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General Interest 1–9

Asian Studies 31–32Cultural Studies 28Education 41–44

Latin American Studies 31Literature 29–30

Middle Eastern Studies 23–24Philosophy 11–18

Political Science 33–41Public Policy 10

Religious Studies 19–22Sociology 25–26

Sports Studies 26–27

Author Index 56Backlist Bestsellers 44–50

Order Form 52–54Ordering Information 51Sales Representation 55

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DRUNK FROMTHE BITTER TRUTHThe Poems of Anna Margolin

Anna MargolinEdited, Translated, and with anIntroduction by Shirley Kumove

The poems of Anna Margolin(1887–1952), appearing hereboth in the original Yiddish andin English translation.

“Shirley Kumove’s assiduousresearch, profound knowledgeof Yiddish , and poet icsens ib i l i t ies combine tomake th is a va luable anddes i rable contr ibut ion tothe library of translated texts.”— Barbara Harshav, cotranslatorof American Yiddish Poetry:A Bilingual Anthology

A volume in the SUNY series,Women Writers in TranslationMarilyn Gaddis Rose, editor

SEPTEMBER288 pp2 b/w photos, 1 figure$30.00 jacketed hc only 0-7914-6579-9POETRY

Born Rosa Lebensboym in Belarus, Anna Margolin (1887–1952)settled permanently in America in 1913. A brilliant yet largely

forgotten poet, her reputation rests on her volume of poetrypublished in Yiddish in 1929 in New York City. Although written inthe 1920s, Margolin’s poetry is remarkably fresh and contemporary,dealing with themes of anxiety, loneliness, sexual tensions,and the search for intellectual and spiritual identity, all of whichwere clearly reflected in her own life choices. Sensitivelyand beautifully translated here, the poems appear both in theoriginal Yiddish and in English translation.

Shirley Kumove’s fascinating critical-biographical introductionhighlights Margolin’s tempestuous and unconventional life.An exceptionally beautiful and gifted woman, Margolinadopted a bohemian and an eccentric lifestyle, and threw herselfinto both intellectual pursuits and romantic attachments beyondher two marriages.

“This bilingual edition makes available an important body ofYiddish poetry by a major author whose concerns remain relevanttoday.” — Ken Frieden, editor and cotranslator of Classic YiddishStories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz

Shirley Kumove is a translator and writer whose work has beenrecognized by the Canada Council for the Arts and by the OntarioArts Council. She is the author of Words Like Arrows and MoreWords, More Arrows, two collections of Yiddish folk sayings.She was born, educated, and makes her home in Toronto, Canada.

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Gurus in America provides anexcellent introduction to the guru

phenomenon in the United States,with in-depth analyses of nine importantHindu gurus—Adi Da, Ammachi,Mayi Chidvilasananda, Gurani Anjali,Mahar i sh i Mahesh Yogi , Osho,Ramana Maharshi , Sai Baba, andSwami Bhaktivedanta. All of them haveattracted significant followings inthe U.S. and all but one have livedhere for considerable periods of time.The book’s contributors discuss thecharacteristics of each guru’s teachings,the history of each movement, and theparticular construction of Hinduism eachguru offers. Contributors also address thereligious and cultural interaction, translation, and transplantationthat occurs when gurus offer their teachings in America. This isa fascinating guide that will elucidate an important elementin America’s diverse and ever-changing spiritual landscape.

“A number of the contributors write not only as academicallytrained and thoughtful scholars, but also as devotees; or as thosewhose lives in some way have been touched in a positive mannerby the gurus of whom they write; or by a good experience withthe guru’s ashram or community of disciples. It is noteworthy thattheir personal experiences or spiritual commitments do notprohibit their willingness and ability to engage their topics from acritical, scholarly perspective.” — William K. Mahony, author ofThe Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic ReligiousImagination

Thomas A. Forsthoefel is Associate Professor of Religious Studiesat Mercyhurst College and the author of Knowing BeyondKnowledge: Epistemologies of Religious Experience in Classicaland Modern Advaita. At Claremont McKenna College,Cynthia Ann Humes is Associate Professor of Religious Studiesand Associate Dean of Academic Computing, and directsEducational Technology Services and the Teaching ResourceCenter. She is coeditor (with Bradley R. Hertel) of Living Banaras:Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, also published by SUNY Press.

A fasc inat ing look atHindu gurus with significantfollowings in the United States.

“I like the intrinsic fascination ofthe subject matter for anyonewho has studied South Asia oris interested in the migrationof Indian thought and practiceto the West in recent decades.”— Thomas B. Coburn, author ofEncountering the Goddess:A Translation of the Devi �-Ma �ha �tmya and a Study ofIts Interpretation

A volume in the SUNY series inHindu StudiesWendy Doniger, editor

OCTOBER288 pp$24.95 pb 0-7914-6574-8$86.50 hc 0-7914-6573-XRELIGIOUS STUDIES •EASTERN THOUGHT

GURUS IN AMERICAThomas A. Forsthoefel andCynthia Ann Humes, editors

CONTRIBUTORS

Christopher Key ChappleLoyola Marymount U.Thomas A. ForsthoefelMercyhurst Coll.Daniel GoldCornell U.Tamal Krishna GoswamiDeceasedRavi M. GuptaOxford University, UKCynthia Ann HumesClaremont McKenna Coll.Jeffrey J. KripalRice U.Norris W. PalmerSaint Mary’s Coll.Selva J. RajAlbion Coll.Hugh B. UrbanOSULola WilliamsonU. of WI, Madison

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HIGHER WISDOMEminent Elders Explorethe Continuing Impact of Psychedelics

Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob, editors

For half a century psychedelics haverumbled through the Western world,

seeding a subculture, titillating the media,fascinating youth, terrifying parents,enraging politicians, and intriguingresearchers. Not surprisingly, thesecurious chemicals fascinated some of theforemost thinkers of the twentieth century,fourteen of whom were interviewed forthis book. Because no further humanresearch can be done, these researchersconstitute an irreplaceable resource.Higher Wisdom offers their fascinatinganecdotes, invaluable knowledge, andhard-won wisdom—the culmination of fiftyyears of research and reflection on oneof the most intriguing and challengingtopics of our time.

“This is a very welcome addition to the reexamination of theconstructive potentials of psychedelics in society. The bookpresents a remarkably balanced survey of some of the key issuesraised by experiences with these substances—issues like the natureof ultimate reality, how to handle expansions of consciousness,how to raise children, how to deal with social pathologies. Noneof the explorers suggest psychedelics are an answer to theseproblems; rather, they seem to agree, psychedelics stimulate usto ask questions in a new way, to explore with conscious intention,to see from a wider perspective.” — Ralph Metzner, author ofThe Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

Roger Walsh, MD is Professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy, andAnthropology at the University of California at Irvine. He is theauthor and editor of many books, including (with Frances Vaughan)Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision; The Spirit ofShamanism; and Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practicesto Awaken Heart and Mind. Charles S. Grob, MD is Director ofthe Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLAMedical Center and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at theUCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Grob is the editor of Hallucinogens:A Reader and is a founding board member of the Heffter ResearchInstitute, which is devoted to fostering and funding researchon psychedelics.

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Interviews with fourteenpioneers in psychedel icresearch.

“This is an inspiring andimportant record, one ofcourageous explorers andamazing stories describinga critical chapter in thetransformation of humanconsciousness.” — Jack Kornfield,author of A Path with Heart:A Guide Through the Perilsand Promises of Spiritual Life

A volume in the SUNY series inTranspersonal andHumanistic PsychologyRichard D. Mann, editor

AUGUST288 pp26 b/w photos$24.95 pb 0-7914-6518-7$81.50 hc 0-7914-6517-9PSYCHOLOGY • NEW AGE

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Gary BravoSanta Rosa, CACharles S. GrobUCLARoger WalshUC Irvine

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Ram DassBetty EisnerJames FadimanGary FisherPeter T. FurstStanislav GrofMichael HarnerAlbert HofmannLaura Archera HuxleyZalman Schachter-ShalomiAlexander T. ShulginAnn ShulginHuston SmithMyron Stolaroff

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The story of Martin Heidegger’s enigmatic search for truth inthe land that inspired his philosophy, Aufenthalte (Sojourns)

is the philosophical journal that he kept during his first visit toGreece in the spring of 1962. Available here for the first time inEnglish, this invaluable translation offers not only a rareand intimate view of its author, but also a chance to observeHeidegger working with his philosophical concepts outside thelecture hall, applying them in concrete cultural and historicalcontexts. Here we find Heidegger in dialogue with Greekhistory itself as it has left traces in the land, and as it has beenrecorded on various monuments and works of art.

“[Heidegger] was well past seventy when he went [to Greece] forthe first time. For years he had hesitated about making such atrip, and just two years earlier he had cancelled his plan to travelto Greece with his friend Eckhart Kästner. Later he made twofurther trips to Greece, as well as three trips at least to Provence.But it was the initial trip to Greece, in 1962, that was decisive andthat yielded this beautiful, if enigmatic, travelbook Sojourns.”— from the Foreword by John Sallis

John Panteleimon Manoussakis holds a Ph.D. in Philosophyfrom Boston College.

SOJOURNSThe Journey to Greece

Martin HeideggerTranslated by John Panteleimon ManoussakisForeword by John Sallis

Heidegger’s philosophicaljournal, written during his firstvisit to Greece in 1962, andappearing here in English forthe first time.

A volume in the SUNY series inContemporary Continental PhilosophyDennis J. Schmidt, editor

JULY128 ppTrim size: 5 x 7 ½5 b/w photos$14.95 pb 0-7914-6496-2$49.50 jacketed hc 0-7914-6495-4PHILOSOPHY

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An intellectual biographyof the American philosopherC. I. Lewis.

A volume in theSUNY series in PhilosophyGeorge R. Lucas Jr., editor

SEPTEMBER528 pp18 b/w photos, 1 figure$35.00 jacketed hc only0-7914-6541-1PHILOSOPHY • BIOGRAPHY

Noted scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey explores the lifeand intellectual work of C. I. Lewis, the central figure in

American philosophy between the “golden age” of James andRoyce and the later scene of Quine and Goodman, Sellars andRorty. As professor of philosophy at Harvard and the founder ofmodal symbolic logic, Lewis taught and deeply influenceda generation of philosophers. Murphey traces the developmentof Lewis’s thought from his early Idealism through his ConceptualPragmatism and his defense of that position against theonslaught of Logical Positivism in the 1930s and 1940s. He alsoexplores how Lewis developed in a more precise and systematicway the Pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey whileretaining their combination of empiricism and humanismand marshalling the weapons of analytic philosophy in theirdefense. Detailed attention is given to the importantcontributions of Lewis’s work in logic, epistemology,value theory, meaning, and ethics.

“Murray Murphey has done it again. As he did forty years agowith the publication of The Development of Peirce’s Philosophy,here is another monumental achievement with his study ofC. I. Lewis. It is an indispensable interpretation, at oncepainstakingly detailed and historically situated, of a major figurein American philosophy destined to attain the statusof the Peirce book.” — Vincent M. Colapietro, author ofPeirce’s Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective onHuman Subjectivity

Murray G. Murphey is Professor Emeritus of American Civilizationat the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books,including Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge, alsopublished by SUNY Press; The Development of Peirce’s Philosophy;and (with Elizabeth Flower) A History of Philosophy in America.

C. I. LEWISThe Last Great Pragmatist

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Despite the popularity of the sitcom,one of the oldest and most

ubiquitous forms of televisionprogramming, The Sitcom Reader is thefirst book to offer critical essays devotedspecifically to the form. The contributorsaddress important topics in relation tositcoms, such as conventions of the form,the family, gender, sexual orientation,ethnicity, work and social class, andideology, and they do so from a varietyof perspectives, including culturalstudies, feminist theory, queer theoryand media studies.

“As a field of study this topic is essential.Prime-time television remains the mostinfluential medium, helping formulatecultural sensibilities, attitudes, values, andassessments of the social world. As agenre, the situation comedy is one of themost prevalent formats on television, andthis book builds on a strong foundationin media studies that seeks to understandand evaluate the social significance ofthese forms. The various approaches tothis topic offer the widest range ofintellectual rigor.” — Robin Andersen,author of Consumer Culture andTV Programming

Mary M. Dalton is Assistant Professor ofCommunication at Wake Forest University and the author ofThe Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Laura R. Linderis Associate Professor of Media Arts at Marist College and theauthor of Public Access Television: America’s Electronic Soapbox.

Offers a variety of perspectiveson the sitcom genre and itsinfluence on American culture.

“I like the scope of the bookand the fact that the essaysare written from a variety ofperspectives—theoretical ,historical, and industrial.The book raises an importantcentral question: how has thegenre historically constructedtheir subjects in relation tothe dominant ideology?”— Stephen Tropiano, author ofThe Prime Time Closet:A History of Gays and Lesbianson TV

OCTOBER320 pp23 b/w photos$27.95 pb 0-7914-6570-5$86.50 hc 0-7914-6569-1MEDIA STUDIES •POPULAR CULTURE

THE SITCOM READERAmerica Viewed and Skewed

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Karen AnijarAZ State U.Robert S. BrownAZ State U.Hsueh-hua Vivian ChenWake Forest U.Robin R. Means ColemanU. of PittsburghMary M. DaltonWake Forest U.Paul R. KohlLoras Coll.Judy KutulasSt. Olaf Coll.Lori LandayBerklee Coll. Of MusicLaura R. LinderMarist Coll.Amanda Dyanne LotzDennison U.David MarcSyracuse U.Charlton D. McIlwainNYUJohn O’LearyVillanova U.Valerie V. PetersonGrand Valley State U.David PiersonU. of South MEDenis M. ProvencherU. of WI, La CrosseSharon Marie RossChicago, ILChristine ScodariFL Atlantic U.DemetriaRougeaux ShabazzTuscaloosa, ALH. Peter SteevesDePaul U.Michael V. TuethFordham U.Thomas E. WalkerAZ State U.Rick WorlandSouthern Methodist U.Phyllis Scrocco ZrzavyFranklin Pierce Coll.

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REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSEApproaches to a Maverick Masterwork

J. David Slocum, editor

Assesses the layered meaningsand persistent global legacyof an American film classic.

“This is an absolutely uniquebook and a real contribution tocinema studies. The contributorsoffer the reader not only acomprehensive history of thefilm, with all of the key playersgiven their proper place in filmhistory, but also present thereader with unmistakableevidence of the lingeringimpact of the film oncontemporary cinema discourse.”— Wheeler Winston Dixon,author of Straight: Constructionsof Heterosexuality in the Cinema

A volume in the SUNY series,Horizons of CinemaMurray Pomerance, editor

NOVEMBER288 pp8 b/w photos$27.95 pb 0-7914-6646-9$81.50 hc 0-7914-6645-0FILM STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE

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Daniel BiltereystGent U., BelgiumMick BroderickMurdoch U., AustraliaJon LewisOR State U.Elena LoizidouBirkbeck Coll., London, UKJames C. McKellyAuburn U.Jon MitchellUniversity Coll.,Dublin, IrelandMurray PomeranceRyerson U., CanadaNicholas RayDeceasedTimothy SharyClark U.J. David SlocumNYUClaudia SpringerRI Coll.Susan WhiteU. of AZGeorge M. WilsonUC Davis

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Five decades after the production andinitial release of Rebel Without

a Cause, this book examines both thecomplicated historical moment in whichthe film was made as well as its continuingand pervasive influence on film today.The contributors track how the filmcontinues to speak to diverse audiencesas a touchstone for imagined anxietiesover adolescence and coming-of-age,traditional values of family andcommunity, threats from abroad, and theprovocations of mass or consumer society.Although the specific sources andmotivations for rebellion have shifted,what has persisted is the film’s singularpower to represent rebellion in what couldotherwise be seen as the everyday,and to move viewers to ponder its causes.

“Having avidly read most of what has been published in Englishon James Dean over the past thirty years, I was delighted toencounter perspectives that succeed in offering such fresh, original,and creative analyses of the most celebrated film of this actor’sshort career—analyses that open up new ways to read the filmand the historical contexts of its production, distribution,and reception. This is a remarkable book from beginning to end,and each author substantially contributes to a greater appreciationof the film’s richness.” — Michael DeAngelis, author ofGay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson,and Keanu Reeves

J. David Slocum is Associate Dean of the Graduate School ofArts and Science at New York University and is the editor ofViolence and American Cinema.


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THE WATCHMANFELL ASLEEPThe Surprise of Yom Kippur and Its Sources

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Examines how Israel wascaught by surprise in theopening stages of the 1973Yom Kippur War.

“Uri Bar-Joseph’s study isthe most important study …published so far on the Warof Yom Kippur.” — Haaretz,in praise of the Hebrew edition

A volume in the SUNY series inIsraeli StudiesRussell Stone, editor

JULY306 pp2 maps$27.95 pb 0-7914-6482-2$86.50 hc 0-7914-6481-4POLITICAL SCIENCE •MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES •ISRAELI STUDIES •MILITARY HISTORY

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the war, and interviews with relevant figures, The Watchman FellAsleep is a compelling account of Israel’s intelligence failure beforethe 1973 Arab attack known as the Yom Kippur War. The Hebrewversion of this book was awarded the Tshetshik Prize for StrategicStudies on Israel’s Security in 2001, and the Israeli Political ScienceAssociation’s Best Book Award in 2002. Available here in Englishfor the first time, Uri Bar-Joseph has crafted an authoritativeexplanation of the most traumatic event in Israel’s stormyhistory and one of the biggest strategic military surprises of thetwentieth century.

“Despite the plethora of both academic and journalistic worksabout the sources of surprise in October 1973, this book is by farthe most impressive—providing a broad complex of hithertounpublished documents that help portray a novel picture of boththe dynamics and the operational code of Israel’s militaryintelligence during the weeks and months preceding the war, andof the cognitive maps of its leadership. The combination of theunusually rich empirical data and the very clear, coherent, andconcise theoretical framework makes this book highly readable.”— Abraham Ben-Zvi, author of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politicsof Arms Sales to Israel: In the Shadow of the Hawk

“The Watchman Fell Asleep … presents a chilling picture ofa nation’s fate almost gambled away by a handful of brilliantmen unable to conceive that they might be wrong.”— The Jerusalem Post Magazine, in praise of the Hebrew edition

Uri Bar-Joseph is Professor of International Relations at HaifaUniversity and is the coauthor (with Amos Perlmutter andMichael I. Handel) of Two Minutes over Baghdad,Second Expanded Edition, and the editor of Israel’s NationalSecurity towards the 21st Century.

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THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS(Neo)Slave Narrativesand Contemporary Prison Writings

Edited and with an Introduction by Joy James

Writings by twentieth-centuryimprisoned authors examiningconfinement, enslavement, andpolitical organizing in prison.

