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All the World Is Awry
(August 2020)
Al-Ma‛arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited
R. Kevin Lacey - Author
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Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.
Free-thinking poet, grammarian, social critic, and satirist, Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) remains one of the more celebrated and intriguing personalities in the his...(Read More) |
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Thinking Faith after Christianity
(June 2020)
A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka's Phenomenological Philosophy
Martin Koci - Author
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Examines theological motifs in the work of Jan Patočka, drawing out their implications for contemporary theology and philosophy of religion.
This book examines the work of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka from the largely neglected perspective of religion. Patočka is known primarily for his work in phenomenology and ancient Greek philosophy, and also as a civil rights activist and critic of modernity. In this book,...(Read More) |
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The World after the End of the World
(March 2020)
A Spectro-Poetics
Kas Saghafi - Author
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Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.
In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of “the end the world” in Derrida’s late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida’s work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, t...(Read More) |
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Merleau-Ponty and Nishida
(December 2019)
Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith
Adam Loughnane - Author
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Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.
In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a fascinating new dialogue between two of the twentieth century’s most important phenomenologists of the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. Throughout the book, ...(Read More) |
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The Lily's Tongue
(October 2019)
Figure and Authority in Kierkegaard's Lily Discourses
Frances Maughan-Brown - Author
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Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.
How do texts speak with authority? That is the question at the heart of Kierkegaard’s theory and practice of “indirect communication.” None of Kierkegaard’s texts respond to this question more concisely and powerfully than the four discourses he...(Read More) |
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The Ages of the World (1811)
(April 2019)
F. W. J. Schelling - Author
Joseph P. Lawrence - Translated and with an introduction by
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The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling.
In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which Heidegger, Jaspers, Voegelin...(Read More) |
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The Manifest and the Revealed
(December 2018)
A Phenomenology of Kenosis
Adam Y. Wells - Author
Kevin Hart - Foreword by
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Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.
What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a “scientific” way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the “kenōsis hymn”...(Read More) |
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Remnants of Hegel
(November 2018)
Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community
Félix Duque - Author
Nicholas Walker - Translator
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An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel’s thought.
In the preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations “always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language.” In spite of Hegel’s ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend...(Read More) |
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