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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.
Psychoanalysis
Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel
A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.
Invisible Forces
Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.
Plato's Reasons
Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.
Confucian Iconoclasm
Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.
The Chosen We
Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.
Grounding God
Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.
Value, Beauty, and Nature
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.
Political Theology after Metaphysics
Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.
Masculine Pregnancies
Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.
The Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.
The History of the Siege
Prose poems that chronicle the eschatological age in which we live.
Religious Atheism
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
Wonder in South Asia
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
Damned Agitator
The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.
The Republican Hero
Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.
Telling Silence
Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.
The Promise of Friendship
Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.
Writing Early China
Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.
Soundings in Context
Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.
The Algonquin Round Table
The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.