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'The Didi-Huberman Dictionary' is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities.

Acknowledgments ; Introduction -- Part I: On Jean Améry: "I say 'I'... merely out of habit". Chapter 1 - Resentment, Trauma Subjectivity and the Ordering of Time ; Chapter 2 - "A Wound Was Inflicted on Me"-Améry's Testimony to Torture ; Chapter 3 - Thanatic Reconciliations in On Aging and On Suicide -- Part II: On Imre Kertész: "I don't know how I should continue" ; Chapter 4 - Fateless: Being "Without Fate," Without the Help of Another ; Chapter 5 - Apocalypse, Testimony, and Love in Kaddish for a Child Not Born -- Epilogue - On Irreversibility -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"This innovative and important book explores how war imprints on culture and the psychosocial effects of war on individuals and societies, based on the first few months after the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022. Highlighting different narratives that illuminate the complex effects of war, this book is highly relevant for postgraduate students, researchers and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of cultural psychology, psychosocial studies, peace and conflict studies and cultural history"--

Introduction / Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena Zolkos -- The child in memory -- Locating the child within the history of childhood / Shurlee Swain -- Theorizing childhood in second-wave feminism : a re-reading of Germaine Greer's the female eunuch (1970) / Isobelle Barrett Meyering -- "Ancestral guilt" : childhood as redemption and the question of nazi descendancy in German cultural memory / Magdalena Zolkos -- The child in imagination -- The nature of the child and the child of nature : historical and contemporary continuities / Gail Hawkes and Danielle Egan -- Humanity's little scrap dealers : the child at play in modern philosophy and implications for sexualization discourse / Joanne Faulkner -- Childhood, character, and the nineteenth-century novel / Elizabeth Drumm -- The institutionalized child -- Investment, risk, and other ways of thinking about children / Kylie Valentine -- Discursive children : stolen or just forgotten? racial politics and the figure of "the child" in an Australian culture of liberalism / Emily Soper -- About the contributors

State, Security, and Subject Formation addresses the question of how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life together. It brings together leading scholars to examine democracy from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as public authority and the necessity of division between communities of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the community. This book aims to understand the rationality that informs both approaches, interpreting the subjectivities within each. To do so, the interdisciplinary, scholarly essays examine 17th century

This comparative volume looks at the track record of several defunct federalisms to identify options that have been overlooked and decisions that precipitated the collapse. Bringing together insights from the study of state failure and federal collapse, it examines the ways in which parallel assessment is crucial for suggesting the complex structures of identity accommodation in federal entities.

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Georges Didi-Huberman in dictionary formOffers a cross-disciplinary, comprehensive overview of Didi-Huberman's thoughtProvides both an introductory research tool for those encountering Didi-Huberman's philosophy for the first time as well as a resource for scholars who want to deepen and extend their knowledge of Didi-Huberman's workPresents entries on the key concepts, figures, and motifs in his work and maps the richness of his philosophic, psychoanalytic and cultural references and inspirationsHelps to situate Didi-Huberman's critical position on Western metaphysics and humanism Gives insight into the chronological development of his key concepts and theories since 1980s until todayElaborates the contemporary relevance of Didi-Huberman's image theory beyond the areas of philosophical aesthetics and art history in political philosophy, ethics and critical epistemology, as well as for post-colonial thought, critical race analysis and feminismThe Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities.With over 150 entries, including 125 main entries, the dictionary is a useful research tool for students coming to Didi-Huberman's work for the first time. Entries range from Theodor Adorno and Anthropology through to Materiality and Memory and on to Aby Warburg and Witnessing. Researchers already familiar with his work, but who want to develop a multi-faceted and more comprehensive understanding of the philosophical and cultural references woven into his thought, will gain deeper knowledge of the nuances of his conceptual apparatus, given the interreferential and intertextual aspects of his work.The dictionary identifies and explains his key figures, inspirations and philosophical metaphors as well as introduces Didi-Huberman's polemics with other contemporary philosophers, including Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière. Entries on concepts and motifs from Didi-Huberman's major texts that are (as of yet) not translated into English - Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (1992), and Ninfa moderna (2002) - are also included.This is your one-stop, go-to resource for learning more about the innovative, exciting work of Georges Didi-Huberman

Introduction : that which cannot be touched : introduction to contemporary perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch / Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos -- The metaphysics of love and the theory of forgiveness in Vladimir Jankélévitch's philosophy / Giulia Maniezzi -- Paradoxes of virtue in Vladimir Jankélévitch's moral philosophy / José Manuel Beato -- "I can't beat it" : dimensions of the bad conscience in Manchester by the Sea / Marguerite La Caze -- An enduring audience : Jankélévitch and Plotinus / Tim Flanagan -- Speaking in the night : on the non-sense of death and life / Aaron T. Looney -- Vladimir Jankélévitch's "diseases of temporality" and their impact on reconciliatory processes / Francesco Ferrari -- Jankélévitch's metaphysics of humility / Andrew Kelley -- The work of remorse : Vladimir Jankélévitch's conception of the ethical subject and François Ozon's Frantz / Magdalena Zolkos -- The philosophy of the je-ne-sais-quoi and the possibility of a nonreligious spirituality / Clovis Salgado Gontijo -- Vladimir Jankélévitch, Henri Bergson, and the emergence of a musical aesthetic / Paul Atkinson.