Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein's novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis. ...

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic ...

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition. In Metaphysical ...

The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan-despite misleading Western images of lifetime ...

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing ...

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant. ...

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, ...

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism. Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement ...

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film. William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal ...

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics ...