Realizing the Witch

Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Realizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen's visual narrative in his 1922 film, Haxan (The Witch). Through a close reading of H... Lees meer

Human Remains

Jonathan Strauss

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter... Lees meer

Wording the World

Roma Chatterji

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking... Lees meer

Affliction

Veena Das

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborh... Lees meer

War in Worcester

Pamela Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Describes, from the perspective of the young anti-apartheid fighters, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated Lees meer

Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms acros... Lees meer

Pathological Realities

Mirko Grmek

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting som... Lees meer

What's These Worlds Coming To?

Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Our contemporary challenge, according to the authors, is that a new world has quietly cropped up on us and is, in fact, already here. In this book, th... Lees meer

Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms acros... Lees meer

The Ploy of Instinct

Kathleen Frederickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confessi... Lees meer

On Time, Being, and Hunger

Juan Manuel Garrido

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one's own hu... Lees meer

Systems of Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In... Lees meer

The Government of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• An examination of Foucault's last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. This volume aims to explain why... Lees meer

Writings on Medicine

Georges Canguilhem

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of norm... Lees meer

Figures of Medicine

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• In this provocative collection of essays, Francois Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six s... Lees meer

The New Wounded

Catherine Malabou

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempora... Lees meer

Affliction

Veena Das

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborh... Lees meer

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Leif Weatherby

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philoso... Lees meer

Selected Writings

Henri Atlan

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Suitable for those who seek to clarify the joint stakes and shared import of philosophy and science for questions of life and the living, this book of... Lees meer

Wording the World

Roma Chatterji

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking... Lees meer

War in Worcester

Pamela Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Describes, from the perspective of the young anti-apartheid fighters, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated Lees meer

Systems of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In... Lees meer

What's These Worlds Coming To?

Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, bu... Lees meer

Chagas Disease

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• In Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge, Francois Delaporte describes how the interaction of public health policy with medical knowledge a... Lees meer