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.

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.

Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.

Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.

A new theology of ultimate realities and a new theory of religion to back it up addressed to believers, unbelievers, and scholars of all traditions.

Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present.

Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction.

Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

A penetrating and freewheeling evaluation of Kant's magnum opus.

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.

Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.

Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.

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