exaggerate these of various types of bureaucracies and

hazards, Seth Stein calmly debunks the hype surround- scientific specialties, without rancor.

ing such prophecies and encourages the formulation A must-read for all involved in such

of more sensible, less costly policy. Powered by insider issues.”—Orrin Pilkey, Duke University

knowledge and an engaging style, Disaster Deferred is an “Seth Stein’s book is fun to read and has
all-inclusive encounter with the principles of geology and a compelling story to tell. There is no
modern technology, showing how new instruments, like book quite like this out there.”
the Global Positioning System, are painting a very differ- —Stephen Marshak, University of Illinois
ent—and much less frightening—picture. at Urbana-Champaign

Se th St e i n is Deering Professor of Geological Sciences


at Northwestern University and has been awarded
the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical
Union, the Woolard Award of the Geological Society
of America, and the Mueller Medal of the European
Geosciences Union. He is coauthor of the widely
adopted textbook An Introduction to Seismology,
Earthquakes, and Earth Structure.

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Capturing Carbon
The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change
Robin M. Mills

T h e p o l i t i c s a n d t e c h n o l o g y b e h i n d a r a p i d ly
e v o lv i n g s c i e n c e .

As amazing as it sounds, we now possess the technology


to capture carbon emissions as they are released into the
atmosphere. After capture, the gas is trapped within fa-
cilities hidden far underground. As promising as this pro-
cess sounds, can it really compete with the often cheaper,
low-carbon technologies that are currently available, and
is the practice really safe and eco-friendly?

Capturing Carbon is one of the first texts to take a seri-


ous look at this issue, explaining the need for this new
technology and describing in detail the components that
make it work. Robin M. Mills, a long-time energy execu-
tive with a background in geology and economics, paints
“Capturing Carbon is outstanding. Well an accessible portrait of carbon capture’s existing and
structured, informative, comprehensive, projected technologies. He covers the specifics of geologi-
balanced, and readable.”—Jon Gluyas, cal storage and, interestingly, compares it to the biological
chairman, British Geological Survey sequestering of carbon occurring naturally in soils and
forests. With a frank and unbiased analysis, Mills consid-
ers the costs of this process and its value in curbing cli-
mate change. He tackles the politics and policies that will
help the technology take root, and he anticipates the pub-
lic’s reaction and opportunities for business. Mills also
accounts for the risks of carbon capture, rounding out a
definitive and all-encompassing volume for environmen-
talists, policymakers, investors, industry insiders, and
anyone wishing to understand this new frontier.

R o b i n M . M i l l s is the petroleum economics man-


ager for the Emirates National Oil Company in Dubai
and a former employee of Shell. He is a member of the
International Association for Energy Economics and
the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
3.

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Three Big Bangs
Matter-Energy, Life, Mind
Holmes Rolston III

M e r g i n g p h i l o s o p h y, c o s m o l o g y, b i o l o g y, a n d
t h e o lo gy i n to a n ov e l t h e o ry o f t h e u n i v e r s e . T HREE BIG BANGS
Rational explanations of the universe leave the spiritu-
ally curious cold, and religiously based theories tend to
devalue the findings of science. By dividing the creation
of matter, life, energy, and the mind into three big bangs,
M AT T E R - E N E R G Y, L I F E , M I N D
Holmes Rolston III strikes a middle path between these
two camps. He divines a history of the universe that re- HOLMES ROLSTON III
spects both scientific discovery and an underlying intel-
ligence.

In Rolston’s first big bang, matter-energy appears, ini-


tially in simpler forms but with a remarkable capacity for
generating heavier elements. The size and expansion rate
of the universe; the nature of electromagnetism, gravity,
and nuclear forces; and other cosmic features all enable “Holmes Rolston III wants to relate

the second big bang, the explosion of life on Earth. As disparate perspectives on the nature

DNA begins to discover, store, and transfer information, of the universe that most scholars are

life endures to establish billions of species. Cognitive ca- content to leave unrelated. His book is

pacities escalate, and with neural sentience, the third big infused with scientific sources and is

bang results: human genius. A massive singularity, the a rich summation of what the special-

human mind gives birth to language and culture, increas- ists in physics, biology, and cybernet-

ing the brain’s complexity and promoting the spread of ics are saying about the history of the

ideas. Ideas generate ideals, which help life take on spirit. universe.”—Donald W. Shriver Jr., Union

The nature of matter-energy and genes and their geneses Theological Seminary

encourage humans to wonder where they are, who they


are, and what they should do. Rolston draws on a variety
of fields as he studies the sacred order of this cybernetic
system.

H o l m e s R o l s t o n III is University Distinguished


P h oto : William Cotton

Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State


University. His books include Genes, Genesis, and God;
Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, Philosophy
Gone Wild; and Environmental Ethics.

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Securing The State
David Omand

P r ot e c t i n g t h e p e o p l e w i t h o u t co m p r o m i s i n g
their rights.

Governments recognize that the public depends on the


certainty, however illusory, of living free from terrorism,
war, or nuclear attack. They need to believe that the gov-
ernment can protect them from pandemics and climate
change. Yet when political institutions fail to balance
justice, liberty, privacy, and civic harmony in the pursuit
of security, they jeopardize the very trust and confidence
they hope to inspire. Drawing on decades of experience
as a security analyst and political insider, David Omand
argues that while public security is necessary for good
government, the erosion of civil liberties, however slight,
tips the balance in favor of bad government and creates
an insecure state.

"David Omand’s insight and experi- Omand details the fine line between delivering security
ence are invaluable to anyone con- and violating public safety, establishing a set of principles
sidering the necessary and important for the intelligence community that respects the require-
role of intelligence and security in ments of basic human liberties. He proposes a new
national security challenges. Omand's approach to generating secret intelligence and examines
thoughtful consideration, intellect, and the issues that arise from using technology to access new
knowledge of British Government has information. He dives into the purpose of intelligence
made him the perfect interlocutor in and its ability to strengthen or weaken a government,
both calm and crisis."—Frances Fragos especially in our new, jittery era. Incorporating numer-
Townsend, White House Homeland ous examples of security successes and failures, Omand
Security Adviser to the President and speaks to realists, idealists, scholars, and practitioners,
Chair of the Homeland Security Council, resetting the balance in a crucial issue of public policy.
2004–2007
Dav i d Om a nd is a former intelligence and security co-
"A thoughtful, exceptionally well-
ordinator of the Cabinet Office for the government of
informed book. Essential reading the United Kingdom, responsible for the counterterror-
for anyone seriously interested in ism strategy, CONTEST. He has served for seven years
the role of intelligence in modern as a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, as

government."—John Scarlett, former permanent secretary of the Home Office, and as direc-
tor of GCHQ, the U.K. equivalent of the United States's
director general of the British Secret
National Security Agency. He is now a visiting profes-
Intelligence Service
sor in the War Studies Department of King’s College
London and an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi
College, University of Cambridge.

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War and War Crimes
James Gow

C a l i b r at i n g t h e e t h i c s o f wa r w i t h i n m o d e r n
co n t e x ts a n d ag a i n st n e w t e c h n o lo g i e s .

Necessity and proportionality inform the laws of war, but


how do these principles work in modern warfare? What
new pressures do the practitioners of war face, especially
in light of rapid strategy and policy changes and an in-
creasing emphasis on ethics and legality?

Wars waged in fluctuating environments make the legiti-


macy of armed force hard to justify, especially among
diverse international and transnational publics. More
than ever, strategy has come to embrace justice and law as
crucial components of military success, but legitimacy is
fragile and easily contested, and today’s militaries struggle
to respond positively, consistently, and legally. Drawing
on empirical research and interviews with seasoned mili-
tary professionals, this volume describes how militaries “War and War Crimes is a clever and

can work successfully within the politics-law-strategy fundamental book. Law and legitimacy

nexus to foster and maintain a sense of legitimacy in war. have always been important to war, but

James Gow clearly defines the relationship between wars James Gow brilliantly demonstrates

and their outcomes, pinpointing the moment when a war how central the issue of not simply

act becomes a war crime, especially within multidimen- being ‘right’ but also ‘wrong’ has

sional combat. Taking an initial, bold step in reconciling become to modern warfare.”

this troubling and taboo issue, Gow provides strategists, —Jan Willem Honig, Swedish National

policymakers, and others with a framework for mitigat- Defence College

ing negative outcomes.

Ja m e s G ow is professor of international peace and security at King’s


College, University of London. He is the author of Triumph of the Lack
of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War and The Serbian
Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes.

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Apart
Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West
Justin Gest

I n v e s t i g at i n g t h e d a i ly p o l i t i c a l l i v e s o f t h e
W e st ’ s m i s u n d e r sto o d M u s l i m co m m u n i t i e s .

Through a novel conceptual framework and probing in-


terviews, Justin Gest gets to the heart of why so many
Western Muslims are disaffected by their social and po-
litical situations and why they undermine the very politi-
cal systems that remain their means of inclusion. He also
considers why so many other Western Muslims feel dif-
ferently and why they choose to be engaged.

Based on research conducted in London’s East End and


Madrid’s Lavapiés district, and drawing on over one
hundred interviews with community elders, imams, ex-
tremists, politicians, gangsters, and ordinary people just
trying to get by, Gest maps the daily experiences of young
“Justin Gest’s carefully researched and Muslim men. Confronting conventional explanations
well-argued book brings fresh perspec- that point to inequality, discrimination, and religion, he
tive to the question of Muslim alienation builds a new theory that distinguishes alienated and en-
in Europe. His valuable methodological gaged political behavior not by structural factors but by
insights and judicious conclusions have social agents and their interpretation of shared realities.
a wide application.”—Bhikhu Parekh, Filled with counterintuitive conclusions, Apart sounds
London School of Economics, author an unambiguous warning to Western policymakers, pre-
of Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural saging an imminent American experience with the same
Diversity and Political Theory challenges. The way in which governments and people
“Justin Gest has written a thoughtful discipline their fear and understand their Muslim fellows,
and compelling book on why some it claims, may shape the course of democratic social life
Muslims in the West feel disenchanted in the foreseeable future.
and angry with our political institutions
J u st i n G e st is the Ralph Miliband Scholar of Political
while others do not. He offers a subtle
Sociology at the London School of Economics and ex-
account based on new theoretical work ecutive director of its Migration Studies Unit.
and original case studies. A major con-
tribution by a new voice in academic
debate.”—David Held, London School of
Economics

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The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Lorenzo Vidino
THE NEW
A remarkable encounter with one of the most MUSLIM
p ow e r f u l a n d co n t r ov e r s i a l m u s l i m o r g a n i -
BROTHER-
z at i o n s i n t h e W e s t.
HOOD
IN THE
In both Europe and North America, organizations tracing WEST
their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other
Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunc-
tional, richly funded organizations. They now compete
to become the major representatives of Western Muslim
communities and government interlocutors. Some ana-
lysts and policy makers see these organizations as posi-
tive forces encouraging integration. Others treat them as
modern-day Trojan horses that feign moderation while
LO R E N ZO V I D I N O
radicalizing Western Muslims.

Lorenzo Vidino brokers a third and more informed view.


Having completed more than a decade of research on po-
litical Islam in the West, Vidino is keenly qualified to ana- “The New Muslim Brotherhood in the

lyze a movement that is as controversial as it is unknown. West contains a good deal of useful

Conducting in-depth interviews on four continents and factual information and an informed

sourcing documents in ten languages, Vidino shares and balanced analysis of the problems

the history, methods, views, and goals of the Western Western governments face in deal-

Brothers, as well as their phenomenal growth. He then ing with Muslim Brotherhood–linked

flips the perspective, examining the response to these organizations. This very important

groups by Western governments, concentrating specifi- topic has yet to be given the atten-

cally on Great Britain, Germany, and the United States. tion it deserves, and Lorenzo Vidino’s

Highly informed and thoughtfully presented, Vidino’s book fills that gap.”—Jeffrey M. Bale,

work sheds light on a critical juncture in Muslim-Western Monterey Institute of International

relations and the role Islam plays for a variety of uprooted Studies

individuals.

Lo r e n zo V i d i n o is a fellow with the International Security Program’s


Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Belfer Center,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a Peace
Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and author of the first book on al
Qaeda in Europe, Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of Global
Jihad.

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East Asia Before the West
Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute
david c . k ang
David C. Kang

east
A d i s t i n c t ly n o n - W e s t e r n ta k e o n i n t e r n a -
t i o n a l r e l at i o n s a n d a n i n d i s p e n s a b l e r e i n -

asia
t e r p r e tat i o n o f a s i a n h i s t o r y a n d p o l i t i c s .

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the


before the west start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in
only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors
five centuries of Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and cen-
trade and tribute tralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-
lasting relationships with one another, and as each has
grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has
stabilized.

Focusing on the role of the “tribute system” in maintain-


ing stability in East Asia and in fostering diplomatic and
commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against
“By researching the full range of China’s the example of Europe and East Asian states’ skirmishes
relationships, including Southeast Asia, with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Although
Korea, and Japan, as well as nomadic China has been the unquestioned hegemon in the region,
troubles, David C. Kang balances the with other political units considered second, the tributary
perspective of the whole regional pic- order has entailed military, cultural, and economic dimen-
ture. A remarkable achievement.” sions that have afforded its participants immense latitude.
—Brantly Womack, University of Virginia Europe’s “Westphalian” system, on the other hand, has
pursued formal equality among states and has balanced
power politics, leading to incessant interstate conflict.
Scholars tend to view Europe’s experience as universal,
but Kang emphasizes East Asia’s formal hierarchy as an
international system with its own history and character.
This approach not only recasts our understanding of East
Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to
other hegemonies outside the European order.

Dav i d C . K a n g is professor of international rela-


tions and business and director of the Korean Studies
Institute at the University of Southern California.
His books include China Rising, Crony Capitalism,
and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate in Engagement
Strategies.

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Inside the Red Box
North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics
Patrick McEachern I N S I D E
a s ta r t l i n g a c c o u n t o f h o w n o r t h ko r e a ' s T H E
r u l i n g c l a s s f o r m s i t s c o n t r o v e r s i a l p o l i c y.

Kim Jong-Il, North Korea’s ruthless leader, doesn’t rule R E D


by fiat. The individuals and institutions below him, at
the very least, inform and execute strategic-level deci- B H
X
sions and operational matters—according to their lead-
er’s wishes. Existing models of North Korean politics fail
to account for the regime’s processes of rule, making NORTH KOREA’S
Kim’s actions seem surprising or confusing when in fact
P O S T- T O TA L I TA R I A N P O L I T I C S
they are easy to predict. A long-time specialist on North
Korean affairs, Patrick McEachern maps the institutional
P A T R I C K M C E A C H E R N
pluralism that defines Kim’s rule and preserves the struc-
ture of the state.

McEachern identifies three major institutions that operate


under the Supreme Leader: the cabinet, the military, and “Inside the Red Box is a nuanced and

the party. These groups are the first to debate and bargain meticulous study of the inner workings

policy, which is then delivered to Kim and his inner circle of the North Korean policy apparatus.

for a final decision. This mode of rule produces results It is a very useful addition to the lit-

that challenge traditional expectations, but North Korea erature, saying more about what hap-

does not follow a classic totalitarian, personalistic, or cor- pens inside the black box (or red box)

poratist model. Rather than being monolithic, McEachern beyond standard accounts and the per-

argues, the state is decentralized and post-totalitarian, sonality cult of the Kim family.”

and Kim can accept or reject the three options presented —Victor D. Cha, coauthor of Nuclear

to him or pursue his own path. Authority may be central- North Korea: A Debate on Engagement

ized, but power itself remains diffuse. McEachern details Strategies

how this process works and its uniqueness from the to-
talitarian methods of Kim’s father, Kim Il Sung. His re-
search is vital to understanding North Korea’s reactive
policy choices, which continue to bewilder the west.

Pat r i c k M c E ac h e r n is a foreign service officer and former North


Korea analyst with the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and
Research and is slated to serve as working-level lead on Six-Party Talks
issues at the U.S. embassy in Seoul.

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From Mao to Market
China Reconfigured
Robin Porter

t h e h i s t o r i c a l a n d c u lt u r a l f o r c e s b e h i n d a
r e m a r k a b l e t r a n s f o r m at i o n t h at d e f i e s p r e c -
e d e n t a n d e x p e c tat i o n .

Drawing on decades of research and teaching on China,


Robin Porter presents a nuanced view of the country’s
modern evolution and its myriad historical influences.
Porter has a wealth of practical experience with China,
having first visited the country during the Cultural
Revolution and having worked as an editor at the Xinhua
News Agency during the 1970s. In this volume, he ex-
plicitly accounts for the factors that gave rise to China’s
current trends and behaviors, offering both scholars and
newcomers a rich portrait of an unpredictable though for-
midable world power.

“From Mao to Market is a well-written Porter begins with China’s social and political develop-
and clearly organized study covering a ment from earliest times to the modern period. He con-
number of important themes relating to cludes with the country today, then steps back to assess
contemporary Chinese development.” the events that have most determined China’s evolution.
—Dylan Sutherland, University He concentrates on the role played by politics and culture
of Nottingham in conditioning every aspect of Chinese life. His analysis
considers the country’s Confucian heritage, orthodoxy
in ideology and law, political command structures, tech-
nological innovation, enterprise management, public
policy and private goals, and the prospects for democracy.
With personal insight and privileged perspective, Porter
clarifies a number of myths and mysteries about modern
China and evaluates the implications of its expansion in
the balance of world power. He provides crucial context
for the “China dimension” that has become so central to
discussions of national and international policy.

R o b i n P o r t e r is a visiting professor at the Centre for East Asian


Studies, Bristol University, and has taught courses on China at universi-
ties in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He was the British
government’s first science counselor in Beijing.

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New Powers
How to Become One and How to Manage Them
Amrita Narlikar

H o w n at i o n s c a n n e g o t i at e a d va n ta g e w h i l e
m a i n ta i n i n g s ta b i l i t y i n a f l at t e n i n g y e t
f r ac t i o u s wo r l d.

Being new is never easy, especially in the anarchical


world of international politics. New powers such as Brazil,
China, and India must tread difficult terrain as they nego-
tiate their way to the top, signaling sufficient conformity
to diffuse tensions and avoid preemptive reprisals. Yet ha-
bitually conciliatory diplomacy can cast emerging states
as lightweights and pushovers. Effective bargaining is
therefore key to balancing these extremes.

Established powers also need straightforward solutions


to pressing dilemmas. If the aims of a new power are
limited, then engagement is a worthwhile enterprise. If
its aims are radically revisionist or revolutionary, then “Tension and even warfare are likely

established powers may have to contain it. Assessing the when a new power emerges and an old

intentions of new powers and responding appropriately power is challenged. The achievement

is crucial for the maintenance of international peace. In of Amrita Narlikar is to bring analytical

this enlightening study, Amrita Narlikar pinpoints the rigor to the recent emergence of India,

most successful negotiating strategies for rising pow- China, and Brazil, and her insights are

ers. Focusing on three of the most important candidates equally applicable to the historical past

now vying for international recognition—Brazil, China, as to the present. Narlikar steers a deft

and India—she underscores the commonalities in their course between the large-scale issues

diplomatic efforts and isolates the striking differences. of the shifting balance of power and

Her study aids not only emerging players but also the es- the details of negotiating style, which

tablished countries struggling with evolving balances of are so important in mediating the inter-

power. ests of established and new powers.


She combines perceptive case stud-
A m r i ta N a r l i ka r is University Senior Lecturer at the Department of ies with clear hypotheses to produce
Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and Official a major study of a question that was
Fellow of Darwin College. Her most recent books are Deadlocks in
vital for our past and will be for our
Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions and The World Trade
future.”—Martin Daunton, University of
Organization: A Very Short Introduction.
Cambridge

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Economy, Difference, Empire
Social Ethics for Social Justice

nomy , Gary Dorrien

Eco e, c
ifferen
T h e c e l e b r at e d s o c i a l e t h i c i s t l a u n c h e s a

D
ire
n e w p l at f o r m f o r p r o g r e s s i v e C h r i s t i a n

Emp
t h o u g h t a n d ac t i o n .

Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian so-


cial ethics—social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism,
Social E

and liberation theology—Gary Dorrien argues for the


thics fo

social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In care-


fully reasoned essays, he focuses on three broad subjects:
r Socia

the ethics and politics of economic justice; racial and gen-


l Justice

der justice; and anti-militarism, and makes a constructive


GARY DORRIEN case for economic democracy, a liberationist understand-
ing of racial and gender justice, and an anti-imperial form
of liberal internationalism.

In Dorrien’s view, the three major discourse traditions of


"Like Gary Dorrien's other works, this progressive Christian social ethics share a fundamental
book is richly researched and beauti- commitment to transform the structures of society in the
fully written. Dorrien is among the direction of social justice. His reflections on these topics
leading academic voices of progres- feature extensive and innovative analyses of major figures,
sive Christianity, and his book brings such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, James
the various threads of his scholarship Burnham, Norman Thomas, and Michael Harrington,
together in one place."—Laura Olson, and contemporary intellectuals, such as Rosemary
Clemson University R. Ruether, Katie Cannon, Gregory Baum, and Cornel
"Gary Dorrien is the preeminent social West. Dorrien also weaves his personal experiences into
ethicist in North America today." his narrative, especially his involvement in social justice
—Cornel West, Princeton University movements. The volume features a special chapter on
Dorrien’s published work during the 2008 presidential
campaign and historic candidacy of Barack Obama.

G a r y D o r r i e n is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics


at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia
University. His recent works include the three-volume The Making
of Liberal Theology and Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an
American Tradition.

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The Animal Rights Debate Gary L. Francione
Abolition or Regulation? and robert Garner

Gary L. Francione and Robert Garner

H o w fa r s h o u l d w e e x t e n d r i g h t s a n d p r o t e c - The
Animal
tions for animals?

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philos-

Rights
opher of animal-rights theory. Robert Garner is a politi-
cal theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of
animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no
moral justification for using nonhumans, arguing that

Debate
because animals are property—economic commodities—
laws or industry practices requiring “humane” treatment
will, as a general matter, fail to provide any meaningful
level of protection. Garner favors a version of animal
rights that focuses on eliminating animal suffering Abolition or Regulation?
and adopts a protectionist approach, maintaining that,
although the traditional animal-welfare ethic is philo-
sophically flawed, it can contribute strategically to the
"The Animal Rights Debate presents the
achievement of animal-rights ends.
views of two preeminent thinkers work-

As they spar, Francione and Garner deconstruct the ing on a key debate in the study of the

animal-protection movement in the United States, the moral status of animals—namely, do ani-

United Kingdom, Europe, and elsewhere, discussing mals deserve to be treated well while

the practices of organizations such as PETA, which joins we use them to satisfy our needs and

with McDonald’s and other fast-food chains to “improve” desires, or do animals deserve not to

the slaughter of animals. They also examine American be used to satisfy human desires at all?

and European laws and campaigns from both the rights This is a subject of extremely heated

and welfare perspectives, identifying weaknesses and debate, and Gary L. Francione and

strengths that give shape to future legislation and action. Robert Garner address it as no others
can."—Gary Steiner, Bucknell University
G a ry L . F r a n c i o n e is distinguished professor of law and Nicholas
deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University
School of Law–Newark. He is the author of numerous books and articles
on animal ethics and animals and the law, including Animals as Persons:
Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation.

R o b e r t G a r n e r is professor of politics at the University of Leicester


and the author of, among other books, Animals, Politics, and Morality.

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Graphic Women
Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
Life N a r r at i v e   & CoNtemporar y ComiC s Hillary L. Chute

T h e f i r st acco u n t o f au to b i o g r a p h i c a l co m -
i c s b y w o m e n , w h o a r e e x pa n d i n g g r a p h i c n o v -
e l s a n d c h a n g i n g t h e fa c e o f a u t o b i o g r a p h y.

Female cartoonists are playing a central role in the evolu-


tion of graphic novels. Some of the most acclaimed books
of the twenty-first century, such as Marjane Satrapi’s
Hillary L. Chute Persepolis and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, are autobio-
graphical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb
pioneered the autobiographical form, showing women’s
everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body.
Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center
of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty
spaces between frames to capture the process of memory.
Satrapi experiments with visual witness to frame her per-
sonal and historical narrative, and Bechdel meticulously
“Graphic Women is an exciting and incorporates family documents by hand to re-present her
theoretically sophisticated gender and past.
genre study, the kind of book that inter-
pellates its reader, defines its territory, These five cartoonists move the art of autobiography
and stakes its claims immediately.” and graphic storytelling in new directions, particularly
—Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence College through the depiction of sex, gender, and lived experi-
ence. Hillary L. Chute explores their verbal and visual
techniques, which have transformed autobiographical
narrative and contemporary comics. Through the inter-
play of words and images and the counterpoint of pres-
ence and absence, they express difficult, even traumatic
stories while engaging with the workings of memory.
Intertwining aesthetics and politics, these women both
rewrite and redesign the parameters of acceptable dis-
course.

H i l l a r y L . C h u t e is Neubauer Family Assistant


Professor in the English Department at the University
P h oto : Kris Snibbe

of Chicago. She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s


MetaMaus and has written about comics and culture
for the Village Voice and The Believer.

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Gilbert and Sullivan
Gender, Genre, Parody
^ Carolyn Williams *
Carolyn Williams
GilbertandSullivan
R e p os i t i o n i n g t wo p o p u l a r a r t i sts as f i e r c e
critics of social norms.

Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show


and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of Gilbert and
Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day’s political
and cultural obsessions. Gilbert and Sullivan’s produc-
tions always rose to the level of social commentary, despite
being impertinent, absurd, or inane. Some viewers may
take them straight, but what looks like sexism or stereo- G e n d e r • G e n r e • Pa r o d y

type was actually a clever strategy of critique. Parody was


a powerful weapon in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-
century England, and with defiantly in-your-face sophisti-
cation, Gilbert and Sullivan proved popular culture could
be intellectually as well as politically challenging.

Carolyn Williams underscores Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Carolyn Williams highlights what ought

creative and acute understanding of cultural formations. to have been obvious all along about

Anxiety drives the troubled mind in the “nightmare” pat- Gilbert and Sullivan's portrayal of gen-

ter song of Iolanthe and is vividly realized in the sexual der: they are just kidding. Williams

and economic phrasing of Lord Chancellor’s lyrics. The gives these wonderful works the read-

modern body appears automated and performative in the ing they deserve."—Robyn Warhol-

“railway” song of Thespis, mirroring Charlie Chaplin’s fac- Down, Ohio State University

tory worker in the film Modern Times. Williams also illu- "In its details, intelligence, breadth
minates the use of magic in The Sorcerer, the parody of of scholarship, and original archival
nautical melodrama in H.M.S. Pinafore, the ridicule of research, this book offers treasures and
Victorian poetry in Patience, the autoethnography of The a beautifully written, sometimes exhila-
Mikado, the role of gender in Trial by Jury, and the theme rating read. This brilliant, unique con-
of illegitimacy in The Pirates of Penzance. tribution to Victorian studies will prove
to be a benchmark."—Adrienne Munich,
C a r o ly n W i l l i a m s is professor of English at Rutgers University,
Stony Brook University
where she teaches courses on Victorian literature, theater, and cul-
ture. She is the author of Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic
Historicism, as well as numerous essays and articles.

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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of
New York City

Koch
nEw YoRK citY
Jonathan Soffer

RE bu i l ding
T h e f u l l s t o r y b e h i n d a p r o v o c at i v e m ayo r

and thE
Ed
who remade a city in crisis.

of
In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by
filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. In 1989, by
the end of his mayoral run and despite the Wall Street
crash of 1987, neighborhoods and infrastructure were
being rebuilt. Unlike many American cities in the
1980s, Koch’s New York was growing, not shrinking.
Gentrification brought new businesses to neglected cor-
ners and converted low-end rental housing to coops and
Jonathan Sof fer condos. Nevertheless, not all the change was positive—
AIDS, crime, homelessness, and violent racial conflict
increased, marking a time of great, if somewhat uneven,
transition.
“Skillfully uses Ed Koch’s administration
For better or worse, Koch’s efforts convinced many New
to tell the story of the city from 1978
Yorkers to embrace a new political order that subsidized
to 1990, a rags-to-riches saga with
business, particularly finance, insurance, and real estate,
many lessons for today’s cities as they
and privatized public space. Each phase of the city’s recov-
cope with enormous financial pressure.
ery required difficult choices between moneyed interests
Whether or not you are a New Yorker,
and social services, forcing Koch to be both a moderate
this marvelously told tale of a mayor
and a pragmatist as he tried to mitigate growing economic
and his city will grip you.”—Lizabeth
inequality. Throughout, Koch’s rough rhetoric (attack-
Cohen, Harvard University
ing his opponents as “crazy,” “wackos,” and “radicals”)
“Well written, accessible, thoughtful, prompted the charge that he was racially divisive. The
and deals with a subject many New first book to recast Koch’s legacy through personal and
Yorkers care deeply about.” mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories,
—Sven Beckert, author of The Monied this volume plots a history of New York City through two
Metropolis: New York City and rarely studied but crucial decades.
the Consolidation of the American
Bourgeoisie “By thoroughly examining the politics and policies of Ed
Koch’s mayoralty, Jonathan Soffer allows us to see more
clearly the world in which we live.”—Richard Greenwald,
Drew University

J o n at h a n S o ff e r is associate professor of history at New York


University’s Polytechnic Institute, specializing in twentieth-century
American urban and political history.

