The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University is a landmark work of critical theory from the Southern Cone that rewrites the idea of the Western university in the wake of the neoliberal institutionalization of higher education.
Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
A philosophical work that exposes the systemic logic by which environmental destruction and gender oppression are jointly rooted in capitalism, establishing the theoretical foundations on which an effective political alliance can be built today.
Analyzing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts.
Contributions by Banu Bargu, Sid Hansen, Tamsin Kimoto, María de la Cruz Salvador López, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Brad Elliott Stone and Janos Toevs
The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance.
This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women’ s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary.
This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin’s major essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno’s meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety of works.
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone is the second part of a trilogy on subjectivity in the natural world. Johnston weaves together major works in Western philosophy in a visionary theory that is materialist yet antireductive.
In his book Hegel and Spinoza, Moder formulates the question that interested Hegel in Spinoza as the question of whether it is possible to think contradiction or movement on the level of the absolute substance or whether it is possible to think the absolute as a fragile absolute.