“The book offers us a theoreticalanalysis of the word ‘abolition’in a much wider frame thanprisons themselves. Both James’sintroduction and the words of theprison intellectuals tell us thatthey are not so much concernedonly with the dismantling of theincarceration factories, but thatthey also see these holding pensas nodal points in the state ofdisenfranchisement that is themodern world.” — Vijay Prashad,author of The Karma of Brown Folk

A volume in the SUNY series,Philosophy and RaceRobert Bernasconi andT. Denean Sharpley Whiting, editors

JULY320 pp$27.95 pb 0-7914-6486-5$86.50 hc 0-7914-6485-7CRIMINOLOGY •AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

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CONTRIBUTORS

Mumia Abu-JamalHolley CantineAngela Y. DavisSusie DayLeslie DiBenedettoBill DunneAntonio Fernandez (King Tone)Larvester GaitherDavid GilbertAmy GoodmanJoy JamesHeike KleffnerDrew LederRaymond Luc LevasseurEd MeadJalil MuntaqimPrince Imari A. Obadele

(Shemuel ben-Yahweh)Imari Abubakari Obadele IBernard PhillipsDachine RainerLittle Rock ReedDylan RodriguezSusan RosenbergTiyo Attallah Salah-ElJeremy ScahillAssata ShakurPaul St. JohnKaren WaldYaki (James Sayles)

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Charles BaxterAlan BerkmanPhilip BerriganWayne BrownMarilyn BuckTony Chatman-BeyAngela Y. DavisGeorge JacksonGeronimo ji Jaga

(Elmer Pratt)H. B. Johnson Jr.Mark MedleyViet Mike NgoShaka Sankofa

(Gary Graham)Donald ThompsonSelvyn TillettLaura WhitehornJohn Woodland Jr.

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“If you think modern slavery in theUnited States is a thing of the past, thenThe New Abolitionists ought to bemandatory reading. Joy James has donean incredible service by bringing togetherkey writings by prison intellectuals overthe past half century. The pieces sheselected are not just descriptive butprescriptive: the book is chock full ofmanifestoes, strategies, political analyses,and visions of a world free ofincarceration. Like the slave narratives of150 years ago, these writings demandaction.” — Robin D. G. Kelley, author ofFreedom Dreams: The Black RadicalImagination

This collection of essays and interviewsprovides a frank look at the nature andpurposes of prisons in the United Statesfrom the perspective of the prisoners.Written by Native American, AfricanAmerican, Latino, Asian, and EuropeanAmerican prisoners, the book examinescaptivity and democracy, the racial“other,” gender and violence, and thestigma of a suspect humanity.Contributors include those incarceratedfor social and political acts, suchas conscientious objection, antiwaractivism, black liberation, and gangactivities. Among those interviewedare Philip Berrigan, Marilyn Buck,Angela Y. Davis, George Jackson, andLaura Whitehorn.

Joy James is a Professor at Brown University. Her edited workson incarceration and human rights include States of Confinement:Policing, Detention, and Prisons and Imprisoned Intellectuals:America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation,and Rebellion.


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PROMISEAND BETRAYALUniversities and theBattle for SustainableUrban NeighborhoodsJohn I. Gilderbloom andR. L. Mullins Jr.Foreword byHenry Cisneros

Argues that universities can helprevitalize poor neighborhoods.

Traditionally, institutions of higher education have been viewedas the gateway to a better future, despite the fact that somany of the neighborhoods surrounding them have been filledwith hopelessness and despair. In Promise and Betrayal,the authors want nothing less than to start a revolutionin higher education, calling on partnerships between“town and gown” to create sustainable urban neighborhoods.John I. Gilderbloom and R. L. Mullins Jr. detail how highereducation institutions can play an important role in helping torevitalize our poor neighborhoods by forming partnerships withpublic, private, and nonprofit groups. They advocate leavingthe “ivory tower” and supplying the community with expertknowledge as well as creative and technical resources.

“This book by Gilderbloom and Mullins is an importantcontribution to the field and should be read by universityand community leaders as well as policy makers at all levels.”— from the Foreword by Henry Cisneros, Former Secretaryof Housing and Urban Development

“This is a must read for anyone who wrestles with the moralobligations of academic development.” — Tom Ingram,President, Association of Governing Boards of Universitiesand Colleges

“With rich examples, including Yale, Penn, Marquette, and theUniversity of Louisville, the authors provide a long-awaitedanalysis of where the ties between universities and communitiesstand today, and the directions they must be headed inif the American dream of one society is ever to be realized.”— Neal Peirce, Chairman, The Citistates Group

John I. Gilderbloom is Professor of Urban and Public Affairsand Director of the Center for Sustainable UrbanNeighborhoods at the University of Louisville. He is thecoauthor (with Stella M. Capek) of Community versusCommodity: Tenants and the American City, also published bySUNY Press, and (with Richard P. Applebaum) of RethinkingRental Housing. R. L. Mullins Jr. is Vice President of ScienceApplications International Corporation.

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WOMEN ANDCHILDREN FIRSTFeminism, Rhetoric,and Public PolicySharon M. Meagher andPatrice DiQuinzio, editors

Analyzes how feminist rhetoricis sometimes used in publicpolicy discourse in ways thatharm women.

This diverse collection explores therhetoric of a wide range of publicpolicies that propose “to putwomen and children first,”including homeland security, schoolviolence, gun control, medicalintervention of intersex infants, andpolicies that aim to distinguish“good” from “bad” mothers. Usingvarious feminist philosophicalanalyses, the contributors uncovera logic of paternalistic treatment ofwomen and children that purportsto protect them but almost alwaysalso disempowers them andsometimes harms them. This logicis widespread in contemporarypopular policy discourse andaffects the way that peopleunderstand and respond to socialand political issues. Contributorsrethink basic philosophicalassumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualisticlogic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policydiscourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in thepolicy domain.

“This volume offers a highly interesting and provocative lookat the complex, often contradictory, relationship of womenand public policy. The essays, including an excellentintroduction by the editors, reveal the dilemmas inherentin past feminist approaches to this topic and suggest newways to approach it. Particularly valuable is the book’sdiscussion of ‘security’ in the post-9/11 world, as an elementthat now enters such debates.” — Carole E. Joffe,University of California at Davis

Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Directorof Women’s Studies at the University of Scranton.Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophyand Director of Women’s Studies at Muhlenberg College.She is the author of The Impossibility of Motherhood:Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Motheringand coeditor (with Iris Marion Young) of Feminist Ethicsand Social Policy.

A volume in the SUNY series in Gender TheoryTina Chanter, editor

SEPTEMBER256 pp$24.95 pb 0-7914-6540-3$81.50 hc 0-7914-6539-X

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CONTRIBUTORS

Norma L. BuydensU. of ManitobaSonya CharlesMichigan State U.Patrice DiQuinzioMuhlenberg Coll.Ellen K. FederAmerican U.Kirsten IsgroU. of MA, AmherstTina ManaghanYork U., TorontoSharon M. MeagherU. of ScrantonKelly OliverVanderbilt U.Elizabeth F. RandolU. of ScrantonJennifer A. ReichU. of DenverSally J. ScholzVillanova U.Tricha ShivasMichigan State U.


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LYRICAL ANDETHICAL SUBJECTSEssays on the Peripheryof the Word, Freedom,and HistoryDennis J. Schmidt

A wide-ranging attempt todevelop a theory of ethical lifefrom a hermeneutic under-standing of language.

Dennis J. Schmidt develops ahermeneutic theory of language that forms the startingpoint for thinking through the concerns of ethical life.Working from texts by Homer, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche,Heidegger, and Gadamer, this volume explores some ofthe ways in which we experience the fringes of language,and highlights the relation of both freedom and history tosuch experience. The book is also guided by the convictionthat such reflections upon the limits of language can openup something decisive for the effort to address the enigmasand challenges of judgment in the realm of ethical life.

Taking seriously Kant’s claim in the Third Critique thataesthetic experience opens up a basis for judging that isother than that found in the language of the concept,Schmidt pursues this claim by addressing the relation oflanguage to poetry, to music, to silence, to script, to signlanguage, and to painting—those experiences of languagewhich set themselves apart from the concept. Out of thetreatment of these experiences of language at its limits,the author argues that we find an opening upon the realmof ethical life that is truly beyond the calculus of goodand evil. What results is an experience of radical freedom,an experience that precedes anything like a notion offreedom finding its explanation in the agency of a subject.It is here that we find the contours of what Heideggeronce described as “original ethics,” and experiencesomething of the sources of ethical life.

“… Dennis Schmidt is at his best … an enriching andexhilarating experience.” — Robert Bernasconi,The University of Memphis

Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy, ComparativeLiterature, and German at The Pennsylvania State Universityat University Park. He is the author of On Germans andOther Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life and The Ubiquityof the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlementsof Philosophy.


AUGUST288 pp10 color photos, 1 figure$29.95 pb 0-7914-6514-4$92.50 jacketed hc 0-7914-6513-6

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REVOLT, AFFECT,COLLECTIVITYThe Unstable Boundariesof Kristeva’s PolisTina Chanter andEwa P�onowska Ziarek,editors

Explores how the concept ofrevolution permeates and unifiesKristeva’s body of work.

These original essays explore howthe concept of revolutionpermeates and unifies JuliaKristeva’s body of work by tracingits trajectory from her earlyengagement with the Tel Quelgroup, through her preoccupationin the 1980s with abjection,melancholia, and love, to her latestwork. Some of the leading voicesin Kristeva scholarship examine herreevaluation of the concept ofrevolt in the context of thechanging cultural and politicalconditions in the West; thequestions of the stranger, race, andnation; her reflections on narrative,public spaces, and collectivity in thecontext of her engagement withHannah Arendt’s work; her development and refinement ofthe notions of abjection, melancholia, and narcissism in herongoing interrogation of aesthetics; as well as her contributionto film theory. Focused primarily on Kristeva’s newest work—much of it only recently translated into English—this bookbreaks new ground in Kristeva scholarship.

“The volume as a whole makes clear not only why Kristeva is acontinuing resource for feminist thinking about sexualdifference, but also how/why she provides a resource fortheorizing about difference more generally and whatSara Ahmed calls the ‘politics of strangeness.’ It goes someway toward addressing the lack of critical scholarship onKristeva’s more recent concerns.” — Emily Zakin, coeditor ofDerrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman

Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul Universityand author of several books, including Time, Death, and theFeminine: Levinas with Heidegger. Ewa P�onowska Ziarek isJulian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universityat Buffalo, State University of New York and editor ofGombrowicz’s Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, alsopublished by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series in Gender TheoryTina Chanter, editor

OCTOBER240 pp$22.95 pb 0-7914-6568-3$73.50 hc 0-7914-6567-5

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CONTRIBUTORS

Sara AhmedLancaster U., U.K.Sara BeardsworthSouthern IL U.Peg BirminghamDePaul U.Joan BrandtClaremont McKenna Coll.Tina ChanterDePaul U.Pleshette DeArmittVillanova U.Noëlle McAfeeU. of MAKelly OliverVanderbilt U.Frances RestucciaBoston Coll.Ewa P�onowska ZiarekSUNY Buffalo


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PHILOSOPHY

HEGELAND THE OTHERA Study of thePhenomenology of SpiritPhilip J. Kain

A new, highly accessiblecommentary on Hegel ’sPhenomenology of Spirit.

This volume by Philip J. Kain is oneof the most accessibly writtenbooks on Hegel’s Phenomenologyof Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without dilutingHegel’s thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology respondingto Kant in far more places than are usually recognized.This perspective makes Hegel’s text easier to understand.Kain also argues against the traditional understandingof the absolute and touches on Hegel’s relation tocontemporary feminist and postmodern themes.

“I admire the simplicity of Kain’s style. He is determined toappropriate Hegel’s thought, not his cumbersome syntax.There is no fudging on positions here, nor rhetoricalcamouflage. The reader gets the impression that Hegel canbe understood on his own terms and then used to confrontcontemporary problems. It is a comprehensive interpretationthat makes a major contribution to Hegel studies and to socio-cultural studies, raises important questions in the philosophyof religion, and engages recent and significant scholarship.”— Michael G. Vater, coeditor of Hegel’s Phenomenologyof Spirit: New Critical Essays

“With exceptional straightforwardness of style, the authorargues not only that a Kantian-type ‘presuppositional necessity’is the bedrock of the phenomenological strategy in Hegel,but also that Kantian epistemology is at the center of the issuesin the first three chapters of the Phenomenology, a treatmentthat is quite insightful and compelling. The extent of theconnection to Kantian philosophy is unique and provocativeand is certain to stimulate much discussion and debate.”— David A. Duquette, editor of Hegel’s History of Philosophy:New Interpretations

Philip J. Kain is Professor of Philosophy at Santa ClaraUniversity and is the author of Marx and Modern PoliticalTheory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism.

A volume in the SUNY series in Hegelian StudiesWilliam Desmond, editor

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ADAM SMITHThe Theoryof Rhetorical ProprietyStephen J. McKenna

The first book-length treatmentof Adam Smith’s rhetorical theory.

Before his famed career as moralphilosopher and economist,Adam Smith (1723–1790) was wellknown for a series of public lectureson rhetoric that he gave inEdinburgh and Glasgow. In thisvolume, Stephen J. McKenna provides the first book-lengthtreatment of Smith’s rhetorical theory, focusing on his theoryof rhetorical propriety—the means by which effectivecommunication is adapted to the variables of subject, audience,speaker or writer, purpose, and moment—and the centralityof this concept to his thought. McKenna shows that Smith’scontribution to the theory of rhetorical propriety offersinsights into the interdisciplinarity of rhetoric, particularlyits relation to ethics, and has practical implications for theways we conceive of and conduct rhetorical discourseand education today.

“This topic is relevant to the history of rhetorical thought andpractice, and in McKenna’s hands, Smith becomes relevant tothe study of current rhetorical practices, educational theories,and civic rhetoric/public literacy. An engaging book.”— Lynée Lewis Gaillet, editor of Scottish Rhetoricand Its Influences

Stephen J. McKenna is Associate Professor of English andMedia Studies and Director of The Rhetoric Program atThe Catholic University of America. He is the coeditor (withLewis Copeland and Lawrence W. Lamm) of The World’s GreatSpeeches: 292 Speeches from Pericles to Nelson Mandela,Fourth Enlarged Edition.

A volume in the SUNY series, Rhetoric in the Modern EraArthur E. Walzer and Edward Schiappa, editors

OCTOBER224 pp$22.95 pb 0-7914-6582-9$71.50 hc 0-7914-6581-0

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PHILOSOPHY

ALAIN BADIOUPhilosophyand Its ConditionsEdited and with anIntroduction byGabriel Riera

An introduction to Badiou’sphilosophical thought and itsimplications for other humanisticdisciplines and the social sciences.

There i s l i t t le doubt thatAlain Badiou is one of the mostchallenging and controversialfigures in contemporaryphilosophy. This volume of essaysbr ings together lead ingcommentators from both sides ofthe Atlantic to provide anintroduction to Badiou’s workthrough critical studies of his moreproductive and controversial ideas.

Over the course of three decades,his numerous and extensive textshave challenged traditional viewson ontology, mathematics,aesthetics, literature, politics,ethics, philosophy, and sexualdifference. His texts on Plato,Saint Paul, Pascal, Lacan, Althusser,Heidegger, Mallarme �, Pessoa,and Beckett are among the mostperceptive and penetrating essayson contemporary philosophical andliterary culture. In addition to providing insight into the basicconceptual apparatus of Badiou’s philosophy, the essays alsooffer a more substantial critical assessment of the import ofhis main theses for different disciplines.

“This work will put readers of English into the swirl of new andforceful currents of continental philosophy.” — Tom Conley,Harvard University

“This collection of essays is very timely, given the recentupsurge of interest in the work of Alain Badiou in America.A book such as this can make a much-needed contribution tothe growing discourse on Badiou.” — Kenneth Reinhard,coauthor of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Gabriel Riera is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literatureat Princeton University.

A volume in the SUNY series,Intersections: Philosophy and Critical TheoryRodolphe Gasche �, editor

JULY320 pp$29.95 pb 0-7914-6504-7$89.50 hc 0-7914-6503-9

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THE CONTRADICTIONSOF FREEDOMPhilosophical Essayson Simone de Beauvoir’sThe MandarinsSally J. Scholz andShannon M. Mussett, editors

The essent ia l companionto S imone de Beauvo i r ’scelebrated novel.

This unique collection examines thevarious contradictions of freedomin Simone de Beauvoir’sThe Mandarins, the tumultuousepic about the personal andpolitical lives of post–World War IIFrench intellectuals. Fifty years afterits publication, Beauvoir’s booktranscends the narrow confines oftime and place to speak powerfullyto audiences today. Contributorsaddress political turmoil, collectiveresponsibility, individual choice andcommitment, love relationships,subjectivity, art, and freedom.With an extensive introduction thatexplores the historical periodsurrounding France after WorldWar II, Beauvoir’s own account ofthe novel’s creation, and the initialreception of the novel aroundthe world, this book is anessential companion to Beauvoir’scelebrated novel.

“This exciting and important text, with its impressive group ofcontributors, is vital to Beauvoir scholarship since it challengesphilosophers to integrate a discussion of Beauvoir’s literaryworks into the traditional discussion of her ethics andfeminist philosophy. It makes an invaluable contribution.”— Margaret A. Simons, editor of Simone de Beauvoir’sPhilosophical Writings

“The collection strikes a perfect balance between analyzingthe novel on its own terms and relating it to ‘real life’ politicaland cultural issues, as well as to Beauvoir’s nonfiction and thework of Sartre, Husserl, Hegel, and Foucault. It’s a must readfor Beauvoir scholars, as well as for the broader community ofphilosophers who work on existentialism, feminist philosophy,and the relationship of philosophy and literature.”—Shannon Sullivan, author of Living Across and Through Skins:Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism

Sally J. Scholz is Associate Professor of Philosophyat Villanova University and the author of On de Beauvoir.Shannon M. Mussett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy atUtah Valley State College.

OCTOBER272 pp$25.95 pb 0-7914-6560-8$81.50 hc 0-7914-6559-4

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CONTRIBUTORS

Bruno BosteelsCornell U.Ray BrassierU. of Warwick,Coventry, UKJoan CopjecSUNY BuffaloSimon CritchleyCollège Internationalde Philosophie, ParisMiguel de BeisteguiU. of Warwick,Coventry, UKJuliet Flower MacCannellUC IrvinePierre MachereyUniversité de LilleNorman MadaraszUniversité de ParisTracy McNultyCornell U.Jean-Michel RabatéU. of PAGabriel RieraPrinceton U.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Peg BrandIndiana U.Thomas W. BuschVillanova U.Eleanore HolveckDuquesne U.Sonia KruksOberlin Coll.William L. McBridePurdue U.Jen McWeenyJohn Carroll U.Shannon M. MussettUT Valley State Coll.Sally J. ScholzVillanova U.Ursula TiddU. of Manchester, UKKaren VintgesUniversiteit van AmsterdamGail WeissGeorge Washington U.


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PHILOSOPHY

featured title○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ HEIDEGGERAND ARISTOTLEThe Twofoldness of BeingWalter A. Brogan

Interprets Heidegger’s phenom-enological reading of Aristotle’sphilosophy.