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Perversion for Profit
The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Whitney Strub
WHITNEY STRUB

PERVERSION
h o w s e x a n d p o r n o g r a p h y s h a p e d p o s t wa r
american politics.

FOR
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward
sex, its preferences swing sharply between toleration and
censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced
PROFIT
since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and The Politics of
its attack on the “floodtide of filth” supposedly sweeping Pornography
the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New and the Rise of the
Right’s political capital in the 1960s, laying the ground- New Right
work for the “family values” agenda that shifted the coun-
try to the right. Perversion for Profit traces the anatomy
of this trend, recounting the debates over obscenity that
consumed members of the ACLU in the 1950s, the de-
ployment of obscenity charges against gay media during
the Cold War, and the rise of the influential Citizens for
“Marvelous. Whitney Strub’s geneal-
Decent Literature during the 1960s.
ogy of outrage from comic books to

Whitney Strub illustrates the crucial function of pornog- pornography is utterly original. It’s also

raphy in constructing the New Right agenda, which em- convincingly and responsibly opinion-

phasized social issues over racial and economic inequality. ated and full of life. The chapter on

He situates the fight over obscenity within the politics of feminism and pornography is a mas-

1950s pop culture and the pivotal events that followed: terpiece. It is a landmark chapter, one

the sexual revolution, feminist activism, the “porno chic” of the few historical essays that might

moment of the early 1970s, and resurgent Christian con- actually end a sterile debate.—Rick

servatism, which now shapes public policy far beyond Perlstein, author of Before the Storm:

the issue of sexual decency. Following these battles to the Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of

early months of the Obama administration, Strub isolates the American Consensus

the undercurrents of anticommunist rhetoric that once “Ranging from Los Angeles to Memphis
powered the antipornography movement and continues to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and numer-
to permeate political discourse. Connecting the lowest ous small towns throughout the nation,
forms of entertainment to the highest levels of govern- Strub has done an admirable job of
ment, he revolutionizes our understanding of sex and situating his analysis in the local arenas
American politics. where these battles frequently take
place. Persuasive and very important.”
W h i t n e y S t r u b is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers
—Andrea Friedman, author of Prurient
University.
Interests: Gender, Democracy, and
Obscenity in New York City, 1909–1945

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Reforming the International Financial
System for Development
Edited by Jomo Kwame Sundaram

S e t t i n g a n e w a g e n d a f o r c o o p e r at i o n , r e g u -
l at i o n , a n d r e f o r m .

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new in-


stitutions for international economic governance, and,
though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar
reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation,
and postcolonial development. Financial liberalization
since the 1970s, however, has involved deregulation and
globalization, which have exacerbated instability rather
than stimulate growth. In addition, the failure of Bretton
Woods to secure a reserve currency enabled the dollar to
fill the void, contributing to periodic, massive deficits in
U.S. trade.

Our latest global financial crisis, in which all of these


“Reforming the International Financial
weaknesses played a part, underscores how urgently we
System for Development covers all
must reform the international financial system. Prepared
the relevant territory. It is by far the
for the G24 research program, a consortium of develop-
best overall treatment of the impor-
ing countries focused on financial issues, this volume ar-
tant implications of the reform and
gues that such reforms must be developmental. Chapters
regulation of the financial system for
review historic trends in global liquidity, financial flows
economic development.”—Jan Kregel,
to emerging markets, and the food crisis, identifying the
coauthor of International Finance and
systemic flaws that brought about our present downturn.
Development
They challenge the effectiveness of recent policy and sug-
gest criteria for regulatory reform, keeping in mind the
different circumstances, capacities, and capabilities of
various economies. Essays follow ongoing revisions in
international banking standards, the improved manage-
ment of international capital flows, the critical role of the
World Trade Organization in liberalizing and globalizing
financial services, and the need for international tax co-
operation. They also provide a blueprint for a new global
banking model and reserve.

J o m o Kwa m e S u n da r a m is assistant secretary general for economic


development at the United Nations and research coordinator for the
G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and
Development.

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Accounting for Value
Stephen Penman

R e t u r n i n g t o t h e r o o t s o f q u a l i t y a n a ly s i s
f o r a b e t t e r a s s e s s m e n t o f f i n a n c i a l va l u e .

Despite their skills and extensive training, many analysts


fail to recognize the basics of good accounting. By focus-
ing on abstract concepts such as measurement basis, exit
values, and entity concepts, they miss out on the benefits
of a practical approach to valuation. While modern fi-
nance has advanced important concepts, including diver-
sification and risk measurement, effective and efficient
accounting merges these tools with fundamental analysis
to divine a true account of value.

Launching an innovative examination of equity evaluation


as a matter of accounting, Stephen Penman embraces the
commonsense ideas of finance fundamentalists—good
firms can be bad buys; the risk in investing is the risk of
paying too much; ignore information at your own peril; “This book cleverly weaves together

beware of paying too much for growth—to reestablish important but otherwise unreconciled

the parameters of good analysis. He compares fair-value themes, enhancing our conceptual

accounting and historical-cost accounting; describes the understanding of the nature and use-

anchoring of cash flows, book value, and earnings; and fulness of accounting in valuation.

details the failure of modern finance to correctly assess Stephen Penman also updates the

value. He concludes with fundamental strategies for ac- Benjamin Graham school of investment

counting for value and a bold proposal for assessing the thought by incorporating changes in

cost of capital. Altogether, Penman’s text is an essential the economy, accounting, and financial

tool for interpreting the greatest financial challenges of modeling.”—Stephen Ryan, New York

our time: the stock market bubble of the 1990s, the credit University, Stern School of Business

crisis of 2008, and accounting in the wake of ongoing


market instability.

S t e p h e n P e n m a n is George O. May Professor of Accounting and


Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Research Scholar at the Columbia Business
School. He is the author of Financial Statement Analysis and Security
Valuation, for which he received a Wildman Medal Award, and manag-
ing editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

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Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique
Dialogues
Edited by Alfredo Gomez-Muller and
Politics
of
Gabriel Rockhill
Culture

J u d i t h B u t l e r , C o r n e l W e s t, A x e l H o n n e t h ,

and the a n d o t h e r s o n p o l i t i c s , c u lt u r e , a n d c r i t i c a l
Spirit of t h e o r y.
Critique

Dialogues The idea of “culture” has become central to intellec-


tual debate since at least the end of the 1970s, with the
reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becom-
ing an indispensible part of moral and political critique.
S eyla B en habib | Na nc y Fraser | Jud it h But ler Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond
I m m a n u e l Wa l l e r s t e i n | C o r n e l We s t | M i c h a e l S a n d e l
W i l l Ky m l i c k a | A x e l H o n n e t h its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of
Edited by G ab r i e l Ro c k h i l l and A l f r e d o G o m e z - M u l l e r
ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

Whether informing arguments about a “clash of civiliza-


tions” or underscoring the importance of “mainstream
multiculturalism,” inflated notions of culture are ubiq-
“The scope, precision, and flow of these uitous, and their prevalence has generated new concerns.
interviews, as well as the significance Criticism extends from the commodification of difference
and range of the thinkers, make this and the reification of identity to the further marginaliza-
volume a valuable contribution to tion of outside voices. Refusing to reject the cultural shift
critical theory and the philosophy of in politics yet wholly aware of its potential dangers, the
culture.”—Alia Al-Saji, McGill University contributors to this volume propose innovative solutions
and topical interventions. Seyla Benhabib conceptualizes
co n t r i b u to r s culture as a hybrid and polyvocal system of action and sig-
Seyla Benhabib (Yale) • Judith Butler nification. Nancy Fraser strives to solve the recognition/
(University of California, Berkeley) redistribution conundrum. Judith Butler deconstructs
• Nancy Frasier (New School) • Alfredo sexual and gender identities. Cornel West rejects Black
Gomez-Muller (University of Tours) Nationalism and racial reasoning in favor of a cultural
• Axel Honneth (University of Frankfurt) democracy that unites various struggles for equality, and
• Will Kymlicka (Queens University) Axel Honneth details a normative account of social inte-
• Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova) gration in terms of mutual recognition.
• Michael Sandel (Harvard) • Immanuel
A l f r e d o G o m e z- M u l l e r is professor of Latin American studies at
Wallerstein (Yale University)
the Francois-Rabelais University in Tours and the author of numerous
• Cornel West (Princeton) books, including Sartre: De la nausée à l’engagement and Ethique, co-
existence et sens.

G a b r i e l R o c k h i l l is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova


University and the author of Logique de l’histoire: Pour une analytique
des pratiques philosophiques.

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Haunting Legacies
Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
Gabriele Schwab

T h e p s yc h i c l i f e o f v i o l e n t h i s t o r i e s a s e x p e -
haunting
r i e n c e d by au t h o r s a n d ot h e r s w h o i n h e r i t legacies
violent histories and
transgenerational trauma

them.

From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial sup-


pression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond
the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes
throughout later generations, within those tied to both
sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in gabriele schwab
a number of narratives, primarily through the writing
of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust
survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of
slavery and colonialism and to more recent events, such
as South African Apartheid, the practice of torture after
9/11, and the “disappearances” that occurred during South
American dictatorships.
“In this highly original and courageous

Schwab’s texts include memoirs (Ruth Kluger’s Still study, Gabrielle Schwab breaks new

Alive and Marguerite Duras’s La Douleur), second-gen- ground in the study of trauma and its

eration accounts by the children of Holocaust survivors intergenerational transmission, doing

(Geroges Perec’s W, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and Philippe so through a special focus on the long-

Grinbert’s Secret), and second-generation recollections by term effects of violent histories on

Germans (W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, Sabine Reichel’s What the generations of both victims and

Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, and Ursula Duba’s Tales perpetrators.”—Michael Levine, Rutgers

from a Child of the Enemy). She also incorporates her own University

reminiscences growing up in postwar Germany, mapping


networks of interlaced memories and histories as they
interact in psychic life and cultural memory. Her critical
approach draws on theories from psychoanalysis, post-
colonialism, and trauma studies, and Schwab concludes
with a bracing look at issues of responsibility, reparation,
and forgiveness across the victim/perpetrator divide.

G a b r i e l e S c h wa b is Chancellor’s Professor of
P h oto : Tom Boellstorff

English and Comparative Literature at the University of


California, Irvine. Her books in English include Derrida,
Deleuze, Psychoanalysis; Accelerating Possessions:
Global Futures of Property and Personhood; and The
Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary
Language.

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Barbarous Philosophers
Reflections on the Nature of War From Heraclitus to
Heisenberg
Christopher Coker

R e p o s i t i o n i n g wa r n o t a s a n at u r a l p h e n o m -
e n o n b u t a s a n i n v e n t i o n o f p h i l o s o p h y.

From Heraclitus in the sixth century b.c.e. to the twen-


tieth-century philosopher-physicist Werner Heisenberg,
intellectuals have struggled to make sense of war and
its presence in human society. Yet, as Christopher Coker
contends, it is philosophers who created the concept of
war, largely by defining its rules and establishing an op-
positional dialectic of peace. The Greeks were the first to
outline what Blaise Pascal called the “rules of war,” and
through their description of its “nature,” influenced the
thinking of contemporary generals and their military
strategy.

“Like Plato synthesizing Parmenides’ Nevertheless, this is not a book on the philosophical un-
world of eternal being and Heraclitus’s derpinnings of war but on the particular problems we
world of constant change, Christopher face while fighting war today. Guided by the work of sev-
Coker compels his readers to think enteen major thinkers, Coker examines the belief that war
through what Clausewitz and Sun is a continuation, rather than a negation, of politics by
called the enduring yet ever-changing other means; the idea that we should respect those who
character of war. A splendid introduc- don’t respect us; the notion that war can help a soldier re-
tion for specialists and nonspecialists affirm his humanity; and the odd fact that peace remains
alike.”—Karl F. Walling, United States a contested concept. Coker draws on sixteen philosophers
Naval War College who have tackled war directly and intensely in their writ-
ing. Each chapter begins with an epigram distilling the
essence of a chosen philosopher’s thinking on war and
uses it as a prism through which to analyze the aspects of
war most relevant to contemporary combat.

C h r i sto p h e r Co k e r is professor of international re-


lations at the London School of Economics and adjunct
professor at the Staff College in Oslo.

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The Shift
Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict
Menachem Klein

revealing A troubling new phase in the


t r e at m e n t o f Pa l e s t i n i a n s b y t h e I s r a e l i
s tat e .

Since 2000, the Israeli army has increased the size and
strength of its operations in occupied territories. These
activities, matched with an unprecedented rise in the con-
struction of Jewish settlements, have irrevocably changed
the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis. As
Menachem Klein sees it, what was once a border conflict
has now become an ethnic struggle, with Jewish Israel
establishing an ethno-security regime from Jordan to the
Mediterranean, facilitated and accelerated by the recent
results of elections in Israel, the United States, and the
territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

In a bold challenge to those who claim Israel has done “The strongest part of this book is its
nothing more than pursue a framework of “occupation,” material on settlers and its analysis of
Klein identifies a radical shift that has put ethnicity at the how they have become stitched into
center of its security initiatives. Even Israeli citizens of the military and bureaucratic fabric of
Palestinian origin are at risk of becoming targets. Klein both sides of the 1967 ‘border.’ Readers
closely reads the legal and political apparatus cocooning get a sense of the ideological forces
Israel’s shrinking Jewish majority. Within this system, ‘from below’ that drive ‘radical’ set-
Palestinians have been divided into several categories tlers, as well as a sense of the powerful
with different privileges. Grounding his work in pri- political and military structures that
mary sources and hard-to-find statistics, Klein completes help them continue to expand.”—John
a groundbreaking, unflinching study that portrays the Chalcraft, London School of Economics
realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He ultimately
“A must read for would-be peacemakers
argues that a single, nonethnic state is not the best solu-
and analysts who traverse the tough
tion and supports a two-state compromise, as difficult as
terrain of the much-too-promised land.
it may be, since it is the only viable way to peace.
Menachem Klein has written a bril-

M e n ac h e m K l e i n is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political


liant and compelling account of the
Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the hard ground truths that now shape the
Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli Israeli-Palestinian struggle and seem to
government and the Israeli delegation for peace talks with the PLO and preclude a happy outcome.”
has been a fellow at Oxford University and F. Braudel Senior Fellow at
—Aaron David Miller, the Woodrow
the European University Institute, Florence.
Wilson Center

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A History of Finland A History of Namibia
Directions, Structures, Turning Points From the Earliest Times to 1990
Henrik Meinander Marion Wallace, with John Kinahan
Translated from Swedish by Tom Geddes

A n o r i g i n a l acco u n t o f a co u n t ry ’ s

T h e f u l l s t o r y b e h i n d a c o u n t r y t h at modern struggle and final break

h a s a lway s f o l l o w e d i t s o w n l e a d . w i t h co lo n i a l i s m .

Henrik Meinander completes a brisk and bold John Kinahan begins with Namibia’s early
portrait of Finland, recounting its early begin- human activity and concludes with the arrival
nings as a member of the Swedish kingdom to of German colonialism in the nineteenth cen-
its later years as an autonomous Grand Duchy tury. Marion Wallace follows with migration,
within the Russian empire. It concludes with production, and power in the precolonial period,
Finland’s gradual transformation into a con- changes triggered by European expansion, and
scious nation and its current flourishing as an the dynamics of formal colonialism. She relates
independent, modernized state. Meinander the full experience of German rule, including
concentrates on the Baltic region, connecting the genocide of 1904–1908 and the wars of
his history to major turning points in Europe’s central and southern Namibia. Final chapters
social, political, and structural development. He discuss African nationalism, apartheid, war
blends politics, economy, and culture to illumi- between 1946 and 1990, and the development
nate how other countries have utilized Finland’s of Namibia since independence.
natural resources and have coopted its cultural “An excellent history of Namibia, accessible to a
heritage and technological innovations. wide readership and to many historians and his-
tory students with an interest in colonialism and
H e n r i k M e i n a n d e r is professor of history at the
University of Helsinki.
liberation in Africa.”—Alan Barnard, University of
Edinburgh
To m G e dd e s has translated numerous novels and biogra-
phies from Swedish and Norwegian into English.
M ar i o n Wa l l ac e is African curator at the British Library.
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J o h n K i n a h a n is a consultant in archaeological and


paleoenvironmental studies.

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Emirati Women
Generations of Change Jane Bristol-rhys

Jane Bristol-Rhys
Emirati
T h e U n i t e d A r a b E m i r at e s ’ m o s t v u l n e r a b l e
p o p u l at i o n s p e a k a b o u t t h e i r n e w f o u n d
Women
Generations of ChanGe
s tat u s .

The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted Abu


Dhabi out of isolating poverty. A boom in construction in-
troduced new sightlines to the city’s landscape and trans-
formed its infrastructure and economy. The impressive
growth of just a few decades created new opportunities
for work and play, allowing a social welfare system to take
root offering free education, medical treatment, gener-
ous pensions, family subsidies, and government incen-
tives. Citizens were suddenly encouraged to participate
in all aspects of their remaking, and the wealth brought
in from a seemingly limitless oil economy enabled many
households to acquire a sheen of sophistication.
“Little has been written on the Arab Gulf

The pattern of Abu Dhabi’s phenomenal growth can be countries that conveys the worldview of

traced throughout the United Arab Emirates, yet con- the local people through oral narratives.

sumption hasn’t cast the Emirates in a very favorable light. That is exactly what this book accom-

Both at home and abroad, many have accused Emirati cit- plishes, giving a voice to those who are

izens of violating the limits of taste and tolerance. Emirati otherwise marginalized and ignored,

Women offers a rare perspective on the lives of those who thereby revealing a fascinating world.”

have been affected most by the Emirates’ rise in power. —Wanda Krause, School of Oriental and

Jane Bristol-Rhys merges eight years of conversations and African Studies

interviews with her own personal observations on Abu


Dhabi society, boldly confronting the unflattering stereo-
types that quietly flourish among expatriate communities.
Her fascinating findings speak to such topics as marriage,
independence, freedom, and the future.

Ja n e B r i s to l- R h ys is an assistant professor in the Department of


Social and Behavioral Sciences at Zayed University. An Arabic-speaking
cultural anthropologist, she has lived in the Middle East for twenty years
and is the author of many articles on Emirati women, public discourse
on Emirati identity, and how Emiratis narrate their pre-oil past.

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The Implied Spider
THE IMPLIED SPIDER Politics and Theology in Myth
P O L I T I C S A N D THEOLOGY IN MYTH

U P D A T E D W I TH A NEW PREFACE
Updated with a New Preface
Wendy Doniger

“An entertaining and highly accessible look at how myths


reveal what is common to all humanity.”—Parabola

Wendy Doniger’s perennially selling study is both modern


in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and
refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural
approach. Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading
of religion through a responsible analysis of patterns and
themes across context. Her work is a powerful antidote
to the paralysis of postcolonial theory, which rightfully
WENDY DONIGER condemns the reduction of religious practice to simple
C OLUM B I A C LASSICS IN RELIGION
universals. Tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions,
from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to
the moral lessons of the Bhagavad Gita, Doniger extracts
political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting
“A book that is particularly worthy of the original ideas of each. Her new preface confronts the
the attention of readers in religious difficulty of research in this area, addressing the contro-
studies beyond the history of religions. versy of choosing subjects and positioning one’s argu-
Since it is Wendy Doniger’s most meth- ment. The text itself is updated throughout.
odological book, The Implied Spider is
important, not for its analysis of myths,
Praise for the previous edition:
but for the arguments that it makes in
support of the comparative study of “A racy, enjoyable book. . . . Deriving from Plato an under-
myths.”—Religious Studies Review standing of myth as both truth and lie, Wendy Doniger

“By analyzing the political, theologi- brings to her study a wealth of story and folklore from

cal, and psychological structures of many different traditions, exploring creatively the enduring

the sacred stories of various cultures role of myth through time and across cultures.”

through time, from the Hebrew Bible —Theological Book Review

to Star Trek, Doniger shows how myths “A timely meditation on what comparative studies might
create a shared interdisciplinary narra- mean . . . a cross-cultural comparison of different stories
tive of all human creatures. . . . Ranging from different areas of the world, different tribes, different
widely, she offers a detailed, scholarly languages.”—London Review of Books
account.”—Library Journal
W e n dy D o n i g e r is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor
of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of
Chicago. Her books include Dreams, Illusions, and Other Realities; Other
Peoples’ Myths; The Cave of Echoes; and the English-language edition
of Yves Bonnefoy’s Mythologies.

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The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other
Japanese Tales
Edited by Haruo Shirane
Translated by Burton Watson

W i l d ly i m a g i n at i v e s t o r i e s r e f l e c t i n g t h e
m u lt i fa c e t e d w o r l d o f m e d i e va l J a pa n .

Haruo Shirane and Burton Watson, renowned translators


and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the
vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese folktales.
Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal (setsuwa)
literature compiled between the ninth and thirteenth cen-
turies, these dramatic and often amusing stories offer a
major view of the foundations of Japanese culture.

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eight of the most powerful and influential tales, each of
which is briefly introduced. Recounting the exploits of
warriors, farmers, priests, and aristocrats, and concern-
“Burton Watson is the preeminent
ing topics as varied as poetry, violence, power, and sex,
translator of classical Chinese and
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genres, from court tales and travel accounts to noh drama
and Haruo Shirane is his generation’s
and kabuki. Watson’s impeccable translations relay the
foremost scholar of classical Japanese
wit, mystery, and Buddhist sensibility of these protean
literature.”—David T. Bialock, University
works, and Shirane’s sophisticated analysis illuminates
of Southern California
the meaning of the tales, as well as the character of the
anthologies. A comprehensive bibliography completes “Burton Watson is one of the best trans-

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superb. With an easy grace, he brings
H a r u o S h i r a n e is Shincho Professor of Japanese lit- these tales to life like few have done
erature at Columbia University and the editor of, most before.”—Randle Keller Kimbrough,
recently, Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology,
University of Colorado-Boulder
Beginnings to 1600 and Envisioning The Tale of Genji:
Media, Gender, and Cultural Production.

B u r to n Wat s o n has translated dozens of Chinese


and Japanese classics, including The Analects of
Confucius and The Tales of the Heike.

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Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts
Stories and Essays
Stories and Essays Qian Zhongshu
Edited by Christopher G. Rea

E a r ly w r i t i n g s b y a n i n g e n i o u s w i t a n d e xc e p -
t i o n a l s t y l i s t.

Zhongshu Qian was one of twentieth-century China’s


most ingenious literary stylists, the author of short sto-
ries, essays, and a brilliant comedic novel that has in-
spired generations. Writing between the early years
of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the
Communist takeover in 1949, Qian was a pioneering
modernist and extraordinary satirist whose insight into
Qian Zhongshu the irony and travesties of modern China remains stun-
Edited by Christopher G. Rea
ningly fresh.

This eagerly awaited translation joins Qian’s collection


of iconoclastic essays on life, language, and literature,
“So long as wit and satire, insight- Written on the Margins of Life (1941), with his masterful
fully imagined characterization, and short story collection, Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts (1946).
unmatched erudition matter in litera- Qian’s essays elucidate substantive issues through de-
ture, Qian Zhongshu’s writing will have ceptively simple subjects—the significance of windows
a place, and this translation of his work versus doors, for example, or the blind spots of literary
is among the most significant render- critics—and assert the primacy of critical and creative
ings from the Chinese.”—Ron Egan, independence. His humorous stories blur the boundar-
University of California, Santa Barbara ies between various incarnations of humans, beasts, and
ghosts struggling through life, death, and resurrection.
Christopher Rea situates these works within China’s war-
time politics and Qian’s literary vision, highlighting sig-
nificant changes between different editions that provide
unprecedented insight into the author’s creative process.

Q i a n Z h o n g s h u (1910–1998), hailed as twentieth-century China’s


“foremost man of letters,” is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged,
and a groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limi ted
Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.

C h r i sto p h e r G . R e a is assistant professor of modern Chinese litera-


ture at the University of British Columbia.

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The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost
Kim Sŏk-pŏm
Translated by Cindi Textor

A s u bv e r s i v e n ov e l a b o u t t h e t r au m a o f co lo -
n i a l i s m a n d t h e p o w e r o f r e s i s ta n c e .

The Curious Tale of

A central work of postwar Japanese fiction, The Curious mandogi’s


Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales,
ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of
Ghost
epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident
of Japan who is not of Japanese ancestry, the novel inven-
tively imagines a long-supressed event in Japanese colo-
nial history—the Cheju Uprising of 1948—and captures
in style and substance the predicament of Koreans living
under Japanese rule. k i m s o˘ k - p o˘ m
translated by cindi textor

Kim Sok-pom tells the story of Mandogi, a young priest


living on the island of Cheju-do. Mandogi becomes unwit-
tingly involved in the Four-Three Incident of 1948, in
"The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost
which the South Korean government brutally suppressed
is much more than a 'ghost story' or a
an armed peasant uprising and purged Cheju-do of com-
'tall tale.' This masterpiece of postwar
munist sympathizers. Although Mandogi is sentenced to
Japanese literature by a Korean resident
death for his part in the riot, he survives (in a sense) to
of Japan is a sophisticated rumination
take revenge on his enemies and fully commit himself
on the power of words and narratives
to the resistance. Mandogi’s indeterminate, shapeshift-
to create cultural identities and to chal-
ing character is emblematic of colonialism’s outsized
lenge historical truths."—Christopher D.
impact on both ruler and ruled. One of the most signifi-
Scott, Macalester College
cant zainichi novels to date, The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s
Ghost relates the trauma of a long-forgotten history and
its indelible imprint on Japanese and Korean memory.

K i m S o k- p o m (b. 1925) was born in Osaka, Japan, to Korean parents


who emigrated from the island of Cheju-do. He is best known for his
seven-volume fictional work, Kazanto (Volcano island), which centers
on the Cheju Uprising of 1948.

C i n d i T e x t o r is a graduate student in the Department of East


Asian Literatures and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign.

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Genetic Justice
P r e v i o u s ly A n n o u n c e d , N o w Ava i l a b l e

DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations,


DN A DATA BA NK S, and Civil Liberties
CRIMIN A L IN V ES TIG ATIONS, Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
A ND CIVIL LIBER TIES

GENETIC
A p r o v o c at i v e r e c o n s i d e r at i o n o f DNA’ s i n fa l -
libility and its role in the courts.

JUSTICE
National DNA databanks were initially established to cata-
logue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders.
However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks
have expanded in some states and nations to include all
people who have been arrested, regardless of whether
SHEL DON K RIMSK Y and they’ve been charged or convicted of a crime.

TA NIA SIMONCEL LI Two prominent advisors on medical ethics, science pol-


icy, and civil liberties take a hard look at how the United
States, Australia, Japan, and European countries have bal-
anced the use of DNA databanks in criminal justice with
the privacy rights of their citizenry. Sheldon Krimsky and
“Indispensible and timely—necessary for Tania Simoncelli analyze the constitutional, ethical, and
anyone trying to navigate the myths sociopolitical implications of expanded DNA collection in
and the science of biotechnology.” the United States and compare these findings to trends
—Patricia Williams, Columbia University in other locations. They examine the legal precedent for
“Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most taking DNA from juveniles, searching DNA databases
intelligent and creative multidisci- for possible family members of suspects, conducting
plinary scholars working in bioethics, “DNA dragnets” of local populations, and the warrantless
genetics and society, science studies, acquisition of so-called abandoned DNA. Most intriguing,
and biotechnology. He always knows Krimsky and Simoncelli explode the myth that DNA pro-
how to pick topics that are socially filing is infallible, which has profound implications for
significant and require careful public criminal justice.
attention.”—Phil Brown, author of Toxic
s h e ld on k ri m sky is professor of urban and environmental policy and
Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the
planning and adjunct professor of public health and family medicine
Environmental Health Movement at Tufts University. He has consulted for the Presidential Commission
for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and
Behavioral Research and the Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment.

ta n i a s i m o n c e l l i is the science advisor in the technology and liberty


program of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she speaks, pub-
lishes, and provides expert guidance on critical scientific and science
policy issues that challenge civil liberties.

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The Worst-Kept Secret

P r e v i o u s ly A n n o u n c e d , N o w Ava i l a b l e
Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
the
Avner Cohen
worst-kept
secret
B r e a k i n g I s r a e l’ s co d e o f n u c l e a r s i l e n c e .

Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear


age—it has created (with the tacit support of the United
avner cohen
States) a special “bargain” with its bomb. Israel is the only
nuclear-armed state that keeps its bomb invisible, unac-
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first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.
israel’s
The bomb is Israel’s collective ineffable—the nation’s last bargain with
taboo. This bargain has a name: in Hebrew, it is called the bomb
amimut, or opacity. By adhering to the bargain, which was
born in a secret deal between Richard Nixon and Golda
Meir, Israel creates a code of nuclear conduct that encom-
passes both governmental policy and societal behavior.
The bargain lowers the salience of Israel’s nuclear weap-
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ons, yet it also remains incompatible with the norms and
the Bomb, is a highly original contribu-
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tion. There is nothing like it, and prob-
ity. It infringes on the public right to know and negates
ably no one else could have written it.
the notion of public accountability and oversight, among
The volume is a sensitive understand-
other offenses.
ing of the constant tension between

Author of the critically acclaimed Israel and the Bomb, ‘resolve’ and ‘caution’ in Israeli policy,

Avner Cohen offers a bold and original study of this politi- an understanding that has been absent

cally explosive subject. Arguing that the bargain has be- in many other studies.”—Alan Dowty,

come increasingly anachronistic, Cohen calls for a reform Harvard University

in line with domestic democratic values as well as current


international nuclear norms. Most important, he believes
the old methods will prove inadequate in dealing with a
nuclear Iran. Cohen concludes with fresh perspectives on
Iran, Israel, and the effort toward global disarmament.

av n e r c o h e n has been a senior research fel-


low at the National Security Archive at George
Washington University and coeditor of Nuclear
Weapons and the Future of Humanity and The
Institution of Philosophy.

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The Novelist’s Lexicon
P r e v i o u s ly A n n o u n c e d , N o w Ava i l a b l e

a . S . byat t • P é t E r E S t E r h à z y •
E tG a r K E r E t • J o n at h a n l E t h E m •
da n i E l m E n d E l S o h n •

Writers on the Words that Define Their Work


r i c K m o o dy • a n n i E P r o u l x •

E d i t E d by V i l l a G i l l E t/ L e M o n d e
E n r i q u E V i l a- m ata S •
a n d m a n y ot h E r S

Edited by Villa Gillet / Le Monde

J o n at h a n L e t h e m , R i c k M o o dy, A . S . B yat t a n d
o t h e r s o f f e r a fa s c i n at i n g p o r ta l i n t o t h e
h e a r t o f t h e n ov e l .

At a recent literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and


Le Monde, organizers asked dozens of prominent authors
from around the world to choose a word that opens the
door to their work. Their crystalline musings, collected
The here for the first time, offer an extraordinary portrait of
NovelisT’s
lexicoN
writing and reading from the perspective of the artist.
wriTers oN The
words ThaT defiNe
Organized alphabetically, the anthology is a pleasurable
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seeking an intimate understanding of literature.

Through these personal “passwords,” authors articulate


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co n t r i b u to r s i n c lu d e : and, in the process, reveal their relationship with the ele-
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David Albahari • André Brink •
dent life of furniture; A. S. Byatt describes the power of
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the narrative web; Etgar Keret explains balagan, a Hebrew
Hélène Cixous • Dennis Cooper • Rikki
word meaning “total chaos”; Daniel Mendelsohn ex-
Ducornet • Alaa El Aswany • Péter
pounds on the unknowable, or what the author should
Esterhazy • Nuruddin Farah • Arthur
or should not impart to the reader; Annie Proulx clarifies
Japin • Etgar Keret • Jonathan Lethem
terroir, which embodies the complexities of time, place,
• Colum McCann • Daniel Mendelsohn
geography, weather, and climate; and Colum McCann
• Rick Moody • Ludmila Oulitskaïa •
details the benefits of anonymity. Other participants in-
Annie Proulx • Lydie Salvayre • Adam
clude Rick Moody on adumbrated; Upamanyu Chatterjee
Thirlwell • Lyonel Trouillot
on the bildungsroman; Enrique Vila-Matas on discipline;
• Enrique Vila-Matas
Adam Thirwell on hedonism; Nuruddin Farah on identi-
ties; André Brink on the heretic; and Péter Esterhazy on
the power and potential of words, words, words.

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Prison Notebooks Prison Notebooks


Volume 1 Volume 2
Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg Edited and translated, with an Introduction, by Joseph
A. Buttigieg
“Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have long been
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Western political thought. This edition is a poi- volume provides us with an immediate sense of

gnant record of his thoughts from a Fascist the scale and diversity of Gramsci’s project.”

prison cell, adding a human touch to a key politi- —Times Literary Supplement

cal figure.”—Terry Eagleton


Volume 2 contains notebooks 3, 4, and 5, which
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) is considered Antonio Gramsci wrote between 1930 and 1932.
the most original political thinker in Western Their central themes are popular culture, Italian
Marxism. Imprisoned by the Italian Fascist history, Americanism, and the Catholic Church
regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully re- as a religious institution and politico-ideological
gaining his freedom. Nevertheless, his prison force. Gramsci touches on the Renaissance and
notebooks record thousands of brilliant reflec- Reformation, language and linguistics, mili-
tions on an extraordinary range of subjects, es- tary and diplomatic history, and Japanese and
tablishing an enduring intellectual legacy. This Chinese culture. Notebook 4 features an inno-
volume opens with an introduction outlining vative reading of canto 10 from Dante’s Inferno
Gramsci’s project and the circumstances sur- and a philosophical analysis of materialism and
rounding the composition of his notebooks. It idealism.
features a detailed chronology of the author’s “In Gramsci, Marxism acquires the founder of
life and translations of earlier writings and let- a proletarian intellectual tradition that is likely
ters. The volume then follows with notebooks 1 to continue as long as society has use for
and 2, which set the foundations for Gramsci’s democracy.”—Italian Quarterly
later writings.

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prison notebooks
volume iii Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg

Prison Notebooks Prison Notebooks


Volume 3 Three Volume Set
Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg

“Prison Notebooks is one of the fundamental “The first time ever that Antonio Gramsci’s
texts of modern thought. Politics, cultural studies, extraordinary Prison Notebooks are available in
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work is a monument of scholarship and of supple,
In notebooks 6, 7, and 8, Antonio Gramsci deeply sensitive translation.”—Edward W. Said
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Renaissance, the Reformation, and Machiavelli’s Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical
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observations on the articles and books he read this comprehensive translation presents the in-
during his imprisonment. tellectual as he ought to be read and understood,
with critical notes that clarify Gramsci’s history,
“Gramsci remains one of the most important fig-
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ures in modern Italian intellectual history and the
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most influential internationally.”—Eric Hobsbawm,
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joseph a. buttigieg is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor
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T H E L AT E A G E O F P R I N T
Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

How Women Got Their Curves and The Late Age of Print
Other Just-So Stories Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to
Evolutionary Enigmas Control

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An Honest ParticiPants: Discussions with the D a l a i l a m a
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Thupten Jinpa
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CBS’s Don Hollenbeck Mind and Life


An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature
Loren Ghiglione of Reality
Pier Luigi Luisi
A C h o ic e O u t s ta n d i n g A c a d e m i c T i t l e With Zara Houshmand

“A valuable reminder of the tragic story of Don “An excellent presentation of what can happen
Hollenbeck—a brilliant journalist crushed in the when intelligent, open minds sit down together
horror of McCarthyism.”—Walter Cronkite with the goal of mutual understanding and
betterment.”—PsyCritiques
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life
and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the con- For more than a decade, a group of world-class
troversial newscaster who became a primary scientists, philosophers, and Buddhist scholars
target of McCarthyism. have met regularly to explore the intersection
between science and the spirit. Pier Luigi Luisi
“Engrossing.”—Booklist
reproduces this dramatic, cross-cultural dia-
“Ghiglione’s attention to detail and use of numer- logue and its holistic approach to the scientific
ous personal interviews make this both a compel- exploration of reality. He also adds scientific
ling biography and a rich contextual history of background to each presentation and supple-
the McCarthy era.”—Library Journal mentary discussions with prominent partici-
pants and attendees.
“A solid piece of media history, enthusiastically
recommended.”—The Midwest Book Review “A pleasure to read.”—Buddhadharma

“A captivating tale of journalistic good versus “Stimulating.”—Nature


political evil.”—American Journalism
“One of the best books of its kind.”—Vic
“Serves both Hollenbeck and media history Mansfield, Colgate University
well.”—Choice
p i e r lu i g i lu i s i is professor of biology at the University

lo r e n g h i g l i o n e is Richard Schwarzlose Professor of of Roma 3.


Media Ethics at the Medill School of Journalism.

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Guobin Yang

s t e p h e n f. c o h e n

soviet fates and


lost alternatives
from stalinism to the new cold war

The  Power  of The  
InTerneT In chIna
cITIzen acTIvIsm onlIne

Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives The Power of the Internet in China
From Stalinism to the New Cold War Citizen Activism Online
Stephen F. Cohen Guobin Yang
With a New Introduction by the Author With a New Afterword by the Author

“A brilliant and important book. Stephen F. “An in-depth look at the explosion of Internet use
Cohen is one of the world’s foremost thinkers in China and the dramatic political and cultural
about Russia—its past, present, and future.” changes it has enabled.”—Governor Howard Dean
—Dan Rather
Guobin Yang maps a range of contentious forms
In seven groundbreaking essays, Stephen and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, por-
F. Cohen questions conventional assump- traying the Chinese Internet as a dynamic arena
tions about the course of Soviet history, the of creativity, community, conflict, and control.
fall of communism, and the effect of Russia’s Like much contemporary protest, Yang argues,
policies at home and abroad. He argues that Chinese online activism derives its methods
Washington was the first to squander the op- and vitality from multiple, intersecting forces,
portunity for a fundamentally new, post–Cold and state efforts at constraint have only led to
War U.S.-Russian relationship, and he presents more creative subversion. Yang’s vivid portrait
a radical new approach to future partnership. of immense social change captures a new era in
informational politics.
“A clearheaded yet impassioned plea to set on
its proper track a relationship that is essential to “Boundary-breaking.”—Understanding Society
global order in the twenty-first century.”—Current
“Essential.”—Far Eastern Economic Review
History
“The best account available of this experimen-
“Cohen offers us a lesson and a solution that is
tation, innovation, and social change.”—Craig
at once simple and of priceless value.”—World
Calhoun, president, Social Science Research
Policy Blog
Council

stephen f. cohen is professor of Russian studies and his-


g u o b i n ya n g is an associate professor in the Department
tory at New York University.
of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College.

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h i s to r y asian studies

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The ISRAELI
SECRET SERVICES
& THE STRUGGLE
AGAINST
TERRORISM
A M I P E DA H Z U R

The Israeli Secret Services and the Bangladesh and Pakistan


Struggle Against Terrorism Flirting with Failure in South Asia

Ami Pedahzur William B. Milam

“This brilliant comparative analysis, revealing the


“A brilliant description of Israel’s fight against
inner workings of South Asia’s two most troubled
terrorism from 1948 to the present.”—The
states, is a must read for anyone interested in
Jerusalem Post
how and why they have evaded democratic

A synthesis of memoir, academic research, and governance.”—Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent

information from print and online sources, into Chaos

Ami Pedahzur’s study brings rare transparency


to Israel’s efforts at counterterrorism and builds Bangladesh and Pakistan takes a hard look at
a strategy for future confrontation. the political and religious realities within these
sparring countries, especially the al-Qaeda-
“So well reasoned and relevant that the pages linked jihadi networks that threaten to turn
almost turn themselves.”—Publishers Weekly Pakistan into an ideological state. The volume
(starred review) considers Islam’s undeniable influence on both
“[A] superb examination.”—New York Post societies and the influence of these cultures on
the tone and expression of Islam.
“More than entertaining spy stories . . . this book
will be a great aid to other Western countries “With Bangladesh and Pakistan both reaching

around the world struggling to confront terror.” critical tipping points, Milam’s book could not be

—The Jerusalem Post more timely. I found the chapters on Bangladesh


particularly insightful and perceptive as I pre-
"A fascinating history . . . highly
pared to lead a National Democratic Institute
recommended."—Choice
mission to that country.”—Tom Daschle, former
U.S. senator
ami pedahzur is a senior fellow at the University of Texas
at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and
w i l l i a m b . m i l a m is a senior policy scholar at the
coauthor, with Arie Perliger, of Jewish Terrorism in Israel.
Woodrow Wilson Center.

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AdriAnA cAvArero

horrorism
nAming contemporAry violence

Horrorism The Scientific Way of Warfare


Naming Contemporary Violence Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity
Adriana Cavarero Antoine J. Bousquet
Translated by William McCuaig
“Antoine J. Bousquet translates a series of pro-
“Essential.”—Choice found scientific developments into an accessible
and engaging narrative of technology as artifact
Adriana Cavarero, one of the world’s most pro- and metaphor. He writes with great eloquence
vocative feminist theorists and political philoso- and texture, while simultaneously treating com-
phers, introduces a new word—horrorism—to plex theoretical issues with the light touch that
capture the experience of violence. Unlike ter- will ensure a large audience.”—Michael Innes,
ror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded Syracuse University
in the offense of disfiguration and massacre.
Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Beginning with the scientific revolution and
Cavarero’s category, especially when considered concluding with today’s terrorist networks,
from the perspective of the victim. Cavarero lo- Antoine J. Bousquet advances a novel history
cates horrorism in the philosophical, political, of scientific methodology in the context of the
literary, and artistic representations of defense- battlefield. He explores the benefits (such as a
less and vulnerable victims, and she forges a unique chain of command to safeguard the use
link between horror, extermination, and massa- of nuclear weapons) and decentralizing (such as
cre, especially in the Nazi death camps. the flexible networks that connect insurgents) of
military affairs, and follows with specific scien-
“A remarkable meditation on the macabre world
tific approaches to war: mechanistic, thermody-
of modern political violence that will appeal to a
namic, cybernetic, and a network-centric theory
wide range of readers.”—Arjun Appadurai, New
allied with the nonlinear sciences.
York University

a n to i n e j. b o u s q u e t is lecturer in international relations


adriana cavarero is professor of political philosophy at
at Birkbeck College, University of London.
the University of Verona.

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A Tragedy of Democracy
Japanese Confinement in North America

GREG ROBINSON

A Tragedy of Democracy Hubert Harrison


Japanese Confinement in North America The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883–1918
Greg Robinson Volume 1
Jeffrey B. Perry
“A superb history about one of the more shame-
ful chapters in U.S. history.”—The Japan Times “Perry’s detailed research brings to life a trans-
formative figure who has been little recognized
Greg Robinson reveals the extent of the for his contributions to progressive race and class
American government’s surveillance of politics.”—Booklist
Japanese communities in the years leading up
“The most significant black democratic socialist
to World War II and the construction of what
of early-twentieth-century America, and Jeffrey
officials termed “concentration camps” for
B. Perry has brought his thought and practice to
enemy aliens. He also considers the place of
life in a powerful and persuasive manner.”
Japanese Americans in civil rights struggles
—Cornel West
and the movement for redress, and the role of
the camps as touchstones for commemoration “Will do for Harrison what David Levering Lewis
and debate. did for Du Bois.”—Choice

“Deftly merges the Pacific Rim experience into “[A] brilliant masterpiece.”—American Historical
one coherent magnum opus.”—Nichi Bei Times Review

“Memorable . . . revealing.”—Times Literary “Breaks open long-sealed tomes of informa-


Supplement tion about the militant aspect of the Harlem
Renaissance.”—Amiri Baraka
“Original and comprehensive. Uses archival mate-
rials that have never been analyzed before and “Offers profound insights on race, class, religion,
the work extends beyond the United States to immigration, war, democracy, and social change
Canada and Latin America.”—Frank Wu, author in America.”—Industrial Worker
of Yellow
j e f f r e y b . p e r ry is an independent scholar and editor of

g r e g r o b i n s o n is associate professor of history at A Hubert Harrison Reader.


l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

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n ov em b e r 408 pages novemb er 624 pages
h i s to r y / a s i a n s t u d i e s biography

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cup

Mary-Jane Rubenstein
society and t h e
communication in the m u l t i v o i c e d
age of diversity b o d y

Strange Wonder

the cloSure of metaphySicS
and the opening of aWe fred evans

Strange Wonder The Multivoiced Body


The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening Society and Communication in the Age
of Awe of Diversity
Mary-Jane Rubenstein Fred Evans

“A very fine combination of lucid exposition of “The kind of book that establishes new, more
extremely intractable material, meticulous schol- interdisciplinary fields of study in social-political
arship, and a genuinely original contribution philosophy.”—Journal of Philosophy
to burning issues in contemporary philosophy,
theology, and philosophical theology.”—Denys By envisioning the public as a multivoiced body,
Turner, Yale University Fred Evans offers a solution to the dilemma
of diversity. The multivoiced body is one and
Mary-Jane Rubenstein locates a reopening of many—heterogeneous voices that separate and
wonder’s primordial uncertainty in the work of bind themselves together through their con-
Martin Heidegger, for whom wonder is first ex- tinuous and creative interplay. By focusing on
perienced as the shock at the groundlessness of this notion, Evans shows how we can valorize
things and then as an astonishment that things the solidarity, diversity, and richness of society
nevertheless are. She traces this double move- and resist the urge to raise a single discourse to
ment through Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc the level of “one true God,” “pure race,” or some
Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, ultimately thema- other “oracle.” To build his argument, he draws
tizing wonder as the awesome, awful opening on the major figures and themes of analytic and
that exposes thinking to devastation as well as continental philosophy, as well as modernist,
transformation. In Rubenstein’s study, wonder postmodernist, postcolonial, and feminist dis-
reveals the extraordinary in and through the courses.
ordinary and is crucial to reimagining political,
“The breadth and scope of this book are
religious, and ethical thought.
dazzling.”—Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University

m a ry- ja n e r u b e n st e i n is assistant professor of religion


f r e d e va n s is professor of philosophy and director of
at Wesleyan University.
the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research at
Duquesne University.

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Not
Being
God
A Collaborative
Autobiography

Gianni Vattimo
with Piergiorgio Paterlini
Translated by William McCuaig

Thin Places Not Being God


A Pilgrimage Home A Collaborative Autobiography
Ann Armbrecht Gianni Vattimo
With Piergiorgio Paterlini

G o l d W i n n e r o f t h e N a u t i l u s Awa r d , Translated by William McCuaig

Memoir/Personal Journey
“Speaking from the heart of Vattimo, this

Merging her travels in Nepal with the tensions book is often very funny and reads like a

generated by a disintegrating marriage back novel, yet it is also an extraordinary introduc-

home, Ann Armbrecht explores the sacredness tion to the important work of a master thinker

of the places that lie between internal and exter- of postmodernism.”—Jean Grondin, author of

nal landscapes, the self and others, and the self Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

and the land. She explores the disconnections


Gianni Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of poli-
in our most intimate relationships and their re-
tics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exu-
lation to our destruction of the land.
berance in postwar Italy. Turin forms the core
“A book you’ll want to spend time with.” of his reminiscences, enhanced by fascinat-
—Rutland Herald ing vignettes of studying under Hans Georg
“Stirring on many levels—emotional, religious,
Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serv-
physical, sensual. . . . Armbrecht’s is a lovely and
ing as a public intellectual and interlocutor of
humble journey.”—Orion
Habermas and Derrida, and working within the
European Parliament to unite Europe. One of
“Armbrecht’s vulnerability, wisdom, and unflinch- the most compelling accounts of homosexual-
ing honesty at a time of great crisis for the West ity, history, politics, and philosophical invention
make this story one of the most important books in the twentieth century.
of the last year.”—The Valley Reporter
g i a n n i vat t i m o teaches philosophy at the University of
a n n a r m b r e c h t is also the author of Settlements of Turin and is a renowned public intellectual and member of
Hope: An Account of Tibetan Refugees in Nepal and lives in the European parliament.
Vermont with her husband and two children.
p i e r g i o r g i o pat e r l i n i is a writer and journalist living in
Italy.

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Triumph of Order One Hundred Poets, One Beyond the Final Score
Democracy and Public Space in Poem Each The Politics of Sport in Asia
New York and London A Translation of the Ogura Victor D. Cha
Lisa Keller Hyakunin Isshu
Peter McMillan “A profound study of the cul-
“Offers smart insights into how Foreword by Donald Keene tural and political dynamics of
a city defines quality of life.” the Asia-Pacific region.”
—New York Times “Vivid emotions.”—Time, Asia —Taiwan Today
Edition

Treating nineteenth-century Victor D. Cha ties the 2008


London and New York as case An anthology of one hundred Beijing Olympic games to the
studies, Lisa Keller examines waka poems (precursors of politics of sport in Asia and its
sanctioned free speech, con- haiku), from the seventh to the embodiment of national iden-
trolled public assembly, new middle of the thirteenth centu- tity, nationalism, and the pro-
urban regulations, and the ries. Poems are accompanied cesses of globalization.
quelling of riots. She con- by calligraphic representations
“Illuminates both the good and
cludes with these cities today in Japanese and line drawings
the bad roles sports can play in
and whether the scales have depicting individual poets.
a society.”—Korea Herald
been tipped too far in favor of Explanatory notes place works
order and control. in context and an appendix in- “As Cha shows, sport expresses
cludes both Japanese typed and and influences some of the most
“The all-too-rare scholarly book
romanized versions. dramatic developments in soci-
that, being so well written, is
ety and politics.”—Andrew J.
fully accessible to the prover- “By far the best translation to
Nathan, Columbia University
bial general reader.”—Times date.”—Donald Keene, Columbia
Higher Education Supplement University
v i c t o r d. c h a is D. S. Song–Korea
Foundation Chair in Asian Studies,
l i s a k e l l e r is associate professor p e t e r m c m i l l a n is a professor of for-
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
of history at Purchase College, State eign studies at Kyorin University.
Service, Georgetown University.
University of New York.

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h i s to r y a s i a n s t u d i e s / l i t e r at u r e asian studies

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern

reference
Chinese Drama
Edited and with an introduction by Xiaomei
T H E C o L U m B I a a N T H o L o G Y o F

Chen MODERN
C H I N E S E
The first of its kind in English, this anthology reproduces D RA M A
twenty-two popular plays from 1919 to 2000, accompa-
E D I T E D B Y

X I a o m E I C H E N

nied by a comprehensive introduction to the historical,


cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century
Chinese spoken drama. Primarily composed of works
from the People’s Republic of China, with representative
plays from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this collection show-
cases more than the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese
theater and performance that began in the late Qing
dynasty. It reflects the formation of Chinese national and
gender identities during a period of tremendous social
and political change—not to mention the genesis of con-
temporary attitudes toward the West.

Early-twentieth-century Chinese drama embodies the “A great piece of historical and analyti-
uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, social- cal scholarship, evincing a breadth of
ism, political conflict, and war. After 1949, the PRC the- history and depth of ideological cri-
ater paints a complex portrait of the rise of communism tique hard to find in critics preoccupied
in China, with the ideals of Chinese socialism juxtaposed with body and performance. The plays
against the sacrifices made for a new society. The Cultural are not simply material for historical
Revolution promoted a “model theater” cultivated from survey; their line-up forms an argument
the achievements of earlier, leftist spoken drama, despite on China’s pursuit of modernity, social
the fact that this theater rose from the destruction of old justice, and equality.”
culture. Post-Mao drama addresses the Chairman’s leg- —Ban Wang, Stanford University
acy and the attempts made by a wounded nation to reex-
amine its cultural roots. Taiwan’s spoken drama uniquely
synthesizes regional and foreign traditions, and Hong
Kong’s spoken drama sparkles as a hybrid of Chinese and
Western influences. Immensely valuable for scholars of
cross-disciplinary, comparative, and performance study,
this anthology identifies China’s place within global cul-
ture and economy.

X i ao m e i C h e n is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at


the University of California at Davis. Among her books are Acting the
Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Culture in Contemporary China
and Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese
Drama.

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A s i a n L i t e r at u r e / D r a m a

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Classical Arabic Stories
reference

An Anthology
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Short fiction was an immensely popular art in the me-


dieval and premodern Arab world, providing the per-
fect vehicle for transmitting the tenets of classical Islam.
Reading these texts today illuminates the wide spectrum
of early Arab life and suggests the influences and innova-
tions that flourished so vibrantly in medieval Arab society.
Classical Arabic Stories
an antholog y The only resource of its kind, Salma Khadra Jayyusi’s
———————————————— Classical Arabic Stories chooses from an impressive corpus,
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
including excerpts from six seminal works: Ibn Tufail’s
novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan; Ibn al-Muqaffa’s Kalila wa Dimna;
The Misers of al-Jahiz; The Brethren of Purity’s Protest of
Animals Against Man; Al-Maqamat (The Assemblies), and
the epic romance Sayf Bin Dhi Yazan. Jayyusi organizes
her anthology thematically, beginning with a presenta-
tion of pre-Islamic tales, the stories of rulers and other
“This highly innovative anthology is notables, and thrilling narratives of danger and warfare.
conceived around the notion that clas- She follows with tales of religion, comedy, the strange
sical Islam is varied, rich, synthetic, and the supernatural, and love. Long assumed to be the
and inventive. It is a mixture of races, lesser achievement in comparison to Arabic literature’s
cultures, and histories that blended most celebrated genre—poetry—classical Arabic fiction,
together under the banner of Islam under Jayyusi’s careful eye, finally receives its proper
and expressed itself in Arabic as the debut, demonstrating its unparalleled contribution to the
language of power and Islam.”—Amira evolution of medieval literature and its sophisticated rep-
El-Zein, author of Islam, Arabs, and the resentation of Arabic culture and life.
Intelligent World of the Jinn
Sa l m a K h a d r a Jayy u s i is the author of the two-volume Trends and
Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry and the editor of Modern Arabic
Fiction: An Anthology; Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology; Anthology
of Modern Palestinian Literature; and The Legacy of Muslim Spain. The
winner of many prestigious awards, including the Sultan al Owais
Cultural and Scientific Achievement Prize, the Edward Said Award for
Career Excellence, and the award of the Olive Branch Organization in
Lebanon for “Cultural Accomplishment,” she is the founder and direc-
tor of East-West Nexus, dedicated to the study of Arabic civilization
and cultural achievements, and the Project of Translation from Arabic,
PROTA.

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The Columbia History of the Vietnam War

reference
The columbia hisTory
Edited by David L. Anderson
of the vieTnam war
Edited by

America’s experience in Vietnam continues to figure David L. anderson

prominently in debates over strategy and defense and


within the discourse on the identity of the United States
as a nation. Through fifteen essays rooted in recent schol-
arship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a
chronological and critical collective history central to any
discussion of America’s interests abroad.

David Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam


War’s major themes and enduring relevance. Mark Philip
Bradley (University of Chicago) reexamines the rise of
Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the Vietminh-
led war against French colonialism. Richard Immerman
(Temple University) revisits Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s
efforts at nation building in South Vietnam. Gary Hess
(Bowling Green State University) reviews America’s mili-
tary commitment under Kennedy and Johnson, and Lloyd
Gardner (Rutgers University) investigates the motivations “A tremendously valuable collection of

behind Johnson’s escalation of force. essays, presenting the insights of some


of the best Vietnam War scholars of

John Prados (National Security Archive) and Eric two generations. A lineup of the field’s

Bergerud (Naval Postgraduate School) devote their es- heavyweights.”—Seth Jacobs, Boston

says to America’s military strategy. Helen Anderson College

(California State University, Monterey Bay) and Robert “An excellent overview of the major
Brigham (Vassar College) explore the war’s impact on issues and events of the war while pay-
Vietnamese women and urban culture. Melvin Small ing great attention to both American
(Wayne State University) recounts the domestic ten- and Vietnamese perspectives. Written
sions created by America’s involvement in Vietnam, and by some of the most outstanding schol-
Kenton Clymer (Northern Illinois University) follows the ars of the conflict.”—Joseph G. Morgan,
spread of the war to Laos and Cambodia. Concluding es- Iona College
says by Robert Schulzinger (University of Colorado) and
George Herring (University of Kentucky) trace the legacy
of the war and diagnose the symptoms of the “Vietnam
Syndrome” evident in later U.S. foreign policy debates.

