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Michel de Certeau
The Capture of Speech
and Other Political Writings
Translated by Tom Conley
In this foundational exploration, de Certeau examines who has
the right to speak, how this right is acquired, and what happens
when this right is denied or inhibited.
1 ISBN 0-8166-2769-X $19.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
192 pages o 1998
Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol
The Practice of Everyday
Life
Volume 2: Living and Cooking
Translated by Timothy J. Tomasik
The second volume of this magnum opus delves even deeper than
did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private
practices that make living a subversive art.
2 ISBN 0-8166-2876-9 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $16.00
296 pages o 1998
François Dosse
Empire of Meaning
The Humanization of the Social Sciences
Translated by Hassan Melehy
An essential guide to Continental philosophy after structuralism,
the sequel to Dosse's magisterial History of Structuralism.
3 ISBN 0-8166-2964-1 $39.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $16.00
352 pages o 1998
Benedetto Fontana
Hegemony and Power
On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli
Presents a comparative and textual exploration of Gramsci's interpretation
of Machiavelli's political anlayses.
"Immensely valuable." Rivista Di Studi Italiani
4 ISBN 0-8166-2288-4 $17.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
228 pages o 1993
Ronald N. Giere and Alan W. Richardson, editors
Origins of Logical Empiricism
Establishes a historical framework for the study of logical empiricism.
18 ISBN 0-8166-2834-3 $49.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $15.00
400 pages o 1996
Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science Series, volume 16
Ronald N. Giere
Cognitive Models of
Science
Delineates the emerging impact the cognitive sciences are having
on the content and methods of philosophy.
19 ISBN 0-8166-1979-4 o $44.95 cloth/jacket Sale price:
$10.00
512 pages o 1992
Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science Series, volume 15
José Gil
Metamorphoses of the
Body
Translated by Stephen Muecke
This investigation of power and the body is a brilliantly original
account of the nature of force as it functions in religious rituals,
sorcery, political relations, and other social domains.
5 ISBN 0-8166-2683-9 $22.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
6 ISBN 0-8166-2682-0 $57.95 cloth Sale price: $15.00
352 pages o 1998
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 12
David Theo Goldberg, editor
Anatomy of Racism
"Constitutes an important challenge to positivistic approaches
to the question of racism." Patterns of Prejudice
7 ISBN 0-8166-1804-6 $18.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
384 pages o 1992
Antonio Gramsci
Further Selections from
The Prison Notebooks
Translated and edited by Derek Boothman
This volume introduces a new and invaluable selection of Gramsci's
work. The editor brings together Gramsci's writings on religion,
education, science, philosophy, and economic theory.
8 ISBN 0-8166-2658-8 $34.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
720 pages o 1995
Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman, editors
Quantum Measurement
Beyond Paradox
The editors marshal the resources of leading physicists and philosophers
of science, skillfully joining their insights and ingenuity to
yield some of the most innovative and altogether promising thought
to date on quantum mechanics.
25 ISBN 0-8166-3065-8 $39.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $20.00
232 pages o 1998
Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science Series, volume 17
Peter Hitchcock
Oscillate Wildly
Space, Body, and
Spirit of Millennial Materialism
Mindful of the dangers for materialism, Peter Hitchcock nevertheless
shows how oscillation is part of the conceptual framework of materialist
inquiry from Marx to the present.
9 ISBN 0-8166-3150-6 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
10 ISBN 0-8166-3149-2 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
232 pages o 1998
Kevin Jon Heller and Eleanor Kaufman, editors
Deleuze and Guattari
New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture
The essays in this collection, written by prominent scholars,
offer a new approach to the work of these two key figures. Also
featured is a comprehensive bibliography of Guattari's and Deleuze's
work.
11 ISBN 0-8166-3028-3 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
12 ISBN 0-8166-3027-5 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
320 pages o 1998
Marcia Landy
Film, Politics, and Gramsci
"The best study written thus far in English on culture and
politics from a Gramscian perspective; it contains the most perspicacious
treatment and intelligent critical analysis of Gramsci's views."
Joseph A. Buttigieg
13 ISBN 0-8166-2391-0 $19.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
304 pages o 1994
Jean-François Lyotard
Heidegger and "the
jews"
Translated by Andreas Michel and Mark S. Roberts
Emanates from the ongoing debates in France regarding the resurgence
of anti-Semitism and recent disclosures about Heidegger's Nazism.
14 ISBN 0-8166-1857-7 $14.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
144 pages o 1991
Jean-François Lyotard
Political Writings
Translated by Bill Readings with Kevin Paul Geiman
"Political Writings in an invaluable collection of Lyotard's
work and of his unerring sense of political commitment."
Surfaces
15 ISBN 0-8166-2045-8 $19.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
16 ISBN 0-8166-2043-1 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
320 pages o 1993
Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodern Fables
Translated by Georges Van Den Abbleele
Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober
philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics, paying particular
attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment.
17 ISBN 0-8166-2554-9 $24.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $10.00
160 pages o 1997
Raphael Sassower
Technoscientific
Angst
Ethics and Responsibility
In this sobering exploration of scientific and intellectual responsibility,
Raphael Sassower skillfully relates the lessons of Auschwitz and
Hiroshima and treats them as resources for contemporary decision-making.
20 ISBN 0-8166-2957-9 $16.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
21 ISBN 0-8166-2956-0 $42.95 cloth Sale price: $18.00
160 pages o 1997
C. Wade Savage, editor
Scientific Theories
The contributors pursue, criticize, or harmonize the central themes
of current mainstream philosophy of science with others, thus
building a bridge between the old and new schools of thought.
26 ISBN 0-8166-1801-1 $29.95 cloth Sale price: $8.00
429 pages o 1990
Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science Series, volume 14
Isabelle Stengers
Power and Invention
Situating Science
Translated by Paul Bains
Concerned with the force and inventiveness of scientific theories,
Power and Invention offers a unique perspective on the power of
those theories to modify society, and vice versa.
22 ISBN 0-8166-2517-4 $21.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
248 pages o 1997
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 10
Cary Wolfe
Critical Environments
Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside"
Taking up the problem that has stalled contemporary theory-its
treatment of the object of knowledge, the "outside,"
as nothing but what a particular discourse makes of it-this book
suggests a solution: a reinvigorated, posthumanist form of pragmatism.
23 ISBN 0-8166-3019-4 $17.95 paper Sale price: $9.00
24 ISBN 0-8166-3018-6 $44.95 cloth Sale price: $20.00
208 pages o 1998
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 13