Lindsay Waters
Executive Editor for the Humanities
Acquisitions Editors: Michael Aronson | Susan Wallace Boehmer | Michael Fisher | Elizabeth Knoll | John Kulka | Ian Malcolm | Kathleen McDermott | Joyce Seltzer | Sharmila Sen | Lindsay Waters
My main areas of acquisition are philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, Asian studies, pop culture, and conflicting relations among peoples in the United States and around the world.
The philosophy list builds from books by Putnam, Quine, McDowell, Hornsby, Anscombe, Brandom, Rawls, Haugeland, Rorty, Scanlon, Gibbard, Albert, Sellars, and Cavell.
The literary and cultural studies lists center on questions in literary history, extending the reach of our “new histories” of French, German, and American literatures. Our “angel of history” is Walter Benjamin, whose writings inspire the many authors on our list striving to fuse history, politics, and the arts, and to spark a revival of aesthetics. In general, I seek books that develop a global humanism, based on a holistic philosophy that reflects upon the limits of reductionism.
Recent Books
Evil Men
James Dawes
Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
Gloria Davies
Dasein Disclosed: John Haugeland’s Heidegger
John Haugeland, edited by Joseph Rouse
Trent: What Happened at the Council
John W. O’Malley
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Walter Benjamin, edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin
The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas
A New Literary History of America
Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
Victoria Nelson
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
