Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy.

Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

Argues that Hegel’s conception of God and the self holds the key to overcoming subjectivism in both philosophy of religion and metaphysics.

Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.

Advances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty.

Analyzes Derrida’s 1975 seminar “La vie la mort” as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.

A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.

Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.

This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.

Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.