
Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical
Bloomsbury, 2024

Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times
Bloomsbury, 2023

Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis
Punctum Books, 2023

Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek Tragedy
Bloomsbury, 2022

Representations,158: Proximities: Reading with Judith Butler
University of California Press, 2022

Homer: The Very Idea
The University of Chicago Press, 2021


Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
OSU Press, 2020


Postclassicisms
University of Chicago Press, 2019

Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Rutgers, 2018

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy
Bloomsbury, 2018

Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited
Stanford University Press, 2018

A Final Story: Science, Myth and Beginnings
University of Chicago Press, 2017

Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
University of Chicago Press, 2017

The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
Cambridge University Press, 2017


Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject
Fordham University Press, 2016

What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
Duke University Press, 2016

Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
Fordham University Press, 2016

Une Vie dans le Talmud: Entretiens avec Clemence Boulouque
Bayard Presse, 2016

Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good
MIT Press, 2016

Representations 136: Time Zones: Durational Art and Its Contexts
University of California Press, 2016
O Cinema de Trinh T. Minh-ha
Rio De Janeiro: Caixa Cultural, 2016

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
University of Chicago Press, 2016

The Sublime in Antiquity
Cambridge University Press, 2016

Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
Fordham University Press, 2016

positions: asia critique: Reconsidering the 2006 MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy
Duke University Press Books, 2015

ゴッホ・オンデマンド 中国のアートとビジネス
Seidosha Press, 2015

A Traveling Homeland: The Talmud as Diaspora
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts
Stanford University Press, 2014

On “The Wire”
Duke University Press, 2014

Van Gogh On Demand: China and the Readymade
University of Chicago Press, 2014

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy
Cambridge University Press, 2014

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Princeton University Press, 2013

The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
The New Press, 2013

D-Passage: The Digital Way
Duke University Press, 2013

Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Cambridge University Press, 2013

Archivkörper
Konstanz University Press, 2012

Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
Vanderbilt University Press, 2012

Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
Stanford University Press, 2012

Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
Brill, 2011

Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics
University of Toronto Press, 2011

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics
Routledge, 2011

States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political
Columbia University Press, 2011

French Philosophy Since 1945 – Postwar French Thought Vol. IV
The New Press, 2011


The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience
Cambridge University Press, 2010

Art and Aesthetics after Adorno
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2010

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
University of Chicago Press, 2009

Derrida and the Time of the Political
Duke University Press Books, 2009

Screening Sex
Duke University Press, 2008
Old Land New Waters
Installation. Prefecture Museum and museum of Fine Arts of Okinawa, Japan. Guangdong Museum, China.
2007 & 2008

Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law
Princeton University Books, 2007

Portability
Thresholds: MIT, 2007

Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Harvard University Press, 2007

Eupolis Demoi
Florence, Le Monnier, 2007

Border Lines: The Partition of Judeo-Christianity
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France
Stanford University Press, 2006

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón
Cambridge University Press, 2005

Habiter un monde : Architectures de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Editions Alternatives, 2005

The Digital Film Event
Routledge, 2005

Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
Princeton University Press, 2005

Das Gedächtnis von Mauthause
BMI, 2004

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age
Penn State University Press, 2004

Porn Studies
Duke University Press, 2004

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity
Cambridge University Press, 2004

Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic
University of Chicago Press, 2003

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question
Columbia University Press, 2003

Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
Columbia University Press, 2003

Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
Routledge, 2003

Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics
Brill Academic Pub, 2003

Powers Of Diaspora: Two Essays On The Relevance Of Jewish Culture
University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future
Stanford University Press, 2002

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes
Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2002

Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France
Cornell University Press, 2002

Constructions of the Classical Body
University of Michigan Press, 2002


“Playing The Race Card:” Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
Princeton University Press, 2001

Trinh T. Minh-ha: Secession
Secession, 2001

Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity
University of Michigan Press, 2001

Antiquities – Postwar French Thought Vol. III
The New Press, 2001

The Invention of Dionysus: A Reading of “The Birth of Tragedy”
Stanford University Press, 2000

Re-inventing Film Studies
Oxford University Press, 2000

Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique
Cambridge University Press, 1999

Literary Debate – Postwar French Thought Vol. II
The New Press, 1999
Nothing But Ways
Large-scale, multi-media installation. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA).
1999

Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
Stanford University Press, 1999

Cinema Interval
Routledge, 1999

Histories – Postwar French Thought Vol. I
The New Press, 1998

Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases: Fundamental Issues in Law and Society Research
Northwestern University Press, 1998

Crossing Boundaries: Traditions and Transformations in Law and Society Research
Northwestern University Press, 1998

Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation
University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man
University of California Press, 1997

A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity
University of California Press, 1997

Origins of the Individualist Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791
Stanford University Press, 1997

Drawn from African Dwellings
Indiana University Press, 1997

Photo-montage
Enlarged stills from Shoot For the Contents. "Post-Colonial California" Exhibition at San Francisco State University
1995

Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture
University of California Press, 1995

The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge
University of Chicago Press, 1994

Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
Indiana University Press, 1994

Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film
Rutgers University Press, 1994

Framer Framed
Routledge, 1992

Out There: Marginalisation and Contemporary Culture
MIT Press, 1992

The Subject of Modernity
Cambridge University Press, 1992


Celtic Language, Celtic Culture
Ford and Baille, 1990

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible”
University of California Press, 1989

Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1
Zone Books, 1989

Woman, Native, Other
Indiana University Press, 1989

Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2
Zone Books, 1989

Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3
Zone Books, 1989


Literature and the Question of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

En minuscules
Le Meridien, 1987

The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert
Columbia University Press, 1986

African Spaces. Designs for Living in Upper Volta
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985


Revision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism
University Publications of America, 1984


Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film
University of Illinois Press, 1981