While Immanuel Kant's account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant's vision...
This book provides a comprehensive and critical account of Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy. Robert J. Dostal shows that at the heart of Gadamer’s enterprise is the thesis that “being that can be understood is language.”
The Possibility of Philosophy presents the notes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty prepared for three courses he taught at the Collège de France. Two of these courses were the last he taught before his unexpected death in 1961.
Edward S. Casey invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from the subjective sources of emotion to what reaches us from outside the domain of the subject.
Kant’s Worldview offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s theory of judgment to clarify how the German philosopher increasingly expands the role of judgment from its logical task to its reflective capacity to evaluate objects and contextualize them in worldly terms.
Drawing on and developing the phenomenological work of figures such as Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, Knowing by Heart details the various feelings and feeling‑states that pertain to matters of the heart.
Lindsey Stewart wades into unease about how Black southern joy is portrayed by analyzing work by Zora Neale Hurston. Stewart theorizes the politics of joy, a refusal of the neo-abolitionism that would reduce southern Black life to tragedy or social death.
A groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Hegel and nineteenth-century philosophy, this book makes the case that the “Anthropology” is essential to understanding Hegel’s philosophy of spirit in its connection with the philosophy of nature.
This book integrates Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy‑starved condition of our contemporaneity.
Contributions by Linda Martin Alcoff, Shiloh Whitney, Lucius T. Outlaw, Mariana Ortega, Michael J. Monahan, Ladelle McWhorter, Lindsey Stewart, Devonya N. Havis, Kim Q. Hall and Arnold Farr
This anthology demonstrates that US Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production.
