suny press fall 2017

353 Broadway, State University Plaza

Albany, NY 12246-0001 Visit SUNY Press catalogs on
phone: 1-866-430-7869/518-944-2800
fax: 518-320-1592
www.sunypress.edu

contents
Excelsior Editions 112 Warehouse & Order Fulfillment
African Studies 45 Ordering Address
African American Studies 4445 SUNY Press
Archaeology (new in paper) 41 PO Box 960
Herndon, VA 20172-0960
Asian Studies 1419
Buddhist Studies (new in paper) 24 Phone & Fax Numbers
Toll-free Customer Service:
Chinese Studies (new in paper) 19
877-204-6073
Codhill Press 5556 Toll Customer Service:
Cultural Studies 5051 703-661-1575
Education 5759 Toll-free Fax:
Environmental Studies 42 877-204-6074
Film Studies 5253 Toll Fax:
703-996-1010
Gender Studies 50
Hispanic Studies 4344 Ordering E-mail
suny@presswarehouse.com
History (new in paper) 41
Indigenous Studies 5152 Returns Address
Jewish Studies 4647 SUNY Press
Returns Dept.
Journals 60 22883 Quicksilver Dr.
Latin American Studies 4243 Dulles, VA 20166
Literature (new in paper) 54
Standard Address Number (SAN)
Middle Eastern Studies 48 760-7261
Muswell Hill Press 5455
New York 13
Philosophy 2533
Political Science 3440
Psychoanalysis 34
Religious Studies 2024
Sociology 41
Womens Studies 4849 A proud member of the
Association of American
University Presses

Order Form 60
Sales Representation 6263
Author Index 64
Title Index inside back cover
Cover: Evans et al./Black Womens Mental Health, p. 44, cover art by Tariq Mix.
The Semitica fonts used to create this work are 19862003 Payne Loving Trust.
They are available from Linguists Software, Inc., www.linguistsoftware.com,
P.O. Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580 USA, phone: 425-775-1130.

THE SUFFRAGENTS
How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger
September
372 pages
Trim size: 7 x 10
213 b/w photographs
$24.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6630-9
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6629-3
New York
History
Kroeger gives us the first history
of the Mens League for Woman
Suffrage, the Gentlemans Auxiliary
of the womens movement they
supported gender equality, as we
all should, because its quite simply
the right thing to do. With this gift,
Kroeger gives us back a bit of
our history.
Michael S. Kimmel, coeditor of
Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men
in the United States, 17761990:
A Documentary History
ee
excelsior editions
The Suffragents
How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger
The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men
in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right
to vote.
The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New Yorks most
powerful men formed the Mens League for Woman Suffrage, which grew
between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of
thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation
of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with
the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movements
female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman
Suffrage Associations strategic decision to accept their organized
help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot
soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such
luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman,
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the
League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and
executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince
waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to
support the womens demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.
Brooke Kroeger shows how the suffragist movement, engineered
by women from top to bottom, cleverly stitched in the involvement
www.sunypress.edu
of men from all walks of professional and political life, directed by
women who used neither gun nor blade to direct the men, but the
weapons of intelligence, cleverness, and when necessary, subterfuge.
James McBride, author of The Color of Water: A Black Mans Tribute
to His White Mother and The Good Lord Bird
Brooke Kroeger is Professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter
Journalism Institute. Her books include Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter,
Feminist and Fannie:The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst.
1
 ee
excelsior editions

Votes for Women

Celebrating New Yorks Suffrage Centennial
Jennifer A. Lemak and Ashley Hopkins-Benton

Chronicles the history of the womens rights and suffrage movements in

VOTES
C e l e b r at i n g

New York State and examines the important role the state played in the

FOR
ne w york S
national suffrage movement.

WOMEN
The work for womens suffrage started more than seventy years before the
Suffr age

passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention

centennial
in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred
jennifer A. Lemak
and supporters signed the Declaration of Sentiments asserting that all men and
ashley Hopkins-Benton
women are created equal. This convention served as a catalyst for debates
and action on both the national and state level, and on November 6, 1917,
New York State passed the referendum for womens suffrage. Its passing in
New York signaled that the national passage of suffrage would soon follow.
November On August 18, 1920, Votes for Women was constitutionally granted.
190 pages
Trim size: 8 x 11
334 color photographs,
Votes for Women, an exhibition catalog, celebrates the pivotal role the
94 b/w photographs state played in the struggle for equal rights in the nineteenth century,
$29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6730-6 the campaign for New York State suffrage, and the ratification of the
NEW YORK Nineteenth Amendment. It highlights the nationally significant role of state
WOMENS STUDIES leaders in regards to womens rights and the feminist movement through
AMERICAN HISTORY the early twenty-first century and includes focused essays from historians
on the various aspects of the suffrage and equal rights movements around
There is something intimate, New York, providing greater detail about local stories with statewide
inspiring, and strengthening about significance.
seeing words created by and names
www.sunypress.edu

in the handwriting of women who
fought the earlier stages of the
struggle for equality and shared
humanity that is so crucial today.
Im grateful for this exhibit and
catalogue that are just the kind of
reminder we need to keep going.
Gloria Steinem
2
The exhibition of the same name, on display at the New York State
Museum beginning November 2017, features artifacts from the New York
State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as historical institutions and
private collections across the state.
Jennifer A. Lemak is Chief Curator of History at the New York State
Museum. Ashley Hopkins-Benton is a Senior Historian and Curator at
the New York State Museum.
 ee
excelsior editions

A Spirit of Sacrifice
New York State in the First World War
Aaron Noble, Keith Swaney, and Vicki Weiss

Focuses on the posters of World War I as a medium to interpret the

tremendous role played by New York State and its citizens in the war effort.

A companion catalog to the New York State Museum exhibition of

the same name, A Spirit of Sacrifice documents the statewide story of
A SPIRIT OF New York in World War I through the collections of the States Office
SACRI F ICE of Cultural Education comprised of the New York State Museum,
N E W Y O R K STATE Library, and Archives. Within these world-class collections are the nearly
FIRST WORLD WAR
IN
THE
3,600 posters of the Benjamin W. Arnold World War I Poster Collection
AARON NObLE, KEITH SWANEY, and VICKI WEISS
at the New York State Library. By interweaving the story of New York
in the Great War and utilizing the tremendous artifacts within the
pictorial history revealed by the posters of the era and primary source
December
documentation, this exhibition catalog serves as both a display of poster
225 pages
Trim size: 8 x 11 art and a more comprehensive examination of the primacy of the states
447 color photographs, contributions to Americas foray into World War I. Posters and objects
178 b/w photographs from museums, libraries, and historical societies from across New York
$29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6778-8 State as well as iconic artifacts and images are all included here.
NEW YORK Brought together they tell the story of New York States essential role
HISTORY
in the First World War.
A Spirit of Sacrifice, both as an
Aaron Noble is a Senior Historian and Curator at the New York State
exhibit and as a stand-alone
Museum and the coauthor (with Robert Weible and Jennifer A. Lemak)
publication, is a wonderful resource
of An Irrepressible Conflict:The Empire State in the Civil War, also published
for those studying New Yorks history.

www.sunypress.edu
by SUNY Press. Keith Swaney is an Archives and Records Management
The book, with clarity and an array
Specialist at the New York State Archives. Vicki Weiss is a librarian in the
of superb photos from the exhibit,
manuscripts and special collections unit of the New York State Library
delves fully into the story of New
and the coauthor (with Paul Mercer) of The New York State Capitol and the
Yorkers and the Great War and firmly
Great Fire of 1911.
establishes New York as the engine
that drove the US war effort.
Devin R. Lander,
New York State Historian
3
 ee
excelsior editions

tHE Adirondack Architecture

Guide, Southern-Central Region
Janet A. Null

Explores the architectural treasures of the Southern-Central region of

New Yorks Adirondack Park and places them in the context of Adirondack
history and culture.

The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region provides a

professional and insightful survey of the built environment of a unique area
within New Yorks Adirondack Park. This book is the first field guide to
the architecture of the Park, revealing the ordinary and the extraordinary,
the remarkable buildings by prominent designers, as well as the hidden,
unexpected gems few know exist.

Based on more than seven thousand miles of fieldwork and years of

research, the guide comprises more than seven hundred sites traversing the
July geographic range, socioeconomic strata, and historical span of the region
344 pages from the late 1700s to the present. Organized according to clearly marked
Trim size: 5.25 x 9 travel routes and fourteen tours on the ground and on the water, it features
759 color photographs,
96 b/w photographs, 46 maps,
detailed maps and coordinates for each site, along with many beautiful
2 tables, 23 figures photographs. Also included are eleven companion essays drawing on the
$29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6666-8 expertise of professionals, local historians, and Adirondack residents that
NEW YORK delve into the what, where, and why people built in the Adirondacks.
ARCHITECTURE
HISTORY This is a must-have source to guide your travels in one of the most
beautiful and historic parts of New York, the Adirondack Park.
The publisher and author gratefully
www.sunypress.edu

acknowledge the support of Great Camp

Jay A. DiLorenzo, President, Preservation League of New York State
Sagamore in the publication of this book.
This remarkable book presents architecture, broadly defined to include
all man-made structures, as the key to understanding the history and
culture of a vast National Historic Landmark. Frances Halsband,
Kliment Halsband Architects

Janet A. Null is an award-winning architect and President of Argus

Architecture & Preservation, P.C. She lives in upstate New York and has
4 practiced throughout the Adirondack region for more than twenty-five years.
 ee
excelsior editions

Tales of an Ecotourist
What Travel to Wild Places Can Teach Us
about Climate Change
Mike Gunter Jr.

Combining humor and memorable anecdotes, five famous ecotourist

destinations offer a breathtaking backdrop to better understanding
climate change.

Crossing the far corners of the globe, Tales of an Ecotourist showcases travel,
from the hot and humid Amazon jungle to the frozen but dry Antarctic,
as a simple yet spellbinding lens to better understand the complex issue
of climate change. At its core, climate change is an issue few truly
understand, in large part due to its dizzying array of scientific, economic,
cultural, social, and political variables.

Using both keen humor and memorable anecdotes, while weaving

December respected scientific studies along the way, Mike Gunter Jr. transports the
352 pages reader to five famous ecodestinations, from the Galapagos Islands to the
54 color photographs, 1 b/w photograph Great Barrier Reef, revealing firsthand the increasing threats of climate
12 maps, 2 figures change. Part travelogue, part current events expos, with a healthy dose
$29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6678-1
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6679-8
of history, ecology, and politics, these tales of ecoadventure tackle such
TRAVEL obstacles head on while fleshing out much-needed personal context
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES to perhaps societys greatest threat of all.

he has an important lesson for us: If we are to veer from our

current path of global environmental degradation, we will have to

www.sunypress.edu
come to appreciate firsthand its remarkable wonder and beauty.
Michael E. Mann, coauthor of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change
Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Mike Gunter Jr. is a Cornell Distinguished Faculty member and

Arthur Vining Davis Fellow at Rollins College where he serves as
Professor and Chair of the Political Science department and Director
of International Affairs in the Holt School. He is the author of
Building the Next Ark: How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity.
5
 ee
excelsior editions
Foreword by JAMES PASTO
July
192 pages
Trim size: 8 x 9
223 color photographs,
36 b/w photographs
$34.95/T jacketed hardcover
978-1-4384-6699-6
PHOTOGRAPHY
HISTORY
Anthony Riccios photographs
retrace the arc of immigration from
ancestral villages in Italy to Bostons
North End, documenting a lost
world of a Italian American culture.
www.sunypress.edu
His images will forever remind Italian
Americans of the places their families
left behind and the new home they
created in America.
Umberto Mucci, author of
We the Italians:Two Flags, One Heart.
One Hundred Interviews
6
From Italy to the North End
Photographs, 19721982
Anthony V. Riccio
Foreword by James Pasto
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both
sides of the Atlantic.
As a young boy, Anthony V. Riccio listened to his grandparents stories of
life in the small Italian villages where they had grown up and which they
had left in order to emigrate to the United States. In the early 1970s,
he traveled to those villagesAlvignano and Sippicianoand elsewhere
in Italy, taking photographs of a way of life that had persisted for centuries
and meeting the relatives who had stayed behind. Several years later,
he found himself in Bostons North End, again with camera in hand,
photographing an Italian American immigrant neighborhood that was fast
succumbing to the forces of gentrification. In a race against time, Riccio
photographed the neighborhood and its residents, capturing images of street
life, religious festivals, and colorful storefronts along with cellar winemaking
sessions, rooftop gardens, and the stark interiors of cold-water flats.
Taken together, the photographs in From Italy to the North End document
the arc of the Italian American experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
Even as they forged new identities and new communities in the United
States, Italian American immigrants kept many of their Old World
traditions alive in their New World enclaves. Although elevators have
replaced walkups and fancy Italian restaurants and upscale boutiques have
replaced mom-and-pop storefronts, the old neighborhood and its Italian
village roots survive in these photographs of la vita di quotidianit.
Anthony V. Riccio is Collections Maintenance Manager at the
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. His previous books include
The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories;
Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut,
both published by SUNY Press; and Bostons North End: Images and
Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood.

beAuTy
in the
ciTy
The AshcAn school
Robert A. slayton
September
225 pages
Trim size: 7 x 10
68 color photographs,
42 b/w photographs
$29.95/T jacketed hardcover
978-1-4384-6641-5
HISTORY
ART
With great narrative skill and
finely drawn characters, Robert
Slayton paints a vivid picture of
New York and the art world in the
early twentieth century This book
is a wonderful, vibrant look at a
forgotten part of our history.
Terry Golway, author of
Machine Made:Tammany Hall and the
Creation of Modern American Politics
ee
excelsior editions
Beauty in the City
The Ashcan School
Robert A. Slayton
Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing
that these artists made the working-class city at the turn of the century
a subject for beautiful art.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed
onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City.
In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in
finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who
photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan
School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a
fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates
how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried
in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and
immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its
facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues.
By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art
expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it
they created one of the great American art forms.
A delight for the eyes, a treat for city lovers, and a fine example of how
historians can use art, Beauty in the City will enrich such fields as urban
history, art history, the history of New York City, and America in the
twentieth century. Robert Slayton has identified a group of artists who
www.sunypress.edu
saw in the gritty details of city life real beauty and social meaning.
Hasia R. Diner, author of Roads Taken:The Great Jewish Migrations
to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
Robert A. Slayton is Henry Salvatori Professor of American Values
and Traditions at Chapman University. He is the author of several books,
including Empire Statesman:The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith.
7
 ee
excelsior editions
December
225 pages
20 b/w photographs, 8 maps
$24.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6752-8
$75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6751-1
NEW YORK
AMERICAN HISTORY
Lawrence Clines study of the
Fenian invasion of Canada will be of
interest to students of unconventional
www.sunypress.edu
war, the Irish independence
movement, and US-Canadian
relations, as well as to the general
educated reader. It is a valuable
contribution to the literature.
Thomas R. Mockaitis, author of
Conventional and Unconventional War:
A History of Conflict in the Modern World
8
Rebels on the Niagara
The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866
Lawrence E. Cline
Offers a detailed account of the political and military history of the
Irish American Fenian Brotherhood in the nineteenth century.
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans
invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind
the invasionthe Fenian Brotherhoodwas formed in 1858 by Irish
nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence
from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders
attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize
Canada and make it the New Ireland as a means to force the British from
old Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership
and a key support base and staging area for the military operations.
Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations
being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had
a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America,
but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline
examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada,
but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial
support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
A brilliant new account of the forgotten 1866 invasion of Canada by
Fenian Irish American Civil War veterans. The Battle of Ridgeway, fought
during the Fenian Raids in the Niagara region, was the first Irish victory
over the forces of the British Empire since the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
Lawrence Cline gives us a new look inside the mad and daring Fenian
invasion plan to take Canada and hold it hostage in the name of freedom
from British rule in Ireland. Peter Vronsky, author of Ridgeway:
The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada
Lawrence E. Cline teaches international relations at Troy University.
He is the author of The Lords Resistance Army.

November
225 pages
12 b/w photographs
$29.95/T jacketed hardcover
978-1-4384-6693-4
NEW YORK
HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ann Sandfords lively and fascinating
biography of her distant cousin
provides significant insight into the
social and political environment that
established New York as the center
of nineteenth-century commerce
and intellectual ferment. Reluctant
Reformer is an extremely good read
for anyone interested in New Yorks
rich history.
Hon. Helen E. Freedman, retired
New York Supreme Court Justice
ee
excelsior editions
Reluctant Reformer
Nathan Sanford in the Era of the Early Republic
Ann Sandford
Tells the untold story of the life and career of Nathan Sanford,
a New York State lawyer-politician who capitalized on opportunities
created by the new politics of the early Republic to achieve social mobility.
Set in the tumultuous decades of post-revolutionary America, Reluctant
Reformer brings to light the long neglected New York lawyer-politician,
Nathan Sanford. As a lawyer, Sanford contributed to modern property law.
In the United States Senate, he dealt with central banking, struggled
against slavery, and supported popular voting for presidential electors.
He was a major designer of the program to rationalize the nations
currency. Against a backdrop of European wars and the War of 1812,
he capitalized on opportunities for upward social mobility in a period
of nation-building and commercial expansion. At the New York State
Constitutional Convention of 1821, he fought for universal manhood suffrage.
Educated in history and government at Clinton Academy on Long Island
and at Yale, and a student at the Litchfield School of Law, Sanford rose
quickly to prominence as the federal attorney appointed by President
Jefferson to serve all of New York State. Fueled by ambition, he navigated
a career among Republican factional leadersDeWitt Clinton, Aaron Burr,
and Martin Van Burenfirst in New York City, and then in the state
and the nation. In 1824, he ran for vice president on the ticket with
Henry Clay. Attuned to his familial ties to eastern Long Island but beyond
www.sunypress.edu
the bounds of the rural community of his youth, Sanford faced decisions
about whom to trust with a militias gun and a citizens vote. He could
shift from his principles toward political compromise, as in restricting black
male suffrage and in the removal of Indians from their ancestral lands.
Ann Sandford holds a PhD from New York University and is the author
of Grandfather Lived Here:The Transformation of Bridgehampton, New York,
18701970. Her articles have covered topics in early modern European
history and the history of Long Island. She has been a history professor
and a business executive. She lives in Sagaponack, New York. 9
 ee
excelsior editions

Unruly Catholic Nuns

Sisters Stories
Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe, editors

Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share
their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict
with the institutional Church.

Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic
nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the
role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography,
fiction, poetry, and prose, Sisters and former nuns write about their lived
experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the
institutional Church. Through their stories we learn how these women act
out their missions of social justice, challenge cultural and governmental
policies, and attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their religious
orders and the strictures of the church hierarchy. At a time when questions
October of gender, religion, race, and sexuality are provoking intense debate within
120 pages Catholicism and other Christian traditions, and when religion is frequently
Trim size: 5 x 8 invoked in political rhetoric, these stories provide a vital corrective to
2 figures our contemporary understanding of the role of women and nuns in the
$19.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6648-4 Roman Catholic Church.
$60.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6647-7
LITERATURE
I love this book! I swear I do, for though my Sister-teachers taught me
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
WOMENS STUDIES not to swear, they also winked me permission to dare God bless this
sassy book for (finally) giving voice to an engaging chorus of lively, spirited
storytellers. Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and,
Through this rich collection
www.sunypress.edu

most recently, Where Do They Go?

of personal reflections, these brave
women show themselves to
be the beating heart of the
Catholic Church.
Sonja Livingston,
author of Ghostbread
10
Jeana DelRosso is Professor of English and Womens Studies and Director
of the Elizabeth Morrissy Honors Program at Notre Dame of Maryland
University. Leigh Eicke is a writer in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ana Kothe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University
of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. Together, they are the coeditors of
Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism,
also published by SUNY Press.
 ee
excelsior editions

FLASH POINTS
Lessons Learned and Not Learned in Malawi,
Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Jade Wu

A compelling, intimate account of how US foreign assistance in war zones

and developing countries does not achieve its intended goals.

