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Religion
A Partial Enlightenment
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection Avram Alpert
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Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0231-20003-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20002-8 2021 264 pages A Cultural History of the Soul
Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present Kocku von Stuckrad
This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20037-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3 December 2021 368 pages
Touch
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19953-7 $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19952-0 2021 216 pages 20 illus.
NO LIMITS
Contingency and the Limits of History
How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning Liane Carlson
Liane Carlson returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world.
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19052-7 2019 304 pages
Philosophy's Big Questions
Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches Edited by Steven M. Emmanuel
The essays in this book turn to the major figures and texts of the Buddhist tradition in order to expand and enrich our thinking on enduring philosophical questions. Featuring striking and generative comparisons, Philosophy’s Big Questions offers readers new conceptual tools, methods, and insights for the pursuit of a good and happy life.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17487-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17486-2 2021 336 pages Making Peace with the Universe
Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing Michael Scott Alexander
In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19859-2 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19858-5 2020 288 pages
Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith
Essays Matthew Feldman
Edited by Archie Henderson
This wide-ranging collection of essays examines modern intellectuals and ideologues. Matthew Feldman calls attention to the substantial role played in post–Great War Europe and the United States by religions—both familiar monotheisms like Christianity and secular “political faiths”—over the last century of upheaval.
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-0986-9 2020 430 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
The Limits of Tolerance
Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism Denis Lacorne
Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. He defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18714-5 2019 296 pages
