An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France's preeminent historians of philosophy.

An account of Hegel's political insights and their contemporary relevance.

An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications.

Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.

Proposes a post-Straussian reading of Plato to advance a reconciliation of ancient and modern theories of natural right.

Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.

An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.

Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.

Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.

Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.