Challenges Beauvoir's self-portrait and argues that she was a philosopher in her own right.

Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis based on noti

Navigating Everyday Life explores the special moments, big and small, that rupture the surface of everyday life and that can help readers adjust to the disrupti

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? Many people believe that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awake

The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Budd