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Topography and Deep Structure in Plato
(December 2016)
The Construction of Place in the Dialogues
Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran - Author
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A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato’s dialogues.
In this book, Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran examines the use of place in Plato’s dialogues. Corcoran argues that spatial representations, such as walls, caves, and roads, as well as the creation of eternal patterns and chaotic images in the particular spaces, times, characterizations...(Read More) |
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Zhuangzi's Critique of the Confucians
(December 2016)
Blinded by the Human
Kim-chong Chong - Author
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Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzi’s critique of Confucianism.
The Daoist Zhuangzi has often been read as a mystical philosopher. But there is another tradition, beginning with the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, which sees him as a critic of the Confucians. Kim-chong Chong analyzes the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi, demonstrating how Zhuangzi criticized the pre-Qin Confucians through metaphorical inversion an...(Read More) |
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Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
(November 2016)
The Thought and Legacy of Hugh J. Silverman
Donald A. Landes - Editor
Leonard Lawlor - Editor
Peter Gratton - Editor
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Engages the work and career of a central figure in contemporary philosophy.
Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Silverman&rsq...(Read More) |
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German Idealism's Trinitarian Legacy
(November 2016)
Dale M. Schlitt - Author
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A study of the roots and legacy of German Idealist philosophy for trinitarian theology.
Dale M. Schlitt presents a study of trinitarian thought as it was understood and debated by the German Idealists broadly—engaging Schelling’s philosophical interpretations of Trinity as well as Hegel’s—and analyzing how these Idealist interpretations influenced later philosophers and theologians. Divided into different...(Read More) |
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Poetic Fragments
(November 2016)
Karoline von Günderrode - Author
Anna C. Ezekiel - Translated and with introductory essays by
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Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806).
The second collection of writings by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Poetic Fragments was published in 1805 under the pseudonym “Tian.” Günderrode’s work is an unmined...(Read More) |
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The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many
(November 2016)
Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions, and Genders
Robert Cummings Neville - Author
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Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.
Building on his long-standing work in metaphysics and Asian philosophy, Robert Cummings Neville presents a series of essays that cumulatively articulate a contemporary, progressive Confucian position as a global philosophy. Through analysis of the metaphysical and moral traditions of Confucianism, Neville brings these traditions into the twenty-first century. A...(Read More) |
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Containing Community
(October 2016)
From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
Greg Bird - Author
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2017 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
Analyzes the role of community in the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Community has been both celebrated and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning community as an anti...(Read More) |
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Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World
(October 2016)
Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology
Glen A. Mazis - Author
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Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.
Before his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he saw as humanity’s increasingly self-enclosed and manipulative way of experiencing self, others, and the world—the co...(Read More) |
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The Heir and the Sage, Revised and Expanded Edition
(October 2016)
Dynastic Legend in Early China
Sarah Allan - Author
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A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the accounts of change of rule in Chinese texts from 600 to 100 BC, including the core philosophical works of the Chinese tradition attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Hanfeizi, and Zhuangzi. Drawing from the early structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sarah...(Read More) |
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Virtue in Being
(October 2016)
Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned
Andrew Benjamin - Author
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A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.
In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he terms anoriginal relationality, demonstrating how this concept can be seen to be at work throughout the history of philosophy. In Virtue in Being, he builds on that project to argue for a new wa...(Read More) |
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