The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers.

Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.