Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

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.

Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.

Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").

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.

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

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.

Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.

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.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

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.

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.

This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children’s rights.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

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.