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

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.

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.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.

Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.

Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.