Theory and Philosophy

Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life

Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”

Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?

Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall

Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature

Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring

An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe

The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring

Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality

Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time

The Tomb of the Artisan God On Plato’s Timaeus Serge Margel 2019 Spring

A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida

Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall

A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”

Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall

A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima

The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall

A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy

Before the Law The Complete Text of Préjugés Jacques Derrida 2018 Fall

Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall

The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture

The Experimental Side of Modeling Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen, Editors 2018 Fall

An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling process

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