The Body Unbound
A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment, and religion confronts notorious contemporary issues, from suicide bombing to biopolitics. Contributors uncover resources to unbind a body which has been doubly bound by history, law, and culture.
A synthesis of symbolic logic and poetry, The Book of Change unlocks the secrets of the universe through symmetrical verse. Profound scientific and philosophical truths are simplified into images, laying out the nature of reality from physics to ethics.
The Canopy of the Old War
Religion’s power in war is undeniable. These presentations explore the ambivalence of religion, showing how it leads to extreme enmity. But violence does not have the last word. This book demonstrates religion’s function as the authentic expression of the meaning of our lives.
The first book dedicated to exploring Thomas Jefferson’s mind through his varied personae: lawyer, politician, scientist, farmer, and more. It uncovers the core ideas that connected them all, from human betterment to his belief that beauty was always second to functionality.
When does an event become historical experience: at the moment it occurs, or later as it is remembered? This work argues that history is a relationship between the present of the historian and the past, a dynamic where history moves with us. It is for historians and researchers.
While Derrida is often portrayed as a critic of logocentrism, this book’s central premise is that he implicitly affirmed its necessity. It explores this affirmation of logocentrism as a stable foundation for meaning that can be revised to create new possibilities.
The Crisis in the Humanities
This volume advances transdisciplinarity in order to study the place of the humanities in our society, and challenges the ways that issues which form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses.
The Cross and the Star
A conversation between Christian scholar Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig sparked a stunning dialogue. Confronting Nietzsche’s critiques, their “new thinking” resurrected the redemptive cores of faith for the rejuvenation of society.
The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism (Volume 9
These essays explore medieval debates on singular cognition and nominalist epistemology. From Aquinas and Scotus to Ockham and John Buridan, this volume traces how nominalism leads to “Demon Skepticism” and the “weird” implications of Buridan’s metaphysics.
This work is a brilliant analysis of German thought that played an important role in the formation of British idealism. It scrutinises the fundamental metaphysical positions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, appealing even to readers of today.
The Disembodied Mind
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
The legitimacy of the university in Africa is questioned due to its exclusionary and colonial legacy. This volume reimagines the decolonial African university as a site of multilingualism and cognitive justice, centering indigenous languages and knowledge systems.
David Swift turns to the philosopher Epicurus for a scientific explanation of the mind. Reinterpreting thinkers from Descartes to Freud, he reveals the secrets of love, hate, and behavior as the results of learned experience, not genetic predisposition.
The Ethics of Care in Times of Social and Moral Upheaval
Taking care means tending to our loved ones, ourselves, and the world. But in times of crisis, emergency scenarios and frenetic social changes strain our motivation to care. Do these challenges have the power to undo our sensitivities to caring for someone or something else?
What are our ethical commitments to our family and the broader community? These essays provide ethical analyses of issues from same-sex marriage to licensing parents, covering love, sex, marriage, and the influence of technology on family life.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
The Future of Aesthetic Experience
Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.
These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
The Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the exploration of anomalous phenomena has tremendous implications for the future of intelligent life. This book focuses on the controversial relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and anomalous experience.
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