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Torture

Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

By Shampa Biswas, Zahi Zalloua

The counterterrorism policies following September 11, 2001, brought the definition and legitimacy of torture to the forefront of political, military, and public debates. This timely volume explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by...

Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

By Zahi Zalloua

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers...

Spectacle

By Bruce Magnusson, Zahi Zalloua

Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the...

Contagion

Health, Fear, Sovereignty

By Bruce Magnusson, Zahi Zalloua

Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of...