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BOOTLEGGER OF THE SOUL

Bootlegger The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy
of the Soul
Suzanne Lance and Paul Grondahl, editors

A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany

on the world’s literary map.

The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for

his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary
map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo,
the literary legacy of
and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers

William a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy’s long literary career and
his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer
Kennedy
Edited by Suzanne Lance & Paul Grondahl
Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays
on Kennedy’s work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by
the author himself, together with a total of fifty historical and personal
OCTOBER photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and
352 pages lyrical prose that animates Kennedy’s novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is
50 b/w photographs, 1 map
a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety.
$29.95/T jacketed hardcover
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LITERATURE “William Kennedy’s cycle of Albany novels may be one of the most
exuberant literary feats of the past half-century.” — Colum McCann

“There are no dead sentences in
[Kennedy’s] work. His language is
vigorous, full of energy … He’s just
a pure writer.” — Saul Bellow
“Kennedy’s art is an eccentric triumph, a quirky, risk-taking imagination
at play upon the solid paving stones, the breweries, the politicos, and pool
sharks of an all-too-actual city.” — Thomas Flanagan
Suzanne Lance is Associate Director of the New York State Writers

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Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Paul Grondahl is Director of the New York State Writers Institute and is
the author of several books, including Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany
Enigma and I Rose Like a Rocket:The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt.

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FINDING TRUE NORTH

F i n d i n g T ru e A History of One Small Corner of the Adirondacks

N rth Fran Yardley

An evocative and personal history of a unique historic place in

A History of One Small Corner of
the Adirondacks.
The Adirondacks
In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved
to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but
historic Bartlett Carry Club, with its one thousand acres and thirty-seven
buildings. The Saranac Lake–area property had been in Jay’s family for
generations, and his dream was to restore this summer resort to support
himself and, eventually, a growing family. Fran chronicles their journey and,
F ra n Ya rd l e y along the way, unearths the history of those who came before, from the
1800s to the present. Offering an evocative glimpse into the past, Finding
True North traces the challenges and transformations of one of the world’s
JULY most beautiful, least-celebrated places and the people who were tirelessly
323 pages
devoted to it.
96 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 7 figures
$24.95/T paperback
ISBN 978-1-4384-7052-8 “Fran Yardley has given us an emotionally moving book, combining
MEMOIR memoir and Adirondack history. With a singular and powerful voice,
NEW YORK in a tightly organized narrative, she deftly weaves together two distinct
strands: her own remarkable story and the history of Bartlett’s Carry.”
— Philip Terrie, author of Seeing the Forest: Reviews, Musings,
and Opinions from an Adirondack Historian
“Fran Yardley is a superb storyteller,
and this is a superb story—of a camp
Fran Yardley is a writer, actor, and nationally known storyteller and
and of a marriage, illuminating a key
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workshop leader. With her late husband, she renovated and managed the
corner of the slightly out-of-time
Bartlett Carry Club for sixteen years. In 1999 she cofounded Creative
paradise that is the Adirondacks.”
Healing Connections, a nonprofit organization offering retreats for women
— Bill McKibben, author of
veterans and women with cancer and chronic illness. Originally from
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable
Buffalo, she is rooted into the shores of Middle Saranac Lake, where she
of Resistance
lives with her actor/photographer husband, Burdette Parks, and her
dog, Merlin.

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Patricia Murphy
and the Rise and Fall
of a Restaurant Empire
MARCIA BIEDERMAN
NOVEMBER
224 pages
12 b/w photographs
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BIOGRAPHY
WOMEN’S STUDIES
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POPOVERS AND CANDLELIGHT
Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall
of a Restaurant Empire
Marcia Biederman
Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in
a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.
What would you do with your last sixty dollars? If you were Patricia
Murphy you’d turn it into a fortune by buying a rundown Brooklyn diner.
On the cusp of the Great Depression, the diner became an overnight
sensation, the first of nine popular Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight
Restaurants that opened over the course of four decades in New York
and Florida. Popovers and Candlelight recounts how Murphy bucked
Mad Men–era sexism in a male-dominated field and created remarkable
dining experiences with solid American fare, a talented staff, and eye-
popping décor. Dripping in diamonds, she transcended ethnic prejudices
to become a socialite and built a brand that sold fragrance as well as food.
Mutinous siblings, a desperate manager, and a typhoid outbreak brought
it all to an operatic end, but Marcia Biederman restores Murphy and her
contributions to their proper place in women’s and culinary history.
This book will delight readers with its rags-to-riches story and fascinating
view of class, gender, ethnicity, and food culture during much of the
twentieth century.
“An impressive accomplishment on many counts: Biederman describes an
important but forgotten chapter in mid-century restaurant history, portrays
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an outsize, Mildred Pierce–like personality, and gives a memorable sense of
postwar, populuxe suburbia.” — Paul Freedman, author of Ten Restaurants
That Changed America
Marcia Biederman teaches English as a Second Language at the
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, and has
been a frequent contributor to the New York Times.
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HELL GATE
A Nexus of New York City’s East River
Michael Nichols

Depicts a man’s exploration of the landscape, history, and toponymy of

HELL Hell Gate, a notorious stretch of water in New York City’s East River.

Part history and part memoir, Hell Gate tells of a man’s excursions along

GATE
A
A NEXUS
NEXUS OF
OF NEW
NEW YORK
YORK CITY’S
CITY’S EAST
EAST RIVER
RIVER
and through Hell Gate, a narrow stretch of water in New York City’s East
River, notorious for dangerous currents, shipwrecks, and its melancholic
islands and rocks. Drawn to the area by his fascination with its name—
from the Dutch Hellegat, translated into English as both “bright passage”
and “hellhole”—what begins as a set of casual walks for Michael Nichols
Michael Nichols
becomes an exploration of landscape and history as he traces these idyllic
and hellish images in an attempt to discover Hell Gate’s hidden character
and the meaning of its elusive name. Using a loosely constructed set of
OCTOBER
sketches organized as a kind of tour along the edge of the river and then
160 pages
10 b/w photographs, 2 maps from a rowboat in the river, Nichols describes scenes and events as they
$19.95/T paperback present themselves, mixing history and lore with contemporary scenes.
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NEW YORK “Hell Gate is a great historical underpinning of colonial culture, as well as
HISTORY a sound landscape metaphor for America in all ages, and one that is vastly
MEMOIR under-covered. This book is passionately written and deeply researched.”
— Mike Freeman, author of Drifting:Two Weeks on the Hudson

Michael Nichols lives in Manhattan. This is his first book.

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Angry Rain
ANGRY RAIN
a brief memoir
A Brief Memoir
Maurice Kenny
edited and with an introduction by
Maurice Kenny
Derek C. Maus
Edited and with an introduction by Derek C. Maus

Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic

consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world
in which he lived.

Maurice Kenny’s career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller

spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty
books and became one of the most prominent voices in American poetry.
From the early 1970s onward, he was instrumental in the resurgence of
Native American literature through both his celebrated volumes of poetry,
such as I Am the Sun and the award-winning The Mama Poems, and his
work as an editor and publisher.

Angry Rain, his bittersweet memoir, reveals this rich literary life by
OCTOBER
192 pages recounting its tumultuous “first half…plus a bit,” a time during which he
$21.95/T paperback moved through a series of worlds that all left their marks on him. Kenny
ISBN 978-1-4384-7106-8 begins with his early years spent among his family in the small northern
MEMOIR New York city of Watertown and continues through an adolescence
INDIGENOUS STUDIES marked by both significant awakenings and grievous traumas. Determined,
NEW YORK
Kenny sets out to seek his fortunes and find his poetic voice, landing in the
Jim Crow–era South, in St. Louis, in Indiana, and finally in New York City,
“In the spirit of Neruda’s Isla Negra, where he becomes part of a motley creative group of performers and poets
this intimate narrative of Maurice that offers both fascinating inspiration and disheartening rejection. These

Kenny’s development braids a rich
sensory current of courage and pain
which would form the mind and
heart of an artist … This book guides
us to the sources of Maurice Kenny’s
tenderness and rage.”
— Chad Sweeney, author of
Wolf’s Milk:The Lost Notebooks
of Juan Sweeney
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recollections end with Kenny’s maturation into a poet whose reaffirmed
indigenous heritage unified an artistic vision that remained in conversation
with a wide range of other themes and traditions until his death in 2016.
Maurice Kenny (1929–2016) was a Writer-in-Residence Emeritus at
the State University of New York at Potsdam and the author of many
books, including Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant: Poems of War. He was inducted
into the New York State Writers’ Hall of Fame in 2014.
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THE MOVING OF THE WATER

the
Moving Stories
David Lloyd
Water
of
the
Stories anchored in the Welsh American immigrant experience.
stories
Anchored in the community of first-, second-, and third-generation Welsh
Americans in Utica, New York, during the 1960s, the stories in David
Lloyd’s The Moving of the Water delve into universal concerns: identity,
home, religion, language, culture, belonging, personal and national histories,
mortality. Unflinching in their portrayal of the traumas and conflicts of
fictional Welsh Americans, these stories also embrace multiple communities
and diverse experiences in linked, innovative narratives: soldiers fighting
in World War I and in Vietnam, the criminal underworld, the poignant
david lloyd struggles of children and adults caught between old and new worlds.
The complexly damaged characters of these surprising and affecting stories
seek transformation and revelation, healing and regeneration: a sometimes
SEPTEMBER traumatic “moving of the water.”
150 pages
Trim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½ “This collection of stories has a great-grandfather: Joyce’s Dubliners.
$19.95/T paperback Like Joyce’s, Lloyd’s stories are in the realist mode, yet sometimes
ISBN 978-1-4384-7228-7 broken up with startling, dream-like, hallucinatory passages that are
FICTION
decisive in opening up another range of experience. The final title story
is magnificent, no other word will do, and it recalls ‘The Dead,’ the
concluding story of Joyce’s book. If Joyce were from Utica, New York,
“A unique collection of stories that
as Lloyd is, he’d have written this book and called it Uticans.”
are sometimes puzzling, sometimes
— Frank Lentricchia, author of The Music of the Inferno
moving, sometimes enigmatic, and
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sometimes crystal clear, but always

David Lloyd is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing
profoundly interesting.”
Program at Le Moyne College. His previous books include the novel
— Jan Morris, author of
Over the Line, the short-story collection Boys: Stories and a Novella, and the
A Writer’s House in Wales
poetry collections Warriors, The Gospel According to Frank, and The Everyday
Apocalypse. He lives in upstate New York.

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YEARS I WALKED AT YOUR SIDE

years Selected Poems
Mordechai Geldman
Selected Poems by
Mordechai Geldman
i
Translated by Tsipi Keller
walked The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.

at Mordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, an auspicious

and transformative time in the development of modern Hebrew
your literature, as poets and writers rejected the flowery, the hyperbolic, and
the sentimental and opted instead for a more direct and intimate speech.
side Translated by While his early poems tended to rely on linguistic exploration, his vision
Tsipi Keller
soon turned inward, as he came to favor the simple, the true, the authentic.
Geldman’s poems are direct and accessible, touching on and revealing the
divine and the sacred in the so-called mundane.
OCTOBER
224 pages “One of the best poets writing in Hebrew today . . . [Geldman’s poems
$19.95/T paperback are] multifaceted and multidimensional . . . a compelling intellectual
ISBN 978-1-4384-7238-6 challenge that blends existential sorrow with humorous charm.” — Haaretz
POETRY
Mordechai Geldman was born in Munich in 1946 and arrived in Israel
in 1949. An artist, author, poet, and psychoanalyst, Geldman has published
“These are the poems of a wise fourteen volumes of poetry and five essay collections, and is the recipient
man, incessantly plagued by of the Chomsky Award, the Brenner Prize, the Yehuda Amichai Prize for
epistemological questions.” Hebrew Poetry, the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers, and the
— Yedioth Ahronoth Bialik Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into English, Arabic,
Czech, French, Greek, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian,

“Geldman is one of the very few
Hebrew poets who have so boldly
embraced the sensual while dealing
with the materialistic notions of self
and universe.” — TimeOut
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Spanish, Japanese, and Vietnamese. He lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Tsipi Keller is a novelist and translator. Her previous translations include
Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry and
Reality Crumbs: Selected Poems, both also published by SUNY Press.

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WE ARE GOING
TO BE LUCKY
A World War II Love Story in Letters
Edited and Annotated by
Elizabeth L. Fox
AUGUST
472 pages
17 b/w photographs, 3 maps
$29.95/T paperback
ISBN 978-1-4384-7058-0
HISTORY
NEW YORK
“This beautiful book reveals both the
quotidian lives on the military and
home front as well as big political
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issues of the day like the death of
Mussolini and the fight against
fascism … The result is a pure joy
and a window into a lost world.”
— David Shneer, author of
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes:
Photography,War, and the Holocaust
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WE ARE GOING TO BE LUCKY
A World War II Love Story in Letters
Edited and Annotated by Elizabeth L. Fox
Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II,
and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.
We Are Going to Be Lucky tells the story of a first-generation Jewish
American couple separated by war, captured in their own words.
Lenny and Diana Miller were married just one year before America
entered World War II. Deeply committed to social justice and bonded
by love, both vowed to write to one another daily after Lenny enlisted
in 1943. As Lenny made his way through basic training in Mississippi
to the beaches of Normandy and eventually to the Battle of the Bulge,
Diana struggled financially, giving up her job as a machinist to become
a mother. Their contributions to the war effort—Lenny’s crucial missions
as an Army scout and Diana’s work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard—are the
backdrop to their daily correspondence, including insightful discussions
of democracy, politics, and economic hardship.
Faced with grueling conditions overseas, Lenny managed to preserve every
letter his wife sent, mailing them back to her for safekeeping. The couple’s
extraordinary letters, preserved in their entirety, reveal and reflect the
excruciating personal sacrifices endured by both soldiers at war and their
young families back home. After decades of gathering dust, their words
have been carefully transcribed and thoughtfully edited and annotated by
Elizabeth L. Fox, Lenny and Diana’s daughter.
Elizabeth L. Fox has served for more than twenty years in a leadership
role on the National Board of Hadassah, where her responsibilities include
writing, training, and public speaking. She has a BA in history from
the City College of New York and an MA in vocational rehabilitation
counseling from New York University. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

