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

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitarō's metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.