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Phenomenology and Future Generations
Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.
Woodstock
The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.
Cold War Genres
Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.
Novel Pedagogy
Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.
On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human
Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.
Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile
Examines Kṛṣṇa’s hint of laughter (prahasann iva) in the Bhagavadgītā, its interpretations in the Vedānta commentarial tradition, and its significance in Kṛṣṇaite iconography and literature.
Religion and Women in India
Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.
Childhood, Philosophy, and Dialogical Education
Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.
Common Scents
Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.
Strange, Surprising, Sure
Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.
Leo Strauss on Religion
Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.
Living Chinese Philosophy
Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").
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.
Killing Children in British Fiction
Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.
Ruling Devotion
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.
Buffalo's Waterfront Renaissance
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.
One (Un)Like the Other
Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.
Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo
Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.
Black Feminist Writing
Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.
Heidegger and Classical Thought
Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.
Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education, Second Edition
Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Heidegger's Conversations
Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.
State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China
Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.
Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.