POOR JOSHUA
The DeShaney Case and
Child Abuse in America
John R. Howard
Tells the story of a tragic Supreme
Court decision involving child
abuse and what might be done to
rectify it.
In DeShaney v. Winnebago County
John R. Howard
Department of Social Services, a
bitterly divided Supreme Court
rejected a claim brought on
behalf of five-year old Joshua
DeShaney, left permanently
disabled after sustained abuse, despite regular home visits by social
workers charged with monitoring his welfare. In its decision
the court asserted that the state has no duty to shield citizens
from private violence, even though involved in their lives and
knowing of their distress. Poor Joshua tracks the story from its
origins in small town Wisconsin to the Supreme Court and
chronicles the tragic consequences of the majority decision.
John R. Howard shows how that decision became the rock
on which later child abuse cases foundered, and how it echoes
today in every newspaper story about society’s failure to protect
children. The continuing vitality of DeShaney, he argues, derives
from a persistent sense that the decision is legally incorrect and
profoundly at odds with the underlying values of the Constitution.
The case is also about different visions of our social order and the
relationship between “law” and “justice.” Howard summarizes the
substantial law review literature critical of the DeShaney decision
and erects the scaffolding for a counterargument bringing law into
a closer alignment with justice.
“Poor Joshua turns a Supreme Court case into a gripping narrative
… It’s an important story, well told.” — Linda Greenhouse,
author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
John R. Howard is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus,
Purchase College, the State University of New York, and the
author of The Shifting Wind:The Supreme Court and Civil Rights
from Reconstruction to Brown, also published by SUNY Press.
AUGUST • 209 pages • Trim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
$34.95/T jacketed hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7049-8
general interest
ON SELF-
TRANSLATION
ON
Meditations on Language
S E L F -T R A N S L A T I O N Ilan Stavans
Me d itation s on L ang u a ge
A fascinating collection of essays
and conversations on the changing
nature of language.
From award-winning,
I L A N S TAVA N S
internationally known scholar
and translator Ilan Stavans comes
On Self-Translation, a collection
of essays and conversations on
language in its multifaceted
forms. Stavans discusses the way
syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He
examines how the alphabet itself is being forgotten by the young,
how finger snapping has taken on a new meaning, how the use
of ellipses has lapsed, and how autocorrect is shaping the way we
communicate. In an incisive meditation, he shows how translating
one’s own work reinvents oneself in another tongue. The volume
includes tête-à-têtes with Pulitzer Prize–winner Richard Wilbur
and short-fiction master Lydia Davis, as well as dialogues on
silence, multilingualism, poetry, and the durability of the classics.
Stavans’s explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew,Yiddish,
and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of
foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. Among
his primary concerns are the role and history of dictionaries
and the extent to which the authority of language academies
is less a reality than a delusion. He concludes with renditions
into Spanglish of portions of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Little
Prince. The wide range of themes and engaging yet informed style
confirm Stavans’s status, in the words of the Washington Post, as
“Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative
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cultural enthusiast.”
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and
Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the
author of many books, including Borges, the Jew, also published by
SUNY Press.
NOVEMBER • 180 pages
$26.95/T paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-7148-8
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7149-5
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APPRECIATING THE
CHINESE DIFFERENCE
Engaging Roger T. Ames
on Methods, Issues,
and Roles
Jim Behuniak, editor
A wide-ranging exploration and
critical assessment of the work of
a major figure in Chinese and
comparative philosophy.
In this volume, prominent
philosophers working in
Chinese thought and related
areas critically reflect upon the work of Roger T. Ames, one of
the most significant contemporary figures working in the field of
Chinese philosophy. Through his decades of collaborative work
in comparative methodology and cross-cultural interpretation,
along with a number of pathbreaking translations of Chinese
philosophical texts, Ames has managed to challenge standing
paradigms and open fresh avenues of research into the Chinese
tradition. His work will be read and studied for years to come.
The original essays presented here, which are substantive
philosophical contributions in their own right, cover the full
range of Ames’s scholarly output. They address methodological
questions as well as specific issues in textual interpretation,
including ample discussion of Ames’s most recent and
provocative contribution: Confucian “role ethics.” In the final
section of the book, Ames responds to each essay. The result is
a conversation and engagement that both underscores the vitality
of his thinking and indicates the directions it may take in the
future. Altogether, this work provides a snapshot of a remarkable
career—and an invitation to continue reflecting upon its
meaning and importance.
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Jim Behuniak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby
College and the author of Mencius on Becoming Human, also
published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
SEPTEMBER • 304 pages
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7099-3
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THE CONCEPT OF
BHARATAVARSHA
AND OTHER ESSAYS
B. D. Chattopadhyaya
This exploration of key terms
b. d. chattopadhyaya
related to social and political
The order, found in early Indian texts,
Concept of challenges the idea of a unified
Bharatavarsha ancient India and a unified
and other essays national identity at that time.
This collection explores what
may be called the idea of India
in ancient times. Its undeclared
objective is to identify key concepts which show early Indian
civilization as distinct and differently oriented from other formations.
The essays focus on ancient Indian texts within a variety of
genres. They identify certain key terms—such as janapada, desa,
varn|a, dharma, bhaµva—in their empirical contexts to suggest
that neither the ideas embedded in these terms nor the idea
of Bharatvarsha as a whole are “given entities,” but that they
evolved historically.
Professor Chattopadhyaya examines these texts to unveil
historical processes. Without denying comparative history,
he stresses that the internal dynamics of a society are best
decoded via its own texts. His approach bears very effectively
on understanding ongoing interactions between India’s “Great
Tradition” and “Little Traditions.”
As a whole, this book is critical of the notion of overarching
Indian unity in the ancient period. It punctures the retrospective
thrust of hegemonic nationalism as an ideology that has
obscured the diverse textures of Indian civilization.
B. D. Chattopadhyaya retired as Professor of History,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His work on ancient
India has been widely acknowledged.
A volume in the SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Wendy Doniger, editor
SEPTEMBER • 240 pages • 5 tables
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7175-4
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FOUND IN
TRANSITION
Hong Kong Studies
in the Age of China
Yiu-Wai Chu
Presents an updated account of
Found in Hong Kong and its culture two
Tr a n s i t i o n
Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China
decades after its reversion to China.
In Found in Transition,Yiu-Wai
Yiu-Wai Chu Chu examines the fate of Hong
Kong’s unique cultural identity
in the contexts of both global
capitalism and the increasing
influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially
with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of
resistance to “Mainlandization” and different forms of censorship,
Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years
after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region.
Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of
interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong
Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues
that the study of Hong Kong—the place where the impact
of the rise of China is most intensely felt—can shed light
on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such,
this book represents a consequential follow-up to the author’s
Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international,
area, and cultural studies.
“This is a wide-ranging and worthy sequel to Chu’s Lost in
Transition … Chu offers his readers an intelligent and sensitive
guide to connect and make sense of the various debates, and he
places the conundrums Hong Kong faces in the contexts of both
the limits of neoliberal capitalism and the ‘Age of China.’”
— Leo K. Shin, author of The Making of the Chinese State:
Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands
Yiu-Wai Chu is Professor and Director of the Hong Kong
Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong. His books
include Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China,
also published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in Global Modernity
Arif Dirlik, Ravi Arvind Palat, and Roxann Prazniak, editors
NOVEMBER • 320 pages • 6 b/w photographs
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7169-3
asian studies
DAO AND SIGN
IN HISTORY
Daoist Arche-Semiotics
in Ancient and
Medieval China
Dao and Sign Daniel Fried
in History
Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China
Daniel Fried Provides a new perspective
on important linguistic issues
in philosophical and religious
Daoism through the comparative
lens of twentieth-century
European philosophies
of language.
From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been
known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language
to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared
the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements
in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated
to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble
these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground
by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from
ancient and medieval China and showing how these works
influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature,
and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad
sample of European philosophical works, the book explores how
ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment
and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and
religious ideas cannot be divided into “content” and “context.”
“Fried combines the disciplines of semiotics with a largely
philosophical approach, thus offering fresh insights into both
disciplines, while looking at issues from multiple perspectives.”
— Steven Burik, author of The End of Comparative Philosophy
and the Task of Comparative Thinking: Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism
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Daniel Fried is Associate Professor of Chinese and
Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, and is
President of the Association of Chinese and Comparative
Literature.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
NOVEMBER • 320 pages
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HEAVEN IS EMPTY SONS OF SARASVATI÷

Heaven A Cross-Cultural
Is Empty Approach to “Religion”
and Empire in
A Cross-Cultural
Approach to Ancient China
“Religion” and Filippo Marsili
Empire in
Ancient China
Offers a new perspective on the
relationship between religion and
the creation of the first Chinese
Filippo Marsili empires.
Heaven Is Empty offers a new
comparative perspective on the
role of the sacred in the formation
of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the
unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and
universalistic conception of religion.The cohesive function of the
ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was crucial for
the legitimization of Rome’s empire across geographical and social
boundaries. Eventually reelaborated in Christian terms, it came to
embody the timelessness and universality of Western conceptions
of legitimate authority, while representing an analytical template
for studying other ancient empires. Filippo Marsili challenges such
approaches in his examination of the reign of Emperor Wu of the
Han (141–87 BCE).Wu purposely drew from regional traditions
and tried to gain the support of local communities through his
patronage of local cults. He was interested in rituals that envisioned
the monarch as a military leader, who directly controlled the land
and its resources, as a means for legitimizing radical administrative
and economic centralization. In reconstructing this imperial model,
Marsili reinterprets fragmentary official accounts in light of material
evidence and noncanonical and recently excavated texts. In bringing
to life the courts, battlefields, markets, shrines, and pleasure quarters
of early imperial China, Heaven Is Empty provides a postmodern
and postcolonial reassessment of “religion” before the arrival of
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Late Exemplars
of the Indian
Intellectual Tradition
Translated, edited, and with
an Introduction by
Chinya V. Ravishankar
Presents rare biographies of
traditional Indian scholars during
the nineteenth century, a critical
moment of transition for the
Indian intellectual tradition.
Traditional Indian paµn|d|itya (scholarship) has a long and
distinguished history but is now practically extinct. Its decline is
remarkably recent—traditional paµn|d|itya flourished as recently as
150 years ago. The decline is also paradoxical, having occurred
precipitously following a broad and remarkable flowering of
the tradition between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The important questions this decline poses are the subject of
much ongoing work. The intellectual history of the period is
still under construction, and the present book represents a major
contribution to the project.
A notable impediment has been the lack of critical biographies
of significant thinkers in this tradition. The importance of
personal and social context for reconstructing intellectual
histories is widely understood. In the classical Indian intellectual
tradition, however, authors systematically exclude such context,
making intellectual biography something of a rarity—very rare
in English and sparse even in the regional languages.
This book contains translations from the original Kannad|a of the
biographies of Garal|apuriµ Såaµstri, Såriµkan|t|ha Såaµstri, and Kun|igala
RaµmasŒaµstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the

Buddhism and challenges the application of Greco-Roman and
Abrahamic systemic, identitary, and exclusionary notions of the
“sacred” to the analysis of pre-Christian and non-Western realities.
Filippo Marsili is Assistant Professor of History at Saint Louis
University.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
highest echelons of traditional paµn|d|itya at this critical period
of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar, and logic,
respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these
scholars and their many contexts.
Chinya V. Ravishankar is Professor of Computer Science and
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at the
University of California, Riverside.

DECEMBER • 352 pages SEPTEMBER • 490 pages • 46 color photographs, 2 maps, 15 tables
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INOUE ENRYO÷ NINE NIGHTS

INOUE ENRYO A Philosophical Portrait Nine Nights of the Goddess
The Navarātri Festival in South Asia
OF THE GODDESS
井上圓 了 Rainer Schulzer The Navaraµtri Festival
A Philosophical Portrait
in South Asia
The first comprehensive treatment Caleb Simmons,
of Inoue Enryoµ, a pioneer of
Moumita Sen, and
modern Buddhism and a key
figure in the reception of Western
Hillary Rodrigues, editors
philosophy in East Asia.
Explores the contemporary
nature and the diverse narratives,
Rainer Schulzer provides the
rituals, and performances of the
RAINER SCHULZER
first comprehensive study, in edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, & Hillary Rodrigues
Navaraµtri festival.
English, of the modern Japanese
philosopher Inoue Enryoµ
Nine Nights of the Goddess
(1858–1919). Enryoµ was a key
explores the festival of
figure in several important
Navaraµtri—alternatively called Navaraµtra, Mahaµnavamiµ, Durgaµ
intellectual trends in Meiji Japan, including the establishment of
Puµjaµ, Dasaraµ, and/or Dassain—which lasts for nine nights and
academic philosophy, the public campaign against superstition,
ends with a celebration called VijayadasŒamiµ, or “the tenth (day) of
the permeation of imperial ideology, and the emergence of
victory.” Celebrated in both massive public venues and in small,
modern Japanese Buddhism. As one of the most widely read
private domestic spaces, Navaraµtri is one of the most important
intellectuals of his time and one of the first Japanese authors
and ubiquitous festivals in South Asia and wherever South Asians
ever translated into Chinese, an understanding of Enryoµ’s work
have settled. These festivals share many elements, including the
and influence is indispensable for understanding modern East
goddess, royal power, the killing of demons, and the worship
Asian intellectual history. His role in spreading the terminology
of young girls and married women, but their interpretation
of modern East Asian humanities reveals how later thinkers such
and performance vary widely. This interdisciplinary collection
as Nishida Kitaroµ and Suzuki T. Daisetsu emerged; while his key
of essays investigates Navaraµtri in its many manifestations and
principles, Love of Truth and Protection of Country, illustrate
across historical periods, including celebrations in West Bengal,
the tensions inherent in Enryoµ’s enlightenment views and his
Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and
dedication to the rise of the Japanese empire. The book also
Nepal. Collectively, the essays consider the role of the festival’s
presents a systematic reconstruction of what was the first attempt
contextual specificity and continental ubiquity as a central
to give Buddhism a sound philosophical foundation for the
component for understanding South Asian religious life, as well
modern world.
as how it shapes and is shaped by political patronage, economic
development, and social status.
“This book is filled with interesting and important details about
the unfolding of Enryoµ’s life and the formation of his major
“Even those who know much about Durgaµ Puµjaµ should prepare
works. Schulzer also develops broader themes in terms of Japan’s
to be fascinated by the work of these scholars.” — Patricia Dold,

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intellectual and sociopolitical encounters with the West in light
Memorial University
of the advent of its modern self-definition in the context of
being part of a global arena for the first time.” — Steven Heine,
author of From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Caleb Simmons is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the
Century of Transmission and Transformation University of Arizona. Moumita Sen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at
the University of Oslo, Norway. Hillary Rodrigues is Professor
of Religious Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Rainer Schulzer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
A volume in the SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Wendy Doniger, editor
NOVEMBER • 352 pages • 3 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 5 tables
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EXPRESSING THE BIRTH IN ANCIENT CHINA

HEART’S INTENT A Study of Metaphor
Explorations in Chinese and Cultural Identity
Aesthetics in Pre-Imperial China
Marthe Atwater Chandler Constance A. Cook and
Expressing the Xinhui Luo
HEART’S INTENT
Explorations in Chinese Aesthetics
Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics,
argues for the importance of the arts to Reveals cultural paradigms and historical
MARTHE ATWATER CHANDLER philosophy. prejudices regarding the role of birthing
and women in the reproduction of society.
In this wide-ranging examination
of the concept of zhi (“the heart’s Using newly discovered and excavated
intent”) as the foundation of Chinese aesthetics, Marthe Atwater texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore
Chandler places traditional Chinese aesthetics in conversation material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies
with contemporary Chinese theory and traditional western from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social
philosophy. reproduction in the ancient Chinese world.

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JOURNEY OF A GODDESS CONFUCIANISM FOR THE

JOURNEY
Chen Jinggu Subdues
of a GODDESS
the Snake Demon
Translated, edited, and with an
Introduction by Fan Pen Li Chen
First English translation of both a novel
Chen Jinggu Subdues the Snake Demon
ConfuCianiSm
CONTEMPORARY WORLD
for the Contemporary World
Global Order, Political Plurality, and Social Action Global Order, Political
Plurality, and Social Action
Tze-ki Hon and
Kristin Stapleton, editors

Translated, edited, and with an introduction by

and two play excerpts based on tales Discusses contemporary Confucianism’s
Fan Pen Li Chen of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth- Edited by
tze-ki hon • Kristin Stapleton relevance and its capacity to address
century shaman and present-day cult pressing social and political issues of
deity. twenty-first-century life.

This book offers the first translation into English of the Chinese Condemned during the Maoist era as a relic of feudalism,
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novel Haiyouji, as well as excerpts of a marionette play based
on the cult lore of the goddess Chen Jinggu (766–790), a
historical shaman priestess who became one of Fujian’s most
important goddesses and the Lüshan Sect’s 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.
JULY • 170 pages • 46 color photographs
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Confucianism enjoyed a robust revival in post-Mao China
as China’s 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 debates—both within and
outside China—about global capitalism, East Asian modernity,
political reforms, civil society, and human alienation.
JULY • 273 pages • 3 b/w photographs, 7 figures
$25.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6650-7
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TEXT AND TRADITION THE ASYMPTOTE

The Asymptote of
IN SOUTH INDIA OF LOVE
Text and Tradition
in South India Velcheru Narayana Rao, LOVE From Mundane to
With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

velcheru narayana rao

with an Introduction by From Mundane to Religious to God’s Love
Religious to God’s Love
Sanjay Subrahmanyam James Kellenberger

Essays on Telugu and South Indian Discusses the complexities and

literature and culture by distinguished
Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.
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 India’s 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.
JULY • 494 pages • 1 b/w photograph
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BETWEEN HISTORY
AND PHILOSOPHY
Anecdotes in Early China
Paul van Els and
Sarah A. Queen, editors
paradoxes of love as represented in
the history of Western philosophy
and Christianity.
James Kellenberger In The Asymptote of Love, James
Kellenberger develops a theory
of religious love that resists
essentialist definitions of the
term and brings into conversation historical debates on love in
Western philosophy and Christian theology. He argues that if
love can be likened to a mathematical asymptote, which is a
straight line that infinitely approaches a curve but never quite
reaches it, then the asymptote of love reaches toward the infinite
endpoint of love at its uttermost, namely, God’s love. Drawing
upon a broad range of thinkers who have put forth classic
debates on love—such as St. Augustine of Hippo, Anders Nygren,
and St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as some lesser known figures
in the debate, such as Leo Tolstoy and Albert Schweitzer—
Kellenberger explains the profound connection between human
agape and God’s infinite love in its capacity to offer both directive
guidance and to exist beyond human conception.

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
“The ‘widening’ of the circle of love is a rather novel
contribution, both from the author and from the twentieth
century in general. For this reason alone, the book stands out
in contemporary publishing.” — Joeri Schrijvers, author of
Between Faith and Belief:Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology
of Religious Life

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functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at
Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume California State University, Northridge and the author of
advances the thesis that anecdotes—brief, freestanding accounts God’s Goodness and God’s Evil.
of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also
unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions—served as NOVEMBER • 160 pages
an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within $80.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7177-8
larger texts.

