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

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

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.

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

Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

A systematic overview of French Philosopher Miguel Abensour's groundbreaking work and the two inseparable projects that govern it: a radical critique of all forms of domination and a search for a politics of emancipation.

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

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

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

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

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Ved¿nta.

A history of the world's mystical traditions.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.