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Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

Essays by eleven prominent scholars provide the latest insights into the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley and its environs.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.

Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.

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

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe's leading philosophers.

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

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801-02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

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.

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.

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.