Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Oxi: An Act of Resistance
The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. ‘No’, fig. ‘Resistance’, pronounced ‘ochi’) retells Sophocles’ Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the renowned British auteur Ken McMullen and the literary theorist Martin McQuillan, the film...
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance
New Materialisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies’ perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical...
Communication and Expression
Adorno's Philosophy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno’s philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy. Yet Adorno’s own philosophy of language has not yet been fully and systematically examined in its own right. Philip Hogh argues...
Chronopoetics
The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving (‘chrono-poetical’) media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of ‘time’. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst’s two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprünglichkeit,...
Bearing Society in Mind
Theories and Politics of the Social Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach. Bearing Society in Mind challenges these disciplinary boundaries and proposes an alternative framework—the social formation.
The...
Technotopia
A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Many technologies and practices that define the Internet today date back to the 1990s – such as user-generated content, participatory platforms and social media. Indeed, many early ideas about the future of the Internet have been implemented, albeit without fulfilling the envisioned political utopias....
Poetry and Islands
Materiality and the Creative Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that turn...
Agamben's Coming Philosophy
Finding a New Use for Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
One of the many challenges for readers of Agamben’s sprawling and heterogeneous body of work is what to make of his increasingly insistent focus on theology. Agamben’s Coming Philosophy brings together Colby Dickinson, the author of Agamben and Theology, and Adam Kotsko, the translator of several...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and extensions of the self?
In the wake...
Alterity and Criticism
Tracing Time in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This wide-ranging and inspiring volume of essays explores Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit. Nietzsche begins to articulate his philosophy of the free spirit in 1878 and it results in his most congenial books, including Human, all too Human, Dawn (or Daybreak), and The Gay Science. It is one...
Heidegger and Jewish Thought
Difficult Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Once a prophet of critical, “other” thought, Heidegger has now for many become the epitome of the unthinkable, in the light of the Black Notebooks controversy. The unthinkable here is anti-Semitism. The encounter between Heidegger and the Jews has thus come to signify – very much in the spirit...
The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory
New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are considered today to be the two most significant early theorists in founding critical theory. In their works and correspondence, both thinkers turn to art and the aesthetic as a vital way for understanding modern society and developing philosophical methods....
What Lies Between
Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted? Now is a moment that many believe has become post-racial, post- national, post-queer, and post-feminist. This belief is reaffirmed by recent events in the politics of diminished expectations, especially in the United States.
What...