A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions.

Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Examines Hegel's insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience.

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling.

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.

Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

Argues that we move beyond philosophy that is simply “comparative” and uses John Dewey’s late period reflections as the basis for an alternative.

A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana’s thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.

Assesses John Dewey’s visit to China in 1919–21 as an “intra-cultural” episode and promotes “Chinese natural philosophy” as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey’s philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Proposes an “intra-cultural philosophy” based on John Dewey’s “cultural turn” and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Explores the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory.

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe’s leading philosophers.

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel’s moral and political philosophy.

An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

An unprecedented reading of Hegel’s Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno’s writings on art and literature.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.

Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.

An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

Schelling's 1806 polemic against Fichte, and his last major work on the philosophy of nature.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.

Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy’s mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.

Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle’s work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.

Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.

The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.

The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.

Examines Steven Holl’s intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

Advances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.

Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.

Analyzes Derrida’s 1975 seminar “La vie la mort” as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.

Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.

Argues that Hegel’s conception of God and the self holds the key to overcoming subjectivism in both philosophy of religion and metaphysics.

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.

Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.

A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.

Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Explores miracles as dimensions of everyday existence through the lens of religious naturalism.

A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.

Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.

Presentation of C. I. Lewis's final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.

Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.

An original metaphysical proposal building on classical and contemporary sources.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.

Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.