JULY • 376 pages • 3 tables

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THE ADVENTURE OF THE MANIFEST

WEAK THEOLOGY AND THE REVEALED
Reading the Work of A Phenomenology
THE ADVENTURE OF
WEAK THEOLOGY John D. Caputo through of Kenoµsis
READING THE WORK OF
JOHN D. CAPUTO THROUGH the manifest and
BIOGRAPHIES AND EVENTS Biographies and Events the revealed Adam Y.Wells
Sðtefan Sðtofaník a phenomenology of kenōsis Foreword by Kevin Hart
Štefan Štofaník Afterword by John D. Caputo
Offers a new phenomenological
Sðtofaník provides a unique, adam y. wells method for biblical interpretation
personal reading of weak theology
foreword by kevin hart
that opens up the possibility of an
and tries to inhabit the gap absolute science of scripture.
Afterword by John D. Caputo
between it and its “founder,”
John D. Caputo. What is scripture and how does
it function? Is there a “scientific”
In this distinctive exploration of way to understand its meaning?
John D. Caputo’s work, Sðtefan Sðtofaník traces Caputo’s journey In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach
of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation
academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak to Christianity. By reading the “kenoµsis hymn” (Philippians
theology and his deep engagement with Derrida. Sðtofaník draws 2:5–11) alongside the work of Edmund Husserl, Wells develops
upon Caputo’s life story to help explain sudden shifts in Caputo’s a kenotic reduction that rehabilitates the Husserlian idea of
thinking, offers intricate readings of philosophical passages that “absolute science” while also disclosing the radical philosophical
have all too often been taken for granted, and joins in Caputo’s implications of Paul’s “new creation.” More broadly, The Manifest
effort to find a theology that can be trusted and that does not and the Revealed pushes the fields of phenomenology and biblical
rely upon dogmatic and hierarchical authority. At the same time, studies forward. The turn to scripture, as a source for theological
Sðtofaník subtly disagrees with aspects of Caputo’s view and turns and philosophical reflection, marks an important advance
to the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a way to suggest for the recent “theological turn” in phenomenology.
that one cannot take leave of the tradition of theology as easily At the same time, by bringing to light the incredible complexity
as Caputo thinks. At times, The Adventure of Weak Theology reads of scripture, phenomenology provides a way for contemporary
like a letter to Caputo, and Sðtofaník’s own passion for theology, biblical studies to exceed its own limits. Wells demonstrates how
his deep understanding of Caputo’s work, and his gift for writing phenomenology and scripture ultimately illuminate one another
makes this an immensely appealing book for both admirers and in profound and surprising ways.
critics of Caputo.
“The book joins careful and patient scholarship with a not-
“[Sðtefan] has read my work with extraordinary care and he has so-common ambition and daring in the multiple disciplinary
done so with a very acute ear for my authorial voice, this person contexts that it disrupts and illuminates.” — W. Chris Hackett,
whom I impersonate when I write, this persona I inhabit in my coauthor of Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary
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books … Sðtefan had a pitch-perfect ear for that voice.” French Phenomenology
— from the Afterword by John D. Caputo
Adam Y. Wells is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory &
Sðtefan Sðtofaník (1976–2014) received his PhD in theology Henry College and the editor of Phenomenologies of Scripture.
from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
A volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
A volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought Douglas L. Donkel, editor
Douglas L. Donkel, editor
DECEMBER • 192 pages
NOVEMBER • 320 pages $80.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7217-1
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EFFING THE INEFFABLE SATAN AND APOCALYPSE

Existential Mumblings at And Other Essays
the Limits of Language in Political Theology
Wesley J.Wildman Thomas J. J. Altizer

A meditation on how religious Offers a profound vision of the Christian

language tries to limn the liminal, epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic
conceive the inconceivable, speak reenactment of the original apocalypse.
the unspeakable, and say the
E f f i n g the i n E f f a b l E unsayable. “This is an indispensable work
Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language of closure coming from one of
Wesley J. Wildman
In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. contemporary theology’s most lucid,
Wildman confronts the human original, rebellious, provocative, and passionate voices. Altizer’s
obsession with ultimate reality most central and tenaciously held convictions are distilled
and our desire to conceive into this essential testament.” — William Franke, author of
and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative
essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with JULY • 119 pages
special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, $20.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6672-9
slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These
moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment,
and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express
what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist,
Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of THE SUFI AND THE FRIAR
philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct A Mystical Encounter
description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological of Two Men of God
experience, the language games of religion become a means in the Abode of Islam
to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task. Minlib Dallh

“This is a fine example of Wildman’s way of doing philosophy An investigation of the spiritual encounter
of religion. It demonstrates the importance, if not necessity, between a twentieth-century Dominican
of religious philosophers working comparatively and also the friar and an eleventh-century Afghani
benefits of multidisciplinary inquiry.” — Stephen Dawson, Sufi master.
Lynchburg College
“To place a French Dominican friar
Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and who died in 2005 and a Sufi who died in 1089 in juxtaposition

Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious
Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning
a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility:
Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published
by SUNY Press.
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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. Dallh’s 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

JULY • 201 pages

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SHIMMERING MIRRORS INVISIBLE HOSTS

Reality and Appearance in Performing the Nineteenth-
Contemplative Metaphysics Century Spirit Medium’s
East and West Autobiography
Shimmering Mirrors Patrick Laude Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
Realit y and A ppearance in
Contemplative M etaphysic s
East and West
A study of comparative metaphysics Provides a rhetorical analysis of female
that explores the concepts of Reality spirit mediums’ autobiographies in
PATRICK L AUDE
and Appearance and their relevance to the historical and social contexts
contemporary religious consciousness. of Victorian-era America.

“I have rarely read a work that is JULY • 157 pages

so lucid in explaining complex philosophical theories across $21.95 paperback
multiple traditions, so articulate in constructing concise ideas, ISBN 978-1-4384-6600-2
and so strategic in assembling a framework for analysis.”
— Lee Irwin, author of Alchemy of Soul:The Art of Spiritual
CAMBODIAN BUDDHISM
Transformation
IN THE UNITED STATES
JULY • 262 pages Carol A. Mortland
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The first comprehensive anthropological
description of the Khmer Buddhism
practiced by Cambodian refugees in the
RELIGIOUS AGRARIANISM United States over the past four decades.
AND THE RETURN
OF PLACE JULY • 353 pages
Religious AgRARiAnism And From Values to Practice $29.95 paperback
the RetuRn of PlAce ISBN 978-1-4384-6664-4
From Values to Practice in sustainable agriculture in Sustainable Agriculture
Todd LeVasseur
Todd LeVasseur
ALAN WATTS—
Examines religious communities as
IN THE ACADEMY
advocates of environmental stewardship
Essays and Lectures
and sustainable agriculture practices.
Alan Watts
“The blend of empirical sociology Edited and with an Introduction by
and philosophical/religious ethics is impressive. I found the book Peter J. Columbus and
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not only interesting but valuable for my own scholarship.” Donadrian L. Rice
— Paul B. Thompson, author of The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability
and Environmental Ethics Explores language and mysticism,
Buddhism and Zen, Christianity,
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$24.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6772-6 and psychology and psychotherapy.

“…both academically and historically rich.”

— PsycCRITIQUES

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 buddhist studies philosophy

THE SOUND OF AESTHETIC REASON

VULTURES’ WINGS
The Tibetan Buddhist
Chöd Ritual Practice
of the Female Buddha
Machik Labdrön
Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Foreword by
Ven. Pencho Rabgey
Explores the music of the Tibetan
Chöd tradition.
The Sound of Vultures’Wings
offers the first in-depth
exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which
is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century
Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is
a musical/meditative Vajrayaµna method for cutting off the root of
suffering, namely, egoic identification with the body, or the belief
that the “I” is the locus of the “self.” Chöd is regarded by many
Tibetan Lamas as one of the most effective Buddhist practices
for spiritual and social transformation. Jeffrey W. Cupchik details
the significance of the complex, interwoven performative aspects
of this meditative ritual and explains how its practice can
bring about experiences of insight and inner transformation.
In doing so, he undoes the notion of meditation as exclusively
an experience of silence and stillness.
“The growing population of Western Buddhist practitioners
will benefit tremendously from the perspectives detailed in this
fascinating book. It makes a substantial contribution to religious
studies, Asian studies, and ethnomusicology.” — Sarah Morelli,
University of Denver
AND IMAGINATIVE
Aesthetic Reason and FREEDOM
Imaginative Freedom Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy
and Philosophy
María del Rosario Acosta
López and Jeffrey L. Powell,
editors
Edited by María del Rosario Acosta López
Shows the relevance of Schiller’s
and Jeffrey L. Powell thought for contemporary
　 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 philosophy, particularly aesthetics,
ethics, and politics.
This book seeks to draw
attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) as a philosophical
thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical
contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-
deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this
collection make two arguments. First, Schiller presents a robust
philosophical program that can be favorably compared to those
of his age, including Rousseau, Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, and
he proves to be their equal in his thinking on morality, aesthetics,
and politics. Second, Schiller can also guide us in our more
contemporary philosophical concerns and approaches, such
as phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics.
Here, Schiller instructs us in our engagement with figures
such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière,
Roberto Esposito, and others.
María del Rosario Acosta López is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at DePaul University. She has published several
books, including La tragedia como conjuro: el problema de lo
sublime en Friedrich Schiller. Jeffrey L. Powell is Professor of
Philosophy at Marshall University and the editor of Heidegger

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Jeffrey W. Cupchik is a Buddhist studies scholar who has spent and Language.
more than twenty years studying Tibetan language, identity,
music, culture, and religion in Tibetan communities in India, A volume in the SUNY series in
Nepal, Tibet, China, Canada, and the United States. Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies
Harold Coward, editor OCTOBER • 224 pages
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French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation
known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its
and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by
to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson
Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by three decades, Bachelard (1918–1991). Art, the interpretation of truth, and the theory
examines the revolution taking place in scientific thought, of being as the ontology of both inexhaustibility and freedom
but with particular attention to the philosophical implications constitute the main themes of Pareyson’s distinctive form of
of scientific practice. Atomistic Intuitions, published in 1933, philosophical hermeneutics, which develops also on the basis
considers past atomistic doctrines as a context for proposing of another fundamental concept, that of personhood understood
a metaphysics for the scientific revolutions of the twentieth in the radically existentialist sense of the human being.
century. As his subtitle indicates, in this book Bachelard proposes In Thinking the Inexhaustible, Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder
a classification of atomistic intuitions as they are transformed bring together essays devoted to Pareyson’s hermeneutic
over the course of history. More than a mere taxonomy, this philosophy by important international scholars, including
exploration of atomistic doctrines since antiquity proves to well-known Italian thinkers Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo,
be keenly pedagogical, leading to an enriched philosophical who were both students of Pareyson. Pareyson’s philosophy of
appreciation of modern sub-atomic physics and chemistry as inexhaustibility unfolds in conversation with major figures in
sciences of axioms. Though focused on philosophy of science, Western intellectual history—from Croce to Valéry, Dostoevsky,
the perspectives and intuitions Bachelard garnered through this and Berdyaev; from Kant to Fichte, Hegel, and German
work provide a unique and even essential key to understanding romanticism; and from Pascal to Schelling, Kierkegaard,
his extensive writings on the imagination. Roch C. Smith’s Marcel, Jaspers, and Heidegger.
translation and explanatory notes will help to make this aspect of
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Bachelard’s thought accessible to a wider readership, particularly At the Rochester Institute of Technology Silvia Benso is
in such fields as aesthetics, literature, and history. Professor of Philosophy and Brian Schroeder is Professor
of Philosophy.
Roch C. Smith is Professor Emeritus of French Studies at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, editors
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THE OTHER PARTIAL TRUTHS

The
Other IN PERCEPTION
A Phenomenological
Partial Truths AND OUR
COMMON FUTURE
in Perception Account of Our
and Our Common Future

A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons
Susan Bredlau
Drawing on the original
phenomenological work of
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Simone de Beauvoir,
and John Russon, as well as recent research in child psychology,
The Other in Perception argues for perception’s inherently
existential significance: we always perceive a world and not just
objective facts. The world is the rich domain of our personal
and interpersonal lives, and central to this world is the role
of other people. We are “paired” with others such that our
perception is really the enactment of a coinhabiting of a shared
world. These relations with others shape the very way in which
we perceive our world. Susan Bredlau explores two uniquely
formative domains in which our pairing relations with others
are particularly critical: childhood development and sexuality.
It is through formative childhood experience that the essential,
background structures of our world are instituted, which has
important consequences for our developed perceptual life.
Sexuality is an analogous domain of formative intersubjective
experience. Taken as a whole, Bredlau demonstrates the unique,
pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people
within our lived experience.
Susan Bredlau is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory
A Perspectival Theory
Experience of of Truth and Value
Other Persons Donald A. Crosby
Susan Bredlau
Argues that a pluralistic
Demonstrates the unique, understanding of truth can foster
pervasive, and overwhelmingly productive conversations about
A PERSPECTIVAL THEORY OF
important role of other people TRUTH AND VALUE common concerns involving
within our lived experience. D O N A L D A. C R O S B Y religion, science, ethics, politics,
economics, and ecology without
falling into relativism.
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims
to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a
necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and
potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and
practice. Crosby demonstrates how “partial truths” are inevitably
at work in conversations and debates about religion, science,
morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress.
He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy,
looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly
binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty,
rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—
and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can
offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common
Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of
mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility,
and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared
inquiries into the important issues of life.
“This is a transdisciplinary philosophical work that moves with
grace across traditions, time periods, and thinkers. It is a master
class in the existential and public relevance of philosophy and

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— Michael S. Hogue, author of The Promise of Religious Naturalism
NOVEMBER • 160 pages
$80.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7171-6 Donald A. Crosby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at
Colorado State University.

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ANOTHER WHITE REMNANTS OF HEGEL

Another MAN’S BURDEN Remains of Ontology,
white Man’s Josiah Royce’s Quest Religion, and Community
Burden
Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire
for a Philosophy Remnants of Hegel
Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community
Félix Duque
of white Racial Empire Translated by
Tommy J. Curry Nicholas Walker

Demonstrates the extent to which An original philosophical

Josiah Royce’s ideas about race exploration of the limits
were motivated explicitly in terms of Hegel’s thought.
Félix Duque
of imperial conquest.
Tommy J. Curry
Translated by

In the preface to the second

Nicholas Walker

edition of the Science of Logic,

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

Another white Man’s Burden

　

performs a case study of Hegel speaks of an instinctive

Josiah Royce’s philosophy of
racial difference. In an effort to lay bare the ethnological racial
heritage of American philosophy, Tommy J. Curry challenges
the common notion that the cultural racism of the twentieth
century was more progressive and less racist than the biological
determinism of the 1800s. Like many white thinkers of his time,
Royce believed in the superiority of the white races. Unlike
today however, whiteness did not represent only one racial
designation but many. Contrary to the view of the British-born
Germanophile philosopher Houston S. Chamberlain,
for example, who insisted upon the superiority of the Teutonic
races, Royce believed it was the Anglo-Saxon lineage that
possessed the key to Western civilization. It was the birthright
of white America, he believed, to join the imperial ventures
of Britain—to take up the white man’s burden. To this end he
advocated the domestic colonization of Blacks in the American
South, suggested that America’s xenophobia was natural and
necessary to protecting the culture of white America, and
demanded the assimilation and elimination of cultural difference
for the stability of the America’s communities. Another white
Man’s Burden reminds philosophers that racism has been part
of the building blocks of American thought for centuries, and
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and unconscious logic whose
forms and determinations “always remain imperceptible
and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge
in language.” In spite of Hegel’s ambitions to provide a
philosophical system that might transcend messy human nature,
Félix Duque argues that human nature remains stubbornly
present in precisely this way. In this book, he responds to the
“remnants” of Hegel’s work not to explicate his philosophy,
but instead to explore the limits of his thought. He begins
with the tension between singularity and universality, both as
a metaphysical issue in terms of substance and subject and as
a theological issue in terms of ideas about the human
and divine nature of Jesus. Duque argues that the questions these
issues bring out require a search for some antecedent authority,
for which he turns to Hegel’s theory of “second nature” and
the idea of nature as reflected in the nation-state. He considers
Hegel’s evaluation of the French Revolution in the context of
political and civil life, and, in a religious context, how Hegel saw
considerations of authority and guilt sublimated and purified
in the development of Christianity.
Félix Duque is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Universidad

that this must be recognized and addressed in order for its Autónoma de Madrid. Nicholas Walker has translated many
proclamations of democracy, community, and social problems books, including Thomas Hobbes (by Otfried Höffe), also published
to have real meaning. by SUNY Press.

Tommy J. Curry is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M A volume in the SUNY series in
University. Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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STORYTELLING HEGEL AND RIGHT

STORYTELLING
The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust
The Destruction of the Hegel A Study of the
Inalienable in the Age and Philosophy of Right
of the Holocaust Right Philip J. Kain
Rodolphe Gasché
An especially accessible
A Study of the
An innovative philosophical Philosophy of Right introduction to Hegel’s moral
meditation on the muteness of and political philosophy.
Holocaust survivors and the
human faculty of storytelling. In this book, Philip J. Kain
R od ol p h e G a s c h é
PH I L I P J. KA I N
introduces Hegel’s Philosophy
In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché of Right by focusing on
reexamines the muteness of disagreements, both with
Holocaust survivors, that is, standard interpretations of his
their inability to tell their work and with Hegel himself.
stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now Arguing that Hegel’s justification for punishment ultimately
without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors fails, Kain shows how this failure brings into focus the inherent
were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specific difficulties in justifying punishment at all, thus producing a
harm that has been done to them as human beings, on the valuable Hegelian argument against punishment. Whereas many
other. Distinguishing storytelling from testifying and providing of Hegel’s critics have argued that he misunderstands Kant’s
information, Gasché asserts that the utter senselessness of the categorical imperative, Kain argues the opposite: that Hegel
violence inflicted upon them is what inhibited survivors from has a sophisticated understanding of it and simply attempts
making sense of their experience in the form of tellable stories. to provide a broader ethical context for Kant’s position.
In a series of readings of major theories of storytelling by three In addressing these and other questions, such as whether
thinkers—Wilhelm Schapp, whose work will be a welcome Hegel’s theory of recognition, properly understood, can provide
discovery to many English-speaking audiences, Walter Benjamin, philosophical support for same-sex marriage, and whether
and Hannah Arendt—Gasché systematically assesses the supporting monarchy over democracy means that Hegel seeks
consequences of the loss of the storytelling faculty, considered less rather than greater power for the state, Kain makes Hegel’s
by some an inalienable possession of the human, both for the work more approachable by drawing out philosophical points
victims’ humanity and for philosophy. of independent importance.

