A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel.

Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.

Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.

Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.

Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.

Examines the liberating power of speech and its influence on generations of Italian American writers.

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.

Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.

A tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.

A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Looks at the connections between Thoreau’s Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.