Fall 2023 - Religion and Spirituality
Political Theology after Metaphysics
Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.
Value, Beauty, and Nature
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.
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.
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.
Telling Silence
Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.
Wonder in South Asia
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
Religious Atheism
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.
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.
The Ethnography of Tantra
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.
Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World
Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.
Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies
Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.
Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
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.
Beyond the Secular
Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.
Inrushes of the Heart
A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.
The Annotated Laozi
A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.
Evolutionary Emergence of Purposive Goals and Values
Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and
experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.
Effacing the Self
Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.
Order, Crisis, and Redemption
A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.
Feminist Spiritualities
Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.
The Craft of Oblivion
Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.
From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life
Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.