Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii.

This groundbreaking and innovative text demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.

1. Philosophy, Method and the Arts 2. The Moralized Economy in Hard Times 3. The Blues Subject: Counter-Memory, Genre, and Space 4. Zones of Justice: A Philo-Poetic Engagement 5. For an anti-Fascist Aesthetics 6. The Micropolitics of Justice: Language, Sense and Space 7. A Continuing Violent Cartography: From Guadalupe Hidalgo to Contemporary Border Crossings 8. The Presence of War: "Here and Elsewhere"