Lindsay Waters
Executive Editor for the Humanities
My main areas of acquisition are philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, film, Asian cultural studies, pop culture, and conflicting relations among the races in the United States and around the world.
The philosophy list builds from books by Quine, Putnam, McDowell, Hornsby, Anscombe, Brandom, Rawls, Haugeland, Rorty, Scanlon, Gibbard, Albert, Sellars, and Cavell. How is philosophy changing to take on issues left unexplored in the heyday of analytic philosophy?
The literary and cultural studies lists build out from questions in literary history. It also builds out from work of Walter Benjamin in many areas including affective responses to art. How do artworks haunt humans? Spivak and Said, as well as the Convergences series edited by Said, represent efforts to explore new possibilities for humanistic inquiry worldwide and lead to books by Jean Franco, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Lydia Liu, and Wang Hui. I am interested in explorations of language and the arts around the world.
Some recent books are:
- Lipstick Traces
- A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
- Performing Rites
- On the Value of Popular Music
