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Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Argues that mediation is a central theme in this Platonic dialogue dedicated to the exploration of what it means to live a good life.

Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.

Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of M¿ra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

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

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

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.

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

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

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.

Argues that Socrates' fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

Uses Israel's public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000-2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.

Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.