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Writing Home
Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaiʻi and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.
Perversions of the Market
An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.
Systems from Hell
Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.
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.
Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity
Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.
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.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Sites of Statelessness
Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.
Reimagining Europe
Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.
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.
A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork
Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.
God in Post-Christianity
Argues for a new elemental and sensory experience of God.
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.
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.
The Cinema of the Real
Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.
School-University Partnerships
A research-based, practical guide to the Professional Development Schools (PDS) approach to school-university partnerships
Meeting the Moment
Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.
Novel Pedagogy
Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.
Strange, Surprising, Sure
Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.
Phenomenology and Future Generations
Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.