Lindsay Waters ~ Executive Editor for the
Humanities
My main areas of acquisition are philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, film, Asian cultural studies, pop culture, and conflicting relations among the races in the United States and around the world.The philosophy list builds from books by Quine, Putnam, McDowell, Hornsby, Anscombe, Brandom, Rawls, Haugeland, Rorty, Scanlon, Gibbard, Albert, Sellars, and Cavell. How is philosophy changing to take on issues left unexplored in the heyday of analytic philosophy?
The literary and cultural studies lists build out from questions in literary history as explored by Hollier's New History of French Literature and Wellbery's New History of German Literature. It also builds out from work of Walter Benjamin in many areas including affective responses to art. How do artworks haunt humans? This question is explored in Victoria Nelson's
I am interested in explorations of language and the arts around the world. Exemplary recent titles are Hardt and Negri's Empire, Pascale Casanova's World Republic of Letters, and Evelyn Ch'ien's Weird English.
Pop music explorations include books by Marcus, Christgau, Press and Reynolds, and Frith.
Authors of books in feminist legal studies include Catharine A. MacKinnon and Patricia Williams.
Read an interview that the Book Depository did with Lindsay Waters