Search results for ""
Freedom Is Not Enough
Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.
The Life of the Soul
Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.
Reimagining Europe
Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.
The Cinema of the Real
Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.
Eccentric Laughter
Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Meeting the Moment
Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.
School-University Partnerships
A research-based, practical guide to the Professional Development Schools (PDS) approach to school-university partnerships
A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork
Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.
Cohabiting Earth
Promotes a path of harmony between humanity and Earth by presenting a vision that is comprehensive in scope and offering a positive new identity for humanity.
God in Post-Christianity
Argues for a new elemental and sensory experience of God.
Sites of Statelessness
Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.
Emporialism
A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.
Translating Global Ideas
Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.
Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition
Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.
Progressive New York
The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,
Narrative Devices in the Shiji
Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.
Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation
Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.
Freedom's Frailty
Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.
Black Women and Resilience
A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.
Nietzsche and Politicized Identities
Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.
A History of Mysticism
A history of the world’s mystical traditions.
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication
Is Harpo Free?
Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.