Dav i d L . A n d e r s o n is professor of history at California State


University, Monterey Bay, and past president of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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The Invention of International The Primacy of the Political
P o l i t i c s / C u r r e n t A f fa i r s

Relations Theory An Introduction to the History of


Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Political Thought
Conference on Theory Dick Howard
Edited by Nicolas Guilhot
The conflict between politics and antipolitics
“Indispensable. While this volume will be widely
has replayed itself throughout Western his-
read, cited, and assigned within the discipline,
tory and philosophical thought. Plato’s quest
it will also be important in American and world
for absolute certainty led him to denounce po-
intellectual history and in the critical history
litical democracy, an antipolitical position later
of ideas about world organization and world
challenged by Aristotle. This back-and-forth
politics.”—Samuel Moyn, author of Democracy
exchange came to a head at the time of the
Past and Future
American and French revolutions. Through this
wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard throws
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by new light on a recurring philosophical dilem-
the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a “who’s ma, proving our political problems are not as
who” of scholars and practitioners debating unique as we think.
what would become the foundations of inter-
national relations theory. Assembling his own Howard begins with ancient Greece and the rise
team of experts, all of whom have struggled with and fall of republican politics in Rome. In the
the legacy of this conference, Nicolas Guilhot wake of Rome’s collapse, the conflict between
revisits a seminal event in the discipline and its politics and antipolitics reemerged through
odd rejection of scientific rationalism. the contrasting theories of Saint Augustine
and Saint Thomas. During the Renaissance
Far from being a spontaneous development, and the Reformation, the emergence of the
these essays argue, the emergence of a “realist” modern individual again shifted the terrain.
approach to international politics, later codified Even so, politics vs. antipolitics dominated
at the conference, was deliberately triggered by the period, frustrating even Machiavelli, who
the Rockefeller Foundation. The organization sought to reconceptualize the nature of political
was an early advocate of scholars who opposed thought. Hobbes and Locke, theorists of the so-
the idea of a “science” of politics, pursuing, for cial contract, then reenacted the conflict, which
the sake of disciplinary autonomy, a vision of Rousseau sought (in vain) to overcome. Adam
politics as a pre-rational and existential dimen- Smith and the growth of modern economic lib-
sion of the human condition. The archived eralism, the radicalism of the French revolution,
conversations reproduced here for the first and the conservative reaction of Edmund Burke
time, as well as unpublished papers by Hans subsequently marked the triumph of antipoli-
Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Nitze, tics, and the American Revolution may have of-
speak to this defensive stance. fered the potential groundwork for a renewal of
politics.
N i c o l a s G u i l h o t is senior research associate at the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. D i c k H owa r d is distinguished professor of philosophy at
the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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After Evil Rethinking Islamophobia

P o l i t i c s / C u r r e n t Aff a i r s
A Politics of Human Rights Edited by Salman Sayyid and
Robert Meister Abdulkaroom Vakil

“The rare work of a genuine thinker, one who While the concept of “Islamophobia” has
permits no phenomenon, discourse, event, or gained traction since 9/11, its meaning and im-
category of analysis to be assumed or left plications vary widely among political, religious,
uninterrogated. There is no question about this and intellectual groups. Many disagree over the
book’s brilliance, profundity, intellectual range, kind of experiences that should be viewed as
and originality of argument. It makes most other Islamophobic, and they argue over the labeling
contemporary political theory books pale.” of certain security measures as Islamophobic,
—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley the claim that imprisoning terrorists is an insti-
tutionalization of Islamophobia, and the belief
Contemporary human rights discourse speaks that attacks on Muslims in Western democra-
about past evils, such as the Holocaust or the cies is a manifestation of Islamophobia.
Cold War, in such a way that they are commit-
ted solidly to the past. Termed “transitional” International in scope, Thinking Through
justice, this technique allows future genera- Islamophobia investigates the genesis and
tions to move forward, but the false assumption use of this concept in a variety of contexts.
of closure enables those who are guilty to elude Contributors relate the phenomenon to such
responsibility, and those who seek redress find prejudicial practices as racism and anti-Semi-
themselves denied justice indefinitely. tism yet insist that Islamophobia is more than
a polemical term relating to reactionaries and
This approach to history doesn’t presuppose extremists. Instead, these essays lay out a le-
evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it as- gitimate framework for defining and under-
sumes that the time before justice is the mo- standing Islamophobia free from the debates
ment to put evil in the past. Merging examples that threaten to consume it. They also uniquely
from literature and history, Robert Meister con- engage with the overlooked ways that the rights
fronts the problem of closure and the resolution of Muslims have been challenged in countries
of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the across the world.
empty moral logic of “never again,” or the the-
oretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence Sa l m a n Sayy i d is the director of the Centre of Ethnicity

and counterviolence broken down once evil is and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the
author of A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the
remembered for what it was. Meister calls out
Emergence of Islamism and coeditor of A Postcolonial
such methods for their cruelty and suscepti- People: South Asians in Britain.
bility to exploitation. Specifically, he follows
A b d u l ka r o o m Va k i l is a lecturer in the Department of
“never again” in relation to Auschwitz and its
Portuguese Studies at King’s College, University of London.
evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of
Responsibility to Protect.

R o b e r t M e i s t e r is professor of social and political


thought at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Globalized Arts The Anarchic Sea
P o l i t i c s / C u r r e n t Aff a i r s

The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century
Identity Dave Sloggett
J. P. Singh
Recently the sea has become the locus of in-
“A subtle and well-honed sense of the benefits ternational terrorism and transnational crime,
of cultural globalization while remaining sensi- with the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and
tive to potential drawbacks. I found wisdom on people monopolizing the resources of govern-
every page.”—Tyler Cowen, author of Creative ments and agencies. These threats have united
Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the otherwise disparate countries in the fight to
World’s Culture secure the ocean’s trade and traffic. Yet the ef-
fort to control maritime activity can also give
Our interactive world can take a cultural prod- rise to great tension and conflict, as in the fight
uct, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, over Spratley and Paracel Islands in the South
or Latin American telenovela, and transform it China Sea and the Lomonosov Ridge in the
into a source of cultural anxiety. Film, music, Arctic Ocean. The dwindling of natural resourc-
television, and the performing arts enter the es might also force the world’s navies to battle
same networks of exchange as other industries, over economically vital sea lanes—the growth
and the anxiety they produce informs a fascinat- of such forces across the world being one sign
ing area of study not only for art and culture but of imminent conflict. The development of
also for global politics. military capacity always increases the possibil-
ity of abuse. The Anarchic Sea maps the terrain
Focusing on the confrontation between global
of modern maritime security through seven
politics and symbolic creative expression, J. P.
dimensions, concluding with suggestions for
Singh shows how, by integrating themselves
integrating individual components into a cohe-
into international markets, entertainment in-
sive, more efficient protective network.
dustries give rise to far-reaching cultural anxiet-
ies. With examples from Hollywood, Bollywood,
“A most timely, comprehensive, and relevant
French grand opera, Latin American television,
study of the challenges and considerations sur-
West African music, postcolonial literature, and
rounding maritime security.”—Sym Taylor, former
even the Thai sex trade, Singh cites both the at-
commander, Royal Navy
tempt to address cultural discomfort and the ef-
fort to deny entertainment acts as cultural. He Dav e S lo g g e t t is a senior associate analyst working
connects creative expression to clashes between with Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service and holds visit-
national identities, and he details the effect of ing research posts at the Centre for Defence Studies, Kings
College London, York University, and the United Kingdom
cultural policies, such as institutional patron-
Defence Academy. He is also a visiting lecturer at the NATO
age and economic incentives, on the making
School in Oberammergau and has nearly forty years of ex-
and incorporation of art into the global market. perience in the field of intelligence and international secu-
Ultimately, Singh shows how these issues im- rity.
pact debates on cultural trade.

J . P. S i n g h is associate professor of communication, cul-


ture, and technology at Georgetown University.

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After Pluralism Religion, the Enlightenment, and the

religion
Reimagining Religious Engagement New Global Order
Edited by Courtney Bender and Edited by John M. Owen and
Pamela E. Klassen J. Judd Owen

“The first volume to bring together scholars from Largely because of the cultural and political
a variety of fields whose work critically examines shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies
the genealogy of secularism and its relationship emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced
to pluralism, the potentially negative implications a more religiously moderate path. In nine origi-
and underlying assumptions of tolerance, and nal essays, leading scholars ask whether the
the naturalized hegemony of the law vis-à-vis Enlightenment can quell today's tensions be-
religion in liberal democracies. Probably the most tween politically active religions. Contributors
ambitious and influential effort to map out reli- begin with the Enlightenment’s restructuring of
gious pluralism in the United States.”—Nathaniel the West, examining its past and future encoun-
Deutsch, University of California, Santa Cruz ters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. While strongly
While acknowledging the importance of diversi- attuned to the difficulties of implementing the
ty, the contributors to this volume instead treat principles of the Enlightenment worldwide,
religious pluralism as historically and ideologi- these scholars ultimately believe its elements
cally produced, its doctrine having embedded have a necessary place within the new global
itself within a range of political, civic, and cul- order. Their approach treats conflict as a means
tural institutions. Working comparatively across to cooperation and sees religious commitment
nations and disciplines, these essays explore as a bolster, instead of a detriment, to political
pluralism as a “term of art” that determines civility. Ultimately, they collapse both the claim
the norms of identity and the parameters of ex- that the West’s experience offers a ready-made
change, encounter, and conflict. They question template for the world to follow and the belief
the assumptions and power relations underly- that the West’s achievements are to be ignored,
ing pluralism’s discourse and its influence on despised, or discarded.
the legal decisions that have shaped modern re-
ligious practice. Having established the geneal- C o n t r i b u t o r s : Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of

ogy and effects of pluralism, contributors then Chicago); William A. Galston (University of Maryland);

generate a new set of questions for engaging Sohail H. Hashmi (Mount Holyoke); David Novak
(University of Toronto); Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Center
the collective worlds and multiple registers in
for Policy Research, New Delhi); John M. Owen; J. Judd
which religion operates. Owen; Thomas L. Pangle (University of Texas at Austin);
Roberto Papini (LUMSA University); Abdulaziz Sachedina
C o u r t n e y B e n d e r is associate professor of reli-
(University of Virginia); John Witte Jr. (Emory University)
gion at Columbia University and the author of The New
Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious
J o h n M . Ow e n is associate professor of politics and fac-
Imagination.
ulty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Pa m e l a E . K l a s s e n is associate professor of religion at the University of Virginia.

at the University of Toronto and the author of Healing


J . J u d d Ow e n is associate professor of political science
Christians: Liberal Protestants and the Pathologies of
and a senior fellow at the center for the Study of Law and
Modernity.
Religion at Emory University.

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Religion Religion

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The Other Cold War The Curse of Berlin
history

Heonik Kwon Africa and the World After the Cold War
Adekeye Adebajo
"This book is a history, not of the end of the Cold
War, but of the process of its ending, both locally At the 1884–1885 Conference of Berlin, a collec-
and globally. It is a rich and compelling account tion of states, mostly European, established the
of that complex period."—Marilyn B. Young, New partition of Africa. The “Curse,” as the confer-
York University ence has come to be called, is the grounding
theme of Adekeye Adebajo’s trenchant study,
In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon though his guiding focus is the development of
uses anthropology to interrogate the Cold War’s Africa in the years after the Cold War.
cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a
truly panoramic view of local politics and in- Adebajo opens with Africa’s quest for security,
ternational events, he challenges the notion featuring essays on the continent’s political
that the Cold War was a global struggle fought institutions, such as the African Union and
uniformly around the world and that the end of subregional bodies. He follows with chapters
the war marked a radical, universal rupture in on the United Nations and its operations in
modern history. Africa, particularly its political, peacekeeping,
and socioeconomic missions. Adebajo includes
Incorporating comparative ethnographic study two rare profiles of the secretary generals who
into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon worked with the UN from 1992 to 2006: Egypt’s
upends cherished ideas about the global and Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Ghana’s Kofi Annan.
their hold on contemporary social science. His Africa’s pursuit of representative leadership
narrative describes the slow decomposition of informs the next section, with essays examin-
a complex social and political order involving ing the hegemonic influence of South Africa,
a number of local and culturally creative pro- Nigeria, China, France, and the United States.
cesses. While the nations of Europe and North Concluding chapters discuss Africa’s search
America experienced the Cold War as a time for unity, exploring the direct and indirect im-
of “long peace,” postcolonial nations entered a pact of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Kwame
different reality altogether, characterized by vi- Nkrumah, Cecil Rhodes, Barack Obama, and
cious civil wars and other exceptional forms of Mahatma Gandhi.
violence. Arguing that these events should be
integrated into any account of the era, Kwon “Adekeye Adebajo is one of the brightest of his
captures the first sociocultural portrait of the generation of Africanists, and this book not only
Cold War in all its subtlety and diversity. displays his deep knowledge of the continent
but also his considerable flair and enthusiasm.
H e o n i k Kwo n is reader in anthropology at the London
A must read for all scholars working on African
School of Economics and author of Ghosts of War in
international relations.”—James Mayall, University
Vietnam and After the Massacre: Commemoration and
of Cambridge
Consolation in Ha My and My Lai.

A d e k e y e A d e b a j o is executive director of the Centre for


Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.

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German Colonialism Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits, and

history
Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany Empires
Edited by Volker Langbehn and Private Violence in Historical Context
Mohammad Salama Edited by Alejandro Colás and
Bryan Mabee
More than half a century before the mass execu-
tions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the “Well conceived and consistent with the growing
peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonial- literature on international relations’ alternative
ism might seem marginal to German history, expressions and forms.”—Michael Innes, Leeds
controversial new scholarship compares the University
acts of this period with Nazi practices on the
Eastern and Western fronts. Incidents of private violence were once dis-
missed as relics of a less evolved world, but the
Drawing on the most recent research con- international activities of terrorists, insurgents,
cerning the “continuity thesis,” the chapters private military companies, and pirates have
in this collection debate connections between brought the phenomenon back to global promi-
German colonialist activities and the behavior nence. Interpreting these acts through their
of Germany during World War II. Some argue individual historical contexts, this collection
that the country’s domination of southwestern traces the development of private violence and
Africa gave rise to perceptions of racial differ- conducts a comparative analysis of its growth
ence and superiority at home, contributing across different geographical planes. Nine
to a nascent nationalism that blossomed into comprehensive chapters recount the making
National Socialism and the Holocaust, while of pirates, privateers, mercenaries, warlords,
others remain skeptical about the connection. bandits, and smugglers—groups of men (and,
Contributors merge Germany’s colonial past occasionally, women) who commit violence
with debates over the country’s identity and his- outside or on the borders of state authority.
tory and compare its colonial crimes with other Contributors sample from political anthropol-
European ventures. Issues discussed range ogy and economy, historical sociology, and in-
from the denial or marginalization of German ternational relations, underscoring the way in
genocide to the place of colonialism and the which private violence both threatens existing
Holocaust within German-Israel postwar rela- social orders and empowers established politi-
tions. Authors also compare the legacy of geno- cal authorities. They denaturalize the idea that
cide in both Europe and Africa. national states are the true, dominant actors in
the global sphere, examining the contradictory
Vo lker L angbehn teaches German in the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State
yet complex interactions among nonstate vio-
University. lence, authority, and political mobilization.

Mo hammad Sa lama teaches Arabic in the Department of


A l e ja n d r o Co l ás is senior lecturer in international rela-
Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State
tions at Birkbeck College, University of London.
University.
B rya n M a b e e is senior lecturer in international politics at
Queen Mary, University of London.

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Policing Economic Crime in Russia Reds at the Blackboard
history

From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues Teachers Union
Translated by Roger Leverdier Clarence Taylor

“A valuable contribution to the existing litera- The New York City Teachers Union shares a
ture on crime, policing, and economic reform in deep history with the American left. Established
late-Soviet/post-Soviet Russia.”—Brian Taylor, in 1916, the union maintained an early, unoffi-
Syracuse University cial partnership with the American Communist
Party, staffing key positions with members
From Brezhnev to Yeltsin, Gilles Favarel- sympathetic to party goals. Clarence Taylor re-
Garrigues explores the management of eco- counts this pivotal relationship and its backlash,
nomic crime in Russia, recasting the history as the union threw its support behind contro-
of the “criminal problem” that has tainted versial policies and rights movements. Taylor’s
Russian politics since the late 1980s. In the research reaffirms the party’s close ties with the
closing decades of the Soviet regime, short- union yet, at the same time, makes clear that
ages of goods and services precipitated a rapid the organization was anything but a puppet of
increase in black market and underground communist power.
practices, visible to all yet wholly illegal. Favarel-
Garrigues explains why certain cases were Reds at the Blackboard showcases the rise of a
selected for prosecution and why particular unique type of unionism that would later domi-
funds and manpower were deployed to combat nate the organizational efforts to promote civil
“economic crime.” Law enforcement agencies rights, academic freedom, and the empower-
were also charged with stemming the fallout ment of blacks and Latinos. Through its affili-
from Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberal economic ation with the Communist Party, the union
reforms. Russia’s judicial framework proved pioneered social-movement unionism, solidi-
too obsolete to deal with far-reaching economic fying ties with labor groups, black and Latino
change, tempting many in law enforcement to parents, and civil rights organizations. During
privatize their professional know-how. Drawing this period, the union established a model
on firsthand research with both criminals and parent-teacher partnership that has yet to be
policemen, Favarel-Garrigues scrupulously duplicated. It also militantly fought to improve
investigates the changing face of criminal law working conditions for teachers while cham-
and its practice before and after the fall of the pioning broader social concerns. Taylor also
Soviet state. recounts how anti-Semitism and McCarthyism
affected the union.
G i l l e s Fava r e l- G a r r i g u e s is a CNRS researcher at
CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, specializing in Russian law en- C l a r e n c e Tay lo r is professor of history and black and
forcement and the global drive to stop transnational crime. Hispanic studies at Baruch College and professor of his-
He serves on the editorial board of Critique Internationale, tory at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Cultures and Conflicts, and International Political Sociology, His books include The Black Churches of Brooklyn and
and is the coauthor of Crime and States. Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the
Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools.

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The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Clio Wired

history
Twentieth Century The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Roy Rosenzweig
Empire Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Steven Bryan
In these visionary essays, Roy Rosenzweig, pio-
“An impressive and original work. Bryan synthe- neering historian and self-proclaimed “techno-
sizes an enormous amount of reading on mon- realist,” weighs the effect of new media, digital
etary and economic history and uses it to create technology, and the Internet on recording, re-
an interesting and attractive frame for his own searching, and teaching history. Brokering a
research. I have rarely seen the much praised compromise between the “cyber-enthusiasts”
ideal of transnational history so fully achieved.” who champion technological breakthroughs
—Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin and the “digital-skeptics” who fear the end
of humanistic scholarship, Roy Rosenzweig
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world shows, in concrete and theoretical terms, how
was ready to adopt the gold standard out of technology has not only democratized the disci-
fealty concerns of national power, prestige, and pline but also reaffirmed the place of the histo-
anti-British competition. Although the gold rian in the making of history.
standard allowed countries to enact a virtual
single world currency, the years before World Rosenzweig evaluates the tools now available
War I were not a time of unfettered liberal eco- to researchers and their implications for the
nomics and one-world, one-market harmony. historical record. Sources are more accessible
Outside of Europe, the gold standard became than ever; anyone can store and display huge
a tool for nationalists and protectionists inter- amounts of data; hypertext encourages innova-
ested in growing domestic industry and impe- tive methods of reading and interpretation—
rial expansion. these changes have galvanized amateur energy
for history, but they have yet to eclipse the vital
This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed role of the historian. Gatekeepers of quality and
in Steven Bryan’s well-documented history, truth, professional historians are more neces-
contradicts our conception of the gold standard sary than ever and must actively maintain the
as a British-based system infused with English integrity of their work. Rosenzweig helps histo-
ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries rians navigate the radical transformation of to-
like Japan and Argentina, the gold standard ex- day’s archive and the possibilities and pitfalls of
panded trade and furthered the goals of the age: reframing the past in unprecedented ways. He
industry and empire. Bryan argues that these recommends active engagement with new tech-
countries looked more to North America and nologies so audiences remain engaged, rather
the rest of Europe for ideological models. Not than alienated, by the work historians produce.
only does this history challenge our idealistic
notions of the prewar period, it also reorients R oy R o s e n z w e i g (1950–2007) was professor of history
and director of the Center for History and New Media at
our understanding of what followed.
George Mason University. He is the author of The Presence
of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life and
St even Bryan is an attorney in Tokyo. His next project is a
coauthor of Who Built America?.
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The Promises of Liberty Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922
history

The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Victoria Solomonidis


Thirteenth Amendment
Edited by Alexander Tsesis “An in-depth chronicle and analysis of the events
leading up to the Asia Minor Disaster, providing
In these original essays, America’s leading a unique account of the Greek administration
historians and legal scholars reassess the rati- in Smyrna, accompanied by rich and illuminat-
fication of the Thirteenth Amendment and its ing detail.”—Steven Morewood, University of
contemporary relevance to issues of liberty, jus- Birmingham
tice, and equality. The Thirteenth Amendment
abolished slavery in the United States, reassert- In 1919, at the behest of the First World War
ing the radical, egalitarian dimensions of the allies, Greece entered Smyrna and the Vilayet
Constitution. It laid the foundation for future of Aidin, occupying their territories until the
civil rights and social justice legislation, yet sub- finalization of the Ottoman peace treaty. Their
sequent reinterpretation and misappropriation stated mission was to protect Greek and other
has curbed more substantive change. With con- Christian communities from Turkish national-
stitutional jurisprudence undergoing a revival, ists, but the underlying motive was a ruthless
The Promises of Liberty provides a full historical pursuit of the age-old “Great Idea,” which aimed
portrait of the Thirteenth Amendment and its to absorb unredeemed Hellenes into the Greek
untapped potential for ensuring common liber- kingdom. Despite a bungled military landing
ties. and other challenges, High Commissioner
Aristidis Stergiadis heroically governed over
The collection begins with Pulitzer Prize– this disparate population, adhering to a doc-
winning historian David Brion Davis (Yale), trine of peaceful coexistence. The odds, how-
and the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment ever, were overwhelmingly against him, and in
to achieve its framers’ objectives. Davis is fol- September of 1922, Turkish nationalists gutted
lowed by James M. McPherson (Princeton), an- the Greek army and expelled Hellenism from
other Pulitzer recipient, relates abolitionists to Asia Minor. Victoria Solomonidis reclaims the
the ratification process. Subsequent essays ad- pioneering work of the Greek administration of
dress Lincoln’s commitment to ending slavery Smyrna, which contended with postwar allied
and the Thirteenth Amendment’s surprisingly relations, major foreign financial interests, the
small role during and after Reconstruction. The plight of Christian minorities in Turkey, the
anthology’s third Pulitzer Prize winner, David inexorable rise of Turkish nationalism, fraught
M. Oshinsky (University of Texas, New York domestic politics, and uneven developments
University), explains how peonage undermined in both military and diplomatic negotiations.
the prohibition against compulsory service. Solomonidis reassesses the work and reputa-
Other essays relate the amendment to contem- tion of Stergiadis, a reluctant yet dedicated pub-
porary issues in organized labor, reproductive lic servant, and challenges the view that he was
rights, and citizenship. responsible for the Smyrna catastrophe.

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School of Law. University of London.

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Serious Play Audience Evolution

L i t e r a r y St u d i e s / M e d i a St u d i e s
Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, New Technologies and the Transformation of
Chaucer, and Ariosto Media Audiences
Robert W. Hanning Philip M. Napoli

“Hanning’s inspired lectures have brought the lit- Today’s consumers access media content
erature of the middle ages to life for generations through a number of unprecedented and in-
of students. Serious Play draws on decades of creasingly prevalent platforms, and the develop-
scholarship to show us why three of the world’s ment and overlap of television, the Internet, and
great comic poets continue to be so exciting and other outlets have fragmented media audiences,
engaging. If you haven’t had the good fortune to making the effort to reach them more complex.
study Chaucer under Hanning, reading this book Building on his award-winning book, Audience
goes a long way in making up for the loss.” Economics, Philip M. Napoli maps our current
—Aravind Adiga, Booker Prize-winning author of media landscape and its challenge to traditional
The White Tiger conceptions of the audience. He also considers
changes to audience measurement, both politi-
Through an imaginative analysis of Ovid’s ama- cally and culturally.
tory poetry, Chaucer’s dream poems and ex-
cerpts from the Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto’s Napoli examines the ongoing redefinition of
epic Orlando Furioso, Robert W. Hanning iden- the industry-audience relationship by technolo-
tifies the comic mastery that turns these poets’ gies that have moved the audience marketplace
trenchant critique into such enlightening and beyond traditional metrics. Today, media pro-
disturbing fantasy. This technique, termed serio viders and audience measurement firms de-
ludere, or serious play, is especially compel- ploy new, more sophisticated tools to gather
ling when studied through these writers and audience information, focusing on factors
their powerful audiences. Ovid, Chaucer, and rarely considered before, such as appreciation,
Ariosto lived in exciting times (Augustan Rome, recall, engagement, and behavior. In doing so,
late-medieval London, and late-Renaissance the industry has tried to take advantage of new
Italy, respectively), and their unique position as platforms as thoroughly as the consumers they
outsider-insiders afforded them rare freedoms. hope to attract. Napoli traces the interplay be-
Their work also rebelled against the “authority” tween political and economic interests and their
of poetic influence, remaking literary conven- effect on audience evolution. He recounts bat-
tion while challenging political power. tles between stakeholders over the assessment
of media audiences and their efforts to restrict
“A glittering, brilliant romp.”—Sarah Spence,
the functionality of new technologies, as well as
University of Georgia
their push to influence new measurements for
“Will be required reading for graduate students television, radio, and the Internet.
of later medieval and early-modern literature,
and I will recommend it enthusiastically to my Ph i l i p M. N a p o l i is a professor in the Graduate School of
Business at Fordham University and director of the Donald
undergraduates.”—John M. Fyler, Tufts University
McGannon Communication Research Center.

R o b e r t W. H a n n i n g taught medieval and Renaissance


literature at Columbia University for forty-five years.

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Harmony and War Behind the Gate
A s i a n St u d i e s

Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics Inventing Students in Beijing


Yuan-kang Wang Fabio Lanza

“Wang Yuan-kang offers a powerful test of stra- “Explodes the boundaries of our understanding of
tegic culture versus structural realism in the the critical intellectual revolution that we refer to
contexts of Song and Ming China, meticulously as the ‘May Fourth Movement.’ ”—Madeleine Zelin,
weaving together international relations theories Columbia University
and Chinese history. The result is a must read
for any student of international relations and On Sunday, May 4, 1919, thousands of students
Chinese foreign policy.”—Victoria Tin-bor Hui, protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy
University of Notre Dame years later, another generation demonstrated in
Tiananmen Square; standing against a relief of
Confucianism has shaped a certain perception their predecessors and therefore merging with
of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by their own mythology while consciously deploy-
the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many ing their activism. Through an investigation
believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to of twentieth-century Chinese student protest,
use force against its enemies. In a pathbreak- Fabio Lanza considers the marriage of the cul-
ing study that travels seven hundred years of tural and the political, the intellectual and the
Chinese history, Yuan-kang Wang resoundingly quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth
discredits this notion, recasting China as a prac- movement, along with its rearticulation in sub-
titioner of realpolitik and a ruthless purveyor sequent protest. Lanza revisits reform in peda-
of expansive grand strategies. Leaders of the gogical and learning routines, changes in daily
Song Dynasty (960–1279) and Ming Dynasty campus life, the fluid relationship between the
(1368–1644) prized military force and shrewdly city and its residents, and the actions of alleg-
assessed the strength of China’s adversaries. edly cultural student organizations. Through a
They adopted defensive strategies only when careful analysis of everyday life and urban space,
their country was weak and pursued expansive he radically reconceptualizes the emergence of
goals, such as territorial acquisition, enemy de- “worker,” “activist,” and “student” and how they
struction, and total military victory, when their anchored and informed political action. He ac-
country was strong. Despite the dominance of counts for the elements that drew students to
an antimilitarist Confucian culture, warfare Tiananmen and the formation of the student as
was not uncommon. Grounding his research an enduring political subjectivity.
in primary sources, Wang outlines a politics of
“Well crafted and thought provoking. The most
power that is crucial to China’s strategies today,
sophisticated attempt by a historian to rein-
especially its policy of “peaceful development,”
terpret an episode that has always occupied a
which it has adopted only because of military,
central place in the historiography—and in the
economic, and technological weakness in rela-
imagination—of modern China.”—Michael Tsin,
tion to the United States.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Department of Sociology and the School of Public Affairs University of Arizona, Tucson.
and Administration at Western Michigan University.

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Haiku Before Haiku

A s i a n St u d i e s
From the Renga Masters to Bashō
Translated and with an introduction by Haiku
Steven D. Carter From the Renga Master s

While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evoca-


Before
to Basho-
tive haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century
Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, the form had already flour-
ished for five hundred years before Bashō even began to
Haiku
write. Hokku is similar in syllable count and structure to
haiku, though it functions differently as a genre. Whereas
haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning,
hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a
sequence called renga.