Walter A. Brogan’s long-awaitedbook exploring Heidegger’sphenomenological reading ofAristotle’s philosophy placesparticular emphasis on the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics,and Rhetoric. Controversial and challenging, Heidegger andAristotle claims that it is Heidegger’s sustained thematic focusand insight that governs his overall reading of Aristotle, namely,that Aristotle, while attempting to remain faithful to theParmenidean dictum regarding the oneness and unity of being,nevertheless thinks of being as twofold. Brogan offers a carefuland detailed analysis of several of the most important ofHeidegger’s treatises on Aristotle, including his assertion thatAristotle’s twofoldness of being has been ignored or misreadin the traditional substance-oriented readings of Aristotle.This groundbreaking study contributes immensely tothe scholarship of a growing community of ancient Greekscholars engaged in phenomenological approaches to thereading and understanding of Aristotle.

“This is, by far, the most extensive study of the ‘dialogue’between Heidegger and Aristotle, and one that will beconsulted as the authoritative study on the topic. It takes giantsteps to challenge the usual reading of Aristotle, and does soin a persuasive way, which partisans of the more traditionalview will ignore only at their peril.” — Drew A. Hyland, author ofQuestioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato

Walter A. Brogan is Professor of Philosophy at VillanovaUniversity. He is the coeditor (with James Risser) of AmericanContinental Philosophy: A Reader and the cotranslator (withPeter Warnek) of Martin Heidegger’s Aristotle’s Metaphysics(theta) 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force.


JULY224 pp$60.00 jacketed hc only 0-7914-6491-1

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HEIDEGGERAND RHETORICDaniel M. Gross andAnsgar Kemmann,editors

Leading scholars addressHeidegger’s 1924 lecturecourse, “Basic Concepts ofAristotle’s Philosophy.”

Featuring essays by renownedscholars Michael J. Hyde,Theodore Kisiel, Mark Michalski,Otto Pöggeler, and Nancy S.Struever, this book providesthe definitive treatment ofMartin Heidegger’s 1924lecture course, “Basic Conceptsof Aristotle’s Philosophy.”A deep and original interviewwith philosopher Hans-GeorgGadamer, who attended thelecture course, is also included.Conducted over the courseof three years, just prior to hisdeath in 2002, the interviewis Gadamer’s last majorphilosophical statement.By carefully considering thislecture course in the contextof Heidegger’s life and work, the contributors compelus to reconsider the history and theory of rhetoric, as wellas the history of twentieth-century continental philosophy.

“This delightful volume does a superb job of preparing thereader for a study of Heidegger’s lectures on Aristotle’sRhetoric. These are stimulating essays that not only conveythe background information necessary for understandingHeidegger’s lectures, but also display something of theexcitement felt by the students when they heard them.”— Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis

Daniel M. Gross is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric atThe University of Iowa. Ansgar Kemmann is ProjectManager of the German Federal Contest “Jugenddebattiert” (“Youth debate”) at the Hertie Foundation.


OCTOBER224 pp$60.00 jacketed hc only 0-7914-6551-9

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CONTRIBUTORS

Hans-Georg GadamerDeceasedDaniel M. GrossU. of IAMichael J. HydeWake Forest U.Ansgar KemmannHertie Foundation,GermanyTheodore KisielNorthern IL U.Mark MichalskiEuropean Center for theTranslation of Literatureand the Human Science,Athens, GreeceOtto PöggelerRuhr U. Bocum, GermanyNancy S. StrueverJohns Hopkins U.


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PHILOSOPHY

KANT ANDTHE CULTUREOF ENLIGHTENMENTKaterina Deligiorgi

Interprets Kant’s conceptionof enlightenment within thebroader philosophical projectof his critique of reason.

Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant’sconception of enlightenment withinthe broader philosophical projectof his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant’sworks, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique ofJudgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well ashis shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practicalcommitments that show the achievement of rational autonomyas an ongoing project for the realization of a culture ofenlightenment. Deligiorgi also considers Kant’s ideas in relationto the work of Diderot, Rousseau, Mendelssohn, Reinhold,Hamann, Schiller, and Herder. The perspective opened by thishistorical dialogue challenges twentieth-century revisionistinterpretations of the Enlightenment to show that the “cultureof enlightenment” is not simply a fragment of our intellectualhistory but rather a live project.

“Exactly how the nature and limits of enlightenment as aconcept fit into Kant’s ethics, political theory, and philosophyof history is a significant topic for Kant scholars. But beyondKant scholarship the concept of enlightenment is a pervasivetheme in postmodern scholarship as a misguided and muchdebunked social idea. Deligiorgi’s interpretation is an excellentrebuttal of postmodern critiques of Kant’s view ofenlightenment, and she makes a very persuasive case that aproper interpretation of Kant’s views has continuing relevancefor understanding modern predicaments and concerns.”— Sharon Anderson-Gold, author of Unnecessary Evil:History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Katerina Deligiorgi teaches philosophy at Anglia PolytechnicUniversity in Cambridge, England.

A volume in the SUNY series in PhilosophyGeorge R. Lucas Jr., editor

JUNE272 pp$70.00 hc only 0-7914-6469-5

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KIERKEGAARD’SPHILOSOPHYOF BECOMINGMovements and PositionsClare Carlisle

An accessible and originalexploration of the theologicaland philosophical significance ofKierkegaard’s religious thought.

Søren Kierkegaard’s proposalof “repetition” as the new categoryof truth signaled the beginning of existentialist thought,turning philosophical attention from the pursuit of objectiveknowledge to the movement of becoming that characterizeseach individual’s life. Focusing on the theme of movementin his 1843 pseudonymous texts Either/Or, Repetition,and Fear and Trembling, Clare Carlisle presents an originaland illuminating interpretation of Kierkegaard’s religiousthought, including newly translated material, that emphasizesequally its philosophical and theological significance.Kierkegaard complained of a lack of movement not only inHegelian philosophy but also in his own “dreadful still life,”and his heroes are those who leap, dance, and make journeys—but what do these movements signify, and how are theyaccomplished? How can we be true to ourselves, let alone toothers if we are continually becoming? Carlisle explores thesequestions to uncover both the philosophical and the literarycoherence of Kierkegaard’s notoriously enigmatic authorship.

“This brilliant book represents the very finest contribution tothe growing body of contemporary writings on the unusualand elusive corpus of Kierkegaard’s early pseudonymouswritings. The author brings an extraordinary level ofphilosophical sophistication and rhetorical flair to this work,and the result is a fascinating book that will appeal to scholarsof philosophy and religion in a variety of fields ranging fromethics and literature, to theology and postmodernism.That said, the book is written so clearly, and with such evidentpassion, that it will appeal to a more popular audience as well—much as Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings themselveswere designed to do.” — Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., author ofAfterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence

Clare Carlisle is the Leverhulme Research Fellow at theUniversity of Leeds, England.

A volume in the SUNY series inTheology and Continental ThoughtDouglas L. Donkel, editor

OCTOBER192 pp$55.00 hc only 0-7914-6547-0

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PHILOSOPHY

THE ACTIVE LIFEMiller’s Metaphysicsof DemocracyMichael J. McGandy

A sustained reflection on philoso-pher John William Miller and themetaphysical presuppositions andimplications of democracy.

The ancient antagonism betweenthe active and the contemplativelives is taken up in this innovativeand wide-ranging examination ofJohn William Miller’s effort to forge a metaphysicsof democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller’sactualist philosophy—its scope, its systematic character,and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasivelysets Miller’s actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt’sunderstanding of the active life and skillfully presentsactualism as a response to Whitman’s challenge to crafta democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludesthat Miller reveals how the philosophical and the politicalare inextricably connected, how there is no active lifewithout the contemplative life, and that the contemplative lifeis founded in the active life.

“The Active Life is a remarkable achievement and a timelycontribution to contemporary philosophy. It is, at once, a first-rate introduction to an important but neglected figure inAmerican thought, John William Miller, and a cutting-edgetreatment of the intertwined topics of action, symbols, history,and democracy. Miller’s metaphysics of democracy is herearticulated in reference to Emerson, Whitman, James, andDewey; its viability is defended against the influential critiquesof Rorty and other contemporary thinkers who are insistentupon severing the link between democracy and metaphysics.A tradition of American thought running (at least) fromRoyce through Hocking to Miller is, in this finely writtenstudy, dramatically extended into the twenty-firstcentury. The salience of this evolving framework toour time and place, including our most pressingpolitical questions, is demonstrated at every turn.”— Vincent M. Colapietro, author of Fateful Shapes of HumanFreedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity

Michael J. McGandy is Associate Managing Editor for NortonProfessional Books.

A volume in the SUNY series in thePhilosophy of the Social SciencesLenore Langsdorf, editor

SEPTEMBER288 pp6 figures$24.95 pb 0-7914-6538-1$73.50 hc 0-7914-6537-3

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THE PROMISEOF MEMORYHistory and Politicsin Marx, Benjamin,and DerridaMatthias Fritsch

Argues for a closer connectionbetween memories of injusticeand promises of justice as a meansto overcome violence.

Reread ing Marx throughWalter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promiseof Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation.Matthias Fritsch explores how memories of injustice relate tothe promises of justice that democratic societies have inheritedfrom the Enlightenment. Focusing on the Marxist promise fora classless society, since it contains a political promise whoseinstitutionalization led to totalitarian outcomes, Fritsch arguesthat both memories and promises, if taken by themselves,are one-sided and potentially justify violence if theydo not reflect on the implicit relation between them.He examines Benjamin’s reinterpretation of Marxism afterthe disappointment of the Russian and German revolutionsand Derrida’s “messianic” inheritance of Marx after thebreakdown of the Soviet Union. The book also contributesto contemporary political philosophy by relating Marxistsocial goals and German critical theory to debates aboutdeconstructive ethics and politics.

“The most important feature of this book is its contribution tothe philosophy of liberation. In philosophy there is a shortageof literature that focuses on the experience of the victimsof history, and Fritsch has done a great service to thoseof us who are interested in the role of memory in theprocess of liberation struggles.” — Arnold L. Farr,Saint Joseph’s University

“The author’s rigorous attempt to read the text of Marxin relation to both Benjamin and Derrida is most impressive.This is one of the very few works that has taken Marx seriouslyas an interlocutor for both Benjamin and Derrida, and whichhas attempted, in considerable detail, to bind the former’sphilosophy of history to the messianic politics elaborated bythe latter two thinkers. As such, it goes a long way towardadvancing our understanding not only of Marx but also of thevexed question of theology in Derrida and Benjamin.”— Rebecca Comay, coeditor of Endings: Questions of Memoryin Hegel and Heidegger

Matthias Fritsch is Assistant Professor of Philosophyat Concordia University and cotranslator (with Jennifer AnnaGosetti-Ferencei) of Martin Heidegger’s The Phenomenologyof Religious Life.



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PHILOSOPHY

THE BODILYDIMENSIONIN THINKINGDaniela Vallega-Neu

An ontology of bodily beingfeaturing Plato, Nietzsche,Sche ler, Mer leau-Ponty,Heidegger, and Foucault.

Daniela Vallega-Neu questions theontological meaning of body andthinking by carefully taking intoaccount how we come to experience thought bodily.She engages six prominent figures of the Westernphilosophical tradition—Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler,Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault—and considershow they understand thinking to occur in relation to thebody as well as how their thinking is itself bodily.Through a deconstructive and performative reading,she explores how their thinking reveals a bodily dimensionthat is prior to what classical metaphysics comes to conceiveas mind-body duality. Thus, Vallega-Neu uncovers the bodilydimension that sustains their thought and their work. As shecontends, the trace of the body in our thought not only exposesthe strangers we are to ourselves, but may also lead to a newunderstanding of how we come to be who we are in relationto the world we live in.

“From the outset it is clear that this book has no intentionof revisiting the classical mind/body problem. At issueis ‘thought as a bodily event,’ and in terms of this issue,Vallega-Neu turns to some surprising sources—Plato’sTimaeus and the later work of Heidegger in particular,for a creative analysis of this theme.” — James Risser,editor of Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Workof the 1930s

Daniela Vallega-Neu is Assistant Professor of Philosophyat California State University at Stanislaus and the author ofHeidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction.



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DENIAL, NEGATION,AND THE FORCESOF THE NEGATIVEFreud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz,and SophoclesWilfried Ver Eecke

A comprehensive account ofdenial viewed not only psychoana-lytically but also philosophically.

It is often the case that painfultruths emerge first in the form ofdenial; one needs to create distance from what is painful.In Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the NegativeWilfried Ver Eecke constructs a comprehensive, lucid accountof denial’s psychological and philosophical dimensions whileusing Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles to helpus understand this unavoidable aspect of human existence.

Ver Eecke acknowledges Hegel’s claim that the road to truthis not a path of doubt, but a highway of despair, and argues,via Hegel’s ontology of the person, that denial can beunderstood as a desiring being’s defense against despair.By examining the role of no-saying in children, Freud’s claimsabout freedom of the will and its necessary prerequisites, andSophocles’ Oedipus, Ver Eecke demonstrates the idea thatdenial is connected with situations in which the self-image of aperson is threatened. He concludes with a colleague’sautobiography to highlight the deep, tragic experiences thatdenial covers, and the enormous psychic work required toovercome profound denial, with the ultimate rewardof experiencing oneself as the fulfillment of the promise of life.

“This is the best treatise on denial in the philosophicalliterature.” — Jon Mills, author of The Unconscious Abyss:Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

“This book relates Freud’s theory of denial and negation toHegel, Lacan, and Spitz, producing conclusions on the natureof human freedom and wholeness that are both philosophicallyinteresting and practically useful. The last two chapters movethe theoretical discussion very much into the realm of practicallife and should be useful both to therapists and to individuals.”— Edward Hugh Henderson, coeditor of Captured by theCrucified: The Practical Theology of Austin Farrer

At Georgetown University, Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor ofPhilosophy and also teaches courses in psychology andpsychoanalysis. He is the coauthor (with Alphonse De Waelhens)of Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after theDecade of the Brain and Saying “No”: Its Meaning in ChildDevelopment, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, and Hegel.

A volume in the SUNY series in Hegelian StudiesWilliam Desmond, editor

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PHILOSOPHY

THE WINDAND THE SOURCEIn the Shadowof Mont VentouxAllen S. Weiss

Explores the role of a significantyet elusive feature of the Frenchlandscape in literature, philosophy,and art.

What does it mean to lovea landscape? Why do certainauthors have a predilection for specific landscapes? Why mightone be fascinated by a landscape in which one would neverwish to live? How does the lay of the land fashion the form ofthe poem? How does the wind infuse the breath? In The Windand the Source, Allen S. Weiss explores the role of a significantyet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature,philosophy, and art: the legendary, mysterious, monolithicMont Ventoux. This is not a book about picturesque,touristic Provence, but about the manifestation of an extremelimit of the imagination that happens to have Provence as itssite, as its fantasyland. Weiss is concerned with the vicissitudesof the desire to write about a landscape, the desire to writein a landscape, and perhaps most curiously, the desire to writeagainst a landscape. This is a book about love of the landscape,and abstraction from it; it is an account of how a mountainbecame a myth, and how an aesthetic and literary studybecame a metaphysical quest.

“Allen Weiss’s essay is an antidote to arid scholarship. In a textas deftly at ease with literary giants of different languages andperiods, such as Augustine, Petrarch, Mallarmé, and Char, Weissalso defies the boundaries of the genre of literary criticism.He does so by inscribing autobiographical references in hisgeneral investigation of the productive elision of Mont Ventouxby poets whose writings are nevertheless paradoxicallynourished by this very elusive reference. Moreover, as Weissmakes clear in his preface, the project that we are readingstands for the impossibility of writing a novella abouta mountain, and this shift between writing fiction andassessing the impossibility of writing fiction is what makes thisessay so original and bold in its range and scope, truly poeticand philosophically profound in and of itself.”— Brigitte Weltman-Aron, author of On Other Grounds:Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-CenturyEngland and France

Allen S. Weiss teaches in the Departments of PerformanceStudies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is theauthor of many books, including Feast and Folly: Cuisine,Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime, also publishedby SUNY Press.

JULY128 ppTrim size: 5 ½ x 8 ½15 b/w photos, 1 figure$25.00 hc only 0-7914-6489-X

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TROUBLING PLAYMeaning and Entityin Plato’s ParmenidesKelsey Wood

This new interpretation of Plato’sParmenides emphasizes itstreatment of time andlanguage— insights especiallyrelevant for those working inthe continental tradition.

Troubling Play is a new andilluminating interpretation of Plato’sParmenides—notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues.Showing that the Parmenides is an inquiry into time and theforms of language, author Kelsey Wood notes that thedialogue’s suggestion of sophistry is intended to provoke thesilently observant Socrates. The young Socrates believes thatknowing is prior to existence, but Parmenides ultimatelyshows him that the meaning of intelligible discourse isderived from existence in time. Although we cannot thinkapart from intelligible forms, nevertheless, any numberof modes of intelligibility are possible. This relation of idealsof intelligibility—the forms of logos—to temporal being isa crucial topic of special relevance to philosophers today.

Wood’s detailed methodological analysis ties the Parmenidesto other later dialogues such as the Sophist, Theatetus,and Philebus, and also to earlier works such as the Republicand the poem of Parmenides.

“This book demonstrates scholarly competence and clarityof exposition—no mean achievement—given the difficultyand complexity of this Platonic dialogue. Wood shows a graspof the wider importance of the issues raised and a commandof the relevant literature.” — Veronique M. Fotí, author ofVision’s Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations

Kelsey Wood is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophyat the College of the Holy Cross.

AUGUST224 pp$65.00 hc only 0-7914-6519-5

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THE BIRTHOF THE KHALSAA Feminist Re-Memoryof Sikh IdentityNikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

A feminist reconsiderationof Sikh identity, discussingits original egalitarianismand current hypermasculinequality, which is harmful toboth men and women.

Sikhs trace the genesis of their religious rites, prayers, dresscodes, and names to Guru Gobind Singh’s creation of theKhalsa in 1699. The Birth of the Khalsa is the first work toexplore this pivotal event in Sikh history from a feministperspective, questioning the ways in which Sikh memorieshave constructed a hypermasculine Sikh identity. The bookargues that Sikh memory needs to acknowledge the vitalfemale dimension grounded in the universal humancondition and present at the birth of the Khalsa.

Inspired by her own father, the eminent Sikh scholarHarbans Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh rediscovers thefeminine side of the words and actions of the founders ofSikhism. She looks at the basic texts and tenets of Sikhreligion and demonstrates the female aspect in the sacredtext, daily prayers, dress code, and rituals of the Sikhs.Singh reminds us that Guru Gobin Singh’s original visionwas an egalitarian one and urges present-day Sikhs to liveup to the liberating implications set in motion when hegave birth to the Khalsa.

“The author’s feminist critique of ‘malestream Sikhscholarship’ is so bold that it deconstructs and displacesconventional interpretations of the institution of theKhalsa and is a major departure from traditional Sikhunderstanding … It is likely to generate a lively debatewithin the Sikh community.” — Pashaura Singh, author ofThe Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib: Sikh Self-Definitionand the Bhagat Bani

“This is a unique work: the author’s conclusions are fresh,and clearly challenge former interpretations of these events.”— Robert N. Minor, author of The Religious, the Spiritual,and the Secular: Auroville and Secular India

In the Department of Religious Studies at Colby College,Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is Chair and Crawford FamilyProfessor of Religious Studies. She is the author of severalbooks, including The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Visionof the Transcendent.

