Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.

Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo’s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.