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and
Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many
books include Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: together with
“Have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?,” also published by
Philip J. Kain is Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara
University and the author of several books, including Hegel and
the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit, also published
by SUNY Press.

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APPROACHING
HEGEL’S LOGIC,
OBLIQUELY
Approaching Melville, Molière, Beckett
Hegel’s Logic, Angelica Nuzzo
Obliquely
Melville, Moliére, Beckett
An unprecedented reading of
Hegel’s Logic that sets this
difficult work in a dialogue
with literary texts.
Angelica Nuzzo In this book, Angelica
Nuzzo proposes a reading
of Hegel’s Logic as “logic of
transformation” and “logic of
action,” and supports this thesis by looking to works of literature
and history as exemplary of Hegel’s argument and method.
By examining Melville’s Billy Budd, Molière’s Tartuffe, Beckett’s
Endgame, Elizabeth Bishop’s and Giacomo Leopardi’s late poetry
along with Thucydides’ History in this way, Nuzzo finds an
unprecedented and productive way to render Hegel’s Logic alive
and engaging. She argues that Melville’s Billy Budd is the most
successful embodiment of the abstract movement of thinking
presented in Hegel’s Logic, connecting Billy Budd’s stutter to
the puzzlingly inarticulate beginning of Hegel’s Logic, “Being,
pure Being,” identical with “Nothing,” and argues that the
Logic serves as an especially appropriate tool for understanding
the sudden violent action that strikes Claggart dead. Through
these and other readings, Nuzzo finds a fresh way to address
interpretive issues that have remained unresolved for almost two
centuries in Hegel scholarship, and also presents well-known
works of literature in an entirely new light. This account of
Hegel’s Logic is framed by the need for an interpretive tool able
to orient our understanding of the contemporary world as mired
in an unprecedented global crisis. How can the story of our
historical present—the tragedy or the comedy we all play parts
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in—be told? What is the inner logic of our changing world?
Angelica Nuzzo is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate
Center and Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
A volume in the SUNY series,
Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Rodolphe Gasché, editor
DECEMBER • 416 pages
$95.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7205-8
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the hand of the engraver THE HAND
Albert Flocon Meets Gaston Bachelard
OF THE ENGRAVER
Albert Flocon Meets
Gaston Bachelard
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Translated by Kate Sturge
A rich intellectual encounter,
revolving around the hands of
the experimenter and those of the
artist, highlighting the relation
hans-jörg rheinberger
Translated by Kate Sturge
between the sciences and the arts.
This book is the first to
explore in detail the encounter
between Albert Flocon and Gaston Bachelard in postwar Paris.
Bachelard was a philosopher and historian of science who was
also involved in literary studies and poetics. Flocon was a student
of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, who specialized in copper
engraving. Both deeply ingrained in the surrealist avant-garde
movements, each acted at the frontiers of their respective métiers
in exploring uncharted territory. Bachelard experienced the
sciences of his time as constantly undergoing radical changes, and
he wanted to create a historical epistemology that would live up
to this experience. He saw the elementary gesture of the copper
engraver—the hand of the engraver—as meeting the challenge
of resistant and resilient matter in an exemplary fashion. Flocon
was fascinated by Bachelard’s unconventional approach to the
sciences and his poetics. Together, their relationship interrogated
and celebrated the interplay of hand and matter as it occurs
in poetic writing, in the art of engraving, and in scientific
experimentation. In the form of a double biography, Hans-Jörg
Rheinberger succeeds in writing a lucid intellectual history
and at the same time presents a fascinating illustrated reading
of Flocon’s copper engravings.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director Emeritus at the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.
Kate Sturge is a translator and editor based in Berlin, Germany,
and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at Aston
University, United Kingdom.
A volume in the SUNY series,
Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Rodolphe Gasché, editor
DECEMBER • 160 pages • Trim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
29 b/w photographs
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Roberto Esposito
ROBERTO ESPOSITO PLATO AND
Biopolitics and Philosophy Biopolitics plato THE BODY
and the
and Philosophy body Reconsidering Socratic
Inna Viriasova and reconsidering socratic asceticism
Asceticism
and the
Antonio Calcagno, editors Coleen P. Zoller
Analyzes key concepts and Offers an innovative reading of
arguments in the work of one Plato, analyzing his metaphysical,
of Europe’s leading philosophers. ethical, and political commitments
EDITED BY
in connection with feminist
Inna Viriasova One of Europe’s leading critiques.
Antonio Calcagno
philosophers, Roberto Esposito
AND

has produced a considerable
body of work that continues
to have a significant impact
on political science, sociology, literature, and philosophy. This
volume offers both a comprehensive introduction to and critical
explanation of Esposito’s political thought and key concepts
from his oeuvre. The contributors address aspects of his growing
corpus such as the impolitical, community, immunity, the
impersonal, affirmative biopolitics, justice, life, the third person,
and the body. In addition, they highlight Esposito’s reading
and interpretation of classical political thinkers, including
Hobbes, Machiavelli,Vico, Arendt, and Kant. The book explores
applications of Esposito’s philosophy to issues in international
relations, post-colonialism, literature, science, technology, and
philosophical and artistic practice, bringing Esposito into
dialogue with important social-political concerns.
coleen p. zoller
For centuries, it has been
the prevailing view that in
prioritizing the soul, Plato
ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body
Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and
the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of
Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception
of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo,
Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation
illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have
reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the
bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato’s
metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows
the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work
on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual
morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace.

“To my knowledge there are no other books—in Italian or
English—that attempt to provide a critical introduction to
Esposito’s works and an engagement with his works in fields
outside of political science and philosophy. This volume is
an important first.” — Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of
Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy
“Zoller gives us a new way of going forward in Plato studies.
Her reading of the Platonic conception of embodiment frees
it from the negative associations of the past. Plato and the Body
will radically shift the scholarly conversation. The book is truly
an exhilarating read.” — Anne-Marie Schultz, author of
Plato’s Socrates as Narrator: A Philosophical Muse

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Inna Viriasova is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Coleen P. Zoller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Acadia University in Canada and the author of At the Limits of Susquehanna University.
the Political: Affect, Life,Things. Antonio Calcagno is Professor
of Philosophy at King’s University College at the University of A volume in the SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Western Ontario, Canada. Anthony Preus, editor

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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
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justification. The book explores the concept of “moral horror”
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unjustifiable state violence.
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GOD AND THE SELF
IN HEGEL
Beyond Subjectivism
Paolo Diego Bubbio
Argues that Hegel’s 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 Hegel’s conception
of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel’s
idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel’s
view, subjectivism—the tenet that there is no underlying “true”
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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.
“…a compelling case for regarding truth
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Luna Dolezal and
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Examines the lived experience of social
encounters drawing on phenomenological
insights.
Body/Self/Other brings together
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of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical
issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the
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the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender,
sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity
affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical,
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that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical
obligations arise from the fact of individuals’ intercorporeality
and sociality.
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MARTI N HEIDEGGER
ON THE ESSENCE THE POLITICS
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The Metaphysics of Language and the
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The Metaphysics of Language The Frankfurt School
Essencing of the Word
CON C E RN I NG H E RDE R’ S T R E AT I S E

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ADVENTURES IN P l at o ’ s l a u g h t e r
PLATO’S LAUGHTER
PHENOMENOLOGY socrates as satyr and comical hero Socrates as Satyr
Gaston Bachelard
s o n j a m a d e l e i n e ta n n e r

and Comical Hero

Eileen Rizo-Patron with Plato’s Laughter
Sonja Madeleine Tanner
Edward S. Casey and
Jason M.Wirth, editors Counters the long-standing, solemn
interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with
Repositions Bachelard as a critical one centered on the philosophical and
and integral part of contemporary pedagogical significance of Socrates as a
continental philosophy. comic figure.

The essays in this volume analyze Plato was described as a boor and it
Bachelard as a phenomenological thinker and situate his thought was said that he never laughed out loud.Yet his dialogues abound
within the Western tradition. Considering his work alongside with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues
that of Schelling, Husserl, Bergson, Buber, Heidegger, Merleau- that in Plato’s dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws
Ponty, Gadamer, Deleuze, and Nancy, this collection highlights heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but
some of Bachelard’s most provocative proposals on questions of also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly
ontology, hermeneutics, ethics, environmental politics, spirituality, shaming to none.
and the possibilities they offer for productive transformations
of self and world. JULY • 233 pages
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$25.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6606-4 IMAGINATION, MUSIC,
AND THE EMOTIONS
BEAUTIFUL, BRIGHT, A Philosophical Study
Beautiful, Bright,
and Blinding
AND BLINDING Saam Trivedi
Phenomenological Aesthetics
and the Life of Art Articulates an imaginationist solution to
the question of how purely instrumental
H. Peter Steeves
music can be perceived by a listener as
having emotional content.
Phenomenological Aesthetics Phenomenological analysis of beauty
and the Life of Art
and art across various aspects of lived
Both musicians and laypersons can
H. PETER STEEVES experience and culture.
perceive purely instrumental music
without words or an associated story or program as expressing
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emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book,

our preeminent phenomenologist of
Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical
culture. It’s extremely accessible, illuminating, original,
approaches to this question, including formalism, metaphorism,
and sophisticated while being philosophically probing.”
expression theories, arousalism, resemblance theories, and
— David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics
persona theories. Finding these to be inadequate, he advocates an
after Deconstruction
“imaginationist” solution, by which absolute music is not really
or literally sad but is only imagined to be so in a variety of ways.
JULY • 258 pages • 50 color photographs
In particular, he argues that we as listeners animate the music
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ourselves, imaginatively projecting life and mental states onto it.

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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.
JULY • 153 pages
$19.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6588-3
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 …
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.” — Magonia Book News
JULY • 163 pages
$20.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6632-3
philosophy new in paper
BIODECONSTRUCTION
Jacques Derrida
Biodeconstruction and the Life Sciences
Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences
Francesco Vitale
Translated by Mauro Senatore
Analyzes Derrida’s 1975 seminar
Francesco Vitale “La vie la mort” as a deconstruction
Translated by
Mauro Senatore
of biology with relevance to his work
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
more broadly.
“This book is extremely interesting
and engaging, and provides a very original and timely
perspective on Derrida’s work. Its greatest strength is bringing
together Derrida’s ‘deconstruction’ in his analysis of the life
sciences under the heading of ‘biodeconstruction.’ This term
is simple but ingenious, and captures beautifully the material
dimension of Derrida’s work.” — Nicole Anderson, author of
Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure
JULY • 248 pages
$22.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6884-6
THINK LIKE AN
Think Like
an Archipelago
Paradox in the Work of
ARCHIPELAGO
Édouard Glissant
Paradox in the Work
Michael Wiedorn
of Édouard Glissant
Michael Wiedorn
A career-spanning assessment of
Glissant’s work as a philosophical
project.
“The book’s use of the central
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concept of paradox is both original
and convincing, and allows Wiedorn to reframe many of the
issues surrounding Glissant’s thought in a new and illuminating
way.” — Celia Britton, author of Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial
Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance
JULY • 156 pages
$20.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6702-3
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COMING TOO LATE
Reflections on Freud
and Belatedness
Andrew Barnaby
Rethinks the significance of the son’s
relationship to his father for Freud’s
psychoanalytic theory.
Aiming to reconceptualize some
of Freud’s earliest psychoanalytic
thinking, Andrew Barnaby’s Coming
Too Late argues that what Freud understood as the fundamental
psychoanalytic relationship—a son’s 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 Freud’s writing, Barnaby
shows that filial ambivalence derives particularly from the son’s
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 son’s crisis of coming after,
a duality marked especially in Freud’s readings and misreadings
of a series of precursor texts—the biblical stories of Moses,
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “The Sandman”—that
often anticipate the very insights that the Oedipal model at once
reveals and conceals. Reinterpreting Freudian psychoanalysis
through the lens of Freud’s own acts of interpretation, Coming
Too Late further aims to consider just what is at stake in the
foundational relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.
JULY • 307 pages
$27.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6576-0
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political science
ONE AMERICA?
Presidential Appeals
to Racial Resentment
from LBJ to Trump
Nathan Angelo
Reveals how presidents deploy
One America? a rhetoric that attempts to attract
Presidential Appeals to Racial
Resentment from LBJ to Trump many racial and ethnic groups,
but ultimately directs itself to
an archetypal white, Middle-
NATHAN ANGELO American swing voter.
Despite major advancements in
civil rights in the United States
since the 1960s, racial inequality continues to persist in American
society. While it may appear that presidents do not address the
topic of race, it lurks in the background of presidential political
speech across a range of issues, including welfare, crime,
and American identity. Using a thorough approach that places
textual analysis in a historical context, One America? asks what
presidents say about race, how often they say it, and to whom
they say it. Nathan Angelo demonstrates how presidents attempt
to use rhetoric to compose a message that will resonate with
the many groups that comprise the modern party system, but
ultimately those alliances cause presidents to direct most of their
speeches about race to an archetypical white, Middle-American
swing voter, thereby restricting the issues and solutions that
they discuss. While the American demographic profile is
changing, rhetoric that links American identity with racially
coded concepts and appeals to white voters’ racial resentments
has become ubiquitous. Angelo warns us about the possible
repercussions of such tactics, noting that while they may allow
presidents to craft winning coalitions their use continues to
legitimate a system that ignores racial inequality.
Nathan Angelo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Worcester State University.
SEPTEMBER • 288 pages • 1 table, 8 figures
$95.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7151-8
 political science

THE US SUPREME FROM THE STREETS

The US Supreme Court
and the Centralization
of Federal Authority
Michael A. Dichio
From the Streets
COURT AND THE to the State TO THE STATE
CENTRALIZATION OF Changing the World by Taking Power Changing the World
FEDERAL AUTHORITY by Taking Power
Michael A. Dichio Paul Christopher Gray, editor
Blends academic and activist
Traces the US Supreme Court’s
effect on federal government perspectives to explore recent
growth from the founding era emancipatory struggles to win
forward. and transform state power.
edited by

This book explores the US
Supreme Court’s impact on
the constitutional development
of the federal government
from the founding era forward. The author’s research is
based on an original database of several hundred landmark
decisions compiled from constitutional law casebooks and
treatises published between 1822 and 2010. By rigorously and
systematically interpreting these decisions, he determines the
extent to which the court advanced and consolidated national
governing authority. The result is a portrait of how the high
court, regardless of constitutional issue and ideology, persistently
expanded the reach and scope of the federal government.
“Dichio takes a fairly unique approach to thinking about
the relationship between the US Supreme Court and the
development of the American state. Scholars interested in
American political development and historical work on the law
and the courts should grapple with the evidence on offer here.”
— Keith E. Whittington, coauthor of American Constitutionalism,
Second Edition
Michael A. Dichio is Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Fort Lewis College.
Paul Christopher Gray For decades, emancipatory
struggles have been deeply
influenced by the slogan
“Change the world without
taking power.” Amid growing social inequalities and the return
of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize
the limits of disengaging from government and the state.
From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse and exciting
projects to not only take state power but to fundamentally
change it. A blend of scholars and activists explore issues like
the nonsectarian relationships between new radical left parties,
egalitarian social movements, and labor movements in Greece,
Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey. Contributors discuss
municipal campaigns based in popular assemblies, solidarity
economies, and independent political organizations fighting
for racial, gender, and economic justice in cities such as Jackson,
Vancouver, and Newcastle. This volume also studies the lessons
learned from the Pink Tide in Latin America as well as the social
movements of racialized and gendered workers transforming
human rights across the United States. Finally, the book offers
case studies from around the world surveying the role of state
workers and public sector unions in radically democratizing
public administration through coalitions between the providers
and users of public services.

