A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.