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The Complete Works
of Friedrich Nietzsche........... 2-3
Political Philosophy................. 3-5
Ethics and Moral
Philosophy................................... 5-6
Phenomenology and
Critical Theory........................... 6-8
Meridian: Crossing
Aesthetics.................................... 8-9
Cultural Memory in
the Present..................................9-11
Now in Paperback........................ 11
Examination Copy Policy......... 11
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2 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Unpublished Fragments Political Grammars Surging Democracy
(Spring 1885–Spring 1886) The Unconscious Foundations Notes on Hannah Arendt’s
Volume 16 of Modern Democracy Political Thought
Friedrich Nietzsche Davide Tarizzo Adriana Cavarero
Translated, with an Afterword, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem In this provocative new work, Adriana
by Adrian Del Caro of modern democratic, liberal peoples Cavarero weighs in on contemporary
This volume provides the first —how to define them, how to explain debates about the relationship between
English translation of all Nietzsche’s their invariance over time, and how to democracy, happiness, and dissent.
unpublished notes from the period differentiate one people from another. Drawing on Arendt’s understanding of
in which he wrote his breakthrough Tarizzo proposes that Jacques Lacan’s politics as a participatory experience,
philosophical books Beyond Good theory of the subject enables us to and also work by Émile Zola, Elias
and Evil and On the Genealogy of clearly distinguish between the notion Canetti, Boris Pasternak, Roland
Morality. Keen to reinvent himself of personal identity and the notion Barthes, and Judith Butler, Cavarero
of subjectivity, and this distinction is proposes a new view of democracy,
after Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the
critical to understanding the nature based not on violence, but rather on the
philosopher used these notes to
of nations whose sense of nationhood spontaneous experience of a plurality
chart his search for a new philo-
does not rest on any self-evident of bodies coming together in public.
sophical voice. The notebooks reveal
identity or pre-existent cultural or With this timely intervention Cavarero
his deep concern for Europe and
ethnic homogeneity. Introducing the suggests democracy’s emergence thrives
its future. We learn what Nietzsche concept of “political grammar”—the
was reading and from whom he on the nonviolent creativity of a
conditions of political subjectifica- widespread, participatory, and relational
borrowed, and we find considerable tion that enable the enunciation of
notes and fragments from the power shared horizontally rather than
an emergent “we”—Tarizzo argues
non-book “Will to Power.” Richly vertically. From digital democracy to
democracy flourishes when the
annotated and accompanied by a contemporary protest movements,
opening between subjectivity and
detailed translator’s afterword, this Cavarero argues that we need to rethink
identity is maintained. As he compel-
landmark volume sheds light on our focus on individual happiness and
lingly demonstrates, democracy can
the controversy surrounding the be productively perceived as a process rediscover birth through plural interac-
Nachlass of the 1880s. of never-ending recovery from a lack tion. Let us be happy, she urges, but let
of clear national identity. us do so publicly, politically, together.
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 3
Across the Great Divide The Last Years of Karl Marx Limits
Between Analytic and Continental An Intellectual Biography Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why
Political Theory Environmentalists Should Care
Marcello Musto
Jeremy Arnold Giorgos Kallis
In the last years of his life, Karl
The division between analytic Marx expanded his research in Western culture is infatuated with
and continental political theory new directions—studying recent the dream of going beyond, even
remains as sharp as it is wide, anthropological discoveries, as it is increasingly haunted by the
rendering basic problems seemingly analyzing communal forms of specter of apocalypse: drought,
intractable. Across the Great Divide ownership in precapitalist societies, famine, nuclear winter. Re-reading
offers an account of how this split supporting the populist movement Thomas Robert Malthus and his
has shaped the field and suggests in Russia, and expressing critiques legacy, this book reclaims, redefines,
means of addressing it. Rather of colonial oppression. With The and makes an impassioned plea for
than advocating a synthesis of Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello limits—a notion central to environ-
these philosophical modes, Arnold Musto claims a renewed relevance mentalism—clearing them from
argues for aporetic cross-tradition for the late work of Marx, high- their association with Malthusian-
theorizing: bringing together both lighting unpublished or previously ism and the ideology and politics
traditions in order to show how neglected writings, many of which that go along with it. Limits are not
each is at once necessary something out there, a property of
remain unavailable in English.
