Books published by State University of New York Press

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.

Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.

"Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition"--

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe's leading philosophers.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801-02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.

Explores the S¿¿khya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Purüa) and manifest realities (Prak¿ti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.