Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Badiou
A Subject To Truth
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2003
Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France today—a thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and...
The Force of the Virtual
Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that ‘modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs.’ The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher’s interest in (and appeal to) ‘the exact sciences.’ In exploring the problematic relationship...
Powers of Time
Versions of Bergson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
How is it that when we think of time, we hardly think of the role affect plays in granting us access to time: the sense of waiting, regret, mourning, melancholy? In Powers of Time, David Lapoujade returns to two central themes that continuously converge throughout the writings of the French philosopher...
Dreaming in Dark Times
Six Exercises in Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom?
Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political...
by Julietta Hua
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The history of human beings bought and sold, forced into lives of abject servitude or sexual slavery, is a story as old as civilization and yet still of global concern today. How this story is told, Julietta Hua argues, says much about our cultural beliefs. Through a critical inquiry into representations...
Pothole Confidential
My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A pajama party at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport inadvertently helped launch R.T. Rybak’s political career (imagine a rumba line one hundred protesters long chanting, “We deserve to sleep, hey!”), but his earliest lessons in leadership occurred during his childhood. Growing...
A World of Gangs
Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds hope in the contradictory values of outlaw youth—selflessness,...
Spectacular Mexico
Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico’s arrival in the developed...
Foucault in Iran
Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that...
Black Star, Crescent Moon
The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
“The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia,” Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech, “is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people...
The Beginning and End of Rape
Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the...
Deep Woods, Wild Waters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Wait, young Douglas’s grandfather says as the bobber twitches on the surface of Little Lake. Be patient. And so begins an encounter with the promise and wonder of nature that will last a lifetime. Deep Woods, Wild Waters traces the winding path that carried Douglas Wood from one wonder to the next,...
by Marc Crépon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars—or more precisely the memories of war—of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim’s death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies....
Indirect Action
Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional...