Philosophy
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.
Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki
Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.
Speaking Face to Face
The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Philosophy-Screens
Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire
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.
The Cudgel and the Caress
Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.
The Little Crystalline Seed
Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.
Pragmatism Applied
Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.
Legacies of the Sublime
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.
John Marshall's Constitutionalism
A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.
Psychoanalysis and Repetition
Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
John Dewey and Daoist Thought
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.
John Dewey and Confucian Thought
Assesses John Dewey’s visit to China in 1919–21 as an “intra-cultural” episode and promotes “Chinese natural philosophy” as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey’s philosophy and early Confucian thinking.
Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei
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.
The Real Metaphysical Club
A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.
Logoi and Muthoi
Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.
Tuitions and Intuitions
Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.
Dancing with Sophia
Explores the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory.
With a Diamond in My Shoe
The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.
The Significance of Neoplatonism
Explores the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.
Thinking the Inexhaustible
Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
The Hand of the Engraver
A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.
Another white Man's Burden
Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.
Hegel and Right
An especially accessible introduction to Hegel’s moral and political philosophy.
Gender and the Abjection of Blackness
An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.