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.

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

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.

The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.

Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzi's critique of Confucianism.

A study of the roots and legacy of German Idealist philosophy for trinitarian theology.

Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.

Brings Kafka’s fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.

A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers.

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.

Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization.

Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.

Engages the work and career of the philosopher Hugh J. Silverman.

Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806).

A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato’s dialogues.

Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.

The first study of Strauss’s confrontation with modern science and its methods.

Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.

A reading of the death of Socrates as a self-sacrifice, with implications for ideas about suffering, wisdom, and the soul’s relationship to the body.

Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer.

A creative study of Maurice Blanchot’s theory of literary voice.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

A contemporary philosophy of religion that offers a phenomenology of love.

A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism.

Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy.

Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience.

Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.

A translation and discussion of the central Confucian text on education, Xueji (On Teaching and Learning), influential in China from the Han dynasty to the present day.

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.

Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Reconsiders the contemporary relevance of Schelling’s radical philosophical and religious ecology.

First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

A constructive critique of neuropsychological research on human consciousness and religious experience that applies the thought of Bernard Lonergan.

Highlights and critically assesses the work of contemporary Italian political philosophers.

Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.

A profound meditation on Leopardi’s art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negri’s own philosophical and political project of liberation.

Historical and contemporary philosophical writings on punishment.

A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.

Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.

Lectures on ecstatic temporality and on Heidegger’s political legacy.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy.

Examines Hegel’s unique understanding and assessment of capitalism as an economic, social, and cultural phenomenon.

Demonstrates how the ethical underpinning of Hegel’s political and social philosophy has relevance for contemporary democratic life.

A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.

Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.

Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.

Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.

Lectures from the late period of Fichte’s career, never before available in English.

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.

The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.

A fresh reading of Oakeshott’s contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.

Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.

Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

A critical examination of the relationship between the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, focusing on the central issue of time.

An original philosophical account of relational ontology drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger.

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience.

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

Analysis of Dewey's pre-1916 work on logic and its relationship to his better-known 1938 book on the topic.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world.

The second volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book explores the realities of human existence articulated by religion.

Discusses the role of symbols in religion and suggests particular symbols appropriate to religious naturalism.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche.

Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.

A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.

A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.

Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.

Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.

Retraces the history of postmodern philosophy and proposes solutions to overcome its impasses.

Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Analysis of Plato’s influence on the political thinking of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte.

A philosophical perspective on the relation between Paul Klee’s art and his thought.

An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France's preeminent historians of philosophy.

An account of Hegel's political insights and their contemporary relevance.

An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications.

Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.

Proposes a post-Straussian reading of Plato to advance a reconciliation of ancient and modern theories of natural right.

An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.

Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.