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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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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.
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