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Climate Fictions

Special Issue of Paradoxa, 31 (2019–20)
ed. by Alison Sperling
'Climate Fictions' continues to open up the concept to new modes of theorizing the relation between climate and fiction beyond the boundaries of the novel and beyond questions of genre, where climate fiction scholarship has so far largely resided.

Weird Temporalities

Special Issue of Studies in the Fantastic, 9 (Summer/Fall 2020)
ed. by Alison Sperling and Jordan S. Carroll
This special issue of Studies in the Fantastic on 'Weird Temporalities' engages the relationship between 'The Weird' (old and new) as a genre, mode, or aesthetic with question of temporality.

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper
Tom Vandeputte

New York: Fordham University Press, 2020

This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.

Middling Romanticism

Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery
Zachary Sng

Series Lit Z
New York: Fordham University Press, 2020

Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools.

The Partisan Counter-Archive

Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle
Gal Kirn

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 27
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020

This book launches the partisan counter-archive, highlighting the symbolic power of artistic works that echo and envision partisan legacy and rupture.

Deconstructing the Talmud

The Absolute Book
Federico Dal Bo

Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

This monograph uses deconstruction—a philosophical movement originated by Jacques Derrida—to read the most authoritative book in Judaism: the Talmud. Examining deconstruction in comparison with Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies, the volume argues that the movement opens an innovative debate on Jewish Law.
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Dante’s
Modernity

An Introduction to the Monarchia
With an Essay by Judith Revel
Claude Lefort
ed. by Christiane Frey, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer

Cultural Inquiry, 16
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020

Open Access
Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory.
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Petrolio 25 anni dopo

(Bio)politica, eros e verità nell’ultimo romanzo di Pier Paolo Pasolini
ed. by Carla Benedetti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Davide Luglio

Macerata: Quodlibet, 2020

Released only 17 years after the author’s assassination, Pasolini’s Petrolio faced bitter controversies, which did not help its understanding. Exploring the entanglements of political and economic power of those years, the novel’s aesthetics has inspired biopolitical reflections and contemporary queer aesthetics.
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Réalités pseudonymes

Julie Gaillard

Series Chiasma, 45
Leiden: Brill, 2020

Réalités pseudonymes explores the question of reality through the lens of the proper name and its referential mechanisms in French literature and arts at the turn of the twenty-first century, at a time when societies are shifting from analogue to digital modalities of mediation.

Bureaucratic Fanatics

Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization
Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Paradigms, 8
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019

Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself.
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