Bøger udgivet af State University of New York Press

An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

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

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.

Explores the S¿¿khya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Purüa) and manifest realities (Prak¿ti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

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

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

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

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

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of N¿r¿, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

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.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

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

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.

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.

Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.

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.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.