A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.

A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.

This volume is an anthology of the passages in St Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologiae" on human nature. The topics covered are ones of the nature of the human soul, its relation to the body, the activities of the intellect and how they reflect the intellectual climate of St Thomas' day.

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure.

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure.

A philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.

This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.