Books published by State University of New York Press

This book explores the earliest Confucian texts to find coherent structural principles linking the various facets of Confucian doctrine. Its central theme is that the coherence of early Confucianism emerges only when doctrine is viewed as a function of the unique ritual practice of the early Confucian community.

Traces the US Supreme Court's effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

¿tofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its "founder," John D. Caputo.

Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel's moral and political philosophy.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navar¿tri Festival.

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce's ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.