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"This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural by-product of perpetually limited growth rates and rulers' relentless pursuits of bullion. It contributes to discussions of the economic history surrounding the so-called "Great Divergence" between East and West, which would consequently lend context and credence to differences of economic thought in the world today. Additionally, it seeks to explain present economic thought as tacitly derived from implicit antique paradigms. This book advances fields of research from numismatics and sigillography to historical materialism and historical political economy. Divided into three parts, Orthodox Mercantilism firstly examines the political theology (the sovereignty) of the œcumene from the early 11th century. Secondly, it analyzes its peripheral legislation from the customary laws of newly Christianized dynasties up to the Kormchaja Kniga's adoption (the Nomokanon) by 13th-c. Orthodox dynasties across Eastern Europe. Thirdly, it explores how these dynasties (and their own satellite dynasties) hoarded finite bullion to pay for defense, resulting in the 11-14th-c. coinless period across Eastern Europe and Western Eurasia. Appealing to students and scholars alike, this book will be of interest to those studying and researching economic and mercantile history, particularly in the context of Byzantine and Eastern European societies"--

What is the line between the ancient and medieval worlds? 330? 476? 800? Most historians acknowledge that these are arbitrary distinctions, but they remain nevertheless, taking on lives of their own. Alex Feldman challenging us to see them as the same world, except for the imposition of a given monotheism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between Deleuze and Foucault -- PART I ENCOUNTERS -- 1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship -- 2. Theatrum Philosophicum -- 3. Michel Foucault's Main Concepts -- 4. When and How I Read Foucault -- PART II METHOD AND CRITIQUE -- 5. Critical Problematization in Foucault and Deleuze: The Force of Critique without Judgment -- 6. Foucault's Deleuzian Methodology of the Late 1970s -- 7. Deleuze's Foucault: A Metaphysical Fiction -- 8. Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy's Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) -- 9. Deleuze and Foucault: Political Activism, History and Actuality -- 10. Becoming and History: Deleuze's Reading of Foucault -- 11. Foucault and the "Image Of Thought": Archaeology, Genealogy, and the Impetus of Transcendental Empiricism -- 12. The Regularities of the Statement: Deleuze on Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge -- PART IV DESIRE, POWER AND RESISTANCE -- 13. Desire and Pleasure -- 14. Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem -- 15. Biopower and Control -- 16. Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and Deleuze -- APPENDIX -- 17. Meeting Deleuze -- 18. Foucault and Prison -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Shortly after thepublicationin April 2021of thethemedspecial issueFoucault's History ofSexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh, theeditors ofFoucault Studiesareinordinatelypleasedto present thisnon-themed issue containingthree original articles.Thefirstofthesearticles,"Resistance: An Arendtian Reading of Solidarity and Friend-ship in Foucault," by Liesbeth Schoonheim (KU Leuven, Belgium)compares the accountsof resistance in Arendt and Foucault.While recent scholarship has firmly established thesimilarities betweenthem, in particular with regard tothe diagnosis ofthe dangers of late-modern social processesleading to atomization,totalitarianismandbiological racism,there are alsosignificantdifferences.AlthoughFoucaulthas reflected more extensivelyand rigorously on the shapes and conditions of resistance,thepaper argues that Fou-cault'scomprehensive accountof resistanceomits the encounter with the other,whereasthis encounterwith theunique and unfathomableotherhas been putat the center of po-litical praxis andof acts of resistanceby Arendt.Developing the discussion of resistancein Arendtasshearticulatesitin response to the Shoah,the article claims thatshe providesa concept of solidarity and friendship thatcan bedrawnupon to extend Foucault's anal-ysis of the transnational solidarity among the governed in fighting for their rights vis-à-vis their governments, as well as tore-articulate andadvancehisunderstandingof friendship.