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A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

¿tofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its "founder," John D. Caputo.

Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enry¿, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel's moral and political philosophy.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navar¿tri Festival.

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce's ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.

Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.

The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible hermeneutics. The Eternal Food focuses on reflexive cultural expressions and personal experiences that food elicits in the region. Concerned with food as an "essence" and as an essential experience, the authors give special attention to Hindu saints for whom food, firmly grounded in moral ideals and practice, represents a cosmic divine principle at one level, and a most immediate and intimate material reality at another.In the cultural diversity of India, the authors work with several conceptual models and meanings of food. They demonstrate how it reflects common social understandings about social caste, the cure and prevention of ailments, its ability to alter moods and motivations, or affect innate personal dispositions, personal spiritual pursuits and attainments. In its sweep and depth, food presents a powerful cultural lens for seeing how practical, ritual, and spiritual spheres of life conjoin.

Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species--both as natural and cultural creatures--were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.