Developing and evaluating scientific knowledge and its value requires a clear–or at least not
too unclear–understanding of what 'theory'means. We argue that common definitions of …

Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too
long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality …

What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the
human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments …

Pèlerin, and it seems the volume has traveled far and wide across a va ri ety of academic
contexts that structure a major part of the study of neoliberal ideas, networks, and …

Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New
Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core …

The article is concerned with the history of “close reading,” understood as a practice crucial
to the field of literary studies, vis-à-vis “distant reading,” a range of computational methods …

In 2001, João Paraskeva asked if he could look at my published and unpublished papers,
and lecture notes accumulated during twenty-five years at Teachers College, Columbia …

As the founder and leading practitioner of" literary Darwinism," Joseph Carroll remains at the
forefront of a major movement in literary studies. Signaling key new developments in this …

The Deoband movement—a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from
colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and …

Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the
notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick …