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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.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

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

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

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.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

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

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Against the idea of social contract theories that suggest humans invented the political, Gerard Kuperus argues that we have always been political and that our species came into existence in a world that was already political. By studying the rich social and political lives of other animals, Ecopolitics provides suggestions for how to think and feel differently about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and the places and beings around us. Kuperus suggests we understand ourselves as part of an ecopolitical community consisting of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects. By recognizing nature itself as utterly political and seeing ourselves as a part of this larger political unity, we can come to face the real challenges of our times. This means that we are not simply putting ourselves in nature as we are. We are also changing who we are.

Helps students achieve their academic and career goals by clarifying the behaviors that they alone are responsible for, explaining why they are important, how they are assessed, and how they can lead to success.

Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

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

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

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

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

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

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

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.