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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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