A new, highly accessible commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

The first English translation of Fichte’s second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.

Explores how humans can take the lives of animals and plants while maintaining a proper respect both for ecosystems and for those who live in them.

A new reading of Daoism, arguing that it originated in a particular textual tradition distinct from Confucianism and other philosophical traditions of early China.

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

This second edition of the author's classic study of Kant's First Critique includes a new preface and extensive afterword.

Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

Brings the insights of postmodernism to the concerns of criminology and includes examples of how social theory can function in the real-world realm of criminal law. Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.

Explores themes of dispossession, shattering, and fragmentation that arise in contemporary writings from the point of view of the selves whose subjectivities and practices are said to be fragmented, shattered, and dispossessed.

A futuristic examination of metaphysical systems, responsibility, understanding, conceit, continuums, and history’s vector.

Analyzes major Muslim philosophers.

Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.

The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing biological anthropologists today.

A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature.

Demonstrates how archaic Platonism has a profound significance for contemporary thought.

Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

A critical exploration of the thought of radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer, including a response from Altizer and a comprehensive bibliography of his work.

Explores the work of Bernard Lonergan in light of contemporary continental thought.

Reads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy.

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.

Argues for American national narratives in Christian theology that respect the separation of church and state and a diverse, multifaith society.