The Problem of Literary Value by Robert Meyer-Lee Robert Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. This book was supported by our TOME Atlanta program. This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of […]
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago’s infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In Colonial […]
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation by Calvin L. Warren Calvin L. Warren is Associate Professor of African American Studies in the Department of African American Studies. In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the “Negro question” is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the […]
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