Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

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.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our
toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and
experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

A fresh and rigorous interpretation of William James's ethical theory, showing how experimenting with life's opportunities can transform one's self and life.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy.

Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

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.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

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

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

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

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

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.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem - a complex aporia that underlines the topic of the handwritten as a sign of legal identification.

Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.

Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

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.

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

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

An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.

Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.

Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.

Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.