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Apologies for cross posting [Description: Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CFCC24.6CFE2E40]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/willful-subjects>Willful Subjects<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/willful-subjects> Sara Ahmed "Willful Subjects is beautifully conceived and expertly conducted, sentence by sentence, suggestion by suggestion [...] Exquisite formulations engage our contemplation and render real intellectual enjoyment. Followers of Ahmed, of which 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 "Like her other works known for their originality, sharpness, and reach, Ahmed offers here a vibrant, surprising, and philosophically rich analysis of cultural politics, drawing on feminist, queer and anti-racist uses of willing 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, University of California "There is no one else writing in contemporary cultural theory who is able to take hold of a single concept with such a firm and sure grasp and follow it along an idiosyncratic path in such surprising and illuminating ways."-Gayle Salamon, author of Assuming a Body In Willful Subjects, Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often 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. Duke University Press July 2014 320pp 9780822357834 PB £15.99 now only £11.99 when you quote CS0714WILLF<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/willful-subjects> when you order UK Postage and Packing £2.95, Europe £4.50 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: CS0914WILLF for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ where you can also receive your discount *Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australasia. Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd> or Facebook Combined Academic-Publishers<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sfrm=1#!/CombinedAcademicPublishers> Sign up to our newsletter email alerts here<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/newsletter-signup>