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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase
(January 2017)
Infancy, Survival
Christopher Fynsk - Author
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First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe’s Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.
This book presents an interpretation of a volume of poetry and theoretical reflections (Phrase) by the late Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, who is widely known as one of the major contributors to thinking about the relation between philosophy and literature in...(Read More) |
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Plato's Statesman
(January 2017)
Dialectic, Myth, and Politics
John Sallis - Editor
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Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.
The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato’s dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. T...(Read More) |
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The Debt of the Living
(January 2017)
Ascesis and Capitalism
Elettra Stimilli - Author
Arianna Bove - Translator
Roberto Esposito - Foreword by
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Analyzes theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.
Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, al...(Read More) |
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Whitehead's Religious Thought
(January 2017)
From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion
Daniel A. Dombrowski - Author
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Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.
This original interpretation of the religious thought of Alfred North Whitehead highlights Whitehead’s moves from mechanism to organism, and from force to persuasion to offer a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism. Daniel A. Dombrowski argues that the move from force t...(Read More) |
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Philosophy, History, and Tyranny
(December 2016)
Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve
Timothy W. Burns - Editor
Bryan-Paul Frost - Editor
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The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.
On Tyranny remains a perennial favorite, possessing a timelessness that few philosophical or scholarly debates have ever achieved. On one hand, On Tyranny is the first book-length work in Leo Strauss’s extended study of Xenophon, and his “Re...(Read More) |
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Journal of Buddhist Philosophy - Annual
(December 2016)
Gereon Kopf - Editor in Chief
Douglas Samuel Duckworth - Co-Editor
Marcus Bingenheimer - Consulting Editor
Pascale Hugon - Book Review editor
Tao Jiang - Book Review editor
Francesca Soans - Assistant editor
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A peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the academic discussion of Buddhist philosophy.
The Journal of Buddhist Philosophy provides a forum for the academic discussion of Buddhist philosophy, which emerges as an independent discipline. Articles engage with buddhology, comparative philosophy, and Buddhist critical reflection, while discussions of concepts and arguments are highlighted. The Journal of Buddhist Philosop...(Read More) |
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Leo Strauss on Science
(December 2016)
Thoughts on the Relation between Natural Science and Political Philosophy
Svetozar Y. Minkov - Author
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The first study of Strauss’s confrontation with modern science and its methods.
Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, Leo Strauss on Science brings to light the thoughts of Leo Strauss on the problem of science. Introducing us to Strauss’s reflections on the meaning and perplexities of the scientific adventure, Svetozar Y. Minkov explores questions such as: Is there...(Read More) |
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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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