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Paul Christopher Gray teaches political science and labor
A volume in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism
studies at Brock University, Canada.
Robert J. Spitzer, editor

DECEMBER • 288 pages • 12 tables, 38 figures A volume in the SUNY series in New Political Science
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7253-9 Bradley J. Macdonald, editor

JULY • 281 pages

$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7029-0

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RECONCILIATION
IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Why It Is Needed
and How It Works
Björn Krondorfer, editor
Reconciliation A transdisciplinary approach to
reconciliation practices and policies
in Global Context by an international team of
Why It Is Needed and
How It Works scholars and scholar-practitioners.
Edited by Björn Krondorfer When we open the newspaper,
watch and listen to the news,
or follow social media, we are
inundated with reports on
old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent,
perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries
together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit
of reconciliation and for the need of global conversations
around this topic. The contributing scholars and scholar-
practitioners—who hail from the United States, South Africa,
Ireland, Israel, Zimbabwe, Germany, Palestine, Belgium, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands—
describe and analyze examples of reconciliatory practices in
different national and political environments. Drawing on
direct experiences with reconciliation efforts, from facilitating
psychosocial intergroup workshops to critically evaluating
official policies, they also reflect on the personal motivations that
guide them in this field of engagement. Arranged along an arc
that spans from cases describing and interpreting actual processes
with groups in conflict to cases in which the conceptual merits
and constraints of reconciliation are brought to the fore, the
chapters ask hard questions, but also argue for a relational
approach to reconciliatory practices. For, in the end, what is
important is to embrace a spirit of reconciliation that avoids
self-interested action and, instead, advances other-directed care.
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“This is simply the finest collection of essays on reconciliation
processes working at the grassroots and mid-levels of societies
I have ever seen.” — Robert J. Schreiter, author of Constructing
Local Theologies
Björn Krondorfer is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute
and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern
Arizona University.
NOVEMBER • 224 pages • 2 figures
32 $85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7181-5
THE BATTLE OVER
A CIVIL STATE
Egypt’s Road
to June 30, 2013
Limor Lavie
The Battle over a Civil State
EGYPT’S ROAD TO JUNE 30, 2013 Traces the genealogy of the
Western philosophic concept of the
civil state, how that concept was
assimilated into Egyptian political
thought, and how it affected the
LIMOR LAVIE
2013 coup against President
Mursi.
How is the concept of the civil
state understood in Arab countries? In The Battle over a Civil
State, Limor Lavie examines how this important concept, which
originated in Western philosophy, became incorporated into
Arab discourse. The civil state as understood in Arab political
discourse, Lavie argues, attempts to bridge Islamic history and
culture with modernity. It is an attempt to forge a middle
ground between a purely theocratic rule and a purely secular
rule, and a solution for the tensions between a desire to catch
up with global modernization and democratization processes
and the desire to reject those same processes. In the political
discourse of most of the Arab Spring countries, the concept of
the civil state played a pivotal role. In the public debate over
the character of Egypt, in particular, following the January 25,
2011 uprising, the demand to establish a civil state was shared by
all the political currents. However, when these currents sought
to set out basic guidelines for Egypt’s future, it soon became
clear that they were far from reaching a consensus, and that the
concept of the civil state was at the heart of the controversy
between them. The struggle over Egypt’s civil character in the
post-Mubarak era was the main reason for the turbulence the
country experienced on June 30, 2013—leading to the ouster
of President Muhammad Mursi.
“Throughout, the book presents new insights on Egypt and
Arab political thought. It’s a welcome contribution to the study
of modern Egypt, generally, and the history of concepts in the
Arab world, particularly.” — Rami Ginat, author of Egypt and the
Struggle for Power in Sudan: From World War II to Nasserism
Limor Lavie teaches at Bar Ilan University.
JULY • 220 pages
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7043-6

GET THINGS
MOVING!
FDR, Wayne Coy, and the
Office for Emergency
Management, 1941–1943
Mordecai Lee
Get thinGs Recounts the forgotten but
MovinG!! important work of Wayne
FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Coy, the Office for Emergency
Office for Emergency
Management’s Liaison Officer,
Management, 1941-1943
during the early years of World
Mordecai Lee
War II.
Shortly after Hitler’s armies
invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin
Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Office
of the President called the Office for Emergency Management
(OEM). The OEM went on to house many prewar and
wartime agencies created to manage the country’s arms
production buildup and economic mobilization. After World
War II a consensus by historians quickly gelled that OEM
was unimportant, viewing it as a mere administrative holding
company and legalistic convenience for the emergency agencies.
Similarly they have dismissed the importance of the Liaison
Officer for Emergency Management (LOEM), viewing the
position as merely a liaison channel between OEM agencies and
the White House. Mordecai Lee presents a revisionist history
of OEM, focusing mostly on the record of the longest serving
LOEM, Wayne Coy. Drawing upon largely unexamined archival
sources, including the Roosevelt and Truman Presidential
Libraries and the National Archives, Lee gives a precise account
of what Coy actually did and, contrary to the conventional
wisdom, concludes he was an important senior leader in the
Roosevelt White House, engaging in management, policy,
and politics.
Mordecai Lee is Professor of Governmental Affairs at the
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the author of many
books, including The First Presidential Communications Agency:
FDR’s Office of Government Reports and The Philosopher-Lobbyist:
John Dewey and the People’s Lobby, 1928–1940, both also
published by SUNY Press.
OCTOBER • 380 pages • 1 b/w photograph
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7137-2
political science
JANUS DEMOCRACY
JA N US Transconsistency
DE MO CR AC Y and the General Will
TRANSCONSISTENCY AND THE GENERAL WILL
Richard T. Longoria
Explores the contradictory nature
of public opinion.
Combining political philosophy
with a study of political behavior,
Richard T. Longoria examines
RICHARD T. LONGORIA the contradictory nature of
public opinion on policy issues.
He argues that public opinion is
often characterized by dialetheial
paradoxes—when a statement and the contradiction of that
statement are both held to be true. For example, a voter may
express a desire for a balanced federal budget but also be against
reducing entitlement programs, increasing taxes, or any other
solution to achieve that goal. Longoria focuses on various social
issues and domestic and foreign policies to explore these types
of contradictory and incompatible preferences, arguing that
they stem from the pragmatic nature of Americans’ worldview,
which prefers expediency over consistency. These inconsistencies
are typically called “non-attitudes,” but Longoria suggests it
would be better to call them “bi-attitudes.” When people have
internalized the contradictions and believe in both­ideas even
when the two are incompatible, they are being transconsistent
rather than inconsistent. Transconsistency, Longoria concludes,
leads to perpetual dissatisfaction with the political system because
the government often attempts to satisfy the incompatible
preferences of a two-faced public.
Richard T. Longoria is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the author of
Meritocracy and Americans’Views on Distributive Justice.
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DECEMBER • 160 pages • 41 tables
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7241-6
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CONGRESS AND TOOLS OF WAR,

Congress and
DIASPORA POLITICS
The Influence of Ethnic
TOOLS OF WAR TOOLS OF STATE
When Children
Diaspora Politics
WHEN CHILDREN BECOME SOLDIERS

The Influence
and Foreign Lobbying
James A.Thurber,
TOOLS OF STATE Become Soldiers
Robert Tynes
of Ethnic
and Foreign Colton C. Campbell, and
Lobbying David A. Dulio, editors Examines why many governments,
rebels, and terrorist organizations
Studies the impact of lobbying are using children as soldiers.
Edited by
efforts by domestic ethnic groups
James A. Thurber,
and foreign governments on US Despite the supposed taboo
Colton C. Campbell,
and David A. Dulio
policy making. against the practice, many
ROBERT TYNES
governments, rebels, and
Congress and Diaspora Politics terrorist groups use children
examines the impact of lobbying in war to spy and kill. In Tools
efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments of War,Tools of State, Robert Tynes examines this complex
on US policy making. Over time, the number and variety problem, demonstrating that the modern use of children in war
of ethnic groups have grown, and foreign governments have is a tactical innovation. He discusses how boys and girls on the
increasingly turned to professional lobbyists rather than battlefield bolster troop size, create moral dilemmas, and deepen
relying on their diplomatic corps to cultivate relationships the level of fear. He also reveals how the practice has become an
with Congress. The case studies presented here examine this essential component for groups such as ISIS and al-Shabaab, in
new lobbying environment by focusing on Jewish American, their state-making projects. Using statistical methods to analyze
Muslim American, and Cuban American interest groups as well conflicts from 1987 to 2007, Tynes shows how widespread
as lobbying efforts by the governments of Turkey, Armenia, child soldier use is and confirms the theory that it is tactically
Mexico, and others. They explore the strategies, tactics, and advantageous. Through historical analysis, he explains how child
resources utilized to impact policy making. The volume also soldiering developed out of Mao’s protracted war theory and
offers the perspective of those who have worked on both sides the militarization of youth during the twentieth century. A case
of the lobbying equation—“a view from K Street” (the lobbying study of the civil war in Sierra Leone, which details the brutality
side) and “a view from the Hill” (the congressional side). Finally, involved when children are forced to fight, is included.
challenges lawmakers face when diaspora interests intersect with
national interests are covered. “Robert Tynes has written the most comprehensive and
thorough explanation to date of how and why children become
“Informative and insightful, this book makes an important involved in war.” — Mia Bloom, author of Dying to Kill:
contribution by bringing together, for the first time, the impact The Allure of Suicide Terror and Bombshell:Women and Terrorism
of both ethnic and foreign lobbying on US foreign and domestic
policy.” — Thomas Ambrosio, North Dakota State University Robert Tynes is Associate Director of Research and Site
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Director for the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College.

James A. Thurber is University Distinguished Professor of
Government at American University. Colton C. Campbell
is Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War
College. David A. Dulio is Professor of Political Science at
Oakland University.
SEPTEMBER • 256 pages • 13 tables, 3 figures
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7087-0
A volume in the SUNY series,
James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics
David C. Earnest, editor
SEPTEMBER • 224 pages • 22 tables, 6 figures
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7199-0

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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 twentieth century.
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 nation’s enmities and alliances during the
early twentieth century and the close relationship between race,
nation, and sovereignty.
JULY • 285 pages
$26.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6660-6
AMERICAN CITIES AND
THE POLITICS OF PARTY
American Cities and
the Politics of
Party Conventions
CONVENTIONS
Eric S. Heberlig,
Suzanne M. Leland, and
David Swindell
Eric S. Heberlig, Suzanne M. Leland,
Uncovers the politics involved when
and David Swindell
a city recruits and implements a
presidential convention.
“This is a well-researched, well-written
book that should be of interest to students of urban politics and
political behavior.” — CHOICE
“Exceptionally well written, organized, and presented …
extraordinarily informative.” — Midwest Book Review
JULY • 244 pages • 28 tables. 5 figures
$22.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6638-5
political science new in paper
ETHICS AND
Ethics and Accountability
on the US Supreme Court ACCOUNTABILITY ON
An Analysis of Recusal Practices
THE US SUPREME COURT
An Analysis
of Recusal Practices
Robert J. Hume
Examines the causes and consequences
Robert J. Hume of recusal behavior on the US Supreme
Court.
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.
JULY • 189 pages • 17 tables, 23 figures
$20.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6696-5
CONFRONTATIONAL
CITIZENSHIP
Reflections on Hatred, Rage,
Revolution, and Revolt
William W. Sokoloff
Defends confrontational modes of
citizenship as a means to reinvigorate
WILLIAM W. SOKOLOFF democratic participation and regime
accountability.
A growing number of people are
enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise
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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.
JULY • 234 pages 35
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TOWARDS CONTINENTAL TOWARDS CONTINENTAL THE PEN CONFRONTS

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ?
North American Transnational Networks and Governance
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY? THE
THE SWORD
North American Transnational PEN Exiled German Scholars
Networks and Governance C O N F RO N T S Challenge Nazism
Owen Temby and Avihu Zakai
THE
Peter Stoett, editors
S WO R D Demonstrates how four books
Examines the challenges of EXILED GERMAN SCHOLARS
by dissident German intellectuals
edited by Owen Temby and Peter Stoett environmental governance in CHALLENGE NAZISM served as a rebuke to the
contemporary North America. Nazi regime.

“…the editors have done a great job AV I H U Z A K A I During 1942, the decisive battles
of maintaining coherency in the work and finding high quality of Stalingrad and El Alamein
scholars. This book is a much-needed addition to the literature raged and the Nazi genocide
looking at the North American environmental context … was at its lethal peak. The Pen
Highly recommended.” — CHOICE Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four
remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year:
JULY • 414 pages • 5 maps, 14 tables, 3 figures Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer’s The Myth
$31.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6758-0 of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis:The Representation
of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer
and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944).
Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered
new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books
THE CHINA ORDER aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German
Centralia, World Empire, and culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and
The China Order the Nature of Chinese Power philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their
Centralia, World Empire, and the
Nature of Chinese Power
Fei-Ling Wang scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive
Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai
Examines the rising power of China cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation,
and Chinese foreign policy through and draws connections between these four landmark books in
a revisionist analysis of Chinese Western intellectual history.
civilization.
Fei-Ling Wang
“This book provides a remarkable synopsis of four well-known,
“…[a] thought-provoking volume … but disparate, responses to Nazism and links them as part of
Highly recommended.” — CHOICE a humanist cultural war with dictatorship. By combining the
readings of Mann, Cassirer, Auerbach, and Adorno/Horkheimer,
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“An original, important, well-researched, and powerfully argued we gain a comprehensive view of an ideal of Western
exploration of the virtues and vices of the Chinese state from its culture composed from very different directions.”
ancient past to its likely future.” — Edward Friedman, University — Gregory B. Moynahan, author of Ernst Cassirer and the
of Wisconsin, Madison Critical Science of Germany: 1899–1919

JULY • 330 pages • 3 maps, 2 tables, 3 figures Avihu Zakai is Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew
$26.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6748-1 University of Jerusalem, Israel and the author of Erich Auerbach
and the Crisis of German Phililogy:The Humanist Tradition in Peril.

SEPTEMBER • 350 pages

$95.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7163-1
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THE FUTURE OF
THE FUTURE OF THE
THE NEW WELFARE
(POST)SOCIALISM (POST)SOCIALISM NEW WELFARE CONSENSUS
Eastern European Perspectives Eastern European CONSENSUS Ideological, Political,
Perspectives Ideological, Political, and Social Origins and Social Origins
John Frederick Bailyn, Darren Barany
Dijana Jelacûa, and
Danijela LugaricŒ, editors Discusses the conservative
ideological and political attack
Explores the current and future on welfare in the United States.
trajectories of the paradigm
of postsocialism. Families on welfare in the
Edited by John Frederick Bailyn,
United States are the target of
much public indignation from
Dijana Jelaca, and Danijela Lugaric
DARREN BARANY
If socialism did not end as
abruptly as is sometimes not only the general public but
perceived, what remnants also political figures and the
of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if very workers whose job it is to help the poor. The question is,
postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times What explains this animus and, more specifically, the failure of
of various transitions that followed in socialism’s wake, how the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage for poor
might the “post” be rendered complicated by the notion that families outside of labor markets? The New Welfare Consensus
the unfinished business of socialism continues to influence offers a comprehensive look at welfare in the United States
the trajectory of the future? The Future of (Post)Socialism and how it has evolved in the last few decades. Darren Barany
examines this unfinished business through various disciplinary examines the origins of American antiwelfarism and traces
and transdisciplinary approaches that seek to illuminate the how, over time, fundamentally conservative ideas became the
postsocialist future as a cultural and social fact. Drawn from the dominant way of thinking about the welfare state, work, family,
fields of history, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and personal responsibility, resulting in a paternalistic and stingy
political science, education, linguistics, literature, and cultural system of welfare programs.
studies, contributors analyze various cultural forms and practices
of the formerly socialist cultural spaces of Eastern Europe. “This book provides a skilled analysis of the conservative
In so doing, they question the teleology of linear transitional ideology about the welfare state. By analyzing the different
narratives and of assumptions about postsocialist linear progress, strands of conservative thought, Barany shows how this ideology
concluding that things operate more as continued interruptions developed and converged into its contemporary form.”
of a perpetually liminal state rather than as neat endings and — Joel Blau, author of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy,
new beginnings. Fourth Edition

John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Darren Barany is Assistant Professor of Sociology at LaGuardia
Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Community College, the City University of New York.

www.sunypress.edu
Dijana Jelacûa teaches in the Film Department at Brooklyn
College. Danijela LugaricŒ is Assistant Professor of East-Slavic AUGUST • 288 pages • 2 tables, 7 figures
Languages and Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. $90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7055-9

A volume in the SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies

Saïd Amir Arjomand and Wolf Schäfer, editors

NOVEMBER • 224 pages • 25 b/w photographs, 2 tables, 1 figure

$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7143-3

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RACE AND RURALITY SPONTANEOUS

IN THE GLOBAL
Race and Rurality ECONOMY
IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Michaeline A. Crichlow,
edited by Patricia Northover, and
Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia Northover,
and Juan Giusti-Cordero
Juan Giusti-Cordero, editors
Essays that examine
globalization’s effects with an
emphasis on the interplay of race
and rurality as it occurs across
diverse geographies and peoples.
Issues of migration,
environment, rurality, and the
visceral “politics of place” and “space” have occupied center
stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States
and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has
come to resonate with Euro-American peoples. Race and Rurality
in the Global Economy suggests that this present fractious global
politics begs for closer attention to be paid to the deep-rooted
conditions and outcomes of globalization and development.
From multiple viewpoints the contributors to this volume
propose ways of understanding the ongoing processes of
globalization that configured peoples and places via a politics
of rurality in a capitalist world economy, and through an optics
of raciality that intersects with class, gender, identity, land,
and environment.
Michaeline A. Crichlow is Professor of African and African
American Studies and Sociology at Duke University.
Patricia Northover is Senior Research Fellow at the
University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of
Social and Economic Studies, Mona. Juan Giusti-Cordero
is Professor of History and Director of the Caribbean Social
Science Archive at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
www.sunypress.edu
COMBUSTION
The Eros Effect
and Global Revolution
Jason Del Gandio and
AK Thompson, editors
Foreword by Peter Marcuse
Provides answers to one of the enduring
paradoxes of mass social change.
From the events of May 1968 to
the Arab Spring and Occupy, we have seen social movements
develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands
and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an
end to oppression.
“In order to make sense of such events, the authors draw on
George Katsiaficas’s conception of the ‘eros effect,’ which picks
up and takes off from concepts developed by Herbert Marcuse.
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
instinctual foundation of the desire for freedom, in which a
biologically-based pleasure drive—eros—is given free play.”
— from the Foreword by Peter Marcuse
NOW AVAILABLE • 312 pages • 3 tables, 1 figure
$26.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6728-3

A volume in the SUNY series,

Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
Richard E. Lee, editor

OCTOBER • 256 pages

5 b/w photographs, 6 maps, 3 tables, 1 figure
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7131-0

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RECOVERING TROUBLED MEMORIES

LOST FOOTPRINTS, Troubled Iconic Mexican Women
Memories and the Traps
Volume 2

VOLUME 2 Iconic Mexican Women and

Contemporary Maya Narratives
Recovering Lost Footprints,
ARTURO Volume 2 is an in-depth
ARIAS
analysis of the sociohistorical
conflict impacting Indigenous
communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began
in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular
and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of
Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete,
Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias
looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán,
Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal
narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the
nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models
of development in the present.
Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University
of California, Merced.
DECEMBER • 352 pages
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7259-1
latin american studies new in paper
RECOVERING LOST
Volume 1
FOOTPRINTS, VOLUME 1
Contemporary
Contemporary the Traps of Representation of Representation
Maya Narratives Oswaldo Estrada
Arturo Arias
Analyzes literary and cultural
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan representations of iconic Mexican
and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. women to explore how these
reimaginings can undermine
or perpetuate gender norms in
Oswaldo Estrada
contemporary Mexico.
In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo
Estrada traces the literary and
cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women
produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the
widespread commodification of cultural memory. He examines
recent fictionalizations of Malinche, Hernán Cortés’s indigenous
translator during the Conquest of Mexico; Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz, the famous Baroque intellectual of New Spain; Leona
Vicario, a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence; the
soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution; and Frida Kahlo, the
tormented painter of the twentieth century. Long associated
with gendered archetypes and symbols, these women have
achieved mythical status in Mexican culture and continue to play
a complex role in Mexican literature. Focusing on contemporary
novels, plays, and chronicles in connection to films, television
series, and corridos of the Mexican Revolution, Estrada
interrogates how and why authors repeatedly recreate the lives
of these historical women from contemporary perspectives,
often generating hybrid narratives that fuse history, memory, and
fiction. In so doing, he reveals the innovative and sometimes
troublesome ways in which authors can challenge or perpetuate
gendered conventions of writing women’s lives.

www.sunypress.edu
Contemporary Maya Narratives
Oswaldo Estrada is Professor of Latin American Literature at
Maya Narratives the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author
Arturo Arias of Ser mujer y estar presente. Disidencias de género en la literatura
mexicana contemporánea and La imaginación novelesca. Bernal Díaz
Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives. entre géneros y épocas.

