A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.