Continental Philosophy
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language
Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.
Whose Antigone?
Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
Other Others
Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Heidegger's Neglect of the Body
Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger’s account of the body.
Being and Time
A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.
Radicalizing Levinas
Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.
Rewriting Difference
A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.
Sense and Finitude
Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.
If Creation Is a Gift
Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille
Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.
Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language
Aims to transform logic into a reflection on the nature of language.
Intertwinings
Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.
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.
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.
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.
Bergson-Deleuze Encounters
Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.
The Signifying Body
Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.
Bearing Witness to Epiphany
Makes the novel argument that erotic life is the real sphere of human freedom.
Imagining Law
Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.
Overcoming Modernity
These last writings by Japanese philosopher Yuasa engage both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity and offer an alternative, more holistic paradigm.
The Grounding of Positive Philosophy
The first English translation of Schelling’s final “existential system.”
Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative
Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.
Adorno
Examines the role of experience within Adorno’s philosophy of language and epistemology.