While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...

In his award-winning book "The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development", J. N. Mohanty charted Husserl's philosophical development from the young man's earliest studies – informed by his work as a mathematician – to the publication of...

"Who Was Jacques Derrida?" is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt to define his crucial importance as the ambassador of "t...

Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state – eventually, t...

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi – widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought – distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy....

The rubric "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida publishe...

Ever since Herodotus declared in "Histories" that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have si...

Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.

Currently fashionable among critics of enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. G. Felicitas Munzel challenges this reading of Kant's thoug...

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...