Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

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

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.

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

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.

A comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and critics.

Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

A postmodern critique of sociology’s presuppositions.

Uses satirical parodies of screenplays and political blogs to reveal the cracks in our post-9/11 American psyche.

Brings the insights of postmodernism to the concerns of criminology and includes examples of how social theory can function in the real-world realm of criminal law. Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.

Examines the way recent artists have incorporated concepts of generosity into their work.

Memoir meets cultural criticism in this examination of American popular culture at the end of the century.

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.

Addresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs.

Confronts the challenge presented to traditional public policy by postmodern thought.

A fascinating account of exemplarity in the context of deconstruction.

Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings.

Explores the hidden political and ethical dimensions of the work of Samuel Beckett, an author who might otherwise be considered indifferent to such considerations.

Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate.

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

Notable scholars explore James Rosenau's postinternational paradigm--an alternative view to traditional international relations.

These "narralogues" combine story and argument, moving from Socratic dialogue to outright narrative, and ultimately making the case that fiction is a medium for telling the truth.

Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.

An assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Holocaust.

Provides an ontological characterization of texts, explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts, and presents a view of the function of authors and audiences, and of their relations to texts.

Presents essays by Jewish thinkers who have found process thought to be a useful framework for contemporary Jewish thought and a set of conversations between Jewish and Christian thinkers on the appropriateness of process thought for Judaism and Christianity.

A provocative ethnography of the lived experiences of infants and toddlers in day care centers.

Hans-Georg Gadamer, the major proponent of philosophical hermeneutics, reveals himself here as a highly sensitive reader and critic of the German literary tradition. This is not the work of a specialist ...

A comprehensive attempt to assess the politics of deconstruction and the deconstruction of modernist politics.

A multifaceted analysis of gender.

This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan's complex relation ...

This book addresses the function and status of the visual and verbal image as it relates to social, political, and ideological issues. The authors first articulate some of the lost connections between ...

This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective ...

Shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art.

The volume begins with a major statement by the French feminist culture critic Julia Kristeva and includes essays by well-known and also younger continental philosophers writing in the North American ...