Santa Claus PhD: New Titles in Graduate Sevices for December

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!

 

agamben

What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays by Giorgio Agamben

arendt

The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt

Arendt

Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

On Violence by Hannah Arendt

Arendt

The Promise of Politics by Hannah Arendt

atwood

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Audoin-Rouzeau

14-18: Understanding the Great War by Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker

Ayres-Bennett

A History of the French Language Through Texts by Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Badiou

Le Siecle by Alain Badiou

bayly

The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 by C.A. Bayly

beryy

Home Economics: Fourteen Essays by Wendell Berry

Bly

Reaching Out to the World: New and Selected Prose Poems by Robert Bly

butler

Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler

casarino negri

In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics by Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri

cather

Alexander’s Bridge (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather

cather

One of Ours by Willa Cather

cather

Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather

Cather

Youth and the Bright Medusa (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather

Cixous

Hyperdream by Helene Cixous

Cixous

Love Itself in the Letterbox by Helene Cixous

Debord

Society of the Spectacle (Black & Red Edition) by Guy Debord

delay

War of a Thousand Deserts by Brian DeLay

 

dreiser

A Traveler at Forty by Theodore Dreiser

dreiser

Theodore Dreiser: Interviews edited by Frederic E. Rusch and Donald Pizer

Duncan

Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh by Ian Duncan

Efron

The Jews: A History edited by John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann, and Joshua Holo

Eley

Becoming National: A Reader edited by Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny

fass

Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second-Generation Memoir by Paula S. Fass

frydl

The GI Bill by Kathleen J. Frydl

gunn

Thom Gunn: Selected Poems edited by August Kleinzahler

hampton

Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe by Timothy Hampton

Heaney

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables by Robert Henryson translated by Seamus Heaney

Heidegger

Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy by Martin Heidegger

herrin

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin

Honneth

Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea by Axel Honneth with commentaries by Judith Butler, Raymond Guess, Jonathan Lear, and Martin Jay

kant

Practical Philosophy (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant

Latour

Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

latour

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour

mango

The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813 edited by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott

negri

Empire and Beyond by Antonio Negri

Orwell

Diaries by George Orwell edited by Peter Davison

pomeroy

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Woman in Classical Antiquity by Sarah B. Pomeroy

Prentki

The Applied Theatre Reader edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston

Puckett

Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Kent Puckett

pynchon

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Rose

Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (2nd Edition) by Gillian Rose

saroyan

Young Saroyan: Follow and Other Early Writings by William Saroyan edited by William B. Secrest Jr.

Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

sharma

The Anthropology of the State: A Reader edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta

Sheehan

The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture by Jonathan Sheehan

Shepard

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 edited by Jonathan Shepard

Sperber

The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (2nd Edition) by Jonathan Sperber

stegner

Wallace Stegner’s West by Wallace Stegner edited by Page Stegner

the cherry orchard

The Cherry Orchard: A New Version by Tom Stoppard

Tarica

The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism by Estelle Tarica

trouillot

Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

updike

Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike

updike

My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike

tennessee williams

New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams

william carlos williams

The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams edited by Andrew J. Krivak

wittgenstein reader

The Wittgenstein Reader (2nd Edition) edited by Anthony Kenny

yeats

The Golden Helmet and the Green Helmet: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats

yeats

Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats