Ethics and Experience

Reimagining Love

Reimagining Love offers a meditation on the ethical and existential significance of this elusive concept. Informed by philosophy and literature, it presents an original argument for understanding love as a spiritual practice.

Not Even a God Can Save Us Now

A lively interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought, applied to contemporary philosophy.

The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games

While educational research praises games for motivating students, this work asks: What kinds of people do games help us become? David Waddington examines how gameplay narrows human possibility through ideals of technolibertarianism and efficiency-maximization.

Alkibiades' Love

A highly original series of essays on the nature and practice of philosophy.

The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism

An exploration of the volatile mix of politics and diversity.

The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom

The spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but ked...

Shattering Silos

Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these question...

On the Divine Things and Their Revelation

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, a...

The Return of Feminist Liberalism

A major issue in recent English-language feminist political thought has been whether liberalism can continue to serve feminist purposes or should be relegated to the past.

We Find Ourselves Put to the Test

A philosophical exploration of the question of whether the world we inhabit offers us hospitality or indifference.

A Logician’s Code of Conduct

Arguing for logic as a tool we can use for fairness instead of reinforcing injustice and exclusion, A Logician’s Code of Conduct reimagines logic as flexible, creating spaces of inquiry neutral in content and equitable in participation.

Attitudes of Play

Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.

Emancipatory Thinking

A sustained defence of the political importance and ongoing relevance of the ideas of the French writer, feminist, and philosopher.

Fate and Life

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this important idea is not only informative and intriguing but also timely. Fate and Life confronts the idea of...

The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization

Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for t...

Moral Puzzles

Malcolm Murray provides striking reinterpretations of classic moral puzzles from a contractarian perspective, one that views morality not as a set of eternal truths but as an evolved system of conditional cooperation.

Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation

A lucid introduction to a living philosophical tradition and a creative contribution to change-oriented scholarship.

Logic in the Wild

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making – logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.

Engaging the Thought of Bernard Lonergan

Original essays that present Bernard Lonergan’s bold undertakings and intellectual achievements and apply his ideas to human learning and action.

Saturn and Melancholy

An augmented edition of the famed Warburgian interdisciplinary study on saturnine melancholy. Edited by Philippe Despoix and Georges Leroux, with a preface by Bill Sherman.

Nietzsche as Stylist

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rhetorical tactics. With a historical sensibility, the book highlights how Nietzsche’s style evolv...

Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty

In a highly connected world of political, social, and ecological interdependencies, we cannot predict the consequences of our decisions. Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty offers a policy framework that demands ethical and practical reflection on the conditions of action to ...

The Illegitimate Age

Through an analysis of the katechon myth – a withholding power that contains the very evil it restrains – The Illegitimate Age reveals an aesthetic lens through which to interpret the legitimacy of political power, the appeal of populism, and the role of the image in current society.

The Enigma of Perception

An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.

Fichte in Berlin

Fichte in Berlin offers a new reading of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s philosophical output during his time in Berlin from 1804 to 1806. The study focuses on the philosopher’s second set of lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre from 1804, one of the most exemplary versions of Fichte’s philosophical project.

The Suicide of the Revolution

First published in Italian in 1978, The Suicide of the Revolution argues that Giovanni Gentile’s nineteenth-century critique of Marxism had a foundational influence on the thinking of Antonio Gramsci and other anti-fascists.

Die Klarheit der Gefühle

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Epiktet und das Neue Testament

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Die Plastizität der Gefühle

Was bisher Leben und Bewusstsein, Sprache und Geist genannt wurde, steht in den neuen biomedizinischen, soziokulturellen und kommunikationstechnologischen Verkörperungen zur Disposition. Diese neuen Sozio-Technologien führen zu einer tiefgreifenden anthropologischen Entsicherung, die eine offensi...

Facets of Reality

Publications of the series include the official proceedings of the ALWS-conferences and of their special workshops. The series is open also for other high-quality publications, especially on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and its influence on contemporary analytic philosophy.

Parasitism and Multispecies World

The book argues how the figure of the parasite can help us rethink our existing social and biological relations, and espouses parasitism as a form of multispecies thinking necessary for survival in the Anthropocene.

Infection and Injustice

An investigation into the moral and social dimensions involved in narrating pandemics.

The Vital Illusion

Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity. Peppered with Baudrillard’s signature...

An Ethics for Today

Richard Rorty, a strict secularist, finds in the pragmatic thought of John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, William James, and George Santayana, among others, a political imagination shared by religious traditions.

A Śabda Reader

The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. It brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a n...

Scientific Progress in Philosophy

The book defends optimism about philosophical progress. That is, it argues contra pessimists that philosophy makes as much progress as science makes. Garancini first outlines the standards of progress that pessimists endorse, then he argues that philosophical debates throughout history meet these...

Sein, Erstursache, Glückseligkeit

Für Thomas ist die Metaphysik die Wissenschaft, die das Seiende als solches und seine Ursachen untersucht. Seine Konzeption der Metaphysik basiert hauptsächlich auf Aristoteles’ Metaphysik und dem Liber de causis. Wie lässt sich eine Synthese dieser beiden Werke rekonstruieren? Der Autor schlägt ...