From the hot savannah of Malawi to the cold, damp gray of Kosovo
and into the volatile war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States
and other donors have invested enormous financial and human resources
in major peacekeeping and development efforts. Why then is the world
no closer to being a better and safer place? Both a salient critique
of US foreign assistance and a thought-provoking memoir, Flash Points
describes the issues with personnel, language, and gender dynamics,
as well as the cross-cultural challenges that often undermine and betray
July
the best intentions of policy makers comfortably situated in Washington.
302 pages
24 b/w photographs Revealed in illuminating flashbacks, Jade Wu recalls her experiences in
$24.95/T jacketed hardcover each of these four countries highlighting how, all too often, Americans
978-1-4384-6545-6 in the field and the US government were unable to learn the lessons that
POLITICAL SCIENCE ought to have been learned when dealing with host countries and their
INTERNATIONAL people. The final results were efforts poorly conceived and executed and,
RELATIONS
ultimately, detrimental to American national interests.
Wus perspective is that of an
Flash Points should be required reading for professionals in foreign
objective, critical observer who
assistance programs and could be used in formal training programs for aid
has worked in the trenches. Her
workers before heading abroad. It will also interest the general reader
observations are well-informed,

www.sunypress.edu
all readers will be lured on through Jade Wus adventures, right up to
astute, and compel the reader to
the final flashback. Robert W. Maule, Retired US Senior Foreign
think about the ways in which
Service Officer
this country often wastes enormous
resources in efforts that are
Jade Wu has worked on US foreign assistance projects in Malawi, Kosovo,
ill-conceived.
Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. Her foreign affairs analyses
Thomas R. Carter, Retired Senior
have appeared in a number of publications, including the New York Times,
Advisor, Food and Agriculture
International Herald Tribune,The Hill,Washington Diplomat, and Foreign Policy
Organization of the United Nations
Journal. She currently lives and practices law in the Washington, DC area.
11
 ee
excelsior editions
August
288 pages
Trim size: 11 x 8
200 color photographs,
200 b/w photographs
$44.95/T jacketed hardcover
978-1-4384-6745-0
PERFORMING ARTS
Readers will grasp the importance
of the museum on the Saratoga
Springs region along with its impact
on the greater dance world both
past and present. A lovely journey
for all to read, especially the dance
aficionado!
Andrew DeVries, sculptor
www.sunypress.edu
The National Museum of Dance
delights in bringing art and history
into the presentinto the dance
of now!
Paul Kolnik, photographer
12
The National Museum of Dance
AND HALL OF FAME
Celebrating 30 Years
Lisa Schlansker Kolosek
Explores the rich history, collections, and significance of the only museum
in the United States dedicated solely to the art form of dance.
The only museum in the United States dedicated entirely to the
art form of dance, the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame
opened in June 1987, after a short preview season the summer before.
This unique and special place celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2017.
To commemorate this milestone, Lisa Schlansker Kolosek has created a rich
pictorial history tracing not only the museums remarkable evolution but
the relevance of the museum to the city of Saratoga Springs, New York.
Kolosek tells the story of the museums origins, from its notable founders
grand idea to the selection and complete renovation of a historic 1920s
bath house as its home. Combining a complete survey of exhibitions
presented by the museum and the incredible history of the Hall of Fame,
which recognizes dance luminaries across multiple genres, this book
offers an in-depth look at the museums expansive collection of costumes,
visual art, and archival materials. The book also covers the history of the
museums Lewis A. Swyer Studios and School of the Arts, a leader in
dance education. Beautifully illustrated with more than four hundred
photographs, this book pays tribute to the immense impact of the
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame.
Saratoga Springs is a mythical place for dance.
Karole Armitage, choreographer
Lisa Schlansker Kolosek is the research associate at the National
Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame and the author of The Invention
of Chic:Therese Bonney and Paris Moderne.
 new york

New in Paper

Slavery and Freedom

in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Michael E. Groth

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and

emancipation in New Yorks Mid-Hudson Valley.

Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten
history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle
in the central Hudson Valley prior to the Civil War. Slaves were central
actors in the drama that unfolded in the region during the Revolution,
and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom during the decades
that followed. Slavery in the countryside was more oppressive than slavery
in urban environments, and the agonizingly slow pace of abolition,
constraints of rural poverty, and persistent racial hostility in the rural
communities also presented formidable challenges to free black life
in the central Hudson Valley.

Michael E. Groth explores how Dutchess Countys black residents overcame

such obstacles to establish independent community institutions, engage in
political activism, and fashion a vibrant racial consciousness in antebellum
New York. By drawing attention to the African American experience in
the rural Mid-Hudson Valley, this book provides new perspectives on slavery
and emancipation in New York, black community formation, and the nature
of black identity in the Early Republic.

Groth provides a systematic overview focused on the history of

African Americans in the Mid-Hudson Valley during the decades before
the American Revolution through emancipation and during the national
political struggle for abolition and the regional struggle for civil rights.
Andor Skotnes, author of A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggle
in Depression-Era Baltimore

www.sunypress.edu
July 246 pages 1 b/w photograph, 1 map, 7 tables
$29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6456-5

13
 asian studies

Expressing the Journey of

Hearts Intent JOURNEY a Goddess
Explorations in Chinese of a GODDESS Chen Jinggu Subdues
Aesthetics the Snake Demon
Marthe Atwater Chandler Translated, edited, and with
an Introduction by
Using Li Zehous theories Fan Pen Li Chen
Expressing the of aesthetics, argues for the

HEARTS INTENT
Explorations in Chinese Aesthetics
importance of the arts
to philosophy.
MARTHE ATWATER CHANDLER In this wide-ranging
examination of the concept
of zhi (the hearts intent)
as the foundation of Chinese
aesthetics, Marthe Atwater Chandler places traditional Chinese
aesthetics in conversation with contemporary Chinese theory
and traditional western philosophy. Poetry, music, painting, and
calligraphy played much the same role in the development of
thought in China as science did for philosophy in the west,
with important implications for the relationship between art,
religion, politics, and morality. Inspired by the work of Li Zehou,
a leading contemporary Chinese philosopher and scholar of
Kant who traced the relationship between philosophy and art
throughout Chinese history, Chandler applies Lis theoretical
structure to specific traditions in Chinese art. Throughout the
book she considers the relationship of aesthetics and religion
in the Chinese adoption of Buddhism, the aesthetics of horse
painting, and the personal and political in philosophy in the
work of Su Dongpo. By examining particular works of art,
Expressing the Hearts Intent argues that if philosophy ignores the
arts, it is immeasurably impoverished.
Marthe Atwater Chandler is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
and Asian Studies at DePauw University and the coeditor (with
Ronnie Littlejohn) of Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor
www.sunypress.edu
Chen Jinggu Subdues the Snake Demon
First English translation of both
a novel and two play excerpts
Translated, edited, and with an introduction by based on tales of the Goddess
Fan Pen Li Chen Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century
shaman and present-day cult deity.
This book offers the first
translation into English of the Chinese novel Haiyouji, as well
as excerpts of a marionette play based on the cult lore of the
goddess Chen Jinggu (766790), a historical shaman priestess
who became one of Fujians most important goddesses and the
Lshan Sects chief deity. The novel, a 1753 reprint of what is
possibly a Ming dynasty novel, was both a popular fiction and
a religious tract. It offers a lively mythological tale depicting
combat between the shaman goddess and a snake demon
goddess. Replete with the beliefs and practices of the cult of this
warrior goddess, the novel asserts the importance of Shamanism
(i.e., local religious beliefs) as one of the four religions of China,
along with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. To further
develop the links between literature and local religion, Fan
Pen Li Chen includes translations of two acts from a Fujian
marionette play, Biography of the Lady, featuring the goddess.
Fan Pen Li Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is
the author of Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and
Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from
Shaanxi and Shanxi; and the editor and translator of Marionette

of Henry Rosemont, Jr. Plays from Northern China, also published by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture December 160 pages 46 color photographs
Roger T. Ames, editor $75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6707-8

September 256 pages 31 b/w photographs

$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6657-6

14

Birth in
Ancient China
A Study of Metaphor
and Cultural Identity
in Pre-Imperial China
Constance A. Cook and
Xinhui Luo
Reveals cultural paradigms and
historical prejudices regarding the
role of birthing and women in the
reproduction of society.
Using newly discovered and
excavated texts, Constance A.
Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture,
inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China
to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the
ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and
historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing
experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall
influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience
and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which
birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and
renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage
continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder
heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had
female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese
history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional
historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious
texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective
into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of
birthing in early religion.
Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh
University and the author of Death in Ancient China:The Tale of
One Mans Journey. Xinhui Luo is Professor of Chinese Ancient
History at Beijing Normal University, China.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
November 190 pages 19 b/w photographs, 6 tables
$75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6711-5
asian studies
Confucianism for
CONFUCIANISM the Contemporary
for the Contemporary World
World
Global Order, Political Plurality, and Social Action
Global Order,
Political Plurality,
and Social Action
Tze-ki Hon and
Kristin Stapleton, editors
Discusses contemporary
Confucianisms relevance and its
Edited by
Tze-ki Hon Kristin Stapleton
capacity to address pressing social
and political issues of twenty-first-
century life.
Condemned during the Maoist era as a relic of feudalism,
Confucianism enjoyed a robust revival in post-Mao China
as Chinas economy began its rapid expansion and gradual
integration into the global economy. Associated with economic
development, individual growth, and social progress by its
advocates, Confucianism became a potent force in shaping
politics and society in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
and overseas Chinese communities. This book links the
contemporary Confucian revival to debatesboth within
and outside Chinaabout global capitalism, East Asian
modernity, political reforms, civil society, and human alienation.
The contributors offer fresh insights on the contemporary
Confucian revival as a broad cultural phenomenon,
encompassing an interpretation of Confucian moral teaching;
a theory of political action; a vision of social justice; and a
perspective for a new global order, in addition to demonstrating
that Confucianism is capable of addressing a wide range of social
and political issues in the twenty-first century.
Tze-ki Hon is Professor of Chinese and History at City
www.sunypress.edu
University of Hong Kong. Kristin Stapleton is Professor
of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of
New York.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
October 280 pages 3 b/w photographs, 7 figures
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6651-4
15
 asian studies
Bodies in China
Philosophy, Aesthetics,
Gender, and Politics
Eva Kit Wah Man
Engages with Chinese philosophy
to offer new conceptual models
for reframing gender, bodies,
and aesthetics.
Bodies in China uses Chinese
philosophy to reframe Western
scholarship on gender, body, and
aesthetics. Does Confucianism
rule out the capacity of
women as moral subjects and hence as aesthetic subjects? Do
forms of Chinese philosophy contribute or correspond to
patriarchal Confucian culture? Can Chinese philosophy provide
alternative perspectives for Western feminist scholars? The first
section considers theoretical and philosophical discussions of
Western traditions and how the ideas offered by Confucians
and Daoists can provide alternative body ontologies for critical
feminist practices. The second section reviews female aesthetical
representations ranging from The Book of Songs to the work of
the controversial body artist He Chengyao. The third section
traces changing perceptions of femininity from imperial to its
current cosmopolitan era using a range of case studies including
Ming dynasty literature, Hong Kong womens fashion in the
1960s, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Overall, this
book discusses new conceptual models that feminist scholars are
using to displace dualism and emancipate notions of the body
from Cartesian models and metaphors.
This is a highly interdisciplinary work that deals with the
issues from philosophical, historical, literary, cinematic, and post-
colonial perspectives. Bodies in China explores a wide range of
www.sunypress.edu
subjects seldom studied in comparative philosophy and Chinese
feminist thought. Robin R. Wang, Loyola Marymount
University
Eva Kit Wah Man is Professor of Humanities and Creative
Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She was a Fulbright
Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and was named
the AMUW Woman Chair by Marquette University.
now available 257 pages
20 color photographs, 2 b/w photographs
16 $52.00 jacketed hardcover 978-1-4384-6635-4
Published in cooperation with the Chinese University Press
Text and Tradition
in South India
Text and Tradition Velcheru Narayana Rao,
in South India with an Introduction by
With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
velcheru narayana rao
Essays on Telugu and South
Indian literature and culture
by distinguished Telugu scholar
Narayana Rao.
Velcheru Narayana Raos
contribution to understanding
Indian cultural history, literary
production, and intellectual
lifespecifically from the vantage of the Andhra region
has few parallels. He is one of the very rare scholars to be able
to reflect magisterially on the precolonial and colonial periods.
He moves easily between Sanskrit and the vernacular traditions,
and between the worlds of orality and script. This is because
of his mastery of the classical Telugu tradition. As Sanjay
Subrahmanyam puts it in his Introduction, To command nearly
a thousand years of a literary tradition is no small feat, but more
important still is VNRs ability constantly to offer fresh readings
and provocative frameworks for interpretation.
The essays and reflections in Text and Tradition in South India
bring together the diverse and foundational contributions made
by Narayana Rao to the rewriting of Indias cultural and literary
history. The book is for anyone interested in the history of
Indian ideas, the social and cultural history of South India, and
the massive intellectual traditions of the subcontinent.
Velcheru Narayana Rao is Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka
Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature, and History at Emory
University. His many books include a translation (with David
Shulman) of Pingal|i Surannas The Demons Daughter: A Love
Story from South India, also published by SUNY Press, and
Textures of Time:Writing History in South India 16001800
(coauthored with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam).
A volume in the SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Wendy Doniger, editor
July 477 pages 1 b/w photograph
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6775-7
World sales rights, excluding South Asia
 asian studies

Between History New in Paper

and Philosophy
Anecdotes in Early China
Paul van Els and
Sarah A. Queen, editors
Analyzes the use of anecdotes
as an essential rhetorical tool
and form of persuasion in various
literary genres in early China.
Between History and Philosophy
is the first book-length study
in English to focus on the
rhetorical functions and
forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by
Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis
that anecdotesbrief, freestanding accounts of single events
involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed
persons, animals, objects, or abstractionsserved as an essential
tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts.
Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes
from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including
their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and
reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation
in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres.
the Heir and the Sage,
The Heir Revised and Expanded
and the Sage
dynastic legend in early china
revised and expanded edition
Edition
Dynastic Legend
in Early China
Sarah Allan
A comprehensive analysis of the
Sarah Allan transformations of ancient history
in early Chinese texts.
This book presents a comprehensive
analysis of the accounts of change of rule in Chinese texts from
600 to 100 BC, including the core philosophical works of the
Chinese tradition attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius,
Xunzi, Hanfeizi, and Zhuangzi. Drawing from the early
structuralism of Claude Lvi-Strauss, Sarah Allan demonstrates
that similar motifs repeat in every period, and argues that they
serve, like myth, to mediate the inherent social conflict between
kinship relations and that of the larger community.
JULY 202 pages 5 tables
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6224-0

Paul van Els is University Lecturer of China Studies at Leiden Zhuangzis Critique
University, the Netherlands, and the author of The Wenzi: of the Confucians
Creation, Manipulation, and Reception of a Chinese Philosophical Text. Zhuangzis Blinded by the Human
Sarah A. Queen is Professor of History at Connecticut College Critique of
the Kim-chong Chong
and the coeditor (with Michael Puett) of The Huainanzi and Confucians
Textual Production in Early China. Blinded by
Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzis critique
the Human
of Confucianism.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor Kim-chong Chong
The Daoist Zhuangzi has often

www.sunypress.edu
been read as a mystical philosopher.
September 380 pages 3 tables But there is another tradition,
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6611-8 beginning with the Han dynasty
historian Sima Qian, which sees him as a critic of the
Confucians. Kim-chong Chong analyzes the Inner Chapters
of the Zhuangzi, demonstrating how Zhuangzi criticized the
pre-Qin Confucians through metaphorical inversion and parody.

July 195 pages

$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6284-4

17
 asian studies

New in Paper

Anarchism
Anarchism in Korea Undervalued Dissent
in Korea Independence, UNDERVALUED Informal Workers Politics
Independence, Transnationalism,
and the Question of National Development DISSENT
19191984

Dongyoun Hwang Transnationalism, and INFORMAL WORKERS POLITICS IN INDIA

in India
the Question of National Manjusha Nair
Development, 19191984
Dongyoun Hwang Uses two case studies to demonstrate
how neoliberal reforms in India have
A regional and transnational history de-democratized labor politics.
of anarchism in Korea. Manjusha Nair
Historically, the Indian state has not
In contrast to dominant Korean- offered welfare and social rights to
language scholarship, this book has all of its citizens, yet a remarkable
a dialectical understanding of the relationship between anarchism characteristic of its polity has been the ability of citizens to
and nationalism, one that understands the importance of dissent in a democratic way. In Undervalued Dissent, Manjusha
nationalism for revolution in the colonial context, but one that Nair argues that this democratic space has been vanishing slowly.
also shows convincingly that as anarchism in Korea grew and
deepened, it acquired significantly transnational dimensions. July 231 pages 4 b/w photographs, 1 map, 5 tables, 1 figure
Christopher Connery, author of The Empire of the Text: $22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6246-2
Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China

July 292 pages Understanding the

$24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6168-7 Analects of Confucius
A New Translation of Lunyu
Korean Religions with Annotations
Korean Religions in Relation Peimin Ni
in Relation Buddhism, Confucianism,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity
A new translation and commentary of
Christianity
the Analects for contemporary audiences.
Anselm K. Min, editor
Understanding the Analects of Confucius
Examines Buddhism, Confucianism, is an outstanding work of sinological
and Christianity in Korea, focusing on scholarship. Henry Rosemont Jr.,
Edited by Anselm K. Min their mutual accommodation, exclusion, author of A Readers Companion to the Confucian Analects
www.sunypress.edu

conflict, and assimilation.

Peimin Nis translation of the Analects has many virtues that
Instead of simply being another survey
make it stand out as an exemplary version of this most important
of the three dominant religions in contemporary Korea
Chinese text. Ni has chosen to present the text as a living
Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianitythis unique book
document, embedded in two thousand years of commentarial
studies them in relation to each other in terms of assimilation,
conversation over its meaning, with todays readers very much
accommodation, conflict, and exclusion.
part of that ongoing conversation. Stephen C. Angle,
author of Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy
July 319 pages 2 figures
$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6276-9
July 486 pages 28 figures
$36.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6450-3
18
 asian studies / chinese studies

New in Paper

Self-realization Crossing the Gate

Self-realization through Confucian Crossing the Gate Everyday Lives of Women
through

Confucian Learning
Everyday Lives of Women
in Song Fujian (9601279) in Song Fujian (9601279)
Learning A Contemporary Man Xu
A Contemporary
Reconstruction of
Xunzis Ethics Reconstruction
Challenges the accepted wisdom
of Xunzis Ethics
about women and gender roles
Siufu Tang in medieval China.
Siufu Tang Man Xu
Confucian philosopher Xunzis moral
In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines
thought is considered in light of the
the lives of women in the Chinese
modern focus on self-realization.
province of Fujian during the Song
dynasty. Tracking womens life experience across class lines,
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning reconstructs Confucian
outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges
thinker Xunzis moral philosophy in response to the modern
the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in
focus on self-realization. Xunzi (born around 310 BCE) claims
medieval China.
that human xing (nature or native conditions) is without an
ethical framework and has a tendency to dominate, leading to
July 357 pages 9 b/w photographs, 1 map, 4 tables, 6 figures
bad judgments and bad behavior. Confucian ritual propriety (li)
$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6320-9
is needed to transform these human native conditions.

