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ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
Published in cooperation with the
Albany Institute of History & Art
“A delightful and engaging tale …
The inclusion of the highlights of the
Albany museum’s Egyptian collection,
which are lavishly illustrated, and the
accompanying essays provide a wonderful
exploration of the history of collecting, and
the links between Egypt and America on
economic, sociocultural, and mystical levels.
A feast for both the eyes and the mind!”
— Salima Ikram, author of
Ancient Egypt: An Introduction
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The Mystery of the Albany Mummies
Peter Lacovara and Sue H. D’Auria, editors
Foreword by Tammis K. Groft
From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies
joined an American museum collection.
In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other
from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from
the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown
for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on
continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and
best remembered of the museum’s collections. The story of their discovery
in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown,
transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel
to Albany was covered extensively by the Albany newspapers, and visitors
from school-aged children to senior citizens often recount stories about
their first encounter with the Albany mummies.
The Mystery of the Albany Mummies tells the fascinating tale of these two
mummies, from their initial mummification in ancient Egypt, to their
acquisition by the AIHA in 1909, and finally to 2013, when the mystery
of their identities was uncovered through the intersection of historical
scholarship, science, and technology. In the book, which draws on the
Institute’s 2013–2014 exhibition “GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany
Mummies,” scholars from around the world use new scholarship, scientific
methods, and medical technology to determine the ages, sexes, occupations,
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and lifestyles of these two ancient denizens of the AIHA.
“…a lively and authoritative account of a journey of scientific discovery.”
— John H. Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and
Sudan at the British Museum
Peter Lacovara is Director of the Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and
Heritage Fund. Sue H. D’Auria is an Egyptologist who worked for nearly
two decades in the Egyptian Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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“Norder has contributed to the literature of American life.”

The History of Here
A House, the Pine Hills Neighborhood,
— Gregory Maguire

The History and the City of Albany

Akum Norder
of Here
A House, the Pine Hills Neighborhood,
and the City of Albany How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew,
Akum Norder as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents.

When you buy an old house, you get much more than a house. In all its
quirks, its alterations, in fragments of memory and traces left behind, you get
a bundle of small mysteries. Who used to live here? Why did they come
here, and where did they go? Whose name is that written on the attic wall?
When did that odd little bathroom get shoehorned in there, and what
did the room look like before? If you’re lucky, one or two of your house’s
mysteries might unfold into stories. Akum Norder was very lucky.

The History of Here follows Albany, New York’s, Pine Hills neighborhood
through more than one hundred years of change. At its heart is the story
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42 b/w photographs, 3 maps As Norder traced their histories, she came to see the development of her
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NEW YORK lives of its residents, their struggles and triumphs, she saw a reflection of
HISTORY twentieth-century America.
ARCHITECTURE
Drawing on interviews, city records, newspapers, out-of-print books, and other
sources, Norder’s narrative makes a case for city neighborhoods: their value,
“Akum Norder has contributed to the
literature of American life a paean of their preservation, and the grassroots involvement that turns a jumble of houses
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neighborliness of which Garrison Keillor
would be pleased to read, and perhaps
E. B.White and even James Agee would
take pleasure in this could they look in
from the great beyond. Rooted in the keenly
seen particular, this history has implications
about the organic growth of American cities
in general, and what we mean when we talk
about ‘the good old days.’”
— Gregory Maguire
2 Akum Norder is a writer who lives in Albany, New York.
into a community. Funny and thought-provoking, readable and relevant,
The History of Here celebrates the sense of place that fuels the new urbanism.
“Akum Norder writes with an authentic voice and a deep sense of place.
Her story … captures the American urban experience. Her prose is clear-
eyed yet passionate, with a measure of Jane Jacobs’s advocacy. The History
of Here is an important addition to the Albany canon.” — Paul Grondahl,
author of Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma

Adriaen van der Donck
A Dutch Rebel
in Seventeenth-Century America
J. VAN DEN HOUT
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HISTORY
BIOGRAPHY
“A biography of Adriaen van der Donck
was long overdue.With her cradle-to-grave
narrative,Van den Hout presents
a comprehensive timeline of one of the most
fascinating figures in early colonial America.
This elegantly written study, carefully
researched and lavishly illustrated, also
provides an excellent introduction to the
seventeenth-century Dutch colony of
New Netherland.” — Jeroen Dewulf,
Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley
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Adriaen van der Donck
A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America
J. van den Hout
The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure
in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
This book tells the compelling story of the young legal activist Adriaen
van der Donck (1618–1655), whose fight to secure the struggling Dutch
colony of New Netherland made him a controversial but pivotal figure
in early America. At best, he has been labeled a hero, a visionary, and
a spokesman of the people. At worst, he has been branded arrogant and
selfish, thinking only of his own ambitions. The wide range of opinions
about him testifies to the fact that, more than three centuries after his
death,Van der Donck remains an intriguing character.
J. van den Hout follows Van der Donck from his war-torn seventeenth-
century childhood and privileged university education to the New World,
as he attempted to make his mark on the fledgling fur trading settlement.
When he became embroiled in the politics of Manhattan, he took
the colonists’ complaints against their Dutch West India Company
administrators to the highest level of government in the Dutch Republic,
in what became a fight for his adopted homeland and a bicontinental
showdown. Denounced and detained, but not deterred,Van der Donck
wrote a landmark book that stands as a testament to his vision for the
country, as the changes he set in motion continued long after his early
death and his influence became firmly embedded in the American
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landscape.Van der Donck’s determination to stand by his convictions
offers a revealing look into the human spirit and the strong will that
drives it against adversity and in search of justice.
J. van den Hout is an independent scholar who lives in California.
This is her first book.
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Dancing with Ophelia

Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love
Jeanne Ellen Petrolle

A personal narrative that explores madness through the use of literature,

art, and philosophy to achieve lasting mental health without drugs.

“Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind.” So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle’s

fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery.
Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique
understanding of madness that allowed her to achieve lasting mental health
without using long-term psychiatric drugs.

Traditionally, Western literature, art, and philosophy have portrayed

madness through six concepts created from myth—Escape into the Wild,
Flight from a Scene of Terror,Visit to the Underworld, Dark Night
of the Soul, Spiritual Passion, and Fire in the Mind. Rather than
conceptualizing madness as “illness,” a mythopoetic concept assumes that
March
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MEMOIR Madness becomes an experience that unleashes extraordinary creativity
PSYCHOLOGY by generating the spiritual insight that fuels artistic productivity and
WOMEN’S STUDIES personal transformation. By weaving her personal experiences with the life
stories and work of surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and modernist
novelist Djuna Barnes, Petrolle shows how poetic thinking about severe
“This is an extraordinary book that
combines meticulous literary scholarship mental distress can complement strategies for managing mental illness.
with memoir. It bravely challenges us to This approach allowed her, and hopefully others, to produce better long-
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reconsider and reframe mental illness, term treatment outcomes.

defined here as an ‘ultimate adventure in
selfhood’ that connects to beauty, creativity, Jeanne Ellen Petrolle is Associate Professor of English and Cultural
and the sublime … [It] is also, at its root, Studies at Columbia College Chicago and the author of Religion without
a deeply spiritual book that grapples with Belief: Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith, also
love, courage, ambition, and the idea published by SUNY Press.
of God.” — Aviya Kushner, author of
The Grammar of God: A Journey into
the Words and Worlds of the Bible
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SOCIOLOGY
ETHNIC STUDIES
“What you’re reading is a groundbreaking
book: part personal memoir, part rigorous
scholarship, part passionate manifesto,
altogether original. We Have Not
Stopped Trembling Yet is an essential
work in these unprecedented times …
Read it, share it, talk about it.”
— Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize–
winning journalist, Emmy-nominated
filmmaker, and founder and CEO of
Define American
general interest
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet
Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family
E. J. R. David
A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native
family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome
the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.
In a series of letters to his mixed-race Koyukon Athabascan family, E. J. R. David
shares his struggles, insecurities, and anxieties as a Filipino American
immigrant man, husband, and father living in the lands dominated by his
family’s colonizer. The result is We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet, a deeply
personal and heartfelt exploration of the intersections and widespread social,
psychological, and health implications of colonialism, immigration, racism,
sexism, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression.Weaving together
his lived realities, his family’s experiences, and empirical data, David reflects on
a difficult journey, touching upon the importance of developing critical and
painful consciousness, as well as the need for connectedness, strength, freedom,
and love, in our personal and collective efforts to heal from the injuries of
historical and contemporary oppression.The persecution of two marginalized
communities is brought to the forefront in this book. Their histories
underscore and reveal how historical and contemporary oppression has very
real and tangible impacts on Peoples across time and generations.
“David, through his deeply personal words to his family and community,
masterfully calls our attention to the systemic injustices that perpetuate
themselves under the false promises of the American Dream; offered only
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to some, invisibly blocked to others. We, the witnesses and fellow victims to
this truth cannot look away—we must not. Maraming salamat, E. J., for your
vulnerability and courage. May it serve to grow the awareness necessary to
shift the trajectory of our future ancestors’ experiences.” — Jorie Ayyu Paoli,
Vice President and Indigenous Operations Director, First Alaskans Institute
E. J. R. David is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of
Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of Brown Skin,White Minds: Filipino -/
American Postcolonial Psychology.
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Over a Barrel
The Rise and Fall of New York’s Taylor Wine Company
Thomas Pellechia

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most
important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by
corporate greed and mismanagement.

In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper’s son, started a commercial grape

juice company in New York’s Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine
production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was
firmly established. Walter Taylor’s three sons carefully guided the company
through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery
in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of
Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered.

In the 1960s, the Taylor family took the company public. Ranked sixth in
domestic wine production and ripe for corporate takeover, the company
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13 b/w photographs ownership followed until, in 1995, this once-dynamic and important wine
$19.95/T pb 978-1-4384-5550-1 producer was obliterated, tearing apart the local economy and changing
WINE a way of life that had lasted for nearly a century.
NEW YORK
“The book is well documented … but also very personal … the many in-
depth interviews that form the core of the book give us a glimpse into the
“Thomas Pellechia undertook obvious personal stories [that] parallel the corporate history.” — Wine Economist
meticulous research to write Over a Barrel.”
— San Francisco Book Review “This is a fascinating book for those of us who grew up with a jug of Lake
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Country Red sitting in the pantry and were accustomed to using the same
“This is a well researched, well written and
wine to season the marinara sauce and to pour into glasses to go with
revealing book … Highly recommended.”
a meat entrée.” — Ithaca Times
— Winesworld Magazine
Thomas Pellechia is an independent journalist and writer who previously
“Pellechia … creates a narrative worthy of
produced wine in the Finger Lakes and operated a wine shop in Manhattan.
a prime time drama … An appealing book
for anyone interested in the wine industry.” He is the author of Wine:The 8,000-Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade and
— CHOICE The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Winery. He lives in
6 Hammondsport, New York.

Overcoming
OVERCOMING
N IAGARA
Niagara
Canals, Commerce, and
Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the
Niagara–Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837
Tourism in the Niagara–
Great Lakes Borderland
Region, 1792–1837
Janet Dorothy Larkin
Analyzes the nineteenth-century
canal age in the Niagara–Great
Lakes borderland region as
JANET DOROTHY LARKIN
a transnational phenomenon.
In Overcoming Niagara Janet
Dorothy Larkin analyzes the
canal age from the perspective of the Niagara–Great Lakes
borderland between 1792 and 1837. She shows what drove
the transportation revolution, not the conventional story
of westward expansion and the international/metropolitan
rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, but a
dynamic connection, cooperation, and healthy competition
in a transnational-borderland region. Larkin focuses on North
America’s three most vital waterways—the Erie, Oswego, and
Welland Canals. Canadian and American transportation leaders
and promoters mutually sought to overcome the natural and
artificial barriers presented by Niagara Falls by building an
integrated, interconnected canal system, thus strengthening the
borderland economy and propelling westward expansion, market
development, and the Niagara tourist industry. On the
heels of the Erie Canal’s bicentennial in 2017, Overcoming
Niagara explores the transnational nature of the canal age within
the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland, and its impact on the
commercial and cultural landscape of this porous region.
Janet Dorothy Larkin has taught history at several colleges and
universities and specializes in early nineteenth-century American
history with a focus on the United States–Canada borderland.
February  •  288 pp  •  21 b/w photographs
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Jubilee
Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory
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E Resistance, Abolition,
Teaching, and
Historical Memory
Alan J. Singer
Examines slavery, abolition, and
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race in the United States with
a special focus on New York State.
In this book Alan J. Singer
discusses the history of race and racism in the United States,
emphasizing the continuing significance of slavery’s past in shaping
our present. Each chapter addresses a different theme in the
history of slavery and the abolitionist struggle in the United States,
with a focus on events and debates in New York State. Chapters
examine the founders of the new nation and their views on
slavery and equality; African American resistance; how abolitionists
moved from the margins to the center of political debate; key
players in the anti-slavery struggle such as David Ruggles,
Solomon Northup, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William
Seward, and Abraham Lincoln; celebrations of freedom; as well
as ongoing racism. Interspersed throughout the text are teaching
notes that explore primary source documents and resources.
The book draws on the latest scholarship to address and correct
historical myths about both New York State before, during, and
after the American Civil War, especially the pro-slavery, anti-civil
rights stance of New York Copperhead Democrats in Congress,
and the crucial role of Black and White abolitionists in ending
slavery in the United States and challenging racial injustice.
New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee is not only an effort to
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include more African Americans as historical actors and celebrate
their activism and achievements, but to provide an opportunity
to analyze historical moments for change, explore their dynamic,
and discover the conditions that make some of them successful.
Alan J. Singer is Professor of Education at Hofstra University
and the author of New York and Slavery:Time to Teach the Truth,
also published by SUNY Press.
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New in Paper
Winner of the 2017 Hendricks Award
presented by the New Netherland Institute
Set in Stone
Creating and Commemorating
a Hudson Valley Culture
Kenneth Shefsiek
Challenges the belief that the Walloons
and the Dutch of the Hudson Valley
were cultural preservationists who resisted
English culture.
In 1678, seven French-speaking Protestant families established
the village of New Paltz in the Hudson River Valley of New
York. Life on the edge of European settlement presented many
challenges, but a particular challenge for these ethnic Walloon
families, originally from the southern Spanish Netherlands, was
that they lived in a Dutch cultural region in an English colony.
In Set in Stone, Kenneth Shefsiek explores how the founders and
their descendants reacted to and perpetuated this multiethnic
cultural environment for generations.
As the founding families controlled their town economically and
politically, they creatively and selectively blended the cultures
available to them. They allowed their Walloon culture to slip
away early in the village’s history, but they continued to combine
Dutch and English cultures for more than 150 years. When they
finally abandoned the last vestiges of Dutch culture in the early
nineteenth century, they did so just as descendants of English
colonists began to claim that the national commitment to liberty
and freedom was grounded in the nation’s English heritage.
Not willing to be marginalized, descendants of the New Paltz
Walloons constructed an alternative national narrative, placing
their ancestors at the very center of the American story.
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“Highly recommended.” — CHOICE
“Shefsiek demonstrates clear command of this detailed history
and presents it in a comprehensive and engaging format.”
— Hudson River Valley Review
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Herbert H. Lehman
A Political Biography
Duane Tananbaum
The definitive biography of New York
State’s four-term Governor, US Senator,
H ER BERT H. humanitarian, and Jewish liberal
L EH M A N political reformer.
A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Duane Tananbaum
This new biography of Herbert H.
Lehman—the first in a half century—
fills the void left by historians and
political scientists who have neglected one of the truly great
liberal icons of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive
research in archival sources, Herbert H. Lehman restores this
four-term Governor of New York, US Senator, national and
international humanitarian, and political reformer to his
rightful place among the pantheon of liberal heroes of his
era. By focusing on Lehman’s interactions with Al Smith,
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and
John Kennedy, Duane Tananbaum shows how Lehman
succeeded politically despite his refusal to compromise with
his conscience. In his thirty-five years of public service,
Lehman fought the Republicans in the State Legislature to
provide economic security for New Yorkers during the Great
Depression, and he battled the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt
and Truman administrations and the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration to feed the starving people
in Europe and Asia during and after World War II. His efforts
on behalf of “the welfare state,” civil rights legislation, and
immigration reform helped keep the liberal agenda alive until
Congress, and the nation, were ready to enact it into law as part
of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in 1964–1965.
“...[an] authoritative biography.” — New York Times
“…Lehman has long deserved a substantial biography, and
Duane Tananbaum’s impeccably researched analysis admirably
fills that need.” — Donald A. Ritchie, historian emeritus of the
Senate and author of The US Congress: A Very Short Introduction
now available  •  959 pp  •  20 b/w photographs, 4 figures
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Chaekgeori Hindu Pasts

The Power and Pleasure hindu pasts Women, Religion,
of Possessions in Korean Histories
vasudha dalmia
Painted Screens Vasudha Dalmia
Byungmo Chung and
Sunglim Kim, editors Challenges the monolithic view
of Hindusim in the nineteenth
The first major exhibition in century, and instead offers
the United States of chaekgeori a vision of India that contains
painting, including on view for a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms,
women, religion, histories
the first time many screens from women’s stories, and cultural
private collections and various histories.
Korean institutions.
In her introduction to Hindu
Chaekgeori explores the genre of Korean still-life painting Pasts—which showcases her
known as chaekgeori (loosely translated as “books and things”). work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—
Encouraged and popularized by King Jeongjo (1752–1800, Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her
r. 1776–1800) as a political tool to promote societal conservatism writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the
against an influx of ideas from abroad, chaekgeori was one of the relationship between body language, religion, and society in
most enduring and prolific art forms of Korea’s Joseon dynasty India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social
(1392–1910). It depicts books and other material commodities as institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which
symbolic embodiments of knowledge, power, and social reform. colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact
a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands.
Chaekgeori has maintained its popularity in Korea for more
than two centuries, and remains a force in Korean art to this day. Vasudha Dalmia is Emerita Professor of Hindi and Modern
No other genre or medium in the entirety of Korean art has so South Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
engaged and documented the image of books and collectable She has written, edited, and translated many books, including
commodities and their place in an ever-evolving Korean society. The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhaµratendu HarisŒchandra
When it transitioned into folk-style painting, unexpected and and Nineteenth-Century Banaras; Poetics, Plays, and Performances:
creative visual elements emerged. Folk versions of chaekgeori from The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre; and Fiction as History:
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often show an exquisite The Novel and the City in Modern North India.
fusion of Korean and Western composition that feels modern to
our contemporary eyes. The first large-scale traveling exhibition now available  •  382 pp
of its kind, with catalogue, was made possible by generous grants $90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6805-1
from the Korea Foundation and the Gallery Hyundai. World sales rights, excluding South Asia

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Byungmo Chung is Professor in the Department of Cultural
Assets at Gyeongju University, Korea. Sunglim Kim is Assistant
Professor of Korean Art History in the Department of Art History and
the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program, Dartmouth College.

A volume in the SUNY series in Korean Studies

Hongkyung Kim, editor

now available  •  250 pp  •  9 x 12  •  107 color photographs

$60.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-6811-2
Published in cooperation with Dahal Media
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Having a Word with Language

LANGUAGE as
Angus Graham BODILY PRACTICE in as Bodily Practice
EARLY CHINA
Having a Word with
At Twenty-Five Years A CHINESE GRAMMATOLOGY
in Early China
into His Immortality A Chinese Grammatology
Angus Graham Carine Defoort and Jane Geaney
Roger T. Ames, editors
Challenges the idea held by many
Critical reflections on the work prominent twentieth-century
of Angus Charles Graham, Sinologists that early China
At Twenty-Five Years renowned Western scholar of experienced a “language crisis.”
into His Immortality
Chinese philosophy and sinology. JANE GEANEY
edited by
Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames Jane Geaney argues that early
This volume engages with the Chinese conceptions of speech
works and ideas of Angus Charles and naming cannot be properly
Graham (1919–1991), one of the understood if viewed through
most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language
twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of
of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive speech and writing, such as reality/appearance and one/many.
amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Instead, early Chinese texts repeatedly create pairings of sounds
Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. and various visible things. This aural/visual polarity suggests
His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical that texts from early China treat speech as a bodily practice that
originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related is not detachable from its use in everyday experience. Firmly
research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response grounded in ideas about bodies from the early texts themselves,
to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still Geaney’s interpretation offers new insights into three key themes
elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham’s in these texts: the notion of speakers’ intentions (yi), the physical
work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation. process of emulating exemplary people, and Confucius’s proposal
to rectify names (zhengming).
“Graham’s prolific writings have shaped the field of Chinese
philosophy for the last four decades. Taking stock of how much Jane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University
contemporary discourse on Chinese philosophy has been of Richmond and the author of On the Epistemology of the Senses
influenced by Graham’s works and how far it has come from in Early Chinese Thought.
Graham’s days, while suggesting possible future trajectories,
is timely…” — Tao Jiang, coeditor of The Reception and Rendition A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip Roger T. Ames, editor

Carine Defoort is Professor of Sinology at the University March  •  350 pp  •  7 x 10

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Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University
and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University
of Hawai‘i.

