Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.

An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.

Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.

Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.

Argues for a new elemental and sensory experience of God.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

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

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.

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

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

Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

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

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.

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

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

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.

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