ARTURO ARIAS
NOW AVAILABLE • 285 pages • 1 figure
$25.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6740-5
Recovering Lost Footprints is the first full-
length critical study to analyze Latin
American Indigenous literary narratives
in a systematic manner.
A volume in the SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
Debra A. Castillo and Shelley Feldman, editors
OCTOBER • 256 pages
4 color photographs, 1 b/w photograph
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7189-1 39
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LIMINAL THE PROJECTED

SOVEREIGNTY matt losada NATION
LIMINAL SOVEREIGNTY Mennonites and Argentine Cinema
Mormons in The and the Social Margins
ProjecTed
Mexican Culture Matt Losada
Rebecca Janzen

Uses cultural representations

to investigate how two religious
minority communities came
Mennonites and Mormons
to be incorporated into the
in Mexican Culture
Mexican nation.
Rebecca Janzen
Liminal Sovereignty examines
the lives of two religious
minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons,
as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated
from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and
Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left
in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on
representations of these groups in film, television, online comics,
photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions
of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and
borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in
Mexican history. The government granted both communities
significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to
immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called
the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the
Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was
flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building
a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the
periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation.
“This subject matter has never been studied in this fashion
before, nor with such theoretical sophistication. Not only is the
book compelling, but it’s also illuminating.” — Pedro A. Palou,
www.sunypress.edu
NaTioN Investigates how Argentine cinema
has represented rural spaces and
urban margins from the 1910s to
argeNTiNe ciNema the present.
aNd The
Social margiNS The Projected Nation examines
the representation of rural spaces
and urban margins in Argentine
cinema from the 1910s to the
present. The literary and visual culture of the nineteenth and
early-twentieth centuries formulated a spatial imaginary—often
articulated as an opposition between civilization and barbarism,
or its inversion—into which the cinema intervened. As the
twentieth century progressed, the new medium integrated these
ideas with its own images in various ways. At times cinema
limited itself to reproducing inherited representations that
reassure the viewer that all is well in the nation, while at others
it powerfully reformulated them by filming spaces and peoples
previously excluded from the national culture and left behind
in the nation’s modernizing process. Matt Losada accounts for
historical events, technological factors, and the politics of film
form and viewing in assessing a selection of works ranging from
mass-marketed cinema to the political avant-garde, and from the
canonical to the nearly unknown.
“This is an ambitious work that views the spatial imaginary in
a full century of film development as informed by national
culture and politics.” — Marvin D’Lugo, coeditor of The
Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema

Tufts University Matt Losada is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the

Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the
University of South Carolina and the author of The National
Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical
Control.
OCTOBER • 200 pages • 19 b/w photographs
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7103-7
University of Kentucky.
A volume in the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado and Leslie L. Marsh, editors
AUGUST • 180 pages
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7063-4

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BLOOD CIRCUITS
Contemporary Argentine
Horror Cinema
Jonathan Risner
Examines how recent Argentine
horror films engage with the
legacies of dictatorship and
neoliberalism.
Argentina is a dominant player
in Latin American film, known
for its documentaries, detective
films, melodramas, and auteur
cinema. In the past twenty years,
however, the country has also emerged as a notable producer of
horror films. Blood Circuits focuses on contemporary Argentine
horror cinema and the various “cinematic pleasures” it offers
national and transnational audiences. Jonathan Risner begins
with an overview of horror film culture in Argentina and
beyond. He then examines select films grouped according to
various criteria: neoliberalism and urban, rural, and suburban
spaces; English-language horror films; gore and affect in punk/
horror films; and the legacies of the last dictatorship
(1976–1983). While keenly aware of global horror trends,
Risner argues that these films provide unprecedented ways
of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and
neoliberalism in Argentina.
“Blood Circuits is an important and much-needed contribution
to the fields of Latin American cinema and popular culture,
and genre film studies with a focus on horror cinema. It offers
original and innovative directions that will pave the way for new
studies in different areas of film studies: the internationalization
of horror that unfolds a problematic relationship between the
United States and the Global South, the use of punk horror as
a form of affect, and the development of new kinds of pleasures
and displeasures in the spectator.” — Victoria Ruétalo, coeditor
of Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
Jonathan Risner is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana
University Bloomington.
A volume in the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado and Leslie L. Marsh, editors
AUGUST • 240 pages • 10 b/w photographs, 3 tables
$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7075-7
latin american studies
AFFECTUAL ERASURE
Representations of
Indigenous Peoples
in Argentine Cinema
Cynthia Margarita Tompkins
Comprehensive examination of
how Indigenous peoples have been
represented in Argentine film.
Affectual Erasure examines
how Argentine cinema has
represented Indigenous
peoples throughout a period
spanning roughly a century.
Cynthia Margarita Tompkins interrelates her discussion of
films with the ethnographic context of the Indigenous peoples
represented and an analysis of the affective dimensions at play.
These emotions underscore the inherent violence of generic
conventions, as well as the continued political violence
preventing Indigenous peoples from access to their ancestral
lands and cultural mores. Tompkins explores a broad range
of movies beginning in the silent period and includes both
feature films and documentaries, underscored by archival and
contemporary film stills. She traces the initial erotic projection,
moving through melodrama to the conventions of the Western,
into the 1960s focus on decolonization, superseded by allegorical
renditions and the promise of self-expression in late twentieth-
century documentaries. Each section includes an introduction
to the sociohistorical events of the period and their impact on
film production. Analyzed chronologically, the films evidence
different stages in the projection of the hegemonic Argentine
imaginary, which fails to envision the daily life of Indigenous
peoples prior to conquest or in colonial times—and remains
in denial of their existence in the present.
www.sunypress.edu
Cynthia Margarita Tompkins is Professor of Spanish at
Arizona State University and the author of Experimental Latin
American Cinema: History and Aesthetics.
A volume in the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado and Leslie L. Marsh, editors
SEPTEMBER • 300 pages • 59 b/w photographs, 2 maps
$95.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7097-9
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THE AFTERLIFE OF BLACK WOMEN

AL-ANDALUS IN POLITICS

Black
Muslim Iberia in Demanding
Citizenship,
Demanding Citizenship,
Contemporary Arab and Challenging
Power, and Challenging Power,
Seeking
Hispanic Narratives and Seeking Justice

Women
Justice

Christina Civantos Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and

The first study to undertake a wide-
ranging comparison of invocations
of al-Andalus across the Arab and
Hispanic worlds.
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd,
in Politics editors
Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Examines how Diasporic Black
and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
women engage in politics.

Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led
to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus).
This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon
or symbol of identity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century
narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain,
and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural
agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how
dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos’s
analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use
al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are
alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite
the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique
their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural
translation.
JULY • 362 pages • 4 maps
$29.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6670-5
This book explores how
Diasporic Black women
engage in politics, highlighting
three dimensions—citizenship, power, and justice—that are
foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed
by Black women and other women of color. By extending
beyond particular time periods, locations, and singular definitions
of politics, Black Women in Politics sets itself apart in the field
of women’s and gender studies in three ways: by focusing on
contemporary Black politics not only in the United States, but
also the African Diaspora; by showcasing politics along a broad
trajectory, including social movements, formal politics, public
policy, media studies, and epistemology; and by including
a multidisciplinary range of scholars, with a strong concentration
of work by political scientists, a group whose work is often
excluded or limited in edited collections. The final result
expands our repertoire of methodological tools and concepts
for discussing and assessing Black women’s lives, the conditions
under which they live, their labor, and the politics they enact to
improve their circumstances.

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of Black Studies and

Professor of Public and Community Service at Providence
College. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of
www.sunypress.edu

Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers

University–New Brunswick.

A volume in the SUNY series in New Political Science

Bradley J. Macdonald, editor
and
A volume in the SUNY series in African American Studies
John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors

SEPTEMBER • 320 pages • 7 tables, 1 figure

$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7093-1
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DIMENSIONS BLACK WOMEN’S

OF BLACKNESS MENTAL HEALTH
Racial Identity Balancing Strength
and Political Beliefs and Vulnerability
BLACK
Jas M. Sullivan, WOMEN’S Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell,
DIMENSIONS Jonathan Winburn, and MENTAL and Nsenga K. Burton, editors
HEALTH
OF BLACKNESS William E. Cross Jr. BAL ANCING S TRENGTH
& V ULNER ABILIT Y
Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Racial Identity and Political Beliefs EDI T ED BY
S T EPHA NIE Y. E VA NS, K A NIK A BELL ,
& NSENG A K . BURTON

A multidimensional perspective F ORE WORD BY LINDA GOLER BLOUN T

captures the complexities of
Jas M. Sullivan, Jonathan Winburn,
African American racial identity.
& William E. Cross Jr.
While the dynamics of racial
oppression limit the range of
attitudes blacks may construct
and hold, their basic humanity introduces additional attitudinal
variance that is nearly boundless. Rather than claim it is possible
to conceptualize and measure every iteration of blackness,
modern social theorists such as Robert Sellers and William
Cross Jr. contend that one should systematically “sample” the
unmanageable range of different identity frames found among
blacks. In Dimensions of Blackness, the authors suggest there is no
single, solitary way to express black racial identity. They move
away from blackness as binary and instead reveal what happens
when black racial identity is conceptualized with “difference
of opinion.” Using a multidimensional perspective this book
explores whether black racial identity differences among blacks
influence political attitudes and behavior.
Jas M. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Political Science
and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State
University. Jonathan Winburn is Associate Professor of Political
Science and Director of the Social Science Research Lab at
the University of Mississippi. William E. Cross Jr. is Clinical
Professor of Higher Education and Counseling Psychology at
the University of Denver and Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Creates a new framework for
approaching Black women’s 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 women’s 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.
“…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
“By bringing together people in the social sciences, the
humanities and policy in the writing of Black Women’s Mental
Health, the editors help women in the academy begin to forge
partnerships that help center and amplify black women’s voices.
The book provides a bibliography of sources that researchers can
utilize to build models for future research and programming.”
— Women in Higher Education

www.sunypress.edu
JULY • 307 pages • 4 tables
at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. $25.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6582-1

A volume in the SUNY series in African American Studies

John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors

NOVEMBER • 160 pages • 26 tables, 20 figures

$90.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7161-7

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AFFECTIVE IMAGES THE INFRAHUMAN

Affective imAges Post-apartheid Documentary The
Animality in Modern
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
Perspectives INFRAHUMAN Jewish Literature
Marietta Kesting Animality in Modern Jewish Literature Noam Pines

Explores intervisual case studies
in relation to migration, xenophobia,
and gender.
m a r i e t t a k e s t i n g
Affective Images examines both
canonical and lesser-known
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 feminist and
queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and
cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of photographs,
films, and other visual documents, Kesting then situates them
in broader historical contexts, such as cultural history and the
history of black subjectivity and revolves the images around the
intersection of race and gender. In its interdisciplinary approach,
this book explores the recurrence of affective images of the
past in a different way, including flashbacks, trauma, “white
noise,” and the return of the repressed. It draws its materials
from photographers, filmmakers, and artists such as Ernest Cole,
Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze
Ugah, and the Center for Historical Reenactments.
“In its focus on lens-based media, the book not only tackles
some of the questions around the visuality of migration and
xenophobia, but also does so using the media (photography
and film) that are probably the most complicit in the visual
witnessing and translation within this field.” — Rory Bester,
coeditor of Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the
Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
www.sunypress.edu
NOAM PINES Argues that Jewish writers used
depictions of Jews as animals
to question prevalent notions
of Jewish identity.
The Infrahuman explores a little-
known aspect in major works
of Jewish literature from the
period preceding World War
II, in which Jewish writers in
German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed figures of animals in
pejorative depictions of Jews and Jewish identity. Such depictions
are disturbing because they sometimes rival common anti-
Semitic stereotypes, and have often been explained away as
symptoms of Jewish self-hatred. In this book, Noam Pines shows
how animality emerged in Jewish literature not as a biological
or conceptual category, but as a theological figure of exclusion
from a state of humanity and Christianity alike. By framing
the human-animal question in theological terms rather than
in racial-biological terms, writers such as Heinrich Heine,
S.Y. Abramovitsh, Hayim Nachman Bialik, Uri Zvi Greenberg,
Franz Kafka, S.Y. Agnon, and Paul Celan subjected the pejorative
designations of Jewish identity to literary elaboration and to
philosophical negotiation.
“A work of stunning originality. Noam Pines revisits texts across
the expanse of European and modern Jewish culture, excavating
a preoccupation with Jewish animality that is no less illuminating
than it is unsettling.” — Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Pogrom:
Kishinev and the Tilt of History

JULY • 278 pages • 18 color photographs, 42 b/w photographs Noam Pines is Assistant Professor in the Department of
$29.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6784-9 Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University
of New York.

