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This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary
Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author InterviewIn This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent Ameri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Michael A. Weinstein: Action, Contemplation, Vitalism (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)
This book is a major reassessment of Michael Weinstein’s political philosophy. It situates his singular contribution, designated as "critical vitalism," in the context of both canonical American and contemporary continental theory. Weinstein is presented as a philosopher of life and as an American N... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
by John Louis Lucaites • Purnima Bose • David Campbell • Diane Rubenstein • Wendy Kozol • Nina Berman • Rebecca A. Adelman • James Der Derian • Christopher J. Gilbert • Claudia Breger • De Witt Kilgore • Jeremy G. Gordon • Jody Madeira • Jon Simons • Roger StahlIn/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017