Returning to Revolution by Thomas Nail published by Edinburgh University Press

Returning to Revolution is an account of the theory and practice of revolutionary struggle in the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and the Zapatistas. We are witnessing today the return of political revolution. But it is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political representation of the party, the centrality of the proletariat, and the leadership of the vanguard. Rather, after the failure of such tactics over the last century, revolutionary strategy is now headed in an entirely new direction. Much has been written on Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy in the last fifteen years, but Returning to Revolution is the first full-length work to-date on their concept of revolution and its relationship to one of the most influential revolutionary movements the last fifteen years: Zapatismo.

The first 50 pages of his book can be downloaded here.

Returning to Revolution is also reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Review.

Ibn Gabriol's Theology of Desire by Sarah Pessin to be released by Cambridge University Press

Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Pessin develops a "Theology of Desire" at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's 11th century cosmo-ontology, challenging centuries of received scholarship on the "Doctrines of Divine Will and Universal Hylomorphism." Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the Fons Vitae as opposing divine emanation, as she emphasizes uniquely "Empedoclean" notions of "Divine Desire" and "Grounding Element," alongside Ibn Gabirol's use of a particularly Neoplatonic method with apophatic (and what she calls "doubly apophatic") implications. Pessin in this way reads claims about matter and God as insights about love, desire, and the receptive, dependent, and fragile nature of human being. Pessin re-envisions the entire spirit of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy, moving us from a set of doctrines to a fluid inquiry into the nature of God and human being—and the bond between God and human being in desire.