July 183 pages The Rhetoric

$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6148-9 of Hiddenness
The Rhetoric of Hiddenness
in Traditional Chinese Culture
Edited by Paula M. Varsano
in Traditional
Chinese Culture
The Commentarial Paula M.Varsano, editor
The Transformation
CommenTarial Considers the role of hiddenness
of the Spring in the history of cultural production
TransformaTion and Autumn in premodern China.
of The Newell Ann Van Auken

X
spring This volume brings together fourteen
and auTumn Shows how the text evolved from essays that explore the role of

www.sunypress.edu
a non-narrative historical record into hiddennessas both an object and a mode of representation
Newell Ann Van Auken
a Confucian classic. in the history of cultural production in China from the Warring
States Period (403221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty
The Spring and Autumn is among the earliest surviving Chinese (1911) and beyond.
historical records, covering the period 722479 BCE.
July 387 pages 35 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 15 figures
July 338 pages 2 tables $29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6302-5
$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6300-1

19
 religious studies
Satan and
Apocalypse
And Other Essays
in Political Theology
Thomas J. J. Altizer
Offers a profound vision of the
Christian epic as the site of the
modern apocalyptic reenactment
of the original apocalypse.
In this series of essays,Thomas J. J.
Altizer explores the Christian
epic as the site of modern
revolutionary apocalyptic
reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted
by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the
pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Altizer
analyzes the apocalyptic visions of key figures of modernity,
including Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Joyce, often
juxtaposing them to surprising and illuminating effect. These
revolutionary moments stand in opposition to what Altizer calls
the pathological modern counterrevolution that dominates the
world today, which is an effect of a new postmodernity and of
a progressive dissolution of historical consciousness. Through
his analysis of modern apocalyptic moments and thinkers, this
book becomes an elegant and accessible guide to Altizers own
apocalyptic vision and his ultimate project of the total and
comprehensive reconstruction of theology.
This is an indispensable work of closure coming from one
of contemporary theologys most lucid, original, rebellious,
provocative, and passionate voices. Altizers most central and
tenaciously held convictions are distilled into this essential
testament. William Franke, author of Secular Scriptures:
Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
www.sunypress.edu
Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
at Stony Brook University, State University of New York.
His many books include Living the Death of God: A Theological
Memoir; Godhead and the Nothing; The Contemporary Jesus;
and History as Apocalypse, all published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
Douglas L. Donkel, editor
November 160 pages
20 $80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6673-6
THe Sufi
and the Friar
A Mystical Encounter
of Two Men of God in the
Abode of Islam
Minlib Dallh
An investigation of the spiritual
encounter between a twentieth-
century Dominican friar and an
eleventh-century Afghani Sufi
master.
This book explores the
profound spiritual encounter
between Serge de Beaurecueil (19172005), a twentieth-century
French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-
century H|anbali Sufi master Khwaja Abdullah Ans|ari of Herat
(10061089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian
discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the
foremost expert on the life and thought of Ans|ari. His mystical
conversation and scholarly engagement with Ans|ari, his
experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his
own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience
of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a
magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding
presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on
the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the
religious other.
To place a French Dominican friar who died in 2005 and a
Sufi who died in 1089 in juxtaposition in the same book is
not the most obvious path in comparative religious scholarship.
Yet Dallh has not only done precisely that, but he has also
produced a brilliant monograph in the process which makes for
a fascinating read. Dallhs work exhibits painstaking scholarship
which illuminates two notable figures in Christianity and Islam
respectively and makes an original contribution to the study of
these two great faith traditions. Ian Richard Netton, author
of Islam, Christianity and Tradition: A Comparative Exploration
Minlib Dallh is a Fellow in the Study of Love in Religion at
Regents Park College, University of Oxford.
September 190 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6617-0

Shimmering
Mirrors
Reality and Appearance
in Contemplative
Metaphysics East
and West
Shimmering Mirrors Patrick Laude
Realit y and A ppearance in
Contemplative M etaphysic s
East and West
A study of comparative
metaphysics that explores
the concepts of Reality and
PATRICK L AUDE
Appearance and their relevance
to contemporary religious
consciousness.
In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick
Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish
concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid
exploration of metaphysical representations of reality, relativity,
appearance, and illusion. Laude includes discussions of the
Absolute and the Relative in Hindu Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri
Saivism, Sufi wahdat al-wujud, and Madhyamaka Buddhism; the
metaphysics of salvation in Buddhist and Christian traditions; and
the metaphysics of evil and the distinction between Reality and
Appearance in the Jewish Kabbalah, Saivism, Christian mysticism,
and the Sufi school of Ibn al-Arabi. The book explores how a
discerning and subtle apprehension of the relationship between
Reality and Appearance may help contemporary readers and
seekers respond to the acute predicaments of contemporary
religious and spiritual consciousness.
I have rarely read a work that is so lucid in explaining complex
philosophical theories across multiple traditions, so articulate
in constructing concise ideas, and so strategic in assembling
a framework for analysis. This is a unique and special work
of comparative metaphysics rarely found in contemporary
works on philosophies of religion. Lee Irwin, author of
Alchemy of Soul:The Art of Spiritual Transformation
Patrick Laude is Professor at the Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of several
books, including Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin,
Gunon, and Schuon and (with Jean-Baptiste Aymard) Frithjof
Schuon: Life and Teachings, both published by SUNY Press.
November 225 pages
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6681-1
religious studies
Religious
Agrarianism
and the Return
of Place
Religious AgRARiAnism And From Values to Practice
the RetuRn of PlAce in Sustainable Agriculture
From Values to Practice in sustainable agriculture
Todd LeVasseur
Todd LeVasseur
Examines religious communities
as advocates of environmental
stewardship and sustainable
agriculture practices.
Writing at the interface of
religion and nature theory,
US religious history, and environmental ethics, Todd LeVasseur
presents the case for the emergence of a nascent religious
agrarianism within certain subsets of Judaism and Christianity
in the United States. Adherents of this movement, who share
an environmental concern about the modern industrial food
economy and a religiously grounded commitment to the values
of locality, health, and justice, are creating new models for
sustainable agrarian lifeways and practices. LeVasseur explores
this greening of US religion through an extensive engagement
with the scholarly literature on lived religion, network theory,
and grounded theory, as well as through ethnographic case
studies of two intentional communities at the vanguard of
this movement: Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian
lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish
environmental group.
The blend of empirical sociology and philosophical/religious
ethics is impressive. I found the book not only interesting
but valuable for my own scholarship. Paul B. Thompson,
author of The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental
www.sunypress.edu
Ethics
Todd LeVasseur teaches religious studies and environmental
and sustainability studies at the College of Charleston.
A volume in the SUNY series on Religion and the Environment
Harold Coward, editor
December 250 pages 6 b/w photographs
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6773-3
21
 religious studies
Invisible Hosts
Performing the
Nineteenth-Century
Spirit Mediums
Autobiography
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
Provides a rhetorical analysis
of female spirit mediums
autobiographies in the historical
and social contexts of Victorian-
era America.
Invisible Hosts explores how the
central tenets of Spiritualism
influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies
and their civic responsibilities, arguing that Spiritualist
ideologies helped to lay the foundation for the social and
political advances made by women in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. As public figures, female spirit
mediums of the Victorian era were often accused of unfeminine
(and therefore transgressive) behavior. A rhetorical analysis of
nineteenth-century spirit mediums autobiographies reveals how
these women convinced readers of their authenticity both as
respectable women and as psychics. The author argues that these
womens autobiographies reflect an attempt to emulate feminine
virtues even as their interpretation and performance
of these virtues helped to transform prevailing gender
stereotypes. She demonstrates that the social performance
central to the production of womens autobiography is uniquely
complicated by Spiritualist ideology. Such complications reveal
new information about how women represented themselves,
gained agency, and renegotiated nineteenth-century gender roles.
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry is Lecturer in Rhetoric and
Composition at Arizona State University.
www.sunypress.edu
September 200 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6599-9
22
Cambodian
Buddhism in
the United States
Carol A. Mortland
The first comprehensive
anthropological description
of the Khmer Buddhism practiced
by Cambodian refugees in the
United States over the past
four decades.
Cambodian Buddhism in
the United States is the first
comprehensive anthropological
study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees
in the United States. Based on research conducted at Khmer
temples and sites throughout the country over a period of
three and a half decades, Carol A. Mortland uses participant
observation, open-ended interviews, life histories, and dialogues
with Khmer monks and laypeople to explore the everyday
practice of Khmer religion, including spirit beliefs and healing
rituals. This ethnography is enriched and supplemented by the
use of historical accounts, reports, memoirs, unpublished life
histories, and family memorabilia painstakingly preserved by
refugees. Mortland also traces the changes that Cambodians have
made to religion as they struggle with the challenges of living
in a new country, learning English, and supporting themselves.
The beliefs and practices of Khmer Muslims and Khmer
Christians in the United States are also reviewed.
Carol A. Mortland is a retired professor and the coeditor (with
David W. Haines) of Manifest Destinies: Americanizing Immigrants
and Internationalizing Americans, and (with May M. Ebihara and
Judy Ledgerwood) Cambodian Culture Since 1975: Homeland
and Exile.
september 340 pages
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6663-7

Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge, editors
Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious
identities and self-constructions.
In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of
travel have opened the door to international and intraregional
tourism and brought together people from different religious
and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has
become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-
construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors
to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for
religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary
travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel
among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but
also tribal, national, transnational, and personal identities.
The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies
such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions,
including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and
understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such
as Imphal, Manipur and Shegaon, Maharashtra.
Its rare to find such diverse accounts of religious travel
collected in a single volume, where scholars engagements with
individual places of pilgrimage in India and with the journeys
surrounding them are truly in conversation with one another.
For readers, it makes for a deeply enlightening journey. It also
raises an interesting question: Is the reality of India powerful
enough that it absorbs divergent expressions of religious tourism,
making of them a common fabric? Here, so unusually, readers
have the materials to decide. John Stratton Hawley,
author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
Andrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South
Asian Religions at McGill University. John Whalen-Bridge is
Associate Professor of English at the National University
of Singapore. He is the coeditor (with Gary Storhoff) of many
books, including The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature;
American Buddhism as a Way of Life; Writing as Enlightenment:
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century, and
Buddhism and American Cinema, all published by SUNY Press.
He is also the author of Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the
Rhetoric of Self-Immolation.
September 288 pages 39 b/w photographs
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6603-3
religious studies
Alan Watts
In the Academy
Essays and Lectures
Alan Watts
Edited and with an
Introduction by
Peter J. Columbus and
Donadrian L. Rice
Explores language and mysticism,
Buddhism and Zen, Christianity,
comparative religion, psychedelics,
and psychology and psychotherapy.
To commemorate the 2015
centenary of the birth of Alan Watts (19151973), Peter J.
Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice have assembled a much-
needed collection of Wattss scholarly essays and lectures.
Compiled from professional journals, monographs, scholarly
books, conferences, and symposia proceedings, the volume
sheds valuable light on the developmental arc of Wattss
thinking about language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen,
Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology
and psychotherapy. This definitive collection challenges Wattss
reputation as a popularizer or philosophical entertainer,
revealing his concerns to be much more expansive and
transdisciplinary than is suggested by the parochial Zen
Buddhist label commonly affixed to his writings. The editors
authoritative introduction elucidates contemporary perspectives
on Wattss life and work, and supports a bold rethinking of his
contributions to psychology, philosophy, and religion.
This excellent volume is important in establishing Watts as
perhaps the most important Western thinker and writer on
Eastern religions and philosophy, as well as comparative religions,
of the twentieth century. John W. Traphagan, author of
www.sunypress.edu
Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics
Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar
Foundation in Rowe, Massachusetts. Donadrian L. Rice is
Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia.
A volume in the SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Richard D. Mann, editor
July 378 pages 18 figures
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6555-5
23
 religious studies / buddhist studies

New in Paper

Beyond Memory robert cummings neville

The Good Is One,
Beyond Memory Italian Protestants The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many
in Italy and America Its Manifestations Many
Confucian Essays on
Dennis Barone Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals,
Institutions, and Genders
Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Robert Cummings Neville
Italian American experience.
Italian Protestants in Italy and America
Presents a twenty-first-century,
Dennis Barone July 175 pages 7 b/w photographs Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals,
Rituals, Institutions, and Genders
progressive, liberal Confucianism.
$19.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6216-5
Building on his long-standing work
in metaphysics and Asian philosophy,
Robert Cummings Neville presents a series of essays that
cumulatively articulate a contemporary, progressive Confucian
Refiguring the Body
Refiguring the Body position as a global philosophy.
Embodiment in South Asian Religions
Embodiment in
South Asian Religions July 245 pages
Barbara A. Holdrege and $24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6342-1
Karen Pechilis, editors

Examines how embodiment is conceived

and experienced in South Asian religions. buddhist studies
Edited by
Barbara A. Holdrege & Karen Pechilis

July 368 pages

$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6314-8 Seeing Like the Buddha
Enlightenment through Film
Francisca Cho

AH| m ad al-GhazA l I , Considers film as a form of Buddhist

Remembrance, ritual and contemplative practice.
Ah. mad Al-Ghaza-li-,
Remembrance, and the
and the Metaphysics In this important new contribution
Metaphysics of Love
of Love to Buddhist studies and Buddhist film
www.sunypress.edu

Joseph E. B. Lumbard criticism, Francisca Cho argues that

films can do more than simply convey
Discusses the work of a central, information about Buddhism.
but poorly understood, figure in the
Joseph E. B. Lumbard
development of Persian Sufism, July 177 pages 21 b/w photographs
Ah|mad al-Ghazali. $20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6438-1

july 259 pages

$24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-5964-6

24

State Violence and
Moral Horror
Jeremy Arnold
Explores the concept of moral
horror as the experience of living
amidst unjustifiable state violence.
Can state violence ever be
morally justified? In State
Violence and Moral Horror,
Jeremy Arnold critically
engages a wide variety of
arguments, both canonical
and contemporary, arguing
that there can be no justification. Drawing on the concept of
singularity found in the work of French philosopher
Jean-Luc Nancy, Arnold demonstrates that any attempt to justify
state violence will itself be violent and, therefore, must fail as a
justification. On the basis of this argument, the book explores
the concept of moral horror as the experience of living amidst
and acquiescing to unjustifiable state violence. The careful
explanation of arguments from across the spectrum of political
theory and exceptionally clear prose will enable both advanced
undergraduates and more general readers interested in political
thought to understand and engage the central argument.
State Violence and Moral Horror is a unique contribution to the
growing literature on violence and will be of interest to political
theorists and philosophers in both the analytic and continental
traditions, philosophers of law, international relations theorists,
law and society scholars, and social scientists interested in
normative aspects of state violence.
Jeremy Arnold is Senior Lecturer in the University Scholars
Program, National University of Singapore.
November 224 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6675-0
philosophy
God and the Self
in Hegel
Beyond Subjectivism
Paolo Diego Bubbio
Argues that Hegels conception
of God and the self holds the
key to overcoming subjectivism
in both philosophy of religion
and metaphysics.
God and the Self in Hegel
proposes a reconstruction of
Hegels conception of God
and analyzes the significance
of this reading for Hegels idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego
Bubbio argues that in Hegels view, subjectivismthe tenet that
there is no underlying true reality that exists independently
of the activity of the cognitive agentcan be avoided, and
content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God
is understood in Gods relation to human beings, and human
beings are understood in their relation to God. Focusing on
traditional problems in theology and the philosophy of religion,
such as the ontological argument for the existence of God, the
Trinity, and the death of God, Bubbio shows the relevance of
Hegels view of religion and God for his broader philosophical
strategy. In this account, as a response to the fundamental
Kantian challenge of how to conceive the mind-world relation
without setting mind over and against the world, Hegel has
found a way of overcoming subjectivism in both philosophy
and religion.
Paolo Diego Bubbio is Associate Professor of Philosophy
at Western Sydney University, Australia. His books include
Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity,
and Recognition, also published by SUNY Press.
www.sunypress.edu
A volume in the SUNY series in
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
July 224 pages
$85.00 jacketed hardcover 978-1-4384-6525-8
25
 philosophy
The Experience
of Truth
Gaetano Chiurazzi
Translated by
Robert T.Valgenti
Advances a hermeneutic
conception of truth as a mode of
being, in dialogue with Aristotle,
Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger,
Putnam, and Rorty.
What does it mean to say that
something is true? In this book
Gaetano Chiurazzi argues that
when we say that something is true, we do not say something
merely about a state of affairs, but also about ourselves. Truth is
not just the fact of what is out there, but a mode of existence
that shapes and transforms human understanding. Supported
by an original reading of Aristotles theory of judgment and
Heideggers hermeneutical theory of truth, Chiurazzi also
engages the work of Nietzsche, Gadamer, Putnam, and Rorty to
challenge the rising tide of theories that dismiss the importance
of human experience to the idea of truth.
This is a work of original scholarship. It does not simply
explain key ideas but makes a compelling case for regarding
truth in a distinctive way from a hermeneutic perspective.
James Risser, author of Heidegger toward the Turn:
Essays on the Work of 1930s
Gaetano Chiurazzi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Turin, Italy. Robert T. Valgenti is Associate
Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
www.sunypress.edu
Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, editors
November 160 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6645-3
26
Body/Self/Other
The Phenomenology
of Social Encounters
Luna Dolezal and
Danielle Petherbridge, editors
Examines the lived experience
of social encounters drawing on
phenomenological insights.
Body/Self/Other brings together
a variety of phenomenological
perspectives to examine
the complexity of social
encounters across a range of
social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality
of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure
lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine
how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and
medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social
interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this
book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent
to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of
individuals intercorporeality and sociality.
Luna Dolezal is Lecturer in Medical Humanities and
Philosophy at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom,
and author of The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism,
and the Socially Shaped Body. Danielle Petherbridge is Assistant
Professor of Continental Philosophy at University College
Dublin, Ireland, and the author of The Critical Theory of
Axel Honneth.
September 416 pages
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6621-7

The Politics
of Unreason
The Frankfurt School
and the Origins of
Modern Antisemitism
Lars Rensmann
The first systematic analysis of
the Frankfurt Schools research
and theorizing on modern
antisemitism.
Although the Frankfurt School
represents one of the most
influential intellectual traditions
of the twentieth century, its multifaceted work on modern
antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of
Unreason fills this gap, providing the first systematic study of the
Frankfurt Schools philosophical, psychological, political, and
social research and theorizing on the problem of antisemitism.
Examining the full range of these critical theorists contributions,
from major studies and prominent essays to seemingly marginal
pieces and aphorisms, Lars Rensmann reconstructs how the
Frankfurt School, faced with the catastrophe of the genocide
against the European Jews, explains forms and causes of anti-
Jewish politics of hate. The book also pays special attention
to research on coded and secondary antisemitism after the
Holocaust, and how resentments are politically mobilized
under conditions of democracy. By revisiting and rereading the
Frankfurt Schools original work, this book challenges several
misperceptions about critical theorys research, making the
case that it provides an important source to better understand
the social origins and politics of antisemitism, racism, and hate
speech in the modern world.
Lars Rensmann is Professor of European Politics and Society
at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His books
include Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations
(coedited with Samir Gandesha).
A volume in the SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors
September 320 pages
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6593-7
philosophy
Adventures in
Phenomenology
Gaston Bachelard
Eileen Rizo-Patron with
Edward S. Casey and
Jason M.Wirth, editors
Repositions Bachelard as a critical
and integral part of contemporary
continental philosophy.
Like Schelling before him and
Deleuze and Guattari after him,
Gaston Bachelard made major
philosophical contributions to
the advancement of science and
the arts. In addition to being a mathematician and epistemologist
whose influential work in the philosophy of science is still being
absorbed, Bachelard was also one of the most innovative thinkers
on poetic creativity and its ethical implications. His approaches
to literature and the arts by way of elemental reverie awakened
long-buried modes of thinking that have inspired literary
critics, depth psychologists, poets, and artists alike. Bachelards
extraordinary body of work, unduly neglected by the English-
language reception of continental philosophy in recent decades,
exhibits a capacity to speak to the full complexity and wider
reaches of human thinking. The essays in this volume analyze
Bachelard as a phenomenological thinker and situate his thought
within the Western tradition. Considering his work alongside
that of Schelling, Husserl, Bergson, Buber, Heidegger, Merleau-
Ponty, Gadamer, Deleuze, and Nancy, this collection highlights
some of Bachelards most provocative proposals on questions of
ontology, hermeneutics, ethics, environmental politics, spirituality,
and the possibilities they offer for productive transformations of
self and world.
www.sunypress.edu
Eileen Rizo-Patron is Research Associate at the Center
for Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture at Binghamton
University, State University of New York. Edward S. Casey is
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University,
State University of New York. Jason M. Wirth is Professor of
Philosophy at Seattle University.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
David Pettigrew and Franois Raffoul, editors
September 280 pages 1 b/w photograph
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6605-7 27
 philosophy
Beautiful, Bright,
Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding
and Blinding
Phenomenological
Aesthetics and the
Life of Art
H. Peter Steeves
Phenomenological analysis of
beauty and art across various
Phenomenological Aesthetics
aspects of lived experience
and the Life of Art
and culture.
H. PETER STEEVES
Through a careful analysis
of concrete examples taken
from everyday experience
and culture, Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding develops
a straightforward and powerful aesthetic methodology founded
on a phenomenological approach to experienceone that
investigates how consciousness engages with the world and
thus what it means to take such things as tastes, images, sounds,
and even a life itself as art. H. Peter Steeves begins by exploring
what it means to see, and considers how disruptions of sight
can help us rethink how perception works. Engaging the work
of Derrida, Heidegger, and Husserl, he uses these insights
about seeing to undertake a systematic phenomenological
investigation of how we perceive and process a range of aesthetic
objects, including the paintings of Arshile Gorky, the films of
Michael Haneke, Disneys Beauty and the Beast, zombie films,
The Simpsons, the performance art of Rachel Rosenthal and
Andy Kaufman, and even vegan hot dogs. Refusing hierarchical
distinctions between high and low art, Steeves argues that we
must conceptualize the whole of human experience as aesthetic:
art is lived, and living is an art.
This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent
phenomenologist of culture. Its extremely accessible,
www.sunypress.edu
illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being
philosophically probing. David Wood, author of
The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction
H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul
University.
November 256 pages 50 color photographs
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6653-8
28
Platos Laughter
P l at o s l a u g h t e r Socrates as Satyr
and Comical Hero
socrates as satyr and comical hero
s o n j a m a d e l e i n e ta n n e r
Sonja Madeleine Tanner
Platos Laughter Counters the long-standing,
solemn interpretation of Platos
dialogues with one centered on
the philosophical and pedagogical
significance of Socrates as a
comic figure.
Plato was described as a boor
and it was said that he never
laughed out loud.Yet his
dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine
Tanner argues that in Platos dialogues Socrates plays a comical
hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in
ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all
persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form
of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles,
philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialoguesboth explicit
and impliedsuggests a view of human nature as incongruous
with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding,
our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature
that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates own, laughable
depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains
ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of
laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides,
Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to
further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing
Platos laughter.
Sonja Madeleine Tanner is Associate Professor of Philosophy
at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and the author
of In Praise of Platos Poetic Imagination.
A volume in the SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Anthony Preus, editor
november 250 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6737-5

