A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.

First English translation of Paola Masino’s Nascita e morte della massaia, her most controversial novel that provoked Fascist censorship for its critical portrayal of marriage and motherhood.

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.

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.

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.

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

A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Introduces Paramānand, one of India’s poet-saints, his work, and this work’s use in ritual.

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.

First English translation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1909 doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche.

Explores the unique and volatile relationship of these two nations and cultures over the past two centuries, as expressed in literature, film, and philosophy.

A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.

Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.

Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

Extends the boundaries of Romantic culture from its pre-Kantian past to contemporary theory and beyond.

Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy.