Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint, by William V. Spanos, explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt’s and Said’s thought, not simply their mutual emphasis…

With the untimely death of Edward W Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. This title examines…

This study of imperialism stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War world has the Vietnam War at its centre. It examines the language of expansion in Western philosophical discourse…

The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception illustrates that Melville, in his own time, was aware of the negative consequences of the deeply inscribed exceptionalist American identity and recognized…