Leah E. Kalmanson

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Kalmanson, L., Kirloskar-Steinbach, M. (2021). A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing. Bloomsbury.
• Kalmanson, L. (2020). Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought.
• Kalmanson, L., Rivera-Berruz, S. (2018). Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies. Bloomsbury.
• Kalmanson, L., Knepper, T. (2017). Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Springer.
• Kalmanson, L., Shields, J.M. (2014). Buddhist Responses to Globalization.
• Kalmanson, L., Mattice, S., , F.G. (2013). Levinas and Asian Thought.
• Kalmanson, L., Chang, W. (2010). Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond.

Book Chapter

• Kalmanson, L. (2024). Philosophy as Petromania: Graham Parkes, Jane Bennett, and the (Not So) New Materialisms. The Wandering Dance: Essays in Honor of Graham Parkes. Bloomsbury.
• Kalmanson, L. (2024). Loyalty and the Reception of Buddhism in China. Loyalty. Oxford University Press.
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2024). Not a Moment of Worry: Confucian Views on the Value of Anxiety. The Moral Psychology of Anxiety.
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2023). The Theological Irony of White Christian Nationalism: A View from the South. In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Kalmanson, L. (2023). Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song Dynasty. Diversifying Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods, and Case Studies. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/diversifying-philosophy-of-religion-9781350264021/
• Kalmanson, L. (2023). Self-Cultivation and Political Power in Feminism and Chinese Philosophy. Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/key-concepts-in-world-philosophies-9781350168138/
• Kalmanson, L. (2022). Jewish Perspectives on Charity: A Philosophy for Hopeless Times. Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793655318/Applying-Jewish-Ethics-Beyond-the-Rabbinic-Tradition
• Kalmanson, L.E., Ishii, M. (2022). 内部性とはな にか──レヴィナスとアジア思想における超越と内的経験 [What is interiority? Transcendence and inner experience in Levinas and Asian thought]. 個と普遍──レヴィナス哲学の新たな広がり [Individual and universal: the new spread of the philosophy of Levinas]. Tokyo, Hosei University Press.
• Kalmanson, L. (2021). Roots and Branches: Self-Cultivation as Political Transformation in Neo-Confucian Thought. The Chinese Ideology. Routledge.
• Kalmanson, L., Guerrero, L., Mattice, S. (2020). The East in the West: Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Philosophy in the 20th Century.
• Kalmanson, L. (2019). Whiteness and the Construction of Buddhist Philosophy in Meiji Japan. Buddhism and Whiteness. Lexington.
• Kalmanson, L., Yusa, M. (2019). Raichō: Zen and the Female Body in the Development of Japanese Feminist Philosophy.
• Kalmanson, L. (2018). Like You Mean It: Buddhist Teachings on Selflessness, Sincerity, and the Performative Practice of Liberation. Self/No-Self: Claremont Studies in Philosophy of Religion. Mohr Siebeck.
• Kalmanson, L. (2017). Dharma and Dao: Key Terms in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Springer.
• Kalmanson, L. (2017). Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy. Japanese Environmental Philosophy. Oxford.
• Kalmanson, L. (2016). Commentary on Giving. Engaging Dōgen’s Zen: The Philosophy of Practice as Liberation. Wisdom Publications.
• Kalmanson, L. (2014). An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of Reparations.
• Kalmanson, L. (2009). The Ethics of Emptiness: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and Emmanuel Levinas.

Book Review

• Kalmanson, L.E. (2023). Reflections on Buddhism and Structural Change (review of Daniel Capper’s Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World). Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women. 31 (1)
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2022). Sokthan Yeng and the Superpower of Buddhist Feminism. The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture, and Politics. 9 (3) https://arrow-journal.org/contemplative-superpowers-for-social-change/
• Kalmanson, L. (2022). Wild Dreams: Cultivating Change in and with Community. Philosophy East and West. Response to readers in a review feature on Cross-Cultural Existentialism by Leah Kalmanson. 72 (1) 290-293.
• Kalmanson, L. (2021). Philosophy as ‘Commentary’: Ruminating on Buddhas Old and New. Philosophy East and West. Contribution to a review feature on Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy by Jason Wirth. 71 (4) 1060-1069.

