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

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

A systematic overview of French Philosopher Miguel Abensour’s groundbreaking work and the two inseparable projects that govern it: a radical critique of all forms of domination and a search for a politics of emancipation.

Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

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