Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, urged Christians to save their souls with Jewish mysticism—Kabbalah—offering to debate anyone in... Læs mere
Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema... Læs mere
Andrea Navagero (1483–1529), among the principal poets of Venice, pioneered the Renaissance pastoral epigram genre. Marcantonio Flaminio (1498–1550), though now better known for... Læs mere
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six... Læs mere
In Lost Tongues of the Red River, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red... Læs mere
Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmediality of Chinese... Læs mere
Ten Indian Classics showcases translations from a vast array of India’s literary traditions, Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu, with a foreword by... Læs mere
Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism—comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels—has been consistently misread. These... Læs mere
Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate... Læs mere
Esteemed scholar, poet, and critic Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse for and by queer Americans. Interpreted by Burt, the poems of Frank... Læs mere
Dreaming Reality looks to mystical traditions to challenge orthodoxies of brain science that model consciousness... Læs mere
It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one’s rights violated. Nicolas Cornell rejects this view. Drawing on diverse real-world... Læs mere