Under the mastery of Bashō, hokku first gained its mod- Translated by
Steven D. Carter
ern independence. His talents evolved the style into the
haiku beloved by so many poets today—Richard Wright,
Jack Kerouac, and Billy Collins being notable devotees.
This anthology reproduces 300 hokku poems composed
Not forgetting
between the thirteenth and early eighteenth centuries,
the crimson of spring—
from the work of the courtier Nijô Yoshimoto to the
plum leaves.
genre’s first “professional” master, Sōgi, and his subse-
quent disciples. It also features twenty masterpieces by
—Gusai,
Bashō himself. Stephen Carter, a renowned scholar of
Buddhist monk and renga master
Japanese poetry and prominent translator, includes an in-
who tutored
troduction covering the history of haiku and the form’s
Nijō Yoshimoto; co-compiler of the
aesthetics and classifies these poems according to style
first imperial
and context—renga, Haikai renga, and renga from the Edo
collection of linked-verse,
period, for example. His rich commentary and analysis
Tsukuba Collection
illuminates each work, and he adds their romanized ver-
sions and notes on composition and setting, as well as de-
Snow on pines,
scriptions of the poets and the times in which they wrote.
Green leaves on cherry limbs
St e v e n D. C a r t e r is Yamato Ichihashi Chair in Japanese History and —after storm winds.
Civilization in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at
Stanford University. His numerous books include Just Living: Poems by —Sōa
the Medieval Monk Tonna and Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen
Renga master and priest at Konrenji,
Monk Shotetsu.
a temple of the
Time sect located on Fourth Avenue
in Kyoto

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Workers, Globalization, and Crisis Unifying Hinduism
A s i a n St u d i e s

Contributions from India to a Global Agenda Philosophy and Identity in Indian


for Labor Intellectual History
Rohini Hensman Andrew J. Nicholson

“Hensman is careful to avoid the kind of blanket “This book does much more than deal with the
condemnation of globalization that appears in so philosophy of Vijanabhiksu. It questions in an
much critical literature, and part of her originality intelligent and constructive manner the way
is showing very clearly that the problems of the Indian philosophy has been studied in modern
labor movement in India are not the result of glo- scholarship—and what has been done wrong.”
balization but have a much longer history.” —Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne,
—John Harriss, Simon Fraser University Switzerland

While it’s easy to blame globalization for shrink- Andrew J. Nicholson argues that although the
ing job opportunities, dangerous declines in idea of a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient
labor standards, and a host of related discon- as many Hindus claim, it has its roots in the in-
tents, the world’s “flattening” has also created novations of South Asian philosophy from the
unprecedented opportunities for worker orga- fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Thinkers
nization. Using India’s labor movement as a treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya,
richly representative model, Rohini Hensman and Yoga and the deities Visnu, Siva, and Sakti
charts the successes and failures, strengths and as all belonging to a single system of belief
weaknesses, of the struggle for workers’ rights. and practice—rivers leading into the ocean of
As Indian products gain wider acceptance in Brahman, the ultimate reality.
global markets, disparities in pay, employment
conditions, and union rights between regions Drawing on the work of philosophers from
such as the European Union and countries late-medieval Vedanta traditions, including
such as India are exposed, raising the issue Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana
of globalization’s implications for labor. This Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how thinkers por-
study examines the unique pattern of “employ- trayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate uni-
ees’ unionism” that emerged in Bombay in the fier of diverse belief systems. This late-medieval
1950s before considering union responses to re- project paved the way for later visionaries, such
cent developments, especially the drive to form as Vivekenanda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi,
a national federation of independent unions. A whose teachings promoted the idea that all
key issue is how far unions can resist protec- world religions belonged to a single spiritual
tionist impulses and press for stronger global unity. Nicholson revisits monism and dualism,
standards, along with the mechanisms to en- theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and hetero-
force them. doxy, and he critiques such formulas as “the six
orthodox systems” that have worked their way
R o h i n i H e n s m a n is a writer and independent schol- into modern thinking about Indian philosophy.
ar based in Bombay and the coauthor of Beyond
Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining An d r e w J. N ic h o l s o n is assistant professor of Hinduism
Relationships in International Companies. and Indian intellectual history at Stony Brook University.

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Buddhist Philosophy of Language in Śakuntalā

A s i a n St u d i e s
India Texts, Readings, Histories
Jñānaśrīmitra on Exclusion Romila Thapar
Lawrence J. McCrea and
“Through a timeless character of legend and liter-
Parimal G. Patil
ature, we are allowed a ringside view of our most
fascinating cultural—and gendered—history.”
“A readable, elegant translation and introduction
—India Today
to a central work in a neglected area of Buddhist
philosophy.”—Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton
The figure of Śakuntalā appears in many forms
University
throughout South Asian literature, most fa-
mously in the Mahābhārata and in Kālidāsa’s
Jñānaśrīmitra (975–1025) was regarded by both
fourth-century Sanskrit play, Śakuntalā and the
Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most im-
Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Śakuntalā
portant Indian philosopher of his generation.
undergoes a critical transformation, relinquish-
His theory of exclusion combined a philosophy
ing her assertiveness and autonomy to become
of language with a theory of conceptual content,
the quintessentially submissive woman, reveal-
or, in simpler terms, an investigation into the
ing much about the performance of Hindu
nature of our words and thoughts. His theory
femininity that came to dominate South Asian
informed nearly all the work accomplished
culture. Through a careful analysis of sections
at Vikramaśīla, a monastic and educational
from Śakuntalā and their various iterations in
complex instrumental to the development of
different contexts, Romila Thapar explores the
Buddhism. His ideas were also vividly debated
interaction between literature and history, cul-
by the Hindu and Jain philosophers who suc-
ture and gender, that frame the development of
ceeded him.
this canonical figure and a distinct conception
This volume marks the first English translation of female identity.
of Jñānaśrīmitra’s Monograph on Exclusion, a “Thapar shows how it is possible to express
careful, critical exploration of language, percep- complex ideas, rooted in philosophy and herme-
tion, and conceptual awareness. Featuring the neutics, without recourse to jargon. This book is
rival arguments of Buddhist, Hindu, and other a frontrunner for the prize of the best book on
thinkers, the Monograph reflects more than Indian history.”—The Telegraph
half a millennium of hotly contested debate.
“As fascinating as Śakuntalā’s journey is Thapar’s
Lawrence J. McCrea and Parimal G. Patil famil-
retelling of it and her careful assumption of the
iarize the reader with the authors, themes, and
role of a literary detective.”—The Hindu
topics in the text and situate Jñānaśrīmitra’s
findings within his larger intellectual milieu. “Thapar’s wide-ranging essays and monographs
make a strong case for the urgency to historicize
L aw r e n c e J . M cC r e a is assistant professor of Sanskrit
traditions and highlight the changing meanings
Studies at Cornell University.
of texts and oral cultures.”—Hindustan Times
Pa r i m a l G . Pat i l is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of
the Humanities at Harvard University. R o m i l a T h a pa r specializes in early Indian history and is
professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi.

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Queer Beauty
philosophy

Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and


Beyond
Sexuality
Whitney Davis
and Aesthetics
from Winckelmann
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717–1768)
to Freud identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in
and Beyond classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured
in Western art since the Greeks. After Winckelmann,

Queer Beauty however, sometimes the value (even the possibility) of


queer beauty in art was denied. Several theorists after
Winckelmann, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant,
broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into
Whitney Davis
separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and
aesthetic pleasure conceived as discrete categories had to
be profoundly rethought by later writers.

Davis argues that these disjunct domains could be re-


joined by such innovative thinkers as John Addington
Symonds, Michel Foucault, and Richard Wollheim, who
"Whitney Davis is a wonderful art histo- reclaimed earlier insights about the mutual implication
rian with a supple mind, a feel for the of sexuality and aesthetics. Addressing texts by Arthur
broader humanities, and deep interests Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Vernon
in philosophy, aesthetics, and psycho- Lee, and Sigmund Freud, among many others, Davis
analysis. He is also a scholar with a criticizes modern approaches, such as Kantian idealism,
profound knowledge of the history of Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and analytic aesthetics, for
queer theory and gay life. These quali- either reducing aesthetics to a question of sexuality or
ties and interests make him the ideal— for removing sexuality from the aesthetic field altogether.
perhaps uniquely ideal—person to write Despite these schematic reductions, sexuality always re-
this book."—Daniel Herwitz, turns to aesthetics, and aesthetic considerations always
University of Michigan recur in sexuality. Davis particularly shows that formal
philosophies of art since the late eighteenth century have
had to respond to nonstandard sexuality, especially homo-
eroticism, and that theories of nonstandard sexuality have
drawn on aesthetics in significant ways.

Wh i t n e y Davi s is professor of history and theory of ancient and mod-


ern art at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of A
General Theory of Visual Culture and five other books on prehistoric,
ancient, and modern arts and art theory, as well as on the history and
theory of sexuality.

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Co lu m bia The me s in P hilosophy,

S o cial Cri t icis m , and th e Arts

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Dialectical Passions Animal Ethics in Context

philosophy
Negation in Postwar Art Theory Clare Palmer
Gail Day
It’s widely agreed that because animals feel pain
“A significant contribution to art theory and cul- we should not make them suffer gratuitously.
tural theory in the wake of the crisis of postmod- Some ethical theories go even further: because
ernism and the current melancholic attachment of the capacities animals possess, they have
to the ‘lost object’ of modernist art and its incipi- a right not to be harmed or killed. Such views
ent nihilism. Day reinvigorates the debate on dia- concern what not to do to animals, but we also
lectics and negation in order to clarify how much face the question of what we should do to assist
of this theory relies on a misunderstanding of the the ones that may be hungry or distressed. And
commodity-form of art under capitalism”—John if we do, say, feed a starving kitten, does this
Roberts, author of The Intangibilities of Form: commit us to feeding wild animals suffering
Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade through a hard winter?

Gail Day launches a bold critique of late-twen- In this controversial book, Clare Palmer claims
tieth-century art theory and its often reductive that, with respect to assisting animals, what’s
analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core de- owed to one animal is not necessarily owed to
bates in discourses on art, from the New Left all, even if they share similar capacities. Context
to theories of “critical postmodernism” and and relation are crucial ethical factors. If ani-
beyond, Day counters the belief that recent ten- mals live independently in the wild, their fate
dencies in art fail to be adequately critical and is none of our moral business, but if humans
challenges the political inertia that results from create dependent animals, or destroy animals’
these conclusions. Day organizes her defense habitats, we may have special obligations to
around critics who have engaged substantively assist. Such arguments are familiar in human
with emancipatory thought and social process: cases—parents have special obligations to their
T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, children, for example, or some groups owe rep-
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, arations to others they have harmed. Palmer de-
among others. She maps the tension between velops such relational concerns in the context of
radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses wild animals, domesticated animals, and urban
the interpretation and internalization of nega- scavengers, arguing that different contexts cre-
tion in art theory. Chapters confront the claim ate very different moral relationships.
that exchange and equivalence have subsumed
the use value of cultural objects—and with it “An intensively researched, carefully structured
critical distance; the meaning of symbol and al- intervention in ongoing debates about animals
legory in 1980s art and its limited reading of the and ethics by a scholar with an impressive grasp
writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man; of the literature.”—Alice Crary, The New School
and common conceptions of mediation, totality,
and the politics of anticipation. C l a r e Pa l m e r is associate professor of philosophy and
environmental studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ga il Day is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History She is the author of Environmental Ethics and Process

of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Thinking and editor of Animal Rights.

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Parable and Politics in Early Islamic The Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia
M i d d l e E a s t St u d i e s

History From Indifference to Interdependence


The Rashidun Caliphs Christopher Davidson
Tayeb El-Hibri
A perfect storm of economic, diplomatic, and
“Tayeb El-Hibri does for the Rashidun period what
cultural concerns have brought about the
he did with the early Abbasid period. His basic
“Asianization” of Asia, uniting the continent’s
argument, that eighth-century Islamic accounts
many countries under a dominant framework
of the Rashidun period reflect Abbasid-period
of interests and trends. Pushing Asia’s domain
concerns of political and religious legitimacy, is
even further is a new and abiding relationship
clear to anyone who has read the sources care-
between Asia’s three most industrialized econ-
fully. I find his assessment quite provocative and
omies and the Persian Gulf’s six monarchies.
convincing.”—James E. Lindsay, Colorado State
What began as a basic, twentieth-century mar-
University
riage of convenience, founded on the trading of
hydrocarbon, has now evolved into a complex,
The story of the succession to the Prophet long-term commitment guaranteeing continu-
Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun ous exchange of resources and need.
Caliphate (632–661 AD) has been familiar to
historians from the political histories of medi- Christopher Davidson, an acclaimed expert on
eval Islam and the competing perspectives of the Middle East’s rapidly changing economy,
Sunni and Shi‘i Islam. While descriptive and details the eastern and western factors that
varied, these approaches have long excluded a have brought Asia and the Gulf closer together.
third reading in which the conflict over the suc- Athough this relationship has yet to include mil-
cession to the Prophet is treated as a parable, itary arrangements, evidence suggests that the
the motives, sayings, and actions of the pro- two regions have bolstered other noneconomic
tagonists revealing profound links to previous ties. Davidson unravels the confusing links be-
texts and an irony with regard to political and tween these emerging powers and shows how
religious issues. In a controversial break from their unique economic, political, geographi-
previous historiography, Tayeb El-Hibri privi- cal, and cultural identities both strengthen and
leges the literary and artistic triumphs of the threaten their future partnership.
medieval Islamic chronicles and maps the ori-
“A timely overview of the multifaceted, rapidly
gins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy.
developing interrelationships between the GCC
Considering the patterns and themes of unified
states and South Korea, China, and Japan.”
narratives, including the problem of defining
—Kristian Ulrichsen, London School of Economics
qualification according to religious merit, nobil-
ity, and skills in government, El-Hibri offers an
C h r i s to p h e r Dav i d s o n is a fellow of the Institute for
insightful critique of both early and contempo- Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University.
rary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shad- He is the author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success, Abu
owing various rulers. Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, and The United Arab Emirates: A
Study in Survival.
Tay e b E l- H i b r i is associate professor of Near Eastern
studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Beyond the ‘Wild Tribes’ A Metahistory of the Clash of

M i d d l e E a s t St u d i e s
Understanding Modern Afghanistan and Its Civilisations
Diaspora Us and Them Beyond Orientalism
Edited by Ceri Oeppen and Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Angela Schlenkhoff
Beginning with the wars of ancient Persia and
International and nongovernmental organiza- Greece, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam searches for
tions, as well as journalists, are excellent sourc- the theoretical underpinnings of the “clash of
es of information on contemporary Afghanistan. civilizations” that has determined so much of
Unfortunately, their expertise is rarely tapped our political and cultural discourse. He revisits
by those who hope to better understand the the Crusades, colonialism, the Enlightenment,
country’s phenomenal complexity. This volume and our contemporary “war on terror,” and he
draws on these perspectives to build a compre- engages with both eastern and western think-
hensive portrait not only of Afghanistan itself ers, such as Adorno, Derrida, Farabi, Foucault,
but also of its widely dispersed peoples and Hegel, Khayyam, Marcuse, Marx, Said, Ibn
cultures. Contributors cull through a wealth of Sina, and Weber. His investigation explains the
research, effectively collapsing the myths and conceptual genesis of a clash of civilizations
stereotypes perpetuated by nineteenth- and and the influence western and Islamic repre-
twentieth-century European texts. Their essays sentations of the “other.” He highlights the dis-
are so wide-ranging, they address everything continuities between Islamism and the canon
from the causes of the country’s protracted of Islamic philosophy, which distinguishes be-
conflicts to the nature and future of its musi- tween “Avicennian” and “Qutbian” discourses
cal traditions. Anyone interested in an intimate, of Islam, and he reveals how violence became
engaging, and uncommon encounter with an inscribed in ideas of the West, especially dur-
increasingly critical nation will devour this ex- ing the Enlightenment. Expanding critical
pertly-crafted collection. theory to include Islamic philosophy and po-
etry, this metahistory refuses to treat Muslims
“The dedicated scholar-practitioners who contrib-
and Europeans, Americans and Arabs, and the
ute to this book seek to locate the ills and chal-
Orient and the Occident as separate entities.
lenges facing Afghanistan today. The issues they
wrestle with are timeless (in the Afghan context), “Eloquent, powerful, incisive, and impressive, A
and their combined reflections and findings will Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations is a mas-
have an enduring relevance.”—Amalendu Mishra, terly work of critical deconstruction in the finest
Lancaster University tradition of Michel Foucault and Edward Said. For
anyone wishing to better understand the current
C e r i O e p p e n earned her Ph.D. at the Sussex Centre for
state of international politics, this book is abso-
Migration Research, University of Sussex. Her research
concerns migrant transnationalism and integration and mi- lutely essential.”—Richard Jackson, secretary of
grants’ involvement in development. the British International Studies Association

An gela S chlenkhoff earned her Ph.D. at the University


A r s h i n A d i b - M o g h a d da m is lecturer in the politics of
of Kent, focusing on the issues of home and identity as ex-
West Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
perienced by London’s Afghan population.
University of London, and author of Iran in World Politics:
The Question of the Islamic Republic.

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Robert K. Merton Knowledge Matters
sociology

Sociological Theory and the Sociology of Science The Public Mission of the Research University
Edited by Craig Calhoun Edited by Diana Rhoten and
Craig Calhoun
“Calhoun and his colleagues delve into the vast
depths of Robert K. Merton’s relatively unfamiliar “An impressive array of international scholars
writings, including those unpublished, and pres- who, individually and collectively, marshal a wide
ent us with an astonishingly complex and ger- range of evidence around the very large puzzle
mane vision of sociological inquiry.”—Margaret R. of university transformation in the early twenty-
Somers, University of Michigan first century.”
—Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University
Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) was one of the
most influential sociologists of the twentieth Reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin
century. His reach can be felt in the study of America, and North America, scholars confront
social structure, social psychology, deviance, the realities of higher education and the future
professions, organizations, culture, and science. of its public and private agenda. Their perspec-
Yet for all his fame, Merton is only partially un- tive illuminates the trajectory of education in
derstood, treated by scholars as a functional an- the twenty-first century and the continuing
alyst when in truth his contributions transcend importance of the university’s public mission.
paradigm. Contributors focus on the research university
and its effort to create new knowledge. They
Joining twelve sociologists with major reputa- examine the implications of different admin-
tions in the field, Craig Calhoun launches a istrative and policy decisions and the signifi-
thorough reconsideration of Merton’s achieve- cance of various approaches to assessment and
ments and inspires a renewed engagement with evaluation. Essays track the shifting relation-
sociological theory. Merton’s work addresses the ship between public and private goods and pur-
challenges of integrating research and theory. It poses, such as whether student access should
connects different fields of empirical research award individual achievement or function as an
and speaks to the importance of overcoming investment in social contribution, or whether
the sharp divisions between allegedly pure and scientific research should be treated as pri-
applied sociology. Merton realized the value of vate intellectual property or as an open-access
sociological methods that respect the institu- resource. Is it right for a university to serve
tional analysis of science and knowledge. By the economic interests of private corporations?
bringing together different aspects of his work Instead of reducing such questions to elements
in one volume, Calhoun illuminates the truly of good and bad, this anthology empirically
interdisciplinary—and unifying—dimensions assesses how they play out in practice.
of Merton’s approach. He also advances the
intellectual agenda of an increasingly relevant D i a n a R h o t e n is the founder and director of the

area of study. Knowledge Institutions program and the Digital Media and
Learning project at the Social Science Research Council.

C r a i g C a l h o u n is president of the Social Science C r a i g C a l h o u n is president of the Social Science


Research Council and University Professor of the Social Research Council and University Professor of the Social
Sciences at New York University. Sciences at New York University.

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Mobilizing the Community Resolving Community Social Work and Human

Social Work
for Better Health Conflicts and Problems Rights
What the Rest of America Can Learn Public Deliberation and Sustained A Foundation for Policy and Practice
from Northern Manhattan Dialogue Second Edition
Edited by Allan J. Formicola Edited by Roger A. Lohmann, Elisabeth Reichert
and Lourdes Hernández- Jon Van Til, and Dolly Ford
Cordero Social Work and Human Rights
Public deliberation and group is a standard text underscoring
For the past ten years, the discussion can strengthen civil the role of social work in pro-
Northern Manhattan Commu- society, even when participants tecting the rights of vulnerable
nity Voices Collaborative has share a historical animosity. populations, both within and
put Columbia University and Recently, scholars have begun outside of the United States.
its hospitals in touch with sur- to study the dialogue that sus- Through rigorous analysis,
rounding community organiza- tains these conversations, es- classroom exercises, and a
tions and churches to facilitate pecially its power to unite and frank discussion of the impli-
vaccines, dental care, and nu- divide. In these twenty-four es- cations for practice, the volume
tritional improvement, along says, contributors read public effectively acquaints readers
with other forms of healthcare exchanges and their sustained with the political, economic,
and support. Authored by staff dialogue in the context of race and social dimensions of rights
members from participating relations, social justice, ethnic issues and the documents that
institutions, this collection conflicts, public safety, public guarantee them. New mate-
shares the successes, failures, management, community de- rial covers international events,
and obstacles of implementing sign, and family therapy. They such as the United Nation’s
such a vast and delicate pro- especially focus on the college Millennium Project and its
gram. Allan J. Formicola and campus and its network of effort to reduce the poverty and
Lourdes Hernández-Cordero organizations and actors, in suffering of billions worldwide.
outline the beginnings and in- which open discussion might The volume now features an
frastructure of the collabora- seem like an idealistic if not emphasis on cultural rights
tion and the relationships that foolhardy gesture but neverthe- and a probing lesson in cultural
fueled positive outcomes. They less is a crucial component of relativism. It turns a critical eye
demonstrate how grassroots civic harmony. toward the failure in the U.S.
solutions can mutually benefit to address social welfare issues
communities and institutions. R o g e r A . Lo h m a n n is professor of
and to rectify policies that favor
social work at West Virginia University
one group over another.
and chair of the school’s Nova Institute.
Al lan j. Fo rmicola is a former dean
of the Columbia University College of J o n Va n T i l is professor emeritus of E l i s a b e t h R e i c h e r t is a profes-
Dental Medicine. urban studies and community plan- sor at the Southern Illinois University
ning at Rutgers University. of Carbondale School of Social Work
Lourdes HernÁndez-Cordero
is an assistant professor of clinical and author of Challenges in Human
D o l ly F o r d is senior lecturer in
sociomedical sciences at Columbia Rights: A Social Work Perspective
the Division of Social Work at West
University’s Mailman School of Public and Understanding Human Rights: An
Virginia University.
Health. Exercise Book.
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Disarming the Past
social science research council

Transitional Justice and Ex-Combatants


Edited by Ana Cutter Patel, Pablo de Greiff,
and Lars Waldorf

For the past twenty years, international donors have in-


vested heavily in large-scale disarmament, demobiliza-
tion, and reintegration (DDR) programs, while, at the
same time, transitional justice measures have prolifer-
ated, bringing truth, justice, and reparations to those
recovering from state violence and civil war. Yet DDR pro-
grams are seldom deconstructed to discover whether they
truly achieve their justice-related aims. Additionally, tran-
sitional justice mechanisms rarely articulate strategies for
coordinating with DDR. Disarming the Past examines the
connections—and failures—between these two initiatives
within peacebuilding contexts and evaluates future links
between DDR programs and the aims of transitional jus-
tice. The outcome of a substantial research project initi-
ated by the International Center for Transitional Justice
Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s :
(ICTJ), this book is crucial for anyone interested in effec-
Linking DDR and Transitional Justice • tive interventions and enduring outcomes.
Amnesties and DDR Programs • Beyond
“Peace vs. Justice” • Ex-Combatants A na C ut t e r Pat e l is deputy director of the International Policymakers
Unit at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and proj-
and Truth Commissions • Establishing
ect manager for the center’s research initiative on transitional justice
Links Between DDR and Reparations
and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. She is the author
• Transitional Justice and Female of “DDR and Transitional Justice,” a module in the United Nations’s
Ex-Combatants • DDR, Transitional Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Standards,
Justice, and the Reintegration of among other publications.

Former Child Combatants • Local Pa b lo d e G r e i f f is director of research at ICTJ. A former associate


Justice and Reintegration Processes as professor of philosophy at SUNY Buffalo and Laurance S. Rockefeller
Complements to Transitional Justice Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, he is the
editor of nine books, including Transitional Justice and Development:
and DDR • Transitional Justice, DDR,
Making Connections and The Handbook of Reparations.
and Security Sector Reform
L a r s Wa l d o r f is senior lecturer in international human rights law at
the Centre for Applied Human Rights and York Law School, University
of York. A former researcher in Rwanda for Human Rights Watch, he
has authored and coedited numerous publications, including Localizing
Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities After Mass Violence.

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Memoir of Forgetting the Capital Flowers

Y u s h o d o C o . Lt d .
(Miyakowasure no ki)
Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Amy Heinrich
Foreword by Donald Keene

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) was a renowned mod-


ern Japanese author and major literary figure. Though
he is best known for his postwar novels, such as The Key
(1956) and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962), and prolific
screenplays, Tanizaki began his writing career in 1909,
publishing plays, essays, and poetry while producing nov-
els and films. His work is characterized by a suspenseful
technique incorporating both past and present realities,
which creates a crackling tension between competing
timeframes that can be palpable and erotic.

In 1948, Tanizaki completed a volume of poetry entitled


Memoir of Forgetting the Capital Flowers (Miyakowasure
no ki), heavily influenced by his wartime experiences
Selling Points:
from 1944 to 1946. Tanizaki wrote these poems as he en-
dured the tumultuous years of the Second World War and
• Amy Heinrich is a highly repu-
Japan’s defeat. The tanka poetic form (5-7-5-7-7), as well
table and experienced translator of
as the titular reference to the former Japanese capital of
Japanese literature.
Kyoto, denotes a return to classical Japanese themes for
the purpose of reflecting on modern issues. • While Tanizaki is well known for his
novels and plays, his poetry has never
Amy Heinrich’s elegant English-language translation is
before been translated into English.
made from a volume of Miyakowasure no ki that Tazanaki
gave personally to Donald Keene in 1953, when the world- • This translation admirably captures
renowned scholar first came to study in Kyoto. the tone of the original poems and
reveals a side of Tanizaki not found in
Ju n’ichi r o Tan i z a k i was born to a well-off, merchant-
class family in the Ningyocho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo,
his novels or plays.
and, along with Natsume Sōseki, is one of Japan’s most
popular novelists. Translations of his works into English • Donald Keene, internationally
include The Key, Diary of a Mad Old Man, Naomi, and renowned scholar and authority on
The Gourmet Club.
Japanese studies, wrote the foreword.
He unwittingly facilitated this transla-
tion by donating the Japanese origi-
nal to the Starr East Asian Library at
Columbia University.

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Inside New York 2011
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auteur publishing
Let the Right One In Witchfinder General
Anne Billson Ian Cooper

Directed by Tomas Alfredson and adapted Witchfinder General (1968), known as The
for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by
Swedish film Làt den rätte komma in (2008), Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place
known to American audiences as Let the Right in British cinema. The film fictionalizes the ex-
One In, is the most exciting, subversive, and ploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life
original horror production since the 1970s. Set “witch hunter,” during the English Civil War.
in a snowy, surburban housing estate in 1980s For critic Mark Kermode, the release was “the
Stockholm, the film combines supernatural ele- single most significant horror film produced
ments with social realism. It features Oskar, a in the United Kingdom in the 1960s,” while
lonely, bullied child, and Eli, the girl next door. playwright Alan Bennett called it “the most per-
“Oskar, I’m not a girl,” she tells him, and she’s sistently sadistic and rotten film I’ve ever seen.”
not kidding—she’s a vampire. Anne Billson re- The film is now treated as a landmark, though
views the near century of vampire cinema that problematic, accomplishment, existing in a
preceeded this film and the legacy of (and new number of recut, retitled, and rescored versions.
twists on) such classics as Nosferatu (1922) and This in-depth study positions the film within
Dracula (1931). She discusses the genre’s early the history of horror and discusses its impor-
fliration with social realism in Martin (1977) tance as a British and heritage film. It also con-
and Near Dark (1987), along with its adapta- siders the script’s relationship to the novel by
tion of mythology to the modern world, and she Ronald Bassett, and the iconic persona of the
examines the changing relationship between film’s star, Vincent Price. Ian Cooper closely
vampires and humans, the role of the vampire’s reads specific scenes and explores various con-
assistant, and the enduring figure of vampires texts, from the creation of the X certificate and
in popular culture. the tradition of Hammer gothic to the influence
on Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) and the “tor-
A n n e B i l l s o n is a novelist, film critic, and photographer
ture porn” of twenty-first-century horror.
based in Paris. She reviews films for the Sunday Telegraph
and writes a film column for the Guardian.
i a n Co o p e r is a freelance writer and educator based in
Germany.

