Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

The compelling chronicle of 120 years of motorcycle making in the Empire State.

An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.

Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy.

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.