Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a South Korean whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North during the Korean War. Many years later,... Læs mere
Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Drawing attention to... Læs mere
The transcript of Alain Badiou’s year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this book offers a forceful reading of an enigmatic yet foundational thinker and... Læs mere
A large body of research has established a relationship between experiences of racial... Læs mere
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander Radishchev’s... Læs mere
Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.
The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova... Læs mere
In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep... Læs mere
Revisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.
Learning to Kneel locates noh drama’s influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston’s work has been... Læs mere
Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and... Læs mere
Contemporary political theorists from Europe and North America open an overdue debate on the ties between politics and utopianism.