In this book, central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language are introduced. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language, raising an awareness of language as a distinctive human capacity.
Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation
In this final volume on Hegel as theologian, we discover the reconciliation of Mind with itself as the nerve of Hegel’s thought. Subtitled “Logic as Form of the World,” this work identifies faith with rationality and man as the form of the world.
Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions
From Greco-Roman Antiquity, philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. These essays explore how the three Abrahamic religions interacted on the common ground of Greek philosophy, creating similar patterns of thought on crucial concepts.
Revolutions
This work makes new contributions not only to the study of particular revolutions, but to developing a philosophy of revolution itself. Inspired by Eric Voegelin and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, the tension between their philosophies adds to its unique richness.
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective
This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized to unsettle the conventional understanding of human rights. Drawing on Decolonial Thinking and Third World approaches, it constructs a new history and theory to decolonize human rights.
From the Global Ecological Integrity Group, this collection examines governance from the standpoint of integrity: from democracy and Native governance to globalization and human rights to food, water and climate.
The Intelligible World
Understanding Kant’s “pre-critical” philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. This early work is a hidden background, where his great cosmology informs the “thing-in-itself” and provides the ontological framework for his later ethics.
Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview
This collection investigates the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview, an important component of contemporary philosophy. It explores how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives, representing a bold move from academic philosophy to actual human lives.
Nietzsche’s Will to Power
Belliotti’s text adds to Nietzschean scholarship in its analysis of the concept of power as preliminary to addressing Nietzsche’s psychological notion of will to power. He argues that it cannot be understood as merely a first-order drive to attain and exert power.
Slivers of Life
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past
This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Truth and Experience
This title meets contemporary challenges posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
Deriving from the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, this volume explores A.N. Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science. The first part concerns Whitehead’s philosophical methodology and the second discusses applications for concepts of Whitehead’s thinking.
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
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