Books published by State University of New York Press

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of N¿r¿, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.