Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity

James Martel, professor of political science at San Francisco State University, is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are&nbsp;Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead&nbsp;(Amherst College Press, 2018) and&nbsp;The Misinterpellated Subject&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2017). He has also written a trilogy of books on the life and works of Walter Benjamin.

James R. Martel

The Aesthetics of the Void: On Brad Evans’s “Ecce Humanitas”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

James Martel, professor of political science at San Francisco State University, is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are&nbsp;Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead&nbsp;(Amherst College Press, 2018) and&nbsp;The Misinterpellated Subject&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2017). He has also written a trilogy of books on the life and works of Walter Benjamin.