Imagination,
Music, and
the Emotions
A Philosophical Study
Saam Trivedi
Articulates an imaginationist
solution to the question of how
purely instrumental music can be
perceived by a listener as having
emotional content.
Both musicians and laypersons
can perceive purely instrumental
music without words or an
associated story or program as expressing emotions such as
happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi
discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to
this question, including formalism, metaphorism, expression
theories, arousalism, resemblance theories, and persona theories.
Finding these to be inadequate, he advocates an imaginationist
solution, by which absolute music is not really or literally sad
but is only imagined to be so in a variety of ways. In particular,
he argues that we as listeners animate the music ourselves,
imaginatively projecting life and mental states onto it. Bolstering
his argument with empirical data from studies in neuroscience,
psychology, and cognitive science, Trivedi also addresses and
explores larger philosophical questions such as the nature of
emotions, metaphors, and imagination.
Saam Trivedi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn
College, City University of New York.
September 190 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6717-7
philosophy
Beyond Beauty
Federico Vercellone
Translated by
Sarah de Sanctis
Traces the decline of beauty
as an ideal from early German
romanticism to the twentieth
century.
The American abstract
expressionist painter Barnett
Newman famously declared
in 1948 that the impulse of
modern art is to destroy beauty.
Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world
of art with the world of everyday life, painting soup cans and
soda bottles. In this book, Federico Vercellone provides an
account of the decline of beauty as a Platonic ideal from early
German Romanticism to the twentieth century. He traces this
intellectual trajectory from Goethe, Dilthey, and Nietzsche,
through modernism and the avant-garde movement, to the work
of Adorno and Heidegger. Rather than the death or destruction
of beauty,Vercellone argues instead that beauty in the twentieth
century is coming back to live in reality and everyday life.
He suggests this is a new edition of the classical ideal rather
than an abandonment of it, and further makes the case for the
ecological significance of this orientation and outlook.
Federico Vercellone is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Torino and the author of many books, including
(with Olaf Breidbach) Thinking and Imagination: Between Science
and Art. Sarah De Sanctis is a philosophy scholar and the
translator of over fifteen philosophy books, including Quasi
Things:The Paradigm of Atmospheres, by Tonino Griffero and
Manifesto of New Realism, by Maurizio Ferraris, both also
www.sunypress.edu
published by SUNY Press. She has edited, with Anna Longo,
Breaking the Spell: Contemporary Realism under Discussion.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, editors
September 170 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6587-6
29
 philosophy
Platonic Mysticism
Contemplative Science,
Philosophy, Literature,
and Art
Arthur Versluis
Restores the Platonic history and
context of mysticism and shows
how it helps us understand more
deeply the humanities as a whole,
from philosophy and literature
to art.
In Platonic Mysticism, Arthur
Versluis clearly and tautly
argues that mysticism must be properly understood as belonging
to the great tradition of Platonism. He demonstrates how
mysticism was historically understood in Western philosophical
and religious traditions and emphatically rejects externalist
approaches to esoteric religion. Instead he develops a new
theoretical-critical model for understanding mystical literature
and the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to
art. A sequel to his Restoring Paradise, this is an audacious book
that places Platonic mysticism in the context of contemporary
cognitive and other approaches to the study of religion, and
presents an emerging model for the new field of contemplative
science.
An important work on the mystical experience delving deep
into its history, particularly from the Platonic perspective.
An essential text for anyone interested in mysticism and its
relationship to philosophy and creative expression.
Andrew Newberg, author of How Enlightenment Changes
Your Brain:The New Science of Transformation
Arthur Versluis is Professor and Chair in the Department
www.sunypress.edu
of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He is the
author of Restoring Paradise:Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and
Consciousness and Wisdoms Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition,
both also published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
David Appelbaum, editor
September 190 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6633-0
30
Think Like an
Think Like Archipelago
an Archipelago Paradox in the Work of
Paradox in the Work of
douard Glissant
douard Glissant
Michael Wiedorn
Michael Wiedorn
A career-spanning assessment of
Glissants work as a philosophical
project.
With a career spanning more
than fifty years as a writer,
scholar, and public intellectual,
douard Glissant produced an
astonishingly wide range of
work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater.
In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh
interpretation of Glissants work as a cohesive and explicitly
philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two
decades of his career, which have received much less attention in
the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity.
Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that
it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the
heart of Glissants philosophy.
The question of difference has long played a central role in the
literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to
think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the
post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas
more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the
natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new
ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the
creation of what Glissant calls a new category of literature, and
in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking
through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new
perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology,
and the potential of philosophy itself.
Michael Wiedorn is Assistant Professor of French at the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
A volume in the SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors
December 192 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6703-0
 philosophy

New in Paper

Virtue in Being Fichtes Addresses to

the German Nation
Fichtes
Towards an Ethics Addresses to the German Nation

Virtue in Being of the Unconditioned ReconsideRed

Reconsidered
Andrew Benjamin
Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned

Daniel Breazeale and

Tom Rockmore, editors
A radical rethinking of ethics set within
the development of a philosophical Edited by
daniel Breazeale Essays on one of J. G. Fichtes best-
anthropology. and
tom Rockmore known and most controversial works.
Andrew Benjamin

In this original and engaging study, One of J. G. Fichtes best-known

Benjamin opens a nuanced dialogue works, Addresses to the German Nation
between the work of Kant, Arendt, and is based on a series of speeches he gave
Derrida to create a conversation about virtue that illuminates in Berlin when the city was under French occupation. They
our human condition. Benjamins innovative scholarship feature Fichtes diagnosis of his own era in European history as
enriches our understanding of each of the figures he treats. well as his call for a new sense of German national identity, based
Elizabeth Milln Brusslan, author of Friedrich Schlegel upon a common language and culture rather than blood and
and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy soil. These speeches, often interpreted as key documents in the
rise of modern nationalism, also contain Fichtes most sustained
July 210 pages reflections on pedagogical issues, including his ideas for a new
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6162-5 egalitarian system of Prussian national education.

Containing Community Containing July 303 pages

From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
$25.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6254-7
Community
From Political Economy
to Ontology in Agamben, The Tragedy
Esposito, and Nancy of Philosophy
The Tragedy
Greg Bird of Philosophy Kants Critique of Judgment
and the Project of Aesthetics
Kants Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics

Greg Bird
Analyzes the role of community in the Andrew Cooper
writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto
Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Reframes philosophical understanding
of, and engagement with, tragedy.

www.sunypress.edu
Andrew Cooper
Community has been both celebrated S U N Y P R E S S C O N T E M P O R A RY C O N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y

and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew
from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning Cooper challenges the prevailing idea
community as an antiquated model of relationships that is ill of the death of tragedy, arguing that
suited for our globalized world, this book turns to the writings this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and
of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy philosophyone that stifles the profound contribution that
in search for ways to rethink community in an open tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case,
and inclusive manner. Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kants Critique
of Judgment.
July 249 pages
$26.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6186-1 July 297 pages
$26.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6188-5
31
 philosophy

New in Paper

Topography and Deep Between Philosophy

Topography and
Deep Structure in Plato Structure in Plato and Non-Philosophy
The Thought and Legacy of
The Construction of Place in the Dialogues

The Construction of Place

in the Dialogues Hugh J. Silverman
Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran Between Philosophy Edited by Donald A. Landes, with
and Non-Philosophy Leonard Lawlor and Peter Gratton
A literary and historical analysis of The Thought and Legac y of

Hugh J. Silverman
the structure and meaning of recurrent Edited by Donald A . L andes
Engages the work and career of a central
Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran symbols, images, and actions employed with Leonard L awlor and Peter Grat ton
figure in contemporary philosophy.
in Platos dialogues.
In this volume, leading scholars explore
Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran examines and extend Silvermans philosophical
the use of place in Platos dialogues. Corcoran argues that spatial contributions, from reflections on the
representations, such as walls, caves, and roads, as well as the notions of care, time, and responsibility, to presentations of the
creation of eternal patterns and chaotic images in the particular practices and possibilities of deconstruction itself. They provide
spaces, times, characterizations, and actions of the dialogues, an assessment of Silvermans life and work at the intersection of
provide clues to Platos philosophic project. philosophy, ethics, and politics.

July 289 pages 6 b/w photographs, 5 maps, 1 figure July 242 pages
$23.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6270-7 $22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6336-0

Poetic Fragments Merleau-Ponty and

Karoline von Gnderrode Merleau-Ponty and
the Face of the World
the Face of the World
Poetic Translated and with Introductory Silence, Ethics, Imagination,
Fragments
Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology

Essays by Anna C. Ezekiel Glen A. Mazis

and Poetic Ontology
Glen A. Mazis
Bilingual English-German edition
of second collection published by the Assesses Merleau-Pontys contribution
Karoline von Gnderrode German poet, dramatist, and philosopher to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay
Translated and with Introductory Essays by
Anna C. Ezekiel Karoline von Gnderrode (17801806). between perception and imagination,
S U N Y P R E S S C O N T E M P O R A RY C O N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y

and between silence and solidarity, that

The second collection of writings reveals our place in the world, and our
by the German poet, dramatist, and
www.sunypress.edu

obligations to ourselves and others.

philosopher Karoline von Gnderrode (17801806), Poetic
Fragments was published in 1805 under the pseudonym Tian. In Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World, Glen A. Mazis provides
Gnderrodes work is an unmined source of insight into an overall consideration of Merleau-Pontys philosophy that
German Romanticism and Idealism, as well as into the reception brings out what he sees as a corrective prescription for ethical
of Indian, Persian, and Islamic thought in Europe. Anna C. reorientation that is fundamental to Merleau-Pontys thought.
Ezekiels introductions highlight the philosophical significance of
the texts, demonstrating their radical and original consideration July 386 pages
of the nature of the universe, death, religion, power, and $28.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6230-1
gender roles.

July 345 pages

32 $26.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6198-4
 philosophy

New in Paper

Leo Strauss on Science Gaston Bachelard,

S U N Y S E R I E S I N C O N T E M P O R A R Y F R E N C H T H O U G H T

leo strauss on science

S
U
N
Revised and Updated
GASTON BACHELARD
Thoughts on the Relation

Y
thoughts on the relation between

S
REVISED AND UPDATED
natural science and political philosophy

E
Philosopher of Science and Imagination

R
I
between Natural Science Philosopher of Science

E
S
I
N
and Political Philosophy and Imagination

C
O
N
T
Svetozar Y. Minkov

E
Roch C. Smith

M
P
O
R
A
R
Y
F
The first study of Strausss confrontation Comprehensive overview of the entire

R
E
N
C
with modern science and its methods.

H
spectrum of works by one of twentieth-

T
H
O
R och C. Smith
century Frances most original thinkers.

U
G
svetozar y. minkov

H
Drawing upon a wealth of previously

T
T H O U G H T F R E N C H C O N T E M P O R A R Y I N S E R I E S S U N Y

unpublished archival material, July 173 pages 1 b/w photograph

Leo Strauss on Science brings to light $20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6192-2
the thoughts of Leo Strauss on the problem of science.
Freedom from
July 222 pages
$23.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6312-4
the Free Will
Freedom
from the
On Kafkas Laughter
Free Dimitris Vardoulakis
Will
On Kafkas Laughter

Brings Kafkas fiction into conversation

Dale M. Schlitt German Idealisms with philosophy and political theory.
Trinitarian Legacy Dimitris Vardoulakis
Dale M. Schlitt Its greatest strength lies in its careful
German Idealisms and rigorous exposition of concepts
Trinitarian Legacy of freedom that circulate through
A study of the roots and legacy
of German Idealist philosophy for Kafkas most canonical works.
trinitarian theology. Gerhard Richter, author of Inheriting Walter Benjamin

Dale M. Schlitt presents a study of July 190 pages

trinitarian thought as it was understood $21.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6240-0
and debated by the German Idealists
broadlyengaging Schellings
Contemplating Friendship Contemplating
philosophical interpretations of Trinity as well as Hegels Friendship in
in Aristotles Ethics

www.sunypress.edu
and analyzing how these Idealist interpretations influenced
Aristotles Ethics
ANN WARD

later philosophers and theologians.

Ann Ward
July 445 pages
$34.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6222-6 Examines how Aristotle posits political
philosophy and the experience of
friendship as a means to bind strictly
intellectual virtue with morality.

July 172 pages

$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6266-0

33

psychoanalysis
Coming Too Late
Reflections on Freud
and Belatedness
Andrew Barnaby
Rethinks the significance of the
sons relationship to his father for
Freuds psychoanalytic theory.
Aiming to reconceptualize some
of Freuds earliest psychoanalytic
thinking, Andrew Barnabys
Coming Too Late argues that
what Freud understood as the
fundamental psychoanalytic
relationshipa sons ambivalent relationship to his father
is governed not by the sexual rivalry of the Oedipus complex
but by the existential predicament of belatedness. Analyzing the
rhetorical tensions of Freuds writing, Barnaby shows that filial
ambivalence derives particularly from the sons vexed relation
to a paternal origin he can never claim as his own. Barnaby also
demonstrates how Freud at once grasped and failed to grasp
the formative nature of the sons crisis of coming after,
a duality marked especially in Freuds readings and misreadings
of a series of precursor textsthe biblical stories of Moses,
Shakespeares Hamlet, E. T. A. Hoffmanns The Sandmanthat
often anticipate the very insights that the Oedipal model at once
reveals and conceals. Reinterpreting Freudian psychoanalysis
through the lens of Freuds own acts of interpretation, Coming
Too Late further aims to consider just what is at stake in the
foundational relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.
Andrew Barnaby is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Vermont and the coauthor (with Lisa J. Schnell)
of Literate Experience:The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century
English Writing.
www.sunypress.edu
A volume in the SUNY series, Insinuations:
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Charles Shepherdson, editor
August 320 pages
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6577-7
34
qqqqqqqqqqqq
qqqqqqqqqqqq
political science
Race, Nation,
and Refuge
The Rhetoric of Race
in Asian American
Citizenship Cases
Doug Coulson
Explores the role of rhetoric and
the racial classification of Asian
American immigrants in the early
Race, NatioN, aNd Refuge twentieth century.
the RhetoRic of Race iN asiaN ameRicaN citizeNship cases
Doug Coulson
qqqqqq From 1870 to 1940, racial
eligibility for naturalization in
the United States was limited to
free white persons and aliens of African nativity and persons
of African descent, and many interpreted these restrictions to
reflect a policy of Asian exclusion based on the conclusion that
Asians were neither white nor African. Because the distinction
between white and Asian was considerably unstable, however,
those charged with the interpretation and implementation of
the naturalization act faced difficult racial classification questions.
Through archival research and a close reading of the arguments
contained in the documents of the US Bureau of Naturalization,
especially those documents that discussed challenges to racial
eligibility for naturalization, Doug Coulson demonstrates that
the strategy of foregrounding shared external threats to the
nation as a means of transcending perceived racial divisions was
often more important to racial classification than legal doctrine.
He argues that this was due to the rapid shifts in the nations
enmities and alliances during the early twentieth century and
the close relationship between race, nation, and sovereignty.
Doug Coulson is Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie
Mellon University.
October 288 pages
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6661-3
 political science

American Cities Understanding

American Cities and and the Politics of Immigration
the Politics of UNDERSTANDING
Party Conventions Party Conventions IMMIGRATION Issues and Challenges
Eric S. Heberlig, Issues and Challenges in an Era of Mass Population Movement
in an Era of Mass
Suzanne M. Leland, and Population Movement
David Swindell Marilyn Hoskin

Uncovers the politics involved Undergraduate-level textbook

when a city recruits and
implements a presidential
convention.
Eric S. Heberlig, Suzanne M. Leland,
and David Swindell
introducing students to the factors
which define immigration politics
MARILYN HOSKIN in the United States and Europe.

Political party conventions Based on the dual premise that

have lost much of their original
political nature, serving now
primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions
made by voters in state primaries and caucuses. While this
activity hasnt changed significantly since the 1970s, conventions
themselves have changed significantly in terms of how they are
recruited, implemented, and paid for. American Cities and the
Politics of Party Conventions analyzes how and why cities advance
through the site selection process. Just as parties use conventions
to communicate their policies, unity, and competence to
the electorate, cities use the convention selection process to
communicate their merits to political parties, businesses, and
residents. While hosting such a mega-event provides some
direct economic stimulus for host cities, the major benefit of
the convention is the opportunity it provides for branding and
signaling status. Combining a case studies approach as well
as interviews with party and local officials, Eric S. Heberlig,
Suzanne M. Leland, and David Swindell bring party convention
scholarship up to date while highlighting the costs and benefits
of hosting such events for tourism bureaus, city administrators,
elected officials, and the citizens they represent.
nations need to learn from
how immigration issues are
handled in other modern democracies, and that adaptation to
a new era of refugee and emigration movements is critical to
a stable world, Marilyn Hoskin systematically compares the
immigration policies of the United States, Britain, Germany,
and France as prime examples of the challenges faced in
the twenty-first century. Because immigration is a complex
phenomenon, Understanding Immigration provides students
with a multidisciplinary framework based on the thesis that
a nations geography, history, economy, and political system
define its immigration policy. In the process, it is possible to
weigh the influence of such factors as isolation, colonialism,
labor imbalances, and tolerance of fringe parties and groups
in determining how governments ultimately respond to both
routine immigration requests and the more dramatic surges
witnessed in both Europe and the United States since 2013.
Marilyn Hoskin is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the
University of New Hampshire and the author of New Immigrants
and Democratic Society: Minority Integration in Western Democracies.

Eric S. Heberlig is Professor of Political Science and Public December 288 pages Trim size: 7 x 10 20 tables, 10 figures

www.sunypress.edu
Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. $39.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6688-0
Suzanne M. Leland is Professor of Political Science and Public $95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6687-3
Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
David Swindell is the Director of the Center for Urban
Innovation and Associate Professor in the School of Public
Affairs at Arizona State University.

