"The only book to offer an extended treatment of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing, and the first to offer extended analysis of her prose style"
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"Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors"--.
"Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform"
Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric," view of other cul…
"Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or 'eurocentric,' view of other cu…
Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience. In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their…
Negrete brings together women writers and artists known for their formal experimentation to show that "the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire.
Introduction: On Freud's couch, dreaming of art -- Part I. The transvaluation of health -- Louise Bourgeois' art of hysteria -- Transmuting pain into joy with Precious liquids -- Lygia Clark on the space-body problem -- Part II. Love beyond pleasure -- (Re)visions of love: Margu…
"In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation--Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector--to argue that the aesthetic experiences…
Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience. In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their…
Intellectual foundations of black cultural mythology -- Commemoration intervention -- Harriet Tubman and aesthetic memorialization -- Haiti as diaspora-wide mythology -- Richard Wright's navigation of the antihero -- Mythical Malcolm in an age of marable -- Imaginative rights --…
"Contestting the Global Order" explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Williams chronicles the evolution of intellectual visionaries Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, who despite altered circumstances for radical change, con…