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Roger T. Ames, editor

March  •  250 pp  •  3 figures

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 asian studies

Protestant Intimate Memory

PROTESTANT Christianity in the Gender and Mourning
Martin W. Huang
CHRISTIANITY IN THE
Indian Diaspora in Late Imperial China
INDIAN DIASPORA intimate
ABJECTED IDENTITIES, Abjected Identities, memory
Martin W. Huang
EVANGELICAL RELATIONS, AND
PENTECOSTAL VISIONS Evangelical Relations, 8
gender Sheds new light on pre-modern
ROBBIE B. H. GOH
and Pentecostal Visions and
Chinese gender relationships
Robbie B. H. Goh mourning
in the context of marriage,
in
late male Confucian literati self-
Captures how Indian Protestant imperial presentation, and social networks.
Christians negotiate their religious china
and cultural identities within the
In the first study of its kind
Indian diaspora.
about the role played by intimate
memory in the mourning
This is the first comprehensive
literature of late imperial
study of Protestant Christian
China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men
religious identities in the Indian diaspora. Using qualitative
mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely
interview methods, Robbie B. H. Goh captures the experiences
related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies,
of Indian Protestants in ten different countries and regions,
and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy
describing how Indian communal Christian identities are
shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of
negotiated and transformed in a variety of diasporic contexts
womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably
ranging from Canada to Qatar. Goh argues that Christianity
also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their
in India, developed within discrete and varied “ecologies,”
memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands,
translates in the diaspora into a model of small communal
brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their
churches that struggle with issues of community maintenance,
representations of women are much more complex and diverse
evangelical growth, and Pentecostal influences. He looks at
than the representations we find in more public genres such as
the significance of Christianity’s “abject” position in India, the
Confucian female exemplar biographies.
interplay and tension between evangelicalism and Pentecostalism,
Pentecostalism’s insistence on religious endogamy (particularly
Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of
among women), intrareligious differences along generational
California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in
lines, the actions of Hindutva hard-line elements, and other
Late Imperial China.
factors, in the construction and transformation of diasporic
religious identities and affective attachments to India.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
Robbie B. H. Goh is Professor of English Literature and
Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore.
April  •  256 pp  •  1 b/w photograph
He is the author and editor of several books, including

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Christianity in Southeast Asia.

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 asian studies
Ritual Innovation
Strategic Interventions
in South Asian Religion
Brian K. Pennington and
Amy L. Allocco, editors
Challenges prevailing conceptions
of what religious ritual does and
how it achieves its ends.
Brian K. Pennington & Amy L. Allocco, editors
Ritual Innovation Religious rituals are often seen
as unchanging and ahistorical
STR ATEGIC INTERVENTIONS IN SOUTH ASIAN RELIGION
bearers of long-standing
traditions. But as this book
demonstrates, ritual is a lively
platform for social change and innovation in the religions of
South Asia. Drawing from Hindu and Jain examples in India,
Nepal, and North America, the essays in this volume, written
by renowned scholars of religion, explore how the intentional,
conscious, and public invention or alteration of ritual can effect
dramatic social transformation, whether in dethroning a Nepali
king or sanctioning same-sex marriage. Ritual Innovation shows
how the very idea of ritual as a conservative force misreads
the history of religion by overlooking ritual’s inherent creative
potential and its adaptability to new contexts and circumstances.
“The breadth of coverage in Ritual Innovation is extraordinary
and refreshing in terms of the types of contemporary ritual
practices and practitioners receiving attention, not to mention
the geographic spread across South Asia. This book makes
a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on South
Asian religions and contemporary Hinduism.” — Karline McLain,
author of The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint
Brian K. Pennington is Professor of Religious Studies
at Elon University and the author of Was Hinduism Invented?
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion.
Amy L. Allocco is Associate Professor of Religious Studies
at Elon University.
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Reading
Reading for the Moral for the Moral
Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination
in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction
Maria Franca Sibau Exemplarity and the
Confucian Moral
Imagination in
Seventeenth-Century
Chinese Short Fiction
Maria Franca Sibau
Reassesses didacticism in
seventeenth-century Chinese
vernacular fiction and challenges
the view that the late Ming was
a notoriously immoral time.
Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the
nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese
vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-
studied story collections published at the end of the Ming
dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and
Bell in the Still Night (Qingye zhong, c. 1645). Far from being
tediously moralistic tales, these stories of loyal ministers, filial
children, chaste widows, and selfless friends provide a deeper
understanding of the five cardinal relationships central to
Confucian ethics. They explore the inherent tension between
what we might call textbook morality, on the one hand, and
untidy everyday life, on the other. The stories often take a critical
view of mechanical notions of retribution, countering it with
the logic of virtue as its own reward. Conflict between passion
and duty is typically resolved in favor of duty, a duty redefined
with a palpable sense of urgency. In constructing vernacular
representations of moral exemplars from the recent historical
past rather than from remote or fictitious antiquity, the story
compilers show how these virtues are not abstract or monolithic
norms, but play out within the contingencies of time and space.
“…an outstanding accomplishment.” — Robert E. Hegel,
author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China
Maria Franca Sibau is Assistant Professor of Chinese at
Emory University.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Roger T. Ames, editor
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 asian studies

P’ungsu New in Paper

A Study of Geomancy
in Korea Neo-Confucian
Hong-key Yoon, editor Ecological Humanism
An Interpretive Engagement
The first scholarly book to with Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692)
address Korean geomancy through Nicholas S. Brasovan
an interdisciplinary lens.
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher
This book is a milestone in the Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism
history of academic research on from the perspective of contemporary
the development and role of ecological humanism.
geomancy (fengshui in Chinese
and p’ungsu in Korean) in In this novel engagement with Ming
Korean culture and society. Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S.
As the first interdisciplinary work of its kind, it investigates Brasovan presents Wang’s neo-Confucianism as an important
many topics in geomancy studies that have never been previously theoretical resource for engaging with contemporary ecological
explored, and contains contributions from a number of humanism. Brasovan coins the term “person-in-the-world”
disciplines including geography, historical studies, environmental to capture ecological humanism’s fundamental premise that
science, architecture, landscape architecture, religious studies, humans and nature are inextricably bound together, and argues
and psychoanalysis. While almost all books in English about that Wang’s cosmology of energy (qi) gives us a rich conceptual
geomancy are addressed to general readers as practical guides vocabulary for understanding the continuity that exists between
for divining auspicious locations, P’ungsu is a work of rigorous persons and the natural world.
scholarship that documents, analyzes, and explains past and
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appreciate the significant ecological principles embedded in the
geomantic traditions of Korea; while researchers will discover
new insights and inspirations for future research on geomancy Forget Chineseness
not only in Korea, but in China and elsewhere.
On the Geopolitics
of Cultural Identification
Hong-key Yoon is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography
at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the author of Allen Chun
The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East
Asian Geomancy. Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural
identity and argues that such identities

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are instead determined by geopolitical
January  •  421 pp
and economic forces.
74 color photographs, 26 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 7 tables, 1 figure
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Forget Chineseness provides a critical
interpretation of not only discourses
of Chinese identity—Chineseness—but also of how they have
reflected differences between “Chinese” societies, such as in
Hong Kong, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China, Singapore,
and communities overseas.

january  •  284 pp
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New in Paper
China’s Lonely
Revolution
The Local Communist
Movement of Hainan Island,
1926–1956
Jeremy A. Murray
Presents a new view of the Chinese
revolution through the lens of the local
Communist movement in Hainan.
Using Chinese-language sources,
archival materials, and interviews, Murray draws a vivid picture
of this movement from the Hainanese perspective, and broadens
our understanding of how patriotism, Party loyalty, and Chinese
identity have been experienced and interpreted in modern China.
january  •  237 pp  •  27 b/w photographs, 1 map
$25.95 pb 978-1-4384-6530-2
Military Thought
in Early China
Christopher C. Rand
Provides a systematic and comprehensive
survey of writings on military philosophy
in early China.
Re-ending the
MahA÷ b ha÷ r ata
The Rejection of Dharma
in the Sanskrit Epic
Naama Shalom
Offers a fresh perspective on the
Mahaµbhaµrata based on an exploration
of its ending, the Svargaµrohan|a parvan.
This book challenges two prevalent
assumptions about the Mahaµbhaµrata: that
its narrative is inherently incapable of achieving a conclusion
and that its ending, the Svargaµrohan|a parvan, is an extraneous part
of the text. While the exegetic traditions have largely tended to
suppress, ignore, or overlook the importance of this final section,
Shalom argues that the moment of the condemnation of dharma
that occurs in the Svargaµrohan|a parvan, expressed by the epic
protagonist,Yudhis|t|hira, against his father, Dharma, is of crucial
importance. It sheds light on the incessant preoccupation and
intrinsic dismay towards the concept of dharma (the cardinal
theme around which the epic revolves) expressed by Mahaµbhaµrata
narrators throughout the epic, and is thus highly significant for
understanding the Mahaµbhaµrata narrative as a whole.
january  •  248 pp
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This study of the philosophy of war

in early China examines the recurring
debate, from antiquity through the
Western Han period (202 BCE–8 CE),
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about how to achieve a proper balance between martial (wu)

force and civil (wen) governance in the pursuit of a peaceful
state. Rather than focusing solely on Sunzi’s Art of War and other
military treatises from the Warring States era (ca. 475–221 BCE),
Christopher C. Rand analyzes the evolution of this debate by
examining a broad corpus of early Han and pre-Han texts,
including works uncovered in archeological excavations during
recent decades.

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The Problem
of Disenchantment
Scientific Naturalism
and Esoteric Discourse,
1900–1939
Egil Asprem
Challenges the conventional
view of a “disenchanted” and
secular modernity, and recovers
the complex relation that exists
between science, religion, and
esotericism in the modern world.
Max Weber famously
characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and
rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine
(by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and
reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the “disenchantment
of the world.” Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we
view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical
process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational
minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of “magic”
and “enchantment” in people’s everyday experience of the world
created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to
believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries.
Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary
sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity,
psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life
of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously
different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems
about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.
“The Problem of Disenchantment is, in its entirety, extraordinarily
well researched, argued, and written—representing at once
the most complete and nuanced treatment of the notion of
disenchantment within this network of scientific, religious,
philosophical, and esoteric discourses and currents.” — Nova Religio
Egil Asprem is Associate Professor of History of Religions
at Stockholm University.
A volume in the SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
David Appelbaum, editor
June  •  631 pp  •  6 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 3 figures
$44.95 pb 978-1-4384-6992-8
religious studies
Reconfigurations
Reconfigurations of of Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion of Religion
A Possible Future
[ a possible future ]
Jim Kanaris, editor
edited by
Jim Kanaris Explores the place and meaning
of philosophy of religion in
our current poststructuralist,
postsecular, postcolonialist context.
This collection addresses, as it
exemplifies, an identity crisis
in contemporary philosophy of
religion. It represents a unique
two-way dialogue between philosophers of religion and scholars
of religion, and broaches issues pertaining to the philosophy of
religion and the philosophical tradition on the one hand, and
religious studies, theology, and the modern academy on the
other. While each author manages the current challenges in
philosophy of religion differently, one can nonetheless discern
a polyphony of interests surrounding a postcritical, postsecular
appreciation of religion. In part 1, contributors ask how
philosophy of religion can accommodate both the strengths
and weaknesses of Western analytic and continental traditions;
incorporate developments in ideology critique, gender studies,
and Asian philosophies; and negotiate the perceived stalemate in
philosophy of religion. Part 2 addresses these questions in terms
of a philosophy of religion that is postcolonial in intention and
multidisciplinary in orientation, and features scholarship from
the fields of both religion and theology. An underlying theme
is the importance of ushering philosophy of religion into
a postphenomenological era of religious studies and theology.
This is a neglected dimension in many laudable discussions
about philosophy of religion that this volume hopes to emend.
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Jim Kanaris is CAS Assistant Professor of Philosophy of
Religion at McGill University. He is the author of Bernard
Lonergan’s Philosophy of Religion: From Philosophy of God to
Philosophy of Religious Studies and the coeditor (with Mark J.
Doorley) of In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary
Continental Thought, both also published by SUNY Press.
April  •  280 pp
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Repentance and Defining Religion

Repentance and the Return to God Essays in Philosophy
the Return to God Tawba in Early Sufism of Religion
s
Tawba in Early Sufism Atif Khalil Robert Cummings Neville

The first major study of the idea Provides a new orientation

of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.
This book offers the first
extensive treatment in
a European language of tawba
in Islam. Conventionally
Atif Khalil
translated as “repentance,”
tawba includes the broader
sense of returning to God.
Khalil examines this wider notion in the early period of Sufism
with a particular focus on the formative years of the tradition
between Muh|aµsibiµ and Abuµ T|aµlib al-Makkiµ. Beginning with an
extensive survey of the semantic field of the term as outlined
in Arabic lexicography, Khalil offers a detailed analysis of the
concept in Muslim scripture. He then examines tawba as
a complex psychological process involving interior conversion
and a complete, unwavering commitment to the spiritual life.
The ideas of five prominent figures from the first four centuries
of Islam are used to illuminate the historical development of
tawba and its role in early praxis-oriented Sufism.
“In this exemplary study, Khalil lays bare the contours of the key
concept of repentance in the spiritual psychology of early Islam
with admirable sensitivity and ease—a remarkable achievement.”
— Ahmet T. Karamustafa, author of Sufism:The Formative Period
Atif Khalil is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the
University of Lethbridge, Canada, and the coeditor (with
Mohammed Rustom and Kazuyo Murata) of In Search of the
Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought, by William C. Chittick,
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to philosophy of religion and
a new theory of how religion
ought to be defined.
In this collection of essays,
written over the past decade,
Robert Cummings Neville
addresses contemporary
debates about the concept
of religion and the importance of the comparative method
in theology, while advancing and defending his own original
definition of religion. Neville’s hypothesis is that religion is
a cognitive, existential, and practical engagement of ultimate
realities—five ultimate conditions of existence that need to
be engaged by human beings. The essays, which range from
formal articles to invited lectures, develop this hypothesis and
explore its ramifications in religious experience, philosophical
theology, religious studies, and the works of important thinkers
in philosophy of religion. Defining Religion is an excellent
introduction to Neville’s work, especially to the systematic
philosophical theology presented in his magisterial three-volume
set Philosophical Theology.
Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy,
Religion, and Theology and Dean Emeritus of the School of
Theology at Boston University. He is the author of many books,
including The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many: Confucian
Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions, and Genders,
also published by SUNY Press.

also published by SUNY Press. January  •  363 pp  •  5 tables

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The Split God New in Paper

Pentecostalism
and Critical Theory The Legacy of
The Split Nimi Wariboko Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and
God Offers a critical Pentecostal
philosophy of God that challenges
Arvind Sharma, editors

orthodox Christianity. Examines the legacy of Wilfred

Pentecostalism and Critical Theory
Although Pentecostalism is
generally considered a conservative
Nimi Wariboko
movement, in The Split God
Nimi Wariboko shows that its
operative everyday notion of
God is a radical one that poses,
under cover of loyalty, a challenge to orthodox Christianity.
He argues that the image of God that arises out of the everyday
practices of Pentecostalism is a split God—a deity harboring
a radical split that not only destabilizes and prevents God himself
from achieving ontological completeness but also conditions
and shapes the practices and identities of Pentecostal believers.
Drawing from the work of Slavoj Zðizûek, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc
Nancy, and Giorgio Agamben, among others, Wariboko presents
a close reading of everyday Pentecostal practices, and in doing so,
uncovers and presents a sophisticated conversation between radical
continental philosophy and everyday forms of spirituality.
By de-particularizing Pentecostal studies and Pentecostalism,
Wariboko broadens our understanding of the intellectual aspects
of the global Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.
“Not since the early work of Thomas J. J. Altizer has
a theologian/philosopher opened such a radical new vision of
reality with new language as Nimi Wariboko does in The Split
God. Through an analysis of Pentecostalism, Wariboko creates
a vivid, shocking theology that self-consciously repeats classical
Christian orthodoxy (in some of its modes) while transforming
Cantwell Smith and his influence on
the development of religious studies and
Islamic studies in the twentieth century.
This is the first work to address the legacy
of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000),
whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the
field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century.
He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University
and served as director of the Center for the Study of World
Religions at Harvard University. Smith emphasized the place
of the scholarly study of Islam in the Western academy long
before Islam occupied its current position at the center of global
politics, challenged the notion of monolithic world religions, and
argued for the importance of dialogical processes and a personalist
approach to the study of religion.
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The Extraordinary
in the Ordinary
Seven Types of Everyday Miracle
Donald A. Crosby
Explores miracles as dimensions of

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it so as to make new sense of Pentecostal beliefs and practices …” everyday existence through the lens of
— Robert Cummings Neville, author of Defining Religion: religious naturalism.
Essays in Philosophy of Religion
Crosby explores seven types of everyday
miracles, such as time, language, and
Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics
love, to show that the miraculous and
at Boston University.
ordinary are not opposed to each other. Rather, it is when we
acknowledge the sacred depths and dimensions of everyday
A volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
existence that we recognize the miracles that constantly surround us.
Douglas L. Donkel, editor
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New in Paper
Participation Vernacular
PA RTICIPATION and the Mystery Catholicism,
Vernacular Saints
A ND THE

M Y S T ER Y
Transpersonal Essays in Psychology,
Education, and Religion
Transpersonal Essays
in Psychology, Education, Selva J. Raj on
and Religion “Being Catholic the Tamil Way”
Jorge N. Ferrer Reid B. Locklin, editor

A groundbreaking and hopeful new look A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking

Jorge N. Fer r er
at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal ethnographic studies of “vernacular”
psychology, integral education, and Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.
religious diversity and pluralism.
january  •  290 pp
“The range of ideas expressed in this compelling series of papers 18 b/w photographs
is extensive.” — Journal of Analytical Psychology $25.95 pb 978-1-4384-6504-3

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$29.95 pb 978-1-4384-6486-2 Beauty in Sufism
Beauty in Sufism
THE TEACHINGS OF

RŪZBIHĀN BAQLĪ
The Teachings
of Ruµzbihaµn Baqliµ
Sex on Earth Kazuyo Murata
as It Is in Heaven
A Christian Eschatology Analyzes the place of beauty in the Sufi
of Desire understanding of God, the world, and the
SEX ON E A RTH
Patricia Beattie Jung human being through the writings of Sufi
A S IT IS IN HE AV EN
K A ZUYO MUR ATA scholar and saint Ruµzbihaµn Baqliµ.
Offers a new theology of desire and
A Christian Eschatology of Desire
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of theological voices raised in support The First Islamic
of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded Classic in Chinese
that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary
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in the world to come, Patricia Beattie Jung critically examines

on the True Teaching
the historical traditions and biblical rationales for this teaching.
She defends an alternative claim that there will be a healed and
Translated with an Introduction and
glorified experience of sex in heaven based on a compelling Notes by Sachiko Murata
account of the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.
A translation of Wang Daiyu’s Real
Commentary on the True Teaching,
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the first and most influential work written
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in the Chinese language on Islam.

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New in Paper
The Uttaratantra
in the Land of Snows
Tibetan Thinkers Debate
the Centrality of the
Buddha-Nature Treatise
Tsering Wangchuk
Examines various Tibetan interpretations
of the Uttaratantra, the most authoritative
Indic commentary on buddha-nature.
With its emphasis on the concept of
buddha-nature, or the ultimate nature of mind, the Uttaratantra
is a classical Buddhist treatise that lays out an early map of the
Mahaµyaµna path to enlightenment. Tsering Wangchuk unravels
the history of this important Indic text in Tibet by examining
numerous Tibetan commentaries and other exegetical texts on
the treatise that emerged between the eleventh and fifteenth
centuries. These commentaries explored such questions as:
Is the buddha-nature teaching found in the Uttaratantra literally
true, or does it have to be interpreted differently to understand
its ultimate meaning? Does it explicate ultimate truth that is
inherently enlightened or ultimate truth that is empty only of
independent existence? Does the treatise teach ultimate nature
of mind according to the Cittamaµtra or the Madhyamaka School
of Mahaµyaµna? By focusing on the diverse interpretations that
different textual communities employed to make sense of the
Uttaratantra, Wangchuk provides a necessary historical context
for the development of the text in Tibet.
“…[the] book is a welcome contribution to the field and
contains a valuable intellectual journey driven by a solid
methodology for those interested in Buddhist philosophy, what
Buddhist philosophers are doing when they interpret and
innovate, and the factors that motivate them.” — Reading Religion
january  •  208 pp
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buddhist studies  •  philosophy
Socratic
Ignorance
Socratic Ignorance and and Platonic
Platonic Knowledge in
the Dialogues of Plato Knowledge
in the Dialogues
of Plato
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Argues that Socrates’s funda-
mental role in the dialogues is to
Sara Ahbel-Rappe guide us toward self-inquiry
and self-knowledge.
In this highly original and
provocative book, Sara Ahbel-
Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric
Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-
knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant
to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe,
the elenchus, or inner examination, and the thesis that virtue is
knowledge, are tools for a contemplative practice that teaches
us how to investigate the mind and its objects directly. In other
words, the Socratic persona of the dialogues represents wisdom,
which is distinct from and serves as the larger space in which
Platonic knowledge—ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics—
is constructed. Ahbel-Rappe offers complete readings of the
Apology, Charmides, Alcibiades I, Euthyphro, Lysis, Phaedrus,
Theaetetus, and Parmenides, as well as parts of the Republic.
Her interpretation challenges two common approaches to
the figure of Socrates: the thesis that the dialogues represent
an “early” Plato who later disavows his reliance on Socratic
wisdom, and the thesis that Socratic ethics can best be expressed
by the construct of eudaimonism or egoism.
Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Professor of Greek and Latin at the
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University of Michigan. She is the author of Socrates: A Guide for
the Perplexed and Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking
in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius; translator of
Damascius’s Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles; and
coeditor (with Rachana Kamtekar) of A Companion to Socrates.
A volume in the SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
David Appelbaum, editor
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Lessing and
LESSING
AND THE the Enlightenment
ENLIGHTENMENT His Philosophy of
His Philosophy of Religion
and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought Religion and Its Relation
to Eighteenth-Century
Thought
Henry E. Allison
A comprehensive study of
Lessing’s religious thought.
HENRY E. ALLISON Although only one aspect of
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s
diverse oeuvre, his religious
thought had a significant
influence on thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and present-
day liberal Protestant theologians. His thought is particularly difficult
to assess, however, because it is found largely in a series of essays,
reviews, critical studies, polemical writings, and commentary on
theological texts. Beyond these, his correspondence, and a few
fragmentary essays unpublished during his lifetime, we have his
famous drama of religious toleration, Nathan the Wise, and his
philosophical-historical sketch, The Education of the Human Race.
In these scattered texts, Lessing challenged the full range of
theological views in the Enlightenment, from Protestant orthodoxy,
with its belief in Biblical inerrancy, to a radical naturalism, which
rejected both the concept of a divine revelation and the historically
based claims of Christianity to be one, as well as virtually everything
in between. Since he refused to identify himself with any of these
parties, Lessing was an enigmatic figure, and a central question from
his time to today is where he stood on the issue of the truth of
the Christian religion. Now back in print, and with the addition
of two supplementary essays, Henry E. Allison’s book argues that,
despite appearances, Lessing was not merely an eclectic thinker or
intellectual provocateur, but a serious philosopher of religion,
who combined a basically Spinozistic conception of God with
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a sophisticated pluralistic conception of religious truth inspired
by Leibniz.
Henry E. Allison is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the
University of California, San Diego and Boston University.
He is the author and editor of many books, including Kant’s
Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary.
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Aristotle on God’s
Aristotle on God’s
Life-Generating
Life-Generating Power
and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle Power and
on Pneuma
as Its Vehicle
Abraham P. Bos
Proposes an innovative rethinking
of Aristotle’s work as a system that
integrates his theology with his
Abraham P. Bos doctrine of reproduction and life.
In this deep rethinking of
Aristotle’s work, Abraham P. Bos
argues that scholarship on
Aristotle’s philosophy has erred since antiquity in denying
the connection between his theology and his doctrine of
reproduction and life in the earthly sphere. Beginning with an
analysis of God’s role in the Aristotelian system, Bos explores
how this relates to other elements of his philosophy, especially
to his theory of reproduction. The argument he develops is that
in talking about the cosmos, Aristotle rejected Plato’s metaphor
of artisanal production by a divine Demiurge in favor of a biotic
metaphor based on the transmission of life in reproduction, in
which pneuma—not breath as it is often interpreted but the life-
bearing spirit in animals and plants—plays a key and sustaining
role as the vital principle in all that lives. In making this case, he
defends the authenticity of the treatises De Mundo and De Spiritu
as Aristotle’s, and demonstrates Aristotle’s works as a unified
system that sharply and comprehensively refutes Plato’s, and in
particular replaces Plato’s doctrine of the soul with a theory in
which the soul is clearly distinguished from the intellect.
“Bos offers a fresh, interesting, and important perspective. His
interpretation will be very controversial, but if he is right, the
standard Anglo-American interpretation of Aristotle will have
to change radically.” — Malcolm Wilson, author of Structure and
Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature
Abraham P. Bos is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Patristic
Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A volume in the SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Anthony Preus, editor
February  •  350 pp
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The Vocation The Art

of Writing of Gratitude
Literature, Philosophy, Jeremy David Engels
The Vocation of Writing
and the Test of Violence THE ART OF
Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence
Marc Crépon Explores how the emotional
Translated by D. J. S. Cross G R AT I T U D E experience of gratitude has been
enlisted in neoliberal governance
Marc Crépon
and Tyler M.Williams
Translated by D. J. S. Cross and Tyler M. Williams
through the language of debt.
Explores how violence structures
In The Art of Gratitude,
language and the writing of Jeremy David Engels
Jeremy David Engels sketches
literature and philosophy.
a genealogy of gratitude
from the ancient Greeks to
Within the violence our
the contemporary self-help
societies must confront today
movement. One of the most
exists a dimension proper to
striking things about gratitude, Engels finds, is how consistently
language. Anyone who has been through the educational system,
it is described using the language of indebtedness. A chief
for example, recognizes how language not only shapes, models
purpose of this, he contends, is to make us more comfortable
us, but also imposes itself upon us. During the twentieth century,
living lives in debt, with the nefarious effect of pacifying the
this system revealed how language can condemn one to a certain
citizenry so we are less likely to speak out about social and
death. In The Vocation of Writing, philosopher Marc Crépon
economic injustice. To counteract this, he proposes an alternative
explores this dimension of proper language, convinced that the
art of gratitude-as-thanksgiving that is inspired by Indian
node of all violence pertains first to language and how we make
philosophy, particularly the yoga philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita
use of it. Crépon focuses on Kafka, Levinas, Singer, and Derrida,
and Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutras. He argues that this art of gratitude can
not only because each rose against commandeering language
challenge neoliberalism by reorienting our politics away from
in order to warn against the next massacres, but also because
resentment, anger, and guilt and toward a democratic ethic of
their work affirms the vocation of writing—that which makes
thanksgiving and the common good.
literature and philosophy the final weapon for unmasking the
violence and hatred that language bears at its heart. To affirm the
vocation of writing is to turn language against itself, to defuse “This book accomplishes two important goals: it provides a very
its murderous potentialities by opening it toward exchange, detailed and interesting history of gratitude in the West, and it
responsibility, and humanity when the latter fixes the other and brings Eastern philosophy—especially yoga—into our accounts
the world as its goals. of gratitude and flourishing. A unique project with an eminently
readable style, it will appeal to a number of audiences, including
those interested in the theory and practice of yoga.”
D. J. S. Cross is a FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellow at the
— Scott R. Stroud, author of John Dewey and the Artful Life:
Instituto de Filosofía at the Pontificia Universidad Católica
Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality
de Chile. Tyler M. Williams is Assistant Professor of

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Humanities at Midwestern State University.
Jeremy David Engels is the Sherwin Early Career Professor
in the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Professor of
A volume in the SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University.
David E. Johnson and Scott Michaelsen, editors
He is the author of The Politics of Resentment: A Genealogy and
Enemyship: Democracy and Counter-Revolution in the Early Republic.
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Apophatic Paths Another Mind-

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Regions without Borders Racial Non-being
William Franke

An encounter between Franke’s

BODY PROBLEM John Harfouch

Demonstrates the profound

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G

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WITH O UT BO
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and Eastern apophatic wisdom
in the domains of poetry, thought,
and culture.
William Franke
In Apophatic Paths from Europe
to China, William Franke brings
his original philosophy of the
unsayable, previously developed from Western sources such as
ancient Neoplatonism, medieval mysticism, and postmodern
negative theology, into dialogue with Eastern traditions of
thought. In particular, he compares the Daoist Way of Chinese
wisdom with Western apophatic thought that likewise pivots on
recognizing the nonexistent, the unthinkable, and the unsayable.
Leveraging François Jullien’s exegesis of the Chinese classics’
challenge to rethink the very basis of life and consciousness,
Franke proposes negative theology as an analogue to the Chinese
model of thought, which has long been recognized for its
special attunement to silence at the limits of language. Crucial
to Franke’s agenda is the endeavor to discern and renew the
claim of universality, rethought and reconfigured within the
predicament of philosophy today considered specifically as
a cultural or, more exactly, intercultural predicament.
William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature at
Vanderbilt University and the author of many books, including
A Philosophy of the Unsayable.
A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
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A HISTORY OF RACIAL NON-BEING body problem and various racist
doctrines found in thinkers
ranging from Descartes to Kant.
JOHN HARFOUCH
The ‘mind-body problem’
in philosophy is typically
understood as a discourse
concerning the relation of mental states to physical states, and
the experience of sensation. On this level it seems to transcend
issues of race and racism, but Another Mind-Body Problem
demonstrates that racial distinctions have been an integral part of
the discourse since the Modern period in philosophy. Reading
figures such as Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant in their historical
contexts, John Harfouch uncovers discussions of mind and body
that engaged closely with philosophical and scientific notions of
race in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, in particular in
understanding how the mind unites with the body at birth and
is then passed on through sexual reproduction. Kant argued that
a person’s exterior body and interior psyche are bound together,
that non-White people lacked reason, and that this lack of reason
was carried on through reproduction such that non-Whites were
an example of a union of mind and body without full being.
Charting the development of this phenomenon from sixteenth-
century medical literature to modern-day race discourse,
Harfouch argues for new understandings of Descartes’s mind-
body problem, Fanon’s experience of being ‘not-yet human,’
and the place of racism in relation to one of philosophy’s most
enduring and canonical problems.

Roger T. Ames, editor

John Harfouch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the
March  •  250 pp  •  3 b/w photographs University of Alabama–Huntsville and the coeditor (with
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6857-0 Leonard Lawlor) of The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon.

A volume in the SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors

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Mystery 101
An Introduction
to the Big Questions
and the Limits
of Human Knowledge
Richard H. Jones
Delineates the knowable from the
unknowable in philosophy, science,
and theology.
Offering readers much to
ponder, Richard H. Jones
approaches the “big questions”
of philosophy such as the
nature of reality, consciousness, free will, the existence of God,
and the meaning of life not by weighing the merits of leading
arguments in these debates, but instead by questioning the extent
to which we are even in a position to answer such questions
in the first place. Regardless of continuous technical and even
groundbreaking advances in knowledge, there will always be
gaps in what we can fully understand. Distinguishing true
mysteries from problems yet to be solved but within the scope
of our intellectual grasp, Jones provides a penetrating and
high-level overview of the scope and limits of scientific and
philosophical inquiry.
“Exceptionally original, Mystery 101 specializes in questions
rather than answers but also analyzes in fascinating detail a whole
host of putative answers to the fundamental questions it raises.
The book is a wide-ranging, thought-provoking treat. It shows
why daunting, seemingly unfathomable mysteries underlie many
of our most confident assumptions and claims to truth. And it
counsels us wisely on how to live in the face of this fact. The
scholarship is impeccable, drawing on many sources, including
those of religion (and not just Western religion), philosophy
(and not just Western philosophy), science, and literature.
An insightful and enjoyable read.” — Donald A. Crosby, author of
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Seven Types of Everyday Miracle
Richard H. Jones is the author of several books, including
Mysticism Examined: Philosophical Inquiries into Mysticism and
Philosophy of Mysticism: Raids on the Ineffable, both also published
by SUNY Press.
February  •  225 pp
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philosophy
For Foucault
Against Normative
Political Theory
For Foucault
Against Normative Political Theory
Mark G. E. Kelly
Calls for a Foucauldian approach
to political thought that is
intrinsically resistant to power and
subordination to public policy.
This book comprises a series of
Mark G. E. Kelly
staged confrontations between
the thought of Michel Foucault
S U N Y P R E S S C O N T E M P O R A RY C O N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y
and a cast of other figures in
European and Anglophone
political philosophy, including Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Deleuze,
Rorty, Honneth, and Geuss. Focusing on the status of
normativity in their thought, Mark G. E. Kelly explains how
Foucault’s position in relation to political theory is different, and,
over the course of the book, describes a distinctive Foucauldian
stance in political thought that is maximally anti-normative, anti-
theoretical, and anti-political. For Foucault aims to undermine
attempts to discern the appropriate form of political action,
instead putting forward a rigorously critical program for a political
theory that lacks any moralizing or totalizing dimension, and
serves only to side with resistance against power, and never
with power itself. Looking at attempts to think radically about
politics from Marx to the present day, Kelly traces a novel
history of political thought as a trend of attempts to overcome
the constraints of normativity, theoreticism, and subordination
to public policy. He concludes by assessing and rejecting recent
attempts to reclaim Foucault for a form of normative politics by
associating him with neoliberalism.
“This original and insightful book makes a significant
contribution to political philosophy.” — Stuart Elden,
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author of Foucault:The Birth of Power
Mark G. E. Kelly is Associate Professor and ARC Future
Fellow in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts
at Western Sydney University in Australia.
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The Parthenon Unmaking

The Parthenon and Liberal
and
Liberal Education
Education
Geoff Lehman and
Michael Weinman
Discusses the importance of
the early history of Greek
mathematics to education and
civic life through a study of the
Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.
Geoff Lehman & Michael Weinman
The Parthenon and Liberal
Education seeks to restore the
study of mathematics to its
original place of prominence in the liberal arts. To build this case,
Geoff Lehman and Michael Weinman turn to Philolaus, a near
contemporary of Socrates. The authors demonstrate the influence
of his work involving number theory, astronomy, and harmonics
on Plato’s Republic and Timaeus, and outline its resonance with the
program of study in the early Academy and with the architecture
of the Parthenon. Lehman and Weinman argue that the Parthenon
can be seen as the foremost embodiment of the practical working
through of mathematical knowledge in its time, serving as
a mediator between the early reception of Ancient Near-Eastern
mathematical ideas and their integration into Greek thought as
a form of liberal education, as the latter came to be defined by
Plato and his followers. With its Doric architecture characterized
by symmetria (commensurability) and harmonia (harmony; joining
together), concepts explored contemporaneously by Philolaus,
the Parthenon engages dialectical thought in ways that are of
enduring relevance for the project of liberal education.
Geoff Lehman is on the faculty of Art History at Bard College
Berlin. Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard
College Berlin.
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UNMAKING The Making
The Making of Americans
of Americans Toward an Aesthetic
Toward an Aesthetic Ontology Ontology
E. L. McCallum
E. L. McCallum
Develops the sustained, relational,
dynamic, and reflective attention
demanded by Gertrude Stein’s
novel into a theory of reading
and critical analysis.
Arguing that Gertrude Stein’s
monumental novel The Making
of Americans models a radically aesthetic relation to the world,
E. L. McCallum demonstrates how the novel teaches us to read
differently, unmaking our habits of reading. Each of the chapters
works through close readings of Stein’s text and a philosophical
interlocutor to track a series of theoretical questions: what forms
queer time, what are the limits of story, how do we feel emotion,
how can we agree on a shared reality if interpretation and
imagination intervene, and how do particular media shape how
we convey this rich experience? The formally innovative agenda
and epistemological drive of Stein’s novel stages rich thought
experiments that bear on questions that are central to some of
the most vibrant conversations in literary studies today. In the
midst of ongoing debates about the practices of reading, the
difficulty of reading, and even the impossibility of reading, the
moment has come to have a fuller critical engagement with this
landmark novel. This book shows how.
E. L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English and Film
Studies at Michigan State University and the author of
Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism and coeditor
(with Mikko Tuhkanen) of Queer Times, Queer Becomings,

both also published by SUNY Press.

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The Symbolic Order The Symbolic Order Adorno’s

of the Mother
Luisa Muraro
Translated by Francesca Novello
Edited and with an introduction by
Timothy S. Murphy
Foreword by Alison Stone
of the Mother Poetics of Form
Luisa Muraro Josh Robinson
Translated by Francesca Novello Adorno’s
Poetics of Form A critical study of the concept of
Edited and with an
Introduction by form in Adorno’s writings on art
and literature.
Timothy S. Murphy
Foreword by Alison Stone Adorno’s Poetics of Form is the
first book-length examination
Argues that affirming the
of the elusive deployment of the
irreducible differences between Josh Robinson
concept of form in Adorno’s
men and women can lead to  

writings on art and literature,

S U N Y P R E S S C O N T E M P O R A RY C O N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y

more transformative politics than

and the first monograph to offer
the struggle for abstract equality
a comprehensive account of the
between the sexes.
relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project.
It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist
In The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa Muraro identifies the
around it, considering how it appears when seen in conjunction
bond between mother and child as ontologically fundamental to
with and in opposition to content, expression, genre, and
the development of culture and politics, and therefore as key to
material. Illuminated from these angles, form is revealed as the
achieving truly emancipatory political change. Both corporeal
site of a complex web of dynamic conceptual interactions.
development and language acquisition, which are the sources of all
The book thus offers a resolution to a problem in Adorno’s work
thinking, begin in this relationship. However, Western civilization
that has remained unsolved for several decades, and in doing so
has been defined by men, and Muraro recalls the admiration and
sets out the consequences of Adorno’s poetics for literary and
envy she felt for the great philosophers as she strove to become
critical theory today.
one herself, as well as the desire for independence that opposed
her to her mother. This conflict between philosophy and culture
Josh Robinson is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff
on the one hand and the relationship with the mother on the
University in the United Kingdom.
other constitutes the root of patriarchy’s symbolic disorder, which
blocks women’s (and men’s) access to genuine freedom. Muraro
appeals to the feminist practice of gratitude to the mother and the A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
recognition of her authority as a model of unconditional nurture Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
and support that must be restored. This, she argues, is the symbolic
order of the mother that must overcome the disorder of patriarchy. June  •  256 pp
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Luisa Muraro is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the
University of Verona, Italy. Francesca Novello is an instructor
at the University of Oklahoma. Timothy S. Murphy is
Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor and Regents Professor of
English at Oklahoma State University.

A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

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Fichte, and his last major work from “Force and Signification”
on the philosophy of nature. in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro Senatore traces the development
of Derrida’s understanding of genesis both linguistically and
The heat of anger can concentrate the mind. Convinced that biologically, and argues that this topic is an overlooked thread
he had been betrayed by his former collaborator and colleague, that draws together Derrida’s readings of Plato and Hegel.
Schelling attempts in this polemic to reach a final reckoning Demonstrating how Derrida’s analysis liberates the understanding
with Fichte. Employing the format of a book review, Schelling of genesis from Platonic and Hegelian presupposition, Senatore
directs withering scorn at three of Fichte’s recent publications, also highlights Derrida’s engagement with the biological thought
at one point likening them to the hell, purgatory, and would-be of his day. Senatore also shows that the implications of Derrida’s
paradise of Fichtean philosophy. The central bone of contention insights extend into contemporary ethical and political questions
is the understanding of nature: Fichte sees it as lifeless matter relating to postgenomic conceptions of life.
in motion, sheer opposition to be overcome, while Schelling
waxes poetic in his defense of a living, organic nature of “Senatore here demonstrates with stunning insight, clarity, and
which humanity is a vital part. Indeed, we do not know economy that Derrida’s work of the 1960s and ’70s needs to
ourselves without understanding our connection to nature, be understood as a radical critique or deconstruction of both
argues Schelling, anticipating many thinkers in contemporary the philosophical concept of life (from Plato to Hegel) and the
environmental ethics. prevailing biological model of heredity as a ‘genetic program.’
It will be impossible henceforth to read Derrida on questions of
Dale E. Snow’s introduction sets the stage and explains the the trace, dissemination, life, and so on, without coming to terms
larger context of the conflict, which was already visible in the with ‘the germs of death.’” — Michael Naas, author of The End
correspondence of the two philosophers, which broke off by 1802. of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s
Notes are included throughout the text, providing background Final Seminar
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information and identifying the many references to Fichte.

Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham
Dale E. Snow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, United Kingdom, and Adjunct Professor of
University of Maryland and the author of Schelling and the End Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de
of Idealism, also published by SUNY Press. Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, editors

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Atmospheres Anti-Music
AT M O S P H E R E S O F of Breathing Jazz and Racial Blackness
B R E AT H I N G
Lenart Škof and
Anti-Music in German Thought
between the Wars

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JAZZ AND
RACIAL Mark Christian Thompson
Attempts to think anew about BLACKNESS
philosophical questions from the IN GERMAN Examines how African American
THOUGHT
perspective of breath and breathing. BETWEEN jazz music was received in
THE WARS Germany both as a racial and
As a physiological or biological cultural threat and as a partner

matter, breath is mostly considered
edited by
Lenart Škof and Petri Berndtson to be mechanical and thoughtless.
By expanding on the insights of
many religions and therapeutic
practices, which emphasize the
cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be
understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with
human life and experience.Various dimensions of the respiratory
world are referred to as “atmospheres” that encircle and connect
human existence, coexistence, and the world.
Drawing from a number of traditions of breathing, including
from Indian and East Asian religion and philosophy, the book
considers breath in relation to ontological, hermeneutical,
phenomenological, ethical, and aesthetic concerns in philosophy.
The wide-ranging topics include poetry, theater, environmental
issues and health, feminism, and media studies.
“…Presented here is the vision of innovative ways in which
philosophy, on its own or inspired by spiritual practices, can
bring breathing into the center of its concern. This is a landmark
book that scintillates with brilliant and original insights.
If taken as seriously as it deserves, this book has the potential
to revolutionize contemporary and future thought.”
— Edward S. Casey, author of The World at a Glance and
The World on Edge
F
Mark Christian Thompson in promoting the rise of Nazi
totalitarian cultural politics.
Anti-Music examines the critical,
literary, and political responses
to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During
this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between
left-wing and right-wing interests: for the left, jazz marked the
death knell of authoritarian Prussian society; for the right, jazz
was complicit as an American import threatening the chaos of
modernization and mass politics. This conflict was resolved in
the early 1930s as the left abandoned jazz in the face of Nazi
victory, having come to see the music in collusion with the
totalitarian culture industry. Mark Christian Thompson recounts
the story of this intellectual trajectory and describes how jazz
came to be associated with repressive, virulently racist fascism in
Germany. By examining writings by Hermann Hesse, Bertolt
Brecht, T.W. Adorno, and Klaus Mann, and archival photographs
and images, Thompson brings together debates in German,
African American, and jazz studies, and charts a new path for
addressing antiblack racism in cultural criticism and theory.
“This book synthesizes the ideological reception of jazz amongst
a series of key German thinkers and cultural producers from the
interwar era. It offers bold, sophisticated readings of their texts and
of how they conceived of racial blackness. It is a major contribution

Lenart Škof is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the
Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research
Center of Koper, Slovenia and the coeditor (with Emily A.
Holmes) of Breathing with Luce Irigaray. Petri Berndtson is a
doctoral candidate of philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä,
Finland.
June  •  320 pp  •  2 tables
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to the field.” — Andrew Wright Hurley, author of The Return
of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change
Mark Christian Thompson is Professor of English at Johns
Hopkins University.
A volume in the SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors
June  •  192 pp  •  14 b/w photographs
$80.00 hc 978-1-4384-6987-4
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 philosophy
The Essentialist
THE ESSENTIALIST VILLAIN
Villain
On Leo Bersani
Mikko Tuhkanen
The first book-length study
of Bersani’s work, tracing the
unfolding of his onto-ethics/
aesthetics amidst numerous
ON LEO BERSANI literary, artistic, and philosophical
influences.
M I K K O T U H K A N E N
Since his first publications in
the late 1950s, Leo Bersani’s
work has influenced numerous
scholarly fields, from studies of French modernism and
realist fiction to psychoanalytic criticism and film theory.
It has occasionally helped precipitate the emergence of new
disciplinary fields, such as queer theory in the late 1980s.
The Essentialist Villain is the first book-length study of this
impressively rich oeuvre. Mikko Tuhkanen tracks the unfolding
of Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics, paying particular attention
to his persistent references to “essence,” a concept central to
classical speculative philosophy, which has fallen into distinct
disfavor since the emergence of deconstructive thought.
Because of his early influences—particularly Gilles Deleuze’s
philosophy—Bersani remains an ontologist through decades
when deconstruction seems to have all but disallowed any
thought of being. Tuhkanen also locates Bersani’s thought amidst
numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical interlocutors,
including Deleuze, Freud, Proust, Laplanche, Beckett, Baudelaire,
Genet, Leibniz, and others.
“…A brilliant book on a brilliant thinker. I learned a great deal
from it and recommend it highly.” — Tim Dean, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Mikko Tuhkanen is Associate Professor of English at Texas
A&M University. His books include Leo Bersani: Queer Theory
and Beyond; Queer Times, Queer Becomings (coedited with E. L.
McCallum); and The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race
Theory, and Richard Wright, all published by SUNY Press.
May  •  256 pp
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Biodeconstruction
Jacques Derrida
and the Life Sciences
Biodeconstruction Francesco Vitale
Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences
Translated by Mauro Senatore
Analyzes Derrida’s 1975
seminar “La vie la mort” as
a deconstruction of biology with
relevance to his work more broadly.
Francesco Vitale
Translated by
In Biodeconstruction, Francesco
Mauro Senatore
Vitale demonstrates the key role
  S U N Y P R E S S C O N T E M P O R A RY C O N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y
that the question of life plays in
Jacques Derrida’s work. In the
seminar La vie la mort (1975), Derrida engages closely with the life
sciences, especially biology and evolution theory. Connecting this
line of thought to his analysis of cybernetics in Of Grammatology,
Vitale shows how Derrida develops a notion of biological life as
itself a sort of text that is necessarily open onto further articulations
and grafts.This sets the stage for the deconstruction of the traditional
opposition between life and death, conceiving of death as an internal
condition of the constitution of the living rather than being the
opposite of life. It also provides the basis for the deconstruction of the
rigidly deterministic concept of the genetic program, an insight that
anticipates recent achievements of biological research in epigenetics
and sexual reproduction. Finally,Vitale argues that this framework can
enrich our understanding of Derrida’s late work devoted to political
issues, connecting his use of the autoimmunitarian lexicon to the
theory of cellular suicide in biology.
Francesco Vitale is Professor of Aesthetics at the University
of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of The Last Fortress of Metaphysics:
Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture, also published
by SUNY Press, and the author and editor of several books
in Italian on Derrida and contemporary French philosophy.
Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham
University in the United Kingdom and Adjunct Professor of
Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de Humanidades,
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. He is the author
of Germs of Death:The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, also
published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
March  •  225 pp
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 philosophy

The Last Fortress New in Paper

of Metaphysics
The Last Fortress Jacques Derrida
Viva Voce
of Metaphysics Conversations
and the Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida and the
with Italian Philosophers
Deconstruction of Architecture
of Architecture
Silvia Benso
Francesco Vitale
Translated by Mauro Senatore Francesco Vitale
Translated by Mauro Senatore Firsthand perspectives on the past,
present, and future of contemporary
Examines the relationship Italian philosophy.
of Derrida’s writings on
architecture to his methodology Through conversations with twenty-
of deconstruction and to three leading Italian philosophers
deconstrutivism in architecture. representing a variety of scholarly
concerns and methodologies, this volume offers an informal
Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques overview of the background, breadth, and distinctiveness of
Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in contemporary Italian philosophy as a tradition.
his academic work and in connection with a number of particular
building projects around the world. He engaged significantly with
january  •  308 pp
the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman,
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and Daniel Libeskind. Derrida conceived of architecture as an
example of the kind of multidimensional writing that he had
theorized in Of Grammatology, identifying a rich common ground
between architecture and philosophy in relation to ideas about Whitehead’s
political community and the concept of dwelling. In this book, Religious Thought
Francesco Vitale analyzes Derrida’s writings and demonstrates how From Mechanism to Organism,
Derrida’s work on this topic provides a richer understanding of From Force to Persuasion
his approach to deconstruction, highlighting the connections and Daniel A. Dombrowski
differences between philosophical deconstruction and architectural
deconstrutivism. Presents the process theistic thought of
Whitehead as a third alternative between
“…Vitale is throughout concise, precise, insightful, and often classical theism and religious skepticism.
brilliant.” — Geoffrey Bennington, author of Interrupting Derrida
This original interpretation of the
Francesco Vitale is Professor of Aesthetics at the University religious thought of Alfred North
of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Biodeconstruction: Jacques Whitehead highlights Whitehead’s moves from mechanism
Derrida and the Life Sciences, also published by SUNY Press.

Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham
University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Germs
of Death:The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, also published
by SUNY Press.
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to organism, and from force to persuasion to offer a third
alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.
“This is a clear and insightful work of political theology.”
— CHOICE

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New in Paper
Confucianism and The Metaphysics of the
American Philosophy Pythagorean Theorem
Mathew A. Foust Thales, Pythagoras,
Engineering, Diagrams,
A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the Construction of the
and the American Transcendentalist and Cosmos out of Right Triangles
Pragmatist traditions.
Robert Hahn
In his examination of a broad range of
Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy
philosophers, Foust traces direct lines
through a study of geometrical diagrams.
of influence from early translations of
Confucian texts and brings to light
Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes
conceptual affinities that have been previously overlooked.
a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the
Combining resources from both traditions, Confucianism and
Pythagorean theorem.
American Philosophy offers fresh insights into contemporary
problems and exemplifies the potential of cross-cultural dialogue
january  •  283 pp  •  8 ½ x 11
in an increasingly pluralistic world.
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New Forms of Revolt

Quasi-Things Essays on Kristeva’s
The Paradigm of Atmospheres Intimate Politics
Tonino Griffero Sarah K. Hansen and
Translated by Sarah De Sanctis Rebecca Tuvel, editors

Essays explore the significance of

An aesthetic and phenomenological
Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt
account of feelings.
for social and political philosophy.
In this book, Tonino Griffero introduces
Over the last twenty years, French
and analyzes an ontological category
philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
he terms “quasi-things.” These do not
Julia Kristeva has explored how global crises threaten people’s
exist fully in the traditional sense as
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ability to revolt. In a context of widespread war, deepening

substances or events, yet they powerfully act on us and on our
poverty, environmental catastrophes, and rising fundamentalisms,
states of mind. He offers an original approach to the study of
she argues that a revival of inner psychic experience is necessary
emotions, regarding them not as inner states of the subject, but
and empowering. “Intimate revolt” has become a central concept
as atmospheres, that is as powers poured out into the lived space
in Kristeva’s critical repertoire, framing and permeating her
we inhabit. Griffero first outlines the general and atmospheric
understanding of power, meaning, and identity. New Forms of
characters of quasi-things, and then considers examples such as pain,
Revolt brings together ten essays on this aspect of Kristeva’s work,
shame, the gaze, and twilight—which he argues is responsible for
addressing contemporary social and political issues.
penetrating and suggestive moods precisely because of its vagueness.
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New in Paper
Essays on the
Foundations of Ethics
C. I. Lewis
John Lange, editor
Presentation of C. I. Lewis’s final book,
formulating a cognitivistic ethics.
C. I. Lewis, one of America’s greatest
philosophers, was tremendously
influential in the fields of logic and
epistemology. However, it was to
ethics that he devoted the last years of his life. His approach
to ethics was not merely as an academic pursuit, but as the
deepest and most fundamental challenge of human life, older
than philosophy itself: how should one respond to the necessity
of action, and cope with the imposed, unforgiving imperatives
of self-governance? Drawing from volumes of Lewis’s hand-
inscribed notes and drafts, John Lange has assembled a version
of Lewis’s final book, bringing to light his desire to locate and
articulate those moral realities which he found to be part of an
enlightened common sense, a common sense to be expected in
an evolved, self-governing, rational human nature.
january  •  245 pp
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Plato’s Statesman
Dialectic, Myth, and Politics
John Sallis, editor
Explores the interplay between the
dramatic form of the dialogue and
the basic themes it addresses.
“…a valuable contribution to the
clarification of the role and practice of
the philosopher through comparison
with key figures, e.g. the sophist and
the statesman.” — Phenomenological Reviews
january  •  326 pp  •  9 figures
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philosophy
Entanglements
A System of Philosophy
Crispin Sartwell
Presents strikingly original and
contemporary answers to the most
traditional philosophical problems in
epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and
political theory.
A work of maximally ambitious
scope with a foundation in humility,
Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen
over the past century. In a discipline marked by greater and greater
specialization and the narrowing of increasingly insular traditions
and approaches, Crispin Sartwell has spent his career engaging
widely across philosophical topics and texts. Here he brings together
his philosophical positions in a unified system that is coherent across
the issues and subdisciplines in the field. In addition to presenting
his own theories of truth, knowledge, free will, beauty, and the
political state, Sartwell’s criticisms of other figures and movements
provide an overview of the history of philosophy.
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Centering and Extending
An Essay on Metaphysical Sense
Steven G. Smith
An original metaphysical proposal building
on classical and contemporary sources.
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Steven G. Smith retrieves and refashions
some of the best ideas of classical and
early modern metaphysics to support
insight into the natures of mental and
material beings and their relations.
january  •  220 pp
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 philosophy  •  psychoanalysis

New in Paper Inheritance in

Psychoanalysis
Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Goldbach and
Eureka , and Scientific James A. Godley, editors
Imagination
David N. Stamos Anthology of recent, cutting-edge
work in psychoanalysis and
Explores the science and creative process philosophy on the concept
behind Poe’s cosmological treatise. of inheritance.

“It is rich, entertaining, informative, In contrast to the way

comprehensive, intelligent, and inheritance is understood in
provocative. Poe fans, literary critics, scientific discourse and culture
and even scientists will enjoy this more broadly, inheritance in
immersion in the unplumbed imaginative depths of Poe’s Eureka psychoanalysis is a paradox.
… Highly recommended.” — CHOICE Although it’s impossible, strictly speaking, for the unconscious
to be inherited, this volume demonstrates how the concept of
january  •  586 pp  •  8 figures inheritance can occasion a rich reassessment and reinvention
$36.95 pb 978-1-4384-6390-2 of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The collection enacts
a critical traversal of inheritance for psychoanalysis: from the
most basic assumptions of natural or biological inheritance,
tHE Debt of the Living such as innateness, heredity, evolution, and ontogenesis, to
The Debt of the Living
Ascesis and Capitalism
Ascesis and Capitalism analysis of the ways cultural traditions can be challenged and
transformed, and finally to the reinvention of psychoanalytic
Elettra Stimilli
practice, in which the ethics of inheritance is fully realized
Translated by Arianna Bove as the individual’s responsibility to transform the social bond.
Foreword by Roberto Esposito Featuring strong interdisciplinary analysis rooted in both
psychoanalysis and philosophy, this volume further engages
Analyzes theological and philosophical science, politics, and cultural studies, and addresses contemporary
Elettra Stimilli
Translated by
understandings of debt and its role in political challenges such as autism and transgenderism.
Arianna Bove
Foreword by Roberto Esposito contemporary capitalism.
Joel Goldbach and James A. Godley are recent graduates
Max Weber’s account of the rise of of the PhD program in English at the University at Buffalo,
capitalism focused on his concept of State University of New York.
a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money
but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is
A volume in the SUNY series,
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foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat

Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential,
Charles Shepherdson, editor
for maintaining the economic cycle of buying and selling.
In The Debt of the Living, Elettra Stimilli returns to this idea of
February  •  420 pp  •  1 table
restraint as ascesis, by analyzing theological and philosophical
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6787-0
understandings of debt drawn from a range of figures, including
Saint Paul, Schmitt and Agamben, Benjamin and Marx, Nietzsche
and Freud, and Foucault.

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 political science

NATO’s Durability Cities under

NATO’s Durability
IN A
Post-Cold War World
in a Post–Cold Austerity
War World Restructuring
Joe Burton the US Metropolis
Mark Davidson and
Examines how NATO has Kevin Ward, editors
adapted and endured after the end
of the Cold War, transforming Examines the ways in which
itself to deal with a host of new austerity policies are transforming
security challenges. US cities.

Joe Burton Why is it that despite the Edited by Mark Across the world’s most
Davidson and Kevin Ward

end of the Cold War and the industrialized economies,

almost constant controversies
surrounding the alliance’s role
in the world, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
is still a prominent and vital player in international security?
Joe Burton provides an in-depth analysis of NATO’s changing
role in the post–Cold War era and its ability to survive, adapt,
and meet the needs of its members in an increasingly turbulent,
globalized security environment. He offers a historically and
theoretically informed account of NATO that isolates the core
dynamics that have held the alliance together in troubled times.
In particular, he examines a series of processes and events—
from the 1991 Gulf War to the rise of the Islamic State—
that help explain NATO’s continuing relevance.
“This book does an excellent job of chronicling key events that
have led to NATO’s ongoing presence in international relations
as a key provider of global security.” — Ryan C. Hendrickson,
author of Diplomacy and War at NATO:The Secretary General and
Military Action after the Cold War
Joe Burton is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the
University of Waikato in New Zealand and the coeditor (with
James Headley and Andreas Reitzig) of Public Participation in
the financial crisis of 2007
caused a contraction of state
budgets and stimulated attempts to reform debt-burdened
governments. In the United States, a system of fiscal federalism
meant this turn towards austerity took a uniquely fragmented
and geographically diverse form. Drawing on case studies of
recent urban restructuring, Cities under Austerity challenges
dominant understandings of austerity as a distinctly national
condition and develops a conceptualization of the new US
urban condition that reveals its emerging political and social
fault lines. The contributors empirically detail the restructuring
that is taking place across the United States, its underlying logics,
its local impacts and the ongoing processes of challenge and
resistance that influences how it is shaping the lives of citizens.
The new American political economy, it is argued, needs to
be understood as composed of a mosaic of urban experiences
that both build upon a differentiated foundation and creates
new divergences. As state reforms continue to interact with
this diverse urban political economy of the United States, this
collection provides a state-of-the-art survey on how postcrisis
convergences and divergences in urban economies and urban
politics have laid the foundations for the new political geography
of the United States.

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Foreign Policy.
Mark Davidson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography
A volume in the SUNY series, at Clark University and the coeditor (with Deborah Martin)
James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics of Urban Politics: Critical Approaches. Kevin Ward is Professor
David C. Earnest, editor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester,
United Kingdom and the coeditor (with Eugene McCann)
March  •  256 pp of Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age.
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6873-0
February  •  256 pp  •  7 maps, 7 tables, 9 figures
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6817-4

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 political science

A State Is Born Energy,

A State The Establishment of ENERGY, the Modern State,
the Israeli System of THE MODERN STATE,
Is Born Government, 1947–1951 AND THE AMERICAN
WORLD SYSTEM
and the American
World System
Jonathan David Fine G E O R G E A. G O N Z A L E Z George A. Gonzalez
The Establishment of the Comprehensive historical Examines political authority in
Israeli System of Government,
1947–1951 study of policy planning and the modern era as a function of
implementation during the crucial specific energy politics.
formative years of the Israeli
government system. In this provocative and original
JONATHAN DAVID FINE study, George A. Gonzalez argues
Although Israel was not the only that the relationship between
country that emerged during the energy and the state, as well as
postcolonial era following World global politics, has become more
War II, it was very different than others in the British Empire and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo
such as India, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, and Nigeria. In A State is Born, with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and
Jonathan David Fine uses newly discovered archival materials early twenty-first centuries. He presents a clear and concise case
to reveal the complex challenges Israeli decision makers faced for viewing the modern state as the collaborative and affirmative
during the transition from British colonial rule in Palestine to union of capitalism and political authority in a setting where
Israeli sovereignty in the newly founded State of Israel. Including energy resources, be it wind, coal, or oil, provide the basis for
discussions of topics such as the Va’adat HaMatzav (special the relatively inexpensive projection of political power. More
Committee for the transition period) and the formation of the broadly, energy serves as the foundation of the modern economy
ministries of Interior and Labor, Fine focuses on the planning and, because of this, a prime function of the modern state is
policy and implementation behind the establishment of the ensuring access to cheap, reliable sources to power and grow the
Israeli governmental system during its most crucial formative economy. Historically, energy is more of a zero-sum resource
period, 1947–1951, a dramatic transitory phase for both Jews than capital, markets, labor, or technology, and thus is a greater
and Arabs that continues to reverberate to this day. source of geopolitical tension and violence. Energy politics, and by
extension international politics is, moreover, shaped by domestic
Jonathan David Fine (1958–2015) was Senior Researcher corporate elites, especially those within the United States.
at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT)
and Assistant Professor at IDC Herzlyia’s Lauder School of “This book advances a hard-hitting and well-made argument
Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy in Israel. He is the author about the energy-resource bases of state power, political and
of Political Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: From Holy economic development, and the capture of government by
War to Modern Terror. corporate elites…” — Inderjeet Parmar, author of
Foundations of the American Century:The Ford, Carnegie, and
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February  •  280 pp  •  2 maps Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6797-9
George A. Gonzalez is Professor of Political Science at the
University of Miami and the author of many books, including
Energy and Empire:The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the
United States and Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic,
both also published by SUNY Press.

march  •  192 pp  •  3 tables

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 political science

Only the People Citizens’ Power

Only the People Can Save Citizens’ Power in Latin America
Can Save the the People in Latin America Theory and Practice
People Constituent Power, T h e o r y a n d P r a c t i c e
Pascal Lupien
Constituent Power, Revolution,
and Counterrevolution in Venezuela
Revolution, Pascal Lupien
and Counterrevolution Examines why some democratic
innovations succeed while others
in Venezuela
fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador,
Donald V. Kingsbury and Chile as case studies.
Examines the egalitarian, creative,
Citizens’ Power in Latin America
and inclusive practice of radical
Donald V. Kingsbury
takes the reader into the heart
democracy in contemporary
of communities where average
Venezuela.
citizens are attempting to build
a new democratic model to
In a global historical moment
improve their socioeconomic conditions and to have a voice
of growing mobilizations against inequality, corruption, and
in decisions that affect their lives. Based on groundbreaking
exclusion, Only the People Can Save the People illustrates the
fieldwork conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile, Pascal
necessity and challenges of more egalitarian approaches to
Lupien contrasts two models of participatory design that
collective life from one of the most tumultuous and compelling
have emerged in Latin America and identifies the factors that
experiments in radical democracy. Donald V. Kingsbury
enhance or diminish the capacity of these mechanisms to
examines twenty-first-century Venezuelan politics from the
produce positive outcomes. He draws on lived experiences of
perspective of constituent power—the egalitarian, creative,
citizen participants to reveal the potential and the dangers of
and inclusive practice of radical democracy. In the aftermath
participatory democracy. Why do some democratic innovations
of neoliberal structural adjustment,Venezuelan politics have
appear to succeed while others fail? To what extent do these
been increasingly reconfigured according to principles of
institutions really empower citizens, and in what ways can they
autogestión (self-management), social movement autonomy,
be used by governments to control participation? What lessons
protagonistic and participatory democracy, and anti-capitalism.
can be learned from these experiments? Given the growing
However, inherited and intensifying challenges arising from
dissatisfaction with existing democratic systems across the world,
Venezuela’s status as a petrostate, the class and racial divisions
this book will be of interest to people seeking innovative ways
that define its society, and the difficulties of defining what Hugo
of deepening democracy.
Chávez termed “socialism for the twenty-first century” have
resulted in a tumultuous process of social change. Informed
Pascal Lupien teaches in the Latin American and Caribbean
by ethnography, contemporary and comparative political
Studies program at the University of Guelph and is a Research
thought, and global political economy, Only the People Can
Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in
Save the People demonstrates how constituent power is shaping
Ontario, Canada.
collective identity, political conflict, and infrastructural space in

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contemporary Latin America.
April  •  150 pp  •  8 tables
$80.00 hc 978-1-4384-6917-1
Donald V. Kingsbury is Lecturer in Political Science and Latin
American Studies at the University of Toronto.

