Area Studies
Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France
An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom
Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
Signatures of Struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
Water and Power in Past Societies
Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.
A Turbulent South Africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
A State Is Born
Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.
Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project
An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
Repentance and the Return to God
The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Phrase
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.
Cultural Journeys into the Arab World
A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.
The Afterlife of al-Andalus
The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition
Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.
Adventures in Phenomenology
Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.
Ripping England!
Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Affective Images
Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.
Educational Oases in the Desert
A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.
Lessing and the Enlightenment
A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.
Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Offers the complete body of work of one of the twentieth century's greatest Russian poets for the first time in English.
East German Historians since Reunification
Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.
Beasts of Burden
Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase
First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.