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Religious Atheism
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.
Damned Agitator
The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.
The Republican Hero
Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.
Wonder in South Asia
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
Telling Silence
Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
Writing Early China
Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.
The Promise of Friendship
Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.
Soundings in Context
Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.
The Algonquin Round Table
The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.
Ember Days
Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.
Recentering the Self
Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.
Struck by Apollo
Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.
The Politics of Orientation
Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.
Romantic Immanence
Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.
The Ethnography of Tantra
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.
The Human Figure on Film
Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.
Italian Trans Geographies
Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.
Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World
Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.
Phenomenology in an African Context
The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.
Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.
The Jazz Problem
How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.
Walking as Artistic Practice
Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.
African American Coping in the Political Sphere
Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.
Utopian Imaginings
Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.