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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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