Why We Hate Cheap Things

How to rethink your consumer habits and feel richer at heart.Our society encourages us to equate expense with value. The more expensive something is, the more we're encouraged to covet it. Yet as its market price falls, our interest and passion tend to fade.This recurrent pattern, The School of L...

The School of Life Dictionary

The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Throu...

The Meaning of Life

A thought-provoking guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face - what is the meaning of life? It may seem useless, silly, or overwhelming to ponder the meaning of life. In truth, it is essential to ask ourselves this question in order to define and work towards a more meaningful exi...

Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx

Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of Marx’s social philosophy. Paul Elias critically examines a terminal inconsistency within Marx’s idea of revolutionary subjectivity. In doing so, major areas of Marx’s thinking which have bee...

Against Better Judgment

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better ju...

Staging Sovereignty

This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance.

Inclusion in Science

What makes public engagement with science so tricky? New perspectives on the multiple publics of science, their relations and complications.

Intentionality and the Paradox of Fiction

How we relate: The paradox of fiction reveals how thought and emotion blur the line between fact and fantasy.

Somaesthetic Design

A somaesthetic foundation for design practice, foregrounding the experiencing body and the temporal dynamics of felt interaction.

Two Pillars of the Human Relationship to Nature

An interdisciplinary reassessment of capitalism, science, and technology, exploring modernity, environmental debates, and human-nature relationship.

Post-Familial Politics

Beyond the family: connections between space, economy, and care.

Humanism in the Age of AI

A critical rethinking of humanism in an AI-shaped world, exploring agency, responsibility, and care for a shared world.

The Conversion Theory

Conversion Theory unveils qualia via process dualism: Brain-computer interfaces reach limits as objective data irreversibly converts to inaccessible private phenomenology.

Cicero's ›Academics‹ and Their Reception

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Reasoning with Machines

This series is devoted to publishing books in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. It is an outstanding platform for state of the art contributions. The studies are carried out in an argumentative style and advance current debates in a...

Unpopular Culture

Guvna B, one of the UK's biggest Christian rap artists, shares his own story and testimony and helps young people rediscover their purpose, live out their faith, and transform the world.

Is Nothing Sacred?

Don Cupitt is best known for developing a non-realistic interpretation of Christian doctrine and an ever-more radically antirealist position in philosophy.Cupitt has sought to go beyond ecclesiastical religion to a purely this-worldly humanistic religion of life: he argues for a “kingdom” version...

Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God

The book is a study of pragmatism and pragmatic pluralism in the philosophy of religion. Through critical examinations of James’s, Dewey’s, and recent neopragmatists’ ideas, it argues that key issues in the field – including the debate between evidentialism and fideism, and the problem of evil – ...

The Logic of the Trinity

This book recounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology. These efforts were remarkable because they pushed creatively beyond the boundaries of existing thought while tr...

Between Dancing and Writing

This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. I...

Structures of Appearing

Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature is an interdisciplinary study that revises the history of allegory through a phenomenological approach. The book also takes on the history of aesthetics as an ideology that has long subjugated literature (and art generally) to criteria...

Being and Some 20th Century Thomists

In this powerfully argued book, Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century. Richly detailed and illuminating, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain, and Owen, to build a case for Existential Thomism as a valid metaph...

Sounding/Silence

Sounding/Silence argues for the significance Martin Heidegger’s writing on poetry for the discipline of poetics. Focusing on Heidegger’s accounts of rhythm, metaphor, the relation between text and reader, and the relation between philosophy and poetry, Nowell Smith ultimately outlines a ‘poetics ...

Futurity in Phenomenology

This book examines the methodological significance of the future in the work of Husserl, Levinas and Derrida. In doing so, it reveals phenomenology to be, in its essence, a promissory discipline.

On the Other

An exceptionally timely book by a leading European exponent of Muslim intellectual tradition, On the Other: A Muslim View is a concise and accessible exploration of the foundations of Islamic thought on human nature, our place in the cosmos, and our proper relationship to the divine, based on pe...

Just Right

Drawing on psychological research, neuroscience, philosophy, clinical insight, and vivid real-world examples, Just Right uncovers the hidden mechanisms that quietly shape our preferences, emotions, relationships, and perception of the world. These same forces even affect entire societies swinging...

Ambición moral: Deja de malgastar tu talento y empieza a cambiar el mundo / Moral Ambition

El esperado regreso del intelectual que incomoda al poder: vuelve con un antídoto contra la apatía y el talento perdido. ¿Y si el verdadero éxito no se midiera por lo que acumulamos, sino por lo que aportamos? En Ambición moral, el autor e intelectual estrella de la izquierda progresista, Rutger...

Temporal Privilege

Jill Stauffer identifies the way certain experiences of time are valued over others as “temporal privilege” and shows how this concept helps illuminate injustices that are often hidden in plain sight.

