Understanding the devastation of the Syrian war through the Islamic tradition.

Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.

Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent—a lost leader, a remote love, a protégé not yet born—and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next.

This work attempts to unify material on religion from various fields into one coherent framework, showing that it has evolved just like any other cultural entity. Religion is presented as a complex phenomenon, a complexity arising not from the environment but from the inner structure of the soul.

This book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry.

In this volume writers such as Saul Bellow, Walker Percy, Katherine Ann Porter and Robert Penn Warren pay tribute to the novelist Flannery O'Connor.