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Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten "realist" tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers' meditations on artistic expression.

An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ¿70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Explores Levinas's approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

Examines why some politicians take the drastic step of becoming a carpetbagger and how that shapes their campaigns and chances for victory.

Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.

A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana's thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

The illustrated nineteenth-century travel diaries of artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitar¿'s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.