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Lucretius III
Offers a new theory of history through an original reading of Lucretius' De Rerum NaturaFor Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. …
Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza
Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communaut chez Spinoza' ( ditions de …
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in …
Gender and Seriality
Offers the first book-length study to commit to gender and television as driven by seriality Provides an introduction to seriality in both gender studies and cultural/media studies …
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay distinguishes itself by the wide range and scope of its themes, voices and approaches. Thirty-five leading essayists, literary critics and …
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series
In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the …
Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned
Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater
The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater Analyses both Linklater's celebrated and understudied work in dialogue with ongoing debates …
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series
Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why Agamben's Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of …
A History of Herat
Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the 'Pearl' of the Iranian east
Pulpit, Mosque and Nation
Since the formation of the Republic in 1923, Friday sermons (hutbe) have been an important platform that allows the state to engage and communicate with the Turkish people. Sermon …
Sex and the Nazi Soldier
Sexual violence was a widespread reality during the war and occupation in the Soviet Union: Wehrmacht soldiers and SS men made women and girls victims of sexual torture, and …