September 224 pages 28 tables. 5 figures

$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6639-2

35
 political science

Ethics and Confrontational

Ethics and Accountability Accountability
on the US Supreme Court on the US Supreme
An Analysis of Recusal Practices
Court
An Analysis
of Recusal Practices
Robert J. Hume
Examines the causes and
consequences of recusal behavior
on the US Supreme Court.
Robert J. Hume
Do US Supreme Court justices
withdraw from cases when they
are supposed to? What happens
when the Court is down a member? In Ethics and Accountability
on the US Supreme Court, Robert J. Hume provides the first
comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of
recusal behavior on the Supreme Court. Using original data,
and with rich attention to historical detail including media
commentary about recusals, he systematically analyzes the factors
that influence Supreme Court recusal, a process which has so
far been shrouded in secrecy. It is revealed that justices do not
strictly follow the recusal guidelines set by Congress, but at the
same time they do not ignore these rules. Overall, justices are
selective in their compliance with the recusal statute, balancing
ethical considerations against other institutional and policy goals,
such as the duty to sit. However, the book also concludes that
the impact of recusals on policymaking is more limited than
commentators have claimed, raising questions about whether
ethics reform is really needed at this time.
Robert J. Hume is Professor of Political Science at Fordham
University. He is the author of Courthouse Democracy and Minority
Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States and How Courts Impact
www.sunypress.edu
Citizenship
Reflections on Hatred,
Rage, Revolution,
and Revolt
William W. Sokoloff
Defends confrontational modes
of citizenship as a means
to reinvigorate democratic
participation and regime
WILLIAM W. SOKOLOFF accountability.
A growing number of people
are enraged about the quality
and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate
for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal
global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian
and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and
new political institutions are needed for this? In order to answer
these questions, Confrontational Citizenship draws on a broad
base of perspectives to articulate the concept of confrontational
citizenship. William W. Sokoloff defends extra-institutional and
confrontational modes of political activity along with new ways
of conceiving political institutions as a way to create political
orders accountable to the people. In contrast to many forms of
democratic theory, Sokoloff argues that confrontational modes
of citizenship (e.g., protest) are good because they increase the
accountability of a regime to the people, increase the legitimacy
of regimes, lead to improvements in a political order, and serve as
a means to vent frustration. The goal is to make the word citizen
relevant and dangerous to the settled and closed practices that
structure our political world and to provide a hopeful vision
of what it means to be politically progressive today.
William W. Sokoloff is Assistant Professor of Political Science

Federal Administrative Behavior.

at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
A volume in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism
Robert J. Spitzer, editor A volume in the SUNY series in New Political Science
Bradley J. Macdonald, editor
December 160 pages 17 tables, 23 figures
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6697-2 December 224 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6781-8

36
 political science

TOWARDS CONTINENTAL
Towards The China Order
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ?
North American Transnational Networks and Governance Continental Centralia, World Empire,
Environmental and the Nature of
Policy? The China Order Chinese Power
North American Centralia, World Empire, and the
Fei-Ling Wang
Nature of Chinese Power
Transnational Networks
Examines the rising power of
and Governance China and Chinese foreign policy
Owen Temby and through a revisionist analysis
Peter Stoett, editors of Chinese civilization.

Examines the challenges of What does the rise of China

edited by Owen Temby and Peter Stoett
environmental governance in
contemporary North America.
What are the most important
transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy
in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition
towards integrated continental environmental policy, and if so,
to what degree is this integration irreversible? These governance
arrangements are diverse and evolving, consisting of binational
and trinational organizations created decades ago by treaties and
groups of stakeholderswith varying degrees of formalization
who work together to address issues that no single country
can alone. Together they provide leadership in numerous
areas of environmental concern, including invasive species,
energy efficiency, water, and terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.
This book explores these arrangements, examining features such
as stakeholder inclusion, organizational activities and functions,
and issue comprehensiveness. Overall, the contributors report
an underdeveloped policy architecture consisting of fragmented
regional transnational networks of stakeholders and underfunded
binational and trinational organizations. They also show evidence
of substantial policy entrepreneurship and a vibrant informal
underbelly to North American environmental governance,
which will be vital in the challenging days ahead.
Fei-Ling Wang
represent, and how should
the international community
respond? With a holistic
rereading of Chinese longue dure history, Fei-Ling Wang provides
a simple but powerful framework for understanding the nature
of persistent and rising Chinese power and its implications for
the current global order. He argues that the Chinese ideation
and tradition of political governance and world order
the China Orderis based on an imperial state of Confucian-
Legalism as historically exemplified by the Qin-Han polity.
Claiming a Mandate of Heaven to unify and govern the whole
known world or tianxia (all under heaven), the China Order
dominated Eastern Eurasia as a world empire for more than
two millennia, until the late nineteenth century. Since 1949,
the Peoples Republic of China has been a reincarnated
Qin-Han polity without the traditional China Order, finding
itself stuck in the endless struggle against the current world order
and the ever-changing Chinese society for its regime survival
and security. Wang also offers new discoveries and assessments
about the true golden eras of Chinese civilization, explains the
great East-West divergence between China and Europe, and
analyzes the China Dream that drives much of current Chinese
foreign policy.

www.sunypress.edu
An original, important, well-researched, and powerfully argued
Owen Temby is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the exploration of the virtues and vices of the Chinese state from
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Peter Stoett is Dean its ancient past to its likely future. Edward Friedman,
of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario University of Wisconsin, Madison
Institute of Technology.
Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the
A volume in the SUNY series in Environmental Governance: Georgia Institute of Technology.
Local-Regional-Global Interactions
Peter Stoett and Owen Temby, editors September 330 pages 3 maps, 2 tables, 3 figures
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6749-8
August 384 pages 5 maps, 14 tables, 3 figures
$95.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-6757-3
37
 political science

New in Paper

Legal Path Dependence The Bitter Taste

Legal Path Dependence
and the Long Arm
and the Long Arm of Hope
of the Religious State
Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights
across Nations and over Time
of the Religious State Ideals, Ideologies, and Interests
Victor Asal and Udi Sommer
Sodomy Provisions and in the Age of Obama
Gay Rights across Nations Stephen Eric Bronner
and over Time
Victor Asal and Udi Sommer Essays that critically evaluate Americas
domestic and foreign policy landscape
A comparative examination of since President Obama took office.
the political, historical, legal, and
religious antecedents of penalties and President Barack Obama was elected
discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world. to office on a wave of hope. With his
tenure as President of the United States now concluded, it is
Bringing together theoretical perspectives from both time to take stock of his record at home and abroad. The Bitter
comparative politics and public law, this book examines the Taste of Hope is a collection of essays that critically evaluate
reasons why certain countries criminalize same-sex activities Americas domestic landscape on the one hand, particularly new
while others have carved into law the requirement that sexual social movements, and the nations foreign policy, particularly in
minority communities be protected. the Middle East, on the other.

July 193 pages 4 b/w photographs, 18 tables, 11 figures July 199 pages
$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6324-7 $20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6548-7

Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History,

and Tyranny
Toward a Critical Reexamining the Debate between
Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojve
and Tyranny
Reexamining the Debate
TOWARD A Theory of States between Leo Strauss and
CRITICAL THEORY
The Poulantzas-Miliband
OF STATES Alexandre Kojve
The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate
Debate after Globalization
after Globalization
Timothy W. Burns and
CLYDE W. BARROW
Clyde W. Barrow
Bryan-Paul Frost, editors
In-depth study of the enduring impact of Edited by
Timothy W. Burns and Bryan-Paul Frost
The first comprehensive examination
the 1970s debate between state theorists
of the debate between Leo Strauss and
Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas.
www.sunypress.edu

Alexandre Kojve on the subject of

philosophy and tyranny.
Toward a Critical Theory of States is an
intensive analysis of the 1970s debate
This volume contains for the first time a comprehensive and
between state theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas,
critical examination of the debate from scholars well versed in
including its wider impact on Marxist theories of the state
the thought of Strauss, Kojve, Hegel, Heidegger, and the end of
in subsequent decades.
history thesis. Of particular interest will be the appendix, which
offers for the first time Kojves unabridged response to Strauss,
July 230 pages a response previously available only from the Fonds Kojve at
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6180-9 Le Bibliothque Nationale de France.

July 372 pages

38 $29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6210-3
 political science

New in Paper

a Vanished Ideology Trendy Fascism

A VANISHED
IDEOLOGY Essays on the Jewish Trendy Fascism White Power Music and the
Communist Movement White Power Music and
the Future of Democracy
Future of Democracy
in the English-Speaking World Nancy S. Love
in the Twentieth Century
Matthew B. Hoffman and Explores how white supremacist groups
Henry F. Srebrnik, editors use popular music and culture to teach
Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the
hate and promote violence.
English-Speaking World in the Twentieth Century
MATTHEW B. HOFFMAN AND HENRY F. SREBRNIK, eds. First comprehensive examination of the NANCY S. LOVE

rise and decline of the Jewish communist
movement in the English-speaking world.
While a number of books and articles have been written
about Jewish Communist organizations and their supporters
in particular countries, an academic treatment of the overall
movement per se has yet to be published. A Vanished Ideology
examines the politics of the Jewish Communist movement
in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and the
United States.
Trendy Fascism has the potential to
unsettle how theorists of democracy
frame their most basic assumptions
in the study of politics. The case studies of white power music
are indeed unsettling, and at times they will bring chills to the
reader. But, as Love argues, we must confront the realities of
and rationalizations for the often-disavowed transnational white
supremacist communities and networks in our political present
if we are serious about overturning the racial contract pervading
late modern states. Neil Roberts, Williams College

July 273 pages July 255 pages

$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6218-9 $22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6204-2

international
International Disaster Between the Rule
disaster Management Ethics of Law and States
management
ethics
Liza Ireni Saban of Emergency
Liza ireni Saban
The Fluid Jurisprudence
Responds to the demanding political of the Israeli Regime
and ethical challenges faced by the
Yoav Mehozay
international disaster management
community.
Raises concerns about the degree to
which the rule of law and emergency
Todays international disaster

www.sunypress.edu
powers have become fundamentally
management community faces
entangled, using Israel as a case study.
demanding political and ethical
challenges. In International Disaster Management Ethics, Liza Ireni
In Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency,Yoav Mehozay
Saban suggests that it is crucial for international aid organizations
offers a fundamentally different approach, demonstrating that
engaged in disaster management to attempt to lift the moral
law and emergency are mutually reinforcing paradigms that
fog that envelops their practice and to alert them to the ethical
compensate for each others shortcomings.
implications and meaning of their decisions and actions,
commitment to exercising ethical judgment, and leadership.
July 205 pages 1 table, 2 figures
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6338-4
July 184 pages 1 table, 2 figures
$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6170-0
39
 political science

New in Paper

Behind the Faade Austerity and the

Austerity and the
Elections under
Labor Movement Labor Movement
Authoritarianism Michael Schiavone
Behind the Faade
in Southeast Asia
Lee Morgenbesser An overview and analysis of austerity
policies and labor movement resistance in
Lee Morgenbesser Explores why authoritarian regimes several countries.
bother to hold elections.
July 233 pages
Michael Schiavone
Behind the Faade examines the question $22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6294-3
of why authoritarian regimes in
Southeast Asia bother holding elections.
Using comprehensive case studies of Cambodia, Myanmar,
and Singapore, Lee Morgenbesser argues that elections allow
Judicial Power and
JUDICIAL POWER &
authoritarian regimes to collect information, pursue legitimacy, NATIONAL POLITICS National Politics,
manage political elites, and sustain neopatrimonial domination.
Second Edition
Second Edition
Courts and Gender in the
July 274 pages 10 tables, 9 figures Religious-Secular Conflict
$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6288-2 Courts and Gender in the
Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel in Israel
Patricia J. Woods Patricia J.Woods

Chronicles the conflict between religious

no rule
of law,
no
democracy
Conflicts of Interest,
Corruption, and Elections
as Democratic Deficits
Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner
www.sunypress.edu
No Rule of Law, and secular forces in Israel.
No Democracy
Conflicts of Interest, July 248 pages 22 tables
Corruption, and Elections $20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6206-6
as Democratic Deficits
Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner
ADVOCACY Advocacy and
Argues that new democracies face
AND POLICYMAKING
IN SOUTH KOREA Policymaking
consolidation challenges due to campaign how the legacy of state
and society relationships shapes in South Korea
finance corruption and the unwillingness contemporary public policy
How the Legacy of State and

of politicians to reform rule of law Society Relationships Shapes

enforcement.
Contemporary Public Policy
In No Rule of Law, No Democracy, Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner
Jiso Yoon
demonstrates that when corrupt politicians are in powertrue JISO YOON
Reveals how policymaking traditions
of nearly all new democraciesthey will protect their office and
prior to democratization continue to
fail to implement rule of law reforms.
resonate within current South Korean
public policy advocacy practices.
July 292 pages 15 tables, 17 figures
$25.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6264-6
July 211 pages 15 tables, 21 figures
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6252-3
40
 history / archaeology sociology

New in Paper Spontaneous

Combustion
the Politics of the The Eros Effect and
The Politics Global Revolution
of the Second Slavery
Second Slavery Dale W.Tomich, editor Jason Del Gandio and
Edited by
D A L E W. T O M I C H AK Thompson, editors
Sheds new light on both pro and Foreword by Peter Marcuse
antislavery politics in the nineteenth-
century Americas. Provides answers to one of the
enduring paradoxes of mass
The creation of new frontiers social change.
of slave commodity production and
the expansion and intensification From the events of May 1968
of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the to the Arab Spring and Occupy,
southern United States were an integral part of the expansion we have seen social movements
of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands
from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an
together a group of international scholars to reinterpret pro- end to oppression.
and antislavery politics both globally and nationally as part
of the forces that were restructuring Atlantic slavery. In order to make sense of such events, the authors draw on
George Katsiaficass conception of the eros effect, which picks
July 267 pages 1 map up and takes off from concepts developed by Herbert Marcuse.
$25.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6236-3 This effect describes moments in which the instinctual human
need for justice and freedom undergoes a massive spontaneous
awakening. Drawing on Marcuse, the concept foregrounds the
Climate and Cultural instinctual foundation of the desire for freedom, in which a
Climate and Change in Prehistoric biologically-based pleasure driveerosis given free play.
Cultural Europe and the from the Foreword by Peter Marcuse
Change in
Prehistoric Near East
Europe and Peter F. Biehl and However, even as the eros effect provides a valuable framework
the Near East for understanding spontaneous global uprisings, Katsiaficas has
Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, editors
acknowledged that the concept has remained underdeveloped.
Edited by
Peter F. Biehl and
Rich case studies examining responses to Spontaneous Combustion provides an introduction to the eros
Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse

climatic events in ancient Europe and the effect along with a series of elaborations, applications, and critical
Near East. rejoinders concerning its implications. A truly interdisciplinary

The subject of climate change could
hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in
Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group
of contributors examine climate change through the lens of new
archaeological and paleo-environmental data over the course
of more than 10,000 years from the Near East to Europe.
July 297 pages Trim size: 7 x 10 Nancy A. Naples, editor
22 b/w photographs, 29 maps, 7 tables, 26 figures
$37.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6182-3
www.sunypress.edu
venture, the book features contributions from cutting-edge
scholars and activists on the frontlines of todays struggles.
Jason Del Gandio is Assistant Professor at Temple University
who teaches rhetoric and public advocacy. AK Thompson
teaches social theory.
A volume in the SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
November 288 pages 3 tables, 1 figure
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6727-6
41
 environmental studies
Mountains,
Rivers, and
the Great Earth
Reading Gary Snyder
and Dogen in an Age
of Ecological Crisis
Jason M.Wirth
Engages the global ecological
crisis through a radical rethinking
of what it means to inhabit
the earth.
Meditating on the work
of American poet and
environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century
Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen, Jason M. Wirth draws out
insights for understanding our relation to the planets ongoing
ecological crisis. He discusses what Dogen calls the Great
Earth and what Snyder calls the Wild, as comprised of the
play of waters and mountains, emptiness and form, and then
considers how these ideas can illuminate the spiritual and ethical
dimensions of place. The book culminates in a discussion of
earth democracy, a place-based sense of communion where all
beings are interconnected and all beings matter. This radical
rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth will inspire
lovers of Snyders poetry, Zen practitioners, environmental
philosophers, and anyone concerned about the global
ecological crisis.
There are numerous books that discuss Snyders ecological
view and, to a lesser extent, his relation to Dogen. There are also
many books on Buddhism and ecology. But this book is unique
in its focus and format and its authorial voice. Its a distinctive,
ambitious, and timely work. David Landis Barnhill, translator
of Bashos Journey:The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho
www.sunypress.edu
Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.
A volume in the SUNY series in
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors
July 160 pages
$75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6543-2
42
latin american studies
Recovering Lost
Volume 1
Footprints,
Volume 1
Contemporary Maya Narratives Contemporary Maya
Narratives
Arturo Arias
Analyzes contemporary Maya
narratives.
Recovering Lost Footprints is the
ARTURO ARIAS first full-length critical study
to analyze Latin American
Indigenous literary narratives
in a systematic manner. In
the book, Arturo Arias looks at Maya narratives in Guatemala.
The study of these works is intended to spark changes so
that constitutions recognize these cultures, their rights, their
languages, their centers of worship, and their cosmologies.
Through this study, Arias problematizes the partial or full
omission of Latin Americas original inhabitants from recognized
citizenry. This book analyzes these elements of exclusion in the
novelistic output of three salient figures, Luis de Lin, Gaspar
Pedro Gonzlez, and Vctor Montejo. The works by these writers
offer evidence that most native people have entered modernity
without renouncing their respective cultures or the specifics
of their singular identities. The philosophical ethics elaborated
in the texts, such as respect for nature and recognition of the
holistic value of natural beings, enable non-indigenous readers
to both understand and relate to these values.
Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University
of California, Merced. He is the author of Taking their Word:
Literature and the Signs of Central America.
November 256 pages 1 figure
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6739-9
 latin american studies hispanic studies

New in Paper The Afterlife of

al-Andalus
Literature and Muslim Iberia in
Interregnum Contemporary Arab
Globalization, War, and Hispanic Narratives
Literature and
Interregnum
and the Crisis of Sovereignty Christina Civantos
Globalization, War, and the Crisis of
Sovereignty in Latin America

in Latin America
The first study to undertake
Patrick Dove
Patrick Dove

a wide-ranging comparison of
invocations of al-Andalus across
Examines literary responses to the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
impact of economic and technological
globalization in Latin America. Around the globe, concerns
about interfaith relations have
This is a first-rate, timely, and led to efforts to find earlier
rigorously theorized intervention that everyone in the field models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines
of Latin American literary and cultural studies will have to read, how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in
teach, discuss, and cite. Charles Hatfield, author of twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television,
The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina
Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present
July 330 pages ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of
$24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6154-0 this importance are contested. Civantoss analysis reveals that,
alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create
BENIGNO TRIGO
Malady and Genius exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses
Malady and Genius
Self-Sacrifice in about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional
S E L F-S A C R I F I C E I N P U E R TO R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E

Puerto Rican Literature narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial
Benigno Trigo and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages

in Puerto Rican literature through and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of
psychoanalytic theory. Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants,
and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.
Malady and Genius examines the
recurring theme of self-sacrifice in A volume in the SUNY series in
Puerto Rican literature during the Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty- Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors

www.sunypress.edu
first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of
Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo November 352 pages 4 maps
focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning $95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6669-9
of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial
condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the
oldest colony in the world.

July 228 pages 5 color photographs, 2 b/w photographs

$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6158-8

43
 hispanic studies african american studies
New in Paper Black Womens
Mental Health
Radical Poetry Balancing Strength
Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and Vulnerability
Poetry Stephanie Y. Evans,
Radical and the Ibero-American Avant-
Gardes, 19002015
BLACK Kanika Bell, and
Aesthetics,

Eduardo Ledesma
WOMENS Nsenga K. Burton, editors
MENTAL
Politics,

,
Technology
Foreword by
and the

Ibero-American Avant-Gardes HEALTH Linda Goler Blount

19002015
Engages in a critical reanalysis of BAL ANCING S TRENGTH
& V ULNER ABILIT Y
historical Ibero-American experimental
Eduardo Ledesma
EDI T ED BY

poetry in order to demonstrate how the

contemporary digital vanguard owes
much to this tradition.
With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more
than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the
relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and
politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry.
A unique and seminal work of simply outstanding scholarship.
Midwest Book Review
This book is extraordinary. It is truly original in its conception
and deeply grounded in its knowledge, and it communicates a
passion for its topics, especially the digital age. This is a major
contribution that surely will be a new model for literary critique
in these languages. Gwen Kirkpatrick,
Georgetown University
July 348 pages 30 color photographs
$26.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6200-4
www.sunypress.edu
S T EPHA NIE Y. E VA NS, K A NIK A BELL ,
& NSENG A K . BURTON Creates a new framework for
F ORE WORD BY LINDA GOLER BLOUN T
approaching Black womens
wellness, by merging theory
and practice with both personal
narratives and public policy.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look
at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for
inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors
from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the
humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault,
healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy
considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice
with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops
a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness
in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects
feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject
both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures.
Also included for health professionals are concrete
recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates
a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the
complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the
protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and

optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American

Studies, Africana Womens Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta
University. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at
Clark Atlanta University. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of
Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia.

