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
How To Be Gay
David M. Halperin
Trent: What Happened at the Council
John W. O’Malley
Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism
Hilary Putnam, edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur
Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
Charles Rosen
Early Writings (1910–1917)
Walter Benjamin, edited and translated by Howard Eiland
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
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