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Exploring the Media Action/Adventure Films


Revised Second Edition Second Edition
Edited by Barbara Connell Rob McInnes

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copy . . . and I’d like to congratulate Auteur for researched, and designed, a valuable and much-
providing a text which offers friendly and well- used resource.”—Jenny Grahame, English and
presented guidance.”—PoV Media Centre, London

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and examiners revise, update, and expand key references films released in the past twelve
entries. Exploring the Media unpacks core con- months and reassesses traditional approaches
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and production skills. As with the first edition, views action/adventure narrative, formal con-
the initial section covers the major concepts of ventions, issues of representation, institutional
media studies—genre, narrative, representa- practices, and critical debates, especially those
tion, and audience—in various media forms relating to propaganda and censorship. The
and includes a new section on ethnicity. The accompanying Classroom Resources provides
second section evaluates (revised) case studies copiable sheets for teaching and covers key
of television programs, computer games, films, theoretical issues plus guidelines for practical
magazines, and advertising, and adds the music tasks, such as storyboarding, producing a film
industry, newspapers, and radio. The third re- trailer, and designing a movie poster.
flects recent changes in technology, audience,
R o b M c Inn e s teaches media studies in London and is the
and production.
author of Teen Movies: A Teacher’s Guide and Teen Movies:
Classroom Resources.
B arbara Co nnell is the subject leader for media studies
at Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff, Wales.

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auteur publishing
Studying British Cinema: Splice Splice
The 1980s Volume 4, Issue # 3 Volume 5, Issue # 1
Freddie Gaffney Edited by John Atkinson Edited by John Atkinson

In this new installment of Splice bridges the gap between Splice bridges the gap between
Auteur’s series on Studying contemporary cinema and in- contemporary cinema and in-
British Cinema (volumes telligent discourse. Facilitating telligent discourse. Facilitating
on the 1960s, 1990s and the the study of contemporary cin- the study of contemporary cin-
2000s now available), Freddie ema, it offers a practical solu- ema, it offers a practical solu-
Gaffney recounts a decade that tion for teachers and students tion for teachers and students
prompted a renaissance in of film studies, media studies, of film studies, media studies,
British filmmaking. He selects and related disciplines. and related disciplines.
films that underscore social,
political, historical, and indus- This edition follows the “best The innaugural issue of vol-
trial developments. Beginning films you didn’t see,” showing ume 5 focuses on remakes,
with an overview that captures how a variety of underviewed especially quality productions
the state of British cinema at gems can be used in the class- and why they are so relentless-
the turn of the decade Gaffney room and beyond. Films in- ly pursued today. Are retreads
explains why the 1980s marked clude the Colin Farrell vehicle even worth studying? Topics
a significant turning point in In Bruges (2008), the remake discussed include the return of
the evolution of British cinema of the Western classic 3:10 to 1970s and 1980s horror films,
and follows with a succession Yuma (2007), the almost forgot- such as Halloween (2007) and
of case studies emblematic of ten, dark British comedy Funny A Nightmare on Elm Street
the topics he confronts. Bones (1995), and Josie and the (2010), and the similarities and
Pussycats (2001). differences between dueling
F r e d d i e G a f f n e y is subject leader versions of The Day the Earth
in broadcasting and screenwriting at J o h n At k i n s o n is the UK-based pub-
Stood Still and Alfie.
Ravensbourne College of Art and the lishing director of Auteur.
author of On Screenwriting.
J o h n At k i n s o n is the UK-based pub-
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The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema


46th Edition
Edited by Ian Hadyn Smith

First published in 1963, the International Film Guide en-


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output of more than 120 countries.

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advances in global cinema over the past year. With the
Berlin Film Festival celebrating its sixtieth anniversary,
the guide reviews the success and widespread influence
of the festival on international filmmaking; and with
the monumental popularity of James Cameron’s Avatar
(2009), as well as the captivating innovations of Pixar, the
volume examines 3D films in depth. Essays look back on
the history of 3D cinema and evaluate recent favorites,
such as Pixar’s Oscar-nominated Up (2009), against fu-
ture film possibilities.

As it does each year, the International Film Guide will in-


terest industry veterans, filmmakers, cinema enthusiasts,
and the casual theatergoer. It summarizes all the major
film festivals and markets, and in addition to popular
core features, it includes a special section on prominent
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ture films and documentaries and shorts. Supplementary
materials are routinely updated and easily accessible at
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Revisioning 007 The Cinema of India Film Authorship
James Bond and Casino Royale Edited by Lalitha Gopalan Auteurs and Other Myths
Edited by Christoph Lindner C. Paul Sellors
The Cinema of India examines
Revisioning 007 presents origi- twenty-four landmark films, Few topics in the study of film
nal essays on the reinvention providing a novel framework produce as much controversy
of James Bond in Casino Royale for deciphering Indian film as authorship. Critics, histori-
(2006), a film starring Daniel production and reception ans, and theoreticians argue
Craig in his first appearance nationally and globally. The about the nature of author-
as Agent 007. Treating Casino volume considers different ship and question whether
Royale as a case study in popu- regional cinemas; the role of films even have authors at
lar film culture and as a sig- studios; the place of “middle” all. Film Authorship evaluates
nificant turning point in the cinema and its relationship these debates in a rigorous and
007 series, this book reads the to state subsidies; the style of accessible manner. Generously
interrelations among the Bond popular films; the allure of illustrated, the book analyzes
franchise, the culture industry, stardom; the resistant style the historical development and
and recent developments in of art films; the resurgence theoretical underpinnings of
cinema, society, and world poli- of auteurism; and the poet- the concepts of film authorship
tics. Topics range from 007’s ics of documentary. The study and the auteur. It then exam-
masochism, voyeurism, and discusses a range of films ines recent theories and recon-
hyper-mobility to the film’s tes- released over more than sixty ceptualizes the topic firmly in
ticular torture scene, the links years, including Sant Tukaram empirical analyses of film pro-
between international politics (1936), Parasakthi (1952), Pather duction.
and high-stakes gambling, Panchali (1955), Bhuvan Shome
c . pa u l s e l lo r s is lecturer in pho-
and the new role of the secret (1969), Ghattashradda (1977),
tography and film at Napier University,
agent. and Ram Ke Nam (1991).
Edinburgh. His essays on film theory
and philosophy have appeared in
c h r i s to p h l i n d n e r is professor of l a l i t h a g o pa l a n is associate pro-
Screen, Film, and Philosophy and The
English literature at the University of fessor in the Department of Radio-
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Amsterdam. Television-Film at the University of
Texas at Austin.

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Is Issue

e Morris on Alma Reville

Wonderland and Alma Reville on


and Continuity
M. Vest on Visual Patterns in Downhill

Gallafent on The Trouble with Harry


h Thomas on Marnie

16
l Walker on Hitchcockian narrative

on Hitchcock and Hindi Cinema, with essays by


Allen, Sidney Gottlieb, Richard ness, and 2010
rshini Shanker, and an interview with Hitchcock

Essay by Thomas leitch

s by Moya luckett, Charles l.P. Silet, and David Sterritt

in Eagle The Lodger Downhill Easy The Pleasure Garden Downhill Easy
Wife Champagne The Manxman Virtue The Ring The Manxman
Murder! The Skin Game Number Blackmail Juno Game Number
es from Vienna The Man Who Knew Seventeen Rich and The Man Who
Agent Sabotage Young and Innocent Knew Too Much Young and Inno
becca Foreign Correspondent Mr. and cent The Lady Van Rebecca Foreign
adow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Correspondent Mr. Shadow of a
Under Capricorn Stage Fright Strangers Doubt Lifeboat Rope Under Cap
Murder Rear Window To Catch a ricorn Stage Fright D i a l M f or
The Man Who Knew Too Much The Murder Rear Window To Catch a Thief The Trouble with Harry The Man
thwest Psycho The Birds Marnie Torn Who Knew Too Much The Wrong Man Vertigo North by Northwest Psycho
t The Pleasure Garden The Mountain The Birds Marnie Torn Curtain Topaz Frenzy Family Plot The Pleasure
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Sabotage Young and Innocent The Much Waltzes from Vienna Secret Agent Jamaica Inn Sabotage
ecca Foreign Correspondent Mr. and Young and Innocent Rebecca Hitchcock Annual 2010 The Lady Vanishes
adow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Suspicion Foreign Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Smith Saboteur Shadow
ope Under Capricorn Stage Fright of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The Paradine Case Rope
ial M For Murder Rear Window To Under Capricorn Stage Fright Strangers On A Train I Confess Dial

Hitchcock Annual The Hitchcock Annual Anthology


Volume 16 Selected Essays from Volumes 10–15
Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and
Richard Allen Richard Allen

This new issue of the Hitchcock Annual contains This collection showcases the best essays from
studies of Hitchcock and theater, Hitchcock’s six issues of film studies’ leading platform for
atheology, and the filmmaker’s influence on Hitchcock scholarship. Contributions include
the stalker genre. It features analyses of Rear works by Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark
Window and Gus Van Sant’s shot-by-shot re- Rappaport, Michael Walker, and Slavoj Žižek,
make of Psycho, a dossier on To Catch a Thief, among others, covering Hitchcock’s entire
and an early essay by Hitchcock himself. The oeuvre, from his early silent films to his late
Hitchcock Annual will now be published every American masterpieces. It contains an overview
spring, beginning in 2011 with volume 17. of Hitchcock criticism, a screenwriter’s forum
on “Working with Hitch,” and early essays on
Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s : film by both Hitchcock and Alma Reville.
“Hitchcock in 1928: The Auteur as Autocrat” • “An Autocrat
S i d n e y G ot t l i e b is professor of media studies at Sacred
of the Film Studio” by Alfred Hitchcock • “A Perfect Place
Heart University and editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock:
to Die? The Theatre in Hitchcock Revisited” • “Reflections
Selected Writings and Interviews and Alfred Hitchcock:
on the Making of To Catch a Thief: André Bazin, Sylvette
Interviews.
Baudrot, Grace Kelly, Charles Vanel, and Brigitte Auber” •
“What We Don’t See, and What We Think It Means: Ellipsis R i c h a r d A l l e n is professor of cinema studies at New
and Occlusion in Rear Window” • “The Destruction That York University. He is the author of Hitchcock’s Romantic
Wasteth at Noonday: Hitchcock’s Atheology” • “Gus Irony and coeditor of Hitchcock: Past and Present and
Van Sant’s Mirror-Image of Hitchcock: Reading Psycho Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays.
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ANNUAL
ANNUAL IN THIS ISSUE

H I T C H C O C K A N N U A L 12
■ Thomas Elsaesser on Hitchcock and Lang

■ Thomas Leitch on McGilligan’s Hitchcock and the


Limits of Biography

■ Mark Rappaport on Under Capricorn

12
■ Jack Sullivan on Music in Rear Window

12
■ Federico Windhausen on Müller and Girardet’s 2003 04
The Phoenix Tapes
2003 04 ^ ^

■ Slavoj Zizek on Vertigo

■ Reviews by James Bade, Charles Barr, Paula


Marantz Cohen, Robert E. Kapsis, Leonard J. Leff,
Walter Raubicheck, and Angelo Restivo

ISSN 1062-5518

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Seventeen Rich and Strange Waltzes from Vienna The Man Who Knew Seventeen Rich and The Man Who
Too Much The 39 Steps Secret Agent Sabotage Young and Innocent The Knew Too Much Young and Inno
Lady Vanishes Jamaica Inn Rebecca Foreign Correspondent Mr. and cent The Lady Van Rebecca Foreign
Mrs. Smith Suspicion Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Correspondent Mr. Shadow of a
Notorious The Paradine Case Rope Under Capricorn Stage Fright Strangers Doubt Lifeboat Rope Under Cap
on a Train I Confess Dial M for Murder Rear Window To Catch a pricorn Stage Fright Dial M for Mur
Thief The Trouble with Harry The Man Who Knew Too Much The der Rear Window To Catch a Thief The Trouble with Harry The Man
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Much Downhill Secret Agent Sabotage Young and Innocent The Lady Much Waltzes from Vienna Secret Agent Jamaica Inn Sabotage
Vanishes Jamaica Inn Rebecca Foreign Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Young and Innocent Rebecca Hitchcock Annual 2003-04 The Lady
Smith Suspicion Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Vanishes Suspicion Foreign Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Notorious The Paradine Case Rope Under Capricorn Stage Fright Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The
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Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12

I n c l u d e s S c r e e n w r i t e r’ s I n c l u d e s Wo r k i n g w i t h Includes Hitchcock and Lang;


Forum; Psycho dossier; essays Hitchcock Panel; essays Hitchcock Biography; essays
on The Lodger, Rear Window, on Hitchcock after Bellour, on The Phoenix Tapes, Under
and To Catch a Thief; Hitchcock Vertigo, Suspicion, and Marnie; Capricorn, Rear Window, and
and French Film Criticism; and Hitchcock and Ingmar Vertigo; and reviews.
reviews. Bergman; Hitchcock’s Villains;
Hitchcock coming to America;
and reviews.
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AnnuAl AnnuAl
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SSUE In THIs Issue


H I T C H C O C K A N N U A L 13

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In THIs Issue
on Murder! n Thomas leitch on Hitchcock and Company
n nathalie Morris on Alma Reville
n Hitchcock and Wartime Britain n Sidney Gottlieb on Hitchcock on Griffith n Alma in Wonderland and Alma Reville on
Cutting and Continuity
nelly, Jr. on Hitchcock’s Carnival n Alfred Hitchcock on Griffith
n James M. Vest on Visual Patterns in Downhill

15
on Downhill n James M. Vest on the Making of Downhill

13 14
n Edward Gallafent on The Trouble with Harry
er on Topaz n Michael Walker on Torn Curtain n Deborah Thomas on Marnie

14 15
2004 05 2005 06 2006 07
on Hitchcock and Fascism n Jacqueline Tong on Rear Window and n Michael Walker on Hitchcockian narrative
2005 06 Backyard Adventures
2006 07 n Dossier on Hitchcock and Hindi Cinema, with essays by
ichael Healey, Leland Poague,
let and William G. Simon n Reviews Essays by leland Poague, Angelo Restivo, Richard Allen, Sidney Gottlieb, Richard ness, and
and Kenneth Sweeney Priyadarshini Shanker, and an interview with Hitchcock

n Reviews by Charles Barr, lisa Broad, Marshall n Review Essay by Thomas leitch
Deutelbaum, Sidney Gottlieb, Michael Healey, ISSn 1062-5518 n Reviews by Moya luckett, Charles l.P. Silet, and David Sterritt
ISSn 1062-5518 Thomas leitch, Stephen Mamber, and Susan White

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urder! The Skin Game Number Blackmail Juno Blackmail Juno and the Game Paycock
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Wartime Britain; Hitchcock Company; Hitchcock on Narrative; Hitchcock and
and Carnival; Hitchcock and Griffith; essays on Downhill, India dossier; essays on Alma
Fascism; essays on Murder!, R e a r Wi n d o w , B a c k y a r d Reville, Downhill, The Trouble
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Understanding Torture From Agamben to ŽiŽek Cultural Identity and


J. Jeremy Wisnewski Contemporary Critical Theorists Political Ethics
Edited by Jon Simons Paul Gilbert
Why does torture exist in a
world that condemns it as im- John Simons introduces the Cultural identity is increas-
moral? What does it mean to major figures of contemporary ingly invoked to support the
call an act torture, and is such critical theory, with biographi- political claims of individuals.
behavior always reprehensible? cal information and intellec- Yet what is “cultural identity,”
J. Jeremy Wisnewski outlines tual context. Contributors then and how can we account for its
the moral parameters of a pe- tackle actor-network theory; significance? Paul Gilbert links
rennial practice and pays close deconstruction and poststruc- cultural identity to the discred-
attention to the implications turalism, globalization and ited theory of national char-
for our moral psychology. He postmodernity; green critical acter and ultimately argues it
systematically exposes the theory; Marxism and post- is not intrinsic to individual
weaknesses behind dominant Marxism; feminism and queer psychology. Nor is the concept
arguments for torture and theory; phenomenology; post- uniform. Rather, various types
draws on analytic and conti- colonialism; psychoanalysis; emerge in response to circum-
nental philosophy, as well as and science and technology. stance, and their character is
relevant empirical literature Chapters center on Agamben, marked by superficial behav-
in psychology, to explain the Badiou, Bauman, Bhabha, iors that have persuasive and
nature, consequences, and en- Butler, Castoriadis, Haraway, aesthetic appeal. Gilbert sees
during appeal of torture in civi- Laclau, Mouffe, Latour, Negri, cultural identity as lacking eth-
lized society. Spivak, Virilio, and Žižek, ical significance and views its
among others, and a bibliogra- invocation as politically perni-
J . J e r e m y W i s n e w s k i is associate phy suggests further readings. cious. He engages with Isaiah
professor of philosophy at Hartwick
Berlin, Charles Taylor, Will
College. J o n S i m o n s is an associate profes-
Kymlicka, Jean-Paul Sartre, and
sor of communication and culture at
Julia Kristeva.
Indiana University.

Pau l Gi l b e r t is emeritus professor of


philosophy at the University of Hull.

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edinburgh university press


Activism
Deleuze Studies Volume 4: 2010
(Supplement)
Edited by Marcelo Svirsky

Gilles Deleuze and Félix


Guattari wrote Anti-Oedipus to
inspire dissidents and political
activists to fight not by outlin-
ing a program for change but
by isolating the political, cul-
The Deleuze Dictionary Deleuze and Ethics tural, and economic factors
Revised Edition Daniel W. Smith and that inhibit change. As a result,
Edited by Adrian Parr Nathan Jun their work was instantly recog-
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“Useful to anyone wish- Since he never devoted a book shed.
ing to better understand solely to the study of ethics,
the work of this important many scholars assume Gilles Anti-Oedipus changed the land-
French philosopher. . . . Highly Deleuze chose not to write scape of political theory, and, in
recommended.”—Choice about the subject. Yet the exact this volume, both critical theo-
opposite is true. Concepts such rists and activists recommend
This dictionary defines and as ethics, values, and norma- ways to implement Deleuze
contextualizes more than one tivity play a crucial—if subtle and Guattari’s critical tools into
hundred and fifty terms relat- and easily overlooked—role in radical practice. Their essays in-
ing to Deleuzian philosophy. Deleuze’s philosophical proj- tegrate theory and case studies
It covers key terms and con- ect. The essays in this volume from different political spheres
cepts, major influences, and unearth and explore the ethical and times, offering new ways
the legacy of Deleuze in femi- dimensions of Deleuzian phi- to reflect on, experiment with,
nism, cinema, postcolonial losophy across a number of tra- and transform politics.
theory, geography, and cultural jectories, ultimately reclaiming
M a r c e l o S v i r s k y is Marie-Curie
studies. The revised edition the moral and philosophical Visiting Fellow, Centre for Critical and
includes expanded entries on triumph of his thought. Cultural Theory, Cardiff University.
architecture, cinema, and psy-
choanalysis, and new contribu- Da n i e l W. S m i t h is associate profes-
sor of philosophy at Purdue University,
tions from prominent Deleuze
scholars Jeffrey Bell, Ronald N at h a n J u n is assistant professor

Bogue, Felicity Colman, John of philosophy at Midwestern State


University.
Protevi, and Janell Watson.

A d r i a n Pa r r is professor of critical
theory at the University of Cincinnati.

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De leu z e Co nnec t ions

c u p. c o l u m b i a . e d u  | 95
edinburgh university press

Deleuzian Fabulation and William Morris and the Idea To Follow


the Scars of History of Community The Wake of Jacques Derrida
Ronald Bogue Romance, History, and Propaganda, Peggy Kamuf
1880–1914

Ronald Bogue advances a Anna Vaninskaya Peggy Kamuf writes both in


theory of fabulation that clari- the wake of Derrida and on the
fies the Deleuzian approach to Community is a word we apply wake of his death. Each of these
literary narrative. Fabulation liberally to groups and con- essays is written in response to
involves legending, becoming- cepts, yet its definition sparks a particular context, occasion,
other, experimenting with the fierce contention and debate. or event. A majority analyze
real, and inventing a people This was no different when issues that arise in Derrida’s
to come. It relies on an under- Victorian and Edwardian writ- work, from the 1960s to the
standing of time informed by ers, critics, historians, and po- posthumous publication of his
Deleuze’s Chronos/Aion dis- litical activists first coined the teaching seminars. Three chap-
tinction and his theory of the term. Anna Vaninskaya turns ters deal with Derrida outside
three passive syntheses of time. to the great polymath William of his writing, revisiting media
Closely reading Zakes Mda, Morris and his contemporaries interviews, the film D’ailleurs
Arundhati Roy, Roberto Bolaño, to illuminate this history. She Derrida (2000), and affective
Assia Djebar, and Richard draws on working-class fic- relations to the U.S, and three
Flanagan, Bogue proves the tion, mainstream periodicals, chapters recount Kamuf ’s
value of fabulation as a critical radical newspapers, political friendship with Derrida and
tool while, at the same time, pamphlets, anthropological her translation of his works. An
confronting the problematic treatises, autobiographies, and afterword muses on the book’s
relationship between history diaries. essential continuity over time,
and storytelling. tone, and subject.
A nn a Va n i n s kaya is lecturer in nine-
teenth-century literature at Newcastle
R o n a l d B o g u e is Distinguished P e g gy Ka m u f is professor of French
University.
Research Professor of Comparative at the University of Southern California
Literature and J o s i a h M e i g s is and editor of the Oxford Literary
Distinguished Teaching Professor at Review.
the University of Georgia.

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Pl ate au s - Ne w D i r e ctions in EDINBUR G H CRIT ICAL STUDIES IN VICTO - THE FRONT IERS O F THEORY

D e l e u ze St ud i e s RIAN CULTURE

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edinburgh university press
Derrida and Hospitality The Persistence of the The Foreign Policy of Lyndon
Theory and Practice Negative B. Johnson
Judith Still A Critique of Contemporary The United States and the World,
Continental Theory 1963–69

This volume marks the first Benjamin Noys Jonathan Colman


full-length study of hospital-
“In this bold and original book, Sourcing declassified docu-
ity in Derridean thought. It
Benjamin Noys rethinks the ments and recent research,
focuses on sexual difference,
negative in both ontology and this history serves as the first
which sheds light on Jacques
political practice. His critical general account of the former
Derrida’s exploration of the
revaluations of familiar figures president’s handling of for-
complex, delicate, strange, yet
move in surprising new direc- eign relations. It revisits the
familiar dance of being both
tions. They have forced me to Vietnam War and such cru-
good host and guest. Judith
reconsider much that I knew.” cial issues as Anglo-American
Still situates Derrida’s work
—Steven Shaviro, Wayne State relations, U.S. policy toward
within the sociopolitical history
University NATO, and the international
of France, especially its rela-
tionship with Algeria, and the economy. Jonathan Colman
philosopher’s association with contends that Johnson had a
This compelling critique
other writers, most famously capable strategy for handling
contests philosophers’ reli-
Hélène Cixous and Emmanuel the world beyond America’s
ance on affirmation, espe-
Levinas, themselves key think- borders. Clear and engaging,
cially affirmative thinking of
ers on hospitality. this book offers an uncommon
resistance, through incisive
perspective on U.S. foreign re-
readings of Jacques Derrida,
J u d i t h S t i l l is professor of French lations, the Cold War, and the
and critical theory at the University of Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour,
modern American presidency.
Nottingham. Antonio Negri, and Alain
Badiou. J on at h a n Col m a n is a lecturer in in-
ternational history at the University of
Be n ja m i n N oys is reader in English at Salford.
the University of Chicester.

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Media Persian
edinburgh university press

Dominic Brookshaw

Media Persian familiarizes


novices and more seasoned
speakers with contemporary
expressions, jargon, and collo-
quialisms, enabling the com-
munication of modern ideas
across a variety of contexts, es-
pecially the media, the Internet,
law, and business. The Volume
Contemporary Arab includes an English-to-Persian Islamic Finance in the
Broadcast Media Global Economy
index and a searchable CD of
El Mustapha Lahlali Second Edition
the text’s contents, as well as
Revised and Updated
sound files in English that re-
This book follows three domi- Ibrahim Warde
flect proper Persian pronuncia-
nant Arab media networks— tions.
“A well-researched and con-
Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra, and
cise book on a fluid, complex,
Al-Arabia—as they have grown D o m i n i c B r o o k s h aw is lecturer in
Persian studies and Iranian literature at and sometimes misjudged
in importance and presence
the University of Manchester. concept.”—MESA Bulletin
since 9/11. It surveys the mod-
ern history of Arab media; the
This best-selling book unravels
aims, objectives, and programs
the paradox of a thriving sys-
of Al-Jazeera Arabic, Al-Hurra,
tem rooted in medieval prac-
and Al-Arabia; and the simi-
tice. It defines Islamic finance
larities and differences among
in its broadest sense, including
their broadcasting. The volume
banks, mutual funds, securi-
explores the impact of private
ties firms, and insurance com-
media on the Arabic public
panies. Ibrahim Warde situates
sphere; the American and
Islamic finance within global
European media’s influence on
political and economic systems
Arab programming; the media
and addresses core issues, such
laws under which Arab media
as the moral economy of Islam;
operates; the issue of state con-
differences among Pakistan,
trol and ownership; and the ex-
Iran, the Sudan, and Malaysia;
tent of these restrictions on the
and religious issues and chal-
dissemination of free and fair
lenges.
news.
I b r a h i m Wa r d e is adjunct profes-
El Mustapha La hla l i is a lecturer in
sor of international business at the
Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
the University of Leeds.
Tufts University.

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Edinburgh Guides to Islamic Finance

edinburgh university press


Islamic Asset Management Product Development In Islamic Financial Services in
Natalie Schoon Islamic Banks Great Britain
Habib Ahmed Elaine Housby
Many Middle East coun-
tries now demand Shariah- Islamic banking began in the The first book-length study of
compliant asset management, 1970s and established finan- Islamic financial services in
which involves a multi-asset cial services compatible with Great Britain, this volume em-
allocation strategy covering Islamic law. Driven by market phasizes how British examples
both public and private Islamic forces, it has grown rapidly in of Islamic financial provision
sukuk securities and equi- both Muslim countries and illustrate both the main char-
ties. Natalie Schoon addresses international sectors, now pro- acteristics of Islamic financial
this in a way that is accessible jected to grow at an annual rate teaching and key issues in
to the non-specialist. She re- of fifteen to twenty percent. A the lives of British Muslims.
views types of funds, asset se- key factor of future growth is Chapters cover the history of
lection, processes, Shariah the availability of new products Islamic financial provision in
compliance, and case studies to satisfy the needs of various Great Britain, personal deposit
of selected funds, and thor- investors. While other texts accounts, personal finance and
oughly describes the place of discuss the basic principles credit cards, home finance,
asset management within the and contracts of Islamic bank- investment funds and share
Islamic financial infrastruc- ing and finance, this book de- dealing, insurance, sukuk, and
ture. Readers become familiar scribes how to develop these commercial financing. All in
with prohibitions in Islamic elements into desirable finan- all, a balanced and comprehen-
finance and continuing devel- cial products. sive view of a surprisingly suc-
opments in the Islamic fund cessful practice.
H a b i b A h m e d is Sharjah Chair in
market.
Islamic Law and Finance at Durham E l a i n e H o u s by gained her Ph.D. at
University. the Open University, where she re-
N ata l i e S c h o o n is the head of
product development at the Bank of searched of Islamic financial traditions

London and the Middle East. in contemporary Britain.

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Young British Muslims
edinburgh university press

Identity, Culture, Politics, and the


Media
Nahid Afrose Kabir

The 7/7 London bombings


created a new, highly politi-
cized atmosphere in Britain,
especially for the country’s
young Muslims. Young British
Muslims constructs a portrait of
contemporary British Muslim
identity through topics such Islamic Conversion and Explorations into Arab Folk
as migration, settlement, reli- Christian Resistance on the Literature
gion, culture, socioeconomic Early Modern Stage Pierre Cachia
status, and wider social envi- Jane Hwang Degenhardt
ronments. Nahid Afrose Kabir European Orientalists hoped to
has conducted ethnographic Jane Hwang Degenhardt inves- map the character and achieve-
fieldwork with more than two tigates the specter of Christian ments of Arab-Islamic civiliza-
hundred young Muslims from conversion to Islam, which tion by acquainting themselves
five British cities: London, served as a major plot develop- with classical Arabic and
Leicester, Bradford, Leeds, and ment in early modern British the writings of pre-fifteenth-
Cardiff. Her careful analysis drama. Degenhardt considers century Arab thinkers and
and revealing interviews offer how East-West power dynamics scholars. Regrettably, they did
insight into the hopes and aspi- informed representations of not take folk literature into
rations of British Muslims, and identity, embodiment, and account. Pierre Cachia builds
her impeccable reproduction race, and identifies dramatic his study from the historical,
of their testimonies represents treatments of religious conver- textual, social, and cultural
a remarkable range of ethnici- sion as a form of sexual seduc- implications of this tradition,
ties: Algerian, Bangladeshi, tion. She also demonstrates and follows a standardized
Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Kenyan, how Christian resistance to transcription system based
Libyan, Mauritian, Moroccan, conversion re-empowered on pronunciation rather than
Pakistani, Palestinian, Somali, Catholic models during Prot- spelling. Including two origi-
Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, and estant reform and critically nal essays, this collection cap-
English and Scottish converts. reads Shakespeare, Marlowe, tures the full texture and style
Webster, and Dekker. of Arab folk literature.
Na hid Afrose Kabi r is a visiting fel-
low at the Center for Middle Eastern J a n e H wa n g D e g e n h a r d t is as- P i e r r e C ac h i a is professor emeritus
Studies at Harvard University. sistant professor of English at the of Arabic language and literature at
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Columbia University.