and limited. nature to be deciphered by scien-
Readers are invited to reconsider
tists, but a choice that confronts us,
Marx’s critique of European colonial-
Engaging with a range of fundamen- one that, paradoxically, is part and
ism, his ideas on non-Western
tal political concepts and theorists— parcel of the pursuit of freedom.
societies, and his theories on the
including the work of Stanley Cavell, Taking us from ancient Greece to
possibility of revolution in non- Malthus, from hunter-gatherers
Philip Pettit and Hannah Arendt,
capitalist countries. From Marx’s to the Romantics, from anarchist
John Rawls, and Jacques Derrida—
late manuscripts, notebooks, and feminists to 1970s radical environ-
Arnold shows how we can better
letters emerges an author markedly mentalists, Limits shows us how an
understand and address the pressing
different from the one represented institutionalized culture of sharing
political issues of civil freedom and
by many of his contemporary can make possible the collective
state justice today.
critics and followers alike. self-limitation we so urgently need.
“Outstanding and original.”
“Musto takes us by the hand and “Compelling.”
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4 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The Political Theory Toward the Critique of Love Drugs
of Neoliberalism Violence The Chemical Future of
A Critical Edition Relationships
Thomas Biebricher
Walter Benjamin Brian D. Earp and
Neoliberalism has become a dirty
word. Yet the term remains necessary Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng Julian Savulescu
for understanding the varieties of Marking the centenary of Walter Is there a pill for love? In fact,
capitalism across space and time. Benjamin’s influential essay, biochemical interventions into love
Arguing that neoliberalism is widely “Toward the Critique of Violence,” and relationships are not some far-
misunderstood when reduced to a this critical edition presents read- off speculation. Our most intimate
doctrine of markets and economics ers with a new, fully annotated connections are already being
alone, this book shows that it has a translation of a classic of modern influenced by drugs we ingest for
political dimension that we can re- political theory. other purposes. Controlled studies
construct and critique. By examining are underway to see whether arti-
the views of state, democracy, science, The volume includes notes and ficial brain chemicals can enhance
and politics in the work of six major fragments by Benjamin along couples therapy. And conservative
figures—Eucken, Röpke, Rüstow, with passages from all of the religious groups are experimenting
Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan— contemporaneous texts to which with certain medications to quash
The Political Theory of Neoliberalism his essay refers: provocative romantic desires—and even the
offers the first comprehensive account arguments about law and violence urge to masturbate—among
of the varieties of neoliberal political advanced by Hermann Cohen, children and vulnerable sexual
thought. The book also interprets Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and minorities. In Love Drugs ethicists
recent neoliberal reforms of the Emil Lederer; a new translation Brian D. Earp and Julian Savulescu
European Union to diagnose contem- of selections from Georges Sorel’s arm us with the latest scientific
porary capitalism more generally. The Reflections on Violence; and, for knowledge and a set of ethical tools
latest economic crises hardly brought the first time in any language, a that we can use to decide if these
the neoliberal era to an end. Instead, bibliography Benjamin drafted for sorts of medications should be a
as Thomas Biebricher shows, we are the expansion of the essay and the part of our society.
witnessing an authoritarian liberalism development of a corresponding
philosophy of law. “A fascinating, game-changing
whose reign has only just begun. scientific argument.”
“A model of what political theory “The most comprehensible version —Helen Fisher,
should be.” yet of Benjamin’s compelling and author of Anatomy of Love
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ETHICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY 5
Giving Way Prose of the World Theory of the Earth
Thoughts on Unappreciated Denis Diderot and the Periphery Thomas Nail
Dispositions of Enlightenment
We need a new philosophy of the
Steven Connor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht earth. Crafting a philosophy of geol-
In a world that promotes assertion, Philosopher, translator, novelist, art ogy that rewrites natural and human
agency, and empowerment, this critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, history from the broader perspective
book challenges us to revalue a Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest of movement, Thomas Nail provides
range of actions and attitudes that figures of the Enlightenment. a new materialist, kinetic ethics of
have come to be disregarded or But how might we delineate the the earth for this moment.
dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, contours of his diverse oeuvre, Climate change and other
resignation, politeness, restraint, which is clearly characterized by a ecological disruptions challenge
gratitude, abstinence, losing well, centrifugal dynamic? us to reconsider the deep history
apologizing, taking care: today,
Conjuring scenes from Diderot’s of minerals, atmosphere, plants,
such behaviors are associated with
by turns turbulent and quiet life, and animals and to take a more
negativity or lack. But the capacity
offering close readings of several process-oriented perspective that
to give way is better understood
key books, and probing the motif sees humanity as part of the larger
as positive action, at once intricate
of a tension between physical cosmic and terrestrial drama of
and demanding. Moving from
perception and conceptual experi- mobility and flow. Building on his
intra-human common courtesies,
ence, Gumbrecht demonstrates earlier work on the philosophy of
to human-animal relations, to the
how Diderot belonged to a vivid movement, Nail argues we should
global civility of human-inhuman
intellectual periphery that included shift our biocentric emphasis from
ecological awareness, the book’s
protagonists such as Lichtenberg, conservation to expenditure, flux,
argument unfolds on progressively
Goya, and Mozart. With this pro- and planetary diversity, and rethink
larger scales. At a time when it is
vocative, elegant work, he elaborates our ethical relationship to one
on the wane, Giving Way offers a
the existential preoccupations of another, the planet, and the cosmos
powerful defense of civility, the
this periphery, revealing the way at large.
versatile human capacity to deflect
they speak to us today. “A needed provocation.”
aggression into sociability and to
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6 ETHICS AND MORAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND CRITICAL THEORY
PHILOSOPHY
Crowds Photography and Its Shadow Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities
The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity A Politics of Silence
Hagi Kenaan
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Adam Knowles
Photography and Its Shadow argues
Finalist for the 2020 Football Book that the invention of photography This book argues that Martin
of the Year Award from the German
Academy for Football Culture marked a rupture in our relation to Heidegger’s politics and philosophy
the world and what we see in it. The of language emerge from a deep
Anyone who has ever experienced affinity for the ethno-nationalist
dominant theoretical and artistic
a sporting event in a large stadium and anti-Semitic politics of the
paradigm for understanding the
knows the energy that emanates Nazi movement. Himself a product
invention has been the tracing of
from stands full of fans cheering on of a conservative milieu, Heidegger
shadows. But what photography
their teams. Although “the masses” did not have to significantly
really inaugurated was the shadow’s
have long held a thoroughly bad compromise his thinking to adapt
disappearance—a disappearance that
reputation in politics and culture, it to National Socialism but only
irreversibly changed our relationship
literary critic and avid sports fan to intensify certain themes within
to nature and the real, to time and to
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds it. Tracing the continuity of these
death. A way of negotiating imper-
powerful, as yet unexplored reason themes in Heidegger’s work,
manence, photography conflated
to sing the praises of crowds. Draw- Knowles argues that if Heidegger
two incompatible configurations of
ing on his experiences as a spectator was able to align himself so
the visible: an embodied human eye,
in the stadiums of South America, thoroughly with Nazism, it was
sensitive to nature, and a machine
Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht partly because his philosophy was
vision that aimed to reify the instant
presents the stadium as “a ritual of predicated upon fundamental
and wallow in images alone. Chal-
intensity,” thereby offering a differ- forms of silencing and exclu-
lenging the most influential accounts
ent lens through which we might sion. Rather than simply banish
of the practice and taking us from its
capture and even appreciate the Heidegger from the philosophical
origins to the present, Hagi Kenaan
dynamic of the masses. realm, Knowles asks: could what
shows how photography has been
Pairing philosophical rigor with the transformed over time, and how it drove Heidegger to Nazism
enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht transforms us. continue to haunt the discipline? In
writes from the inside and suggests the context of today’s burgeoning
“Theorizes photography as power-
that being part of a crowd opens us fully as Susan Sontag and Roland ethno-nationalist regimes, can
up to an experience beyond ourselves. Barthes did.” contemporary philosophy ensure
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PHENOMENOLOGY AND CRITICAL THEORY 7
What Would Be Different The Book of Shem Two Studies of
Figures of Possibility in Adorno On Genesis before Abraham Friedrich Hölderlin
Iain Macdonald David Kishik Werner Hamacher
Possibility is a concept central to One of the most radical rereadings Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng,
both philosophy and social theory. of the opening chapters of Genesis Translated by Julia Ng and
But in what philosophical soil, if since The Zohar. Anthony Curtis Adler
any, does the possibility of a better Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin
The Book of Shem offers an inspir-
society grow? At the intersection shows how the poet enacts a radical
ing interpretation of this navel of
of metaphysics and social theory, theory of meaning that culminates
world literature. The six parts of the
What Would Be Different looks in a unique and still groundbreaking
primeval story—God’s creation, the
to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect concept of revolution, one that begins
Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel,
on the relationship between the with a revolutionary understanding
Noah’s Ark, the first covenant, and
possible and the actual. In repeated of language. The product of an
the Tower of Babel—come together
allusions to utopia, redemption, and intense engagement with both Walter
to address a single concern: How
reconciliation, Adorno appears to Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the
does one become the human being
reference a future that would break book presents Werner Hamacher’s
that one is? By closely analyzing
decisively with the social injustices major attempts at developing a critical
the founding text of the Abrahamic practice commensurate with the
that have characterized history. To
religions, this short treatise rethinks immensity of Hölderlin’s late writings.