July 256 pages 4 tables

$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6581-4

44

Hopes and Expectations
v The Origins of the
v Barbara J. Beeching
Black Middle Class in Hartford
.
Barbara J. Beeching
July 270 pages 6 color photographs, 24 b/w photographs, 3 maps
$24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6164-9
Race
Still The Reality of African American Lives
and the Myth of Postracial Society
Matters
Edited by Yuya
Meaning-Making,
Internalized Racism, and
African American Identity
===========================================================
Edited by
Jas M. Sullivan and William E. Cross Jr.
July 349 pages 37 tables, 5 figures
$27.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6296-7
african american studies african studies
New in Paper Affective Images
Post-Apartheid
Affective imAges
Hopes and P o st-A PA r t h e i d d o c u m e n tA r y P e r s P e c t i v e s
Documentary
Expectations Perspectives
The Origins of the Black Marietta Kesting
Middle Class in Hartford
Explores intervisual case
studies in relation to migration,
Describes in rich detail African American xenophobia, and gender.
daily life among free blacks in the North
in the 1860s. Affective Images examines both
canonical and lesser-known
m a r i e t t a k e s t i n g
photographs and films that
address the struggle against
apartheid and the new struggles
that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting
argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with
Race Still Matters feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media
The Reality of African theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of
photographs, films, and other visual documents, Kesting then
American Lives and the Myth
situates them in broader historical contexts, such as cultural
of Postracial Society
history and the history of black subjectivity and revolves
Yuya Kiuchi, editor
the images around the intersection of race and gender. In its
interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the recurrence
Essays debunking the notion that
of affective images of the past in a different way, including
contemporary America is a colorblind
flashbacks, trauma, white noise, and the return of the repressed.
Kiuchi society.
It draws its materials from photographers, filmmakers, and
artists such as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan,
July 382 pages
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze Ugah, and the Center for Historical
1 map, 20 tables, 2 figures
Reenactments.
$31.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6272-1
In its focus on lens-based media, the book not only tackles
Meaning-Making, some of the questions around the visuality of migration and
Internalized Racism, xenophobia, but also does so using the media (photography
and film) that are probably the most complicit in the visual
and African American
witnessing and translation within this field. Rory Bester,
www.sunypress.edu
Identity coeditor of Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the
Jas M. Sullivan and Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
William E. Cross Jr., editors
Marietta Kesting is Junior Professor for Media Theory at the
Presents research on how variations in CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine
African Americans racial self-concept Arts, Munich, Germany.
affects meaning-making and internalized
oppression. December 256 pages
18 color photographs, 42 b/w photographs
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6785-6
45
 jewish studies
The Greatest
The Greatest Mirror Mirror
Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha
Heavenly Counterparts
in the Jewish
Pseudepigrapha
Andrei A. Orlov
A wide-ranging analysis of
heavenly twin imagery in early
Jewish extrabiblical texts.
Andrei A. Orlov The idea of a heavenly
doublean angelic twin of an
earthbound humancan be
found in Christian, Manichaean,
Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the
lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources.
In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly
twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings.
The Jewish pseudepigraphabooks from the Second Temple
period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from
the Hebrew Biblecontain accounts of heavenly twins in the
form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of
the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these
traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity.
He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses,
Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including
Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob,
and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in
the Slavonic language.
This book is the first complete effort to show how some
pseudepigraphical works develop several unique traditions
about heavenly counterparts. Alexander Kulik,
coauthor of Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition
www.sunypress.edu
Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity
in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of
Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology
and Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism,
both also published by SUNY Press.
November 300 pages
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6691-0
46
Educational Oases
in the Desert
The Alliance Isralite
Universelles Girls
Schools in Ottoman Iraq,
18951915
Jonathan Sciarcon
A history of the French schools
that pioneered female education
in Ottoman Iraqs Jewish
communities.
During the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries,
the Alliance Isralite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish
organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout
the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational
institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing
secular education, the schools attempted to change local customs
and regenerate or uplift communities. Educational Oases in
the Desert explores the largely forgotten history of the AIUs
schools for girls in Ottoman Iraq. Drawing on extensive archival
research, Jonathan Sciarcon argues that teachers viewed female
education through a gendered lens linked to their understanding
of an ideal modern society. As the primary educators of children,
women were seen as societys key agents of socialization.
The AIU thus concluded that its boys schools would never
succeed in creating polished, westernized men so long as women
remained uneducated, leading to the creation of schools for girls.
Sciarcon shows how headmistresses acted not just as educators
but also as models of modernity, trying to impart new moral
and aesthetic norms onto students.
Jonathan Sciarcon is Assistant Professor of History and Judaic
Studies at the University of Denver.
August 220 pages 5 tables
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6585-2
 jewish studies

College Bound Movies and

COLLEGE The Pursuit of Education Midrash
BOUND in Jewish American Popular Film and Jewish
Literature, 18981944 Religious Conversation
The Pursuit of Education
in Jewish American Dan Shiffman Wendy I. Zierler
Literature,
18961944 Foreword by
Argues that first- and second- Eugene B. Borowitz
generation Jewish American
writers had an ambivalent Brings popular cinema and
relationship with educational Jewish religious texts into
success. a meaningful dialogue.
Dan Shiffman
Jewish American immigrants Movies and Midrash uses cinema
and their children have been as a springboard to discuss
stereotyped as exceptional central Jewish texts and matters
educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate
leading directly to professional success. In College Bound, Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to
Dan Shiffman uses literary accounts to show that American do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition,
Jews relationship with education was in fact far more complex. text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes
Jews expected book learning to bring personal fulfillment arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the
and self-transformation, but the reality of public schools and method of inverted midrash: while classical rabbinical midrash
universities often fell short. Shiffman examines a wide range begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal
of novels and autobiographies by first- and second-generation (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that
writers, including Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic
Elizabeth Gertrude Stern, Ludwig Lewisohn, Marcus Eli parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter
Ravage, Lionel Trilling, and Leo Rosten. Their visions of connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical
learning as a process of critical questioningenlivening the Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered
mind, interrogating cultural standards, and confronting social include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes
injusticespresent a valuable challenge to todays emphasis and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption),
on narrowly measurable outcomes of student achievement. The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and
simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity
This is a rich, well-researched, and compelling study that in Gods image), among others.
displays a mastery of its authors and texts, as well as the relevant
scholarly studies. It presents its findings in fluent, readable prose. This is a groundbreaking work of originality, insight, and high
Eric Sundquist, Johns Hopkins University quality. It will be of great importance not only for Jewish readers
but also for non-Jewish readers who long for a non-Christian

www.sunypress.edu
Dan Shiffman teaches Secondary English at the International perspective on popular film. I loved this book! Eric Michael
School of Hamburg. Mazur, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Film

A volume in the SUNY series in Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish
Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College
Ezra Cappell, editor Jewish Institute of Religion and the author of And Rachel Stole
the Idols:The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Womens Writing.
November 200 pages
$80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6723-8 September 296 pages 20 b/w photographs
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6615-6

47
 middle eastern studies
Wala yah in the
Fa t | i mid Isma > i l i
Tradition
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Explores the relationship between
revelation and reason in medieval
Islamic intellectual history.
In this original study,
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
examines the complex
relationships that can be
inscribed between medieval
Isma>ili thought as an intellectual
tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imam,
and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance
during the Fa t | i mid caliphate in the eleventh century.
Alexandrins work is a departure from recent Western scholarship
that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions.
She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fat|imid
Isma>ili chief missionary al-Mu<ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi
(d. 1078 CE), the concept of walayah (divine guidance) became
closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one
hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the
other. By signaling and affirming how the Fat|imid caliph-imams
were the heirs of walayah and by proposing new definitions of
the seal of Gods friends (khatim al-awliya< Allah), al-Mu<ayyad
broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public
and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin is Associate Professor of Islamic
Studies and Senior Fellow at St. Johns College, the University
of Manitoba, Canada.
September 320 pages
www.sunypress.edu
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6627-9
48
womens studies
Sabina Spielrein
Sa b i n a S p i e l r e i n The Woman
the woman and the myth
and the Myth
Angela M. Sells
Explores the life and work of
psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein
through a feminist and mytho-
poetic lens.
Long stigmatized as Carl Jungs
hysterical mistress, Sabina
AngelA M. SellS
Spielrein (18851942) was in
fact a key figure in the history
of psychoanalytic thought.
Born into a Russian Jewish family, she was institutionalized at
nineteen in Zurich and became Jungs patient. Spielrein went
on to earn a doctorate in psychiatry, practiced for over thirty
years, and published numerous papers, until her untimely death
in the Holocaust. She developed innovative theories of female
sexuality, child development, mythic archetypes in the human
unconscious, and the death instinct. In Sabina Spielrein, Angela
M. Sells examines Spielreins life and work from a feminist and
mytho-poetic perspective. Drawing on newly translated diaries,
papers, and correspondence with Jung and Sigmund Freud,
Sells challenges the suppression of Spielreins ideas and shows
her to be a significant thinker in her own right.
This book is a major, perhaps a definitive, contribution to the
literature. Angela Sells documents both the demonization of a
great psychoanalytic theoristmainly because she was a woman
and worse still, was once Carl Jungs patient. The books greatest
strength is its power to enlighten and inform and in so doing,
to arouse indignation and amazement at Spielreins brilliance
and tenacity. Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness
This is a pathbreaking piece of research that not only begins
to rehabilitate the reputation of a woman patient of Jungs,
but also suggests that Spielrein was an important contributor
in her own right to the beginnings of psychoanalysis.
Carol P. Christ, coauthor of Goddess and God in the World:
Conversations in Embodied Theology
Angela M. Sells received her PhD in Mythology from the
Pacifica Graduate Institute.
August 240 pages 14 b/w photographs, 3 figures
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6579-1
 womens studies

Everyday New in Paper

Everyday Sustainability
Sustainability Gender Justice and Fair Rhetorical Healing
Rhetorical Healing
Trade Tea in Darjeeling
GENDER JUSTICE AND FAIR TRADE TEA IN DARJEELING

The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood

The Reeducation of
Debarati Sen Contemporary Black
Womanhood
Illuminates the contradictions that
Tamika L. Carey
emerge within conscious capitalism
initiatives that are designed to
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African
empower women.
American writers have used to promote
Debarati Sen Black womens recovery and wellness
Everyday Sustainability takes Tamika L. Carey
through educational and entertainment
readers to ground zero of
genres and the conservative gender
market-based sustainability
politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public
initiativesDarjeeling, India
consumption.
where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority
Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women
July 212 pages 5 b/w photographs
tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial
$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6242-4
strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times
dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the Historicizing
emerging global morality market. The author questions why
women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects Post-Discourses
remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social Postfeminism and
empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking Postracialism in
to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands United States Culture
for mobility, economic advancement, and community level Tanya Ann Kennedy
social justice.
Examines how postfeminism and
Debarati Sen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and postracialism intersect to perpetuate
International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State systemic injustice in the United States.
University.
July 251 pages 3 b/w photographs
A volume in the SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action $23.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6478-7
Nancy A. Naples, editor
Global Women,
November 200 pages 20 b/w photographs, 2 tables, 1 figure Colonial Ports

www.sunypress.edu
Global Women,
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6713-9 Colonial Ports
Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
Prostitution in the Interwar
Middle East
Liat Kozma

Combines analysis of transnational

prostitution and traffic in women with
Liat Kozma
a social history of the League of Nations
and interwar globalization.

July 239 pages 3 b/w photographs, 3 maps

$29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6260-8
49
 gender studies cultural studies

Intersex Matters Toward a

Biomedical Embodiment, Non-humanist
Gender Regulation, Humanism
and Transnational Theory after 9/11
Activism William V. Spanos
David A. Rubin
Assesses the limits and
Analyzes intersex debates through possibilities of humanism for
a queer feminist, intersectional, engaging with issues of pressing
and transnational lens. political and cultural concern.

Intersex Matters analyzes the In his book The End of

medicalization of people
diagnosed as intersex, which is
an umbrella term for individuals
born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be
nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific,
scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth
century to the present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation
of atypical sex is fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and
an intersectional and transnational one as well. Critical attention
to intersex lives, bodies, narratives, and activisms profoundly
reconfigures contemporary paradigms of sex/gender, race,
health, normality, biopolitics, and human rights. Rubin charts
the emergence of intersex rights activism in the global north
and global south, thus demonstrating the value of understanding
intersex experience when rethinking the vicissitudes of body
politics in a globally interconnected world.
David A. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Womens and Gender
Studies at the University of South Florida.
Education:Toward Posthumanism,
William V. Spanos critiqued
the traditional Western concept
of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in
ancient Greeces love of truth and wisdom, but in the Roman
imperial era, when those Greek values were adapted in the
service of imperialism on a deeply-rooted, metaphysical level.
Returning to that question of humanism in the context of the
United States war on terror in the post 9/11 era, Toward a Non-
humanist Humanism points out the dehumanizing dynamics of
Western modernity in which the rule of law is increasingly
made flexible to defend against threats both real and potential.
Spanos considers and assesses the work of thinkers such as
Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jaques Rancire,
and Slavoj iek as humanistic reformers and concludes with
an effort to imagine a different kind of humanisma non-
humanist humanismin which the old binary of friend versus
foe gives way to a coming community without ethnic, cultural,
or sexual divisions.

A volume in the SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of
Cynthia Burack and Jyl J. Josephson, editors English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University,
State University of New York. He is the author of many books,
December 224 pages including American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization:
www.sunypress.edu

$75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6755-9 The Specter of Vietnam and Herman Melville and the American
Calling:The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 18511857, both also
published by SUNY Press.

September 192 pages

$29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6596-8
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6597-5

50
 cultural studies indigenous studies

New in Paper a Clan

Mothers Call
A CLAN MOTHERS CALL
Dark Affinities, Reconstructing
Haudenosaunee
Reconstructing
Dark Affinities, Cultural
Haudenosaunee
Dark Imaginaries Dark Imaginaries Memory

A Minds Odyssey
A Minds Odyssey Cultural Memory
Jeanette Rodriguez, with
Joseph Natoli Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh,
Condoled Bear Clan Mother
A story of self, braided to a story
of the Kanienkeh:ka Nation
of American culture.
Addresses the importance of
J o s e p h N a to l i
Uniting personal history with cultural Jeanette Rodriguez with Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh,
Haudenosaunee women in the
history, Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries Condoled Bear Clan Mother of the Kanienkeh:ka Nation

rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.

tells a story of a mind, a time, and
a culture. The vehicle or medium
Indigenous communities
of this excursion is an overview and sampling of the authors
around the world are gathering to both reclaim and share their
work, and what is revealed are cautionary tales of a once-
ancestral wisdom. Aware of and drawing from these social
aspiring egalitarian democracy confronted with plutocracys
movements, A Clan Mothers Call articulates Haudenosaunee
gentrification; of analog history and off-line life superseded
womens worldview that honors women, clanship, and the earth.
by a rush toward virtualized, robotic, AI transformation of the
Over successive generations, First Nation people around the
human life-world; of everything social and public giving way to
globe have experienced and survived trauma and colonization.
everything personal and opinionated.
Extensive literature documents these assaults, but few record
their resilience. This book fulfills an urgent and unmet need
Reading Dark Affinities is a welcome break from the neoliberal
for First Nation women to share their historical and cultural
buzzword-speak of politicians and university administrators.
memory as a people. It is a need invoked and proclaimed by
It reminds me why I entered academia, when it was a profession
Clan Mother, Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh, of the Mohawk Nation.
and not a business, and when modeling thinking actually
Utilizing ethnographic methods of participatory observation,
mattered. Alison Lee, University of Western Ontario
interviewing and recording oral history, the book is an important
and useful resource for capturing living histories. It strengthens
Natolis Dark Affinities reads as a culminating work of the cultural bridge and understanding of the Haudenosaunee
scholarship, marshaling evidence from autobiography, literary people within the United States and Canada.
analysis, critical theory, and everyday culture in support of its
claims. Jeff Karnicky, author of Contemporary Fiction and the
Jeanette Rodriguez is Professor of Theology and Religious
Ethics of Modern Culture
Studies at Seattle University. She is the coauthor (with
Ted Fortier) of Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith, and Identity.
July 367 pages Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh is Condoled Bear Clan Mother

www.sunypress.edu
$29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6350-6 of the Kanienkeh:ka Nation.

A volume in the SUNY Series in Critical Haudenosaunee Studies

Kevin J. White, editor

September 120 pages 1 table

$75.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6623-1

51
 indigenous studies
The Specter
of the Indian
Race, Gender, and Ghosts
in American Sances,
18481890
Kathryn Troy
Explores the significance of
Indian control spirits as a
dominating force in nineteenth-
century American Spiritualism.
The Specter of the Indian unveils
the centrality of Native
American spirit guides during
the emergent years of American
Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history;
the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly,
Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the
prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and
popular culture. The connections between Spiritualist print
and contemporary Indian policy provide fresh insight into the
racial dimensions of social reform among nineteenth-century
Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating parallels between the
contested belief of Indians as fading from the world, claims
of returned apparitions, and the social impetus to provide
American Indians with a means of existence in white America.
Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory, Indians
and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book
transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened
cabinets and lavishes them with detailed sance accounts in
the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the
otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices
of mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the
author to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice.
The influential presence of Indian ghosts is made clear
www.sunypress.edu
and undeniable.
Kathryn Troy teaches in the Department of Social Sciences and
Criminal Justice at Suffolk County Community College and the
Department of History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale
State College, State University of New York.
September 200 pages
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6609-5
52
film studies
Are You Watching
ARE YOU WATCHING
CLOSELY? Closely?
Cultural Paranoia,
New Technologies,
and the Contemporary
Hollywood Misdirection
Film
Seth Friedman
Identifies a new genre
Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies,
and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film misdirection filmsand explains
Seth Friedman its appeal to contemporary
producers and audiences.
Are You Watching Closely? is the
first book to explore the recent spate of misdirection films,
a previously unidentified Hollywood genre characterized by
narratives that inspire viewers to reinterpret them retrospectively.
Since 1990, Hollywood has backed more of these films than
ever before, many of which, including The Sixth Sense (1999),
A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Inception (2010), were both
commercial and critical successes. Seth Friedman examines
this genre in its sociocultural, industrial, and technological
contexts to explain why it has become more attractive to
producers and audiences.
The recent popularity of misdirection films, Friedman argues,
is linked to new technologies that enable repeat viewings and
online discussion, which makes it enticing to an industry that
depends increasingly on the aftermarket, as well as to historically
specific cultural developments. That is, in addition to being
well suited for shifting industrial and technological conditions,
these films are appealing because they suggest that it remains
possible to know what actually occurred and who was really
responsible for events at a time when it is also becoming
increasingly recognized that truth is relative. Are You Watching
Closely? shows how Hollywoods effective strategies for these
changing circumstances put it at the forefront of a storytelling
trend that has increasingly become important across media.
Seth Friedman is Assistant Professor of Communication and
Theatre at DePauw University.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
September 256 pages 35 b/w photographs
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6591-3
 film studies

