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

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

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

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

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 that symbolism is an important and unique element of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.

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

Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling.

Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

Proposes an “intra-cultural philosophy” based on John Dewey’s “cultural turn” and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Argues that we move beyond philosophy that is simply “comparative” and uses John Dewey’s late period reflections as the basis for an alternative.