Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

A straightforward, accessible introduction to core theories in normative ethics from Western and non-Western philosophy suitable for the classroom.

Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.