Reckoning with Racial Capitalism

This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.

Ecstasy in the Classroom

Ecstasy in the Classroom analyzes the early thirteenth century theological discourse about Paul’s rapture and other modes of cognizing God. It reconstructs the perceptions of transformation and self they imply, and demonstrate their role in establishing the peculiar professional identity of schol...

Inner Animalities

Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth’s creatures—our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. Inner Animalities turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theologica...

Poetics of History

Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an under...

Deep Time, Dark Times

The new geological epoch we call the Anthropocene is not just a scientific classification. It marks a radical transformation in the background conditions of life on Earth, one taken for granted by much of who we are and what we hope for. Never before has a species possessed both a geological-scal...

The Technological Introject

This essay collection further familiarizes the English-speaking world with the work of late German media scholar Friedrich Kittler. It features well-established and emergent scholars who present investigations that traverse all of Kittler’s major phases, from early studies of German romanticism t...

Power of Gentleness

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowne...

On the Nature of Marx's Things

On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

Living Together

For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of “community,” “living,” “together” never ceased to harbor radical, even infinite interrogations. Gathered around an unpublished essay by Derrida, the contributions to this volume explore the struggles and chances of living together in the post-9/...

How Are We to Confront Death?

This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion’s attempt to make sense of death, science’s attempt to evade death, and philos...

The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought

This book is a model of philosophical and Heideggerian scholarship. Avoiding the extremes of abject worship and facile refutation, it moves into the heart of the later Heideggers work. Not only is Caputo faithful to the texts, but he is reflective and critical, inviting the reader to philosophize...

Freedom of Choice

From the Foreward by Mortimer J. Adler “Of all the question or issues concerning human freedom, none is more fundamental in itself and in its consequences than the problem of free choice; and none has been the subject of more persistent and, at the same time, apparently irresolvable controversy…T...

On Understanding Understanding

This basic introduction to the philosophical inquiry into the fundamental questions of human knowing features a range of carefully designed study questions.

Symbolism

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

Memory

Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research.The volume reconstructs the w...

Harmony and Rhythm of the Universe

An interdisciplinary journey through history, science, and art - exploring how harmony and rhythm have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and ourselves.What do a medieval board game, a mystic dancer, a stroke survivor, and the orbit of Jupiter have in common? All are part of the long human se...

The Colors of Things

This series is devoted to publishing books in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. It is an outstanding platform for state of the art contributions. The studies are carried out in an argumentative style and advance current debates in a...

Signs, Art and Mind

Peirceana provides a forum for the best current work on Peirce worldwide. Besides monographs, the series publishes thematically unified anthologies and edited volumes with a defined topical focus and untranslated English selections of Peirce’s writings.

Methodological Pluralism in the History of Philosophy

In recent years, philosophical historiography has seen renewed interest in its methodologies, exploring how the history of philosophy is reconstructed, its purpose, and its relationship with other fields. The authors in this volume address key issues: how to transcend dominant Western and male-do...

Vorarbeiten, Nachträge und Reflexionen

Im Ergänzungsband 23.2 zur Abteilung III der Akademie-Ausgabe von Kant’s gesammelten Schriften werden alle nicht zur Korrespondenz zählenden Teile des handschriftlichen Nachlasses historisch-kritisch ediert, die nach 1955 neu aufgefunden oder bis 1955 nicht in Abteilung III abgedruckt wurden. Der...

Pflanzenkunde

Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund und Lehrer Aristoteles arbeitete Theophrast von Eresos (ca. 371–287 v. Chr.) an einem umfassenden Programm der Wissenschaften. Während sich sein Lehrer vornehmlich der Zoologie widmete, befasste sich Theophrast mit der Botanik, als deren Begründer er gilt. Die Pflanze...

The Educational Revolution of Renaissance Art Literature

This book builds on the foundational studies of Schlosser, Panofsky, Garin, Baxandall, and Blunt who traced the intellectual emancipation of the visual arts in Renaissance Italy, while responding to more recent scholarship on rhetoric, pedagogy, and art theory (Van Eck, Dressen, Ames-Lewis). Unli...

Handbook of Literary Ethics

This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual ...

Islamic Intellectual Traditions

What if the key to our most urgent questions lies not ahead, but behind us?To truly address the challenges of the modern world, we must first rediscover the unity of meaning embedded in the great traditions of thought. Yet this can only begin through a deep and faithful understanding of the class...

Vulnerability

To be alive is simply to be vulnerable. It is a condition inherent in being mortal, being embodied, being emotional, and being social creatures in a world with others. Erinn Gilson explores the meaning and significance of vulnerability, seeking to illuminate some of its complexity as an experienc...

Disappearance

Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining systems. This book provides a much-need critique, which offers new thinking and aesthetic responses to understanding the deep political, cultural and philosophical sta...

Artificial Violence

The book shows how the Anthropocene and artificial intelligence, fields that have come to define the early decades of the twenty-first century, have mediated practices of violence and transformed how violence is realised, requiring a reworkng of the concept.