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Book of Negroes
Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. …
To Make the Hands Impure
How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or …
Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has …
Common Growl
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an …
Resistance of the Sensible World
In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive …
Bruno Latour in Pieces
Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had "e;never been …
Empowering the People of God
The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII's assurance "e;You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church"e; emboldened the laity to …
Filipino Time
From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, …
Journey into Social Activism
Academic study of social activism and social movements has become increasingly prevalent over the years; this is due in large part to the fact that activists have captured public …
Chasing Ghosts
When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would …
On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality
If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the …