Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

A broad exploration of Irigaray’s philosophy of life and living.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.

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

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.

Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology.

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Argues that mediation is a central theme in this Platonic dialogue dedicated to the exploration of what it means to live a good life.

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.