Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

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

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

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

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.

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

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

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 Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

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

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

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.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

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.

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

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

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