this end, he also makes extensive
some of their deepest convictions. Readers will not only come away
technical use of the concept
With a mixture of reverence and with a new appreciation of Hölderlin’s
of possibility. Taking Adorno’s
violence, Kishik’s creative commen- poetic and political-theoretical
critical readings of other thinkers,
tary demonstrates the post-secular achievements but will also discover the
especially Hegel and Heidegger, as
implications of a pre-Abrahamic motivating force behind Hamacher’s
his guiding thread, Iain Macdonald
position. own achievements as a literary scholar
reflects on possibility as it relates to
Adorno’s own writings and offers “A fantastic book that teaches us and political theorist.
answers to the question of how we something new and returns us to
An introduction by Julia Ng and an
something we have abandoned for
are to articulate such possibilities afterword by Peter Fenves provide
too long.”
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8 PHENOMENOLOGY AND CRITICAL THEORY MERIDIAN: CROSSING
AESTHETICS
Creation and Anarchy What Is Real? Thinking Nature and
The Work of Art and the Giorgio Agamben the Nature of Thinking
Religion of Capitalism From Eriugena to Emerson
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana,
Giorgio Agamben a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, Willemien Otten
Translated by Adam Kotsko
disappeared under mysterious A fresh, capacious reading of the
circumstances while going by ship Western religious tradition on
Creation and the giving of orders from Palermo to Naples. How is nature and creation, this book
are closely entwined in Western it possible that the most talented puts medieval theologian John
culture, where God commands physicist of his generation vanished Scottus Eriugena into conversation
the world into existence and later without leaving a trace? It has long with philosopher Ralph Waldo
issues the injunctions known as the been speculated that Majorana Emerson. Challenging historical
Ten Commandments. The arche, or decided to abandon physics, disap- religious models, Otten reveals a
origin, is always also a command, pearing because he had precociously line of thought that has long made
and a beginning is always the first realized that nuclear fission would room for nature’s agency as the
principle that governs and decrees. inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. coworker of God. Embracing this
This is as true for theology, where This book advances a different idea of nature in a world beset by
God not only creates the world but hypothesis. Through a careful environmental crisis will allow us
governs through continuous cre- analysis of Majorana’s article “The to see nature not as a victim but as
ation, as it is for the philosophical Value of Statistical Laws in Physics an ally in a common quest for re-
and political tradition according to and Social Sciences,” which shows attunement to the divine. Putting
which beginning and creation will how in quantum physics reality its protagonists into further dia-
together form a strategic apparatus is dissolved into probability, and logue with such classical authors as
without which our society would in dialogue with Simone Weil’s Augustine, Maximus the Confessor,
fall apart. Creation and Anarchy considerations on the topic, Giorgio Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Wil-
aims to deactivate this apparatus Agamben suggests that, by disap- liam James, her study deconstructs
through a patient archaeological pearing into thin air, Majorana the idea of pantheism and paves
inquiry into the concepts of work, turned his very person into an the way for a new natural theology.
