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Both reverent and daring, this collection of verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.

This book integrates Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy-starved condition of our contemporaneity.

Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely to get to the real Simone Weil.

An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, and grandmother, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in poetry and art, their sex life and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to denizens of the air.

"This book is a study on the vanishing of blackness in Mexico and its relation to the United States and black studies in general"--

Traces Dostoevsky's indefatigable investigations into the ethical implications of his own formal choices. Drawing on his drafts, notebooks, and writings on aesthetics, Greta Matzner-Gore argues that he wove the moral and formal questions that obsessed him into the fabric of his last three novels.

Investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things.

Sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. This book investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus.

Argues that Edmund Husserl's late reflections on Europe should not be read either as departures from his early transcendental phenomenology or as simple exercises of cultural criticism but rather as systematic phenomenological reflections on generativity and historicity.

Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore.

Identifies an intellectual current in the Weimar Republic that drew on biology, organicism, vitalism, and other discourses associated with living nature in order to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age.

In David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and unsung.

Recounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. This book makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation, African American history, and Chicago.

Presents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.

Examines the political, ontological, and technological underpinnings of the guerrilla in the digital humanities (DH). Matthew Applegate uses the guerrilla to connect iterations of digital humanities' practice to its political rhetoric and infrastructure. By doing so, he reorients DH's conceptual lexicon around practices of collective becoming.

Examines academic fictions produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black writers to produce counter-narratives that celebrate the potentials of black intelligence and argue for the importance of black higher education, particularly in the humanistic tradition.

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply - literally or metaphorically - an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing.

Adrian Johnston's trilogy forges a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.

Pays tribute to a well-respected teacher and scholar of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W Leopold. This book documents their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.

Featuring thirty-five colour images of William ""Bill"" Walker's work, this edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.

Argues that Shakespeare's plays present ""secularization"" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial imagination.

This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West's life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West's novels, investigating in particular the works' treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.

This classic ethnomusicological survey provides a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music.