May  •  256 pp  •  8 b/w photographs

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Contractual
Politics and the
Institutionaliza-
Contractual Politics and
tion of Bureau-
the Institutionalization
of Bureaucratic Influence
...................................................
cratic Influence
Glenn R. Parker and Suzanne L. Parker
Glenn R. Parker and
Suzanne L. Parker
Analyzes long-term interest
group/party alliances, with
a focus on the part played by
federal advisory committees.
This book sheds light on the
dealings between special interests
and political parties by challenging three long-standing assumptions:
that transactions between interest groups and parties are quid pro
quo exchanges, such as the buying and selling of legislation; that
the interrelationship between bureaucrats and interest groups is
accommodating and friendly; and that special interests are single-
minded in their pursuit of favorable policies, specifically legislation
and regulations.The authors argue that political transactions are
organized through durable informal agreements between interest
groups and political parties, whereby parties obtain a dependable
source of long-term campaign funds, and interest groups gain
enduring favorable treatment in the political process. In response
to interest group demands, legislatures such as Congress establish
quasi-governmental appendages to federal agencies that oversee
the administration of programs prized by special interests—namely,
federal advisory committees.The authors examine the complex
relationship between the establishment and influence of thousands
of federal advisory committees and long-term interest group
contributions to political parties.
Now retired, Glenn R. Parker was Distinguished Professor
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of Political Science at Purdue University and is the author of
many books, including Capitol Investment$:The Marketability
of Political Skills. Suzanne L. Parker, also now retired, was
Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University.
Together they have coauthored Factions in House Committees.
february  •  316 pp  •  20 tables, 24 figures
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6793-1
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Hearts and Minds
Israel and the Battle
for Public Opinion
Nachman Shai
Translated by Ira Moskowitz
Hearts and Minds
Israel and the Battle for Public Opinion
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy
Nachman Shai
efforts during the second intifada
(2000–2005) as a prime example
of interactions between state
security, diplomacy, and the media.
Small-scale wars, terrorism, and
guerilla warfare, characterized by
low intensity violence is the new
global reality in the twenty-first century. States in general, and
liberal democratic states in particular, are compelled to develop
a new operational approach to deal with these new phenomena.
At the same time the world of diplomacy is experiencing its own
upheaval, its old closed doors practices being displaced by the
demand for ongoing public diplomacy. Concurrent with these
developments, individuals and nongovernmental organizations
harness the new media revolution to create powerful global
networks to promote common causes, transcending the state and
breaking its exclusive control over information.
In this book, Nachman Shai examines the case of Israel, a liberal
democratic state faced with an incessant stream of diverse, low-
intensity threats. Shai discusses the military, political, economic,
legal, and public diplomacy fronts of the second intifada (2000–
2005) and how Israel deliberated its response in an environment
where the state is only one of the players in a global arena
in which individuals, nongovernmental organizations, and
international news corporations all operate.
The Hebrew edition was winner of the 2013 Yitzhak Sadeh
Prize for Military Literature.
“A must-have book for every politician, government official,
journalist, businessperson, researcher, and student.”
— Eytan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan University, in praise of the
Hebrew edition
Nachman Shai is Member of the Knesset.
April  •  250 pp  •  8 figures
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6905-8
 political science

A Turbulent New in Paper

A TURBULENT South Africa
The Politics
SOUTH AFRICA Post-apartheid
Social Protest of Persuasion
POST-APARTHEID SOCIAL PROTEST
Jérôme Tournadre Economic Policy and Media
Translated by Andrew Brown Bias in the Modern Era
Anthony R. DiMaggio
Highlights the continuing social
unrest and public protest occurring Examines how the US media covers
in South Africa’s poorest districts. high-profile public policy issues in the
context of competing claims about media
JÉRÔME TOURNADRE Frequently praised for its bias.
TRANSLATED BY ANDREW BROWN
democratic transition, South
Africa has experienced an “This rigorous, multi-method study
almost uninterrupted cycle of makes a persuasive case that the major media outlets play an
social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing important role in ‘indexing’ public opinion to the views of
numbers of demonstrations against the often appalling living the parties.” — CHOICE
conditions of millions of South Africans, pointing to the fact
that they have yet to achieve full citizenship. A Turbulent South january  •  375 pp  •  23 tables, 44 figures
Africa offers a new look at this historic period in the existence $25.95 pb 978-1-4384-6344-5
of the young South African democracy, far removed from the
idealistic portrait of the “Rainbow Nation.” Jérôme Tournadre
draws on interviews and observations to take the reader from Partnership
the backstreets of the squatters’ camps to international militant within Hierarchy
circles, and from the immediate, infra-political level to the The Evolving East Asian
worldwide anti-capitalist protest movement. He investigates the
Security Triangle
mechanisms and the meaning of social discontent in light of
several different phenomena. These include, the struggle of the Sung Chull Kim
poor to gain recognition, the persistent memory of the fight
against apartheid, the developments in the political world since Examines intra-alliance politics
the “Mandela Years,” the coexistence of liberal democracy between the United States, Japan,
with a “popular politics” found in poor and working-class and South Korea.
districts, and many other factors that have played a crucial part
in the social and political tensions at the heart of post-apartheid In an age of increasingly complex
South Africa. security situations around the world,
it is essential that students and practitioners understand alliances

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and minilateral security mechanisms. Partnership within Hierarchy
Jérôme Tournadre is Researcher in Political Science at the
examines, in depth, the troubled evolution of the US–Japan–
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and
South Korea security triangle from the Cold War period to the
a member of CNRS’s Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique,
present time.
both located in France.
january  •  273 pp  •  13 tables
March  •  256 pp
$23.95 pb 978-1-4384-6394-0
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6977-5

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 history  •  archaeology
New in Paper
East German Historians
since Reunification
A Discipline Transformed
Axel Fair-Schulz and
Mario Kessler, editors
Surveys how reunification in 1990
impacted historical scholarship in the
former East Germany.
East German Historians since Reunification
assesses what was gained and lost in
the process of dissolving and remaking German Democratic
Republic institutions of historical scholarship. The collection
combines primary and secondary sources: younger scholars offer
analyses of East German historiography, while senior scholars who
lived through the dismantling process provide firsthand accounts.
Contributors address broad trends in scholarship as well as particular
subfields and institutions. What unites them is a willingness to
think critically about the achievements and shortcomings of GDR
historiography, and its fate after German reunification.
january  •  252 pp
$23.95 pb 978-1-4384-6536-4
The Truth of the
Russian Revolution
The Memoirs of the Tsar’s
Chief of Security and His Wife
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev
and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva
Vladimir G. Marinich, translator
www.sunypress.edu
An eyewitness account of the Russian
Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath,
newly translated into English.
Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev was chief of the
Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, in Petrograd in the two years
preceding the 1917 Russian Revolution. This book presents his
memoirs interposed with those of his wife.
january  •  337 pp  •  66 b/w photographs, 3 maps
38 $29.95 pb 978-1-4384-6462-6
Water and Power
in Past Societies
Water and Power Emily Holt, editor
in Past Societies
Examines the many ways water
has contributed to power structures
in the past, with insights for
contemporary water management.
Water, an essential resource
Edited by
Emily Holt in all cultures, is at the heart
of human power structures.
Utilizing a diverse range of
theoretical perspectives, the
contributors to Water and Power
in Past Societies provide a broad introduction to the archaeology
of water-related power structures. The studies herein explore
the long history of water politics in human society, offering new
insights into the power structures and inequalities surrounding
irrigation systems, the collection of rainwater as a component
of ancient industrial production, and sea water as a facilitator
of communication, trade, and aggression. In addition to
examining the role of different types of water in creating power
relationships, the volume presents case studies from a variety
of climatic regions, ranging from the very dry to the tropical.
This geographical breadth facilitates cross-cultural comparison,
making Water and Power in Past Societies an essential resource for
instructors and students of the archaeology of water. Finally, in
addition to reaching conclusions with significant implications
for archaeologists and anthropologists, the volume has real
contemporary relevance, often drawing explicit parallels with
issues of current and future water management.
Emily Holt is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
A volume in the SUNY series, The Institute for European and
Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Peter F. Biehl, Sarunas Milisauskas, and Stephen L. Dyson, editors
April  •  350 pp  •  7 x 10
34 b/w photographs, 43 maps, 2 tables, 16 figures
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6875-4

New in Paper
Report on the
Aeginetan Sculptures
With Historical Supplements
Johann Martin Wagner
F.W. J. Schelling, editor
Translated, edited, and with an
Introduction by Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition
of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled
those acquired by England from
the Parthenon.
The controversial removal of the Parthenon sculptures from
Greece to England in the first decade of the nineteenth century
by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin, sparked an international
competition for classical antiquities. This volume tells a lesser-
known chapter of that story, concerning sculptures from the
Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina. Discovered in
1811 as the Parthenon project was nearing its completion, these
ancient sculptures were acquired at auction by Johann Martin
Wagner (1777–1858) on behalf of Crown Prince Ludwig of
Bavaria. The sculptures turned out to be significant in a number
of ways, offering important evidence for a transitional period of
Greek art between the archaic and classical eras, for the existence
of an independent Aeginetan school that was the equal of
Athenian art at the time, and for Greek sculptures having been
elaborately painted and adorned.
Originally published in 1817 and presented here for the first
time in English, this book reproduces the report commissioned
by the crown prince that was written by Wagner and edited
by F. W. J. Schelling and contained richly detailed descriptions
of the sculptures. In addition, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. provides
a comprehensive historical introduction featuring a constellation
of intellectual figures, an afterword, notes, appendices, and more
than forty images to tell the fascinating story of the sculptures
and their legacy from excavation to the present day.
january  •  318 pp  •  47 b/w photographs
$27.95 pb 978-1-4384-6480-0
archaeology  •   environmental studies
Mountains, Rivers,
and the Great Earth
Reading Gary Snyder
and Doµgen in an Age
of Ecological Crisis
Jason M.Wirth
Engages the global ecological crisis
through a radical rethinking of what
it means to inhabit the earth.
Meditating on the work of American
poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-
century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Doµgen, Jason M. Wirth
draws out insights for understanding our relation to the planet’s
ongoing ecological crisis. He discusses what Doµgen calls
“the Great Earth” and what Snyder calls “the Wild” as being
comprised of the play of waters and mountains, emptiness and
form, and then considers how these ideas can illuminate the
spiritual and ethical dimensions of place. The book culminates
in a discussion of earth democracy, a place-based sense of
communion where all beings are interconnected and all beings
matter. This radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the
earth will inspire lovers of Snyder’s poetry, Zen practitioners,
environmental philosophers, and anyone concerned about the
global ecological crisis.
“There are numerous books that discuss Snyder’s ecological
view and, to a lesser extent, his relation to Doµgen. There are also
many books on Buddhism and ecology. But this book is unique
in its focus and format and its authorial voice. It’s a distinctive,
ambitious, and timely work.” — David Landis Barnhill,
translator of Bashoµ’s Journey:The Literary Prose of Matsuo Bashoµ
www.sunypress.edu
“This is a very interesting book on, arguably, the most crucial
topic that we are facing today. It makes us realize how deep
we are in the ecological crisis, and that this crisis is not merely
a crisis outside of us, but lies first and foremost deeply in ourselves.
An incredibly timely and important book—I could not stop
reading it and thinking about it.” — Gerard Kuperus, author of
Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World
january  •  147 pp
$20.95 pb 978-1-4384-6542-5
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 latin american studies

The Trade Adapting Gender

ADAPTING
in the Living Mexican Feminisms
The Trade The Formation of Brazil from Literature to Film
in the Living in the South Atlantic, Ilana Dann Luna
The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic,
Sixteenth to Seventeenth MEXICAN FEMINISMS
FROM LITERATURE
Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Centuries TO FILM Demonstrates how film
adaptations intersect with feminist
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

GENDER
Macro-level study of the South
Adapting Gender offers a cogent
Atlantic throughout the sixteenth
introduction to Mexico’s film
and seventeenth centuries
industry, the history of women’s
demonstrating how Brazil’s I L A N A D A N N L U N A
filmmaking in Mexico, a new
emergence was built on the longest
approach to adaptation as
and most intense slave trade of
a potential feminist strategy,
the modern era.
and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico.
Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential
The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father
to subvert not only the intentions of the source text, but how
Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished,
they can also interrupt the hegemony of gender stereotypes in
animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the “sad blood”
a broader socio-political context. Luna follows the industrial
of the “black and unfortunate souls” imported from Angola.
shifts that began with Salinas de Gortari’s presidency, which
In The Trade in the Living, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates
made the long 1990s the precise moment in which subversive
how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South
filmmakers, particularly women, were able to participate more
Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America,
fully in the industry and portrayed the lived experiences of
while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian
women and non-gender-conforming men. The analysis focuses
colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently
on Busi Cortés’s El secreto de Romelia (1988), an adaptation of
asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued
Rosario Castellanos’s short novel El viudo Román (1964);
to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this
Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardán’s Entre Pancho Villa y una
intricate and complementary relationship between two non-
mujer desnuda (1996), an adaptation of Berman’s own play,
European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and
Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1992); Guita Schyfter’s Novia
challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves
que te vea (1993), an adaptation of Rosa Nissán’s eponymous
beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker,
novel (1992); and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s De noche
hidden history.
vienes, Esmeralda (1997), an adaptation of Elena Poniatowska’s
short story “De noche vienes” (1979). These adapted texts
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro is Professor of Economic History
established a significant alternative to monolithic notions of
at the Sao Paulo School of Economics, Director of the Center
national (gendered) identity, while critiquing, updating, and even
for South Atlantic Studies, and Emeritus Professor of History
www.sunypress.edu

queering, notions of feminism in the Mexican context.

at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.
Ilana Dann Luna is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin
A volume in the SUNY series,
American Studies at Arizona State University.
Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
Richard E. Lee, editor
A volume in the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado and Leslie L. Marsh, editors
May  •  512 pp  •  1 table, 4 figures
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6929-4
January  •  288 pp  •  10 b/w photographs
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6827-3

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 latin american studies

States of Grace New in Paper

Utopia
Winner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano
in Brazilian Culture
Critical Monograph Book Prize
Patrícia I.Vieira presented by the International
States of Grace Association of Hispanic Feminine
U topia in Brazilian Culture Provides in-depth analyses of key Literature and Culture
moments in Brazilian utopianism,
including theological-political,
MÉxico’s Nobodies
matriarchal, environmental, and The Cultural Legacy
work-free utopias. of the Soldadera and
Afro-Mexican Women
Patrícia I. Vieira States of Grace offers a novel B. Christine Arce
approach to the study of
Brazilian culture through the Analyzes cultural materials that grapple
lens of utopianism. Patrícia I. with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations
Vieira explores religious and political writings, journalistic of Mexicanness.
texts, sociological studies, and literary works that portray Brazil
as a utopian “land of the future,” where dreams of a coming México’s Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history
messianic age and of social and political emancipation would that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in
come true. The book discusses crucial utopian moments such the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine
as the theological-political utopia proposed by Jesuit Priest Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous
Antônio Vieira; matriarchal utopias, like the egalitarian society erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the
of the Amazons; work-free utopias that abolished the boundaries popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define
separating toil and play; and ecological utopias, where humans and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity.
and nonhumans coexist harmoniously. The uniqueness of the
book’s approach lies in rethinking the link between messianic january  •  331 pp  •  3 color photographs, 32 b/w photographs
and utopian texts, as well as the alliances forged between $27.95 pb 978-1-4384-6358-2
progressive religious, socioeconomic, political, and ecological
ideas.
Witnessing
Patrícia I. Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish and
beyond the Human
Portuguese at Georgetown University and Associate Research
Professor at the Center for Social Studies of the University of
Addressing the Alterity
Coimbra, Portugal. She has written several books, including of the Other in Post-coup
Seeing Politics Otherwise:Vision in Latin American and Iberian Chile and Argentina
Fiction and Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought Kate Jenckes

www.sunypress.edu
(coedited with Michael Marder).
Provides an innovative and theoretically
A volume in the SUNY series in rigorous approach to the subject of
Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture testimony in Latin America.
Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors
This book rethinks the nature of
April  •  190 pp testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6923-2 in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present.

january  •  221 pp  •  13 b/w photographs

$22.95 pb 978-1-4384-6570-8
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 latin american studies  •   hispanic studies
New in Paper
Diasporic Blackness
The Life and Times of
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Vanessa K.Valdés
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso
Schomburg through the lens of both
Blackness and latinidad.
A Black Puerto Rican–born scholar,
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–
1938) was a well-known collector and
archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York
Public Library. He was an autodidact who matched wits with
university-educated men and women, as well as a prominent
Freemason, a writer, and an institution-builder.
While he spent much of his life in New York City, Schomburg
was intimately involved in the cause of Cuban and Puerto Rican
independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American
War of 1898, he would go on to cofound the Negro Society for
Historical Research and lead the American Negro Academy, all
the while collecting and assembling books, prints, pamphlets,
articles, and other ephemera produced by Black men and
women from across the Americas and Europe. His curated library
collection at the New York Public Library emphasized the
presence of African peoples and their descendants throughout
the Americas and would serve as an indispensable resource for
the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston
Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. By offering a sustained look at
the life of one of the most important figures of early twentieth-
century New York City, this first book-length examination
of Schomburg’s life as an Afro-Latino suggests new ways of
www.sunypress.edu
understanding the intersections of both Blackness and latinidad.
“Essential.” — CHOICE
“…Valdés’s book represents a valuable contribution to the study
of the life and work of Schomburg and the history of Puerto
Ricans and African-Americans of his moment.” — Centro Voices
january  •  190 pp  •  9 b/w photographs
$20.95 pb 978-1-4384-6514-2
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Radical Imagination,
Radical Humanity
Puerto Rican Political Activism
in New York
Rose Muzio
Provides firsthand accounts of militant
Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New
York City.
In this book Rose Muzio analyzes
how structural and historical factors—
including colonialism, economic marginalization, racial
discrimination, and the Black and Brown Power movements
of the 1960s—influenced young Puerto Ricans to reject
mainstream ideas about political incorporation and join others
in struggles against perceived injustices. This analysis provides the
first in-depth account of the origins, evolution, achievements,
and failures of El Comité-Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional
Puertorriqueño, one of the main organizations of the Puerto
Rican Left in the 1970s in New York City. El Comité fought
for bilingual education programs in public schools, for access
to quality jobs and higher education, and against health care
budget cuts. The organization mobilized support nationally and
internationally to end the US Navy’s occupation of Vieques,
denounced colonial rule in Puerto Rico, and opposed US aid to
authoritarian regimes in Latin America and Africa. Muzio bases
her project on dozens of interviews with participants as well as
archival documents and news coverage, and shows how a radical,
counterhegemonic political perspective evolved organically,
rather than as a product of a priori ideology.
january  •  226 pp  •  24 b/w photographs
$23.95 pb 978-1-4384-6354-4

