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

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

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

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

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

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

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

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

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.

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

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.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

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.

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

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

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Analyzes the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since 2007, a period of time that has been marked by the parties' continual failure to end political disagreements and formulate a common national vision.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.