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Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

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.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.

Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention.

Seminal essays on environmental philosophy from Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought.

Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

First translation into English of Fichte's major work on the French Revolution.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions.

Traces the development of bal tash¿it, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.