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.

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.

An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.

An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.

The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.

Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.

A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.

The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.

A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.

Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.

A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.

A love story told against the backdrop of “the writing life. ”

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Discusses the work of a central, but poorly understood, figure in the development of Persian Sufism, Aḥmad al-Ghazālī.

The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.

First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

An abbot’s ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.

In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.

The first novel to fully explore evolutionary psychology, Trine Erotic explores what it means to love and write in a memetic, Darwinian world.

Reexamines the writings of early indigenous authors in the northeastern United States.

Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

A visionary journey into the crucible in which America was born, a tale of love and war and of a master shaman who folds time to seek the key to the survival of his people.