Books published by State University of New York Press

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition's most original and profound authors.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Ved¿nta.

A history of the world's mystical traditions.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean--the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West--a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates-as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs-in early Chinese thought and material culture.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.

Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.