Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

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

An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

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.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.