Tim Flanagan

​This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin’s 1928 monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy (to wit, in the respective forms by which thought is phrased, predicated, and proposed). Meer

This book offers readers a new lens to critically meditate on the necropolitics of migration. Using the term "liminal diasporas," the co-editors and range of authors of this volume define this notion as migratory bodies that are simultaneously subject to danger, violence, and precarious modalities of life. Meer