Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.

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

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

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy.

A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas’ early critical theory.

Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.

Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.

Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.

Introduces readers to the work of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers.

Examines the role of experience within Adorno’s philosophy of language and epistemology.

Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.

Develops a contextualist view of identity, agency, and discursive practices.

The first volume to critically engage the work of Andrew Feenberg.

Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.

Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.

Sees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought.

Assesses linguistic versus aesthetic visions of critical theory and their capacity to contribute to the analysis of contemporary democratic society.

Transcends the dichotomy between modernism and postmodernism by arguing for an ethically based notion of solidarity tolerant of radical difference.