Publications
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The Border Between Seeing and Thinking
(2023)
This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas cognition does not have these ...
Acoustics of Empire
(2024)
Acoustics of Empire articulates what we might call a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Increasingly, music and sound studies have turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial ...
Widows Under Hindu Law
(2023)
This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law or Dharmaśāstra, as it is called in Sanskrit. As such, this book is intended both to contribute to our ...
Social Democratic America
(2014)
America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many Americans struggle to make ends meet? Why is it so difficult for those who start at the bottom to reach the middle class? And why, if a rising economic ...
Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self
(2023)
This monograph is about the metaphor of reflection in a mirror, frequently used in Indian philosophical traditions to address metaphysical, epistemological, and theological problems arising from a non-reductionist approach ...
Polarization and Deep Contestations
(2024)
This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives. The US is today confronted with a crisis of democracy because of a profound ideological and ...
Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
(2022)
This book examines the degree to which restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response than that currently offered by criminal legal approaches alone, to victims, offenders, and their communities in ...
Artful Dodgers
(2009)
This book proposes a fundamental reconception of the 19th-century attitude toward the child. The Romantic ideology of innocence spread more slowly than we think, it contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed ...
Governance of Automated Decision making and EU law
(2024)
The edited volume presents a multifaceted exploration of the intersection between technological innovation and democratic governance in Europe. It rigorously examines the profound impact of information technologies on ...
International Organization as Technocratic Utopia
(2021)
As climate change and a pandemic pose enormous challenges to humankind, the concept of expert governance gains new traction. This book revisits the idea that scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers, rather than politicians ...