Philosophy

China on the Mind

by Christopher Bollas

Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging...

The Dawn Of Universal History: Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century

by Raymond Aron

"A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism."-- The New Criterion

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory

by George Sher

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six...

Plato and the English Romantics (Rle, Plato)

by E Douka Kabitoglou

This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction,...

Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed

by Cornelis de Waal

Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant contributions...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes

by S.A. Lloyd

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative...

20th Century Aesthetics: Towards A Theory of Feeling

by Mario Perniola & Massimo Verdicchio

Written by Mario Perniola, one of Italy's leading contemporary thinkers, and available in English for the first time, this is a new account of Continental aesthetic thought in the 20th Century.

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Free Will 2nd edition: Sourcehood and its Alternatives

by Kevin Timpe

Contemporary

debates on free will are numerous and multifaceted. According to

compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices

and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on...

Philosophy After Deleuze

by Joe Hughes

Philosophy After Deleuze provides

a concise and accessible introduction to Deleuze in relation to philosophical

inquiry. The book shows how Deleuze's work contributes to contemporary debates

in each of the major...

In the Beginning, She Was

by Luce Irigaray

In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses...

Virtue Ethics

by Nafsika Athanassoulis

What is ’virtue’?

And how can we lead ’moral’ lives?

Exploring how contemporary moral philosophy has tackled the issue of ’character’, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to virtue ethics....

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy: An Introduction

by Stephen Clark

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions;...

The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle: Essays on Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka

by David Ruegg

Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The Italian missionary was most notably the first European to learn...

The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

by Felix O Murchadha

This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event...

The Onion and Philosophy: Fake News Story True Alleges Indignant Area Professor

Popular Culture and Philosophy® series #54

by Sharon Kaye

Martial arts and philosophy have always gone hand in hand, as well as fist in throat. Philosophical argument is closely paralleled with hand-to-hand combat. And all of today's Asian martial arts were developed...

Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness

Popular Culture and Philosophy® series #53

by Graham Priest & Damon Young

Best Lesbian Erotica 2010 travels around the world of lesbian sex with deliriously delicious stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by Kathleen Warnock and selected and introduced by...

Simple Lives, Cultural Complexity: Rethinking Culture in Terms of Complexity Theory

by Steen Bergendorff

This book explores the relationship between people living relatively simple lives and the cultural complexity of their live worlds by rethinking culture in terms of complexity theory.

The A to Z of Ethics

by Harry J. Gensler & Earl W. Spurgin

The A to Z of Ethics covers a very broad range of ethical topics, including ethical theories, historical periods, historical figures, applied ethics, ethical issues, ethical concepts, non-Western approaches,...

Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas

by Schrecker

Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology explores the transatlantic journeys which have inspired American and European sociologists and contributed to the development of sociology in Europe and in North America....

Derrida and the Writing of the Body

by Irwin

Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'. This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Écriture...