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The Creature
The Creature is an invitation to follow the mechanics between power and pain, which begets the creature. Creatures confront power in, and through, conjunctures of radical contingency. The casual use of power is an exercise in distraction. It is an abiding conundrum that those who endure affliction also exert it as a force over other living bodies in equal measure-not as acts of vengeance or bad faith, but through deeds of forgetful randomness. To ensure social indemnity and security, creatures exercise force over kindred embodiments through a process of collective mimicry. In the bargain, creatures begin to disfigure and distort each other. The line between mutual slaughter and mutual embrac...
Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities
Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies. It affirms our commitment to wonder and adventure in living by confronting the subtext that lies within the manifold worldly, social and political vicissitudes and tribulations. The essays in this volume speak to our times and make sense of the idea of temporality in general by using wonder as an inclusive metaphor, which engulfs fortitude, anguish, joy, providence, submission, precariousness and revulsion. Wonder could lead to curiosity to inspiration to doubt to questioning to indignation to seeking of justice. The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.
Assured Self, Restive Self
The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisis is the disintegration of relationality among creatures. In fact, crisis is a battle of attrition with and within selfhood. It has the potential to turn into a norm in everyday interaction. It then stops being an exception and becomes the very conditio...
"Like Parchment in the Fire"
This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
Populism and Its Limits
Populism is its own measure. It suggests that all communication-political and otherwise, hinges upon the existential confrontation between 'the people' and the 'elite' or the 'powerful.' There are people and then there are anti-people. As such, populism appears to be the very condition that constitutes the crisis of parliamentary/discursive democracy and its modes of functioning. What does this unmediated assertion of the 'sovereignty' of the people imply? What does a constant heightening of non-ideological but antagonistic polarization in the socius mean for human lives and relationships, as well as for a political and cultural imagination? If populism is the unleashing of the general will,...
Shrapnel Minima
This is an anthology of and for the minimal and the perilous, an eclectic compendium ofessays, fiction, poetry and discussions for the serious lay reader, reaching deep into and far out of the humanities. It celebrates at once the spirit of sharedreverie and committed engagement, of cooperative communion andoverwrought tussling with contemporary contentions that trouble ourworld, as seen through the spreading universe of the humanities. This anthologybrings together select pieces from the cult internet magazine "Humanities Underground "that is crowded with such diverse issues as aestheticsand artistic craft, ethics and criticism, movements and institutions, ideologies and reflections. Workin...
Machiavelli Then and Now
Explores Machiavelli's intellectual engagement with human affairs in a wide triple perspective of history, politics and literature.
Machine and Metaphor
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rhizosphere
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Machiavelli on War
Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official for military matters to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli's works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as a writer, concluding that he was the first great modern philosopher because he was the first modern philosopher of war. Lynch details Machiavelli's understanding of warfare in terms of both actual armed conflict and at the intellectual level of thinkers ...
