Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
The Political is Political
Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series...
On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization
A Philosophy of Integral Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization presents a philosophical contribution to integral ecology—an emerging approach to the field that crosses disciplinary boundaries of the humanities and sciences.
In this original book, Sam Mickey argues for the transdisciplinary significance of philosophical...
Experience and Infinite Task
Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the author traces the relationships among Benjamin’s theories — developed in tandem with his friend...
Hegel, Freud and Fanon
The Dialectic of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals— understood as ideological— with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon attempted to connect...
Theorising Literary Islands
The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson...
The Last Isle
Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Taiwan is in danger of becoming the last isle, losing its sovereignty and identity. The Last Isle opens from where Taiwan film scholarship leaves off—the 1980s Taiwan New Cinema, focusing on relatively unknown contemporary films that are “unglobalizable,” such as Cape No. 7, Island Etude, Din...
The Reinvention of Social Practices
Essays on Félix Guattari
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Félix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters, ranging across an alternative ‘skateboard’ school, informatic subjugations, urban ecological dilemmas, drug subcultures, and countercultures. Gary...
Posthuman Ecologies
Complexity and Process after Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to...
Affective Connections
Towards a New Materialist Politics of Sympathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Inspired by the philosophical framework of Deleuze and Guattari in relation to affect, Affective Connections disavows the dominant oppositional discourse around representation to offer an affirmative approach to perception, cognition and experience. It advances a new materialist concept of synaesthetic...
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
The Truth is Translated
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, in some quarters at least,...
Theories of Resistance
Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Space is never a neutral ‘stage’ on which social actors play their roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling against each other. Space has multiple and complex functions in the development of social relations, it is a reference for identity-building, a material condition...
Global Community?
Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In the wake of globalization, the humanities and social sciences have explored the existence and the possibilities of human community on a global scale. But these investigations have been developed within separate academic disciplines, with little exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries....
Continental Anti-Realism
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
There has been a resurgence of interest in the problem of realism, the idea that the world exists in the way it does independently of the mind, within contemporary Continental philosophy. Many, if not most, of those writing on the topic demonstrates attitudes that range from mild skepticism to outright...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis). Anatheism expresses the attendant claim that this making takes the form of a second creation – re-creation or creation again (ana) – where humanity and divinity collaborate in the coming of the...