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Impossible
Reading
compares polemics against idols in both the Hebrew Bible and
the Apostle Paul to argue that to welcome diversity requires
shunning idolatry. The author explores how these polemics inform
the approach to diversity in works by Sor Juana Inés de la
Cruz, Herman Melville, and Alfredo Véa.
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The
End of Literature
is an essay in originary thinking. It argues that
the starting point for all fundamental reflection on
the human, whether scientific, mythical, aesthetic,
or philosophical, is the hypothetical event of human
origin. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Eric
Gans, the author compares the latter’s idea of the
“originary hypothesis” to rival research strategies
in the humanities and human sciences.
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In Faith,
Reason and the Natural Sciences: The Challenge of the
Natural Sciences in the Work of Theologians the
author attempts to go beyond Non-overlapping Magisteria,
showing why the sciences constitute a fruitful challenge for
theologians’ work, and the insights of Judaeo-Christian
Revelation constitute a source of understanding for
scientists’ ultimate questions.
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On the (New) Baroque explores the re-invention of the
original European Baroque, primarily within the cultural,
literary, and philosophical traditions of late-Modernism in
Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin-America. In a highly
original and compelling re-interpretation of modernity,
Lambert argues that the frequency of the return of the
baroque as a major category expresses an often hidden
principle of postmodernism in its various national and
cultural incarnations, a principle that challenges the
historical centrality of the tradition of Anglo-American
modernism.
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Releasing Philosophy, Thinking
Art, the first
full-length philosophical examination of Sylvia
Plath’s poetry, claims that art and philosophy need
each other and have much to say to one another about
questions that overlap each medium.
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Of the many
available books that celebrate the Bible, Shakespeare, and
Charles Darwin,
The
Evolutionary Sequence
is the first study to show their continuity....
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Opening Doors
begins with a polemical introduction in which Watson
explains where he agrees with—also, more importantly, where
he differs from—the currently popular New Atheism (Dawkins,
Hitchens etc.).
Opening Doors
may be the most provocative intervention yet made in the
context of the recent philosophical turn to religion.
Reviving the case made by the now largely forgotten literary
critic, F.R.Leavis, for the novelists D.H.Lawrence and
Joseph Conrad, Watson brings these writers into a
conversation about religion with Derrida, Levinas and
Agamben, arguing that when read together these most unlikely
bedfellows help us revitalize our thinking.
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New
in 2009
On
the (New) Baroque
Gregg
Lambert (2009)
After Oedipus:
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
Kenneth Reinhard and
Julia Reinhard Lupton (2009)
Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art
Ellen
Miller (February, 2009)
The End of the Line
Neil Hertz (May, 2009)
The
Evolutionary Sequence in Tragedy and the Bible
Leonard Moss (March, 2009)
Romanesque Signs
Stephen Nichols (winter, 2009)
Impossible Reading
Robert
Savino Oventile (12/08)
Faith, Reason and the Natural
Sciences
Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti (April, 2009)
The
End of Literature
Richard van Oort (summer, 2009)
Opening Doors
Garry
Watson
Nihilism in Postmodernity
Ashley Woodward (summer, 2009)
The
Last Fumes:
Nihilism and the nature of
philosophical concepts
Franca D'Agostini (winter, 2009)
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