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GENERAL INTEREST NEW Infinite Mobilization Towards a Critique of Political Kinetics PETER SLOTERDIJK Karlsruhe School of Design Translated by Sandra Berjan ‘Much of politics today is concerned with movement – from migration to the climate crisis. Written in the last years of the Cold War and shortly after the Chernobyl and Challenger disasters, Sloterdijk’s reflections on political kinetics remain perceptive today.’ Stuart Elden, University of Warwick What we commonly refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control. But as we actualize our plans, we set in motion unintended side-effects. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into a catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. 229 x 152mm • 176 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-1847-0 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1848-7 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available See page 28 and backlist for more Sloterdijk titles. NEW Excluding the Jew Within Us JEAN-LUC NANCY Translated by Sarah Clift Why does anti-Semitism seem to be so deeply ingrained in our societies, our institutions and our attitudes? To answer this question we need to look beyond our current practices and see that antiSemitism has much deeper roots – that it is woven into the very structures of Western thought. 190 x 124mm • 76 pages • UK June 2020, US July 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4272-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4273-4 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available NEW Philosophy, Ethics and Politics PAUL RICOEUR Translated by Kathleen Blamey In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil and ethical and political action in the polis. 229 x 152mm • 164 pages • UK October 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3450-0 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3451-7 • £16.99 / $22.95 / €20.90 ebook available NEW The disappearance of rituals The Disappearance of Rituals A Topology of the Present BYUNG-CHUL HAN University of the Arts, Berlin Translated by Daniel Steuer Han provides a genealogy of rituals’ disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feeling. 210 x 140mm • 120 pages • UK September 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4275-8 • £40.00 / $49.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4276-5 • £12.99 / $16.95 / €15.90 ebook available See page 29 for more Han titles. NEW Correspondences TIM INGOLD University of Aberdeen We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us. Tim Ingold opens a personal collection of correspondences with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks, pointing us to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth. 198 x 129mm • 293 pages • UK October 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4410-3 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4411-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available Troublemakers A Philosophy of Puer Robustus DIETER THOMÄ Universität St. Gallen Translated by Jessica Spengler ‘In fluent and energetic style, Dieter Thomä offers a compelling response to the current threats facing our economic, social, and political order. This timely and important book will be of great interest to anyone who is struggling to understand what is going on in the world today.’ Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge ‘For some years now, Dieter Thomä has been writing extraordinarily original, elegantly conceived and executed books about topics as varied as parents, fathers, and Americans – in effect, he has been re-defining the proper topics of philosophical reflection. His new book on the puer robustus, a notion introduced by Hobbes about the “troublemakers” in society, is a masterpiece of this genre, the literate philosophical essay. The scholarship is astonishing, ranging over Hobbes, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Hugo, Marx, Freud, and others, the insights acute and important, and the pleasure of reading it constant.’ Robert Pippin, University of Chicago 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-2558-4 • £30.00 / $45.00 / €36.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 6
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GENERAL INTEREST Rape and Resistance Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF Hunter College ‘Alcoff’s groundbreaking book draws on the author’s decades of experience as a scholar, an activist, and a survivor. Her nuanced and richly informed work recognizes that violence is shaped by the ways in which we talk about it and yet that that it cannot be talked away. Alcoff’s account attends both to the phenomenological irreducibility of sexual violence and to the variety of ways in which it is conceptualized across the world. She argues that different understandings of violence not only affect the ways in which we think about victims and survivors; they also shape the possibilities for advocacy and resistance.’ Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder ‘Linda Alcoff insists upon the need for – and then provides – a philosophical analysis of sexual violation that refuses to shy away from its political and social complexity. From her rejection of sexual libertarianism to her description of the ways in which sexual violence thwarts victims’ ability to contribute substantially to their own sexual becoming, Alcoff’s writing is as lucid as it is insightful. A major and timely contribution to the theoretical literature on a pressing social problem.’ Ann Cahill, Elon University 229 x 152mm • 288 pages • 2018 HB • 978-0-7456-9191-6 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-9192-3 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available The Future of Whiteness LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF ‘A profound meditation on “whiteness” – its past, its present, and its possible future – by one of our leading scholars of race. Deftly interweaving theory, autobiography, and her own personal history of antiracist activism, Linda Martín Alcoff has produced the most impressive philosophical exploration ever of this peculiar “world-historical” social identity.’ Charles Mills, Northwestern University ‘Against the contemporary backdrop of changing racial demographics and widespread condemnation of its relative power and privileges, Linda Alcoff challenges us to think in more nuanced ways about whiteness. This is a compellingly hopeful if sober analysis, offering renewed possibility for a much more modest conception of whiteness, one incorporating a commitment to racial justice as part of its raison d’être. The Future of Whiteness is a book for our times.’ David Goldberg, University of California, Irvine 216 x 138mm • 240 pages • 2015 HB • 978-0-7456-8544-1 • £50.00 / $69.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8545-8 • £15.99 / $19.95 / €19.90 ebook available Manufacturing Happy Citizens How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives EDGAR CABANAS & EVA ILLOUZ Universidad Camilo José Cela; École des hautes études en sciences sociales ‘How have the science and industry of happiness transformed our expectations about what a good life means, and at what cost? In their critical inquiry, Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz powerfully demonstrate the pervasive neoliberal logics and pernicious social consequences of the contemporary politics of happiness.’ Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ‘This brilliantly researched and beautifully argued book offers a devastating critique of the contemporary obsession with happiness. Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz interrogate the flaws, inconsistencies and generalizations of happiness “science” and positive psychology, showing how it has become central to a blame culture in which structural inequalities are made over as psychological deficits. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the way that neoliberalism increasingly operates through psychological modes promoting confidence, resilience and “positive” feelings.’ Rosalind Gill, City, University of London 210 x 148mm • 224 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3788-4 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3789-1 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 ebook available Capitalism A Conversation in Critical Theory NANCY FRASER & RAHEL JAEGGI New School for Social Research; Humboldt University of Berlin ‘Fraser and Jaeggi supply an eloquent, wellreasoned, and thorough account of the key institution of our time – capitalism. For them, capitalism is not only a mode of production but also an institutional order or form of life. Those who have followed Fraser’s discussion of recognition or justice, or read Jaeggi on the actuality of alienation, will cherish this brilliant contribution to understanding the world in which we live.’ Robin Blackburn, University of Essex ‘As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises – social, ecological, political, civilizational – we desperately need to get our hands on and shut down the source. In this book, two of the most acute minds in critical theory point their fingers towards capitalism. Fraser in particular elaborates on her path-breaking “unifying” theory of capitalism as a system resting on several hidden abodes that it cannot live without and cannot avoid wrecking. This is the sort of sober and passionate thinking we need in a world careening out of control.’ Andreas Malm, Lund University 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • 2018 HB • 978-0-7456-7156-7 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-7157-4 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 7

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GENERAL INTEREST

NEW

Infinite Mobilization Towards a Critique of Political Kinetics PETER SLOTERDIJK Karlsruhe School of Design Translated by Sandra Berjan ‘Much of politics today is concerned with movement – from migration to the climate crisis. Written in the last years of the Cold War and shortly after the Chernobyl and Challenger disasters, Sloterdijk’s reflections on political kinetics remain perceptive today.’ Stuart Elden, University of Warwick What we commonly refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control. But as we actualize our plans, we set in motion unintended side-effects. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into a catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. 229 x 152mm • 176 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-1847-0 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1848-7 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available See page 28 and backlist for more Sloterdijk titles.

NEW

Excluding the Jew Within Us JEAN-LUC NANCY Translated by Sarah Clift Why does anti-Semitism seem to be so deeply ingrained in our societies, our institutions and our attitudes? To answer this question we need to look beyond our current practices and see that antiSemitism has much deeper roots – that it is woven into the very structures of Western thought. 190 x 124mm • 76 pages • UK June 2020, US July 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4272-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4273-4 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

NEW

Philosophy, Ethics and Politics PAUL RICOEUR Translated by Kathleen Blamey In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil and ethical and political action in the polis. 229 x 152mm • 164 pages • UK October 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3450-0 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3451-7 • £16.99 / $22.95 / €20.90 ebook available

NEW

The disappearance of rituals

The Disappearance of Rituals A Topology of the Present BYUNG-CHUL HAN University of the Arts, Berlin Translated by Daniel Steuer Han provides a genealogy of rituals’ disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feeling. 210 x 140mm • 120 pages • UK September 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4275-8 • £40.00 / $49.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4276-5 • £12.99 / $16.95 / €15.90 ebook available See page 29 for more Han titles.

NEW

Correspondences TIM INGOLD University of Aberdeen We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us. Tim Ingold opens a personal collection of correspondences with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks, pointing us to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth. 198 x 129mm • 293 pages • UK October 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4410-3 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4411-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available

Troublemakers A Philosophy of Puer Robustus DIETER THOMÄ Universität St. Gallen Translated by Jessica Spengler ‘In fluent and energetic style, Dieter Thomä offers a compelling response to the current threats facing our economic, social, and political order. This timely and important book will be of great interest to anyone who is struggling to understand what is going on in the world today.’ Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge ‘For some years now, Dieter Thomä has been writing extraordinarily original, elegantly conceived and executed books about topics as varied as parents, fathers, and Americans – in effect, he has been re-defining the proper topics of philosophical reflection. His new book on the puer robustus, a notion introduced by Hobbes about the “troublemakers” in society, is a masterpiece of this genre, the literate philosophical essay. The scholarship is astonishing, ranging over Hobbes, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Hugo, Marx, Freud, and others, the insights acute and important, and the pleasure of reading it constant.’ Robert Pippin, University of Chicago 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-2558-4 • £30.00 / $45.00 / €36.90 ebook available

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