Though trapped by the anthropocentrism of the Western tradition, Giorgio Agamben’s work provides conceptual tools to move beyond the limits he himself cannot cross. This book analyzes these limits in his philosophy while exploring the powerful potential that lies within them.
This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.
Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century
Rejecting egocentric isolation and totalitarianism, Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain promoted the human person in authentic community. His quest for liberation contributes to our understanding of 21st-century movements for sustainability, human rights, and democracy.
Reflections on Russell
This book offers original interpretations of Bertrand Russell’s thought, moving beyond mathematical logic to his philosophy of science and religion. Countering competing views, it shows Russell developed a philosophy incorporating both atheism and spirituality.
This collection of essays explores the paradoxes of freedom and the human condition. We are always faced with the same paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. This is the paradox of the human condition.
Insights into Ethical Theory and Practice
Ethical issues are important, but expert accounts are often inaccessible. This volume bridges that gap, presenting innovative essays in a way that is accessible to experts and non-experts alike, giving readers confidence and enthusiasm for this diverse and lively subject.
Introduction to Field-Being Philosophy
Lik Kuen Tong’s Field-Being philosophy offers a new metaphysics. Rethinking the universe as “activity,” “relationality,” and “betweenness,” this future-oriented philosophy lends itself to addressing current issues such as climate change, global relations, and difference.
The Intellectual Species
This book explores the survival of “the intellectual” in the digital era of soundbites and fake news. Through the lives of contrarian post-WWII thinkers like George Orwell, Albert Camus, and Camille Paglia, it yields insight into the transformation of our cultural life.
This book applies Saint Augustine’s ethics to contemporary social justice. In dialogue with modern political philosophy, it offers new frameworks for addressing 21st-century challenges and prepares readers for today’s most urgent social justice debates.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
For the first time in a book, these three lectures by American philosopher Josiah Royce are essential for a complete picture of his philosophy of loyalty. They constitute a “missing link” between his 1908 classic The Philosophy of Loyalty and his subsequent major works.
Philosophy and mathematics have been in constant companionship since the days of Plato. This book examines 15 of their interactions, featuring thinkers from Aristotle and Leibniz to modern greats like Einstein and Gödel, in a sampling of the author’s investigations.
Resilience and Sustainability in Law
This work presents a new vision of sustainability and resilience for an age of emergency. It critically examines existing theories, particularly in environmental law, challenging preexisting categories to provide an innovative, clear, and linear framework for the topic.
Experience, Reason, and the Crisis of the Republic Volume 2
This realist polemic analyzes the 21st Century crisis of Western politics and culture, arguing it is symptomatic of the dominance of nominalism. It argues that our experiences include values, that there are God-given natural rights, and uses modal logic to prove that God exists.
A realist polemic against nominalism, relativism, and nihilism. This volume formulates Husserl’s dependence ontology of experience, contrasting realist and nominalist views. It also explores Kant’s and Husserl’s concepts of time and how empirical facts arise from experience.
This collection of essays explores the role of experimentation, dissidence, and heterogeneity in philosophy. Critiquing monolithic tendencies, it traces the influence of marginal thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Deleuze, Foucault, and Benjamin.
The Role of Comparative Philosophy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Despite its history of conflict, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an enthusiasm for comparative philosophy. This book examines the challenges of teaching it in the multicultural Balkans and shows how comparativism is becoming a way of challenging stereotypes in the region.
This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lives of two Taiwanese female philosophers. It links the marginalization of female theorists with the unrecognized contribution of Taiwanese philosophy, revealing both stem from discourses of exclusion.
This study unearths the singular concept of “parama-mukhya-vṛtti” from the Dvaita Vedānta philosophy of Madhva. Discover the 12th-century thinker’s unique hermeneutical technique used to establish Viṣṇu as the focus of Vedic writings and its relevance for any sacred text.
This book bridges Christian sacramental praxis with philosophy of mind. Through a new philosophy of incarnation, it argues self-consciousness must develop towards the Absolute Idea, where religion becomes intellectual virtue. A new theology is here. It is time to put it to work.
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