Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
The Dimensions of Difference
Space, Time and Bodies in Womens Cinema and Continental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies. These are some of the most fundamental elements of cinema,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation...
The Political Space of Art
The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist...
Foucault on the Arts and Letters
Perspectives for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault’s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault’s thought as a means...
The Invention of the Visible
The Image in Light of the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate repudiating images altogether,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had “such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity” within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this...
Visual Arts Practice and Affect
Place, Materiality and Embodied Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect. Each contributor highlights the crucial role the creative arts play in envisaging new perspectives on the making of meaning,...
Imprints of Revolution
Visual Representations of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What is the significance of the visual representation of revolution? How is history articulated through public images? How can these images communicate new histories of struggle?
Imprints of Revolution highlights how revolutions and revolutionary moments are historically constructed and locally...
In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker
Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
During the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialisation of deadly military stand-off. They were also a symbol of a deeply affective, pervasive anxiety about the prospect of world-destroying nuclear war. But following the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 these...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy...
Word
Beyond Language, Beyond Image
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the sound, feel, touch, taste, place, position, speed, and direction of words come to matter in their uses?
Word begins from the premise that, if we consider words only in terms of language and...
Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders
Re-Unified Germany After 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
What do Germany’s memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? How did the Wall in the Head come to replace the Wall that fell in 1989?
The old identities of East and West, which all but dissolved in joyous embraces as the Berlin...
Productive Imagination
Its History, Meaning and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Although the concept of productive imagination plays a fundamental role in Kant, German Idealism, Romanticism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, the meaning of this central concept remains largely undetermined. The significance of productive imagination is therefore all-too-often either inflated or...
by Andrew Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by rethinking the history of art from within that perspective.
A materialist philosophy of art starts...