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Beckett and Germany

edinburgh university press


Journal of Beckett Studies Volume
19, Number 2
Edited by Mark Nixon and
Dirk van Hulle

A lover of German literature


and aspiring art critic, Beckett
traveled across Germany dur-
ing an extremely tumultuous
and dangerous period in the
country’s history. This book as-
sesses the author’s relationship Demented Particulars Obscure Locks, Simple Keys
with German literature, art, The Annotated Murphy The Annotated Watt
and philosophy and recounts C. J. Ackerley C. J. Ackerley
the country’s reception of his
work. It presents a complete Demented Particulars intro- Obscure Locks, Simple Keys
chronology of Beckett’s jour- duces Samuel Beckett’s first is a comprehensive study
ney, which lasted from 1936 published novel, Murphy, of Samuel Beckett’s most
to 1937, and describes his atti- which speaks to so much of enigmatic text, Watt. Chris
tudes toward German roman- the master’s later works. The Ackerley’s approach extensively
ticism from both literary and volume opens with an exten- reads the novel’s different edi-
philosophical perspectives. sive introduction outlining the tions and manuscripts (includ-
As to the German reception composition and publishing ing the French translation,
of Beckett’s work, Theodor W. history of the novel and follows overseen by Beckett himself ).
Adorno’s Versuch, das Endspiel with critical reception and liter- A long introduction engages
zu verstehen played a cen- ary, philosophical, theological, with the complex history of the
tral role. This volume trans- and biographical influences. book’s making. One appendix
lates and interprets Adorno’s It also includes a sophisticated deals with textual changes and
notes on Fin de partie and discussion of the “Cartesian errata in major editions of the
L’Innommable, which comment catastrophe” that lies at the cen- novel, and the other confronts
on the direction of Beckett’s ter of the novel’s comic cosmos the novel’s tangled evolution.
Endspiel, and recounts Beckett’s and an extensive bibliography
C . J. Ac k e r l e y is professor of English
relationship with the television of pertinent works, along with
at the Univerity of Otago and coeditor
and radio station Süddeutscher a thematic index. of the Journal of Beckett Studies.
Rundfunk (SDR).
C. J. Ac k e r l e y is professor of English

M a r k N i xo n is lecturer in twentieth- at the Univerity of Otago and coeditor


century English literature, University of of the Journal of Beckett Studies.
Reading, and D irk van Hu l l e is asso-
ciate professor of literature in English,
University of Antwerp.

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edinburgh university press

In Lady Audley’s Shadow Blasted Literature Circulating Genius


Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Political Fiction and the John Middleton Murry, Katherine
Victorian Literary Genres Shock of Modernism Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence
Saverio Tomaiuolo Deaglán Ó Donghaile Sydney Janet Kaplan

Written by Mary Elizabeth Turning to late Victorian “dyna- Sydney Janet Kaplan builds a
Braddon in 1862, Lady Audley’s mite novels” (or fiction that literary biography around the
Secret is an early pulp detective portrays terrorism), as well as personal lives of John Middle-
novel that was wildly successful radical journalism and mod- ton Murry, Katherine Mans-
(and highly condemned) in its ernist writing, Blasted Literature field, and D. H. Lawrence, and
day. It has also never gone out proves the centrality of terror- recounts their relationship with
of print. Reclaiming the signifi- ism within the literary imagi- other prominent modernists,
cance of this overlooked text, nation of 1880 to 1915. During including T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Saverio Tomaiuolo connects the this period, a range of writers Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell,
novel to Victorian literature’s exploited the sensational draw Mark Gertler, and Henri Gaud-
three main genres: the Gothic, of terrorist plotlines. Mapping ier-Brzeska. Kaplan reconsid-
the detective, and the realistic. the political and aesthetic links ers Murry, once known as “the
Through an analysis of nar- between “shilling shockers” best-hated man of letters,” as
rative, ideology, and culture, and the triumphs of modern- a skilled “circulator” of ideas
he shows how Braddon’s ma- ism, Deaglán Ó Donghaile and reputations and prompts a
nipulation of Victorian literary reads the relationship between renewed discussion of the con-
convention sets her apart from late-nineteenth-century popu- cept of genius, the question of
other sensational writers and lar fiction and twentieth-cen- the personal, the influence of
reaffirms her role in the nine- tury modernism as a process of psychoanalysis, and the ratio-
teenth-century literary scene. synthesis and exchange. nale of twentieth-century con-
fessionalism.
S av e r i o T o m a i u o l o is lecturer in D e ag l á n Ó D o n g h a i l e is lecturer
English literature and language at in nineteenth-century literature at S y d n e y J a n e t K a p l a n is profes-

Cassino University, Italy. Liverpool Hope University. sor of English at the University of
Washington.

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Literature of the 1980s

edinburgh university press


After the Watershed
Volume Nine
Joseph Brooker

The 1980s were a time of tu-


multuous transition in Britain.
The Cold War was ending, and
Margaret Thatcher’s govern-
ment was reinventing the post-
war consensus of the British
social landscape. This wide-
ranging study follows the effect Rhythm in Literature After Literary Criticism
of these developments across the Crisis in Verse A New History
Paragraph Volume 33, Number 2 Gary Day
fiction, poetry, and drama, as
well as other cultural forms, Edited by Peter Dayan and
such as television, film, and David Evans “Gary Day is exuberantly read-
music. It maps changes in so- able. . . . His lightness of touch is
ciety while also paying close Before the crise de vers diag- heroic in the presence of hugely
attention to literary forms and nosed by Stéphane Mallarmé intractable and diverse material
textures that, by the end of the in the 1880s, musical rhythms from the past. With these quali-
decade, left Britain a very dif- concerned note values and ties he has constructed a book
ferent place. Specifically, the repeated patterns, and lit- that will appeal to students and
volume describes the impact erary rhythms were ascer- scholars alike.”—THE
of a new generation of London tained through metrical verse. “Gary Day has made a thought-
novelists and the influence of Outlining a theory that can provoking and highly readable
feminism, postmodernism, measure rhythms as they exist contribution to one of the most
literary theory, working-class outside of patterned conven- difficult categories of critical
reactions to Thatcherism, tion, this volume considers the writing: a history of literary criti-
black British writing, and re- work of the post-crisis writers cism. . . . There is a great trea-
flexive and self-conscious Paul Valéry and Virginia Woolf sure trove of curiosities here,
modes of writing. Writers dis- and the Dadaists. It also reads economically expressed, which
cussed include Martin Amis, Russian verse under com- really adds to the great pleasure
Ian McEwan, Angela Carter, munism and the writings of of reading this book.”
Jeanette Winterson, Salman Jacques Réda, Julio Cortázar, —Cambridge Quarterly
Rushdie, James Kelman, Fred and John Wilkinson.
D’Aguiar, Grace Nichols, and G a r y D ay is principal lecturer in
Pe t e r Daya n is professor of word and
Alan Hollinghurst. English at De Montfort University.
music studies, School of Literatures,
Languages, and Cultures, University of
J o s e p h B r o o k e r is senior lecturer
Edinburgh, and Dav i d E van s is lectur-
of English at Birkbeck, University of
er in the School of Modern Languages,
London.
University of St. Andrews.

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C e nt u ry L it e r at u r e i n B rita in

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The Romantic Predicament
edinburgh university press

Paul de Man
Edited by Martin McQuillan

The first collection of Paul


de Man’s essays to follow his
posthumous Aesthetic Ideology,
this anthology reproduces the
author’s critical engagement
with Stéphane Mallarmé, Ste-
fan George, Jean-Jacques Rous-
seau, Jacques Derrida, John
Keats, and the symbolists. Cru- Prosaic Desires Scottish Women’s Gothic
cial to any analysis of roman- Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, and Fantastic Writing
Laughter, and Anticipation Fiction Since 1978
tic and post-romantic poetry,
these essays demonstrate the Sara Crangle Monica Germanà
impressive range of de Man’s
influences and thought. Each Exploring a variety of every- Monica Germanà investigates
piece acts as a foil to other texts day human longings as they the prevelance of supernatu-
within de Man’s ouevre. A re- arise in modernist fiction, this ral motifs (ghosts, doubles,
markable concentration of his book poses a direct challenge witches, magical journeys) in
work on the ideology of roman- to psychoanalytic accounts that contemporary Western culture
ticism, The Romantic Predica- characterize desire as sexual or and offers the first study of
ment identifies for the first time powerful. Using continental Scottish women’s fantasy writ-
the historical problem of the philosophy as its framework, ing in the late-twentieth and
complexity of thought and the Prosaic Desires contends that early-twenty-first centuries.
difficulty of poetic conscious- human longing is as endless She examines the supernatu-
ness, vividly realized through in kind as it is in manifesta- ral device of being reborn and
the extreme linguistics of de tion. It reads Schopenhauer, provides a comprehensive sur-
Man’s chosen poets. Nietzsche, and Heidegger, but vey of nonrealistic fiction since
relies primarily on the think- 1978. She tackles Muriel Spark,
M a r t i n M c Q u i l l a n is professor of ing of Emmanuel Levinas, who A. L. Kennedy (So I Am Glad),
literary theory at Kingston University.
radically argues that the self is Alice Thomson (Justine), and Ali
defined by an endless longing Smith (Hotel World), unveiling
for the other. Authors include a new canon that engages with
Joyce, Woolf, Stein, and Beck- feminism and postmodernism.
ett, all of whom engage with
M o n i c a G e r m a n à is a lecturer in
other-based, evanescent long-
English literature and creative writing
ings.
at the University of Westminster.
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Edmund Spenser’s The John Webster, Renaissance Medieval Literature and
Faerie Queene Dramatist Postcolonial Studies
A Reading Guide David Coleman Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Andrew Zurcher
Transgressive and darkly Lisa Lampert-Weissig exam-
Andrew Zurcher’s guide of- brilliant, the drama of John ines the historical connections
fers an innovative introduction Webster has long been cel- between postcolonial and me-
to The Faerie Queene and its ebrated as one of the crown- dieval studies, conducting new
complex poetic construction. ing glories of the English readings of key medieval texts
Through a representative selec- Renaissance. David Coleman from different European tradi-
tion of excerpts, Zurcher out- locates Webster’s remarkable tions. These include Wolfram
lines the skills and interpretive plays within Jacobean London’s von Eschenbach’s Parzival,
methods students will need as tumultuous political, religious, Bernard Mandeville’s Travels,
they experience Spenser’s key and economic climate. He and Guillaume de Palerne, a
themes and techniques. He reintroduces readers to the French romance about were-
identifies relevant contexts and playwright’s great tragedies wolves in Norman Sicily.
related texts, which not only en- and familiarizes them with Lampert also incorporates
hance the reading experience lesser-known works. Coleman insights from later historical
for newcomers but also build a explores and recounts perfor- fiction, such as Walter Scott’s
rich course that stretches into mances, from original stage Ivanhoe and contemporary
other disciplines and fields. productions to today’s cine- works by Salman Rushdie,
matic interpretations, complet- Tariq Ali, Juan Goytisolo, and
A n d r e w Z u r c h e r is fellow and
ing the only guide to Webster’s Amitav Ghosh.
Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of
work that takes recent scholar-
English at the University of Cambridge L i s a L a m p e r t- W e i s s i g is associ-
and the author of Spenser’s Legal ship into account.
ate professor in the Department of
Language: Law and Poetry in Early Literature and director of the German
Modern England. Dav i d C o l e m a n is lecturer in early
studies program at the University of
modern literature at Nottingham Trent
California, San Diego.
University.

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R ea d i ng G u i d e s to Lon g P o em s Re naissance D ra matists Postcolonial Lite rary Stu dies

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The American Short Story Selected Poems by Robert
edinburgh university press

Since 1950 Burns in Chinese Translation


Kasia Boddy Edited by Natascha Gentz

The American Short Story The University of Edinburgh’s


Since 1950 reassesses a criti- Co n f u c i u s I n s t i t u t e f o r
cally underrated genre dur- Scotland is proud to present
ing a particularly rich period the only bilingual, Chinese-
in literary history. The vol- to-Scottish collector’s edition
ume reads some of America’s of Robert Burns’s poems. The
greatest postwar writers, who volume contains eleven well-
found in the form a supreme known poems in English,
outlet for their literary and Walter Scott and the Limits including “I love My Jean,”
stylistic talents. Flannery of Language “My Love Is Like a Red, Red
O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Alison Lumsden Rose,” and “John Anderson,
J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, My Jo,” matched with facing-
Donald Barthelme, Grace Alison Lumsden studies Scott’s page Chinese translations.
Paley, Raymond Carver, Lorrie complex and evolving skepti- The translations, completed
Moore, Tim O’Brien, Denis cism toward the communica- in the 1920s by Su Manshu,
Johnson, Junot Díaz, Sherman tive capacities of language. This Wu Fangji, and Liu Pu, finely
Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, David is a theme that runs through- capture the lyricism of Burns’s
Bezmozgis, Edward P. Jones, out his writing, and Lumsden elegant and enduring verse.
David Foster Wallace, Gish Jen, brings the scholarship of the Each poem is accompanied by
and Lydia Davis are all covered. Edinburgh Edition of the a gorgeous page of Chinese
Kasia Boddy describes the lit- Waverley Novels to bear on a calligraphy, contributed by Chi
erary cultures in which these critical framework grounded Zhang, a renowned Chinese
authors wrote, the magazines in post-structuralist theory. calligraphy and brush painting
in which they published; the She reexamines this skepti- artist based at the University of
prizes they sought; the educa- cism within the historical con- Edinburgh.
tion they received, and their text of Scottish Enlightenment
N ata s c h a G e n t z is professor of
(often disappointing) sales fig- thought and recent develop-
Chinese studies and director of the
ures. ments in literary theory. Confucius Institute for Scotland at the
University of Edinburgh.
Ka s i a B o d dy is a lecturer in English A l i s o n Lu m s d e n is senior lecturer in
at University College London. the School of Language and Literature
and codirector of the Walter Scott
Research Centre at the University of
Aberdeen. She is the editor of four vol-
umes of the Edinburgh Edition of the
Waverley Novels and the recently re-
discovered Reliquiae Trotcosienses.

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p r e v i o u s ly a n n o u n c e d ,
n e w i n pa p e r
n o w ava i l a b l e

edinburgh university press


and the Cultural Studies and the
r Culture Study of Popular Culture
John Storey

ND EXPANDED THIRD EDITION: REVISED AND EXPANDED

John Storey
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture

f this best-selling introduction


ure. The book presents an
ories and methods which
opular culture. Doing this, it
f cultural studies through
es. Organised around a series
different media form and
ology for the actual study of
topics such as television,
popular music, and

ovides instantly usable theories


the procedures and politics of
nct and accessible overview.

itten and expanded


ow includes new sections on
globalisation.

and Director of the Centre for


the University of Sunderland.
THIRD EDITION

barcode
Edinburgh

Cultural Studies and the Czech and Slovak Cinema Hollywood’s Blacklists
Study of Popular Culture Peter Hames A Political and Cultural History
Third Edition Reynold Humphries
John Storey Peter Hames examines the A C h o ic e O u t s ta n d i n g
key themes and traditions of Ac a d e m i c T i t l e
This third edition marks a
Czech and Slovak cinema.
revised and fully updated in- “Are you now or have you
Joining interwar and postwar
troduction to the theories and ever been a member of the
cinema with films produced
methods of studying con- Communist Party?” That
during the post-communist
temporary popular culture. question was asked repeat-
period, Hames follows interac-
Organized around a series edly during the anticommunist
tions among theme, genre, and
of case studies, each chapter investigations of the House
visual style and explores the
focuses on a different media Committee on un-American
way in which a range of styles
form and presents a critical Activities (HUAC). When ten
and traditions extend across
overview of the methodologies members of the film industry
different periods and regimes.
used to analyze it. Television, refused to answer, they were
Taken altogether, Hames’s
fiction, film, journalism, popu- blacklisted and fired. Scores of
microanalysis of Czech and
lar music, consumerism, and actors, writers, and directors
Slovak cinema opens a unique
the culture of globalization are shared a similar fate, labeled
window onto greater themes in
discussed, and new sections on communists or communist
Central European film history.
print media and celebrity, com- sympathizers. Hollywood’s
munities in cyberspace, and P e t e r H a m e s is honorary research Blacklists explains why these in-
the circuit of culture have been associate in film and media studies at vestigations took place, the role
added. Staffordshire University. His books in-
films played during World War
clude The Czechoslovak New Wave,
j o h n sto r e y is professor of cultural
The Cinema of Central Europe (editor),
II and the Cold War, and the
studies and director of the Centre for and The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: values at stake as the Left con-
Research in Media and Cultural Studies Dark Alchemy. fronted the Right.
at the University of Sunderland.

Re y n o l d Hum p h r i e s is a former pro-


fessor of film studies at the University
of Lille.

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Bollywood in the Age of New
edinburgh university press

Media
The Geo-Televisual Aesthetic
Anustup Basu

Focusing on the phenomenal


output of popular Indian cin-
ema between 1991 and 2004,
Anustup Basu considers the
influence of globalization, new
media, and metropolitan Hindu
fundamentalism on the rise of
Badiou and Cinema Bollywood. Beginning in the Contemporary British Drama
Alex Ling early nineties, popular Hindi David Lane
cinema evolved a spectacular
Alex Ling seizes upon the phi- style inspired by liberalizing David Lane situates British
losophy of Alain Badiou to clar- trends and the inauguration of plays, theater companies, and
ify a central question in film a global media ecology. Films playwrights within their cul-
scholarship: can cinema be increasingly transformed bod- tural, political, and social con-
thought? Ling begins by reeval- ies, fashions, lifestyles, com- texts, tracing the developing
uating common conceptions modities, gadgets, and spaces, role of British playwrights and
of cinema, primarily through often without any obligation their art in an ever-shifting
an ontological investigation of to narrative. The unbounded theatrical landscape. Lane dis-
cinema’s fundamental nature flow of desire, affect, and aspi- cusses the dominant genres
and purpose. He then explores ration transcended the limits and emerging movements of
whether cinema can think for of story and milieu. Haqeeqat the past decade and links the
itself—that is, whether it’s truly (1995) features poor, working- practical implications of creat-
“artistic”—and concludes with class characters, but through ing dramatic literature to the
the consequences of a “think- the magic of music and dance, form and aesthetics of perfor-
ing” cinema for viewers and these downtrodden souls be- mance.
filmmakers. come transported to the streets
of Switzerland. Basu calls this D av i d L a n e is a dramaturg, play-

cinematic-cultural ecology the wright, and freelance lecturer.


Ling rereads well-known films,
from Hiroshima Mon Amour “geo-televisual aesthetic” and
(1959) and Vertigo (1958) to The connects it to the uneven pro-
Matrix (1999), illustrating how cesses of globalization.
Badiou’s philosophy works in
A n u s t u p B a s u is assistant profes-
practice.
sor of English and cinema studies at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-
A l e x L i n g is a lecturer in the School
Champaign.
of Culture and Communication at the
University of Melbourne.

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Ed inbur gh Cr it i cal Guides to

Li te rat ure

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Urban North-Eastern English

edinburgh university press


Tyneside to Teesside
Joan Beal, Lourdes Burbano-
Elizondo, and Carmen
Llamas

This volume details all as-


pects of urban north-eastern
English, designed specifically
with undergraduates and gen-
eral readers in mind. It lists the
phonetic, phonological, and
Sociolinguistic Variation and An Introduction to Regional morphosyntactic features of
Change Englishes the variety, including an analy-
Scott F. Kiesling Dialect Variation in England
sis of lexical items and genera-
Joan Beal tional changes. It also identifies
This textbook focuses on the historical, linguistic, and local
tension created among linguis- Are English dialects disappear- cultural influences.
tic structure, social structure ing under the pressure of glo-
J oa n B e a l is professor of English
and identity, and social and lin- balization and a preference for
language at the University of Sheffield
guistic perception. It discusses “Estuary English”—a dialect
and editor of the Edinburgh University
classic variationist literature widely spoken in the country’s Press series Dialects of English.
and the assertions made by southeast region—or are the
Lo u r d e s B u r b a n o - E l i zo n d o is a
more recent work based in geographical differences of
lecturer in English language at Edge
non-English and non-Euro- Britain as vibrant and resilient Hill University.
pean contexts. It also links the as ever? Joan Beal considers re-
C ar m e n Ll a m as is a lecturer in socio-
study of variation and change cent research on regional varia-
linguistics at the University of York.
to broader linguistic theo- tion in England and reevaluates
ries and considers how they the evidence for “dialect level-
account for variation. The vol- ing,” ultimately demonstrat-
ume addresses current debates ing that despite such trends,
in sociolinguistics and exam- distinct dialects still operate as
ines the most important issues clear and vivid markers of re-
surrounding variation theory gional and local identity.
today, along with the main
J oa n Be a l is professor of English lan-
forces that act on variation and
guage at the University of Sheffield and
change.
coeditor of the Edinburgh University
Press Dialects of English series.
S c ot t F. K i e s l i n g is associate pro-
fessor and chair in the Department
of Linguistics at the University of
Pittsburgh.

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Ed i n b u rgh S o c i o l i ngu i st i cs E dinbur g h Tex t b ooks on t he Di alects of E nglish

E ng lish Lang uag e

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Modern Diachronic Corpus- Scottish Literature and
edinburgh university press

Assisted Discourse Studies Postcolonial Literature


Corpora Volume 5.2 Comparative Texts and Critical
Edited by Alan Partington Perspectives
Edited by Michael Gardiner,
This text conducts a corpus Graeme MacDonald, and
linguistic study of grammati- Niall O’Gallagher
cal developments over time,
along with variations in lexi- This groundbreaking collec-
cal and phrasal preferences. It tion is the first to map the re-
contains a collection of papers lationship between Scottish
on the SiBol corpora, which literature and postcolonial
examines British broadsheet studies. Despite Scottish in- From Tartan to Tartanry
newspapers from 1993 to 2005. volvement in the British Scottish Culture, History, and Myth

They compare two sets of cor- Empire, the advent of devolu- Edited by Ian Brown
pora using keyword analyses tion together with the develop-
and targeted searches of such ment of Scottish literature has From Tartan to Tartanry criti-
terms as moral, ethics, and sci- encouraged critics to reread cally reevaluates one of the
ence. Papers are drawn from Scottish texts in a postcolonial more controversial issues in
Corpus-Assisted Discourse light. This collection compares Scottish culture—the debate
Studies (CADS), which com- Scottish writing to the works of over whether Scottish iden-
bine a quantitative, statistical postcolonial countries, proves tity and ideas about Scotland
approach with a more quali- the value of the postcolonial ap- are manufactured or organi-
tative method typical of dis- proach to Scottish literary stud- cally produced. Ian Brown, a
course analysis. Through such ies, and reveals the challenges prolific writer on Scottish sub-
corpora, the authors study that Scottish literature poses to jects, unites the voices of lead-
changes in newspaper prose debates in postcolonialism. ing researchers, who conduct
style and shifting relation- historical and critically sound
M i c h a e l G a r d i n e r is an assistant
ships between newspapers and evaluations of an ongoing con-
professor in the Department of English
their readerships—and overall and Comparative Literary Studies at cern.
changes in language—over the University of Warwick.
long periods. They also per- Ia n B r ow n is a freelance scholar, arts
G r a e m e M a c D o n a l d is a lecturer
and education consultant, playwright,
form various forms of content in the Department of English and and poet. He is a visiting professor in
analysis, examining new and Comparative Literary Studies at the the Department of Scottish Literature
older attitudes toward social, University of Warwick. at Glasgow University and external
cultural, and political phenom- N i a l l O ’ G a l l ag h e r is honorary re-
professor at the Centre for the Study
ena. search associate in the Department of of Media and Culture in Small Nations

Celtic at the University of Glasgow. at the University of Glamorgan.

A l a n Pa r t i n g to n is associate pro-
fessor of linguistics at the University of
Bologna.

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n e w i n pa p e r

History of the Scottish

edinburgh university press


Parliament
Parliament in Context, 1235–1707
(Volume 3)
Edited by Keith M. Brown
and Alan R. MacDonald

The third in Edinburgh


University Press’s History of
the Scottish Parliament series,
this volume revisits the devel-
opment of parliament via new
Domination and Lordship materials now available at the A History of Scottish
Scotland, 1070–1230 Records of the Parliaments of Philosophy
Richard Oram Scotland. Keith M. Brown and Alexander Broadie
Alan R. MacDonald gather es-
W i n n e r o f t h e S a lt i r e
Richard Oram balances a tablished and upcoming schol-
S o c i e t y S c ott i s h H i s to r y
traditional historiographi- ars, each of whom develop a B o o k o f t h e Y e a r Awa r d
cal focus on the “feudaliza- theme central to parliament’s
six centuries of history. Roland “An important and impressive
tion” of Scottish society and
Tanner and Gillian MacIntosh book.”—The Herald
its wholesale importation of
alien cultural traditions with investigate the relationship “A profound history by the rec-
an emphasis on the continu- between parliament and the ognized master in the field.”
ing vitality and centrality of crown; Roland Tanner and —Edward Cowan, University of
twelfth- and early-thirteenth- Kirsty MacAllister discuss in- Glasgow
century Gaelic culture. Part 1 teractions between parliament
explores the transition from and the church; Keith Brown This volume concentrates on
the Gaelic kingship of Alba to follows parliament and the philosophers from the late
the hybridized medieval state. nobility; and Alan MacDonald thirteenth to mid-twentieth
Part 2 considers society and examines parliament and the centuries and their relatation-
culture, following the growth of burghs. Other chapters follow ship with Scottish culture. It
Scottish economic structures, shifting political cultures and showcases John Duns Scotus,
changes in the management of their relationship with the law, Francis Hutcheson, David
land-based resources, and the political ideas, and social con- Hume, Adam Smith, and
exercise of secular power. trol. A concluding chapter sur- Thomas Reid, along with John
veys parliamentary procedures. Mair, George Lokert, Frederick
R i c h a r d O r a m is professor of medi- Ferrier, Andrew Seth, Norman
eval and environmental history at the K e i t h M . B r o w n is professor of Ke m p S m i t h , a n d Jo h n
University of Stirling. Scottish history, University of St.
Macmurray.
Andrews.

A l a n R . M ac D o n a l d is a lecturer in A l e xa n d e r B r oa d i e is professor of

history, University of Dundee. logic and rhetoric at the University of


Glasgow.

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S c ott i s h St u d i e s H isto ry o f t h e Scotti sh Pa rlia me nt

N ew E d i n b u rgh History o f S cotl and

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A History of Everyday Life in Essays in Criminal Law
edinburgh university press

Medieval Scotland in Honour of Sir Gerald


Edited by Edward Cowan Gordon
and Lizanne Henderson James Chalmers,
Fiona Leverick, and
This collection recounts the Lindsay Farmer
daily behaviors, experiences,
and beliefs of the Scottish The essays in this volume honor
people from early times to the work of Sir Gerald Gordon,
1600. Contributors establish the most significant figure in
the character of everyday life Scottish criminal law of the
in Scotland as it developed twentieth-century. Through
over time and within specific The Edinburgh History of his groundbreaking work The
contexts. Despite focusing on the Greeks, ca. 500–1050 Criminal Law of Scotland, now
The Early Middle Ages in its third edition, along with
the mundane, the authors also
heed the experience of war, Florin Curta his many academic and profes-
famine, environmental disas- sional contributions, Gordon’s
ter, and other disturbances, as- Florin Curta writes an absorb- influence on Scottish criminal
sessing long-term processes of ing account of the social, eco- law is unparalleled, reflected in
change in religion, politics, and nomic, and political factors of the range of topics covered in
economic and social affairs. In Greek life between 500 and this volume. Chapters address
showing how the extraordinary 1050 c.e. His approach relies a variety of subjects of contem-
impinged on the everyday, this on archaeological evidence porary interest and cover both
book draws on every possible and information gleaned from substantive and procedural
kind of evidence, including a coins and seals, fiscal docu- criminal law. Contributors are
diverse range of documentary ments, medieval chronicles, practitioners and academics
sources; artifactual, environ- and hagiographic literature. working within and outside of
mental, and archaeological Several themes connect his Scotland, demonstrating the
materials; and the published chapters: the Balkan context, extensive reach of Gordon’s
work of many disciplines. the social role of the army, and work.
Contributors respect a variety the onset of economic growth.
Ja m e s C h a l m e r s is a senior lecturer
of Scottish voices and reveal the Special attention is paid to the
in law at the University of Edinburgh.
nature of daily life across rank, size of the economy in early
class, gender, age, religion, and medieval Greece, and both so- F io n a L e v e r i c k is a senior lecturer in
law at Glasgow University.
ethnicity. cial and economic aspects are
treated as fundamentally over- L i n dsay Fa r m e r is a professor of law
E d wa r d J . C o wa n is professor of lapping spheres of activity. at the University of Glasgow.
Scottish history at the University of
Glasgow.
F lo r i n C u r ta is associate professor

L i z a n n e H e n d e r s o n is lecturer in of medieval history and archaeology at

history at the University of Dundee. the University of Florida.