Ronald W. Walters
and the Fight
for Black Power,
1969–2010
Robert C. Smith
Combines history and biography
to interpret the last half century
of black politics in America as
represented in the life and work
of a pivotal African American
public intellectual.
From his leadership of the first
modern lunch counter sit-ins
at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at
the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters
(1938–2010) was at the cutting edge of African American politics.
A preeminent scholar, activist, and media commentator, he was
founding chair of the Black Studies Department at Brandeis,
where he shaped the epistemological parameters of the new
discipline. Walters was an early strategist of congressional black
power and a longtime advocate of a black presidential candidacy.
His writings on the politics of race in America both predicted
the constraints on President Obama in advancing African
American interests and anticipated the emergence of the white
nationalism found in the Tea Party and Donald Trump insurgency.
In this fascinating book, Robert C. Smith combines history and
biography to offer an overview of the last half century of black
politics in America through the lens of the life and work of the
man often described as the W. E. B. Du Bois of his time.
“…an invaluable contribution to our understanding of one of
the most pivotal scholarly voices in global black politics of the
twentieth century.” — Todd C. Shaw, author of Now Is the Time!
Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San
Francisco State University.
A volume in the SUNY series in African American Studies
John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors
February  •  343 pp  •  14 b/w photographs
$34.95 pb 978-1-4384-6866-2
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6867-9
african american studies
The Caribbeanization
of Black Politics
Race, Group Consciousness,
and Political Participation
The CaribbeanizaTion of in America
blaCk PoliTiCs
Race, GRoup consciousness, and
Sharon D.Wright Austin
political paRticipation in ameRica Examines the continuing ethnic
Sharon D. Wright Austin
diversification of black America
and its impact on black political
empowerment.
In The Caribbeanization of Black
Politics, Sharon D.Wright Austin
explores the impact of ethnic
diversification of African American communities on the prospects
for black political empowerment. Focusing on Boston, Chicago,
Miami, and New York City—cities that for the last several years
have experienced an influx of black immigrants—she surveyed
more than two thousand African Americans, Cape Verdeans,
Haitians, and West Indians. Although many studies conclude that
African American group consciousness causes them to participate in
politics at higher rates when socioeconomic status is controlled for,
Wright Austin analyzes whether this is true for other black groups.
She assesses the current political incorporation of these groups by
looking at data on public officeholders and by examining political
coalitions and conflicts among the groups, and she also discusses the
possible future of black political development in these cities.
“The greatest contribution of this book is its analysis of black
ethnics in a diverse geographic space. Moving beyond the New
York City lens to Boston, Chicago, and Miami is something that
has never been done in political science. This book is incredibly
important.” — Christina M. Greer, author of Black Ethnics:
Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
www.sunypress.edu
Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political
Science and Director of the African American Studies Program at
the University of Florida. She is the author of The Transformation
of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social
Capital in the Mississippi Delta, also published by SUNY Press.
A volume in the SUNY series in African American Studies
John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors
March  •  256 pp  •  23 tables, 18 figures
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6809-9
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 african american studies  •   jewish studies
New in Paper
Being Black, Being Male
on Campus
Understanding and
Confronting Black Male
Collegiate Experiences
Derrick R. Brooms
Explores how race and gender matter on
campus and how Black males navigate
college for academic and personal success.
This work marks a radical shift
away from the pervasive focus on the challenges that Black
male students face and the deficit rhetoric that often limits
perspectives about them. Instead, Derrick R. Brooms offers
reflective counter-narratives of success. Being Black, Being
Male on Campus uses in-depth interviews to investigate the
collegiate experiences of Black male students at historically
White institutions. Framed through Critical Race Theory and
Blackmaleness, the study provides new analysis on the utility and
importance of Black Male Initiatives (BMIs). This work explores
Black men’s perceptions, identity constructions, and ambitions,
while it speaks meaningfully to how race and gender intersect
as they influence students’ experiences.
“…injects into the dialogue a voice that is often left out:
that of the black male students themselves.” — The Chronicle
of Higher Education
“Well written and informative, this exciting project cuts
across many of the strengths of previous publications and fills
significant theoretical and methodological gaps by focusing on
authentically voiced Black men who are finding and making
their way in higher education and in life.” — James Earl Davis,
www.sunypress.edu
coeditor of Educating African American Males: Contexts for
Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
january  •  252 pp
$25.95 pb 978-1-4384-6400-8
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Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism AND
THE and the
Settlement Project Settlement Project
IDEOLOGY, POLITICS,
Ideology, Politics,
AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
and Civil Disobedience
Moshe Hellinger,
Isaac Hershkowitz, and
Bernard Susser
An in-depth account of the
ideology driving Israel’s religious
Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz,
and Bernard Susser Zionist settler movements since
the 1970s.
The Jewish settlements in
disputed territories are among the most contentious issues
in Israeli and international politics. This book delves into the
ideological and rabbinic discourses of the religious Zionists
who founded the settlement movement and lead it to this day.
Based on Hebrew primary sources seldom available to scholars
and the public, Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, and
Bernard Susser provide an authoritative history of the settlement
project. They examine the first attempts at settling in the 1970s,
the evacuation of Sinai in the 1980s, the Oslo Accords and
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s, and the withdrawal
from Gaza and the reaction of radical settler groups in the 2000s.
The authors question why the evacuation of settlements led to
largely theatrical opposition, without mass violence or civil war.
They show that for religious Zionists, a “theological-normative
balance” undermined their will to resist aggressively because of
a deep veneration for the state as the sacred vehicle of redemption.
“This is a well-written book of sound scholarship that makes
an important contribution to the research on settlers’ rabbis.
The authors refute popular arguments that condemn the rabbis
as ‘radicals,’ instead showing how complex is their worldview.”
— Motti Inbari, author of Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple
Mount:Who Will Build the Third Temple?
At Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Moshe Hellinger is Senior
Lecturer in Political Studies, Isaac Hershkowitz is Lecturer in
Jewish Thought, and Bernard Susser is Emeritus Professor of
Politics, formerly the Norman Patterson Professor of Politics.
MaY  •  280 pp
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6839-6
 jewish studies

The Tragedy New in Paper

The Tragedy of Optimism
Sovereign Jews
of Optimism Writings on
Israel, Zionism, and Judaism
Hermann Cohen
Writings on Yaacov Yadgar
Hermann Steven S. Schwarzschild
Cohen
George Y. Kohler, editor Offers a novel exploration of the
relationship between religion and
Complete collection of the state in Israel.
Schwarzschild’s essays on
the neo-Kantian Jewish The question of Jewish sovereignty
philosopher Hermann Cohen. shapes Jewish identity in Israel, the
Steven S. Schwarzschild
Edited by George Y. Kohler status of non-Jews, and relations
Steven S. Schwarzschild between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, yet
(1924–1989) was arguably its consequences remain enigmatic. In Sovereign Jews,Yaacov Yadgar
the leading expositor of highlights the shortcomings of mainstream discourse and offers
German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), a novel explanation of Zionist ideology and the Israeli polity.
undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen’s thought
into contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of
january  •  279 pp
Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild’s
$23.95 pb 978-1-4384-6534-0
work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild’s readings of
Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both
worlds that shaped Cohen’s thought, neo-Kantian German
idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide Movies and Midrash
range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human Popular Film and Jewish
selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Religious Conversation
Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild’s Wendy I. Zierler
previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction Foreword by Eugene B. Borowitz
by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat
by events of the twentieth century, Cohen’s optimism about Brings popular cinema and Jewish
human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace. religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

“The Tragedy of Optimism gives us excellent—perhaps
unparalleled—insight into the thought of Hermann Cohen…”
— Kenneth Seeskin, author of Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy
George Y. Kohler is Director of the Joseph Carlebach Institute
Movies and Midrash uses cinema as
a springboard to discuss central Jewish
texts and matters of belief. A number
of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology
and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish

and Senior Lecturer of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University,
Israel. He is the author of Reading Maimonides’ Philosophy in 19th
Century Germany:The Guide to Religious Reform.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Richard A. Cohen, editor
February  •  270 pp  •  3 figures
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6835-8
www.sunypress.edu
perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology
have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential
and compelling films. Films covered include The Truman Show
(truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin),
Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants
(birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and
The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God’s image),
among others.
january  •  309 pp  •  20 b/w photographs
$23.95 pb 978-1-4384-6614-9
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 holocaust studies

Cities of Refuge The Holocaust

Cities OF Refuge German Jews in London and the
German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945
and New York, 1935–1945 Nonrepresentable
Lori Gemeiner Bihler Literary and
Photographic
Contrasts the experiences of
Transcendence
German Jewish refugees from the
Holocaust who fled to London
David Patterson
and New York City.
Argues that Holocaust
representation has ethical
In the years following Hitler’s
implications fundamentally linked
L ori Gemeiner BihLer rise to power, German Jews
to questions of good and evil.
faced increasingly restrictive
antisemitic laws, and many
Many books focus on issues
responded by fleeing to more
of Holocaust representation,
tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge compares the experiences
but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such
of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York
a representational problem. David Patterson draws from
City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational
Emmanuel Levinas’s contention that the Good cannot be
documents, and oral histories. Lori Gemeiner Bihler examines
represented. He argues that the assault on the Good is equally
institutions, neighborhoods, employment, language use, name
nonrepresentable and this nonrepresentable aspect of the
changes, dress, family dynamics, and domestic life in these
Holocaust is its distinguishing feature. Utilizing Jewish religious
two cities to determine why immigrants in London adopted
thought, Patterson examines how the literary word expresses
local customs more quickly than those in New York City, yet
the ineffable and how the photographic image manifests the
identified less as British than their counterparts in the United
invisible. Where the Holocaust is concerned, representation is
States did as American. By highlighting a disparity between
a matter not of imagination but of ethical implication, not of
integration and identity formation, Bihler challenges traditional
what it was like but of what must be done. Ultimately Patterson
theories of assimilation and provides a new framework for the
provides a deeper understanding of why the Holocaust itself is
study of refugees and migration.
indefinable—not only as an evil but also as a fundamental assault
on the very categories of good and evil affirmed over centuries
“This is the first comprehensive comparative study of German
of Jewish teaching and testimony.
Jewish immigration during the period of National Socialism.
Comparing German Jews who fled their homeland and resettled
“This book commands respect, both for the author’s immense
in London with those who resettled in New York City, Bihler
and intimate knowledge of what has become a vast body of
carefully documents the distinct structural conditions each
work and for his unconditional commitment to the subject. I am
group encountered and consequently the divergent lives the
in awe of what I have just read.” — Dorota Glowacka, coeditor of
two immigrant groups led. Bihler’s numerous significant insights
Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries
www.sunypress.edu

would be unattainable without her intellectual commitment

to rigorous comparative study.” — Judith M. Gerson, coeditor of
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in
Jewish Diasporas
Lori Gemeiner Bihler is Assistant Professor of History at
Framingham State University.
April  •  180 pp  •  3 b/w photographs, 5 maps, 1 table
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6887-7
David Patterson is Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust
Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His many books
include Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins.
A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Richard A. Cohen, editor
June  •  320 pp  •  20 b/w photographs
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-7005-4

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 lesbian/gay studies

A Queer Way Out Echoes of

The Politics of Queer a Queer Messianic
A Emigration from Israel From Frankenstein

Queer
Hila Amit Echoes of a Queer Messianic
to Brokeback Mountain
From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain
Richard O. Block

Way
Argues that queer Israeli
emigrants engage in a deliberately Richard O. Block Reconsiders mostly German

Out
unheroic form of resistance
to Zionism.
The PoliTics of
Queer emigraTion The very language of
from israel
Zionism prizes the concept
Hila amit
of immigration to Israel
(aliyah, literally ascending)
while stigmatizing emigration
from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila Amit
explores the as-yet-untold story of queer Israeli emigrants.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin, London, and
New York, she examines motivations for departure and feelings
of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective. Amit shows
that sexual orientation and left-wing political affiliation play
significant roles in decisions to leave. Queer Israeli emigrants
question national and heterosexual norms such as army service,
monogamy, and reproduction. Amit argues that emigration itself
is not only a political act, but one that pioneers a deliberately
unheroic form of resistance to Zionist ideology. This fascinating
study enriches our understandings of migration, political
activism, and queer forms of living in Israel and beyond.
narratives from around 1800 to
recover echoes of a queer messianic
that still resonate today.
Queer theory has focused
heavily on North American
and contemporary contexts, but
in this book Richard O. Block
helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main
currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative,
he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800,
while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lover’s
Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of
well-known texts by Shelley, Kleist, and Goethe, arguing that
this early writing serves as a creative font for much of the
subsequent work in sexology. These texts also provide echoes of
a kind of love overlooked or suppressed in favor of a politics of
appeasement or one intended to make queers model citizens.
This book charts the unexplored possibilities for queer love
in an attempt to map a future for gay politics in the age
of homonormativity.

Hila Amit received her PhD in gender studies from SOAS “Compelling and highly original, this book offers a major
University of London. intervention into queer theory, while at the same time
performing stunning feats of literary and film criticism. This is
June  •  200 pp  •  21 b/w photographs a work of first-rate intelligence, style, and critical and theoretical
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-7011-5 precision.” — John David Rhodes, University of Cambridge

Richard O. Block is Associate Professor of Germanics at the

www.sunypress.edu
University of Washington, Seattle and the author of The Spell
of Italy:Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe.

A volume in the SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory

David E. Johnson and Scott Michaelsen, editors

April  •  224 pp  •  4 b/w photographs

$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6955-3

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 lesbian/gay studies  •   cultural studies

Because We Are Failing Desire

because
we are
Human
Contesting US Support
Karmen MacKendrick

Draws on theology and queer theory

for Gender and Sexuality
human Human Rights Abroad
Cynthia Burack
to argue for the power of humiliating
pleasures in a culture oriented very
strongly to denying any enjoyment
that is not about success.
Contesting US Support for Gender and
Sexuality Human Rights Abroad Offers a complete empirical
account of US government
Luckily for human diversity, we
programs, policies, and
are perfectly capable of desiring
interventions outside the United
cynthia burack impossible things. Failing Desire
States on behalf of the human
explores a particular set of these
rights of LGBTQ people.
impossibilities, those connected
to humiliation. These include
Around the world, lesbian,
the failure of autonomy in
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people continue to be
submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in
threatened, attacked, arrested, tortured, and sometimes executed
exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically,
just for being sexual or gender minorities. Since the final months
those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient
of the Clinton administration, agencies and officials of the
Cynics through early Christian monks to those now drawn
US government have been engaging in programs and projects
by queer or perverse eroticism. As Judith Halberstam pointed
whose stated purposes are to serve goals of justice and equity
out in The Queer Art of Failure, failure can actually be a mode
for LGBTQ people outside the United States. Because We Are
of resistance to demands for what a culture defines as success.
Human gives readers an inside look at US sexual orientation
Karmen MacKendrick draws on this interest in queer refusals.
and gender identity (SOGI) human rights assistance programs.
To value, desire, or seek humiliation undercuts any striving for
Cynthia Burack explores settings where indigenous and
success, but it draws our attention particularly to the failures of
transnational human rights advocates meet to fund and strategize
knowledge as a form of power, whether that knowledge is of
SOGI human rights movements. This book also examines key
one body or of a population. How can we understand will that
arguments against these programs, policies, and interventions
seeks not to govern itself, psychology that constructs inwardness
that originate on both the conservative right and the progressive
by telling all, blushing shame that delights in exposure, or
academic left. Burack ultimately recommends support for a US
dignity that refuses its lofty position? Failing Desire suggests that
commitment to SOGI human rights and programs that serve the
the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very
needs of LGBTQ people.
realization that this question can never quite be answered.
Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality
“…MacKendrick breathes new life into authors, texts, and topics
Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Sin,
that have been at the forefront of critical engagements with
Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right and
www.sunypress.edu

embodiment, desire, and affect for the past several decades.”

Tough Love: Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right, both
— Kent L. Brintnall, author of Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain
also published by SUNY Press.
as Redemptive Figure
A volume in the SUNY series in Queer Politics and Culture
Karmen MacKendrick is Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne
Cynthia Burack and Jyl J. Josephson, editors
College. She is the author of several books, including Counterpleasures
and Immemorial Silence, both also published by SUNY Press.
June  •  288 pp  •  1 table
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-7013-9
January  •  209 pp
$34.95 pb 978-1-4384-6890-7
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6891-4
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 cultural studies  •   women’s studies

New in Paper
After Katrina Staging Women’s Lives
Race, Neoliberalism, and the in Academia
End of the American Century Gendered Life Stages in
Anna Hartnell Language and Literature
Workplaces
Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans Michelle A. Massé and Nan
is a key site for exploring competing
Bauer-Maglin, editors
narratives of American decline and
renewal at the beginning of the twenty-
Argues that institutional change must
first century.
accommodate women’s professional and
personal life stages.
Through the lens provided by
the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina
Staging Women’s Lives in Academia demonstrates how ostensibly
argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site for
personal decisions are shaped by institutions and advocates for
exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal
ways that workplaces, not women, must be changed. Addressing
at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Deploying an
life stages ranging from graduate school through retirement,
interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations of
these essays represent a gamut of institutions and women who
the post-storm city, Anna Hartnell suggests that New Orleans has
draw upon both personal experience and scholarly expertise.
been reimagined as a laboratory for a racialized neoliberalism,
The contributors contemplate the slipperiness of the very
and as such might be seen as a terminus of the American dream.
categories we construct to explain the stages of life and ask key
This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and
questions, such as what does it mean to be a graduate student
environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social
at fifty? Or a full professor at thirty-five? The book explores
mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and
the ways women in all stages of academia feel that they are
coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality
always too young or too old, too attentive to work or too overly
of life but to the possibility of life in coastal communities across
focused on family. By including the voices of those who leave,
America and the world. And yet After Katrina also suggests that
as well as those who stay, this collection signals the need to
New Orleans culture offers a way of thinking about the United
rebuild the house of academia so that women can have not only
States in terms that transcend the binary of national renewal or
classrooms of their own but also lives of their own.
declension. The post-Hurricane city thus emerges as a flashpoint
for reflecting on the contemporary United States.
january  •  352 pp  •  1 b/w photograph
$27.95 pb 978-1-4384-6420-6
“As informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-
provoking … extraordinary and highly recommended.”
— Midwest Book Review

www.sunypress.edu
january  •  276 pp
$24.95 pb 978-1-4384-6418-3

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 indigenous studies
CHANGED FOREVER,
Volume I
American Indian
Boarding-School
Literature
Arnold Krupat
The first in-depth study of
a range of literature written by
Native Americans who attended
government-run boarding schools.
Changed Forever is the first
study to gather a range of texts
produced by Native Americans
who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-
run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the
first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines
Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail
these students’ experiences. The book’s analyses are attentive
to the topics (topoi) and places (loci) of the boarding schools.
Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on
them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious
instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others.
These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory,
the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat’s close
readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical
context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the
Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked
poignantly, “What has become of the thousands of Indian voices
who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?” Changed Forever
lets us hear some of them.
Arnold Krupat is Professor Emeritus, Sarah Lawrence College
and the author of many books, including “That the People Might
Live”: Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy.
www.sunypress.edu
A volume in the SUNY series, Native Traces
Jace Weaver and Scott Richard Lyons, editors
April  •  352 pp  •  15 b/w photographs
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6915-7
50
Hip Hop Beats,
Indigenous Rhymes
Modernity and Hip Hop in
Indigenous North America
Kyle T. Mays
Argues that Indigenous Hip Hop
is the latest and newest assertion of
Indigenous sovereignty throughout
Indigenous North America.
Expressive culture has always
been an important part of the
social, political, and economic
lives of Indigenous people. More
recently, Indigenous people have blended expressive cultures with
Hip Hop culture, creating new sounds, aesthetics, movements,
and ways of being Indigenous. This book documents recent
developments among the Indigenous Hip Hop Generation.
Meeting at the nexus of Hip Hop Studies, Indigenous Studies,
and Critical Ethnic Studies, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
argues that Indigenous people use Hip Hop culture to assert their
sovereignty and challenge settler colonialism. From rapping about
land and water rights from Flint to Standing Rock, to remixing
“traditional” beading with Hip Hop aesthetics, Indigenous people
are using Hip Hop to challenge their ongoing dispossession,
disrupt racist stereotypes and images of Indigenous people, contest
white supremacy and heteropatriarchy, and reconstruct ideas of
a progressive masculinity. In addition, this book carefully traces the
idea of authenticity; that is, the common notion that, by engaging
in a Black culture, Indigenous people are losing their “traditions.”
Indigenous Hip Hop artists navigate the muddy waters of the
“politics of authenticity,” by creating art that is not bound by
narrow conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous; instead,
they flip the notion of “tradition” and create alternative visions
of what being Indigenous means today, and what that might look
like going forward.
Kyle T. Mays is Assistant Professor in the Department of African
American Studies and the American Indian Center, UCLA.
A volume in the SUNY series, Native Traces
Jace Weaver and Scott Richard Lyons, editors
March  •  160 pp  •  7 b/w photographs
$24.95 pb 978-1-4384-6946-1
$75.00 hc 978-1-4384-6945-4

Our War Paint
is Writers’ Ink
Anishinaabe Literary
Transnationalism
Adam Spry
Explores a little-known history
of exchange between Anishinaabe
and American writers, showing
how literature has long been
an important venue for debates
over settler colonial policy and
indigenous rights.
For the Anishinaabeg—the
indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes—literary writing has long
been an important means of asserting their continued existence
as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the
same time, literature has also offered American writers a way to
make the Anishinaabe Nation disappear, often by relegating it to
a distant past. In this book, Adam Spry puts these two traditions
in conversation with one another, showing how novels, poetry,
and drama have been the ground upon which Anishinaabeg
and Americans have clashed as representatives of two nations
contentiously occupying the same land. Focusing on moments
of contact, appropriation, and exchange, Spry examines a diverse
range of texts in order to reveal a complex historical network
of Native and non-Native writers who read and adapted each
other’s work across the boundaries of nation, culture, and time.
By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and
the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint
Is Writers’ Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native
American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of
mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the
legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood.
Adam Spry is Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and
Publishing at Emerson College.
A volume in the SUNY series, Native Traces
Jace Weaver and Scott Richard Lyons, editors
March  •  225 pp  •  3 b/w photographs, 2 figures
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6881-5
indigenous studies
New in Paper
The World, the Text,
and the Indian
Global Dimensions of
Native American Literature
Scott Richard Lyons, editor
Advances critical conversations in Native
American literary studies by situating
its subject in global, transnational, and
modernizing contexts.
Since the rise of the Native American
Renaissance in literature and culture during the American
civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed
to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study,
recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural
production. For the past few decades the dominant framework
has been nationalism, a critical perspective placing emphasis
on specific tribal nations and nationalist concepts. While this
nationalist intervention has produced important insights and
questions regarding Native American literature, culture, and
politics it has not always attended to the important fact that
Native texts and writers have also always been globalized.
The World, the Text, and the Indian breaks from this framework by
examining Native American literature not for its tribal-national
significance but rather its connections to global, transnational,
and cosmopolitan forces. Essays by leading scholars in the field
assume that Native American literary and cultural production
is global in character; even claims to sovereignty and self-
determination are made in global contexts and influenced by
global forces. Spanning from the nineteenth century to the
present day, these analyses of theories, texts, and methods—
from trans-indigenous to cosmopolitan, George Copway to
Sherman Alexie, and indigenous feminism to book history—
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interrogate the dialects of global indigeneity and settler
colonialism in literary and visual culture.
january  •  330 pp  •  15 b/w photographs, 1 map
$27.95 pb 978-1-4384-6444-2
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 anthropology  • film studies

Anthropology Immanent Frames

Anthropology and Civilizational Postsecular Cinema
and Analysis between Malick
Civilizational Eurasian Explorations and von Trier
Analysis Johann P. Arnason and IMMANENT FRAMES John Caruana and
Chris Hann, editors
Postsecular Cinema between
Malick and von Trier Mark Cauchi, editors
edited by John Caruana and Mark Cauchi

Brings social and cultural anthro- Explores a growing number

pologists into dialogue with his- of films and filmmakers that
Eurasian challenge the strict boundaries
torical sociology and illustrates the
Explorations continued potential of the concept between belief and unbelief.
edited by

of civilization for all participants.

