Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.