Ripping England! New in Paper

Postwar British Satire
RIPPING ENGL AND! from Ealing to the Goons Cinematic Cuts
Postwar British Satire from Ealing
to the Goons Roger Rawlings Theorizing Film Endings
Sheila Kunkle, editor
Examines an all too often
neglected period of postwar British
Explores the philosophical, literary,
cinema and popular culture.
and psychoanalytic significance of
film endings.
Ripping England! investigates
Roger
a fertile moment for British
Raw lings In Cinematic Cuts, scholars explore
satirethe period between
the philosophical, literary, and
1947 and 1953, which produced
psychoanalytic significance of film
the films Passport to Pimlico,
endings, analyzing how film endings
Kind Hearts and Coronets,
engage our fantasies of cheating death, finding true love, or
and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as the seminal radio program
determining the meaning of life. Films by Akira Kurosawa,
The Goon Show. Against the postwar background of fading
Lars von Trier, Joon-Hwan Jang, Claire Denis, Christopher
empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of
Nolan, Jane Campion, John Huston, and Spike Jonze, among
a welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British
others, are discussed.
cultural identity later fleshed out by the Angry Young Men,
the Movement Poets, the Social Realists, and those involved
in the satire boom of the 1960s, which lives on even to this day. July 293 pages 1 figure
$24.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6136-6
The peculiarity of these satires and the British identity they
shaped is better understood when seen in relief against postwar Regarding Life
cinematic cultures of Italy, France, and the United States. Animals and the Documentary
Roger Rawlings places postwar British film in the context
Moving Image
of contemporaneous European national film movements and
contrasts it with Hollywoods comedies and satires of the same
Belinda Smaill
period. British satires of the late forties and early fifties held up
Contends that the narrative and aesthetic
a mirror to a nation that was in the throes of change, moving
qualities of the documentary genre enable
from a colonial empire to an inward-turning island culture.
new understandings of animals and
Ripping England! looks at the all too often neglected miracle
animal/human relationships.
of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
A brilliant, cogent, and timely look
Roger Rawlings teaches film studies at Palm Beach State
at the intersection of animals, the

www.sunypress.edu
College and is the Director of Programming at YipTV.com.
environment, food, and the people who enjoy and consume
them. This is the most solid book on film I have read in quite
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema a while, and it will be taken up with much enthusiasm by
Murray Pomerance, editor documentary scholars, animal-rights activists, eco-warriors,
and a broad public that is interested in one or another
December 288 pages 23 b/w photographs or allof the subjects covered here. David Desser,
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6733-7 author of American Jewish Filmmakers, Second Edition

July 190 pages 16 b/w photographs

$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6248-6

53
 literature
New in Paper
Romantic Mediations
Media Theory and
British Romanticism
Andrew Burkett
Investigates the ways in which new
technologies and theories of photography,
phonography, moving images, and digital
media engage with a diverse set of texts
by British Romantic writers.
Andrew Burkett creates a new path
for Romantic period scholarship by showing the potential of
media archaeology for Romantic texts and their long afterlife.
Ron Broglio, author of Technologies of the Picturesque:
British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 17501830
July 195 pages 22 b/w photographs
$20.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6326-1
Oscillations of
Literary Theory
The Paranoid Imperative
and Queer Reparative
A. C. Facundo
Revises key psychoanalytic concepts
that influence interpretive practices in
the humanities and formulates a new
approach to reading fiction.
Armed with a full repertoire of
www.sunypress.edu
psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid-
reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any
critic Ive read. Reframing current critical impasses, Oscillations
of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative
theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections
with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less
than a new method of reading queerly. Tim Dean,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
July 232 pages
$22.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6308-7
54
muswell hill press
The Psychedelic
Renaissance,
Second Edition
Reassessing the Role
of Psychedelic Drugs in
21st Century Psychiatry
and Society
Ben Sessa
Examines the mind-manifesting
properties of psychedelic drugs
and assesses the scientific evidence
supporting their potential clinical
and therapeutic use.
Ben Sessa takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating
history of psychedelic plants and chemicals, examining their
role in human culture from prehistory to modern times. Based
on a thorough review of scientific evidence, he makes a clarion
call for a reevaluation of their clinical potential with appropriate
setting in scientific research, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and
personal growth. First published in 2012, Psychedelic Renaissance
has been extensively revised and expanded to incorporate the
extraordinary developments in research into psychedelics over
the intervening years.
Ben Sessa is a medical doctor and consultant psychiatrist.
He is senior research fellow at the University of Bristol, Cardiff
University, and Imperial College London, where he is currently
conducting the UKs first clinical studies with MDMA-assisted
therapy for the treatment of PTSD and alcohol dependence.
Dr. Sessa is outspoken on lobbying for change in the current
system by which drugs are classified, believing a more progressive
policy of regulation would reduce the harms of recreational drug
use and provide increased opportunities for clinical psychedelic
research. He is a cofounder and director of the UKs Breaking
Convention conference.
Distributed for Muswell Hill Press
available 250 pages Trim size: 6.14 x 9.21
$26.95/T paperback 978-1-908995-25-4
$35.00 hardcover 978-1-908995-27-8
 muswell hill press codhill press

Polishing Threnodies
the Bones Poems in Remembrance
Penelope Tarasuk Laurence Carr

An intimate portrayal of a Takes the reader on a journey

womans unfolding inner journey
through her Jungian analysis,
her dreams, and her terminal
illness as she is guided deeper
into the mysteries of life and
the extraordinary transformation
of her death.
The true story of an unusually
creative woman, Laura, following
her lifes transformation and individuation, with all its longing,
pain, transcendent beauty, love, and lifes completion. After the
conclusion of her Jungian analysis, Laura becomes terminally
ill and is supported by a few intimates including her former
analyst, who comes to live with the family to help her die.
The intimacy and depth of relationship between the two
women, and the foundation of guiding dreams that developed
in the analysis, forms a container for an unfolding spiritual
journey with numinous experience and sacred visions.
We witness the tender care of Laura through and after her
death as well as the experience of the author, who undergoes
her own transformation through an awe-inspiring initiation
into the realm of death itself.
I am on the edge of my seat following your words with my
whole body Straightforwardly written and very powerful.
Few people really understand the power of imagery of their
journey. They dont realize that energy follows the image and
in that direction the healing lies. Dr. Marion Woodman
Penelope Tarasuk is a Jungian analyst in private practice in
through time and place, with
stops along the way to visit
Madame Curie, Charlie Parker,
Scheherazade, Madame Bovary,
Lee Harvey Oswalds coffin,
and God, among others.
Threnodies is a collection of
poetry and prose poems that
takes the reader on a journey
through time and place.
Some pieces conjure up distant memories; others reflect our
shared experience. Along the way, visits are made to Madame
Curie, Charlie Parker, Scheherazade, Madame Bovary, Lee
Harvey Oswalds coffin, and God, among others, in this series
of rest stops for the eternal traveler.
Laurence Carr teaches dramatic and creative writing at the
State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of
Pancake Hollow Primer: A Hudson Valley Story and The Wytheport
Tales, the coeditor (with Jan Zlotnik Schmidt) of A Slant of Light:
Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley and the coeditor
(with Joann Deiudicibus, Penny Freel, and Rachel Rigolino) of
WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology in Celebration of the Hudson
400, and the editor of Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley
Writers, all published by Codhill Press.
Distributed for Codhill Press
now available 63 pages
$16.00/T paperback 978-1-930337-90-9

www.sunypress.edu
Massachusetts working with individuals, couples, and families.
She is a senior training analyst and faculty member of the
New England Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung
Institute of Boston.

Distributed for Muswell Hill Press

September 250 pages Trim size: 6.14 x 9.21

$26.95/T paperback ISBN 978-1-908995-24-7

55
 codhill press

Black Irish Red, White, and Red

Dennis Doherty Charley Rosen

Lyric and blank verse poetry A longtime member of the

sifting darkness in the authors Communist Party travels across
life and in the lives of others, the USA in 1950, wondering
both real and imagined. what he will tell the House
Un-American Activities
My mother said I had it Committee, and whether he
my fathers Black Irish. will ever return home.
She loved him powerfully,
as she did me. Still, I A brown double-breasted suit
knew that couldnt be good, just shiny enough at the elbows
the way she said it, a disease. and knees to avoid snagging
But what exactly did it mean? a second glance from cops,
from Black Irish G-men, or even my fellow
travelers. A fresh white shirt, with collar and cuffs starched
to avoid suspicion. A nondescript brown-and-yellow-striped
Often in narrative mode and spilled in blank verse, these poems
necktie for respectability. Brown wingtip shoes lightly scuffed
examine both personal history and shifting parameters of social
to deflect envy. A brown felt hat, recently cleaned and blocked,
codes of conduct, the tension between the public and private
the brim turned down to conceal my bleary blue eyes.
life. They yearn to love and celebrate human connection,
And as my last defense against any stubborn flicker of
but remain aware of the sometimes tenuous, even dangerous,
curiosity, I also wear a grim, all-purpose, yellow-toothed smile.
vagaries of perception, understanding, and motive.

Perfectly disguised as Nobody. Harmless. Boring. Even my

Dennis Doherty teaches creative writing and literature at
smile promises nothing more than a whiff of bad breath.
the State University of New York at New Paltz and lives with
his wife in Rosendale, New York. His books of poetry include
Fugitive and Crush Test. A member of the Communist Party USA since 1923, Solomon
Glaser was an all-but-invisible courier who traveled across the
country collecting contributions from sympathizers, many of
Distributed for Codhill Press
them celebrities. Now, in 1950, he is taking the train from
Los Angeles to Washington, DC, where he has been called to
now available 56 pages 2 figures
testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
$16.00/T paperback 978-1-930337-91-6
As he journeys back across America, he contemplates his life and
the demise of his political hopes, trying to decide what he will
say to the committee and wondering if he will ever return home.
www.sunypress.edu

Charley Rosen is the author of six novels and twelve works

of nonfiction, including Scouts Honor, also published by Codhill
Press. He is also the coauthor, with Phil Jackson, of Maverick and
the New York Times bestseller More Than a Game. He lives with
his wife, Daia, in upstate New York.

Distributed for Codhill Press

now available 279 pages

$20.00/T paperback 978-1-930337-89-3
56
 education

Brokering Tareas Shared

Brokering Mexican Immigrant Governance in
Tareas
Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies Families Translanguaging Higher Education,
Steven Alvarez
Homework Literacies Volume 2
SHARED
Steven Alvarez GOVERNANCE New Paradigms,
in Higher Education Evolving Perspectives
Provides concrete examples New Paradigms, Evolving Perspectives

of homework mentorship and

positive academic interventions
among immigrant families.
Brokering Tareas examines a
Sharon F. Cramer, editor
Offers valuable insights
into the governance process
in higher education.
Volume Two Edited by Sharon F. Cramer

grassroots literacy mentoring

program that connected
immigrant parents with
English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual
children with homework and encouraged positive academic
attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of
literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-
building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a
neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez
argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can
increase parental involvement and community engagement
among immigrant families, and he offers teachers and researchers
possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the
communities of their bilingual students.
Steven Alvarez is Assistant Professor of English at St. Johns
University.
November 224 pages
9 b/w photographs, 1 map, 3 tables, 12 figures
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6719-1
Building on the resources
offered in the first volume
of this series,Volume 2 offers
governance members, leaders, and other academics valuable
insights into the governance process in higher education. In
a chapter drawn from his keynote address at the March 2015
SUNY Voices conference, Steven Bahls, president of Augustana
College, provides a critical study of institutions of higher
education. Nine additional chapters offer a thorough analysis
of academic processes that are usually hidden from view,
including development of a sexual assault policy, faculty review
of administrators, and successful use of task forces. Contributors
describe subtle considerations and compromises, which effective
governance leaders can incorporate into collaborations leading
to effective outcomes. Readers of this volume will better
understand how to avoid pitfalls of their own, as contributors
illustrate hard-earned wisdom and lessons learned. Practical
insights and guidelines on leadership development, budget
development involving governance leaders, and mentoring
are provided. This volume will provide readersfaculty, staff,
students, and administratorswith the pragmatic resources they
need to recognize and resolve governance challenges on their
own campuses.

www.sunypress.edu
Sharon F. Cramer is a Distinguished Service Professor Emerita
at Buffalo State College, State University of New York, and
Parliamentarian for the SUNY University Faculty Senate.
She is the editor of Shared Governance in Higher Education,
Volume 1: Demands,Transitions,Transformations, also published by
SUNY Press.

November 274 pages 5 tables, 1 figure

$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6743-6

57
 education
The Quest
for Purpose
The Collegiate Search
for a Meaningful Life
Perry L. Glanzer,
Jonathan P. Hill, and
Byron R. Johnson
Demonstrates how students
and educators can resist narrow,
utilitarian views of higher
educations purpose.
While the search for meaning
and purpose appears to be
a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics
about our current time period that make this search different
from any other previous time, particularly for college students.
In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron
R. Johnson explore college students search for meaning and
purpose and the role that higher education plays. To shed
empirical light on this complex issue, the authors draw on
in-depth interviews with four hundred college students from
different types of institutions across the United States. They also
analyze three sets of national survey data: the National Study
of Youth and Religion, College Students Beliefs and Values,
and their own Gallup-conducted survey of 2,500 college
students. Their research identifies important social, educational,
and cultural influences that shape students quests and the
answers they find. Arguing against a utilitarian view of education,
Glanzer, Hill, and Johnson conclude that colleges and universities
can and should cultivate and aid students in their journeys,
and they offer suggestions for doing so.
Perry L. Glanzer is Professor of Educational Foundations
at Baylor University and a Resident Scholar with the Baylor
www.sunypress.edu
Institute for Studies of Religion. Jonathan P. Hill is Associate
Professor of Sociology at Calvin College. Byron R. Johnson
is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor
University.
September 384 pages 22 tables, 27 figures
$95.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6685-9
58
The Intersubjective
Turn
Theoretical Approaches
the intersubjective turn to Contemplative
theoretical approaches to contemplative
learning and inquiry across disciplines Learning and Inquiry
across Disciplines
Olen Gunnlaugson,
Charles Scott, Heesoon Bai,
and Edward W. Sarath, editors
edited by
olen gunnlaugson,
charles scott,
heesoon bai, and
edward w. sarath Examines key theoretical aspects
of the emerging field of second-
person contemplative education.
A first of its kind, this book
maps out current academic approaches in higher education
to second-person contemplative education, which addresses
contemplative experience from an intersubjective perspective.
Until recently, contemplative studies has emphasized a
predominantly first-person standpoint, but the expansion
and embrace of second-person methods provides a distinctive
learning context in which collective wisdom and shared learning
can begin to emerge from dialogue among students and groups
in the classroom. The contributors to this volume, leading
researchers and practitioners from a variety of institutions
and departments, examine the theoretical and philosophical
foundations of second-person contemplative approaches to
instruction, pedagogy, and curricula across various scholarly
disciplines.
Olen Gunnlaugson is Associate Professor of Leadership
and Organizational Development at Universit Laval, Canada.
Charles Scott is Associate Professor of Education at City
University of Seattle and Adjunct Professor of Education at
Simon Fraser University, Canada. Heesoon Bai is Professor
of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Edward W. Sarath is Professor of Music and Director of
the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies at the
University of Michigan. Together, they are the coeditors of
Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines, also published
by SUNY Press.
December 280 pages 1 table
$85.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6767-2
 education

Teaching Politics New in Paper

TEACHING in Secondary
POLITICS IN
SECONDARY Education A pedAgogy of A Pedagogy
E D U C AT I O N Engaging with
Engaging with Contentious Issues AnticApitAliot s of Anticapitalist
Contentious Issues Antiracism
Wayne Journell AntirAcism
Whiteness, Neoliberalism,
W h i t e n e s s, and Resistance in Education
Uses data collected from multiple neoliberalism,
studies, starting with Obamas
Zachary A. Casey
and resistance
historic 2008 candidacy through
his reelection in 2012, to offer in education Argues that the economic system itself is
Wayne Journell Zachary A. Casey culpable in maintaining our oppressive
recommendations on best practices.
educational status quo.
Many social studies teachers
Through an analysis of whiteness,
report feeling apprehensive
capitalism, and teacher education, A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist
about discussing potentially volatile topics in the classroom,
Antiracism sheds light on the current conditions of public
because they fear that administrators and parents might accuse
education in the United States. We have created an environment
them of attempting to indoctrinate their students. Wayne
wherein market-based logics of efficiency, lowering costs,
Journell tackles the controversial nature of teaching politics,
and increasing returns have worked to disadvantage those
addressing commonly raised concerns such as how to frame
populations most in need of educational opportunities that work
divisive political issues, whether teachers should disclose
to combat poverty. This book traces the history of whiteness
their personal political beliefs to students, and how to handle
in the United States with an explicit emphasis on the ways in
political topics that become intertwined with socially sensitive
which the economic system of capitalism functions to maintain
topics such as race, gender, and religion. Journell discusses how
historical practices that function in racist ways. Practitioners and
classrooms can become spaces for tolerant political discourse in
researchers alike will find important insights into the ways that
an increasingly politically polarized American society. In order
the history of white racial identity and capitalism in the United
to explore this, Journell analyzes data that include studies of
States impact our present reality in schools. Casey concludes
high school civics/government teachers during the 2008 and
with a discussion of revolutionary hope and possibilities
2012 presidential elections and how they integrated television
for resistance to the barrage of dehumanizing reforms and
programs, technology, and social media into their teaching.
privatization engulfing much of the contemporary educational
The book also includes a three-year study of preservice middle
landscape.
and secondary social studies teachers political knowledge and
a content analysis of CNN Student News.
This book is groundbreaking. It stands alone in its sophisticated
use and explanation of theory, praxis, and their interrelationship
Wayne Journell is Associate Professor of Secondary Social
in the field of critical whiteness studies. Jeremy N. Price,
Studies Education at the University of North Carolina at

www.sunypress.edu
author of Against the Odds:The Meaning of School and Relationships
Greensboro and the editor of Teaching Social Studies in an
in the Lives of Six Young African-American Men
Era of Divisiveness:The Challenges of Discussing Social Issues
in a Non-Partisan Way.
July 221 pages 1 figure
$23.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6306-3
December 160 pages 2 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 7 tables
$29.95 paperback 978-1-4384-6770-2
$90.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6769-6

59
 journals

BINGHAMTON JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Christopher Morgan-Knapp, editor
Essays addressing contemporary issues in justice and law drawn from the Pell Honors
Program held at Binghamton University, the State University of New York.
Annual ISSN 2324-8718

JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Gereon Kopf, editor in chief
Douglas Samuel Duckworth, coeditor
Marcus Bingheimer, consulting editor
Pascale Hugon, book review editor
Francesa Soans, assistant editor
A peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the academic discussion of Buddhist philosophy.
Annual ISSN 2374-247X

the Journal of Japanese Philosophy

Mayuko Uehara, editor in chief
journal of
BUDDHIST Lam Wing-keung Kevin, associate editor
PHILOSOPHY
Ching-yuen Cheung, Leah Kalmanson, and John W. M. Krummel, assistant editors
Curtis Rigsby, book review editor
The first international, peer-reviewed journal of Japanese philosophy.
Annual ISSN 2327-0915

Mediaevalia
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide
Dana E. Stewart, editor
Provides a forum for innovative scholarship across a variety of fields in the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
Annual ISSN 0361-946-X

Palimpsest
A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers, editors
Cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the
African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
Biannual ISSN 2165-1604
www.sunypress.edu

philoSOPHIA
A Journal of Continental Feminism
Lynne Huffer and Shannon Winnubst, editors
Emanuela Bianchi, book review editor
A biannual journal of feminist continental philosophy.
Biannual ISSN 2155-0891

For more details and subscription information, visit www.sunypress.edu

60
 order form

ISBN Title Unit Price Quantity Price

Subtotal (Attach additional orders to this form)

Postage and Handling (Domestic and Canada: $6.00 first book, $1.00 each additional.
Foreign: $8.00 first book, $6.00 each additional.)

