Formal Shamanic Conduct: Zonal Installations in Supernatural Space stages an indisciplinary practice via non-standard deployment of set-theoretic and anthropologic artefacts as they are brought to bear upon two propositions: that “The human is an animal,” and that “The animal is a human.”

To convey ideas through the medium of images has always been the aim of those who are artists as well as thinkers in art history, and it is to a desire to give a sensuous environment to intellectual concepts that we owe Haladyn’s volume. This is a book that pictures 40 portraits of art and art historians.

In the enlivening tradition of the dramaturgy to “adapt a story to actable form,” Non Buddhist Mysticism presents a radical reorientation to “spiritual” practice.

In Kant in Hong Kong travel, philosophy, and the city weave through one another. The book brings Immanuel Kant – famous for the regularity of his walks in his hometown of Königsberg – into the swarming streets of the hypermodern city and carries everyday urban experience into the labyrinthine texts of Kant’s critical idealism.

Cruel Theory | Sublime Practice consists of three parts. Each part addresses both theoretical and practical dimensions of Buddhism. Topics include the formation of an autonomous subject in the face of Buddhism’s concealment of its ideological force.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine.

Reflections on philosophy, eros, and contemporary tragic drama.

Pulverizing Portraits provides the first book-length study of contemporary American poet Lynn Emanuel.