Critical Theory
Reimagining Europe
Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.
Listening to Others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.
Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.
Critical Theory from the Margins
Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.
Critiques of Theology
Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.
Returning to Judgment
Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.
Unworkable
Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.
The Split Time
Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.
Literature and Skepticism
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.
The Dialectics of Global Justice
Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.
Before Identity
Aims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.
Hu Feng
A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.
The Voice of Misery
A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education
A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.
Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
Boundary Lines
Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.
Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature
Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.
The Little Crystalline Seed
Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.
Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely
An unprecedented reading of Hegel’s Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.
The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.
The Split God
Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.
For Foucault
Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy.
The Politics of Unreason
The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.
Confrontational Citizenship
Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.
Imagining Modern Democracy
Examines democracy in the Philippines using the political thought of Jürgen Habermas.