Breastfeeding and the pursuit of happiness

Upending some of our most cherished beliefs about the maternal breast, Breastfeeding and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the historical, political, and symbolic roots of the sacrosanct advice that “breast is best.” Phyllis Rippey rejects the dichotomy of inferior versus best, offering a new fra...

The invention of journalism ethics, second edition

An innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity to guide journalism today.

The failure of remain

The Failure of Remain offers the first comprehensive study of the UK’s grassroots anti-Brexit movement after the June 2016 referendum. Through first-hand interviews, a survey of anti-Brexit activists, and an analysis of their campaign materials, Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel assess the ideology...

Rethinking the political

From 1937 to 1939, a group of French intellectuals of diverse origins and disciplines gathered under the leadership of Georges Bataille and Roger Caillois to form the Collège de Sociologie. Inspired by Durkheim's theory of the sacred as the symbolic found

Art as revolt

Using philosophies of immanence – conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others – and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being human subjects.

Badiou's deleuze

"An outstanding piece of original argument and scholarship, it makes a definitive intervention into an important debate." James Williams, University of Dundee

Kierkegaard as humanist

Arnold Come draws on Kierkegaard's major works, journals, and papers to reveal the humanist dimensions of his thought, highlighting the importance of the self as the central theme of all his writings.

Being vulnerable

Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form o...

Becoming bamboo

The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human va...

Free will

Free Will explores the determinist rejection of free will through detailed exposition of the central determinist argument and consideration of responses to each of its premises. At every stage familiar examples and case studies help frame and ground the argument.

The problem of atheism

The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theol...

Eranos

A detailed account of a vital incubator for global humanism.

St petersburg dialogues

A classic renowned for both its content and its French literary style that today still influences the direction of far-right conservatism in Western political thought.

The distant relation

In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing on the distance that mediates the relation between word and thing, past and present, I and you. Through a novel convergence, itself ari

The eye of the master

The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of indépendance in Quebec and imagines a different future, detached from domination and exploitation, through models based in Indigenous thought and anti-racist, ecological, and feminist movements.

Might nature be canadian?

How Canada is leading the way in mutual accommodation on the world stage.

Hegel's phenomenology

How Hegel proves the truth of logic by examining the dynamics of lived experience.

Being at large

Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This new order conspires to undermine the interpretive practices of open-ended critique, normalizing a sense of threat to pre...

Neurowaves

Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain’s inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains – neurowaves – is the basis of our mental experie...

Bird on an ethics wire

An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.

Humanism betrayed

In Humanism Betrayed Graham Good offers a defence of liberal humanism against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that dominate today's university. He uses the McEwen Report episode at the University of British Columbia to illustrate the current political climate in universities, sh...

John mcdowell

An intellectual primer for reading one of the most challenging contemporary philosophers.

Proximity, levinas, and the soul of law

Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law links the controversial ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to the common law legal tradition that has recently invigorated the idea of "the duty of care." Desmond Manderson argues that the ethicist and lawyer struggle with the same basic questions of wh...

Saul kripke

An introduction to one of today's most original and creative philosophers whose work has sparked some of the most important philosophical debates of recent years.

Time and space, second edition

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to an...

Cause for thought

An innovative exploration of causal agency as it functions in physical, biological, psychological, and cosmological domains.

The development of the idea of history in antiquity

An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, w

Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions

An innovative approach to the ways in which a major philiosopher's ideas have been configured and incorporated in different countries and contexts.

Nietzsche and the rhetoric of nihilism

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic.

Attending

Moral theory has been agonized by dualism – motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative ge...

Logic

An text for introducing both formal and philosophical logic.

The age of secularization

A thought-provoking collection of essays and lectures by one of the most perceptive Italian cultural critics of the twentieth century.

Gilles deleuze

A basic, rigorous, and accessible starting point for teaching Deleuze.

A priori

In recent years many influential philosophers have argued that philosophy is an a priori science, yet few epistemology textbooks discuss a priori knowledge at any length, focusing instead on empirical knowledge and justification. Although a priori knowledge has moved to centre stage, the literatu...

James's will-to-believe doctrine

In 1896 William James published an essay entitled The Will to Believe, in which he defended the legitimacy of religious faith against the attacks of such champions of scientific method as W.K. Clifford and Thomas Huxley. James's work quickly became one of the most important writings in the philos...

Truth matters

A pioneering study of why truth is important in philosophy, public culture, and everyday life.

Ethics for a broken world

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking into the past - back to our own time - and assessing the ethics of the early twenty...

Beyond vision

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory In...

Justice, rights, and toleration

The political theory of Richard Vernon has made major contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality, democratic dialogue, justice, and toleration. Justice, Rights, and Toleration offers critical engagement with the central ideas of his work on the perennial political challeng...

The book of absolutes

Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values are conditional, nothing human is innate, and Einstein proved that the whole universe is "relative." Challenging this position, William Gairdner argues that relativism is not only logically and morally self-defeating but that progress in scie...

Uninvited

A historian and a philosopher respond in poetry to Plato's Symposium.

The pause

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of be...

Revolutionary routines

Through its account of influential socio-political processes – such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new technologies of governance, and the operation of digital media and algorithms – Revolutionary Routines rethinks not only how change works, but also what counts...

Civic freedom in an age of diversity

James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.

Outspoken

Outspoken interrogates the meaning and practice of being outspoken in a world of right-wing populism, global capitalism, and climate emergency. Some of the world’s most radical thinkers – Rosi Braidotti, Henry A. Giroux, Amelia Jones, and Slavoj Žižek, among others – chart progressive courses for...

Aesthetic dilemmas

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic Dilemmas re-evaluates his place in twentieth-century European Modernism by arguing that his work is not escapist but instead engages the consciousness of readers through dynamic enco...

In vivo

An exploration of the pivotal moments that transform and shape our lives.

The minds of the moderns

What would cervantes do?

A timely meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. Castillo and Egginton offer a tour-de-force commentary on politics and popular culture through critical comparative readings of Western cultural texts of the twentieth and twenty...

Zygmunt bauman and the theory of culture

In the first comprehensive and critical assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work on culture, Dariusz Brzeziński offers a comparative analysis of the theories of one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foregrounding the sociologist and philosopher's Polish...

Making sense of myth

For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.

Raymond klibansky and the warburg library network

A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy.

Ecological nation

Canada faces two existential threats: runaway climate change and the rising global tide of right-authoritarian imperialism. The inextricable relationship between the two highlights the need to safeguard Canada’s environmental and political sovereignty, requiring bold vision and sacrifice to build...

The science of culture and the phenomenology of styles

How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.

State of disappearance

State of Disappearance brings together abstract artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be h...

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.

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.

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.