A volume in the SUNY series in

Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
Ezra Cappell, editor

AUGUST • 150 pages

$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7067-2

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QUEER THE GREATEST MIRROR

QUEER EXPECTATIONS The Greatest Mirror
Heavenly Counterparts in the
a genealogy of jewish women’s poetry EXPECTATIONS Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha

A Genealogy of Jewish Jewish Pseudepigrapha

Women’s Poetry Andrei A. Orlov
Zohar Weiman-Kelman
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly
Examines how Jewish women twin imagery in early Jewish
have used poetry to challenge extrabiblical texts.
their historical limitations while Andrei A. Orlov

rewriting their potential futures. “This book is the first complete effort
to show how some pseudepigraphical
Jewish women have had a works develop several unique traditions
zohar weiman-kelman

fraught relationship with about heavenly counterparts. It is particularly important for

history, struggling for inclusion many scholars who do not have control of the Slavonic originals
while resisting their limited of the Ladder of Jacob and 2 Enoch.” — Alexander Kulik, coauthor
role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar of Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition
Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to
poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy” as JULY • 300 pages
a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both $26.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6690-3
invoke and resist what came before. Bringing together Jewish
women’s poetry from the late nineteenth century, the interwar
period, and the 1970s and 1980s, Weiman-Kelman takes readers EDUCATIONAL OASES
on a boundary-crossing journey through works in English, IN THE DESERT
Yiddish, and Hebrew, setting up encounters between writers of The Alliance Israélite
different generations, locations, and languages. Queer Expectations
Universelle’s Girls’ Schools
highlights genealogical lines of continuity drawn by authors as
diverse as Emma Lazarus, Kadya Molodowsky, Leah Goldberg,
in Ottoman Iraq, 1895–1915
Anna Margolin, Irena Klepfisz, and Adrienne Rich. These poets Jonathan Sciarcon
push back against heteronormative imperatives of biological
reproduction and inheritance, opting instead for connections that A history of the French schools that
twist traditional models of gender and history. Looking backward pioneered female education in Ottoman
in queer ways enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a Iraq’s Jewish communities.
troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures.
“While the pedagogical empire created by the AIU has received
broad treatment before, this book narrows its focus to a specific
Zohar Weiman-Kelman is Assistant Professor in the
time period and locale, allowing for a more nuanced look at
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the interplay between girls’ schools, issues such as gender and
University of the Negev in Israel.
education, and concepts of Westernization, cultural transplants,
and agents of change.” — H-Net Reviews (H-Judaic)
A volume in the SUNY series in
Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
“In addition to immersing the reader in the fascinating world of
Ezra Cappell, editor
turn-of-the-century Ottoman Iraq, this book contributes to the
growing body of scholarship about Jewish girls’ education, the
DECEMBER • 200 pages • 1 b/w photograph
AIU, and female education in the Ottoman Empire during
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this period.” — Reading Religion

JULY • 196 pages • 5 tables

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COLLEGE BOUND WRITING IN WITNESS

COLLEGE
BOUND The Pursuit of Education A Holocaust Reader
in Jewish American Literature, Eric J. Sundquist, editor
The Pursuit of Education
in Jewish American
Literature,
1896–1944 Wr i t i ng in
1896–1944
Dan Shiffman A comprehensive survey of the most
Wit ne ss important writing to come out of
Argues that first- and second-generation
A HOLOCAUST READER
the Holocaust.
edited by

Jewish American writers had an ERIC J. SUNDQUIST

Dan Shiffman ambivalent relationship with Writing in Witness is a broad

educational success.
Jewish American immigrants and
their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational
achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading
directly to professional success. In College Bound, Dan Shiffman
uses literary accounts to show that American Jews’
relationship with education was in fact far more complex.
Jews expected book learning to bring personal fulfillment
and self-transformation, but the reality of public schools and
universities often fell short.
“This is a rich, well-researched, and compelling study that
displays a mastery of its authors and texts, as well as the relevant
scholarly studies. It presents its findings in fluent, readable prose.”
— Eric Sundquist, Johns Hopkins University
“Shiffman makes an important and timely contribution to the
field of American Jewish studies, especially involving the place
of education at the turn of the twentieth century and into the
war years.” — Victoria Aarons, Trinity University
JULY • 183 pages
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survey of the most important
writing about the Holocaust
produced by eyewitnesses
at the time and soon after.
Whether they intended to spark
resistance and undermine Nazi
authority, to comfort family and
community, to beseech God, or to leave a memorial record for
posterity, the writers reflect on the power and limitations of the
written word in the face of events often thought to be beyond
representation. The diaries, journals, letters, poems, and other
works were created across a geography reaching from the Baltics
to the Balkans, from the Atlantic coast to the heart of the Soviet
Union, and in a wide array of original languages. Along with
the readings, Eric J. Sundquist’s introductions provide
a comprehensive account of the Holocaust as a historical event.
Including works by prominent authors such as Primo Levi
and Elie Wiesel as well as those little known or anonymous,
Writing in Witness provides, in vital and memorable examples,
a wide-ranging account of the Holocaust by those who felt
the imperative to give written testimony.
“In the beginning was the Holocaust, and this is its story as
told by its original responders.” — David G. Roskies, author of
Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide

Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus

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of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University and the editor of

many books, including (with David Cesarani) After the Holocaust:
Challenging the Myth of Silence.

A volume in the SUNY series in

Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
Ezra Cappell, editor

JULY • 450 pages

$34.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-7032-0
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CULTURAL JOURNEYS WALA÷ YAH IN THE

INTO THE
Cultural
Journeys into the ARAB WORLD
A Literary Anthology
Arab World Edited and with an
A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY
Introduction by
Dalya Cohen-Mor
A diverse collection of fiction and
nonfiction literature from across
the Arabic-speaking world.
Edited and with an Introduction by
Dalya Cohen-Mor
Cultural Journeys into the Arab
World provides a fascinating
window into Arab culture
and society through the voices of its own writers and poets.
Organized thematically, the anthology features more than fifty
texts, including poems, essays, stories, novels, memoirs, eyewitness
accounts, and life histories, by leading male and female authors
from across the Arabic-speaking world. Each theme is explored
in several genres, both fiction and nonfiction, and framed by a
wealth of contextual information that places the literary texts
within the historical, political, cultural, and social background
of the region. Spanning a century of Arab creative writing—
from the “dean of Arabic letters” Taha Hussein to the Nobel
laureate Naguib Mahfouz and the celebrated poet Adonis—
the anthology offers unforgettable journeys into the rich and
dynamic realm of Arab culture. Representing a wide range
of settings, viewpoints, and socioeconomic backgrounds, the
characters speak of their conditions, aspirations, struggles, and
achievements living in complex societies marked by tensions
arising from the persistence of older traditions and the impact
of modernity.Their myriad voices paint a vivid and intimate
portrait of contemporary Arab life in the Middle East, revealing the
common humanity of a region of vital significance in world affairs.
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 Ismaµ>iµliµ
thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice
of reliance on the imaµm, and as a politico-esoteric system that
redefined governance during the Faµt|imid caliphate in the
eleventh century. Alexandrin’s 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 Faµt|imid Ismaµ>iµliµ chief missionary al-Mu<ayyad fi µal-Diµn
al-Shiµraµziµ (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walaµyah (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 Faµt|imid
caliph-imaµms were the heirs of walaµyah and by proposing new
definitions of the “seal of God’s friends” (khaµtim al-awliyaµ<
Allaµh), al-Mu<ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric
knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of
Islamic messianism.
JULY • 366 pages
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Dalya Cohen-Mor is a Middle East scholar and an award-
winning author. Her books include A Matter of Fate:The Concept
of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature;
Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women’s Literature:The Family
Frontier; Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East; and Arab Women
Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories, also published by
SUNY Press.

SEPTEMBER • 375 pages

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FASHION, THE SPECTER

Fashion,
Modernity, MODERNITY, OF THE INDIAN
and Materiality AND MATERIALITY Race, Gender, and Ghosts in
in France
F r o m r o us s e au to a rt d e c o
IN FRANCE American Séances, 1848–1890
From Rousseau Kathryn Troy
to Art Deco
Explores the significance of Indian
Heidi Brevik-Zender, editor
control spirits as a dominating force
in nineteenth-century American
An interdisciplinary examination
Spiritualism.
of French fashion, modernity, and
materiality from the eighteenth to
The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American
edited by
heidi Brevik-Zender
the early twentieth centuries.
spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism.
By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of
This anthology explores
religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a
connections between dress
new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled
and modernity through interdisciplinary French humanities
Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections
scholarship. It brings to life the reciprocal relationships between
between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian policy
fashion and a range of primary source materials, including
provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social reform
literary fiction, paintings, social commentaries, decorative
among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating
arts, fashion magazines, mass-circulating newspapers, popular
parallels between the contested belief of Indians as fading from
theatrical works, trade publications, and advertisements,
the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the social impetus
among others. The book centers on a specific constellation
to provide American Indians with a means of existence in white
of concerns—fashion, modernity, and materiality from the
America. Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory,
eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries—giving depth
Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book
of focus. Themes include fashion’s relationship to the arts,
transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened
material production, conflict, memory, the nation, social class,
cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance accounts in
race, and gender and sexuality. Among the broader questions
the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the
framing the volume are some that remain highly pertinent
otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of
today: What are the various and complex relationships that
mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author
exist between clothing and the lived body? How do garments
to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential
hold traces of the past and activate memories of the human
presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.
experience? In which ways do clothing and adornment express
sexualities? How does fashion help to define what it meant
and means to be modern? Together, the essays demonstrate “Troy’s debut work is a compelling addition to recent
fashion’s broad reach and appeal as an interdisciplinary category scholarship addressing nineteenth-century US spiritualism.”
of analysis. — CHOICE
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Heidi Brevik-Zender is Associate Professor of French and JULY • 202 pages

Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside $21.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-4384-6608-8
and the author of Fashioning Spaces: Mode and Modernity in
Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris.

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37 color photographs, 16 b/w photographs
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GENDER AND INTERSEX MATTERS

gender and the abjection of blackness
THE ABJECTION
OF BLACKNESS Gender Regulation, and
Sabine Broeck
An anti-racist critique of gender
studies as a field.
In Gender and the Abjection of
Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues
that gender studies as a mostly
sabine broeck white field has taken insufficient
account of Black contributions,
and that more than being an
ethnocentric limitation or blind
spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness in the field.
Engaging with the work of Black feminist authors Sylvia Wynter,
Hortense Spillers, and Saidiya Hartman, Broeck critiques a
selection of canonical white gender studies texts to make this
case. The book discusses this problem at the core of gender
theory as a practice which Broeck terms enslavism—the ongoing
abjection of Black life which Hartman has called the afterlife of
slavery. This has become manifest in the repetitive employment
of the “woman as slave” metaphor so central to gender theory,
as well as in recent theoretical mutations of these anti-Black
politics of analogy. It is the structural separation of Blackness
from gender that has functioned over and again as the scaffold
enabling white women’s struggles for successful recognition
of equality and subjectivity in the human world as we know it.
This book challenges white readers to rethink their own
untroubled identification with gender theory, and it provides
all readers with a white feminist theorist’s sophisticated
theoretical and self-critical scholarly account of her own
reckoning with and learning in dialogue from Black
feminism’s critique.
Biomedical Embodiment,
Transnational Activism
David A. Rubin
Analyzes intersex debates through
a queer feminist, intersectional,
and transnational lens.
Intersex Matters analyzes the
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.
“Intersex Matters is conceptually sharp, thoroughly researched,
beautifully written, and offers an account of intersex that we’ve
never seen before. It is a remarkable book.” — Gayle Salamon,
Princeton University
“The scholarship is sound and well written. The book makes
a significant contribution to the literature and further adds to
our knowledge of intersex.” — Georgiann Davis, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas
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Sabine Broeck is Professor of American Studies at the
University of Bremen, Germany. She is the coeditor of several
books, including (with Jason R. Ambroise) Black Knowledges/
Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology.

A volume in the SUNY series in Gender Theory

Tina Chanter, editor

JULY • 230 pages

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The Gender Legacy THE GENDER LEGACY SABINA SPIELREIN

of the Mao Era
Women’s Life Stories in Contemporary China
OF THE MAO ERA
Women’s Life Stories
in Contemporary China
Xin Huang
Shows that the feminist
interventions of the Mao era
(1949–1976) continue to
Sa b i n a S p i e l r e i n
the woman and the myth
The Woman and the Myth
Angela M. Sells
Explores the life and work of
psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through
a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.
“…[an] impressive book … Sells’
AngelA M. SellS

influence contemporary scholarship is stunningly diverse …

Chinese women. a major, perhaps a definitive, feminist
contribution to the literature.” — Tablet
Xin Huang
This book traces how the legacy
of the Maoist gender project “This is a pathbreaking piece of research.” — Carol P. Christ,
is experienced or contested by coauthor of Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in
particular Chinese women, remembered or forgotten in their Embodied Theology
lives, and highlighted or buried in their narratives. Xin Huang
examines four women’s life stories: an urban woman who lived JULY • 283 pages • 14 b/w photographs, 3 figures
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a lesbian artist who has close connections with transnational
queer networks, and an urban woman who has lived abroad.
The individual narratives are paired with analysis of the
historical and social contexts in which each woman lives.
EVERYDAY SUSTAINABILITY
Huang focuses on the shifting relationship between gender and Everyday
class, fashion and shame in the Mao and post-Mao eras, queer
Gender Justice and Fair Trade
Sustainability
desire and artwork, and contemporary transnational encounters.
GENDER JUSTICE AND FAIR TRADE TEA IN DARJEELING
Tea in Darjeeling
By rethinking the historical significance and contemporary Debarati Sen
relevance of one of the twentieth century’s major feminist
interventions—socialist and Marxist women’s liberation during Illuminates the contradictions that emerge
the Mao years—The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era provides within conscious capitalism initiatives
insight into current struggles over gender equality in China that are designed to empower women.
Debarati Sen
and around the world.
Everyday Sustainability takes readers
Xin Huang is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender to ground zero of market-based
Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. sustainability initiatives—Darjeeling,
India—where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to
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minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production.

AUGUST • 250 pages • 17 color photographs, 1 table
These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct
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entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice
that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the
tenets of the emerging global morality market.

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 anthropology
REFUGEEHOOD AND
THE POSTCONFLICT
SUBJECT
Reconsidering
Minor Losses
Olga Maya Demetriou
Refugeehood and the
Postconflict subject
ReconsideRing MinoR Losses Examines the effects of culturally
specific interpretations of
Olga Maya Demetriou
refugeehood with an ethnographic
focus on Cyprus.
Being a “refugee” is not
simply a matter of law,
determination procedures,
or the act of flight. It is an ontological condition, structured
by the politics of law, affect, and territory. Refugeehood and the
Postconflict Subject explores the variable facets of refugeehood,
their interconnections, and their intended and unintended
consequences. Grounded on more than a decade of research
on the island of Cyprus, Olga Maya Demetriou considers how
different groups of “refugees” coexist and how this coexistence
invites reinterpretations of the law and its politics. The long-
standing political conflict in Cyprus produced not only the
paradigmatic, formally recognized “refugee” but also other
groups of displaced persons not so categorized. By examining
the people and circumstances, Demetriou reveals the tensions
and contestations within the international refugee regimes
and argues that any reinterpretation that accounts for these
tensions also needs to recognize that these “minor” losses are
not incidental to refugeehood but an intrinsic part of the
wider issues.
Olga Maya Demetriou is Senior Research Consultant at
the Cyprus Center of the Peace Research Institute Oslo in
Nicosia, Cyprus. She is the author of Capricious Borders: Minority,
Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey.
A volume in the SUNY series in National Identities
Thomas M. Wilson, editor
OCTOBER • 224 pages • 11 b/w photographs, 1 map
$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7117-4
film studies
WELCOME TO
WELCOME FEAR CITY
TO Crime Film, Crisis, and
FEAR
the Urban Imagination
CITY
Nathan Holmes
Crime Film, Crisis,
and the Urban Imagination
Analyzes how location-shot crime
films of the 1970s reflected and
influenced understandings of
urban crisis.
The early 1970s were a moment
NATHAN HOLMES
of transformation for both the
American city and its cinema.
As intensified suburbanization,
racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure
cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation,
police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with
contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City
argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part
of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in
popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and
visual culture.Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a
site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public
life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially
ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and
street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and
the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute,
The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of
Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime
genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities,
but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting
surfaces of public culture.
“Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of
noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as
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he says, ‘in relation to the urban context that was their location,
setting, and subject.’ He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and
uniquely.” — David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal
Nathan Holmes is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema
Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
OCTOBER • 224 pages • 21 b/w photographs
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RULE, BRITANNIA! ARE YOU WATCHING

ARE YOU WATCHING
The Biopic and British CLOSELY?
CLOSELY?
National Identity Cultural Paranoia,
Homer B. Pettey and New Technologies,
RU L E, R. Barton Palmer, editors and the Contemporary
BR I TA N N I A !
THE BIOPIC AND BRITISH NATIONAL IDENTITY
Hollywood Misdirection Film
Assesses how cinematic Seth Friedman
biographies of key figures reflect Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies,

and shape what it means to and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film