creation, and command. Exploring exemplary cipher of the status of
every nuance of the arche in search “Otten persuasively illustrates how
the real in our probabilistic universe.
to engage religiously with religious
of an an-archic exit strategy, it In so doing, the physicist posed a texts without having to disdain the
points to a philosophical thought question to science that is still await- blessings of secularity.”
that might overthrow both the ing an answer: What is Real? —James Wetzel,
principle and its command. Villanova University
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MERIDIAN: CROSSING AESTHETICS CULTURAL MEMORY 9
A SERIES FOUNDED BY THE LATE WERNER HAMACHER IN THE PRESENT
The Implicated Subject Being with the Dead Theodor Adorno and the
Beyond Victims and Perpetrators Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Century of Negative Identity
Michael Rothberg Roots of Historical Consciousness
Eric Oberle
When it comes to historical Hans Ruin
Identity has become a central feature
violence and contemporary in- All humans have developed of national conversations. We
equality, none of us are completely techniques of caring for and com- have learned to think positively in
innocent. Arguing that the familiar municating with the dead. The terms of identity when it comes to
categories of victim, perpetrator, premise of Being with the Dead is personal freedom, social rights, and
and bystander do not adequately that we can explore our lives with group membership and negatively
account for our connection to the dead as an existential a priori when it comes to discrimination,
injustices past and present, Michael out of which the basic forms of bias, and hate crimes. Turning to
Rothberg offers a new theory of historical consciousness emerge. the Frankfurt School and drawing
political responsibility through Care for the dead is not just the on Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction
the figure of the implicated symbolic handling of remains; between positive and negative
subject. Examining a range of it also points to a necropolitics, liberty, this book presents the
cultural texts, archives, and activist the social bond between the dead history of positive and negative
movements from such contested and living that holds socities identity and its expanding applica-
zones as transitional South Africa, together—a shared space where tion. Covering the period of the
contemporary Israel/Palestine, the dead are maintained among Frankfurt School’s American exile,
post-Holocaust Europe, and a the living. Moving from mortuary Oberle examines how the critique
transatlantic realm marked by the rituals to literary representations, of racism, authoritarianism, and
afterlives of slavery, Rothberg finds from the problem of ancestrality to hard-right agitation influenced the
that the processes and histories technologies of survival and inter- self-conception of both Americans
illuminated by implicated subjec- generational communication, Hans and Germans and considers how a
tivity are legion in our intercon- Ruin explores the epistemological, new form of politics, based not on
nected world and articulates how ethical, and ontological dimensions interest but on defining an Other,
confronting our own implication of what it means to be with the has shaped our everyday language,
in difficult histories can lead to dead. His phenomenological institutions, and social world.
new forms of internationalism and approach to key sources in a range
“Oberle’s book is full of pathbreaking
long-distance solidarity. of fields gives us new purchase on insights.”
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Frantz Fanon is most known for his Edited by Joshua Landy and
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political writings, but he was first a Michael Saler
clinician, a black Caribbean psychi- This interdisciplinary volume
atrist who had the improbable task challenges the long-prevailing view
of treating North African patients of modernity as “disenchanted.” There
during the wars of decolonization. is of course something to the wide-
Investigating and foregrounding the spread idea, so memorably put into
clinical system that Fanon devised words by Max Weber, that modernity
in an attempt to intervene against is characterized by the “progressive
negrophobia and anti-blackness, disenchantment of the world.” Yet less
this book rereads his clinical and often recognized is that a powerful
political work together, arguing that counter-tendency runs alongside this
the two are mutually imbricated. one, an overwhelming urge to fill the
For the first time, Fanon’s thera- vacuum left by departed convictions,
peutic innovations are considered and to do so without invoking
alongside his more overtly political superseded belief systems. Modernity
and cultural writings to ask how the produces an array of strategies for re-
crises of war affected his practice, enchantment, each fully compatible
informed his politics, and shaped with secular rationality. It has to,
his subsequent ideas. because God has many “aspects” and
traditional religion offers so much in
“Writing with an intensity and so many domains. From one thinker
momentum unparalleled by other to the next, the question of just what,
scholars in the field, David Marriott
in religious enchantment, needs to be
is Frantz Fanon’s first reader.”
replaced in a secular world receives
—Frank B. Wilderson III,
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