Books published by State University of New York Press

Steven E. Lindquist is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of Religion and Identity in South Asia: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle.

Aimee Armande Wilson is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control.

Brian G. Henning is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment at Gonzaga University. He is the author of many books, including The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos.

Philippe Major is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel. He is the coeditor, with Thierry Meynard, of Dao Companion to Liang Shuming's Philosophy.

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the coauthor (with Angela M. Locks) of Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Students of Color in College, and the author of The Unchosen We: Black Women and Identity in Higher Education, among other books.

Claus Elholm Andersen is Paul and Renate Madsen Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitarō's metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

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