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general interest My Father’s House On Will Barnet’s Paintings thomas dumm Photo by Judith Piotrkowski Thomas Dumm is William H. Hastie ’25 Professor of Political Ethics at Amherst College. He is the author of Loneliness as a Way of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom, and Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States, and a coeditor of Performances of Violence. “My Father’s House is a genuine and rare accomplishment. Art criticism is often at its best when, rather than dissecting objects, it follows their rhythms, twists, and turns. Thomas Dumm does just that. One of this book’s many strengths is the variety of ways that he evocatively relates the experience of Will Barnet’s paintings. Another is the magnificent introduction, which brings Emerson, Melville, Cavell, and others into conversation with the spirit of Barnet’s work and with Barnet himself.”—TOM HUHN, author of Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant “In this beautiful book, Thomas Dumm invents a new genre of writing, neither art criticism nor memoir nor philosophy nor psychology but something drawing from each of those, something that tries to show more than describe how works of art have power, a disseminating, productive power that exceeds any biography. Dumm is an extraordinary writer and courageous thinker.”—JANE BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things ::: My Father’ s house on will barnet’s paintings Thomas Dumm ::: In My Father’s House, the political philosopher Thomas Dumm explores a series of stark and melancholy paintings by the American artist Will Barnet. Responding to the physical and mental decline of his sister Eva, who lived alone in the family home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet began work in 1990 on what became a series of nine paintings depicting Eva and other family members as they once were and as they figured in the artist’s memory. Rendered in Barnet’s signature quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twentieth-century American family. Dumm first became acquainted with Barnet and his paintings in 2008. Given his scholarly focus on the lives of ordinary people, he was immediately attracted to the artist’s work. When they met, Dumm and Barnet began a friendship and dialogue that lasted until the painter’s death in 2012, at the age of 101. This book reflects the many discussions the two had concerning the series of paintings, Barnet’s family, his early life in Beverly, and his eighty-year career as a prominent New York artist. Reading the almost gothic paintings in conversation with the writers and thinkers key to both his and Barnet’s thinking—Emerson, Spinoza, Dickinson, Benjamin, Cavell, Nietzsche, Melville—Dumm’s haunting meditations evoke broader reflections on family, mortality, the uncanny, and the loss that comes with remembrance. “Thomas Dumm’s unique intelligence, perceptual clarity, and philosophical erudition inform this powerful homage to the artist Will Barnet and his series of paintings, My Father’s House. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Benjamin, and Stanley Cavell are among those summoned to assist Dumm as he meditates on questions of place and person, loss and love, past and present, conjured for him by Barnet’s haunting and haunted works. This is a deeply moving account of how an encounter with art might allay the turbulent loneliness of our age.”—ANN LAUTERBACH, author of Under the Sign 8 ART CRITICISM/POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY September 144 pages, 10 color illustrations cloth, 978–0–8223–5546–5, $24.95tr/£15.99
general interest Willful Subjects sara ahmed In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed Willful Subjects explores willfulness as a charge often Sara Ahmed made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination. also by Sara Ahmed Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, all also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, and Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism. “Like Sara Ahmed’s other works, which are known for their originality, sharpness, and reach, Willful Subjects offers here a vibrant, surprising, and philosophically rich analysis of cultural politics, drawing on feminist, queer, and antiracist uses of willingness and willfulness to explain forms of sustained and adamant social disagreement as a constitutive part of any radical ethics and politics worth its name.” —JUDITH BUTLER, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley “Willful Subjects is beautifully conceived and expertly conducted, sentence by sentence, suggestion by suggestion. Paradoxically, Sara Ahmed’s willfulness promises happiness for her readers. Exquisite formulations engage our contemplation and render real intellectual enjoyment. Followers of Ahmed, of whom there are many, will not be disappointed. This new instance of razor-sharp thinking powerfully builds upon The Promise of Happiness to look at something usefully slicing through contentment: the scissoring relations between the will and willfulness. More than cutting-edge, this is cutting thought.”—KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life paper, $22.95/£14.99 978–0–8223–5236–5 / 2012 The Promise of Happiness paper, $24.95/£15.99 978–0–8223–4725–5 / 2010 Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others paper, $22.95/£14.99 978–0–8223–3914–4 / 2006 FEMINIST THEORY/CULTURAL STUDIES/PHILOSOPHY August 304 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5783–4, $24.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5767–4, $89.95/£59.00 9
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