Cultural Studies
Perversions of the Market
An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Eccentric Laughter
Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.
Freedom Is Not Enough
Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.
The Life of the Soul
Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.
Childhood, Philosophy, and Dialogical Education
Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.
Novel Pedagogy
Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.
On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human
Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.
Emporialism
A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.
From Blues to Beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.
Early Jazz
A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.
The Biggest Thing in Show Business
A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.
Kant and the Feeling of Life
Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.
Leisure
Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.
The Overlooked Pillar
Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.
Theatres of Value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Deeper Learning with Psychedelics
Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.
Transatlantic Bondage
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Empire of Culture
Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.
Impact/Impasse
Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.
Between Care and Justice
Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.