Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
by Amilcar Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
How can a people overthrow 500 years of colonial oppression? What can be done to decolonize mentalities, economic structures, and political institutions? In this book, which includes the first translation of the text ‘Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance’ as well as ‘The Role of Culture in...
by Jung In Kang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This important new book identifies the distinctive characteristics of the ideological terrain in contemporary (South) Korean politics and reexamines the political thought of Park Chung-hee (1917–1979), the most revered, albeit the most controversial, former president in the history of South Korea,...
by Michael J. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness that stemmed from an insight into the nature of modern rationality, economic life, and social organization. Yet, Michael Thompson argues...
Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?
This book highlights some of the key...
The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris
Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition is William H. Ferris’s The African Abroad...
Complicity
Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Compassion is widely regarded as an important moral emotion – a fitting response to various cases of suffering and misfortune. Yet contemporary theorists have rarely given it sustained attention. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering answers to a number of questions surrounding this emotion....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This unique volume collects more than 30 new essays by prominent scholars on what remains philosophically provocative in Heidegger’s thought. His writings continue to invite analysis and application — ut, particularly in the light of his political affiliations, they must also be critiqued. Philosophy...
Mallarmé
Rancière, Milner, Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
From the post-War writings of Sartre and Blanchot to the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, French philosophers have consistently debated the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, almost as a rite of passage. Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner and Jacques Rancière — three of the most...
Researching Resistance and Social Change
A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions.
Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions...
Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
The Enigmatic Absolute
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and...
by Peter R. Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today’s technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the ‘hypermodern’, a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws...
Beyond Britain
Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Is Stuart Hall a Cultural Studies Scholar or a Postcolonial Scholar? Or is it better to engage with his work as an intellectual of both fields?
Postwar Britain witnessed the concurrent evolution of two new intellectual movements which have since become institutionalized as two major academic...
Postcolonial Europe
Comparative Reflections after the Empires
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe?
Postcolonial...