A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary – even contradictory – statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guard...

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault's highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and dif...

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1977) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, "Ethics", in which he criticized the dualism of Descartes, solidified his reputation and greatly influenced the Enlightenment...

One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths". As Nietzsche observed in his "Will to Power", the currents of relativism that have come to characterize...

2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...

The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism's end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmi...

"Theory and Practice" is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential in...