Seth Friedman Identifies a new genre—misdirection

be British. films—and explains its appeal to
edited by
HOMER B. PETTEY and contemporary producers and audiences.
R. BARTON PALMER Rule, Britannia! surveys the
British biopic, a genre crucial Are You Watching Closely? is the first book to explore the
to understanding how national recent spate of “misdirection films,” a previously unidentified
cinema engages with the Hollywood genre characterized by narratives that inspire viewers
collective experience and to reinterpret them retrospectively. Seth Friedman examines this
values of its intended audience. Offering a provocative take on genre in its sociocultural, industrial, and technological contexts
an aspect of filmmaking with profound cultural significance, to explain why it has become more attractive to producers
the volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent and audiences.
figures in British history and culture can be understood as
involved, if unofficially, in the shaping and promotion of an
JULY • 264 pages • 35 b/w photographs
ever-protean national identity. The contributors engage with the
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vexed concept of British nationality, especially as this sense of
collective belonging is problematized by the ethnically oriented
alternatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations. RIPPING ENGLAND!
They explore the critical and historiographical issues raised by RIPPING ENGLAND! Postwar British Satire
the biopic, demonstrating that celebration of conventional virtue to the Goons
from Ealing to the Goons
Postwar British Satire from Ealing
is not the genre’s only natural subject. Filmic depictions of such Roger Rawlings
personalities as Elizabeth I,Victoria, George VI, Elizabeth II,
Margaret Thatcher, Iris Murdoch, and Jack the Ripper Examines an all too often neglected
are covered. period of postwar British cinema and
Roger popular culture.
“This exceptional collection offers new ways of looking at these Rawlings

films as films, as well as a fresh approach to British history as Ripping England! investigates a fertile
a cultural whole.” — Wheeler Winston Dixon moment for British satire—the period
between 1947 and 1953, which
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Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative
Literature at the University of Arizona. R. Barton Palmer is
Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the
World Cinema program at Clemson University.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
OCTOBER • 288 pages • 35 b/w photographs
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produced the films Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets,
and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as the seminal radio program
The Goon Show. Against the postwar background of fading
empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of a
welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British
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 • 275 pages • 23 b/w photographs
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JANE AUSTEN’S
Jane Austen’s WOMEN
Women
An Introduction
Kathleen Anderson
An Introduction An original critical introduction to
women characters in the novels of
Jane Austen.
Why does Jane Austen “mania”
Kathleen Anderson continue unabated in a
postmodern world? How does
the brilliant Regency novelist
speak so personally to today’s
women that they view her as
their best friend? Jane Austen’s Women answers these questions by
exploring Austen’s affirming yet challenging vision of both who
her dynamic female characters are, and who they become. This
important new work analyzes the heroines’ relationships to body,
mind, spirit, environment, and society. It reveals how, despite a
restrictive patriarchal culture, these women achieve greatness. In
clear, lively prose, Kathleen Anderson shares original theoretical
insights from twenty years of studying Austen, and illuminates
the novels as guidebooks on how to become an Austenian
heroine in one’s everyday life. This engaging book will appeal to
a broad readership: the serious student, the general lit-lover, and
the Austen neophyte alike.
“Jane Austen’s Women examines aspects of Austen’s female
characters in new ways. Anderson thoroughly and competently
sifts through the many meanings of ‘womanhood’ in Austen’s
time and, directly or by implication, in our own. It was a pleasure
to read this delightful analysis accompanied by illuminating
references to our own contemporary culture.” — Susan Ostrov
Weisser, author of The Glass Slipper:Women and Love Stories
Kathleen Anderson is Professor of English at Palm Beach
Atlantic University and the coauthor (with Susan Jones) of
Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift: An Independent Woman’s Advice on
Living Within One’s Means.
DECEMBER • 224 pages
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$85.00 hardcover ISBN 978-1-4384-7225-6
literature
FIRE AND SNOW
Fire and Snow Climate Fiction
from the Inklings to
Game of Thrones
Marc DiPaolo
A broad examination of climate
fantasy and science fiction,
from The Lord of the Rings
and the Narnia series to
The Handmaid’s Tale
Marc DiPaolo and Game of Thrones.
Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien
and C. S. Lewis may have
belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both
made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the
mid-twentieth-century’s triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism,
and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo
explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian
environmental ethics of the Middle-earth and Narnia sagas have
been adapted by a variety of recent writers and filmmakers of
“climate fiction,” a growing literary and cinematic genre that
grapples with the real-world concerns of climate change, endless
wars, and fascism, as well as the role religion plays in easing or
escalating these apocalyptic-level crises. Among the many other
well-known climate fiction narratives examined in these pages
are Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, The Handmaid’s Tale,
Mad Max, and Doctor Who. Although the authors of these
works stake out ideological territory that differs from
Tolkien’s and Lewis’s, DiPaolo argues that they nevertheless
mirror their predecessors’ ecological concerns. The Christians,
Jews, atheists, and agnostics who penned these works agree
that we all need to put aside our cultural differences and
transcend our personal, socioeconomic circumstances to work
together to save the environment. Taken together, these works
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of climate fiction model various ways in which a deep ecological
solidarity might be achieved across a broad ideological and
cultural spectrum.
Marc DiPaolo is Assistant Professor of English at Southwestern
Oklahoma State University and the author of War, Politics and
Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film.
AUGUST • 352 pages • Trim size: 7 x 10 • 45 b/w photographs
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PHRASE
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Translated by Leslie Hill
Phrase
The first complete English
translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
most innovative and original
Translated by Leslie Hill work, exploring the very origins
of experience, language, desire,
and mortality.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
(1940–2007) is widely
acknowledged in his native
France and in the English-
speaking world as one of
the most important philosophers of his generation and an
exceptionally rigorous reader of Heidegger, Hölderlin, Benjamin,
Blanchot, and Celan. An astute thinker of the political and
a far-reaching and decisive analyst of the place of theater
and music in Western metaphysics, Lacoue-Labarthe also had
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THE POETRY OF MARKING TIME

GEORGES BATAILLE Andy Warhol’s Vision
Georges Bataille of Celebrations,
Translated and with Commemorations,
GEORGES an Introduction by and Anniversaries
B AT A I L L E
Stuart Kendall Reva Wolf, editor
The Poetry of
Georges Bataille
translated and with an introduction by
Presents a new window into Addresses an understudied yet
STUART KENDALL
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occupies a striking place in of ten Marilyn screen prints. His decision to produce these
the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For “anniversary” prints fits a pattern in his practices as an artist,
Bataille, poetry had no meaning “except in the violence of and in ours as a culture. The varied ways Warhol explored such
revolt,” which it could attain “only by evoking the impossible.” moments is the subject of this publication. It is well known that
Toward this end, he wrote poetry, as he says in Inner Experience, Warhol was obsessed with time, as seen in his use of repetition,
“with necessity—in accordance with my life.” Although poems his work in the time-based media of film and tape recording,
appear in four of his major works, and others were published and his creation of Time Capsules. Less familiar, and virtually
independently in a small collection and in magazines, much of unexamined, is his multifaceted exploration of the related
Bataille’s poetry remained unpublished at the time of his death. topic of commemoration. In this volume, readers are invited
This volume presents a nearly complete edition of the poems to consider five distinct time-marking occasions as featured in
in chronological order. Stuart Kendall provides an extensive Warhol’s art: holidays; commemorations of things; anniversaries
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and theological significance of Bataille’s poetry. He also on specific works of art place them within their historical
explores the influence of Nietzsche, St. John of the Cross, Blake, contexts and shed light on their significance as anniversary
Baudelaire, and other poètes maudits and situates the poems in objects and as reminders of our mortality.
relation to Bataille’s other writings and the period in which
he wrote. Reva Wolf is Professor of Art History at the State University
of New York at New Paltz. An expert in the art of Goya and
Georges Bataille (1897–1962), a medievalist librarian by Warhol, she is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships
training, founded the College of Sociology and the secret society and has received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence from the
Acéphale. He was equally famous for his contributions to French State University of New York. Her many publications include

literature, art criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and theology.
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 author index
Krondorfer/ Reconciliation in Global Context, p. 32
Acosta López, Powell/ Aesthetic Reason and…, p. 19
Alexandrin/ Wala÷yah in the Fa÷ti| mid Isma÷>i÷li÷ Tradition, p. 47
Altizer/ Satan and Apocalypse, p. 17
Alvarez/ Brokering Tareas, p. 58
Anderson/ Jane Austen's Women, p. 53
Angelo/ One America?, p. 30
Arias/ Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1, p. 39
Arias/ Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2, p. 39
Arnold/ State Violence and Moral Horror, p. 26
Bachelard/ Atomistic Intuitions, p. 20
Bailyn et al./ The Future of (Post)Socialism, p. 37
Barany/ The New Welfare Consensus, p. 37
Barnaby/ Coming Too Late, p. 30
Bataille/ The Poetry of Georges Bataille, p. 55
Behuniak/ Appreciating the Chinese Difference, p. 10
Benso, Schroeder/ Thinking the Inexhaustible, p. 20
Biederman/ Popovers and Candlelight, p. 3
Bredlau/ The Other in Perception, p. 21
Brevik-Zender/ Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality…, p. 48
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Chiurazzi/ The Experience of Truth, p. 26
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Cook, Luo/ Birth in Ancient China, p. 14
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Demetriou/ Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject, p. 51
Dichio/ The US Supreme Court and the…, p. 31
DiPaolo/ Fire and Snow, p. 53
Dolezal, Petherbridge/ Body/Self/Other, p. 26
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Estrada/ Troubled Memories, p. 39
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Fox/ We Are Going to Be Lucky, p. 8
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Gasché/ Storytelling, p. 23
Geldman/ Years I Walked at Your Side, p. 7
Glanzer et al./ The Quest for Purpose, p. 58
Gray/ From the Streets to the State, p. 31
Gunnlaugson et al./ The Intersubjective Turn, p. 58
Heberlig et al./ American Cities and the Politics…, p. 35
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Holmes/ Welcome to Fear City, p. 51
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Hon, Stapleton/ Confucianism for the Contemporary …,p. 14
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Huang/ The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era, p. 50
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Janzen/ Liminal Sovereignty, p. 40
Jordan-Zachery, Alexander-Floyd/ Black Women in …, p. 42
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Kenny/ Angry Rain, p. 5
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Kopf et al./ The Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, p. 59
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Lavie/ The Battle over a Civil State, p. 32
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LeVasseur/ Religious Agrarianism and the Return…, p. 18
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Sen/ Everyday Sustainability, p. 50
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Shiffman/ College Bound, p. 46
Simmons et al./ Nine Nights of the Goddes, p. 13
Sokoloff/ Confrontational Citizenship, p. 35
Stavans/ On Self-Translation, p. 9
Steeves/ Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding, p. 28
Štofaník/ The Adventure of Weak Theology, p. 16
Sullivan et al./ Dimensions of Blackness, p. 43
Sundquist/ Writing in Witness, p. 46
Tanner/ Plato's Laughter, p. 28
Temby, Stoett/ Towards Continental Environmental Policy?, p. 36
Thurber et al./ Congress and Diaspora Politic, p. 34
Tompkins/ Affectual Erasure, p. 41
Trivedi/ Imagination, Music, and the Emotions, p. 28
Troy/ The Specter of the Indian, p. 48
Tynes/ Tools of War, Tools of State, p. 34
Uehara et al./The Journal of Japanese Philosophy, p. 59
van Els, Queen/ Between History and Philosophy, p. 15
Vercellone/ Beyond Beauty, p. 29
Versluis/ Platonic Mysticism, p. 29
Viriasova, Calcagno/ Roberto Esposito, p. 25
Vitale/ Biodeconstruction, p. 29
Wang/ The China Order, p. 36
Watts/ Alan Watts—In the Academy, p. 18
Weiman-Kelman/ Queer Expectations, p. 45
Wells/ The Manifest and the Revealed, p. 16
Wertenbaker/ The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff, p. 56
Wiedorn/ Think Like an Archipelago, p. 29
Wildman/ Effing the Ineffable, p. 17
Wolf/ Marking Time, p. 55
Wood/ Memory Is the Medium, p. 57
Yardley/ Finding True North, p. 2
Zakai/ The Pen Confronts the Sword, p. 36
Zoller/ Plato and the Body, p. 25

Adventure of Weak Theology, The/ Štofaník, p. 16
Adventures in Phenomenology/ Rizo-Patron, et al., p. 28
Aesthetic Reason and…/ Acosta López, Powel, p. 19
Affective Images/ Kesting, p. 44
Affectual Erasure/ Tompkins, p. 41
Afterlife of al-Andalus, The/ Civantos, p. 42
Alan Watts/ In the Academy/ Watts, p. 18
American Cities and the Politics of …/ Heberlig et al., p. 35
Angry Rain/ Kenny, p. 5
Another white Man's Burden/ Curry, p. 22
Appreciating the Chinese Difference/ Behuniak, p. 10
Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely/ Nuzzo, p. 24
Are You Watching Closely?/ Friedman, p. 52
Asymptote of Love, The/ Kellenberger, p. 15
Atomistic Intuitions/ Bachelard, p. 20
Battle over a Civil State, The/ Lavie, p. 32
Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding/ Steeves, p. 28
Between History and Philosophy/ van Els, Queen, p. 15
Beyond Beauty/ Vercellone, p. 29
Biodeconstruction/ Vitale, p. 29
Birth in Ancient China/ Cook, Luo, p. 14
Black Women in Politics/ Jordan-Zachery, Alexander-Floyd, p. 42
Black Women’s Mental Health/ Evans et al., p. 43
Blood Circuits/ Risner, p. 41
Body/Self/Other/ Dolezal, Petherbridge, p. 26
Bootlegger of the Soul/ Lance, Grondahl, p. 1
Brokering Tareas/ Alvarez, p. 58
Cambodian Buddhism in the United States/ Mortland, p. 18
Childhood beyond Pathology/ Farley, p. 57
China Order, The/ Wang, p. 36
College Bound/ Shiffman, p. 46
Coming Too Late/ Barnaby, p. 30
Concept of Bharatavarsha…, The/ Chattopadhyaya, p. 10
Confrontational Citizenship/ Sokoloff, p. 35
Confucianism for the Contemporary…/ Hon, Stapleton, p. 14
Congress and Diaspora Politics/ Thurber et al., p. 34
Conversations with the Soul/ Powell, p. 56
Cultural Journeys into the Arab World/ Cohen-Mor, p. 47
Dao and Sign in History/ Fried, p. 11
Dimensions of Blackness/ Sullivan et al., p. 43
Educational Oases in the Desert/ Sciarcon, p. 45
Effing the Ineffable/ Wildman, p. 17
Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff, The/ Wertenbaker, p. 56
Ethics and Accountability on the US Supreme…/ Hume, p. 35
Everyday Sustainability/ Sen, p. 50
Experience of Truth, The/ Chiurazzi, p. 26
Expressing the Heart's Intent/ Chandler, p. 14
Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in…/ Brevik-Zender, p. 48
Finding True North/ Yardley, p. 2
Fire and Snow/ DiPaolo, p. 53
For Foucault/ Kelly, p. 27
Found in Transition/ Chu, p. 11
From the Streets to the State/ Gray, p. 31
Future of (Post)Socialism, The/ Bailyn et al., p. 37
Gender and the Abjection of Blackness/ Broeck, p. 49
Gender Legacy of the Mao Era, The/ Huang, p. 50
Get Things Moving!/ Lee, p. 33
God and the Self in Hegel/ Bubbio, p. 26
Greatest Mirror, The/ Orlov, p. 45
Hand of the Engraver, The/ Rheinberger, p. 24
Heaven Is Empty/ Marsili, p. 12
Hegel and Right/ Kain, p. 23
Hell Gate/ Nichols, p. 4
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions/ Trivedi, p. 28
Infrahuman, The/ Pines, p. 44
Inoue Enryoµ/ Schulzer, p. 13
Intersex Matters/ Rubin, p. 49
Intersubjective Turn, The/ Gunnlaugson et al., p. 58
Invisible Hosts/ Lowry, p. 18
Jane Austen's Women/Anderson, p. 53
Janus Democracy/ Longoria, p. 33
Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, The/ Kopf et al., p. 59
Journal of Japanese Philosophy, The/ Uehara et al., p. 59
Journey of a Goddess/ Chen, p. 14
Liminal Sovereignty /Janzen, p. 40
Manifest and the Revealed, The/ Wells, p. 16
Marking Time/ Wolf, p. 55
Mediaevalia/ Holmes,Schleuse, p. 59
Memory Is the Medium/ Wood, p. 57
Moving of the Water, The/ Lloyd, p. 6
New Welfare Consensus, The/ Barany, p. 37
Nine Nights of the Goddess/ Simmons et al., p. 13
On Self-Translation/ Stavans, p. 9
On the Essence of Language/ Heidegger, p. 27
One America?/ Angelo, p. 30
Other in Perception, The/ Bredlau, p. 21
Palimpsest/ Sharpley-Whiting, Patterson-Myers, p. 59
Partial Truths and Our Common Future/ Crosby, p. 21
Pen Confronts the Sword, The/ Zakai, p. 36
philoSOPHIA/ Huffer et al, p. 59
Phrase/ Lacoue-Labarthe, p. 54
Plato and the Body/ Zoller, p. 25
title index
Platonic Mysticism/ Versluis, p. 29
Plato's Laughter/Tanner, p. 28
Poetry of Georges Bataille, The/ Bataille, p. 55
Politics of Unreason, The/ Rensmann, p. 27
Poor Joshua/ Howard, p. 9
Popovers and Candlelight/ Biederman, p. 3
Projected Nation, The/ Losada, p. 40
Queer Expectations/ Weiman-Kelman, p. 45
Quest for Purpose, The/ Glanzer et al., p. 58
Race and Rurality in the Global…/ Crichlow et al., p. 38
Race, Nation, and Refuge/ Coulson, p. 35
Reconciliation in Global Context/ Krondorfer, p. 32
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1/ Arias, p. 39
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2/ Arias, p. 39
Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject/ Demetriou, p. 51
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place/ LeVasseur, p. 18
Remnants of Hegel/ Duque, p. 22
Ripping England!/ Rawlings, p. 52
Roberto Esposito/ Viriasova, Calcagno, p. 25
Rule, Britannia!/ Pettey, Palmer, p. 52
Sabina Spielrein/ Sells, p. 50
Satan and Apocalypse/ Altizer, p. 17
Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 2/ Cramer, p. 58
Shimmering Mirrors/ Laude, p. 18
Signatures of Struggle/ Nir, p. 54
Sons of Sarasvati/ Ravishankar, p. 12
Sound of Vultures' Wings, The/ Cupchik, p. 19
Specter of the Indian, The/ Troy, p. 48
Spontaneous Combustion/ Del Gandio, Thompson, p. 38
State Violence and Moral Horror/ Arnold, p. 26
Storytelling/ Gasché, p. 23
Sufi and the Friar, The/ Dallh, p. 17
Text and Tradition in South India/ Narayana Rao, p. 15
Think Like an Archipelago/ Wiedorn, p. 29
Thinking the Inexhaustible/ Benso, Schroeder, p. 20
Tools of War, Tools of State/ Tynes, p. 34
Towards Continental Environmental Policy?/ Temby, Stoett, p. 36
Troubled Memories/ Estrada, p. 39
US Supreme Court and the Centralization…, The/ Dichio, p. 31
Wala÷yah in the Fa÷ti| mid Isma÷>i÷li÷ Tradition/ Alexandrin, p. 47
We Are Going to Be Lucky/ Fox, p. 8
Welcome to Fear City/ Holmes, p. 51
Writing in Witness/ Sundquist, p. 46
Years I Walked at Your Side/ Geldman, p. 7
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