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Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age
Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang, and Arthur Pressley
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent.
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community.
Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy
Van Den Abbeele Georges
Sense and Singularity analyzes key moments in Jean-Luc Nancy’s signature philosophy of “finite thinking,” explicating at once his expansive understanding of sense to include every sense of the word (sensation, perception, meaning) against the restrictive definition of singularity as what necessarily eludes every possible sense.
Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Vanessa Smith
The book sets out the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging and tenuously restorative play with objects (which it terms “toy stories”) within a long nineteenth-century of fictional and educational writing.
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