A volume in the SUNY series in Religious StudiesHarold Coward, editor

OCTOBER256 pp$25.95 pb 0-7914-6584-5$78.50 hc 0-7914-6583-7

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GUESTS ATGOD’S WEDDINGCelebrating Kartikamong theWomen of BenaresTracy Pintchman

A fascinating look at women’srituals honoring the godKrishna.

This fascinating look at thesacred Hindu month of Kartik(October–November) as it is celebrated in the city ofBenares in North India highlights Kartik-related practices,stories, songs, and experiences particular to women.During Kartik, Hindu women living in and around Benaresmeet daily to enact a form of ritual worship, or pu �ja �,in which they raise the playful Hindu deity Krishnafrom childhood to adulthood throughout the month,ultimately marrying him to the plant-goddess Tulsi (Basil).Tracy Pintchman explores how women who perform Kartikpu�ja� understand and celebrate both Kartik and Krishna inways that are linked to the desires, hopes, fears, and socialrealities characteristic of many Hindu women living in therather conservative social milieu of this region.

“There is a lamentable dearth of material on urban religiousexperiences in South Asia, which makes this bookparticularly welcome. The author is a gifted translator; herrenditions of the stories and songs of women’s Kartik ritualsare a pleasure to read and are among the book’s mostattractive and important contributions. She is also wellversed in Sanskrit literatures, which allows her to considerpopular traditions and their mythological elementsthoroughly and precisely as they may emerge and divergefrom Pura�n�ic sources. Eminently accessible, the book wouldbe useful at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.”— Ann Grodzins Gold, coauthor of In the Time of Treesand Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan

“An excellent resource for South Asian specialists in religionand folklore, Guests at God’s Wedding presents a vividpicture of all that is entailed in the sacred monthof Kartik.” — Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints,and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching

Tracy Pintchman is Professor of Hindu Studies at LoyolaUniversity Chicago. She is the author of The Rise of theGoddess in the Hindu Tradition and the editor of SeekingMaha�devi�: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu GreatGoddess, both also published by SUNY Press.

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THE PRISTINE DAOMetaphysics in EarlyDaoist DiscourseThomas Michael

A new reading of Daoism, argu-ing that it originated in a particu-lar textual tradition distinct fromConfucianism and other philo-sophical traditions of early China.

The Laozi (Daodejing) and theZhuangzi have long been familiarto Western readers and haveserved as basic sources of knowledge about early ChineseDaoism. Modern translations and studies of these works haveencouraged a perception of Daoism as a mystical philosophyheavy with political implications that advises kings to becomeone with the Dao. Breaking with this standard approach,The Pristine Dao argues that the Laozi and theZhuangzi participated in a much wider tradition ofmetaphysical discourse that included a larger corpus of earlyChinese writings.

This book demonstrates that early Daoist discourse possesseda distinct, textually constituted coherence and a religioussensibility that starkly differed from the intellectual backgroundof all other traditions of early China, including Confucianism.The author argues that this discourse is best analyzed throughits emergence from the mythological imagination of earlyChina, and that it was unified by a set of notions about theDao that was shared by all of its participants. The authorintroduces certain categories from the Western religious andphilosophical traditions in order to bring out the distinctivequalities constituting this discourse and to encourage itscomparison with other religious and philosophical traditions.

“The overall argument is a direct challenge to the prevailingtendency to read much early Daoism politically. The authorconfronts this issue directly and makes a very strong case foran essentially religious reading. As a result of this work, wecan now proceed to make more intelligent and interestingcomparisons of Chinese Daoism with other religious traditions.”— Stephen W. Durrant, coeditor of Early China/Ancient Greece:Thinking through Comparisons

Thomas Michael is Assistant Professor of Religion atThe George Washington University.

A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and CultureRoger T. Ames, editor

JUNE224 pp$21.95 pb 0-7914-6476-8$64.50 hc 0-7914-6475-X

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CONFESSIONAND BOOKKEEPINGThe Religious, Moral,and Rhetorical Rootsof Modern AccountingJames Aho

A fascinating explorationof the connection betweenprofit making and morality, thisbook illustrates how modernaccounting had its roots in thesacrament of confession.

Double-entry bookkeeping (DEB), modern capitalism’s firstand foremost calculative technology, was “invented” duringthe Middle Ages when profit making was morallystigmatized. James Aho examines the problematic ofmoneymaking and offers an explanatory understanding ofthe paradoxical coupling of profit seeking and morality bysituating DEB in the religious circumstances from which itemerged, specifically the newly instituted sacrament ofpenance, that is, confession.

Confession impacted the consciences of medievalbusinessmen both through its sacramental form andthrough its moral teachings. The form of confessionproduced widespread habits of moral scrupulosity (leadingto compulsive record keeping); the content of confessiontaught that commerce itself was morally suspect. Scrupulousbusinessmen were thus driven to justify their affairs tochurch, commune, and themselves. With the aid of DEB,moneymaking was “Christianized” and Christianity wasmade more amenable to the pursuit of wealth. AlthoughDEB is typically viewed exclusively as a scientifically neutralaccount of the flow of money through a firm, it remains asit was originally devised, a rhetorical argument.

“As always, Aho writes extremely well. Who would havethought that a book on confession and bookkeeping wouldbe so engaging and at times downright fun to read? Aho’scommand of the subject makes this performance possible.”— Peter Kivisto, author of Key Ideas in Sociology

James Aho is Professor of Sociology at Idaho StateUniversity and is the author of many books, includingThe Things of the World: A Social Phenomenology andThe Orifice as Sacrificial Site: Culture, Organization,and the Body.


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RELIGIOUS STUDIES

GOD OF DESIRETales of Ka �madevain Sanskrit Story LiteratureCatherine Benton

Presents Ka �madeva, the Hindugod of desire, in tales, art, andritual. Also covers Ka �madeva’sappearance in Buddhist lore.

God of Desire presents Sanskrittales of the Indian deity Ka �madevaas he battles the ascetic god S�iva,assists the powerful goddess Devi,and incarnates as the charming son of Kr�s �n �a. Exploring theimagery and symbolism of the god of desire in art and ritual,Catherine Benton reflects on the connection of Ka�madeva toparrots, makaras (gharials), and apsarases (celestial nymphs),and to playful devotional rituals designed to win his favor.In addition to examining the Hindu literature, Benton alsohighlights two Buddhist forms of Ka�madeva, the demonic Ma�ra,who tries to persuade the Buddha to trade enlightenment forthe delights of a woman, and the ever-youthful Man�jus�ri, whocuts through ignorance with the bodhisattva sword of wisdom.Tales of Ka�madeva from the Hindu and Buddhist traditionspresent desire as a powerful force continually redefining theboundaries of chaos and order and gently pulling beyond theephemeral lure of passionate longings.

“Benton provides us with something valuable and importantthat we did not have before: a book-length study of Ka�madeva.Until now, I don’t believe anyone has brought these talestogether and provided us with a reasonable chronology,a series of convincing readings, and a catalog of their recurringtopoi. This is an incredibly useful book that sets the standardin the field.” — Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess,Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Studyof Mysticism

Catherine Benton is Lecturer in the Religion Departmentat Lake Forest College.

A volume in the SUNY series in Hindu StudiesWendy Doniger, editor

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THE ABSENCEOF MYTHSophia Heller

Despite contemporary attemptsto revive myth, this book arguesthat we are living in a world with-out myth and looks at what thismeans for humankind.

In this provocative work,Sophia Heller challenges theassumption that we cannot bewithout myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living.Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world withoutmyth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the lossof a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrateshow theorists who insist on the presence of myth denyits historical end.

Absence of myth may seem obvious: evidenced by our lack ofcult and ritual, and by our de-animated natural world, as wellas in the emergence of conceptual thought and psychologicalawareness, which could only arise with the dissolution of aprereflective (mythic) mode of being-in-the-world. But whatappears to be straightforward becomes complicated whenmyth is intentionally conflated with thought and reflection,usually in the attempt to cultivate a “mythic consciousness”that aims to restore meaning to life and assuage the spiritualmalaise of contemporary culture.

Myth cannot rest in peace. It must be continually unearthed,redefined, and recontextualized such that modern andpostmodern notions of myth are made to substitute forsomething that has never been experienced, only imagined.

“The author is fully versed in the relevant texts and salientdebates, and she advances a startling thesis: the modern worldis not only devoid of myth, it’s better off without it. The criticalissues she raises are long overdue and her thought-provokingarguments have the potential to prompt a radicalrevisioning of what the study of myth is all about.”— Kelly Bulkeley, author of Visions of the Night: Dreams,Religion, and Psychology

“Conclusions here are sharply different than the status quowithin much of contemporary mythography. At last someonehas been brave enough to point out that the emperor has noclothes.” — William G. Doty, author of Mythography: The Studyof Myths and Rituals, Second Edition

Sophia Heller is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. inMythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She livesin Massachusetts.


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RELIGIOUS STUDIES

THE BROKEN WHOLEPhilosophical StepsToward a Theologyof Global SolidarityThomas E. Reynolds

Considers the problem of plural-ism and offers a vision of humansolidarity for the postmodern era.

In an increasingly precariousglobal situation, and in light ofthe postmodern emphasis ondifference, efforts to grasp the “whole” as somethinguniversally shared by all human beings have fallen short,according to Thomas E. Reynolds. In this book, he exploresthe philosophical and theological significance of the problemof pluralism and asserts that the shared resources of the world’sreligious traditions can be used to cultivate peace and solidarityacross diverse boundaries. He engages a range of philosophicalthinkers—such as Gadamer, Marcel, Rorty, Foucault, Levinas,Derrida, and Habermas—and brings them into conversationwith contemporary theologians and writers in religious studies.Presenting a vision of solidarity that is both religiously chargedand philosophically astute, The Broken Whole outlinesan inventive approach toward retrieving the relevanceof God-talk, an approach rooted in a philosophy of dialogueand cross-cultural hospitality.

“The writing is subtle and nuanced, the arguments are wellconceived and worked through, and the conclusions arereasonable and balanced. This book is a remarkableachievement which helps to redirect inquiry and reopen morerealistic theological questions that have been largely excludedfrom the discussion.” — John B. Cobb, author ofPostmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture,Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy

Thomas E. Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Religious Studiesat St. Norbert College.

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SAMA �DHIThe Numinousand Cessativein Indo-Tibetan YogaStuart Ray Sarbacker

Explores yoga and meditation inEastern religions, incorporatingpsychological and social aspectsof these practices.

A historical and comparative studygrounded in close readings ofimportant works, this book explores the dynamics of thetheory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts.Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating,contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to theattainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to completeescape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbackerdemonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experiencehave affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yogafrom its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integratessociological and psychological perspectives on religiousexperience into a larger phenomenological model to addressthe multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to abroad range of methodological and contextual issues, Sama�dhiprovides numerous insights into the theory and practice ofyoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies andpractitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions.

“Sarbacker tackles an immense swath of material andaccompanying secondary literature and manages to dosomething genuinely creative with it all, that is, develop hisown phenomenology of meditative experience via his centralcategories of the numinous and cessative.” — Jeffrey J. Kripal,author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism andReflexivity in the Study of Mysticism

Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in Religion at NorthwesternUniversity.

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THE STRIKINGCABBIES OF CAIROAND OTHERSTORIESCrafts and Guildsin Egypt, 1863–1914John T. Chalcraft

Challenges existing views ofcrafts and service workers inEgypt in the nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries.

This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history,providing the first systematic account of adaptation andprotest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealthof new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventionalnotions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering thelargely unknown histories of crafts workers’ restructuringin the face of world economic integration, and theirpetitions, demonstrations, and strike-action at a time ofstate-building and colonial rule. Chalcraft demonstrates theeconomic importance of petty producers and serviceproviders, and tells the story of widespread collectiveassertion couched in new discourses of citizenship andnationalism. He also gives a new interpretation of the endof the guilds in Egypt and addresses larger debates aboutunevenness under capitalism.

“An intelligent, erudite, and original work. Chalcraft findsthat while guilds collapsed in the 1890s, the handicraft/service economy did not. In contrast to the dominantliterature, he argues that small providers of goods andservices managed to retain shares of existing markets and,in some sectors, they remained dominant for very longperiods of time.” — Ellis Jay Goldberg, editor of The SocialHistory of Labor in the Middle East

“Chalcraft corrects a good number of errorsand misunderstandings by previous scholars byconcentrating on social strata that have hithertolargely been excluded from the history of nineteenth-century Egypt.” — Joel Beinin, author of Workers andPeasants in the Modern Middle East

John T. Chalcraft is Lecturer in Modern Middle EasternHistory at the University of Edinburgh.

A volume in the SUNY series in theSocial and Economic History of the Middle EastDonald Quataert, editor

286 pp8 b/w photos$25.95 pb 0-7914-6144-0 JUNE 2005$75.00 hc ISBN 0-7914-6143-2 AUGUST 2004

ISLAMIN MODERN TURKEYAn Intellectual Biographyof Bediuzzaman Said NursiS �ükran VahideEdited and with anIntroduction byIbrahim M. Abu-Rabi�

A biography of the prominentTurkish theologian and thinker.

Islam in Modern Turkey presentsone of the most comprehensive studies in English of the seminalTurkish thinker and theologian, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi(1876–1960). A devout Muslim who strongly believedin peacefully coexisting with the West, Nursi inspired a faithmovement that has played a vital role in the revival of Islamin Turkey and now numbers several million followersworldwide. While Nursi’s ideas have been affordedconsiderable analysis, this book is the first to situate theseideas and his related activities in their historical contexts.Based on the available sources and Nursi’s own works,here is a complete and balanced view of this importanttheologian’s life and thought.

“This book is vitally important. Nursi was an authentic Muslim,which even the most conservative of Muslims would recognize.One finds in his writings a warmth and generosity of spiritthat is worth celebrating and should be better known.”— Ian S. Markham, author of A Theology of Engagement

S �ükran Vahide is Resident Scholar at the Istanbul Cultureand Sc ience Foundat ion in I s tanbu l , Turkey.Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi� is Professor of Islamic Studies andChristian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary.He edited and wrote the introduction for Islam at theCrossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi,also published by SUNY Press.

AUGUST430 pp2 maps$24.95 pb 0-7914-6516-0$73.50 hc 0-7914-6515-2Sales restricted to North America only

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MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

CALIFORNIADREAMINGIdeology, Society,and Technologyin the Citrus Industryof Palestine, 1890–1939Nahum Karlinsky

Multidisciplinary study of thecitrus industry in Palestine beforeWorld War II.

The citrus industry of Palestine hasoften been associated with the myths and ideals of the LaborMovement and its Zionist-Socialist ideology. The Jaffa orange,like the young pioneer and the collective kibbutz, wasemblematic of a colonizing meta-narrative that marginalizedor even denounced the private entrepreneurs—both Arabsand Jews—who were the true founders and proponents ofthe flourishing citrus industry in Palestine. California Dreamingreveals that these private entrepreneurs regarded the Californiacitrus industry as their primary model of emulation. Utilizingan innovative multidisciplinary approach, Nahum Karlinskyvividly reconstructs the social fabric, economic structure, andideological tenets of the Jewish citrus industry of Palestine inthe early twentieth century. Also accentuated is the role ofPalestinian-Arab citrus growers, whose industry predated thatof their Jewish counterparts, and the complex relationshipbetween the two national sectors that operated side by side.

“Karlinsky displays considerable gifts as an economist throughthe handling of the book’s massive quantities of data, as ahistorian of science through his careful study of Jewishagricultural technological innovation, as a business historianthrough a well-informed depiction of entrepreneurial ideal-types, and as a biographer through his sensitive portrayalsof capitalist pioneers.” — Derek J. Penslar, author of Shylock’sChildren: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe

“This English-language edition of Karlinsky’s valuable studyof the development of the citrus industry in Palestine deservesa wide readership. Historians of the Middle East will learn fromhis detailed analysis of the ideologies and technologiesof Jewish and Arab growers. The book also merits attentionfrom historians of the American West, who will understandanew the global reach of California culture.” — Stephen Aron,author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformationof Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay

Nahum Karlinsky is Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion Universityof the Negev, Israel.

A volume in the SUNY series in Israeli StudiesRussell Stone, editor

AUGUST304 pp17 b/w photos, 3 maps, 14 tables$45.00 hc only 0-7914-6527-6

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THE INTERNETIN THE MIDDLE EASTGlobal Expectationsand Local Imaginationsin KuwaitDeborah L. Wheeler

A surprising look at how theInternet does, and does not,affect public discourse and socialpractice in the Middle East andKuwait in particular.

Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internetrevolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle Eastanalyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourseand social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus onKuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journey throughthe lives of women, youth, and Islamist Internet users,and through their testimonies shows what the Internet meansto various Internet subcultures in the emirate.

The book includes a historical overview of the values and designprinciples embedded in the Internet by its inventors and earlyadopters, and examines the major questions, debates,assumptions, and findings of the emerging field of Internetstudies. Drawing on six years of research, including three yearsof fieldwork in Kuwait, Dubai, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia,and Morocco, Wheeler provides a comparative overview ofthe meaning and manifestations of the Internet in the MiddleEast, giving careful attention to whether or not the Internetlives up to global expectations of promoting democracy,economic privatization, and personal freedom.

“Wheeler shows—contrary to received wisdom about theInternet’s potential for democratization and decentralizationthrough the spread of information—that it can be used equallyto reinforce centralization and to disseminate antidemocraticthinking. The author’s familiarity with Kuwaiti society makesher account authoritative and colorful. Her treatment of mythand reality in the chapter on women is particularly readableand rewarding.” — Naomi Sakr, author of Satellite Realms:Transnational Television, Globalization, and the Middle East

“The strengths of this book are its openness and energy; thequestions guiding the research, and the methods used toanswer them; the subject matter—not well known in the West;and the coverage spanning multiple population subgroups.”— Mary Ann Te �treault, author of Stories of Democracy:Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait

Deborah L. Wheeler is Assistant Professor of Political Scienceat the United States Naval Academy.

A volume in the SUNY series inComputer-Mediated CommunicationTeresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen, editors

OCTOBER208 pp1 map, 4 tables$24.95 pb 0-7914-6586-1$73.50 hc 0-7914-6585-3

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SOCIOLOGY

THE COSTOF BEING POORA Comparative Studyof Life in Poor UrbanNeighborhoodsin Gary, IndianaSandra L. Barnes

Looks at the daily lives of poorpeople to demonstrate thatthe poor pay more thanothers, by both monetaryand other measures, to meetbasic needs.

While the negative effects of urban poverty are welldocumented, the everyday experiences of urban residentsare often absent or secondary in urban studies research.The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examiningboth the noneconomic and the often-overlooked economiccosts faced by residents of poor urban neighborhoods inGary, Indiana. Using census, regional, and local data,and in-depth interviews with the residents of Gary,Sandra L. Barnes argues that many people incur costsresulting from the dual dilemma of being poor and residingin a poor urban area. She explores how factors such asrace/ethnicity, neighborhood type, and location influenceresidents’ views, coping strategies, and unconventionalapproaches toward making ends meet. Well written andaccessible, this study of Gary’s poor urban neighborhoodsoffers broad findings that apply to other similarlyimpoverished Rust Belt cities.

