Philosophy
Reading Kant's Geography
Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.
Worth Doing
A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.
Objectivity
Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.
Elemental Philosophy
Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.
Between Nihilism and Politics
Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
Confucianism in Context
A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.
Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry
Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.
Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy
Detailed study of how Anaximander’s cosmological and philosophical conceptions were affected by architectural technologies.
The Politics of Spirit
A critical look at the development of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion, revealing its evaluative and metaphysical concepts.
Whose Antigone?
Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
The Examined Life--Chinese Perspectives
A collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics.
Plants as Persons
Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.
Ibn al-ʿArabī's Barzakh
Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh), which the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-'Arabi used to address the philosophical controversy regarding God's relationship with the world.
The Promise of Democracy
Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.
Guilty
A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III
A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of dualism.
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II
A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I
A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.
Methodologies of Comparative Philosophy
A much-needed consideration of methodology in comparative philosophy.
The Medusa Effect
Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.
Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel's Philosophy
Investigates the role of family in Hegel’s phenomenology.
Heidegger's Neglect of the Body
Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger’s account of the body.
Realism in Religion
A philosophical consideration of key religious issues from a pragmatist’s perspective.
Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy
Leading scholars engage the later contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking
A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.