Johann P. arnason and C hris hann

For some time now, thinkers

The concept of civilization has
a long but checkered history
in anthropology, and anthropological materials have been of
great importance for the development of civilizational analysis
in historical sociology. Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis
brings these diverse fields together and explores a wide range
of topics pertaining to civilization, from classical theories to
contemporary rhetorical discourses, including detailed case
studies of concrete practices documented through archival and
ethnographic research. While many scholars and the wider public
still think of civilization in simplistic terms, viewing it in terms
of Enlightenment notions of progress and evolution to higher
stages, others have pluralized the term only to create essentialized
units which are only tenuously linked to historical processes.
In this book contributors use dynamic approaches, including
those rooted in the seminal writings of Émile Durkheim and
Marcel Mauss, opening up the dimension of civilization as an
important complement to other key terms such as society and
culture in social science and historical analysis.
Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe
University in Melbourne, Australia and Associate of the
Department of Historical Sociology in the Faculty of Human
www.sunypress.edu
across the humanities and
social sciences have increasingly
called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship
between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of
a “postsecular turn.” Until now, film studies has largely been silent
about this development, even though cinema itself has been
a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable
in 2011 when Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Lars von
Trier’s Melancholia were released within days of each other. While
these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly
opposite perspectives—the former a thoughtful meditation on
faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheism—together
they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence
in modern life.These films are, however, only the most conspicuous
of a growing body of works that call forth similar and related
questions—what this collection aptly calls “postsecular cinema.”
This pioneering collection sets out to establish the idea of
postsecular cinema as a distinct body of films and a viable
critical category. Adopting a film-philosophy approach, one
group of essays examines Malick’s and von Trier’s films, while
another looks at works by Chantal Akerman, Denys Arcand,
the Dardenne brothers, and John Michael McDonagh, among

Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
He is the author of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and
Theoretical Traditions. Chris Hann is Director at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the coauthor (with
Keith Hart) of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique.
A volume in the SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
Saïd Amir Arjomand and Wolf Schäfer, editors
May  •  352 pp
$90.00 hc 978-1-4384-6939-3
52
others. The volume closes with two important interviews with
Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy.
John Caruana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson
University. Mark Cauchi is Associate Professor in the
Department of Humanities at York University.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
June  •  310 pp  •  33 b/w photographs
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-7017-7

Rx Hollywood
Cinema and Therapy
Rx Hollywood in the 1960s
Cinema and THer apy in THe 1960s
Michael DeAngelis
How films of the 1960s and early
1970s framed therapeutic issues as
problems of human communication,
and individual psychological
problems as social ones.
Michael DeAngelis
Rx Hollywood investigates how
therapy surfaced in the themes,
representations, and narrative
strategies of a changing film
industry. In the 1960s and early 1970s, American cinema was
struggling to address adult audiences who were increasingly
demanding films that confronted contemporary issues. Focusing
upon five fields of therapeutic inquiry—therapist/patient
dynamics, female “frigidity” and male impotence, marital discord,
hallucinogenic drug use, and the dynamics of confession—
Michael DeAngelis argues that the films of this period reveal
an emergent, common tendency of therapy to work toward
the formation of a stronger sense of interpersonal, community/
social, and political engagement, counteracting alienation and
social division in the spirit of connection and community.
Prior to the 1960s, therapy had been considered an introspective
process, one that emphasized contemplation and insight and
prompted the patient to investigate memories and past traumas.
In the 1960s, however, therapy would move toward more
humanistic, client-centered, community, group, and encounter
models that deemphasized the “there and then” of past feelings
and experiences and embraced the “here and now” of the
present. These kinds of therapy promised to heal the self through
a process of reaching out, helping individuals to connect
with communities, support networks, and other like-minded
individuals who shared a needed sense of belonging.
Michael DeAngelis is Associate Professor of Media and
Cinema Studies at DePaul University.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
January  •  224 pp  •  12 b/w photographs
$95.00 hc 978-1-4384-6851-8
film studies
Queer Art Camp
Superstar
Decoding the Cinematic
Cyberworld of
Ryan Trecartin
Ricardo E. Zulueta
The first book-length study of
Trecartin’s artistic genealogy,
evolving aesthetics, radical
approach to digital and
Internet culture, and impact on
contemporary art, film, and media.
Hailed as “the most consequential artist to have emerged since
the nineteen-eighties,” American artist and filmmaker Ryan
Trecartin has received numerous accolades for his kaleidoscopic,
multilayered movies and multimedia installations. However, there
exists to date no comprehensive study of this prolific artist’s work.
Queer Art Camp Superstar compensates for this absence of
sustained critical analysis of Trecartin’s work by looking closely
at a selection of his most significant movies in order to discern
the artist’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach
to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art,
film, and media.
Examining Trecartin’s substantial body of work, spanning from his
early, pre-YouTube era series Early Baggage (2001–2003) to Temple
Time (2016), Ricardo E. Zulueta adheres to a faithful chronological
order, thus inviting readers to witness the ways thematic and formal
concerns have evolved from Trecartin’s earliest movies to his more
recent multimedia cinematic installations.
Ricardo E. Zulueta is an artist and scholar who examines the
interdisciplinary connections between contemporary art, film and
media, gender and sexuality, and fashion studies. His writing has
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appeared in Film and History and Fashion Theory, as well as in
a number of books and catalogues. He is a recipient of fellowships
from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cintas Foundation,
and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, editor
April  •  180 pp  •  7 x 10  •  97 color photographs
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New in Paper
Brechtian Cinemas
Montage and Theatricality in
Jean-Marie Straub and
Danièle Huillet, Peter Watkins,
and Lars von Trier
Nenad Jovanovic
Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s
ideas on the practice and study of cinema.
Nenad Jovanovic uses examples from
select major filmmakers to delineate
the variety of ways in which Bertolt Brecht’s concept of epic/
dialectic theatre has been adopted and deployed in international
cinema. Jovanovic critically engages Brecht’s ideas and their most
influential interpretations in film studies, from apparatus theory
in the 1970s to the presently dominant cognitivist approach.
Hitchcock’s
Moral Gaze
R. Barton Palmer, Homer B. Pettey,
and Steven M. Sanders, editors
Offers new and compelling perspectives
on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s
films.
Through discussions of such films
as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window,
Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Frenzy,
the contributors to this book strive to throw light on the way
Hitchcock depicts a moral—if not amoral or immoral—world.
“This is an indispensable contribution to Hitchcock studies …
Highly recommended.” — CHOICE

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John Huston as Adaptor Passionate

Douglas McFarland and Detachments
Wesley King, editors Technologies of Vision
and Violence in American
Argues that understanding Huston’s Cinema, 1967–1974
film adaptations of literary works is
Amy Rust
essential to understanding his oeuvre as
a filmmaker.
Investigates the cultural value of
film violence.
John Huston as Adaptor makes the case
that adaptation is the salient element
Amy Rust investigates the rise of
in Huston’s identity as a filmmaker
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graphic violence in American films

and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of
of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the popular aesthetics
reading informed his approach to film adaptation. Thirty-four of
and critical responses this violence inspired. She examines four
Huston’s thirty-seven films were adaptations of literary texts, and
technologies adopted by commercial American cinema after
they stand as serious interpretations of literary works that could
the fall of the Hollywood Production Code: multiple-camera
only be made by an astute reader of literature. Indeed, Huston
montage, squibs (small explosive devices) and artificial blood,
asserted that a film director should be above all else a reader and
freeze-frames, and zooms. Approaching these technologies as
that reading itself should be the intellectual and emotional basis
figures, as opposed to mere tools, Rust traces the encounters they
for filmmaking.
mediate between perception and representation.

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New in Paper
Gestures of Love
Romancing Performance in
Classical Hollywood Cinema
Steven Rybin
Examines movie romance in light of
our emotional bond to the actors and
characters on screen.
Gestures of Love considers the viewer’s
enchantment with charismatic actors
in film as the starting point for closely
analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a
thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin
examines several of cinema’s most beloved on-screen movie couples,
including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and Lauren Bacall
and Humphrey Bogart. Using the classical genres of screwball
comedy, film noir, and the family melodrama as touchstones, Rybin
places the depiction of romance in films into dialogue with the
viewer’s own emotional bond to the actors on the screen.
january  •  261 pp  •  86 b/w photographs
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American Stranger
Modernisms, Hollywood, and
the Cinema of Nicholas Ray
Will Scheibel
Reconstructs how Ray became a “rebel
auteur” in cinema culture.
How does cinema culture imagine one
of its favorite figures, the rebel? The
reputation of the American director
Nicholas Ray provides a particularly
notable example. Most famous for Rebel Without a Cause, Ray
has since been canonized as a “rebel auteur” and celebrated for
seeking a personal vision and signature style under the industrial
pressures of Classical Hollywood during its late studio period. Will
Scheibel reconstructs how Ray’s reputation developed over time.
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film studies  •  literature
Figures of Time
Disjunctions
in Modernist Poetry
David Ben-Merre
Figures of Time
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
Focuses on how nuances of poetic
David Ben-Merre
form alter how we have come to
understand cultural aspects of time.
Figures of Time proposes radically
new ideas about the very poetic
ground of culture. Presenting
unique close readings of six
modern poets—Wallace Stevens,
W. B.Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle),
Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre
brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of
modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in
critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of
sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time,
reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward
glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological
perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.
David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo
State College, State University of New York.
A volume in the SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
David E. Johnson and Scott Michaelsen, editors
February  •  288 pp  •  1 figure
$85.00 hc 978-1-4384-6833-4
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Poetics Multicultural
and Precarity Poetics
Poetics and Precarity
Myung Mi Kim and Re-visioning
MULTICULTURAL POETICS
Cristanne Miller, editors Re-visioning the American Canon the American Canon
Nissa Parmar
Poets and critics address the
potential of language to address Argues that multiculturalism and
the increasing level of discord and hybridity are key components of
precarity in the twenty-first century. the nation’s poetry and its culture.
Edited by Myung Mi Kim
At a time when wars, acts
and Cristanne Miller Multicultural Poetics provides
NISSA PARMAR
of terrorism, and ecological
THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
a new perspective on American
degradation have intensified and
ROBERT CREELEY LECTURES IN POETRY AND POETICS

poetry that will contribute to

isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic
divisiveness have been given
distinctively more powerful voice
in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed.
The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the
potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity,
and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the
poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body,
breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form.
Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize
those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions
as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism,
climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life.
Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently
gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The
contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been
crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge
the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power
of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at
a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics
and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the
concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.
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the evolution of contemporary
critical practice. Nissa Parmar
combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace
a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to
what Marilyn Chin deemed America’s “multicultural renaissance,”
the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s.
This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman
and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach
provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized
twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to
inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses
a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship
between American poetic form and cultural development. This
book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical
paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent
authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing
commonalities across American literatures and the cross-
fertilization that has informed their development.
“Parmar demonstrates her mastery of the immense body of
scholarship devoted to the poetic lineage Multicultural Poetics
engages. She writes with elegance and tact and displays her ability
to simplify several concepts—liminality, the third space,

interstitiality—of the most confounding of contemporary theorists.”

Myung Mi Kim is James H. McNulty Chair of English at — Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism
the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Nissa Parmar is Lecturer in Writing Studies at the University of
Butler Professor of English Literature at the University at Buffalo. Minnesota and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

The University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics A volume in the SUNY series in Multiethnic Literature
Cristanne Miller, editor Mary Jo Bona, editor

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Beasts of Burden
Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal
Life in British Romanticism
Ron Broglio
Uses literature, art, and cultural texts
from the British Romantic period to
explore the age in which biological life
and its abilities first became regulated by
the rising nation.
In Beasts of Burden, Ron Broglio
examines how lives—human and animal—were counted in rural
England and Scotland during the Romantic period. During this
time, Britain experienced unprecedented data collection from
censuses, ordinance surveys, and measurements of resources, all
used to quantify the life and productivity of the nation. It was
the dawn of biopolitics—the age in which biological life and its
abilities became regulated by the state. Using literature, art, and
cultural texts of the period, Broglio explores the apparatus of
biopolitics during the age of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus.
january  •  163 pp  •  21 b/w photographs, 1 figure
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Marionette Plays
from Northern China
Translated, edited, and with an
Introduction by Fan Pen Li Chen
English-language translations of
traditional plays from the marionette
puppet theater of northern China.
“…a thoughtful investigation into
the ancient but nearly extinct art
of the marionette puppet theater
of northern China.” — CHOICE
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literature
Philippe Lacoue-
Labarthe’s Phrase
Infancy, Survival
Christopher Fynsk
First sustained critical reading of
Lacoue-Labarthe’s Phrase, which
provides insights into a philosophically
inspired work of prose poetry.
This book presents an interpretation
of a volume of poetry and theoretical
reflections (Phrase) by the late Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, who is
widely known as one of the major contributors to thinking about
the relation between philosophy and literature in the continental
tradition. His work has shaped the deconstructive approach to
the question of the subject and has opened important paths of
research relating to the topic of literary mimesis. Along with
Jean-Luc Nancy, he made very important contributions in the
areas of romantic literary theory and psychoanalytic theory.
january  •  110 pp
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tHE Love of Ruins
Letters on Lovecraft
Scott Cutler Shershow and
Scott Michaelsen
The Love of Ruins Explores issues related to race and
L e t t e r s o n L o v e c r a f t
Scott Cutler Shershow
religion in Lovecraft criticism.
&
Scott Michaelsen
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more
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popular and controversial than
ever: the influence of his “Cthulhu
mythos” is everywhere in popular
culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme
in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark
controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at
a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or
“weird” fiction.
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Intimately
Unfamiliar
New Work by SUNY
New Paltz Art Faculty
Michael Asbill,
Anne Galperin, Sara J. Pasti,
and Ursula Morgan
Showcases the latest trends in
art and design, from painting
and sculpture to photography,
printmaking, and metals.
This catalogue is published
in conjunction with the exhibition Intimately Unfamiliar: New
Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty, curated by Michael
Asbill, on display at the Dorsky from January 25 through April
9, 2017. The participating artists teach courses in printmaking,
photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design,
ceramics, metals, and art education, as well as basic foundation
courses. They are also professional artists and designers who
exhibit their work in major museums and galleries throughout
the world. Born in Europe, South America, the Middle East,
and across the United States, these professionals collectively bring
a wealth of experience and perspectives to art and art education.
The fully illustrated catalogue was designed by Dimitry S. Tetin
and features texts by curator Michael Asbill, Sara J. Pasti, and
Anne Galperin.
Michael Asbill is an artist and curator who works at the
interstices of art, education, community, and curation.
He directs CHRCH Project Space in Cottekill, New York,
and is a founding member of Mettacamp, an arts and agriculture
community in Accord, New York. Anne Galperin is Chair of
the Art Department at the State University of New York at New
Paltz. Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel
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Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at
New Paltz. Ursula Morgan is the Coordinator of Exhibitions
and Programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
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Text/ures of Iraq
Contemporary Art
from the Collection
of Oded Halahmy
Oded Halahmy, Sara J. Pasti,
Murtazi Vali, and
Ursula Morgan
Presents work by Halahmy and
eight other contemporary artists
from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal
Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany,
Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah,
Hassan Massoudy, Naziha
Rashid, and Qasim Sabti.
Text/ures of Iraq presents work by New York-based sculptor
Oded Halahmy, a Jewish native of Baghdad, alongside that of
eight contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan,
Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan
Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti. Gathering works that
reference Iraq’s literary past in an effort to better understand the
region’s present, the book finds its constituent artists celebrating
their country as a pastoral idyll, where people of different beliefs,
cultures, and ethnicities peacefully coexisted for centuries, while
also mourning the gradual, more recent fraying of Iraqi culture.
The layered and abraded surfaces of some of the pieces speak to
the persistence of violence, while the picturesqueness of others
captures the powerful affective textures of nostalgia and exile.
Oded Halahmy currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa,
Israel. His sculptures are in the collection of the Guggenheim
Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections
worldwide. Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager Director of the
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New
York at New Paltz. Murtazi Vali is a critic and curator based in
Sharjah, UAE and Brooklyn. Ursula Morgan is the Coordinator of
Exhibitions and Programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
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Sara Greenberger
Rafferty
Gloves Off
Sara
SARA GREENBERGER RAFFERTY: GLOVES OFF
Sara J. Pasti, Andrew Ingall,
Green Corinna Ripps Schaming,
berger and Jonathan Thomas
Rafferty Jeanne Finley, editor
Gloves
Presents recent work by the
Off Brooklyn-based artist known for
unsettling works that contend
with such topics as domesticity,
the body, consumer culture,
fashion, and violence.
The boxing term “gloves off ”—frequently used as a metaphor
to characterize brutal political campaigns and post-9/11
military interrogation—aptly describes the subtle aggressions
in American popular culture that Sara Greenberger Rafferty
lays bare. Blurring the lines between two and three dimensions,
Rafferty attaches her wall-mounted works using custom-painted
screws that break up the images. She also deploys cracked
paint resembling viscous bodily fluids, further “wounding”
the objects. Over the past decade, Rafferty has referenced the
language, gestures, and props associated with stand-up comedy.
This exhibition includes a new large-scale work entitled “Jokes
on You,” featuring images of ephemera from the collections of
the National Museum of American History, which was part
of Rafferty’s study during her Smithsonian Artist Research
Fellowship. Index cards from the Phyllis Diller “Gag File,”
scanned and recontextualized by Rafferty, underscore the trauma
associated with cultural mores that assert control over women’s
bodies, such as marriage and consumerism.
Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at
New Paltz. Andrew Ingall is an independent curator, scholar,
and producer. Corinna Ripps Schaming is Associate Director
and Curator at the University at Albany Art Museum.
Jonathan Thomas is Editor in Chief of The Third Rail.
Jeanne Finley is a fiction writer, poet, and freelance editor.
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art
Carl Walters
and Woodstock
Ceramic Art
Sara J. Pasti,Tom Wolf,
Adrienne Spinozzi, and
Ursula Morgan
Surveys the forty-year career
of Carl Walters (1883–1955),
a pioneer of modern ceramic art
in the United States.
Drawing on the first major exhibition of Carl Walters in over
sixty years, this catalogue includes an extensive critical essay by
curator Tom Wolf and an additional essay by modern ceramics
expert Adrienne Spinozzi. The catalogue places Walters
(1883–1955) within the context of development of ceramic
arts in Woodstock over two generations ago, from the Byrdcliffe
Guild in the early twentieth century to the younger modernists
who worked in the Maverick in the 1920s and 1930s. Spanning
a career that lasted over forty years, this fully illustrated catalogue
features approximately thirty prime examples of Walters’s witty
and original three-dimensional ceramic figures as well as
a selection of works on paper from private and public collections
in the Northeast. Perhaps best known for his creation of the
glass panels on the doors of the original Whitney Museum
of American Art, Walters was unusual in that he made both
functional objects and independent ceramic sculptures.
Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Tom Wolf is Professor of Art History at Bard College since 1971
and renowned authority on the historic Woodstock art colony.
Adrienne Spinozzi is Research Associate in the American Wing,
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vice President of the American
Ceramic Circle and coeditor of the organization’s biannual
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Newsletter. Ursula Morgan is the Coordinator of Exhibitions and
Programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
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New in Paper Mud Lotus Mystic

The Poetry
Art as Contemplative and The Practical,
Practice Methods of the
Expressive Pathways to the Self Inner Journey
Michael A. Franklin Cyrus Bruton
Art as yoga and meditation for artists, A manual for learning to celebrate
contemplative practitioners, art educators, each moment, whether mundane,
and art therapists. blissful, or painful.