“The prose is clean and lean and Barnes builds aninteresting study of how people with limited resourcesmanage their incomes wisely yet are forced at times toignore the obvious negative economics of a situation.She does a very good job of showing the daily strugglesof low-income people and the decisions they make,both good and bad. — Harrell R. Rodgers Jr., author ofAmerican Poverty in a New Era of Reform

Sandra L. Barnes is Assistant Professor of Sociology andAfrican American Studies at Purdue University.

A volume in the SUNY series, The New InequalitiesA. Gary Dworkin, editor

JUNE256 pp17 b/w photos, 1 map, 13 tables$24.95 pb 0-7914-6468-7$84.50 hc 0-7914-6467-9

ISRAELIBACKPACKERSFrom Tourismto Rite of PassageChaim Noy andErik Cohen, editors

Examines the backpackingtrip usually taken by Israeli youthfollowing military service.

In the period after their militaryservice, Jewish Israeli youthcustomarily embark on a uniquetouristic practice: the backpackingtrip. Combining sociological,anthropological, and psychologicalresearch—based on innovativefieldwork conducted with Israelibackpackers in Israel and abroad—this book depicts the complexrelationship between the travelingyouth and their society of origin. Viaa perspective the editors term“outside-in,” we learn how socialand cultural tensions and tenets,identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out withina symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.

“These studies touch on central issues in the studyof contemporary global youth culture. They elaboratein illuminating ways how Israeli identity is reproducedand reinvented ‘away from home.’ In-depth, analytically rich,and lively, Israeli Backpackers addresses important questionsin the fields of Israeli and Jewish studies, the anthropologyof tourism, and the cultural study of travel and place making.”— Tamar Katriel, author of Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talksto Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

“This volume underlines the extent to which people carry theiridentities with them as psychological baggage on their journey.The differing reactions to being apparently freed of theconstraints of everyday social contexts is illuminating … This isa major contribution to the debate on the formation,maintenance, and transformation of social bonds in mobile,postmodern societies.” — Greg Richards, editor of CulturalAttractions and European Tourism

Chaim Noy teaches in the Department of Communicationat the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Erik Cohen isGeorge S. Wise Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem and is the author of many books,including Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change.


JULY282 pp1 table, 1 figure$70.00 hc only 0-7914-6497-0

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CONTRIBUTORS

Lisa Anteby-YeminiAix-en-Provence, FranceDalit Bloch-TzemachHebrew U. of JerusalemErik CohenHebrew U. of JerusalemJackie FeldmanBen Gurion U.Ayana Shira HavivUCLADarya MaozHebrew U. of JerusalemChaim NoyHebrew U. of Jerusalem


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SOCIOLOGY

SUBSIDIZINGCAPITALISMBrickmakers on theU.S.–Mexican BorderTamar Diana Wilson

Examines the economic activitiesof self-employed brickmakersand the unpaid family membersand others who assist themin Mexico.

In Mex ico , se l f -employedbrickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providingbricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings,and shopping malls at low costs based on profit-makingprinciples. Combining Chayanovian and neo-Marxistapproaches, Subsidizing Capitalism asserts that the economicactivities of these self-employed brickmakers may beconsidered counterhegemonic because they avoidproletarianization in the formal sector. Tamar Diana Wilsondiscusses the similarities between peasants and brickmakers,the structural position of garbage pickers in relation tobrickmakers, the trajectory from piece worker to pettycommodity producer to petty capitalist, the economic valueof women’s and children’s work as part of the family labor force,and how the neopatriarchal household is intrinsic to pettycommodity production. Interspersed throughout are shortstories and poems that offer the brickmakers’ perspectivesand provide a rarely seen look into their lives.

“The real strength of Wilson’s contribution is ethnographic andhumanistic; she strongly identifies with the lives and strugglesof her subjects and knows their personal trials, tribulations,and more positive life experiences/trajectories well.”— Scott Cook, author of Understanding Commodity Cultures:Explorations in Economic Anthropology with Case Studiesfrom Mexico

“The originality of the book consists of showing the processesof class transformation across intergenerational lines in thebrickmaking trade, questioning recent interpretations of theinformal economy in Latin America as counterhegemonic,and providing a gender angle to the study of brickmaking.”— Christian Zlolniski, University of Texas at Arlington

Tamar Diana Wilson is Research Affiliate in the Departmentof Anthropology at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

A volume in the SUNY series in the Anthropology of WorkJune C. Nash, editor

JULY208 pp23 b/w photos, 5 tables$55.00 hc only 0-7914-6507-1

FEMINISTSPORT STUDIESSharing Experiencesof Joy and PainPirkko Markula, editor

Uses personal narratives to high-light the development of feministsport studies.

This book highlights thedevelopment of feminist sportstudies through personal narrativesof prominent feminist sportresearchers from North America,Europe, and New Zealand. Withexpertise in sport history, literature,psychology, and sociology,contributors offer reflections thatcross disciplinary boundaries andprovide a concise and currentsummary of this broad field.

In relaying their personalresearch experiences, contributorsintertwine their professional andpersonal selves in stories thathighlight the struggles of sportfeminists, struggles that shaped theself and constructed feministknowledge of sport. They tellabout the academic context forfeminist research in sport studies,the feelings and experiencesof being women researchersin a ma le-dominated f ie ld ,and internal doubts and disappointments after vilificationof their work. The narrative style makes this book accessibleto a wide variety of audiences and a suitable reference and/ortext for sport science history and research methods courses.

“This book records the struggles and successes of a group ofacademics who have had a profound influence; it is importantthat these stories are told.” — Sheila Scraton, coeditor ofGender and Sport: A Reader

Pirkko Markula is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bathand the coeditor (with Jim Denison) of Moving Writing:Crafting Movement in Sport Research.

A volume in the SUNY series onSport, Culture, and Social RelationsCL Cole and Michael A. Messner, editors

AUGUST256 pp3 b/w photos, 1 table$25.95 pb 0-7914-6530-6$74.50 hc 0-7914-6529-2

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CONTRIBUTORS

Susan J. BandyAarhus U., DenmarkCelia BrackenridgeHuddersfield U.,Queensgate, UKJoan L. DudaU. of Birmingham,Edgbaston, UKKari FastingNorwegian U. of Sportand P.E., Oslo, NorwayM. Ann HallU. of Alberta, EdmontonUlla KosonenJyväskylän KatulähetysSabine Kro �nerU. of Münster, GermanyPirkko MarkulaU. of Bath, UKCarole A. OglesbyTemple U.Gertrud PfisterU. of Copenhagen,DenmarkNancy ThebergeU. of Waterloo, ONShona M. ThompsonU. of Auckland

SPORTS STUDIES


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SPORTS STUDIES

DECONSTRUCTINGSPORT HISTORYA Postmodern AnalysisMurray G. Phillips, editorForeword by Alun Munslow

Presents a broad spectrum ofcritical approaches that questiontraditional sport history.

This groundbreaking collectionchallenges the accepted principlesand practices of sport history andencourages sport historians to bemore adventurous in theirrepresentations of the sportingpast in the present. Encompassinga wide range of critical approaches,leading international sporthistorians reflect on theory,practice, and the future of sporthistory. They survey the field ofsport history since its inception,examine the principles that havegoverned the production ofknowledge in sport history, andaddress the central concerns raisedby the postmodern challenge tohistory. Sharing a common desireto critique contemporary practicesin sport history, the contributorsraise the level of critical analysis ofthe production of historicalknowledge, provide examples ofapproaches by those who havestruggled with or adapted to thepostmodern challenge, and openup new avenues for future sporthistorians to follow.

“The editor highlights some of the important limitationsof sport history as it is currently practiced and argues thatpostmodern theory could be incorporated more effectivelyinto our field’s methodology. The book assembles contributionsfrom respected and talented scholars who employ a varietyof approaches to illustrate the potential contributionsof postmodern theory to sport history.” — Eric Reed,Western Kentucky University

Murray G. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of HumanMovement Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia.He is the author of From Sidelines to Centre Field: A Historyof Sports Coaching in Australia.


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NATIONAL IDENTITYAND GLOBALSPORTS EVENTSCulture, Politics, andSpectacle in the Olympicsand the Football World CupAlan Tomlinson andChristopher Young, editors

Explains why cities dig deep intheir pockets to host the Olympicsand countries breed teams forsuccess on the world soccer stage.

National Identity and Global SportsEvents looks at the significance ofinternational sporting events andwhy they generate enormousaudiences worldwide. Focusing onthe Olympic Games and the men’sfootball (soccer) World Cup,the contributors examine thepolitical, cultural, economic, andideological influences that framethese events. Selected casestudies include the 1936 NaziOlympics in Berlin, the 1934World Cup Finals in Italy,the unique case of the 1972Munich Games, the transformative1984 Games in Los Angeles, andthe 2002 Asian World Cup Finals,among others. The case studiesshow how the Olympics and theWorld Cup Finals provide a basisfor the articulation of entrenchedand dominant political ideologies,encourage persisting sensesof national identity, and actas barometers for the changingideological c l imate o f themodern and increas ing lyglobalized contemporary world.Through rigorous scholarlyanalyses, the book’s contributors help to illuminate theincreasing significance of large-scale sporting events on theinternational stage.

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies, Area Leaderfor Sport and Leisure Cultures, and Head of ChelseaSchool Research Centre at the University of Brighton.Christopher Young is University Lecturer at the Universityof Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Modernand Medieval Languages at Pembroke College.


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CONTRIBUTORS

John BaleKeele University, UKDouglas BoothU. of Waikato,Hamilton, NZJeffrey HillDe Montfort U., UKBrett HutchinsU. of Tasmania, AustraliaAlun MunslowStaffordshire U. UKMichael OriardOR State U.Catriona ParrattU. of IAMurray G. PhillipsU. of Queensland,AustraliaSteven W. PopeU. of Lincoln, UKRobert RinehartWA State U.Synthia SyndorU. of IL,Urbana-ChampaignPatricia VertinskyGreen Coll.,Vancouver, Canada

CONTRIBUTORS

Eduardo ArchettiUniversidad de Oslo,NorwayClaire BrewsterU. of Nottingham, UKKeith BrewsterU. of Newcastle, UKRobert EdelmanUC San DiegoRobert S. C. GordonCambridge U., UKAllen GuttmannAmherst Coll.Chris KennettLa Salle U.John LondonU. of London, UKJohn J. MacAloonU. of ChicagoTony MasonDe Montfort U.,Leicester, UKMiquel de MoragasUniversitat Autònomade BarcelonaDavid RoweU. of Newcastle, AustraliaDeborah StevensonU. of Newcastle, AustraliaAlan TomlinsonU. of Brighton,East Sussex, UKSoon-Hee WhangU. of Tsukuba, JapanChristopher YoungPembroke Coll.,Cambridge, UK


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CULTURAL STUDIES

ON JAMESONFrom Postmodernismto GlobalizationCaren Irr andIan Buchanan, editors

Offers an interrogation ofJameson’s critical legacy.

One of the leading figures inthe debate over postmodernismin the 1980s and 1990s,Fredric Jameson is regardedas the most important Marxisttheoretician and culturalcritic writing in Americatoday. Although Jameson’ssignificance as a globalintellectual has been widelyrecognized for some time,none of the literature coversthe full range of his work.This timely collection reflectson Jameson’s entire body ofwork and demonstrates itspotential to shape theemerging field of globalizationstudies. Experts in literarytheory, Slavic studies, filmcriticism, and Biblical studiesexplore the significanceof Jameson’s work fortheir diverse fields. Thecontributors treat Jameson’swork as a complicated andinterconnected whole, anddeal with many topics, including his influence in Chinaand Russia, his interests in second- and third-world cinemaand literature, and his lifelong passion for science fiction.As On Jameson reveals, integrating these concernsis Jameson’s project of producing a critical theoryof contemporary global cultures.

Caren Irr is Associate Professor of English and AmericanLiterature at Brandeis University. She is the coeditor (withJeffrey T. Nealon) of Rethinking the Frankfurt School:Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique, also publishedby SUNY Press, and the author of The Suburb of Dissent:Cultural Politics in the U.S. and Canada during the 1930s.Ian Buchanan is Professor of Communication and CulturalStudies at Charles Darwin University. He is the author ofDeleuzism: A Metacommentary and Michel de Certeau:Cultural Theorist.

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THE LANGUAGEOF THE EYESScience, Sexuality,and Female Visionin English Literatureand Culture, 1690–1927Daryl Ogden

Recovers a dynamic women’stradition of vision and sexuality,challenging Darwinian andFreudian accounts of womenas nonvisual sexual agents.

While Darwinian and Freudian theories of vision and sexualityhave represented women as lacking visual agency,Daryl Ogden’s The Language of the Eyes argues that“the gaze” is not merely a masculine phenomenon, and thatwomen have powerfully desiring eyes as well. Ogden offersa comprehensive cultural history of female visuality in Englandby analyzing scientific writings, conduct books, illustratedperiodicals, poetry, painting, and novels, and he makesimportant and hitherto unrecognized connections betweenliterary history, cultural studies, and science studies. In so doing,Ogden accomplishes what numerous feminist critics—especially film theorists—have not: the recovery of themodern female spectator from historical obscurity.

“This is a remarkable book, full of fresh and important insights.Ogden’s perspective offers a new way of thinking abouthow attitudes toward women—whether among menor women—were shaped by a very narrow grammar that ruled‘the language of the eyes.’” — Alan Rauch, author ofUseful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the Marchof Intellect

Daryl Ogden is Executive Director of Project GRAD Rooseveltin Long Island, New York.

A volume in the SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and TheoryMichelle A. Massé, editor

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CONTRIBUTORS

Roland BoerMonash U., AustraliaIan BuchananCharles Darwin U.,AustraliaVitaly ChernetskyColumbia U.Sean HomerCity College,Thessaloniki, GreeceCaren IrrBrandeis U.Carolyn LesjakSwarthmore Coll.Michael RothbergU. of IL,Champaign-UrbanaRobert SeguinSUNY BrockportImre SzemanMcMaster U., CanadaEvan WatkinsUC DavisPhillip E. WegnerU. of FL


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LITERATURE

JAMAICA KINCAIDWriting Memory,Writing Backto the MotherJ. Brooks Bouson

Offers a new perspectiveon the psychological andaffective dynamics ofJamaica Kincaid’s fiction andnonfiction.

“I’ve never written aboutanyone except myself and my mother. I’m just oneof those pathetic people for whom writing is therapy.”— Jamaica Kincaid

Haunted by the memories of her powerfully destructivemother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity.Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in theWest Indies in the shadow of her deeply contemptuousand abusive mother, Annie Drew. Drawing heavily onKincaid’s many remarks on the autobiographical sourcesof her writings, J. Brooks Bouson investigates the ongoingconstruction of Kincaid’s autobiographical and politicalidentities. She focuses attention on what many criticsfind so enigmatic and what lies at the heart of Kincaid’sfiction and nonfiction work: the “mother mystery.”Bouson demonstrates, through careful readings,how Kincaid uses her writing to transform her feelingsof shame into pride as she wins the praise of an admiringcritical establishment and an ever-growing reading public.

“Bouson offers a highly intelligent and detailed reading ofKincaid’s work from the perspective of shame and traumatheory. She shows the intersection of the personal and thesocial in the work, with a central emphasis on the troubledmother-daughter relations. This is a major contribution tothe field.” — Joseph Adamson, coeditor of Scenes ofShame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing

J. Brooks Bouson is Professor of English at LoyolaUniversity Chicago. She is the author of Quiet As It’s Kept:Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison,also published by SUNY Press; Brutal Choreographies:Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novelsof Margaret Atwood; and The Empathic Reader: A Studyof the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self.

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BECOME WHO YOU AREHedwig DohmTranslated and with an Afterword byElizabeth G. Ametsbichler

Two texts—one novella and one essay—that exemplifyDohm’s passionate arguments for gender equality.

Hedwig Dohm (1831–1919) was a thinker and writersignificantly ahead of her time. She championed women’s rightsin Germany and criticized with acerbic wit the social, political,and familial inequities inherent in gender relationships at thetime of the first wave of the women’s movement. Her novellaBecome Who You Are is about a woman, Agnes Schmidt, whosehusband has died and who is grappling with finding an identityfor herself as an aging widow—reflecting the restrictionsimposed especially on aging, widowed women who often yearnfor a life and identity of their own. Also included here is theEnglish translation of Dohm’s essay, “The Old Woman,”which is a compelling call for women to resist the social,intellectual, psychological, and physical restraints placedon women of Dohm’s time.

“For a modern reader, it is shocking to realize that women’slives were over so soon and that nineteenth-century Germansociety made no provision to integrate independent womenonce their husbands died. While in many cases Hedwig Dohmseparates her political views from her fiction, this pieceresonates with an indictment of the restraints placedon bourgeois women’s education and identity formation.”— Susan L. Cocalis, editor of The Defiant Muse:German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present

Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler is Professor of German atthe University of Montana. She is the coeditor (withElke P. Frederiksen) of Women Writers in German-SpeakingCountries: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.

A volume in the SUNY series, Women Writers in TranslationMarilyn Gaddis Rose, editor

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LITERATURE

MY BELOVED TOTOLetters from Juliette Drouetto Victor Hugo 1833–1882Juliette DrouetEdited and Annotated byEvelyn BlewerPreface by Jean GaudonTranslated and with anIntroduction, AdditionalNotes, and Glossary byVictoria Tietze Larson

Selected letters from JulietteDrouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, offering insights intonineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider’s lookat the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-daylife of France’s most monumental man of letters.

My Beloved Toto, a collection of letters written byJuliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, tells the story ofa life and of the great love affair that shaped it. From 1833until her death half a century later, Drouet wrote to Hugo twicedaily on average, resulting in thousands of letters. The 186translated here—most appearing in English for the first time—offer insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well asan insider’s look at the character, behavior, working habits,and day-to-day life of France’s most monumental man of letters.

“Juliette Drouet’s extraordinary story has been told manytimes—but never as vividly as she tells it herself in her letters.Here, at last, is a lucid, accurate modern English translation ofa representative selection. The intelligence, wit, devotion,passions, and frustrations visible in them should do much todispel the myths fostered by Drouet’s critics and biographers.”— E. H. and A. M. Blackmore, editors and translators ofSelected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition andThe Essential Victor Hugo

“Written from the body and soul, Juliette Drouet’s love lettersto Victor Hugo, spanning some fifty years but written in andfor the moment, are engaging bits of écriture féminine.Filled with wordplay and allusion to contemporary eventsboth personal and public, these texts present formidabletranslation problems expertly contextualized by thetranslator in her introduction, notes, and glossary.”— Kristine J. Anderson, Purdue University

Victoria Tietze Larson is Professor of Classics and GeneralHumanities at Montclair State University and the translator ofMy Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, alsopublished by SUNY Press.

A volume in the SUNY series, Women Writers in TranslationMarilyn Gaddis Rose, editor


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ACTING BEAUTIFULLYHenry James and theEthical AestheticSigi Jöttkandt

Addresses ethical and aestheticissues in three major works byHenry James.

What is the matter with the womenin Henry James? In The Portrait ofa Lady, The Wings of the Dove, andhis short story “The Altar of theDead,” one woman returns to amonster of a husband, another dies rather than confront thetruth of her lover’s engagement, while yet another stakes herall on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptlyreject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt arguesthat the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature,and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced fromthe question of aesthetics. She combines close readings ofJames with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics andset theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of theLacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in thecurrent drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject asthe subject of science.

