Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and
ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty …

Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay'On Life'(1819), stated'We live on, and in living we lose
the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore …

Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature
have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our …

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the
theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable …

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and
political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians …

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short
story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of'life …

The current literature on the meaning of life among analytic philosophers is founded upon a
couple of delicate distinctions with far-reaching implications. Ludwig Wittgenstein never …

The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not
only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of …

Ludwig Wittgenstein was the most influential, and arguably the greatest, philosopher of the
twentieth century. This fact about his influence is not only a matter of how much he …

This paper develops the basis for a new account of radical moral imagination, understood as
the transformation of moral understandings through creative response to the sensed …