New Releases
Alton B. Parker
Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.
Frustrated Nationalism
Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.
The Power of Practice
Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin
Theatres of Value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.
Music's Making
A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.
A Lover of God
Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.
A Fanny Fern Reader
The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Metaphor and Meaning
Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.
Sounding Bodies
Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.
Religion of Love
A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.
"Revolution in Poetic Language" Fifty Years Later
Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.
Those Who Act Ruin It
Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.
Leo Strauss and the Recovery of "Natural Philosophizing"
Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.
Education among Indigenous Palestinians in Israel
An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.
Happy Poems and Other Lies
Poems that chronicle an exiled speaker's battle with family-imposed religious dogma, their quest for acceptance, and their journey towards self-discovery through biblical language, surrealism, and absurdism.
Myth and the Making of History
Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.
A Politics of Emancipation
A systematic overview of French Philosopher Miguel Abensour’s groundbreaking work and the two inseparable projects that govern it: a radical critique of all forms of domination and a search for a politics of emancipation.
Crossing Digital Fronteras
Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.
Transatlantic Bondage
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
The Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.
Empire of Culture
Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.
Lifemaking
Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.
The Philosophical Animal
Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.