New York State residents add 8% sales tax *

Total

Method of Payment ordering and customer service

State University of New York Press
q Check or money order (payable to SUNY Press); or PO Box 960
q American Express qDiscover Herndon, VA 20172-0960
q Mastercard qVisa
telephone
Card No._________________________________ Exp. Date______________ 1-877-204-6073 (Inside Continental United States)
703-661-1575 (Outside Continental United States)
Signature of Cardholder____________________________________________
fax
Shipping Information 1-877-204-6074 (Inside Continental United States)
703-996-1010 (Outside Continental United States)
Name___________________________________________________________
e-mail: suny@presswarehouse.com
Address_________________________________________________________
Standard Address Number: SAN 202-1862
________________________________________________________________
returns policy
City_____________________________________________________________ Books may be returned to the address listed below without prior permission
as long as they are in new, resalable condition (no marks or stickers), and
State_____________________________________ Zip____________________ currently in print. Out of print titles may be returned for six months after the
OP (out of print) date. The customer making the return must be the original
Country_________________________________________________________ purchaser of the returned books. Returns should be accompanied by a packing
list indicating quantity, discount received, and original Books International, Inc.
Phone (_______)__________________________________________________ invoice number. If no original invoice information is provided, credit will be issued
at the maximum trade discount allowable. Claims for damages, defects, shortages,

www.sunypress.edu
E-mail___________________________________________________________ and shipping errors must be made within 30 days of ship date. Shipping must
be prepaid, to:
Purchase Order No._______________________________________________
SUNY Press
Ship via__________________________________________________________ Returns Dept.
F For established accounts, please include your account number. If an account 22883 Quicksilver Dr.
has not yet been established with SUNY Press, prepayment is required. Dulles, VA 20166
F We will not ship to post office boxes. examination copies
F Prices, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice. Qualified instructors may request up to three (3) examination copies per
Books are short discount except when /T, indicating trade discount, follows the price. semester by mail or fax on department letterhead, or from our website
(www.sunypress.edu), where verification information is required. All requests
F Order online at www.sunypress.edu must specify the course name and expected enrollment. A ten dollar ($10.00)
processing fee per book must accompany the request, and may be made by
* NY shipments must include postage/handling cost in sales tax calculations. check, money order, or credit card.

State University of New York Press

353 Broadway F State University Plaza F Albany, NY 12246-0001
518-944-2800 F 1-866-430-7869 F 518-320-1592 (fax) F info@sunypress.edu 61
 sales representation
DOMESTIC (Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey,
Long Island)
MID-ATLANTIC Jason Kincade
R&R Book Company, LLC 19 Bushwick Ave., 3R
(NY Metropolitan Area Brooklyn, NY 11211
and Long Island) Phone: 347-244-2165
Richard C. Re jasonkincade23@gmail.com
666 Godwin Ave., Suite 120-C
Midland Park, NJ 07432 MID-SOUTH
Phone: 201-337-3400 McLemore/Hollern & Associates Martin X. Granfield
Fax: 201-337-0534 (TX, OK, LA, AR)
richard@rrbookcompany.com Sal McLemore
3538 Maple Park Dr.
(Eastern NY State, Westchester Kingwood, TX 77339
and Long Island) Phone: 281-360-5204
Eileen Bertelli Fax: 281-360-5215
48 Wawayanda Rd. salmclemor@aol.com
Warwick, NY 10990
Phone: 845-987-7233 (TX, OK, LA, AR)
Cell: 845-492-7309 Larry Hollern
Fax: 866-761-7112 3705 Rutson Dr.
eileenbertelli@parsonweems.com Amarillo, TX 79109
Phone: 806-351-0566
(Western NY State and Western PA) Fax: 806-351-2741
Linda Cannon lhollern@aol.com
3811 Canterbury Rd., #707
Baltimore, MD 21218 MIDWEST
Phone: 724-513-9426 Trim Associates
(MN, WI, St. Louis, MO,
www.sunypress.edu
Fax: 866-583-2066
lindacannon@parsonweems.com Southern IL)
Gary Trim
10727 South California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60655
Phone/Fax: 773-239-4295
garytrim@msn.com
62
(MI, OH, Northern IL
and Chicago)
Carole Timkovich
10727 South California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60655
Phone/Fax: 773-239-4295
ctimkovich@msn.com
(IA, IN, KS, KY, MO, NE, ND, SD)
9433 73rd St.
Kenosha, WI 53142
Phone/Fax: 262-942-1153
mxgranfield@gmail.com
NEW ENGLAND
Rovers LLC
(CT, RI, MA, ME, NH,VT)
Stephen Williamson
Rovers LLC
68 Main St.
Acton, MA 01720-3540
Phone: 978-263-7723
Fax: 978-263-7721
WWABooks@aol.com
SOUTH
Dan Flynn
SUNY Press
353 Broadway
State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
Phone: 518-944-2823
dan.flynn@sunypress.edu
 sales representation

WEST INTERNATIONAL CANADA

Hand Associates
(HI, No. CA, No. NV, So. WY, CO)
Jock Hayward
16 Nelson Ave.
Mill Valley, CA 94941-2120
Phone/Fax: 415-383-3883
handhayward@yahoo.com
(WA, OR, ID, MT, No. WY, AK)
David Diehl
408 30th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
Phone/Fax: 206-328-0295
david_diehl@mindspring.com
(AZ, So CA, UT, NM, So. NV)
Pam Sheppard
10635 Walnut St.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
Phone/Fax: 562-794-9332
Hand.pams@gmail.com
UNITED KINGDOM,
IRELAND, CONTINENTAL
EUROPE
NBN International
Airport Business Centre
10 Thornbury Rd.
Plymouth, PL6 7PP
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-0-1752-202301
Fax: +44-0-1752-202333
orders@nbninternational.com
(Order Processing)
MEXICO, CENTRAL
AMERICA, CARIBBEAN,
PUERTO RICO,
SOUTH AMERICA
US PubRep, Inc.
Craig Falk
311 Dean Dr.
Rockville, MD 20851-1144
Phone: 301-838-9276
Fax: 301-838-9278
craigfalk@aya.yale.edu
Lexa Publishers Representatives
Mical Moser
12 Park Pl., 2F
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 718-781-2770
Fax: 514-221-3412
micalmoser@me.com
JAPAN
MHM Limited
1-1-13-4F, Kanda-Jimbocho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051
Japan
Phone: +81-3-3518-9181
Fax: +81-3-3518-9523
endo@mhmlimited.co.jp
For information regarding foreign
and book club rights contact:
Rights and Permissions
SUNY Press
353 Broadway
State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
Phone: 518-944-2800
Fax: 518-320-1592
rights@sunypress.edu

www.sunypress.edu
63
 author index
Alexandrin/ Walayah in the Fat|imid Isma>iliTradition, p. 48
Allan/ The Heir and the Sage, Revised and Expanded Edition, p. 17
Altizer/ Satan and Apocalypse, p. 20
Alvarez/ Brokering Tareas, p. 57
Arias/ Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1, p. 42
Arnold/ State Violence and Moral Horror, p. 25
Asal, Sommer/ Legal Path Dependence and the Long, p. 38
Barnaby/ Coming Too Late, p. 34
Barone/ Beyond Memory, p. 24
Barrow/ Toward a Critical Theory of States, p. 38
Beeching/ Hopes and Expectations, p. 45
Benjamin/ Virtue in Being, p. 31
Biehl, Nieuwenhuyse/ Climate and Cultural Change, p. 41
Bird/ Containing Community, p. 31
Breazeale, Rockmore/ Fichtes Addresses to the , p. 31
Bronner/ The Bitter Taste of Hope, p. 38
Bubbio/ God and the Self in Hegel, p. 25
Burkett/ Romantic Mediations, p. 54
Burns, Frost/ Philosophy, History, and Tyranny, p. 38
Carey/ Rhetorical Healing, p. 49
Carr/ Threnodies, p. 55
Casey/ A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism, p. 59
Chandler/ Expressing the Hearts Intent, p. 14
Chen/ Journey of a Goddess, p. 14
Chiurazzi/ The Experience of Truth, p. 26
Cho/ Seeing Like the Buddha, p. 24
Chong/ Zhuangzis Critique of the Confucians, p. 17
Civantos/ The Afterlife of al-Andalus, p. 43
Cline/ Rebels on the Niagara, p. 8
Cook, Luo/ Birth in Ancient China, p. 15
Cooper/ The Tragedy of Philosophy, p. 31
Corcoran/ Topography and Deep Structure in Plato, p. 32
Coulson/ Race, Nation, and Refuge, p. 34
Cramer/ Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2, p. 57
www.sunypress.edu
Dallh/ The Sufi and the Friar, p. 20
Del Gandio, Thompson/ Spontaneous Combustion, p. 41
DelRosso et al/ Unruly Catholic Nuns, p. 10
Doherty/ Black Irish, p. 56
Dolezal, Petherbridge/ Body/Self/Other, p. 26
Dove/ Literature and Interregnum, p. 43
Evans et al./ Black Womens Mental Health, p. 44
Facundo/ Oscillations of Literary Theory, p. 54
Friedman/ Are You Watching Closely?, p. 52
Glanzer et al./ The Quest for Purpose, p. 58
Groth/ Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley, p. 13
64
Gunnlaugson et al./ The Intersubjective Turn, p. 58 Rizo-Patron et al/ Adventures in Phenomenology, p. 27
Gunter/ Tales of an Ecotourist, p. 5
Heberlig et al/ American Cities and the Politics of, p. 35
Hoffman, Srebrnik/ A Vanished Ideology, p. 39
Holdrege, Pechilis/ Refiguring the Body, p. 24
Hon, Stapleton/ Confucianism for the Contemporary World, p. 15
Hoskin/ Understanding Immigration, p. 35
Hume/ Ethics and Accountability on the US Supreme Court, p. 36
Hwang/ Anarchism in Korea, p. 18
Journell/ Teaching Politics in Secondary Education, p. 59
Kennedy/ Historicizing Post-Discourses, p. 49
Kesting/ Affective Images, p. 45
Kiuchi/ Race Still Matters, p. 45
Kolosek/ The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, p. 12
Kozma/ Global Women, Colonial Ports, p. 49
Kroeger/ The Suffragents, p. 1
Kunkle/ Cinematic Cuts, p. 53
Landes et al./ Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy, p. 32
Laude/ Shimmering Mirrors, p. 21
Ledesma/ Radical Poetry, p. 44
Lemak, Hopkins-Benton/ Votes for Women, p. 2
LeVasseur/ Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place, p. 21
Love/ Trendy Fascism, p. 39
Lowry/ Invisible Hosts, p. 22
Lumbard/ Ah|mad al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and, p. 24
Man/ Bodies in China, p. 16
Mazis/ Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World, p. 32
Mehozay/ Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency, p. 39
Min/ Korean Religions in Relation, p. 18
Minkov/ Leo Strauss on Science, p. 33
Morgenbesser/ Behind the Faade, p. 40
Mortland/ Cambodian Buddhism in the United States, p. 22
Nair/ Undervalued Dissent, p. 18
Narayana Rao/ Text and Tradition in South India, p. 16
Natoli/ Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries, p. 51
Neville/ The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many, p. 24
Ni/ Understanding the Analects of Confucius, p. 18
Nicolescu-Waggonner/ No Rule of Law, No Democracy, p. 40
Noble et al./ A Spirit of Sacrifice, p. 3
Null/ The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central , p. 4
Orlov/ The Greatest Mirror, p. 46
Pinkney, Whalen-Bridge/ Religious Journeys in India, p. 23
Rawlings/ Ripping England!, p. 53
Rensmann/ The Politics of Unreason, p. 27
Riccio/ From Italy to the North End, p. 6
Rodriguez/ A Clan Mothers Call, p. 51
Rosen/ Red, White, and Red, p. 56
Rubin/ Intersex Matters, p. 50
Saban/ International Disaster Management Ethics, p. 39
Sandford/ Reluctant Reformer, p. 9
Schiavone/ Austerity and the Labor Movement, p. 40
Schlitt/ German Idealisms Trinitarian Legacy, p. 33
Sciarcon/ Educational Oases in the Desert, p. 46
Sells/ Sabina Spielrein, p. 48
Sen/ Everyday Sustainability, p. 49
Sessa/ The Psychedelic Renaissance, Second Edition, p. 54
Shiffman/ College Bound, p. 47
Slayton/ Beauty in the City, p. 7
Smaill/ Regarding Life, p. 53
Smith/ Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated, p. 33
Sokoloff/ Confrontational Citizenship, p. 36
Spanos/ Toward a Non-humanist Humanism, p. 50
Steeves/ Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding, p. 28
Sullivan, Cross/ Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism p. 45
Tang/ Self-Realization through Confucian Learning, p. 19
Tanner/ Platos Laughter, p. 28
Tarasuk/ Polishing the Bones, p. 55
Temby, Stoett/ Towards Continental Environmental Policy?, p. 37
Tomich/ The Politics of the Second Slavery, p. 41
Trigo/ Malady and Genius, p. 43
Trivedi/ Imagination, Music, and the Emotions, p. 29
Troy/ The Specter of the Indian, p. 52
Van Auken/ The Commentarial Transformation of the, p. 19
van Els, Queen/ Between History and Philosophy, p. 17
Vardoulakis/ Freedom from the Free Will, p. 33
Varsano/ The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional, p. 19
Vercellone/ Beyond Beauty, p. 29
Versluis/ Platonic Mysticism, p. 30
von Gnderrode/ Poetic Fragments, p. 32
Wang/ The China Order, p. 37
Ward/ Contemplating Friendship in Aristotles Ethics, p. 33
Watts/ Alan WattsIn the Academy, p. 23
Wiedorn/ Think Like an Archipelago, p. 30
Wirth/ Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth, p. 42
Woods/ Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition, p. 40
Wu/ Flash Points, p. 11
Xu/ Crossing the Gate, p. 19
Yoon/ Advocacy and Policymaking in South Korea, p. 40
Zierler/ Movies and Midrash, p. 47

Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central, The/ Null, p. 4
Adventures in Phenomenology/ Rizo-Patron et al., p. 27
Advocacy and Policymaking in South Korea/ Yoon, p. 40
Affective Images/ Kesting, p. 45
Afterlife of al-Andalus, The/ Civantos, p. 43
Ah|mad al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and the/ Lumbard, p. 24
Alan WattsIn the Academy/ Watts, p. 23
American Cities and the Politics of Party Heberlig et al., p. 35
Anarchism in Korea/ Hwang, p. 18
Are You Watching Closely?/ Friedman, p. 52
Austerity and the Labor Movement/ Schiavone, p. 40
Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding/ Steeves, p. 28
Beauty in the City/ Slayton, p. 7
Behind the Facade/ Morgenbesser, p. 40
Between History and Philosophy/ van Els, Queen, p. 17
Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy/ Landes et al, p. 32
Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency/ Mehozay, p. 39
Beyond Beauty/ Vercellone, p. 29
Beyond Memory/ Barone, p. 24
Birth in Ancient China/ Cook, Luo, p. 15
Bitter Taste of Hope, The/ Bronner, p. 38
Black Irish/ Doherty, p. 56
Black Womens Mental Health/ Evans et al., p. 44
Bodies in China/ Man, p. 16
Body/Self/Other/ Dolezal, Petherbridge, p. 26
Brokering Tareas/ Alvarez, p. 57
Cambodian Buddhism in the United States/ Mortland, p. 22
China Order, The/ Wang, p. 37
Cinematic Cuts/ Kunkle, p. 53
Clan Mothers Call, A/ Rodriguez, p. 51
Climate and Cultural Change in / Biehl, Nieuwenhuyse, p. 41
College Bound/ Shiffman, p. 47
Coming Too Late/ Barnaby, p. 34
Commentarial Transformation of the, The/ Van Auken, p. 19
Confrontational Citizenship/ Sokoloff, p. 36
Confucianism for the Contemporary World/ Hon, Stapleton, p. 15
Containing Community/ Bird, p. 31
Contemplating Friendship in Aristotles Ethics/ Ward, p. 33
Crossing the Gate/ Xu, p. 19
Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries/ Natoli, p. 51
Educational Oases in the Desert/ Sciarcon, p. 46
Ethics and Accountability on the US Supreme Court/ Hume, p. 36
Everyday Sustainability/ Sen, p. 49
Experience of Truth, The/ Chiurazzi, p. 26
Expressing the Hearts Intent/ Chandler, p. 14
Fichtes Addresses to the / Breazeale, Rockmore, p. 31
Flash Points/ Wu, p. 11
Freedom from the Free Will/ Vardoulakis, p. 33
From Italy to the North End/ Riccio, p. 6
Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated/ Smith, p. 33
German Idealisms Trinitarian Legacy/ Schlitt, p. 33
Global Women, Colonial Ports/ Kozma, p. 49
God and the Self in Hegel/ Bubbio, p. 25
Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many, The/ Neville, p. 24
Greatest Mirror, The/ Orlov, p. 46
Heir and the Sage, Revised and Expanded Edition, The/ Allan, p. 17
Historicizing Post-Discourses/ Kennedy, p. 49
Hopes and Expectations/ Beeching, p. 45
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions/ Trivedi, p. 29
International Disaster Management Ethics/ Saban, p. 39
Intersex Matters/ Rubin, p. 50
Intersubjective Turn, The/ Gunnlaugson et al., p. 58
Invisible Hosts/ Lowry, p. 22
Journey of a Goddess/ Chen, p. 14
Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition/ Woods, p. 40
Korean Religions in Relation/ Min, p. 18
Legal Path Dependence and the Long/ Asal, Sommer, p. 38
Leo Strauss on Science/ Minkov, p. 33
Literature and Interregnum/ Dove, p. 43
Malady and Genius/ Trigo, p. 43
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism,/ Sullivan, Cross, p. 45
Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World/ Mazis, p. 32
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth/ Wirth, p. 42
Movies and Midrash/ Zierler, p. 47
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, The/ Kolosek, p. 12
No Rule of Law, No Democracy/ Nicolescu-Waggonner, p. 40
Oscillations of Literary Theory/ Facundo, p. 54
Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism, A/ Casey, p. 59
Philosophy, History, and Tyranny/ Burns, Frost, p. 36
Platonic Mysticism/ Versluis, p. 30
Platos Laughter/ Tanner, p. 28
Poetic Fragments/ von Gnderrode, p. 32
Polishing the Bones/ Tarasuk, p. 55
Politics of the Second Slavery, The/ Tomich, p. 41
Politics of Unreason, The/ Rensmann, p. 27
Psychedelic Renaissance, Second Edition, The/ Sessa, p. 54
Quest for Purpose, The/ Glanzer et al., p. 58
Race Still Matters/ Kiuchi, p. 45
Race, Nation, and Refuge/ Coulson, p. 34
Radical Poetry/ Ledesma, p. 44
title index
Rebels on the Niagara/ Cline, p. 8
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1/ Arias, p. 42
Red, White, and Red/ Rosen, p. 56
Refiguring the Body/ Holdrege, Pechilis, p. 24
Regarding Life/ Smaill, p. 53
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place/ LeVasseur, p. 21
Religious Journeys in India/ Pinkney, Whalen-Bridge, p. 23
Reluctant Reformer/ Sandford, p. 9
Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional , The/ Varsano, p. 19
Rhetorical Healing/ Carey, p. 49
Ripping England!/ Rawlings, p. 53
Romantic Mediations/ Burkett, p. 54
Sabina Spielrein/ Sells, p. 48
Satan and Apocalypse/ Altizer, p. 20
Seeing Like the Buddha/ Cho, p. 24
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning/ Tang, p. 19
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2/ Cramer, p. 57
Shimmering Mirrors/ Laude, p. 21
Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley/ Groth, p. 13
Specter of the Indian, The/ Troy, p. 52
Spirit of Sacrifice, A/ Noble et al., p. 3
Spontaneous Combustion/ Del Gandio, Thompson, p. 41
State Violence and Moral Horror/ Arnold, p. 25
Suffragents, The/ Kroeger, p. 1
Sufi and the Friar, The/ Dallh, p. 20
Tales of an Ecotourist/ Gunter, p. 5
Teaching Politics in Secondary Education/ Journell, p. 59
Text and Tradition in South India/ Narayana Rao, p. 16
Think Like an Archipelago/ Wiedorn, p. 30
Threnodies/ Carr, p. 55
Topography and Deep Structure in Plato/ Corcoran, p. 32
Toward a Critical Theory of States/ Barrow, p. 38
Toward a Non-humanist Humanism/ Spanos, p. 50
Towards Continental Environmental Policy?/ Temby, Stoett, p. 37
Tragedy of Philosophy, The/ Cooper, p. 31
Trendy Fascism/ Love, p. 39
Understanding Immigration/ Hoskin, p. 35
Understanding the Analects of Confucius/ Ni, p. 18
Undervalued Dissent/ Nair, p. 18
Unruly Catholic Nuns/ DelRosso et al, p. 10
Vanished Ideology, A/ Hoffman, Srebrnik, p. 39
Virtue in Being/ Benjamin, p. 31
Votes for Women/ Lemak, Hopkins-Benton, p. 2
Walayah in the Fat|imid Isma>iliTradition/ Alexandrin, p. 48
Zhuangzis Critique of the Confucians/ Chong, p. 17
State University of New York Press NON-PROFIT
state university plaza ORGANIZATION
U.S. POSTAGE
albany, ny 12246-0001
PAID
STATE UNIVERSITY OF
NEW YORK PRESS