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S c ott i s h St u d i e s The E dinbur g h H i sto ry o f t he Greeks Ed inbur gh Stu dies I n Law

A History o f E v e ry day L if e in Scot land

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P r e v i o u s ly A n n o u n c e d , N o w A v a i l a b l e

Active Citizenship

edinburgh university press


What It Could Achieve and How
Edited by Bernard Crick and
Andrew Lockyer

Contributors consider the pos-


sibilities for active citizenship
within areas of broad concern
in U.K. politics: youth and
justice, parliaments, women
and equality, immigration,
multiculturalism, schools,
African American Studies The Nation and Nationalism community, social inclusion,
Edited by Jeanette R. in Europe poverty, Europe, nationalisms,
An Introduction
Davidson and Britishness. Each chapter
Pawel Karolewski and considers the social and politi-
African American Studies intro- Andrzej Suszycki cal consequences of a U.K. citi-
duces the discipline’s rich area zen culture and how this reality
of inquiry and scholarship. It re- This book explores contending can be achieved.
produces foundational content, approaches to nation and na-
demonstrates the inextricable tionalism in Europe, including s i r b e r n a r d c r i c k (1929–2008)
was professor emeritus of politics at
link between social activism the issue of civic versus ethnic
Birkbeck College, honorary fellow in
and community service within nationalism and attempts to
politics at the University of Edinburgh,
African American studies, and overcome it. It also introduces and Stevenson Professor of Citizenship
facilitates an understanding of three types of nationalism: ide- at the University of Glasgow. Crick’s

related global perspectives. A ology, social movement, and numerous books include In Defence of

attitude, systematically treat- Politics; George Orwell: A Life; Essays


comparative analysis highlights
on Politics and Literature; Essays on
connections and disparities ing sub-state and central-state
Citizenship; and Democracy: A Short
between black studies within nationalism. In conclusion, Introduction.
the United Kingdom and the the text unpacks European na-
a n d r e w l o c k y e r is professor of
United States, and topics cov- tionalism in practice, through
citizenship and social theory at the
ered include African aesthetics; in-depth, single-country cases University of Glasgow. His publi-
African American visual cul- and cross-country comparisons cations include Juvenile Justice in
ture; African American wom- in Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Scotland; Education for Democratic

anist literature and theory; and Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Citizenship; and Youth Justice and
Child Protection.
African American religion and and Sweden.
philosophy.
paw e l k a r o l e w s k i is adjunct pro-
fessor of political science, University
j e a n e t t e r . dav i d s o n is director
of Potsdam. a n d r z e j s u s z yc k i is a
of the African and African American
senior lecturer in international politics,
studies program at the University of
Humboldt University.
Oklahoma.

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african american studies politics politics

i nt ro d u c i ng e thn i c st ud i es

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CHINESE UNIVERSI T Y PRESS

Daxue and Zhongyong The Other Voice


Bilingual Edition International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, 2009
Translated and Edited by Ian Johnston and (with DVD)

Wang Ping Edited by Gilbert C. F. Fong, Bei Dao, and


Shelby K. Y. Chan
For eight hundred years, scholars have regard-
ed the Daxue and the Zhongyong as essential, This anthology features poems by Bei Dao,
stand-alone critical studies of Confucian doc- Luljeta Lleshanaku, Gary Snyder, and eleven
trine. Yet, in their original forms, these texts other internationally renowned poets hailing
were part of a larger work, the Li Ji (Classic of from Albania, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Mexico,
Rites). This forty-chapter opus was promoted by the United States, mainland China, Taiwan,
the Song neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi, who and Hong Kong. In 2009, these artists assem-
extracted the Daxue and Zhongyong as separate bled for International Poetry Nights in Hong
texts. Translated and edited by Ian Johnston and Kong—the first such gathering to occur in the
Wang Ping, this volume contains a version and territory’s history. The works in this volume,
translation of the Daxue and Zhongyong as they selected by the poets themselves, are published
appeared in the Li Ji, with annotations by the in their original language as well as in Chinese
second-century Han scholar Zheng Xuan and and English. Included is a DVD sharing the re-
the seventh-century Confucian classicist Kong markable events of this encounter and the back-
Yingda. It also reproduces the reorganized and grounds of the poets who participated.
reinterpreted versions disseminated by Zhu Xi.
G i l b e r t C . F. F o n g is an adjunct professor of translation

I a n J o h n s to n has just released a complete translation


at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

and annotation of the classical philosophical treatise The B e i Dao is one of China’s most celebrated poets. His po-
Mozi. His published work concerns the later Mohists, and he etry collections include Unlock, At the Sky’s Edge: Poems,
has completed two translations of early Chinese poetry. 1991–1996, Landscape Over Zero, and Forms of Distance,

Wa n g P i n g is lecturer in the School of Languages and


and his work has been translated into more than twenty-

Linguistics at the University of New South Wales. five languages.

S h e l by K . Y. C h a n is an editor and translator based in


Hong Kong.

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Through an American Lens, Hungary, 1938 Hungarian-Soviet Relations, 1920–1941
EAS T EUROPEAN M ONO G RAPHS

Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White Attila Kolontári


Edited by Katalin Kádár Lynn
Text by Károly Szerencés, Katalin Kádár Lynn, and Peter Strausz
Interwar relations between Hungary and the
Soviet Union did not determine the subsequent
Katalin Kádár Lynn’s recently discovered trove fate of Europe. In fact, the two countries failed
of Margaret Bourke-White’s mostly unpub- to maintain diplomatic contact for most of the
lished photographs were taken during the art- period. Yet an examination of Hungarian-Soviet
ist’s month-long trip to Hungary in 1938. The relations from the end of the First World War
celebrated photojournalist shot riveting por- to the beginning of the Second World War pro-
traits of Hungary’s full political leadership vides some important revelations.
right before the outbreak of war. From photos
of Admiral Nicolas Horthy to Ferenc Szálasi, Hungary, which emerged from the First World
these images reveal Bourke-White’s skills as a War as a vulnerable losing power, and Soviet
master portraitist and the implied thoughts and Russia, recovering from severe economic and
attitudes of major figures as they faced a monu- social upset, proceeded down divergent paths
mental juncture in history. during these decades. Hungary achieved some
of its revisionist objectives between 1938 and
This volume enriches Bourke-White’s photos 1940; nevertheless, the country did not deter-
with contextualizing essays by prominent histo- mine the direction of Europe’s political devel-
rian Károly Szerencsés, speculating on Bourke- opments. The Soviet Union regained Great
White’s impressions as she visited Hungary for Power status, albeit in altered form, and, begin-
the first time. Her work speaks to the sadness, ning with the intensification of political ten-
treachery, inevitability, and disappointment felt sions within Europe during the 1930s, steadily
by a nation on the brink of war. A short biog- increased its authority, placing the USSR with
raphy and a brief history of modern Hungary Germany as one of the continent’s supreme
round out the volume. military powers. Moscow increasingly focused
its attention on central Europe, treating some
K ata l i n K á dá r Ly n n is a historian specializing in the
neighboring countries as being within its
United States, Central and East Europe during World
War II, and the Cold War. She also serves as trustee of the
sphere of interest, but did Soviet leaders regard
American Hungarian Library and Historical Society of New Hungary as part of this domain as well? Attila
York City. Kolontári attempts to answer this question
Károly Szerencsé s is an associate professor in the New
while expanding our understanding of these
and Contemporary Hungarian History Department, Eötvös events.
Loránd University, Budapest.
At t i l a Ko lo n tá r i is assistant professor of history at the
University of Kaposvar, Hungary. His research concerns
Hungarian-Soviet relations, Soviet foreign policy between
the two world wars, and the history of white Russian emi-
gration in Hungary.

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The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in Balkan Cultural Legacies

EAS T EUROPEAN M ONO G RAPHS


German, Austrian, and Hungarian Right- Historical, Literary, and Fine Arts Perceptions
Wing Historiography and Political Thinking, Edited by Jelena Milojković-Djurić
1918–1941
Gergely Romsics The land, people, and history of the Balkan
Peninsula have often attracted the attention of
Reproducing the political and historiographical foreign historians and writers. Yet a lack of re-
debates surrounding the legacy of the Habsburg search in primary sources and an absence of
Empire, this book follows the transformation of critical evaluations of Serbian, Bosnian, and
historico-political thinking during the two world Croatian histories undermines the credibility of
wars. The change begins in Germany, where such work.
völkish streams of the Conservative Revolution
offered a radical new interpretation of history. This collection, penned by eminent historians,
These readings focused on the unchanging es- examines Balkan cultural legacies in a variety of
sence of the Volk and treated a certain idea of contexts. They combine approaches from his-
the Habsburg past as inorganic, “derailing” his- tory, literature, fine arts, and architecture, and
tory and conflicting with the true calling of the address issues crucial to the cultural identities
German people. of the Balkans and Serbs. Topics range from the
activities of the Middle Ages to the early disinte-
The völkish movement and its historiography gration of Yugoslavia. Contributors focus on the
both inspired and challenged Austrian and question of territory and people and their geo-
Hungarian intellectuals, asking them to either graphical proximity. They examine common-
adopt or resist this new philosophy and the alities among language, history, and cultural
politics it represented. Building a history out legacies, and revise conceptions of nationalism
of the realignment of German thought and its and ethnicity through an exploration of histori-
affect on small states within the country’s cul- cal records and the political borders of state sov-
tural orbit, this volume inventively captures the ereignty.
clash between domestic tradition and imported
“innovation.” J e l e n a M i loj kov i C - Dj u r i c is the author of numerous
works on Balkan culture, including Tradition and Avant-

G e r g e ly R o m s i c s is a research fellow at the Hungarian garde: The Arts in Serbian Culture Between the Two World

Institute of International Affairs. Wars; Panslavism and National Identity in the Balkans, 1830–
1880: Images of the Self and Other; The Eastern Question
and the Voices of Reason: Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the
Balkan States, 1875–1908; and Aspects of Balkan Culture:
Social, Political, and Literary Perceptions.

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Neither Woman Nor Jew Minority Hungarian Risky Region
EAS T EUROPEAN M ONO G RAPHS

The Confluence of Prejudices in the Communities in the Memoirs of a Hungarian Righteous


Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Twentieth Century Gentile
Turn of the Century Edited by Nándor Bárdi, Eugene de Thassy
András Gerő Csilla Fedinec, and László
Szarka Eugene de Thassy describes
András Gerő contextualizes the life in Hungary between 1920
racialist, misogynist, and anti- The authors survey the experi- and 1945. He details his war-
Semitic ideas that influenced ences of Hungarian minori- time experiences serving as a
public discourse among the ties within Czechoslovakia, young army officer and joining
Austrian faction of the Dual Romania, Yugoslavia, and with the antifascist resistance.
Monarchy. Austria after World War I. They His absorbing recollections re-
follow more than ninety years count efforts to save Jews and
A n d r á s G e r O is professor of his-
of social, political, economic, others facing persecution at a
tory and chairman of the Department
and cultural upheaval and ex- time of extreme difficulty and
of History at Budapest University
(ELTE). He is also professor of history
amine in detail the relationship danger.
at Central European University and the between such communities
director of the Institute of Habsburg and the majority nations in E u g e n e d e T h a s s y (1920–2008)
was the member of an old landown-
History. which they were situated. The
ing family and studied at Ludovika, the
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Hungarian military academy. During
NOVE MBER 190 pages in these groups’ political and World War II he served as a military
HIS TORY
legal statuses. officer, and in 1944 he joined the re-
EE M # 767
sistance. He left Hungary for France
Nándor Bárdi, Csilla Fedinec, in 1946 and, five years later, emigrated
and L á s z ló S z a r k a are prominent to the United States, where he worked
Social History of Fine Arts in Hungarian researchers and members for Radio Free Europe and Voice of
Hungary, 1867–1918 of the Research Institute of Ethnic and America. He is the author of many nov-

Erika Szívós National Minorities at the Hungarian els, short stories, and plays.
Academy of Sciences.

Erika Szívós places the fine L á s z ló S z a r ka is director of the in-

arts and their practitioners stitute.

in the political, cultural, and


social context of the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy. She
investigates the influence
of European patterns on the
public role of the arts and the
changing status of the artist in
fin-de-siècle Hungary.
E rika Szívós is assistant professor of
economic and social history at Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest.

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Hungary Under Soviet The Place of Russia in The Novel of Crepuscular

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Domination, 1944–1989 Europe and Asia Universes
György Gyarmati and Edited by Gyula Szvák Ion Vlad
Tibor Valuch
Gyula Szvák selects essays Ion Vlad investigates the her-
György Gyarmati and Tibor from a series of seminars that aldry of “the novel of ideas”
Valuch chronicle the signifi- took place between 1998 and and whether this taxonomy is
cant years between the end of 2008 under the auspices of the still viable within the wide and
the Second World War and the Russian Studies Center, Eötvös heterogeneous sphere of narra-
game-changing events of 1989. Loránd University, Budapest. tive. He closely reads Thomas
During the so-called Rákosi Among the contributors are Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann
Era, the Communist Party Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Paul Broch, Witold Gombrowicz,
strictly controlled the opera- Dukes, Nancy S. Kollman, and Günter Grass.
tion of government and society. Maureen Perry, and the re- I o n V l a d is emeritus professor in
Yet everything changed with cently deceased Ruslan G. philology at the University of Cluj,
the revolution of 1956. The Skyrnnikov. Romania.
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Era (1957–1989) and the affect University, Budapest. He is the author
of fifteen books on Muscovy and the
of “Hungarian Socialism.”
age of Peter the Great. His previous
English-language monograph, False Hungarian Americans in the
György Gyarmati is chief director of
the State Security Services Historical
Tsars, was published in 2000. Current of History
Archives. His primary research con- Steven Béla Várdy and
cerns Hungarian political and social Agnes Huszár Várdy
history in the second half of the twen-
tieth century.
Twelve essays on Hungarian-
T i b o r Va lu c h is senior researcher at American history discuss
the Institute for the History of the 1956 Louis Kossuth’s tumultuous
Hungary Revolution. He specializes in
mid-nineteenth-century visit
twentieth-century Hungarian social
and cultural history.
to the United States, the po-
litical activities of Hungarian
Americans during and after
World War II, and the question
of dual and multiple identities,
among other topics.
S t e v e n B é l a Vá r dy is McAnulty
Distinguished Professor of European
History, and Ag n e s H u s z á r Vá r dy
is adjunct professor of comparative lit-
erature at Duquesne University.

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Accounting for Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Brown, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost, The. . . 45
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Ackerley, C. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Brown, Keith M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Curse of Berlin, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68


Action/Adventure Films. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Brown, Wendy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Curta, Florin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Active Citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Bryan, Steven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Czech and Slovak Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . 107
Adebajo, Adekeye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Buddhist Philosophy of Language in Dao, Bei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. . . . . . . . . . . 81 India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Darsan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
African American Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Building a Meal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Davidson, Christopher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
African Film and Literature. . . . . . . . . . 120 Burbano-Elizondo, Lourdes. . . . . . . . . 109 Davidson, Jeanette R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
After Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Butler, Judith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Davis, Whitney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
After Pluralism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Cachia, Pierre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Daxue and Zhongyong. . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Agamben, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Calarco, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Day, Gail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Ahmed, Habib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Calhoun, Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Day, Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Aid Trap, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Capturing Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Dayan, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Allen, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Carter, Steven D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. . . . . . . . . . . 100
American Short Story Since 1950, Cavarero, Adriana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 de Greiff, Pablo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CBS’s Don Hollenbeck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Deleuze and Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
American Society of Magazine Editors, Cha, Victor D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Deleuze and Political Activism. . . . . . . . . 95
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chalmers, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Deleuze Dictionary, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
America’s Response to China. . . . . . . . . 123 Chan, Shelby K. Y.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of
Anarchic Sea, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Cheese, Pears, and History History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anderson, David L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 in a Proverb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 de Man, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Animal Ethics in Context. . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Chen, Xiaomei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Demented Particulars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Animal Rights Debate, The. . . . . . . . . . . 29 Ching, Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Democracy in What State?. . . . . . . . . . . 14
Apart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Chomsky Notebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Anecdotal
Armbrecht, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chute, Hillary L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Japanese Tales, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Atkinson, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Cinema of India, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Derrida and Hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Audience Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Circulating Genius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 de Thassy, Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Autism’s False Prophets. . . . . . . . . 120, 122 Classical Arabic Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Diagnosis: Schizophrenia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Climate Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Dialectical Passions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Clio Wired. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Disarming the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Badiou, Alain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Cody, Gabrielle H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Disaster Deferred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Badiou and Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Cohen, Avner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Balkan Cultural Legacies. . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Cohen, Saul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Domination and Lordship. . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Bangladesh and Pakistan. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Cohen, Stephen F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Donghaile, Deaglán Ó. . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Barash, David P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Cohen, Warren I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Doniger, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Barbarous Philosophers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Coker, Christopher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dorrien, Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bárdi, Nándor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Colás, Alejandro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Dovey, Lindiwe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Barthes, Roland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Coleman, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Duggan, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Basu, Anustup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Collins, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 East Asia Before the West . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Beal, Joan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Colman, Jonathan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Eating History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Beckett and Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Eck, Diana L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Behind the Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Drama, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Economy, Difference, Empire. . . . . . . . . . 28
Bender, Courtney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York
Bensaid, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Berry, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Edinburgh History of the Greeks, ca. 500-
Best American Magazine Writing 2010, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 1050, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry in Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie
Beyond the ‘Wild Tribes’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Anthologies, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Queene’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Beyond the Final Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Columbia History of the Vietnam War, El-Hibri, Tayeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Billson, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Emirati Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Blasted Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Connell, Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Engelman, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Boddy, Kasia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media. . . 98 Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir
Bogue, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Contemporary British Drama . . . . . . . . 108 Gerald Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Bollywood in the Age of New Media. . . 108 Cooper, Ian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Ethics for Today, An. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Bousquet, Antoine J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Cowan, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Europe Through Arab Eyes,
Bricmont, Jean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Crangle, Sara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 1578–1727. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Bright Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Craving Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Evans, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Bristol-Rhys, Jane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Crick, Bernard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Evans, Fred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Broadie, Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Cronin, Thomas M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Brooker, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Cultural Identity and Political Ethics. . . . 94 Explorations Into Arab Folk Literature. . 100
Brookshaw, Dominic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Exploring the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Farmer, Lindsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

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Favarel-Garrigues, Gilles . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 11 . . . . . . . . . 93 Kinahan, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fedinec, Csilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 12. . . . . . . . . 93 Kitchen Mysteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Field Notes from Elsewhere. . . . . . . . . . 123 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 13 . . . . . . . . . 93 Klassen, Pamela E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Film Authorship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 14. . . . . . . . . 93 Klein, Menachem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fong, Gilbert C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 15 . . . . . . . . . 93 Knowledge Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ford, Dolly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Hitchcock Annual, Volume 16. . . . . . . . . 92 Kolodko, Grzegorz W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson, Hitchcock Annual Anthology, The. . . . . . 92 Kolontári, Attila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Hoffman, Bruce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Krimsky, Sheldon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Formicola, Allan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Hollywood’s Blacklists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Kristeva, Julia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 123
Francione, Gary L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Hong Kong Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Kroessler, Jeffrey A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Franck, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Horrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Kwon, Heonik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Friendlyvision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Housby, Elaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Lahlali, El Mustapha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
From Agamben to ŽiŽek. . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Howard, Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Laird, Garry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
From Mao to Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 How Women Got Their Curves and Other Lampert-Weissig, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
From Tartan to Tartanry . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Just-So Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Lane, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Fukuzawa, Yukichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Hubbard, R. Glenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Langbehn, Volker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Gaffney, Freddie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Hubert Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Lanza, Fabio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Gardiner, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts. . . . . . . . . . 44 Late Age of Print, The. . . . . . . . . . . 52, 122
Garner, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Humphries, Reynold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Let the Right One In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Genetic Justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Hungarian Americans in the Current of Leverick, Fiona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Gentz, Natascha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Lindner, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
German Colonialism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hungarian-Soviet Relations, Ling, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Germanà, Monica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 1920–1941 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Lipton, Judith Eve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Gerő, András . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hungary Under Soviet Domination, 1944– Literary Criticism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Gest, Justin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Literature of the 1980s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Ghiglione, Loren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Hyping Health Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Llamas, Carmen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Gilbert and Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Implied Spider, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lockyer, Andrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Gilbert, Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 In Lady Audley’s Shadow. . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Lohmann, Roger A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Gillet, Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Inside New York 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Luisi, Pier Luigi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Globalized Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Inside Terrorism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Lukács, György. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Gold Standard at the Turn of the Inside the Red Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Lumsden, Alison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Twentieth Century, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 International Film Guide 2010. . . . . . . . . 90
Lynn, Katalin Kádár . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Gomez-Muller, Alfredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Introduction to Regional Englishes,
Mabee, Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Gopalan, Lalitha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
MacDonald, Alan R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Gottlieb, Sidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Invention of International Relations Theory,
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 MacDonald, Graeme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Gow, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Macpherson, Ayesha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Gramsci, Antonio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50–51 Isenberg, Noah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Islamic Asset Management. . . . . . . . . . . 99 Man, the State, and War. . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Graphic Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Mason, Susan E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Greater New York Sports Chronology, Islamic Conversion and Christian
Resistance on the Early Modern Stage.100 Matar, Nabil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Islamic Finance in the Global Economy. 98 Mathez, Edmond A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922. . . . . . . 72
Islamic Financial Services in Great Mauboussin, Michael J.. . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Guilhot, Nicolas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 McCrea, Lawrence J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Gyarmati, György. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Islam in America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 McEachern, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Habermas, Jürgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle McInnes, Rob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Haiku Before Haiku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Against Terrorism, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 McMillan, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Hames, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Media Persian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Hanning, Robert W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Jewish Terrorism in Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Medieval Literature and Postcolonial
Harmony and War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Johnston, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Hatred and Forgiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist. . 105 Meinander, Henrik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Haunting Legacies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Jun, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Meister, Robert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Henderson, Lizanne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Kabat, Geoffrey C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Memoir of Forgetting the Capital Flowers
Hensman, Rohini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Kabir, Nahid Afrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 (Miyakowasure no ki). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Hernandez-Cordero, Lourdes . . . . . . . . 83 Kale, Tessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Memory of the Habsburg Empire in
Hess, Edward D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Kamuf, Peggy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 German, Austrian, and Hungarian
History of Everyday Life in Medieval Right-Wing Historiography and Political
Kang, David C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Thinking, 1918–1941, The. . . . . . . . . . . 117
Scotland, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Kao, Charles K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and
History of Finland, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Kaplan, Sydney Janet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
History of Namibia, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Karolewski, Pawel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations,
History of Scottish Philosophy, A. . . . . . . 111
Keller, Lisa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
History of the Scottish Parliament. . . . . . 111
Khalidi, Rashid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Milam, William B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Miller, Richard B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Ping, Wang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110


Mills, Robin M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Place of Russia in Europe and Asia, Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic
Milojković-Djurić, Jelena . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Writing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Mind and Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Policing Economic Crime in Russia . . . . . 70 Securing the State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Minority Hungarian Communities in the Political Liberalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Selected Poems by Robert Burns in Chinese
Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Politics of Culture and the Spirit of
Mobilizing the Community for Better Critique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Sellors, C. Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Porter, Robin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Serious Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Posner, Kenneth A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Shift, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Discourse Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, Shirane, Haruo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Molecular Gastronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Sibley, David Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Monde, Le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Power of the Internet in China, The. . . . 54 Simoncelli, Tania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Montanari, Massimo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Preparation of the Novel, The. . . . . . . . . . 2 Simons, Jon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
More Than You Know. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Primacy of the Political, The. . . . . . . . . . 64 Singh, J. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Moser, Charlotte A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Prison Notebooks, Three Volume Set. . . . 51 Sloggett, Dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Multivoiced Body, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Prison Notebooks, Volume 1 . . . . . . . . . . 50 Smart Growth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Mutual Fund Industry, The . . . . . . . . . . 121 Prison Notebooks, Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . 50 Smith, Andrew F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Naiqian, Cao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . . 51 Smith, Daniel W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Nancy, Jean-Luc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Product Development In Islamic Smith, Ian Hadyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Napoli, Philip M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Banks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Smith, Jane I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Narlikar, Amrita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Promises of Liberty, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Social History of Fine Arts in Hungary,
Nation and Nationalism in Europe, Prosaic Desires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 1867–1918. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Prothero, Donald R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Social Work and Human Rights . . . . . . . 83
Neither Woman Nor Jew. . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Queer Beauty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Sociolinguistic Variation and Change. . . 109
New Muslim Brotherhood in the West, Rancière, Jacques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Soffer, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Rawls, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Sok-pom, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
New Powers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Reds at the Blackboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Solomonidis, Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes Reforming the International Financial Soul and Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
from a Life at the Movies, The. . . 120, 123 System for Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives. . . . . . 54
Nicholson, Andrew J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Reichert, Elisabeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Splice, Volume 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Nixon, Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Splice, Volume 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Not Being God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Global Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Sprinchorn, Evert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Novelist’s Lexicon, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Resolving Community Conflicts and Stalking the Black Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Novel of Crepuscular Universes, The . . . 119 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Stein, Seth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Noys, Benjamin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Responsibility of the Philosopher, The . . . 15 Step Towards the Unknown, A. . . . . . . . 115
O’Gallagher, Niall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Rethinking Islamophobia. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Still, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys. . . . . . . . . . 101 Revisioning 007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Storey, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Oeppen, Ceri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Rhoten, Diana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Strange Wonder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Offit, Paul A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 120, 122 Rhythm in Literature After the Crisis in Strategic Intuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Omand, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Verse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Striphas, Ted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 122
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. . . 60 Risky Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Strub, Whitney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Oram, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Robert K. Merton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Studying British Cinema: The 1980s. . . . 89
Other Cold War, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Robinson, Greg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Sundaram, Jomo Kwame. . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Other Voice, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Rockhill, Gabriel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Suszycki, Andrzej. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Owen, J. Judd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Rolston, Holmes, III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Svirsky, Marcelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Owen, John M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Romantic Predicament, The . . . . . . . . . 104 Szarka, László. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Paleoclimates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Romsics, Gergely. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Szívós, Erika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Palestinian Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Rorty, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Szvák, Gyula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Palmer, Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Rosenfield, Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Talbot, Toby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 123
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic Rosenzweig, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Ross, Kristin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Taylor, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Parr, Adrian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Rubenstein, Mary-Jane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Taylor, Clarence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Partington, Alan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Sacred Universe, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Taylor, Mark C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Patel, Ana Cutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Śakuntalā . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought. . . . 11
Patil, Parimal G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Salama, Mohammad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Thapar, Romila. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Pedahzur, Ami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 123 Sayyid, Salman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of
Penman, Stephen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Scandal of Susan Sontag, The. . . . . . . . 123 You Late at Night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Perliger, Arie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Schlenkhoff, Angela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Thin Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Perry, Jeffrey B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Schoon, Natalie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 This, Hervé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia, The. . . . . . 80 Schwab, Gabriele. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 This Incredible Need to Believe . . . . . . . 123
Persistence of the Negative, The . . . . . . . 97 Scientific Way of Warfare, The. . . . . . . . . 56 Three Big Bangs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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1938. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
To Follow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Tomaiuolo, Saverio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Tragedy of Democracy, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Triumph of Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Truth, Errors, and Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tsesis, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Understanding Torture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Unifying Hinduism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Urban North-Eastern English. . . . . . . . . 109
Vaccines and Your Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Vakil, Abdulkaroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Valuch, Tibor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
van Hulle, Dirk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Vaninskaya, Anna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Van Loon, Borin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Van Til, Jon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Várdy, Agnes Huszár . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Várdy, Steven Béla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Vattimo, Gianni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 59
Vidino, Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Vlad, Ion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.. . . . . . . . . . 123
Waldorf, Lars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Wallace, David Foster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Wallace, Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Walter Scott and the Limits of
Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Waltz, Kenneth N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Wang, Yuan-kang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
War and War Crimes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Warde, Ibrahim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Weimar Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
West, Cornel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
William Morris and the Idea of
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Williams, Carolyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Witchfinder General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Workers, Globalization, and Crisis. . . . . . 76
Worst-Kept Secret, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Yang, Guobin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Young, Sera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Young British Muslims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Zhongshu, Qian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Ziff, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Žižek, Slavoj. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Zoographies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Zurcher, Andrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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