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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

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.

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.

Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.

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.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children’s rights.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.