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M. Schneider-Mayerson, A. Weik von Mossner, Malecki, W. P., & F. Hakemulder (Eds.). (2023). Empirical ecocriticism: An interdisciplinary approach to environmental narrative. University of Minnesota Press.
M. Schneider-Mayerson, A. Weik von Mossner, Malecki, W. P., & F. Hakemulder (Eds.). (2023). Empirical ecocriticism: An interdisciplinary approach to environmental narrative. University of Minnesota Press.
Finalist for the 2025 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award
A book that provides an approachable introduction to empirical ecocritism - a growing field combining the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories
The book explains empirical ecocriticism's main methods and demonstrates their potential through case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers’ willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater.
Małecki, W. P., P. Sorokowski, B. Pawłowski, & M. Cieński. (2019). Human minds and animal stories: How narratives make us care about other species. New York: Routledge. (pbk 2020, OA 2022).
Małecki, W. P., P. Sorokowski, B. Pawłowski, & M. Cieński. (2019). Human minds and animal stories: How narratives make us care about other species. New York: Routledge. (pbk 2020, OA 2022).
"As witnessed by novels like Black Beauty and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a good story can move public opinion on contentious social issues. In Human Minds and Animal Stories a team of specialists in psychology, biology, and literature tells how they discovered the power of narratives to shift our views about the treatment of other species. Beautifully written and based on dozens of experiments with thousands of subjects, this book will appeal to animal advocates, researchers, and general readers looking for a compelling real-life detective story."
Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals
Małecki, W. P. & C. Voparil (Eds.). (2022). Richard Rorty, What can we hope for? Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Featured in the New York Times, The New Statesman, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly
Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who predicted results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election almost two decades in advance. Edited by W. P. Malecki and Chris Voparil, What Can We Hope For? gathers nineteen of Rorty’s insightful essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.
Małecki, W. P. & C. Voparil (Eds.). (2020). Richard Rorty, On philosophy and philosophers: Unpublished philosophical papers 1960-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Małecki, W. P. & C. Voparil (Eds.). (2020). Richard Rorty, On philosophy and philosophers: Unpublished philosophical papers 1960-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
"The Rorty that emerges from these essays is an ardent but not doctrinaire pragmatist and naturalist, who warns about the political dangers inherent in the idealist and anti-naturalist positions, while also seeing the risks of a headlong rush by philosophers into accepting Locke’s vision of the philosopher as a follower, not a leader, a mere ‘under-labourer, removing some of the Rubbish,’ in the wake of ‘the incomparable Mr. Newton.’ This volume sets a timely example of how a politically engaged philosopher can put hard won expertise to valuable use."
Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy Now
Małecki, W. P. (2010). Embodying pragmatism. New York: Peter Lang. Chinese edition: Małecki, W. P. (Trans. Y. Wang). (2019). 具身化”的实用主义：理查德·舒斯特曼的文学与哲学理论. Peking: China Social Sciences Press.
Małecki, W. P. (2010). Embodying pragmatism. New York: Peter Lang. Chinese edition: Małecki, W. P. (Trans. Y. Wang). (2019). 具身化”的实用主义：理查德·舒斯特曼的文学与哲学理论. Peking: China Social Sciences Press.
Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today’s most innovative thinkers in pragmatism and aesthetics. The book presents a comprehensive account of Shusterman’s principal philosophical ideas concerning pragmatism, aesthetics, and literary theory (including such themes as interpretation, aesthetic experience, popular art, and human embodiment – culminating in his proposal of a new discipline called «somaesthetics»).
Małecki, W. P. (Ed.). (2014). Practicing pragmatist aesthetics: Critical perspectives on the arts. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi.
This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine, and various body arts. But it also attempts to provide a wider background for such studies by sketching the history of pragmatist reflection on the aesthetic and by discussing some of the main positions that this history has produced: the aesthetic conceptions of C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman (somaesthetics in particular), and others.
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