If books are gifts then it must be the Holidays. December’s not even over and the new book shelves are already filled. It’s like Santa Claus got a PhD and decided smart phones are not really smart gifts. Lots of of new books in Graduate Services, but this a collection of quality as well quantity. Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea is Axel Honneth’s 2005 Tanner Lectures on Human Values presented at UC Berkeley with commentaries by UCB’s own Martin Jay and Judith Butler. December’s wish list also includes Professor Butler’s new work, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable, as well as books from esteemed UCB faculty past and present such as Thom Gunn, Ian Ducan, Estell Tarcia, Kent Puckett, Paula Fass, Brian DeLay, John Efron, Timmoty Hampton, and Kathleen Frydl. And besides our monthly alotment of books from the only one name is needed crew, which includes Agameben, Arendt, Badiou, Cather, Atwood, Cixous, Heaney, Latour, Orwell, Negri, Stoppard, Updike, Yeats, and of course Butler, there is the new novel from Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice.
Happy Holidays!
What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays by Giorgio Agamben
The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
The Promise of Politics by Hannah Arendt
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
14-18: Understanding the Great War by Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker
A History of the French Language Through Texts by Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Le Siecle by Alain Badiou
The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 by C.A. Bayly
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays by Wendell Berry
Reaching Out to the World: New and Selected Prose Poems by Robert Bly
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics by Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri
Alexander’s Bridge (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
Youth and the Bright Medusa (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
Love Itself in the Letterbox by Helene Cixous
Society of the Spectacle (Black & Red Edition) by Guy Debord
War of a Thousand Deserts by Brian DeLay
A Traveler at Forty by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser: Interviews edited by Frederic E. Rusch and Donald Pizer
Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh by Ian Duncan
The Jews: A History edited by John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann, and Joshua Holo
Becoming National: A Reader edited by Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny
Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second-Generation Memoir by Paula S. Fass
The GI Bill by Kathleen J. Frydl
Thom Gunn: Selected Poems edited by August Kleinzahler
Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe by Timothy Hampton
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables by Robert Henryson translated by Seamus Heaney
Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy by Martin Heidegger
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea by Axel Honneth with commentaries by Judith Butler, Raymond Guess, Jonathan Lear, and Martin Jay
Practical Philosophy (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour
The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813 edited by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott
Empire and Beyond by Antonio Negri
Diaries by George Orwell edited by Peter Davison
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Woman in Classical Antiquity by Sarah B. Pomeroy
The Applied Theatre Reader edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston
Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Kent Puckett
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (2nd Edition) by Gillian Rose
Young Saroyan: Follow and Other Early Writings by William Saroyan edited by William B. Secrest Jr.
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
The Anthropology of the State: A Reader edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture by Jonathan Sheehan
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 edited by Jonathan Shepard
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (2nd Edition) by Jonathan Sperber
Wallace Stegner’s West by Wallace Stegner edited by Page Stegner
The Cherry Orchard: A New Version by Tom Stoppard
The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism by Estelle Tarica
Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams
The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams edited by Andrew J. Krivak
The Wittgenstein Reader (2nd Edition) edited by Anthony Kenny
The Golden Helmet and the Green Helmet: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats
Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats