Books published by State University of New York Press

Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.

Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.

A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers-including the author-support and advocate for their autistic sons.

Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

Explores how China's oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text-the Mao Commentary-in the mid-second century BCE.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

This book focuses on the Iberian Jews and conversos, Jews who converted to Christianity. It explores the idea of the "other" in both Jewish and Christian traditions, the differences between the perspectives of the "persecuted" and "persecutors," and the vision of modernity among some of the Iberian Jews of the period. Special attention is devoted to da Costa and Spinoza, offering a new perspective on the Jewish history of ideas.