Jeremy Tambling, The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida. The Last Sentence of the Law, Bloomsbury, 2023 Description In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran …
Anahit Behrooz, Mapping Middle-earth. Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies. Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus of maps …
Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland David Koepsell (Editor), Matthew P. Meyer (Editor), William Irwin (Series Editor) Description Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order …
Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement. An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, 2024 Foreword by Daniel W. Smith Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth …
Martin Stokes, Music and Citizenship, Oxford University Press, 2023 Critical citizenship practices and the language of today’s populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today’s insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of ‘flexible’ or ‘differentiated’ citizenships – plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining ‘the …
Truth in the Late Foucault. Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis Paul Allen Miller (Anthology Editor), Bloomsbury, 2024 Description The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the …
Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, Cours, conférences et travaux, EHSS Gallimard Seuil, 2024 Édition établie, sous la responsabilité de François Ewald, par Bernard E. Harcourt « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu’un tout petit article ; ce sont …
Paul Muldoon, The Penitent State Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing, Oxford University Press, 2023 This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures – especially the gesture of apology – becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do …
Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration Edited By Amanda McKay, Pat Thomson, Jill Blackmore, Routledge, 2024 This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book makes a …
Simon Lemoine, Responsabiliser pour dominer. Aliénation et émancipation par l’aménagement des lieux de vie, Hermann, 2024 (France) Also published by Presses de l’Université Laval (Canada) Cet ouvrage examine les nombreuses responsabilisations qui s’imposent à nous tout au long de notre vie. Sont-elles toujours légitimes ? L’individu est-il par nature un sujet responsable, ou est-il, au …
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