Drawing upon his personal experience This is a manual for the

as a practitioner-researcher, visual conscious experiencing and
artist, and cancer survivor, Michael celebration of life as lived day
A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as by day; our natural state of peace,
contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original laughter, pain, love, and truth. This is life and one day we die,
artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting so how can we truly be here for each conscious moment with
various practice traditions including yoga, rasa and darshan no postponement or absence? The author invites the reader
experiences, imaginal intelligence, and the contemplative through essays, methods, and poetry, to a quickening and
instincts of select early twentieth-century artists. From this deepening of this journey.
synthesis, Franklin suggests that we treat art as a form of yoga
and meditation with the potential to awaken deeper insight Cyrus Bruton is an author and academic.
into the fundamental nature of the Self. Exercises and rubrics
are included that offer accessible instruction for any artist,
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how art can be a contemplative way of being and pathway to the
Self. It reveals the creative, imaginal side of our humanity to be
a sacred ground from which grows the wholeness of both the
individual practitioner and the larger community.”
— Fran Grace, University of Redlands

“One of the book’s notable features is the author’s honesty,

candor, and openness in discussing the healing benefits of
contemplative creativity in his own experience.”
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— William K. Mahony, Davidson College

“The book’s breadth of experiments and useful images in art

therapy and meditative traditions is its greatest strength.”
— Cliff Edwards,Virginia Commonwealth University

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tHE Tawny One
Soma, Haoma,
and Ayahuasca
Matthew Clark
Suggests that soma/haoma was
probably originally a psychedelic
drink made from plants with
chemistry similar to ayahuasca.
The identity of the plant known
as soma in ancient India and
as haoma in the Zoroastrian
tradition has, for around 250
years, exercised the wits and
imagination of scores of scholars. This plant is praised in the
highest terms—as a kind of deity—in both Zoroastrian and
Vedic texts that date from around 1,700–1,500 BCE. It is said
to provide health, power, wisdom, and even immortality. It has
been variously identified by researchers as a nonpsychoactive
plant, as a medicine, as merely water, as alcoholic, as a narcotic,
as a stimulant, and as a psychedelic. Currently, the three most
supported theories are that soma/haoma was either fly-agaric
mushrooms, ephedra, or Syrian rue. The author suggests that the
ritual drink was based on analogues of ayahuasca, using a variety
of plants, some of which he identifies in the book.
Dr. Matthew Clark has spent many years in India and is
currently a Research Associate at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London.
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Otherworlds
Psychedelics
and Exceptional
Human Experience
David Luke
Synthesizes scientific research
on extraordinary experience
occurring under the influence
of psychedelics, including
neuroscientific, psychological,
parapsychological, anthropological,
and transpersonal perspectives.
What is the evidence that psi
experiences are experienced more frequently in non-ordinary
states of consciousness? David Luke addresses this question,
which is beyond the scope of materialist science, with a synthesis
of scientific research on anomalous experiences occurring
under the influence of psychedelics from the perspective of
neuroscience, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and
transpersonal studies. This is a comprehensive exploration
of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences,
including synesthesia, extra-dimensional percepts, out-of-
body-experiences, near-death experiences, entity encounter
experiences, sleep paralysis, mediumship, clairvoyance, telepathy,
and precognition. The author explores the implications for our
understanding of consciousness and areas for further research.
Dr. David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the
University of Greenwich and has studied techniques of
consciousness alteration from South America to India,
from the perspective of scientists, shamans, and Shivaites.
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Winner of the 2016
Codhill Poetry Award
In the Gorge
Poems
Brandon Krieg
Poems that contemplate the
fraught interdependence of the
human and more-than-human in
an era of extreme environmental
degradation.
In the Gorge aspires to full
emotional and intellectual
recognition of our fraught
interdependence with more-
than-human ecosystems.
The collection also examines the impact of environmental
degradation on human relationships, particularly on those of
people attempting to create shared meaning beyond that offered
by the dominant consumer paradigm. In the Gorge is keen to
evoke the ecology of cities and other human-managed spaces, in
order to encourage care of the natural world where our impact
is greatest, and to combat the harmful myth that nature is over
there, in wilderness areas where no humans live. The collection is
at pains to navigate the territory between naive nature worship
and apocalyptic skepticism, in order to be fully present to what
we have done to the Earth and realistic about what attention to
the Earth can do for us politically, psychologically, and spiritually.
“…Part pastoral, part elegy for our future on Earth, In the Gorge
urges us to believe in mercy, in redemption, and the dire need
for entwining ourselves with the natural world. This is
a phenomenal work.” — Glenn Shaheen, author of Energy Corridor
Brandon Krieg is the author of Invasives, a finalist for the
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2015 ASLE Book Award in Environmental Creative Writing,
and a chapbook, Source to Mouth. His poems have appeared
in The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, FIELD, The Iowa Review,
and West Branch. He is an assistant professor of English at
Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
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Ahbel-Rappe/ Socratic Ignorance and Platonic…, p. 19
Aitken, Sharma/ The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell…, p. 17
Allison/ Lessing and the Enlightenment, p. 20
Amit/ A Queer Way Out, p. 47
Arce/ México’s Nobodies, p. 41
Arnason, Hann/ Anthropology and Civilizational…, p. 52
Asbill et al./ Intimately Unfamiliar, p. 58
Asprem/ The Problem of Disenchantment, p. 15
Ben-Merre/ Figures of Time, p. 55
Benso/ Viva Voce, p. 29
Bihler/ Cities of Refuge, p. 46
Block/ Echoes of a Queer Messianic, p. 47
Bos/ Aristotle on God’s Life-Generating Power…, p. 20
Brasovan/ Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism, p. 13
Broglio/ Beasts of Burden, p. 57
Brooms/ Being Black, Being Male on Campus, p. 44
Bruton/ Mud Lotus Mystic, p. 60
Burack/ Because We Are Human, p. 48
Burton/ NATO’s Durability in a Post–Cold War…, p. 33
Caruana, Cauchi/ Immanent Frames, p. 52
Chen/ Marionette Plays from Northern China, p. 57
Chun/ Forget Chineseness, p. 13
Chung, Kim/ Chaekgeori, p. 9
Clark/ The Tawny One, p. 61
Constantinou et al./ International Librarianship, p. 64
Cramer/ Shared Governance in Higher…, Vol. 1, p. 64
Crépon/ The Vocation of Writing, p. 21
Crosby/ The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, p. 17
Dalmia/ Hindu Pasts, p. 9
David/ We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet, p. 5
Davidson, Ward/ Cities under Austerity, p. 33
de Alencastro/ The Trade in the Living, p. 40
DeAngelis/ Rx Hollywood, p. 53
Defoort, Ames/ Having a Word with Angus Graham, p. 10
DiMaggio/ The Politics of Persuasion, p. 37
Dombrowski/ Whitehead’s Religious Thought, p. 29
Engels/ The Art of Gratitude, p. 21
Fair-Schulz, Kessler/ East German Historians…, p. 38
Ferrer/ Participation and the Mystery, p. 18
Fine/ A State Is Born, p. 34
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Foust/ Confucianism and American Philosophy, p. 30
Franke/ Apophatic Paths from Europe to China, p. 22
Franklin/ Art as Contemplative Practice, p. 60
Fynsk/ Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s Phrase, p. 57
Geaney/ Language as Bodily Practice in Early…, p. 10
Globachev, Globacheva/ The Truth of the…, p. 38
Goh/ Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora, p. 11
Goldbach, Godley/ Inheritance in Psychoanalysis, p. 32
Gonzalez/ Energy, the Modern State, and the…, p. 34
Gray-Rosendale/ Getting Personal, p. 63
Griffero/ Quasi-Things, p. 30
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Hahn/ The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean…, p. 30
Halahmy et al./ Text/ures of Iraq, p. 58
Hansen, Tuvel/ New Forms of Revolt, p. 30
Harfouch/ Another Mind-Body Problem, p. 22
Hartnell/ After Katrina, p. 49
Hellinger et al./ Religious Zionism and the…, p. 44
Holmes/ Mediaevalia, p. 66
Holt/ Water and Power in Past Societies, p. 38
Huang/ Intimate Memory, p. 11
Huffer, Winnubst/ philoSOPHIA, p. 66
Jenckes/ Witnessing beyond the Human, p. 41
Jones/ Mystery 101, p. 23
Jovanovic/ Brechtian Cinemas, p. 54
Jung/ Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven, p. 18
Kanaris/ Reconfigurations of Philosophy of…, p. 15
Kelly/ For Foucault, p. 23
Khalil/ Repentance and the Return to God, p. 16
Kim/ Partnership within Hierarchy, p. 37
Kim, Miller/ Poetics and Precarity, p. 56
Kingsbury/ Only the People Can Save the People, p. 35
Kopf et al./ Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, p. 66
Krieg/ In the Gorge, p. 62
Krupat/ Changed Forever, Volume I, p. 50
Lacovara, D’Auria/ The Mystery of the Albany…, p. 1
Larkin/ Overcoming Niagara, p. 7
Lehman, Weinman/ The Parthenon and Liberal…, p. 24
Lewis, C./ Essays on the Foundations of Ethics, p. 31
Lewis, S./ Loving Violet, p. 62
Liu, Ma/ Confucianism Reconsidered, p. 63
Locklin/ Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints, p. 18
Luke/ Otherworlds, p. 61
Luna/ Adapting Gender, p. 40
Lupien/ Citizens’ Power in Latin America, p. 35
Lyons/ The World, the Text, and the Indian, p. 51
MacKendrick/ Failing Desire, p. 48
Martinez/ Cleansing the Temple: Dante…, p. 65
Massé, Bauer-Maglin/ Staging Women’s Lives…, p. 49
Mays/ Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes, p. 50
McCallum/ Unmaking The Making of Americans, p. 24
McFarland, King/ John Huston as Adaptor, p. 54
Muraro/ The Symbolic Order of the Mother, p. 25
Murata, K./ Beauty in Sufism, p. 18
Murata, S./ The First Islamic Classic in Chinese, p. 18
Murray/ China’s Lonely Revolution, p. 14
Muzio/ Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity, p. 42
Neville/ Defining Religion, p. 16
Norder/ The History of Here, p. 2
Palmer et al./ Hitchcock’s Moral Gaze, p. 54
Parker, Parker/ Contractual Politics and the…, p. 36
Parmar/ Multicultural Poetics, p. 56
Pasti et al./ Sara Greenberger Rafferty, p. 59
Pasti et al./ Carl Walters and Woodstock…, p. 59
Patterson/ The Holocaust and the…, p. 46
Pellechia/ Over a Barrel, p. 6
Pennington, Allocco/ Ritual Innovation, p. 12
Petrolle/ Dancing with Ophelia, p. 4
Rand/ Military Thought in Early China, p. 14
Robinson/ Adorno’s Poetics of Form, p. 25
Rust/ Passionate Detachments, p. 54
Rybin/ Gestures of Love, p. 55
Salas, Portes/ US Latinization, p. 65
Sallis/ Plato’s Statesman, p. 31
Sartwell/ Entanglements, p. 31
Scheibel/ American Stranger, p. 55
Schelling/ Statement on the True Relationship…, p. 26
Schwarzschild/ The Tragedy of Optimism, p. 45
Senatore/ Germs of Death, p. 26
Shai/ Hearts and Minds, p. 36
Shalom/ Re-ending the Maha÷bha÷rata, p. 14
Sharpley-Whiting, Patterson-Myers/ Palimpsest, p. 66
Shefsiek/ Set in Stone, p. 8
Shershow, Michaelsen/ The Love of Ruins, p. 57
Sibau/ Reading for the Moral, p. 12
Singer/ New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee, p. 7
Škof, Berndtson/ Atmospheres of Breathing, p. 27
Smith, R./ Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for…, p. 43
Smith, S./ Centering and Extending, p. 31
Spry/ Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink, p. 51
Stamos/ Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and…, p. 32
Stimilli/ The Debt of the Living, p. 32
Tananbaum/ Herbert H. Lehman, p. 8
Thompson/ Anti-Music, p. 27
Tournadre/ A Turbulent South Africa, p. 37
Tuhkanen/ Essentialist Villain, The, p. 28
Uehara et al./ Journal of Japanese Philosophy, p. 66
Valdés/ Diasporic Blackness, p. 42
Van den Hout/ Adriaen van der Donck, p. 3
Vieira/ States of Grace, p. 41
Vitale/ Biodeconstruction, p. 28
Vitale/ The Last Fortress of Metaphysics, p. 29
Wagner/ Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures, p. 39
Wangchuk/ The Uttaratantra in the Land of…, p. 19
Wariboko/ The Split God, p. 17
Weinstein/ The Room Is on Fire, p. 64
Wirth/ Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth, p. 39
Wright Austin/ The Caribbeanization of Black…, p. 43
Yadgar/ Sovereign Jews, p. 45
Yoon/ P’ungsu, p. 13
Zierler/ Movies and Midrash, p. 45
Zulueta/ Queer Art Camp Superstar, p. 53

Adapting Gender/ Luna, p. 40
Adorno’s Poetics of Form/ Robinson, p. 25
Adriaen van der Donck/ Van den Hout, p. 3
After Katrina/ Hartnell, p. 49
American Stranger/ Scheibel, p. 55
Another Mind-Body Problem/ Harfouch, p. 22
Anthropology and Civilizational…/ Arnason, Hann, p. 52
Anti-Music/ Thompson, p. 27
Apophatic Paths from Europe to China/ Franke, p. 22
Aristotle on God’s Life-Generating Power…/ Bos, p. 20
Art as Contemplative Practice/ Franklin, p. 60
Art of Gratitude, The/ Engels, p. 21
Atmospheres of Breathing/ Škof, Berndtson, p. 27
Beasts of Burden/ Broglio, p. 57
Beauty in Sufism/ Murata, K., p. 18
Because We Are Human/ Burack, p. 48
Being Black, Being Male on Campus/ Brooms, p. 44
Biodeconstruction/ Vitale, p. 28
Brechtian Cinemas/ Jovanovic, p. 54
Caribbeanization of Black…, The/ Wright Austin, p. 43
Carl Walters and Woodstock…/ Pasti et al., p. 59
Centering and Extending/ Smith, S., p. 31
Chaekgeori/ Chung, Kim, p. 9
Changed Forever, Volume I/ Krupat, p. 50
China’s Lonely Revolution/ Murray, p. 14
Cities of Refuge/ Bihler, p. 46
Cities under Austerity/ Davidson, Ward, p. 33
Citizens’ Power in Latin America/ Lupien, p. 35
Cleansing the Temple: Dante…/ Martinez, p. 65
Confucianism and American Philosophy/ Foust, p. 30
Confucianism Reconsidered/ Liu, Ma, p. 63
Contractual Politics and the…/ Parker, Parker, p. 36
Dancing with Ophelia/ Petrolle, p. 4
Debt of the Living, The/ Stimilli, p. 32
Defining Religion/ Neville, p. 16
Diasporic Blackness/ Valdés, p. 42
East German Historians…/ Fair-Schulz, Kessler, p. 38
Echoes of a Queer Messianic/ Block, p. 47
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and…/ Stamos, p. 32
Energy, the Modern State, and the…/ Gonzalez, p. 34
Entanglements/ Sartwell, p. 31
Essays on the Foundations of Ethics/ Lewis, C., p. 31
Essentialist Villain, The/ Tuhkanen, p. 28
Extraordinary in the Ordinary, The/ Crosby, p. 17
Failing Desire/ MacKendrick, p. 48
Figures of Time/ Ben-Merre, p. 55
First Islamic Classic in Chinese, The/ Murata, S., p. 18
For Foucault/ Kelly, p. 23
Forget Chineseness/ Chun, p. 13
Germs of Death/ Senatore, p. 26
Gestures of Love/ Rybin, p. 55
Getting Personal/ Gray-Rosendale, p. 63
Having a Word with Angus Graham/ Defoort, Ames, p. 10
Hearts and Minds/ Shai, p. 36
Herbert H. Lehman/ Tananbaum, p. 8
Hindu Pasts/ Dalmia, p. 9
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes/ Mays, p. 50
History of Here, The/ Norder, p. 2
Hitchcock’s Moral Gaze/ Palmer et al., p. 54
Holocaust and the…, The/ Patterson, p. 46
Immanent Frames/ Caruana, Cauchi, p. 52
In the Gorge/ Krieg, p. 62
Inheritance in Psychoanalysis/ Goldbach, Godley, p. 32
International Librarianship/ Constantinou et al., p. 64
Intimate Memory/ Huang, p. 11
Intimately Unfamiliar/ Asbill et al., p. 58
John Huston as Adaptor/ McFarland, King, p. 54
Journal of Buddhist Philosophy/ Kopf et al., p. 66
Journal of Japanese Philosophy/ Uehara et al., p. 66
Language as Bodily Practice in Early…/ Geaney, p. 10
Last Fortress of Metaphysics, The/ Vitale, p. 29
Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell…, The/ Aitken, Sharma, p. 17
Lessing and the Enlightenment/ Allison, p. 20
Love of Ruins, The/ Shershow, Michaelsen, p. 57
Loving Violet/ Lewis, S., p. 62
Marionette Plays from Northern China/ Chen, p. 57
Mediaevalia/ Holmes, p. 66
Metaphysics of the Pythagorean…, The/ Hahn, p. 30
México’s Nobodies/ Arce, p. 41
Military Thought in Early China/ Rand, p. 14
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth/ Wirth, p. 39
Movies and Midrash/ Zierler, p. 45
Mud Lotus Mystic/ Bruton, p. 60
Multicultural Poetics/ Parmar, p. 56
Mystery 101/ Jones, p. 23
Mystery of the Albany…, The/ Lacovara, D’Auria, p. 1
NATO’s Durability in a Post–Cold War…/ Burton, p. 33
Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism/ Brasovan, p. 13
New Forms of Revolt/ Hansen, Tuvel, p. 30
New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee/ Singer, p. 7
Only the People Can Save the People/ Kingsbury, p. 35
Otherworlds/ Luke, p. 61
Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink/ Spry, p. 51
Over a Barrel/ Pellechia, p. 6
Overcoming Niagara/ Larkin, p. 7
Palimpsest/ Sharpley-Whiting, Patterson-Myers, p. 66
Parthenon and Liberal…, The/ Lehman, Weinman, p. 24
Participation and the Mystery/ Ferrer, p. 18
Partnership within Hierarchy/ Kim, p. 37
Passionate Detachments/ Rust, p. 54
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s Phrase/ Fynsk, p. 57
philoSOPHIA/ Huffer, Winnubst, p. 66
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Plato’s Statesman/ Sallis, p. 31
Poetics and Precarity/ Kim, Miller, p. 56
Politics of Persuasion, The/ DiMaggio, p. 37
Problem of Disenchantment, The/ Asprem, p. 15
Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora/ Goh, p. 11
P’ungsu/ Yoon, p. 13
Quasi-Things/ Griffero, p. 30
Queer Art Camp Superstar/ Zulueta, p. 53
Queer Way Out, A/ Amit, p. 47
Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity/ Muzio, p. 42
Reading for the Moral/ Sibau, p. 12
Reconfigurations of Philosophy of…/ Kanaris, p. 15
Re-ending the Maha÷bha÷rata/ Shalom, p. 14
Religious Zionism and the…/ Hellinger et al., p. 44
Repentance and the Return to God/ Khalil, p. 16
Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures/ Wagner, p. 39
Ritual Innovation/ Pennington, Allocco, p. 12
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for…/ Smith, R., p. 43
Room Is on Fire, The/ Weinstein, p. 64
Rx Hollywood/ DeAngelis, p. 53
Sara Greenberger Rafferty/ Pasti et al., p. 59
Set in Stone/ Shefsiek, p. 8
Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven/ Jung, p. 18
Shared Governance in Higher…, Vol. 1/ Cramer, p. 64
Socratic Ignorance and Platonic…/ Ahbel-Rappe, p. 19
Sovereign Jews/ Yadgar, p. 45
Split God, The/ Wariboko, p. 17
Staging Women’s Lives…/ Massé, Bauer-Maglin, p. 49
State Is Born, A/ Fine, p. 34
Statement on the True Relationship…/ Schelling, p. 26
States of Grace/ Vieira, p. 41
Symbolic Order of the Mother, The/ Muraro, p. 25
Tawny One, The/ Clark, p. 61
Text/ures of Iraq/ Halahmy et al., p. 58
Trade in the Living, The/ de Alencastro, p. 40
Tragedy of Optimism, The/ Schwarzschild, p. 45
Truth of the…, The/ Globachev, Globacheva, p. 38
Turbulent South Africa, A/ Tournadre, p. 37
Unmaking The Making of Americans/ McCallum, p. 24
US Latinization/ Salas, Portes, p. 65
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Uttaratantra in the Land of…, The/ Wangchuk, p. 19
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints/ Locklin, p. 18
Viva Voce/ Benso, p. 29
Vocation of Writing, The/ Crépon, p. 21
Water and Power in Past Societies/ Holt, p. 38
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet/ David, p. 5
Whitehead’s Religious Thought/ Dombrowski, p. 29
Witnessing beyond the Human/ Jenckes, p. 41
World, the Text, and the Indian, The/ Lyons, p. 51
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