Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.

Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo’s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.