“If ‘instant classic’ means anything at all today, it meansJöttkandt’s book! Henry James is the silent partner ofJacques Lacan: never mentioned in Lacan’s work,he nonetheless, in an uncanny way, ‘stages’ all mainLacanian concepts. Jöttkandt’s book brings this secret linkinto the open: after reading it, our perception of both Lacanand James will change fundamentally. Those who freely decideto ignore this book are simply those who are bent to freelychoose stupidity!” — Slavoj Z�iz�ek

“The author offers brilliantly original and detailed readings ofthree important works by Henry James. No one has ever readthese works in just this way, and I read the book with greatintellectual exhilaration. It makes a major contribution not onlyto the literature of James but also to ethical theory and to thegeneral issues of the uses of theory. It is a superb workof scholarship.” — J. Hillis Miller

Sigi Jöttkandt is Flanders Research Council Fellow in theDepartment of English at Ghent University in Belgium.

A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and CultureHenry Sussman, editor

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ASIAN STUDIES

BETWEENARGENTINESAND ARABSArgentine Orientalism,Arab Immigrants,and the Writing of IdentityChristina Civantos

Examines the presence of Arabsand the Arab world in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Argentineliterature by juxtaposing works byArgentines of European descentand those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.

Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreakingcontribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrantsand minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arabdiaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examinesthe textual dialogue between Argentines of European descentand Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to themid-1900s.

Using methods drawn from literary analysis and cultural studies,Christina Civantos shows that the Arab presence is twofold:“the Arab” and “the Orient” are an imagined figure and spacewithin the texts produced by Euro-Argentine intellectuals; andimmigrants from the Arab world are an actual community,producing their own texts within the multiethnic Argentinenation. This book is both a literary history—of ArgentineOrientalist literature and Arab-Argentine immigrant literature—and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in thesetwo bodies of work is interconnected.

“This book systematically studies the presence of Arabs in boththe cultural imagery and the national space of Argentina,an area not previously explored in work on Argentinelanguage and culture. Civantos brings theoreticalsophistication to the topic.” — Amy K. Kaminsky, author ofAfter Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora

“Civantos makes a huge and pioneering contribution in herreading of lesser-known texts by major writers, and in herstudies of the large number of Arab-Argentine writers whohave often slipped out of the Argentine literary canon. The listof writers Civantos has disinterred from the dust of literaryhistory, many of them Arab-Argentine, is truly dazzling.”— Nicolas Shumway, author of The Invention of Argentina

Christina Civantos is Assistant Professor of Languages andLiteratures at the University of Miami.

A volume in the SUNY series inLatin American and Iberian Thought and CultureJorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors


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THECONSTRUCTIONOF SPACEIN EARLY CHINAMark Edward Lewis

Shows how the emergingChinese empire purposelyreconceived but was alsoconstrained by basic spatialunits such as the body,the household, the region,and the world.

This book examines the formation of the Chinese empirethrough its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basicspatial units: the human body, the household, the city, theregion, and the world. The central theme of the book isthe way all these forms of ordered space were reshapedby the project of unification and how, at the same time,that unification was constrained and limited by thenecessary survival of the units on which it was based.Consequently, as Mark Edward Lewis shows, each level ofspatial organization could achieve order and meaning onlywithin an encompassing, superior whole: the body withinthe household, the household within the lineage and state,the city within the region, and the region within the worldempire, while each level still contained within itself thesmaller units from which it was formed. The unity that wasthe empire’s highest goal avoided collapse back into theoriginal chaos of nondistinction only by preserving withinitself the very divisions on the basis of family or region thatit claimed to transcend.

“This work is impressively learned and provides a splendidsense of early Chinese political culture and social ecology.Lewis has an admirable ability to create tight, complex,elegant formulations that summarize the evidenceefficiently and effectively, an ability to occupy the analyticalheights, survey the complex terrain below, and seize onthe significance of particular details. The book will serveas an almost encyclopedic reference for early China andits fascinating lore.” — David N. Keightley, author ofThe Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Communityin Late Shang China (ca. 1200–1045 B.C.)

Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-ting Li Professor of ChineseCulture at Stanford University and the author of Writingand Authority in Early China, also published by SUNY Press.

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ASIAN STUDIES

EMPEROR YANGOF THE SUI DYNASTYHis Life, Times, and LegacyVictor Cunrui Xiong

A reappraisal of Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, findingthat his legacy provided the foundation for the celebratedcivilization of the Tang dynasty.

Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618)of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presentsa compelling case for his importance to Chinese history.Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional scholarshipand secondary literature from China, Japan, and the West togo beyond the common perception of Emperor Yang as merelya profligate tyrant. Xiong accepts neither the traditional verdictagainst Emperor Yang nor the apologist effort to revise it,and instead offers a reassessment of Emperor Yang byexploring the larger political, economic, military, religious, anddiplomatic contexts of Sui society. This reconstruction of thelife of Emperor Yang reveals an astute visionary with literary,administrative, and reformist accomplishments. While a seriesof strategic blunders resulting from the darker side of hispersonality led to the collapse of the socioeconomic order andto his own death, the Sui legacy that Emperor Yang left behindlived on to provide the foundation for the rise of the Tangdynasty, the pinnacle of medieval Chinese civilization.

“This is a detailed study of a vital, yet (in English) virtuallyunknown, period of medieval Chinese history. TraditionalChinese historians usually castigate Emperor Yang, and theauthor has successfully cut through this invective to reveal muchabout the man, his policies, and his achievements. The resultis a work that will change the way both Chinese and Westernhistorians regard the Sui dynasty and its importance to overallChinese history.” — Charles Hartman, author of Han Yü andthe T’ang Search for Unity

“This book marks a new phase in the study of this pivotal periodin Chinese history, and what Xiong says here must be addressedby anyone who studies the Sui dynasty.” — Albert E. Dien,editor of State and Society in Early Medieval China

Victor Cunrui Xiong is Professor of History at Western MichiganUniversity and the author of Sui-Tang Chang’an: A Studyin the Urban History of Late Medieval China.

A volume in the SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and CultureRoger T. Ames, editor

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THE SOCIALCIRCULATIONOF POETRY INTHE MID-NORTHERNSONGEmotional Energyand Literati Self-CultivationColin S. C. Hawes

Explores how literati of China’smid-Northern Song perioddeveloped a social and therapeutictradition in poetry. Includesa number of translations of the witty poems of the period.

Observing that the vast majority of surviving NorthernSong poems are directly addressed to other people,Colin S. C. Hawes explores how literati of China’s mid-NorthernSong period developed a social and therapeutic traditionin poetry. These social poems, produced in group settings andexchanged with friends and acquaintances, are oftenlighthearted in tone and full of witty banter and wordplay.Hawes challenges previous scholars’ dismissal of these poemsas trivial and insignificant because they lacked serious politicaland moral content by arguing that the central function of poetryat the time was to release pent-up emotions and share themwith others in a socially acceptable manner—what Hawes viewsas circulating emotional energy or qi.

Focusing on the circle of poets around Ouyang Xiu(1007–72 CE) and Mei Yaochen (1002–60 CE), the mostinfluential literary figures of the mid-Northern Song period andthe creators of a distinctive Song poetic style, Hawes providesa number of translations of poems of the period. Several majorfunctions of poetic composition are discussed, including poetryas a game, as therapy, as a means of building relationships,and as a way of finding solace in history and in the naturalworld. Ultimately, the Northern Song attitude toward poeticcomposition spread throughout Chinese society.

“Hawes gives critical attention to those aspects of Chinesepoetry whose significance is clearly attested in the actualpractice of the poets but which have historically beenoverlooked, because these aspects are invisible when oneapproaches the corpus from certain political, philosophical,or aesthetic vantage points. I agree with the author that wecannot fully understand what these poets were doing unlesswe pay more heed to what they spent most of their time actuallydoing: playing word games with their friends. Understandingthe nature and purpose of these word games is vitalto understanding Northern Song thinking and, indeed,all poetry that delights in its medium.” — Stuart Sargent,Colorado State University

Colin S. C. Hawes is Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at theUniversity of Technology, Sydney.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

OZONE DEPLETIONAND CLIMATECHANGEConstructinga Global ResponseMatthew J. Hoffmann

A path-breaking look at theinternat iona l responseto ozone deplet ion andclimate change.

Matthew J. Hoffmann exploresthe fundamental question of who should participate in theglobal response to ozone depletion and climate change.Blending social constructivist theory with insights from thestudy of complex adaptive systems, Hoffmann develops aunique framework for understanding the emergence andevolution of participation norms, which define theappropriate global response and shape how states haveperceived the problems, defined their interests andstrategies, and pursued governance. The explanation isrigorously developed through an innovative combinationof formal analysis and in-depth empirical case studies.Agent-based computer simulation modeling is employedto explore essential norm dynamics, analysis that iscomplemented and extended by process-tracing casestudies that examine governance activities from 1986through 2003. The result provides the understandingnecessary for improving global responses to environmentalproblems.

“Hoffmann develops a novel theoretical framework to filla large hole in the literature on global governance andinternational environmental politics. He illuminates thedynamic process in which norms emerge, change, andinfluence global governance and the choices of majorstates.” — Neil E. Harrison, author of ConstructingSustainable Development

“Ozone Depletion and Climate Change is engagingand clearly written. I was particularly impressed withHoffmann’s ability to present his computer models in termsthat are totally accessible to nonspecialists. He hasproduced an exceptional book that I anticipate will bepopular in a variety of international relations courses.”— Audie Klotz, author of Norms in International Relations:The Struggle against Apartheid

Matthew J. Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of InternationalRelations at the University of Delaware.

A volume in the SUNY series in Global PoliticsJames N. Rosenau, editor

AUGUST288 pp2 tables, 7 figures$24.95 pb 0-7914-6526-8$81.50 hc 0-7914-6525-X

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STATECONSTITUTIONSFOR THETWENTY-FIRSTCENTURY,VOLUME 1The Politics of StateConstitutional ReformG. Alan Tarr andRobert F. Williams, editors

The first systematic analysisof the obstacles to stateconstitutional reform.

Through illuminating casestudies of reform efforts inAlabama, California, Colorado,Florida, New York, and Virginia,this book—the first of threevolumes—provides the firstsystematic analysis of thepolitical obstacles to stateconstitutional reform. For thoseseeking constitutional reform,this useful resource can spell the difference betweensuccess and failure, and for those interested in state politicsor constitutional politics, it offers rare insight into adistinctive aspect of American constitutionalism. Writtenby eminent scholars who were, in many cases, also activeparticipants in the reform campaign, the essays providepractical experience, expert analysis, and lessons for futureconstitutional reformers.

“The distinguished contributors to State Constitutions forthe Twenty-first Century have performed a valuable servicefor scholars and constitutional reformers alike, by explainingwhy state constitutional reform has become so difficult toachieve and also why it has occasionally succeeded,even in the face of significant obstacles.” — John J. Dinan,author of Keeping the People’s Liberties: Legislators,Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights

G. Alan Tarr is Distinguished Professor and Chair of theDepartment of Political Science and Director of the Centerfor State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers Universityat Camden. He is the author of Understanding StateConstitutions. Robert F. Williams is Distinguished Professorof Law at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden.He is the author of State Constitutional Law: Casesand Materials, Third Edition.

A volume in the SUNY series in American ConstitutionalismRobert J. Spitzer, editor

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CONTRIBUTORS

Gerald BenjaminSUNY New PaltzBruce E. CainUC BerkeleyAnne G. CampbellUSAF, retiredA. E. Dick HowardU. of VARebecca Mae SalokerFL Int’l. U.G. Alan TarrRutgers U., CamdenH. Bailey ThompsonDeceased


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POLITICAL SCIENCE

RETHINKING ISLAMAND LIBERALDEMOCRACYIslamist Womenin Turkish PoliticsYes �im Arat

Examines the experiences ofwomen activists of the IslamistRefah (Welfare) party in Turkey.

In Turkey, no secular party hasapproximated the high levels ofmembership and intense activism of women within the IslamistRefah (Welfare) Party. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracyexamines the experiences of these women, who representedan unprecedented phenomenon within Turkish politics.Using in-depth interviews, Yes�im Arat reveals how the womenof the party broadened the parameters of democraticparticipation and challenged preconceived notions of whatIslam can entail in a secular democratic polity. The women ofthe party successfully mobilized large groups of allegedlyapolitical women by crossing the boundaries between the socialand the political, reaching them through personal networkscultivated in private spaces. The experiences of these womenshow the contentious relationship between liberal democracyand Islam, where liberalism that prioritizes the individual cantransform, coexist, or remain in tension with Islam thatprioritizes a communal identity legitimized by a sacred God.

“Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy is historicallygrounded, well researched, and smoothly argued. It isa welcome addition to the growing literature that goesbeyond dichotomies of secular and religious women’s activismand attempts to see how these currents cross-fertilizeeach other in multiple ways. I highly recommend it.”— Afsaneh Najmabadi, author of Women with Mustachesand Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxietiesof Iranian Modernity

“This book stands apart in its balance and its attempt tounderstand how female Islamists see themselves, their religion,and the movement.” — Beth Baron, author of Egypt asa Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics

Yes �im Arat is Professor of Political Science and InternationalRelations at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. She is the author ofThe Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey and thecoeditor (with Barbara Laslett and Johanna Brenner) ofRethinking the Political: Gender, Resistance, and the State.

JUNE192 pp$55.00 hc only 0-7914-6465-2

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THE FINAL ARBITERThe Consequences ofBush v. Gorefor Law and PoliticsChristopher P. Banks,David B. Cohen, andJohn C. Green, editors

Combines perspectives from lawand the social sciences to assessthe long-term impact of the 2000presidential election.

The resolution of the 2000presidential election by the U.S.Supreme Court’s Bush v. Goredec i s ion generated anextraordinary outpouring ofliterature in a very short periodof time. Now that the initial furorover the decision has subsided,The Final Arbiter presents a soberconsideration of the consequencesof the decision for the law, thepresidency, and the legitimacyof the American political system.The contributors include well-established names in law andpolitical science, as well as up-and-coming scholars, offering a broadunderstanding of Bush v. Gore’slong-term impact. This book will beuseful as a classroom text in bothsurvey courses on elections and thecourts and for advanced coursesthat consider the impact of judicialrulings on the government andpolitical process.

“The breadth of The Final Arbiter sets it apart from othertreatments of Bush v. Gore. If one were to teach a seminar onthe 2000 election, this would be the one essential text for theFlorida events and their aftermath.” — Charles E. Walcott,coauthor of Empowering the White House: Governance underNixon, Ford, and Carter

At the University of Akron, Christopher P. Banks is AssociateProfessor of Political Science and author of Judicial Politics inthe D.C. Circuit Court; David B. Cohen is Assistant Professorof Political Science and coeditor (with John W. Wells)of American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Eraof Terrorism; and John C. Green is Distinguished Professorof Political Science and the editor of numerous books, includingThe Politics of Ideas: Intellectual Challenges Facing theAmerican Political Parties (coedited with John Kenneth White),also published by SUNY Press.


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CONTRIBUTORS

Ann AlthouseU. of WIChristopher P. BanksU. of AkronJoyce A. BaughCentral MI U.Andrew E. BuschU. of DenverDavid B. CohenU. of AkronBrian J. GerberTX Tech U.Donald Edward GrecoBaylor U.John C. GreenU. of AkronCharles O. JonesU. of WI, MadisonJohn Anthony MalteseU. of GATracy A. ThomasU. of AkronDaniel P. TokajiACLU of Southern CAJohn W. WellsCarson-Newman Coll.


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POLITICAL SCIENCE

IN THE PUBLICDOMAINPresidents andthe Challengesof Public LeadershipLori Cox Han andDiane J. Heith, editors

Explores how recent presidentshave managed communicationswith the American public.

The “public presidency”—howpresidents rely on the mass media,public opinion, and variouscommunication strategies—hasbecome an increasingly importantaspect of presidential governanceand leadership during the past twodecades. In the Public Domaingathers together noted presidencyand communication scholars toexplore the relationship betweenthe president and the Americanpublic, the current state of the“public presidency,” and thechallenges that recent presidentshave faced in developing aneffective means of communicatingand mainta in ing a s t rongpresidential image. Specifictopics include: how presidentsuse public leadership to pursuetheir policy goals and objectives;the importance of public opinion,rhetorical strategies, and publicactivities; external factors such asparty politics and news mediacoverage; the cultivation ofpresidential legacy; and access todocuments in presidential libraries.

“This fine collection makes animportant contribution to the overlapping intellectual fieldsof media studies and presidency studies.” — Robert J. Spitzer,author of The Presidential Veto: Touchstone of the AmericanPresidency

Lori Cox Han is Associate Professor of Political Science atAustin College and the author of Governing from Center Stage:White House Communication Strategies during the TelevisionAge of Politics. Diane J. Heith is Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience at St. John’s University and the author of Polling toGovern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership.

A volume in the SUNY series on the Presidency:Contemporary IssuesJohn Kenneth White, editor

OCTOBER336 pp22 tables, 10 figures$75.00 hc only 0-7914-6575-6

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THEMULTI-GOVERNANCEOF WATERFour Case StudiesMatthias Finger,Ludivine Tamiotti, andJeremy Allouche, editors

Examines the po l i t i c s o ftransnational water resource man-agement through case studies ofthe Aral Sea basin and theDanube, Euphrates, and Mekongriver basins.

As the governance o ftransboundary rivers becomes asubject of growing importance dueto the increasing pressure onfreshwater resources, this timelycollection examines water scarcityand efforts to better manage riversand river basins. Most specialistsagree that states face manyinstitutional inadequacies whendealing with shared resources andthat new governance mechanismsare needed to improve watermanagement. Using case studies ofthe Aral Sea basin and the Danube,Euphrates, and Mekong riverbasins, the contributors developa new approach to watergovernance: the concept of multi-governance, an effort to collectivelysolve public problems by involvinga series of relevant actors from thelocal to the global level, suchas institutions, states, civil society,and business.

Matthias Finger is Professor of Network Industries at the SwissFederal Institute of Technology. Ludivine Tamiotti is LegalAffairs Officer in the Trade and Environment Division of theWorld Trade Organization. Jeremy Allouche is Director of theWater Institutions and Management Competence Centre atthe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Finger and Alloucheare coauthors of Water Privatisation: Trans-NationalCorporations and the Re-Regulation of the Water Industry.


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CONTRIBUTORS

Jeremy AlloucheSwiss Federal Instituteof Technology,Lausanne, SwitzerlandLaurence Boissonde ChazournesU. of Geneva, SwitzerlandGareth Edwards-JonesU. of WalesMatthias FingerSwiss Federal Instituteof Technology,Lausanne, SwitzerlandNantana GajaseniChulalongkorn U.,ThailandOliver William HealU. of Edinburgh, UKStephen McCaffreyU. of PacifiqueArnon MedziniOranim Schoolof Education, IsraelLudivine TamiottiWorld Trade Organization,Geneva, SwitzerlandAaron T. WolfOR State U.

