Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.

Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.

Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.

Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

A systematic overview of French Philosopher Miguel Abensour’s groundbreaking work and the two inseparable projects that govern it: a radical critique of all forms of domination and a search for a politics of emancipation.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.

Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.