Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes

Matthew H. Bowker (M.H. Bowker), Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar in critical and creative thinking, psychoanalysis, and political theory, with over twenty years of experience in teaching philosophy, politics, and psychology at the university level. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he currently works at SUNY, the University at Buffalo, where he is affiliated with both the Department of Psychology and the Program in Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. He is the author of more than twenty published or forthcoming books as well as dozens of scholarly articles and chapters spanning diverse genres. He founded and co-edits Routledge’s book series, Psychoanalytic Political Theory, is the (North American) editor of the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, serves as Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and sits on several prominent editorial boards. He recently served as a Fulbright (Teaching) Specialist in Singapore and has hosted workshops on critical and creative thinking, group dynamics, and reflective learning. He has been interviewed frequently on NPR/WBFO and in popular publications such as The Atlantic, Elle Magazine, and elsewhere. Some of his recent and forthcoming titles include: Walls; Oblation: Essays, Parables, and Paradoxes; Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal (with Amy Buzby, eds.); The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics (with David Levine); and Critical Thinking and The Subject of Inquiry: Capacities, Resilience, and Power.