Broadcast Media

• Kalmanson, L., Dolinsek, C., Yeng, S., Sparrow, T., Jones Medine, C., Song, B. (2022). Symposium on Cross-Cultural Existentialism by Leah Kalmanson. Syndicate: A Living Network of Scholarship in the Humanities (online magazine). https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/cross-cultural-existentialism/
• Kalmanson, L., Kirloskar-Steinbach, M. (2022). Views from Everywhere. Aeon Magazine. Aeon Media Group. https://aeon.co/essays/how-academic-philosophy-can-become-truly-diverse-and-global

Journal Article

• Kalmanson, L.E. (2024). Diversifying the Dialogue: Meta-Philosophical Reflections on Teaching Our Core Methodology. Teaching Philosophy.
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2024). Philosophy, Religion, and “Studies”: Scholarship as a Spiritual Exercise in Chinese Thought. 53 (4)
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2024). Incarnating Kannon: Eshinni, Shinran, and the Other-Power of Philosophy. Journal of Chinese Philosophy. 50 (4)
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2023). How to Change Your Mind: The Contemplative Practices of Philosophy. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. 93 (May) 69-79.
• Kalmanson, L.E. (2022). The Multiple Histories of Philosophy: Or, Reimagining Modernity from Tokugawa Japan. Pragmatism Today. 13 (1) 50-60. https://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/summer2022/The-Multiple-Histories-of-Philosophy-Or-Reimagining-Modernity-from-Tokugawa-Japan-Leah-Kalmanson.pdf
• Kalmanson, L. (2022). From Speculative Realism to Ki-Realism: Or, Reality as Realization in Japanese Aesthetics. APA Studies on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/2EAF6689-4B0D-4CCB-9DC6-FB926D8FF530/AsianV21n1-2.pdf
• Kalmanson, L. (2021). A Visit to the Local God: Reclaiming the Diversity of the Divine. Journal of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. 4 22-44. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/jpact/issues/documents/jpact/volume-4-2021/JPACT04Kalmanson.pdf
• Kalmanson, L. (2019). Lessons from the Sanjie: Merit Economies as Catalysts for Social Change. Studies in Chinese Religions. 5 (2) 142-150.
• Kalmanson, L. (2018). Speculation as Transformation in Chinese Philosophy: Speculative Realism, ‘New’ Materialism, and the Study of Li (理) and Qi (氣). Journal of World Philosophies. 3 (1) 17-30.
• Kalmanson, L. (2017). The Ritual Methods of Comparative Philosophy. Philosophy East and West. 67 (2) 399-418.
• Kalmanson, L. (2015). If You Show Me Yours: Reading all ‘Difference’ as ‘Colonial Difference’ in Comparative Philosophy. Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 7 (2) 201-213.
• Kalmanson, L., Mattice, S. (2015). The De of Levinas: Cultivating the Heart-Mind of Radical Passivity. Frontiers of Philosophy in China.
• Kalmanson, L. (2012). Buddhism and bell hooks: Liberatory Aesthetics and the Radical Subjectivity of No-Self. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
• Kalmanson, L. (2012). The Messiah and the Bodhisattva: Anti-Utopianism Re-Revisited. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
• Kalmanson, L. (2010). Levinas in Japan: The Ethics of Alterity and the Philosophy of No-Self. Continental Philosophy Review.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Kalmanson, L.E. (2025). Actualizing the Buddha Ancestors: Buddhist Historiography for the Multiverse. The Immanent Frame. https://tif.ssrc.org/2025/09/03/actualizing-the-buddha-ancestors-buddhist-historiography-for-the-multiverse/

Scholarly Preface

• Kalmanson, L.E., Emmanuel, S.M. (2021). Foreword. Philosophy’s Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/philosophys-big-questions/9780231174879

Webpage

• Kalmanson, L. (2023). Diversification is Not Decolonization. Philosophy of Religion: Big Question Philosophy for Scholars and Students. https://philosophyofreligion.org/?p=525855
• Kalmanson, L. (2022). Leah Kalmanson on “Is There a Future for the Philosophy of Religion?”. Philosophy of Religion: Big Question Philosophy for Scholars and Students. https://philosophyofreligion.org/?p=525661