Philosophy
The Barbarian Principle
Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.
Listening to Ourselves
Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.
In the Spirit of Critique
Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy.
Emplotting Virtue
A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.
Good White People
Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.
Wonder and Generosity
A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.
Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice
A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy
A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.
Issues in Military Ethics
Reflections on, and analysis of, ethical issues facing military service in the United States.
Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
The first English-language collection devoted to Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit.
Hegel on Religion and Politics
Critical essays on Hegel's views concerning the relationship between religion and politics.
On the Ethics of Torture
A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.
Ecology Is Permanent Economy
Explores the nonviolent philosophy and environmental activism of India’s Sunderlal Bahuguna.
Being, Time, Bios
A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief
Uses the thought of John Dewey to address the ethics of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions.
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor
A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work.
Ontological Humility
Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.
The Thou of Nature
Explores the spiritual obligations of humans to animals from a religious naturalist’s perspective.
The Orders of Nature
A systematic theory of naturalism, bridging metaphysics and the science of complexity and emergence.
Weak Thought
Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.
Valuing Diversity
Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.
Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler
Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.
Essential Difference
Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.
The Other Plato
Collected writings on Plato’s unwritten teachings.
The Suspension of Seriousness
First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work.