Duke University Press: 2463 books
Odd Tribes
Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...
Words in Motion
Toward a Global Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the...
How Soon Is Now?
Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal...
The Pragmatic Mind
Explorations in the Psychology of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
The Pragmatic Mind is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. Arguing that the "original" pragmatists are too-often cited casually and imprecisely...
The Hermetic Deleuze
Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work: Western esotericism, specifically the lineage of hermetic thought that extends from...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
Generation and Degeneration
Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2001
This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies—in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman...
Shows of Force
Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1992
It has long been considered a mark of naïveté to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the message resides in the way it is exhibited. By critically examining the exhibition of art in contemporary...
Native Americans and the Christian Right
The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Native Americans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In examining the interplay of biblical...
The Nick of Time
Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions...
by Taha Parla
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together essays by scholars based in religious studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have, however, been neglected or dismissed until now. In the first book in English dedicated to Bergson as a political thinker, leading Bergson scholars illuminate...
Facing the Planetary
Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor,...
by Mayra Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between...