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The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

Life Cycles beyond the Human: Biomass and Biorhythms in Heraclitus

Nietzsche and Literary Studies

Was ist ‘jüdische Philologie’?

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

Foucault, Kant, and Antiquity

Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

The Cynics With and Without Foucault

Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

Greek Tragedy In A Global Crisis

Ramus Volume 52: Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding's …(Iphigenia): Interdisciplinary Approaches

Representations,158: Proximities: Reading with Judith Butler

Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek Tragedy

Homer: The Very Idea

Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy

Postclassicisms

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between

Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Introducion: Law at the Intersection of History and Theory

Jazz As Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited

A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings

The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World

Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good

Representations 136: Time Zones: Durational Art and Its Contexts

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

The Sublime in Antiquity

Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject

What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

ゴッホ・オンデマンド中国のアートとビジネス

positions: asia critique: Reconsidering the 2006 MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy

A Traveling Homeland: The Talmud as Diaspora

On “The Wire”

Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

Van Gogh On Demand: China and the Readymade

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

D-Passage: The Digital Way

Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ

Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

Archivkörper

Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History

Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Controlling Time and Shaping the Self

French Philosophy Since 1945 – Postwar French Thought Vol. IV

States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political

Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event

The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience

Art and Aesthetics after Adorno

Von der Arbeit des Historikers: Ein Wörterbuch zu Theorie und Praxis der Geschichtswissenschaft

Derrida and the Time of the Political

L’Autre marche (The Other Walk)

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Old Land New Waters

Screening Sex

Eupolis Demoi

Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law

Thresholds: Portability

Border Lines: The Partition of Judeo-Christianity

A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France

Bodies of the Desert

Habiter un monde : Architectures de l’Afrique de l’Ouest

The Digital Film Event

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

Porn Studies

Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome

Before Subjectivity? Lacan and the Classics, ed. James I. Porter and Mark Buchan, special double issue of Helios, vol. 31, no. 1-2 (2004)

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Das Gedächtnis von Mauthause

Night Passage

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

The Desert is Watching

Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic

Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

Powers Of Diaspora: Two Essays On The Relevance Of Jewish Culture

Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson

Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity

The Fourth Dimension

Trinh T. Minh-ha: Secession

Antiquities – Postwar French Thought Vol. III

Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future

Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism

Re-inventing Film Studies

The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on “The Birth of Tragedy”

Literary Debate – Postwar French Thought Vol. II

Nothing But Ways

Cinema Interval

Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique

Constructions of the Classical Body

Histories – Postwar French Thought Vol. I

Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation

Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases: Fundamental Issues in Law and Society Research

Drawn from African Dwellings

A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity

Origins of the Individualist Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791

Photo-montage

Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

A Tale of Love

Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash

The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge

Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film

Out There: Marginalisation and Contemporary Culture

The Subject of Modernity

Framer Framed

When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics

Shoot for the Contents

Celtic Language, Celtic Culture

Surname Viet Given Name Nam

Literature and the Question of Philosophy

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible”

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2

Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1

En minuscules

The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert

Naked Spaces – Living is Round

African Spaces. Designs for Living in Upper Volta

Revision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism

Reassemblage

Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film