A number of books made their way to Graduate Services this September to celebrate the first full month of the Fall 2010 semester. Come celebrate with them by letting your fingers not only do the walking, but a bit of dancing over these crisp new pages. There are books for everyone on the new books shelf this month. Are you into American Theatre? Well we got you covered with some plays by Arthur Miller. This guy was married to Marilyn Monroe. Death of a Salesman? More like Death of a Ladies’ Man if you ask me. But you didn’t, so whatever. If you are into French Critical Theorists, we got a bunch of books from Jean Luc-Nancy plus the new one from his buddy Jacques Ranciere, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics. Don’t know what Dissensus means, well read this book and find out. What’s more, the latest from the Foucault vault came in: The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College De France, 1982-83. Trust me, if you haven’t read any of the lectures in this series yet, you have not heard lectures about biopolitics as lectures about biopolitics were meant to be heard. Yes please I say. There are some new editons of works by the old guard if that is who you are eyeing for a partner this semester. Boethius, Vicco, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. There are also some books by the guard that have been around awhile and are still here such as Terry Eagleton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Slavoj Zizek if that is what you are looking for. Some straight up fiction from our Modern Authors Collection you say? Step right up and get your read on with Alice Walker, Louis SImpson, Joyce Carol Oates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Rebecca West. And if you want to keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars, let me introduce you to Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messager by Galileo Galilei. If you have put the reading behind you this semester and are looking to dance with the pen or keyboard, let the fifth editon of the Handbook for Academic Authors by Beth Luey guide you to your own tune. On one of the books below is dedicated to Henry Kissenger. I’ll give you a hint: It rhymes with Don Knievel and backwards spells out live no. And it pretty much sums up Kissenger. Enjoy.
The OId English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae volumes 1 and 2 edited by Malcolm Godden and Susan Irvine
On Evil by Terry Eagleton
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Terry Eagleton and Matthew Beaumont
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics by Terry Eagleton
The Cambridge Edition fo the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Spires and Gargoyles, Early Writings, 1909-1919 by F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by James L.W. West III
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College De France, 1982-1983 by Michel Foucault
Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messanger by Galileo Galilei translated by Albert van Helden
Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification by Marcial Gonzalez
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy: Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard edited by C. Stephens Evans and Sylvia Walsh
Handbook for Academic Authors (Fifth edition) by Beth Luey
The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies edited by Andrea A. Lunsford
A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period volumes 1 and 2 translated, with an introduction and notes by William H. and Helen Craig McCullough
Plays: Five; The Last Yankee, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Almost Everybody WIns by Arthur Miller
Plays: Six: Broken Glass, Mr. Peter’s Connections, Resurrection Blues, Finishing the Picture by Arthur Miller
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by Jose Esteban Munoz
Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy
Corpus by Jean Luc-Nancy translated by Richard A. Rand
The Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy
Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body by Jean-Luc Nancy
On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores by Jean-Luc Nancy
The Truth of Democracy by Jean Luc-Nancy
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought: On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates
Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
Aesthetics and Its Discontents by Jacques Ranciere
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere
Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems by Louis Simpson
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy: The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith edited by Knud Haakonssen
Other Asias by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Entre el Proceso Global y el Conocimiento Local by William B. Taylor
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought: The First New Science by Vico edited by Leon Pompa
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Isreal by Alice Walker
The Essential Rebecca West: uncollected Prose by Rebecca West
The Bungler by Moliere translated by Richard Wilbur
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism by Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Zizek