Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

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.

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.

Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

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.

An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.

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.

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.

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

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.