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The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

Grounding God

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Value, Beauty, and Nature

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Political Theology after Metaphysics

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Religious Atheism

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

The Republican Hero

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Telling Silence

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

The Promise of Friendship

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Recentering the Self

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

The Politics of Orientation

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

Struck by Apollo

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Romantic Immanence

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Phenomenology in an African Context

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

The Human Figure on Film

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Inrushes of the Heart

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Global Rhetorics of Science

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

The Emergence of Value

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Critical Theory from the Margins

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Critiques of Theology

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Thresholds, Encounters

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies

By Jim Kanaris
Subjects: Philosophy

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.