Philosophy
The Death of Empedocles
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant's Aesthetics
A study of the first half of Kant’s Critique of Judgment.
Otherwise Occupied
Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.
Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey
Leading scholars challenge and reinvigorate the pragmatic method of John Dewey.
Religious Naturalism Today
Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.
Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa
Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and toward the hated, leaving the causes of hate unaddressed.
French Interpretations of Heidegger
A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.
Schelling's Dialogical Freedom Essay
Explores Schelling’s Essay on Human Freedom, focusing on the themes of freedom, evil, and love, and the relationship between his ideas and those of Plato and Kant.
Expanding Process
Brings Chinese Daoist and Confucian thought into conversation with Western process, pragmatic, and naturalist philosophy and theology.
Before the Voice of Reason
Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.
Montesquieu and His Legacy
Essays on Montesquieu and the influence of his thought from the eighteenth century to today.
Ritual and Deference
Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.
Onto-Ethologies
Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.
Jacques Derrida's Ghost
A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.
Herman Melville and the American Calling
Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”
Bergson-Deleuze Encounters
Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.
Living with Ambiguity
How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.
The Trinity and Creation in Augustine
Looks at Augustine’s theology in light of environmental concerns.
Postphenomenology and Technoscience
Maps the future of phenomenological thought, accounting for how technology expands our means of experiencing the world.
Three Documentary Filmmakers
Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race
Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
Images of Thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.
The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher
Collected essays present Weston’s pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis.
The Signifying Body
Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.
Physics and Whitehead
Leading scholars explore the connections between quantum physics and process philosophy.