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Matthew A. BaumUCLAJeffrey E. CohenFordham U.William CunionMt. Union Coll.Michael A. GenoveseLoyola Marymount U.Doris A. GraberU. of IL, ChicagoTim GroelingUCLAJohn A. HammanSouthern IL U.Lori Cox HanAustin Coll.Diane J. HeithSt. John’s U.Sharon E. JarvisU. of TX, AustinEmily Balanoff JonesU. of TX, AustinNancy KassopSUNY New PaltzMatthew J. KrovAustin Coll.Jeremy D. MayerGeorge Mason U.Daniel E. PonderU. of CO,Colorado SpringsMark J. RozellCatholic U. of AmericaMary E. StuckeyGA State U.


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BUILDING TRUSTOvercoming Suspicionin International ConflictAaron M. Hoffman

Challenges conventional assump-tions about how internationalrivals form trusting relationships.

How is trust built in internationalpolitics? In this book, Aaron M.Hoffman argues that conventionalarguments fail to account for twofactors governments fear and wishto protect themselves from: domination by outside parties andpolitical competition from internal parties. He argues thattrusting relationships emerge in response to agreements thatinsulate governments from these worst-case scenarios byguaranteeing them voice in collective decisions and offeringthem concessions designed to mollify potential internalopposition. Using case studies that explore the formation ofthe United States, the development of the EuropeanCommunity, and negotiations over water resources in theMiddle East, Hoffman shows that trusting relationships can onlybe built with the development of institutional mechanismsdesigned to reduce the consequences of betrayal.

“The topic is central to our understanding of internationalrelations in general. It offers an alternative approach towardunderstanding the conditions under which competing politicalactors can overcome mistrust. The choice of case studies isoriginal and interesting, and the author develops the argumentnicely.” — Bruce Cronin, author of Institutions for the CommonGood: International Protection Regimes in International Society

Aaron M. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Political Scienceat Purdue University.

A volume in the SUNY series in Global PoliticsJames N. Rosenau, editorandA volume in the SUNY series in Israeli StudiesRussell Stone, editor

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROTECTINGOUR ENVIRONMENTLessons from theEuropean UnionJanet R. Hunter andZachary A. Smith

Examines how the EuropeanUnion has handled environmentalprotection issues.

S ign i f i cant changes in howthe world approaches globalenvironmental problems have occurred since the late 1970s.Countries have become increasingly aware of the “borderless”nature of environmental issues, i.e., that production andconsumption in one country can spill over to affect anothercountry’s environment. Protecting Our Environment considersthe successes that have been achieved in the European Union(EU), as well as issues the Union still faces regardingthe protection of the environment in the future. AuthorsJanet R. Hunter and Zachary A. Smith identify the factorsthat have allowed the EU to form a successful environmentalregime, including the development of the environmentalmanagement approach and the principles upon which it isbased. They examine in detail the challenges that have beenencountered in the implementation of environmentalprograms, and the solutions that have been developed toaddress those challenges. Also considered is how economicdevelopment and environmental protection have beenreconciled within the EU. By analyzing the successful exampleof the EU, Protecting Our Environment provides a model fora contemporary approach to global environmental problems.

“This book provides us with something to use as a comparisonfor failed US environmental policies. It can be used by virtuallyanyone regardless of his or her environmental understandingor knowledge of political science. Its use of concreteexamples offers a better understanding of the conceptsbeing introduced and shows how the theories are appliedin real life.” — Jeffrey S. Ashley, coauthor of NegotiatedSovereignty: Working to Improve Tribal-State Relations

“Attention to the EU environmental treatment is becominga particularly important example of regional cooperationtoward sustainability, and this book adds nicely tothe discussion.” — Peter Jacques, coauthor of Ocean Politicsand Policy: A Reference Handbook

Janet R. Hunter is Chair of Administrative Information Servicesat Northland Pioneer College. Zachary A. Smith is RegentsProfessor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University.He is the author or editor of many books, includingThe Environmental Policy Paradox, Fourth Edition.

A volume in the SUNY series in Global Environmental PolicyUdai Desai, editor

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

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POLITICS IN THENEW SOUTHRepresentationof African Americansin Southern State LegislaturesCharles E. Menifield andStephen D. Shaffer, editors

Documents political advancesmade by African Americans in theSouth over the last twenty-fiveyears.

Th is author i ta t i ve s tudy o fcontemporary state legislatures inthe South provides a fascinatingaccount of how African Americanshave achieved noticeable politicalpower since the Voting Rights Actwas passed in 1965. A history ofracial discrimination and one-partyDemocratic dominance is beingsupplanted by African Americanempowerment in a competitivetwo-party system. Contributorsexamine the evolution of the BlackCaucus, the growing number ofAfrican American lawmakers, andthe rise of black legislators toimportant leadership positions inthe legislatures of each of thesouthern states. Roll call data onkey votes from several legislative sessions in Arkansas, Florida,Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas are analyzed.

“The editors have a track record of publishing very goodresearch on southern politics and state legislatures, and this isa well-written study of the central themes of African Americandescriptive representation, substantive representation,and biracial coalitions.” — Sharon D. Wright Austin, author ofRace, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis

Charles E. Menifield is Associate Professor at the Universityof Memphis, where he teaches research methods, politicalstatistics, budgeting and finance, and public managementinformation systems. He is the editor of Representation ofMinority Groups in the U.S.: Implications for the Twenty-firstCentury. Stephen D. Shaffer is Professor of Political Scienceat Mississippi State University and the coeditor (withDale Krane) of Mississippi Government and Politics:Modernizers versus Traditionalists.

A volume in the SUNY series in African American StudiesJohn R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors

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INTERNATIONALREGIMES FOR THEFINAL FRONTIERM. J. Peterson

Examines the negotiationsbetween nations that leadto international agreementsregulating human activity inouter space.

Neither rational choice theory, withits emphasis on interest calculation,nor sociological institutionalist theory, with its emphasis onidentity-defined rule following, indicates how governmentsdetermine which of their multiple interests or identities are atstake in a particular situation or how they develop mutualcomprehension of each other’s goals. International Regimesfor the Final Frontier addresses these gaps by tracing howgovernments approach an unfamiliar issue—in this case,international agreements regulating human activity in outerspace between 1958 and 1988—and examines three wayssituation definitions channel governments’ approaches to issuesor problems.

“This book is a rare find: a work that simultaneously makescontributions to the scholarly understanding of the politics ofouter space and to political science. It has the signal virtue ofbeing based on extensive archival research. The empiricalmaterial vastly surpasses the scattered and largely speculativeliterature on the actual negotiations on outer space regimeformation.” — Daniel H. Deudney, Johns Hopkins University

M. J. Peterson is Professor of Political Science at the Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst and is the author of Recognitionof Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice, 1815–1995.


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CONTRIBUTORS

Brandi J. BrassellU. of MemphisMichelle G. BriscoeMiami U.Charles E. MenifieldU. of MemphisKeesha M. MiddlemassU. of KS, LawrenceWilliam MillerU. of ARJanine A. ParryU. of ARBarbara A. PatrickMS State U.Stephen D. ShafferMS State U.Steven TauberU. of South FLPeter W. WielhouwerRegent U.


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POLITICAL SCIENCE

STATESOF LIBERALIZATIONRedefining thePublic Sectorin Integrated EuropeMitchell P. Smith

Explores the limits of economicliberalization within the EuropeanUnion.

As economic competition isintroduced into areas formerlyserved by public sector monopolies, to what extent dogovernments lose discretion over their use of the public sector?States of Liberalization examines the impact of the EuropeanUnion’s rigorous single-market competition policy on theabilities of Western European governments to use the publicsector to achieve political objectives. Examining severalpolitically contentious sectors, including governmentpurchasing of goods and services, postal services, and publicsector financial institutions, Mitchell P. Smith exploresand explains the scope and the limits of this transformation.While European economic integration and the application ofEuropean Community competition policy have substantiallyinfused competition into public services, the process has beenmore modest, and more deliberate, than a simple readingof Europe’s potent market-making mechanisms would predict.

“Smith’s main point, that liberalization has to accommodatepublic sector interests, is an important antidote to theconventional view of the overriding and irreversible effectsof globalization (or greater European integration).”— Nikolaos Zahariadis, author of Ambiguity and Choice inPublic Policy: Political Decision Making in Modern Democracies

Mitchell P. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Scienceand International and Area Studies at The Universityof Oklahoma. He is the coeditor (with Thomas Banchoff) ofLegitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity.


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SOCIAL MOVEMENTSAND FREE-MARKETCAPITALISM INLATIN AMERICATelecommunicationsPrivatization and the Riseof Consumer ProtestSybil Rhodes

Explores how privatization ofstate-owned telephone compa-nies led to new consumer move-ments in Latin America.

This innovative book examines how the privatization andreregulation of the telecommunications sectors in Chile,Argentina, and Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s provoked therise of new consumer protest movements in Latin America.Sybil Rhodes looks at how hasty privatization of state-ownedtelephone companies led to short-term economic windfalls formultinational corporations but long-term instability due toconsumer movements or the threat of them. Eventually thesegovernments implemented consumer-friendly regulation as abelated form of damage control. In contrast, governments thatprivatized through more gradual, democratic processes wereable to make credible commitments to their citizens as well asto their multinational investors by including regulatory regimeswith consumer protection mechanisms built in. Rhodesillustrates how consumers—previously unacknowledged actorsin studies of social movements, market reforms, anddemocratizations in and beyond Latin America—areindispensable to understanding the political and socialimplications of these broad global trends.

“This is a significant contribution to the study of socialmovements and regulatory policymaking in Latin America. Itadroitly applies social movement theorizing to a well-knownschool of thought in social movement theorizing to uncover anew, politically relevant actor on the Latin American landscape:consumer movements.” — Eduardo Silva, coeditor ofOrganized Business, Economic Change, and Democracyin Latin America

“Sybil Rhodes convincingly demonstrates that consumergroups, a quintessentially ‘pluralist’ rather than ‘corporatist’form of political participation, are an important componentof democratic politics in the more industrialized societiesof Latin America today.” — Leslie Elliott Armijo, editor ofDebating the Global Financial Architecture

Sybil Rhodes is Assistant Professor of Political Scienceat Western Michigan University.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

THE JUDICIARYIN AMERICANDEMOCRACYAlexander Bickel,the Counter-MajoritarianDifficulty, and ContemporaryConstitutional TheoryKenneth D. Ward andCecilia R. Castillo, editors

Examines recent debates inconstitutional theory in lightof the work of Alexander Bickel.

The role courts should play inAmerican democracy has longbeen contested, fueling debatesamong citizens who take an activeinterest in politics. Alexander Bickelmade a significant contribution tothese debates with his seminalpublication, The Least DangerousBranch, which framed the problemof defending legitimate judicialauthority. This book addresseswhether or not the counter-majoritarian difficulty outlined inBickel’s work continues to havesignificance for constitutionaltheory almost a half-century later. The contributors illustratehow the counter-majoritarian difficulty and Bickel’s responseto it engage prominent theories: the proceduralisms ofJohn Hart Ely and Jeremy Waldron; the republicanisms ofBruce Ackerman and Cass Sunstein; and the originalisms ofRaoul Berger, Robert Bork, and Keith Whittington. In so doing,this book provides a useful introduction to recent debates inconstitutional theory and also contributes to the broaderdiscussion about the proper role of the courts.

“The Judiciary in American Democracy succeeds at providinga wonderful set of readings that bring Bickel’s work to life andthat note his importance to scholarship on judicial review,constitutional interpretation, and, more broadly, the notionof separation of powers in a constitutional system. It shredsthe rather simplistic notions that some people have of judicialrestraint and judicial activism. This is a significant workon a true giant in the field of constitutional studies, law,and courts.” — Roger E. Hartley, University of Arizona

At Texas State University at San Marcos, Kenneth D. Ward isAssociate Professor and Cecilia R. Castillo is Assistant Professorin the Department of Political Science. Castillo is the coeditor(with Kenneth L. Grasso) of Liberty Under Law: AmericanConstitutionalism, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.


SEPTEMBER208 pp$55.00 hc only 0-7914-6555-1

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THEINTERNATIONAL SELFPsychoanalysisand the Search forIsraeli-Palestinian PeaceMira M. Sucharov

Uses a social-psychoanalyticmodel to argue that collectiveidentity shapes foreign policychanges.

The International Self explores anage-old question in international affairs, one that has beenparticularly pressing in the context of the contemporary MiddleEast: what leads long-standing adversaries to seek peace?Mira M. Sucharov employs a socio-psychoanalytic model toargue that collective identity ultimately shapes foreign policyand policy change. Specifically, she shows that all states possessa distinctive role-identity that tends to shape behavior in theinternational realm. When policy deviates too greatly from theestablished role-identity, the population experiences cognitivedissonance and expresses this through counternarratives—an unconscious representation of what the polity collectivelyfears in itself—propelling political elites to realign the state’spolicy with its identity. Focusing on Israel’s decision to embarkon negotiations leading to the 1993 agreement with thePalestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Sucharov sees thispolicy reversal as a reaction to the unease generated by twoevents in the 1980s—the war in Lebanon and the firstPalestinian Intifada—that contradicted Israelis’ perceptionsof their state as a “defensive warrior.” Her argument bridgesthe fields of conflict resolution, Middle East studies,and international relations.

“Sucharov provides a genuine contribution to contemporarydebates in international relations theory. Her application ofpsychoanalysis to international conflict and peace studies isentirely new and will promote further research in this area.”— Tami Amanda Jacoby, coeditor of Redefining Securityin the Middle East

Mira M. Sucharov is Assistant Professor of Political Scienceat Carleton University.


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CONTRIBUTORS

Stanley BrubakerColgate U.Neal DevinsColl. Of William and MaryDavid GoloveNYURobert F. NagelU. of COTerri PerettiSanta Clara U.Christopher J. PetersWayne State U.Mark TushnetGeorgetown U.Kenneth D. WardTX State U.Keith E. WhittingtonPrinceton U.


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POLITICAL SCIENCE

CONGRESSIONALPREEMPTIONRegulatory FederalismJoseph F. Zimmerman

Examines the use of preemptionpowers by Congress tocompletely or partially removeregulatory authority from stateand local governments.

Congress iona l Preempt ionprovides an in-depth account ofthe use of preemption powers by Congress to either partiallyor completely remove regulatory authority from stateand local governments in a wide variety of fields.Author Joseph F. Zimmerman exposes the inadequaciesof the two current theories of United States federalism—dual and cooperative—by exploring the impact of Congress’frequent use of its preemption powers since 1965.While the dual and cooperative federalism theories retaina degree of explanatory power, Zimmerman considers whythey do not explain the profound systemic changesproduced by congressional preemption. Other topics coveredinclude congressional use of conditional grants-in-aid,crossover sanctions, tax credits, tax sanctions, and partialand complete redemption; the theory of political safeguardsof federalism; and the Blackmun Thesis, which encouragesstates to seek relief from preemption statutes in Congressand not the courts. The book concludes with postulatesof a broader theory of federalism and recommendationsaddressed to Congress to reinvigorate the federal system.

“Zimmerman is, without a doubt, among the leading scholarsof federalism. He provides no less than a brilliant insight intoa ‘hidden’ development of federalism: how the federalgovernment has enhanced its position in the overall federalsystem through its usage of various forms of preemptionpowers.” — Nelson Wikstrom, coauthor of MetropolitanGovernment and Governance: Theoretical Perspectives,Empirical Analysis, and the Future

Joseph F. Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science at theUniversity at Albany, State University of New York, and theauthor of many books, including Interstate Economic Relations,also published by SUNY Press.

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IN THE NAMEOF TERRORISMPresidents on PoliticalViolence in thePost–World War II EraCarol K. Winkler

Traces the shifts in presidentialdiscourse on terrorism sinceWorld War II.

The topic of terrorism has evolvedinto an ideological marker ofAmerican culture, one that has fundamentally altered therelationship between the three branches of government,between the government and the people, and betweenAmerica and countries abroad. In the Name of Terrorismdescribes and analyzes the public communication strategiespresidents have deployed to discuss terrorism since the endof World War II. Drawing upon internal administrationdocuments, memoirs, and public papers, Carol K. Winkleruncovers how presidents have capitalized on public perceptionsof the terrorist threat, misrepresented actual terrorist events,and used the term “terrorism” to influence electoral outcomesboth at home and abroad. Perhaps more importantly, sheexplains their motivations for doing so, and critically discussesthe moral and political implications of the present range ofnarratives used to present terrorism to the public.

“Winkler demonstrates how presidents craft effective publicappeals—through a process of trial and error, and artistry anddeceit—that blend ideological and other political motives withcontinued adaptation to both the stream of events and therhetorical environment. After reading this work, one can seehow the meaning and rhetorical power of ‘terrorism’ hasdeveloped over the past several decades through presidentialdeployment of the term.” — Robert Hariman, author of PoliticalStyle: The Artistry of Power

“We can see the different kinds of uses the term ‘terrorism’has had in presidential rhetoric and how it has developed overtime into what the author calls an ‘ideograph of danger.’One can also see how the current administration’s waron terrorism emerges from and advances the basic trajectoryof previous presidential accounts.” — Robert L. Ivie, author ofDemocracy and America’s War on Terror

Carol K. Winkler is Department Chair and Professor ofCommunication at Georgia State University. She is the coauthor(with William Newman and David Birdsell) of Lines of Argumentfor Policy Debate.

A volume in the SUNY series on the Presidency:Contemporary IssuesJohn Kenneth White, editorandA volume in the SUNY series in the Trajectory of TerrorLouise Richardson and Leonard Weinberg, editors

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EDUCATION

GLOBALIZINGINTERESTSPressure Groupsand DenationalizationEdited by Michael Zürn,with assistance fromGregor Walter

Examines how national interestgroups respond to the interna-tional pressures of globalization.

Globa l i z ing In teres ts i s aninnovative study of globalization“from inside,” looking at thereaction of nationally constitutedinterest groups to challengesproduced by the denationalizationprocess. The contributors focus onbusiness associations, trade unions,civil rights organizations, and right-wing populists from Canada,Germany, Great Britain, and theUnited States, and examine howthey have responded to threeextremely globalized issue areas:the Internet, migration, and climate change. What they find isthat “the politics of denationalization” is a new game with newrules, new teams, and surprisingly broad support forgovernance beyond the nation state.

“The decision to analyze the responses and strategies ofnational interest groups to globalization challenges (rather thanstate strategies or policy effects) fills an important lacuna inthe research on globalization and offers important newknowledge on globalization-induced changes in domesticpolitics. The well-orchestrated comparative analysis producesfresh insights and new hypotheses.” — Frank Schimmelfennig,author of The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rulesand Rhetoric

“This book helps to nuance the debate about politicalprocesses under conditions of globalization and does so byproviding substantial empirical evidence supported by a soundand innovative theoretical framework.” — Georg Sørensen,author of The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Mythof Retreat

At the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Michael Zürn isFounding Dean and Gregor Walter is Head of CurriculumDevelopment. Zurn is also Director at the Science Center Berlinand the coeditor (with Christian Joerges) of Law andGovernance in Postnational Europe: Compliance beyond theNation-State.


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EDUCATION EMPIREThe Evolution of anExcellent SuburbanSchool SystemDaniel L. Duke

Traces the organizationalhistory of Fairfax Countypublic schools in Virginia,from 1954–2004, revealingthe system’s record ofacademic success.

Despite the fact that more than one-half of the students inthe United States are educated in suburban schools,relatively little is known about the development of suburbanschool systems. Education Empire chronicles the evolutionof Virginia’s Fairfax County public schools, the twelfthlargest school system in the country and arguably oneof the very best. The book focuses on how Fairfax hasaddressed a variety of challenges, beginning with explosiveenrollment growth in the 1950s and continuing withdesegregation, enrollment decline, economic uncertainty,demands for special programs, and intense politicization.Today, Fairfax, like many suburbs across the country, looksincreasingly like an urban school system, with rising poverty,large numbers of recent immigrants, and constant pressurefrom an assortment of special interest groups. While manyschool systems facing similar developments haveexperienced a drop in performance, Fairfax studentscontinue to raise their achievement. Daniel L. Duke revealsthe keys to Fairfax’s remarkable track record.

“The topics of leadership, politics, and change arepresented in a manner that does not overwhelm the readerwith theory, yet exposes a world of education often hiddenfrom the public view. Duke takes the best of journalismand combines it with scholarship and his own firsthandknowledge of Fairfax to bring the people and eventsto life, making you want to know what will happen next.While superintendents that I know assign books likeGood to Great, Gung Ho!, and Who Moved My Cheese?to their administrators, Duke’s book is far more insightful,interesting, and relevant than many of these bestsellers.”— Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University

Daniel L. Duke is Professor of Educational Leadership andDirector of the Thomas Jefferson Center for EducationalDesign at the University of Virginia. He is the author ofmany books, including The Challenges of EducationalChange.

A volume in the SUNY series, Educational LeadershipDaniel L. Duke, editor

JULY208 pp3 tables, 4 figures$21.95 pb 0-7914-6494-6$71.50 hc 0-7914-6493-8

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CONTRIBUTORS

Marianne BeisheimFree U. Berlin, GermanySabine DreherEastern MediterraneanU., Famagusta, TurkeyGregor WalterHertie Schoolof Governance,Berlin, GermanyMichael ZürnHertie Schoolof Governance,Berlin, Germany

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EDUCATION

CULTURALLYCONTESTEDPEDAGOGYBattles of Literacyand Schooling betweenMainstream Teachersand Asian Immigrant ParentsGuofang Li

Advocates for a greater culturalunderstanding of minority beliefsin literacy education and a morecritical examination of mainstreaminstructional practices.

The voices of teachers, parents, and students createa compelling ethnographic study that examines the debatebetween traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacyeducation and the mismatch of cross-cultural discoursesbetween mainstream schools and Asian families. This bookfocuses on a Vancouver suburb where the Chinese populationhas surpassed the white community numerically andsocioeconomically, but not politically, and where the authoruncovers disturbing cultural conflicts, educational dissensions,and “silent” power struggles between school and home.What Guofang Li reveals illustrates the challenges of teachingand learning in an increasingly complex educational landscapein which literacy, culture, race, and social class intertwine.Advocating for a greater cultural understanding of minoritybeliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination ofmainstream instructional practices, Li offers a new theoreticalframework and critical recommendations for teachers, schools,and parents.

“Guofang Li presents a fascinating study … that will challengemany mainstream views of teaching and learning.”— from the Foreword by Lee Gunderson, author of ESL LiteracyInstruction: A Guidebook to Theory and Practice

“This topic is of considerable importance for the field ofmulticultural education and critical pedagogy, and there issignificant potential for this study to contribute in importantways to theory building in this field.” — Pia Lindquist Wong,coauthor of Education and Democracy: Paulo Freire,Social Movements, and Educational Reform in São Paulo

Guofang Li is Assistant Professor of Second Language andLiteracy Education at the University at Buffalo, State Universityof New York. She is the author of “East is East, West is West”?Home Literacy, Culture, and Schooling and the coeditor(with Gulbahar Beckett) of “Strangers” in the Academy:Asian Women Scholars in Higher Education.

A volume in the SUNY series,Power, Social Identity, and EducationLois Weis, editor

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HUMANITIES,CULTURE, ANDINTERDISCIPLINARITYThe ChangingAmerican AcademyJulie Thompson Klein

Investigates the historyof interdisciplinarity in theAmerican academy and itsimpact on humanities educa-tion, particularly the under-graduate curriculum.

The study of culture in the American academy is notconfined to a single field, but is a broad-based set ofinterests located within and across disciplines. This bookinvestigates the relationship among three major ideas inthe American academy—interdisciplinarity, humanities, andculture—and traces the convergence of these ideas fromthe colonial college to new scholarly developments in thelatter half of the twentieth century. Its aim is twofold: todefine the changing relationship of these three ideas and,in the course of doing so, to extend present thinking aboutthe concept of “American cultural studies.” The bookincludes two sets of case studies—the first on theimplications of interdisciplinarity for literary studies,art history, and music; the second on the shiftingtrajectories of American studies, African American studies,and women’s studies—and concludes by asking what impactnew scholarly practices have had on humanities education,particularly on the undergraduate curriculum.

“This is a wonderfully well-informed, intelligent,and important book. Its conclusions are sometimessurprising, but always very convincing.” — June Howard,University of Michigan

“This book’s special contribution is the narrative of thehighly significant practice of boundary crossing—or the useof interdisciplinary strategies for research and teachingin cultural study—and the transformation in the intellectualorganization of the university itself in practice andin institutionalization.” — Beth A. Casey, Bowling GreenState University

Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities at WayneState University and is the author of Interdisciplinarity:History, Theory, and Practice.

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EDUCATION

CITIZEN TEACHERThe Life and Leadershipof Margaret HaleyKate Rousmaniere

The first book-length biographyof Margaret Haley (1861–1939)focuses on her political vision,her activities as a public schoolactivist, and her life as a charis-matic woman leader.

Cit i zen Teacher i s the f i r s tbook- length b iography o fMargaret Haley (1861–1939), the founder of the firstAmerican teachers’ union, and a dynamic leader, civicactivist, and school reformer. The daughter of Irish immigrants,this Chicago elementary school teacher exploded onto thenational stage in 1900, leading women teachers into a nationalbattle to secure resources for public schools and enhanceteachers’ professional stature. This book centers on Haley’spolitical vision, activities as a public school activist, and her lifeas a charismatic leader.

In the more than forty years of her political life, Haley wasconstantly in the news, butting heads with captains of industry,challenging autocracy in urban bureaucracy and schoolbuildings alike, arguing legal doctrine and taxreform in state courts, and urging her constituentsinto action. An extraordinary figure in American history,Haley’s contemporaries praised her as one of the nation’sgreat orators and called her the Joan of Arc of the classroomteacher movement.

Haley’s belief that well-funded, well-respected teachers werethe key to the development of a positive civic communityremains a central tenet in American education. Her guidingvision of the democratic role of the public school and theresponsibility of teachers as activist citizens is relevantand inspirational for educators today.

“This text brings to the fore the importance of teacher leadersin the organization of public schooling and teaching and alsobegins to balance the preponderance of scholarshipshining light on administrators and institutional boards.”— Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State University

“Rousmaniere writes smoothly, with a historian’s fondness forintricacy and documentation, and delivers a thoroughtreatment of a passionate leader whose vision foreducational democracy might serve school systemswell today.” — Lucy E. Bailey, The Ohio State University

Kate Rousmaniere is Professor of Education and Chair of theDepartment of Educational Leadership at Miami University,Ohio and is the author of City Teachers: Teachers and SchoolReform in Historical Perspective.

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THE GIFTOF EDUCATIONHow a Tuition GuaranteeProgram Changed the Livesof Inner-City YouthNorman A. NewbergForeword by Michelle Fine

Tells the story of how two philan-thropists promised each of the112 graduating sixth graders atBelmont Elementary, a school inone of Philadelphia’s poorestneighborhoods, a fully paidcollege education to the institution of their choice.

At the June 17, 1987 sixth-grade graduation ceremony atBelmont Elementary, in one of the poorest neighborhoods inPhiladelphia, philanthropists George and Diane Weisspromised each student a fully paid college education to theinstitution of their choice upon the students’ graduation fromhigh school. The Gift of Education describes this chance-of-a-lifetime gift and the pressure to use it. It details and analyzesthe experiences of twelve students from the original class—six who graduated from high school and completed somepostsecondary education and six who did not finish high school.Their stories illustrate how children, when properly challengedand supported, can succeed, that philanthropy alone cannotaddress the severe conditions that millions of poor childrenexperience daily, and that government investment in inner-city education and communities has been woefully inadequate.

“We learn from the Belmont 112 and from Norman Newbergthat young people who have endured too much still dream,hope, yearn. Most long for an educator who will listen, extenda hand, take a walk, excuse mistakes and open doors …[Newberg] asks us to think through the promise, the State,privatization and ‘gifts’; he dares us to imagine what could bein a nation eating so many of our young. The Belmont 112 alsoask us, from their college classrooms, corporate jobs,hairbraiding salons in their living rooms, the streets and fromprison, to respond with urgency to the structural crimescene we call ‘poverty’ in America.” — From the Foreword byMichelle Fine

Norman A. Newberg is Senior Fellow in the Graduate Schoolof Education at the University of Pennsylvania and ExecutiveDirector of the Say Yes to Education program.

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EDUCATION

THE FUNCTIONOF THEORYIN COMPOSITIONSTUDIESRaúl Sánchez

Offers an extended critique of keyassumptions in compositiontheory and a new paradigmfor thinking about writingin an increasingly globalizedand textualized world.

How can theory improve our knowledge of writing?Raúl Sánchez answers this question by examining dominanttheoretical trends in composition studies over the last fifteenyears, citing their common origins in a narrow, representationalmetatheory of writing. He argues that this adherence actuallyleads the field away from its objects of study: writing and thewriting subject. Through this extended critique, he elaboratesan alternative metatheory, one that restores writing to theconceptual center of composition studies by emphasizing itsgenerative—rather than its representational—characteristics,particularly in increasingly networked and textualized cultures.

“Given the huge wave of theory that flowed throughcomposition and rhetoric beginning in the 1980s, it is importantnow to take stock of what the changes wrought by theory willhave meant for us. Sánchez shows us how our conceptions ofknowledge and theory have in some senses not come alongas far as we might have thought, and thereby opens up a spacefor thinking anew about these issues beyond interpretive/hermeneutic frameworks that are still predominant. He makesan interesting, innovative argument, one that I think will begood for the field to hear. And, he helps supply further rationalefor the centrality of writing in university curriculums, if not lifein general.” — Thomas J. Rickert, Purdue University

“I am continually dumbfounded at our field’s resistance totheory, by its reluctance to answer to—or even to explore—the challenges that critical theory has posed to our discipline’sfoundations, including writer, text, communication. Sánchez,on the contrary, not only addresses theory in compositionstudies, and by so doing, attends to that minority of scholarsin the field who are taking theoretical challenges seriously,but he also attempts to theorize, as the title suggests,how theory functions in composition studies.” — Michelle Ballif,coeditor of Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians:Critical Studies and Sources

Raúl Sánchez is Assistant Professor of English at theUniversity of Utah.

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AUTHOR INDEX

Aho / Confession and Bookkeeping, p. 20

Arat / Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy, p. 34

Banks et al. / The Final Arbiter, p. 34

Bar-Joseph / The Watchman Fell Asleep, p. 8

Barnes / The Cost of Being Poor, p. 25

Benton / God of Desire, p. 21

Bouson / Jamaica Kincaid, p. 29

Brogan / Heidegger and Aristotle, p. 14

Carlisle / Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming, p. 15

Chalcraft / The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and…, p. 23

Chanter, Ziarek / Revolt, Affect, Collectivity, p. 11

Civantos / Between Argentines and Arabs, p. 31

Dalton, Linder / The Sitcom Reader, p. 6

Deligiorgi / Kant and the Culture of…, p. 15

Dohm / Become Who You Are, p. 29

Drouet / My Beloved Toto, p. 30

Duke / Education Empire, p. 41

Finger et al. / The Multi-Governance of Water, p. 35

Forsthoefel, Humes / Gurus in America, p. 2

Fritsch / The Promise of Memory, p. 16

Gilderbloom, Mullins Jr. / Promise and Betrayal, p. 10

Gross, Kemmann / Heidegger and Rhetoric, p. 14

Han, Heith / In the Public Domain, p. 35

Hawes / Social Circulation of Poetry in the…, p. 32

Heidegger / Sojourns, p. 4

Heller / The Absence of Myth, p. 21

Hoffman / Building Trust, p. 36

Hoffmann / Ozone Depletion and Climate Change, p. 33

Hunter, Smith / Protecting Our Environment, p. 36

Irr, Buchanan / On Jameson, p. 28

James / The New Abolitionists, p. 9

Jöttkandt / Acting Beautifully, p. 30

Kain / Hegel and the Other, p. 12

Karlinsky / California Dreaming, p. 24

Klein / Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity, p. 42

Lewis / The Construction of Space in Early China, p. 31

Li / Culturally Contested Pedagogy, p. 42

Margolin / Drunk from the Bitter Truth, p. 1

Markula / Feminist Sport Studies, p. 26

McGandy / The Active Life, p. 16

McKenna / Adam Smith, p. 12

Meagher, DiQuinzio / Women and Children First, p. 10

Menifield, Shaffer / Politics in the New South, p. 37

Michael / The Pristine Dao, p. 20

Murphey / C. I. Lewis, p. 5

Newberg / The Gift of Education, p. 43

Noy, Cohen / Israeli Backpackers, p. 25

Ogden / The Language of the Eyes, p. 28

Peterson / International Regimes for the Final…, p. 37

Phillips / Deconstructing Sport History, p. 27

Pintchman / Guests at God’s Wedding, p. 19

Reynolds / The Broken Whole, p. 22

Rhodes / Social Movements and Free-Market…, p. 38

Riera / Alain Badiou, p. 13

Rousmaniere / Citizen Teacher, p. 43

Sánchez / The Function of Theory in…, p. 44

Sarbacker / Sama �dhi, p. 22

Schmidt / Lyrical and Ethical Subjects, p. 11

Scholz, Mussett / The Contradictions of Freedom, p. 13

Singh / The Birth of the Khalsa, p. 19

Slocum / Rebel Without a Cause, p. 7

Smith / States of Liberalization, p. 38

Sucharov / The International Self, p. 39

Tarr, Williams / State Constitutions for the…, p. 33

Tomlinson, Young / National Identity and Global…, p. 27

Vahide / Islam in Modern Turkey, p. 23

Vallega-Neu / The Bodily Dimension in Thinking, p. 17

Ver Eecke / Denial, Negation, and the Forces…, p. 17

Walsh, Grob / Higher Wisdom, p. 3

Ward, Castillo / The Judiciary in American…, p. 39

Weiss / The Wind and the Source, p. 18

Wheeler / The Internet in the Middle East, p. 24

Wilson / Subsidizing Capitalism, p. 26

Winkler / In the Name of Terrorism, p. 40

Wood / Troubling Play, p. 18

Xiong / Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, p. 32

Zimmerman / Congressional Preemption, p. 40

Zürn, Walter / Globalizing Interests, p. 41

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TITLE INDEX

Absence of Myth, The / Heller, p. 21

Acting Beautifully / Jöttkandt, p. 30

Active Life, The / McGandy, p. 16

Adam Smith / McKenna, p. 12

Alain Badiou / Riera, p. 13

Become Who You Are / Dohm, p. 29

Between Argentines and Arabs / Civantos, p. 31

Birth of the Khalsa, The / Singh, p. 19

Bodily Dimension in Thinking, The / Vallega-Neu, p. 17

Broken Whole, The / Reynolds, p. 22

Building Trust / Hoffman, p. 36

C. I. Lewis / Murphey, p. 5

California Dreaming / Karlinsky, p. 24

Citizen Teacher / Rousmaniere, p. 43

Confession and Bookkeeping / Aho, p. 20

Congressional Preemption / Zimmerman, p. 40

Construction of Space in Early China, The / Lewis, p. 31

Contradictions of Freedom, The / Scholz, Mussett, p. 13

Cost of Being Poor, The / Barnes, p. 25

Culturally Contested Pedagogy / Li, p. 42

Deconstructing Sport History / Phillips, p. 27

Denial, Negation, and the Forces… / Ver Eecke, p. 17

Drunk from the Bitter Truth / Margolin, p. 1

Education Empire / Duke, p. 41

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty / Xiong, p. 32

Feminist Sport Studies / Markula, p. 26

Final Arbiter, The / Banks et al., p. 34

Function of Theory in Composition… / Sánchez, p. 44

Gift of Education, The / Newberg, p. 43

Globalizing Interests / Zürn, Walter, p. 41

God of Desire / Benton, p. 21

Guests at God’s Wedding / Pintchman, p. 19

Gurus in America / Forsthoefel, Humes, p. 2

Hegel and the Other / Kain, p. 12

Heidegger and Aristotle / Brogan, p. 14

Heidegger and Rhetoric / Gross, Kemmann, p. 14

Higher Wisdom / Walsh, Grob, p. 3

Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity / Klein, p. 42

In the Name of Terrorism / Winkler, p. 40

In the Public Domain / Han, Heith, p. 35

International Regimes for the Final… / Peterson, p. 37

International Self, The / Sucharov, p. 39

Internet in the Middle East, The / Wheeler, p. 24

Islam in Modern Turkey / Vahide, p. 23

Israeli Backpackers / Noy, Cohen, p. 25

Jamaica Kincaid / Bouson, p. 29

Judiciary in American…,The / Ward, Castillo, p. 39

Kant and the Culture of… / Deligiorgi, p. 15

Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming / Carlisle, p. 15

Language of the Eyes, The / Ogden, p. 28

Lyrical and Ethical Subjects / Schmidt, p. 11

Multi-Governance of Water, The / Finger et al., p. 35

My Beloved Toto / Drouet, p. 30

National Identity and… / Tomlinson, Young, p. 27

New Abolitionists, The / James, p. 9

On Jameson / Irr, Buchanan, p. 28

Ozone Depletion and Climate Change / Hoffmann, p. 33

Politics in the New South / Menifield, Shaffer, p. 37

Pristine Dao, The / Michael, p. 20

Promise and Betrayal / Gilderbloom, Mullins Jr., p. 10

Promise of Memory, The / Fritsch, p. 16

Protecting Our Environment / Hunter, Smith, p. 36

Rebel Without a Cause / Slocum, p. 7

Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy / Arat, p. 34

Revolt, Affect, Collectivity / Chanter, Ziarek, p. 11

Sama �dhi / Sarbacker, p. 22

Sitcom Reader, The / Dalton, Linder, p. 6

Social Circulation of Poetry in the… / Hawes, p. 32

Social Movements and Free-Market… / Rhodes, p. 38

Sojourns / Heidegger, p. 4

State Constitutions for the… / Tarr, Williams, p. 33

States of Liberalization / Smith, p. 38

Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other… / Chalcraft, p. 23

Subsidizing Capitalism / Wilson, p. 26

Troubling Play / Wood, p. 18

Watchman Fell Asleep, The / Bar-Joseph, p. 8

Wind and the Source, The / Weiss, p. 18

Women and Children First / Meagher, DiQuinzio, p. 10

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